Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Former British Secretary for Energy and Climate Change Amber Rudd, who admitted to “inadvertently” misleading parliament when she resigned as Home Secretary, has just conflated criticism of the British Government’s Brexit proposition with “climate denial”.
Amber Rudd compares Eurosceptics to climate change deniers as she warns over ‘sobering risks’ of no-deal Brexit
Anyone who claims Brexit will be easy is ‘being as cavalier with people’s future as those who deny that the belching of fossil fuels into the atmosphere is warming the planet’
Lizzy Buchan
Political CorrespondentA former cabinet minister has compared Brexiteers to climate change deniers as she fired off a warning over the “sobering risks” to the economy if Britain crashes out of the EU without a deal.
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Writing in The Sunday Times, Ms Rudd, a former energy secretary, said: “Yes, we will leave the EU’s political institutions in March next year – we will no longer have MEPs or be members of the European Council. But disentangling regulatory and legal systems that have been entwined for more than 40 years will require delicate diplomacy.
“Such an endeavour will not be straightforward. Anyone who claims it will is being as cavalier with people’s future as those who deny that the belching of fossil fuels into the atmosphere is warming the planet.
“Just as we must listen to scientific warnings about the risks of manmade climate change, so we must listen to the businesses and economists warning that a chaotic Brexit will threaten our economy.”
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There is no doubt that post Brexit, many British greens will miss their generous former friends in the European Union.
But in my opinion Amber Rudd’s attempt to conflate climate “denial” and criticism of the government’s Brexit plans in my opinion is a desperate and rather clumsy attempt to shut down public debate.
Surprised it wasn’t Sozzlebury. Britain’s answer to Juncker.
Perhaps she is right. Being skeptical of climate change religious thought may be analogous to being skeptical of the EU as a useful form of governance for the UK. Both thought processes may be rooted in the same clear headed analytical thinking that non-sheep are capable of.
“EU as a useful form of governance for the UK.”
You imply that the EU is a useful form of government for someone.
MarkW
Suits Germany rather well.
Themselves.
Funny how ‘climate-denier’ seems interchangeable in terms of usage as ‘blasphemer’.
And they keep telling us it’s not a religion.
Or “unbeliever”. Same thing, as you say.
I seem to remember that her father was someone in denial of financial laws.
Simon Allnutt
“The home secretary’s father had been the subject of an excoriating 1988 Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) report, which dealt with his management of a separate company that ceased trading in 1981. The report said he was “either unaware or chose to ignore” the duties of a company director and was unfit to direct “any company whether private or public”.”
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/05/revealed-amber-rudds-father-was-involved-in-business-she-ran-despite-being-declared-unfit
She sings the same old tune, ‘submit to authority’, whether politics or science, ‘submit to authority’.
The “serious” left (Slate/Graun style) hates authority and submits to it on
– climate
– vaccines
– Putin intent
– exfiltration of DNC emails
Extraordinary shroud-waving from the remainers. No food, no medicines, state of emergency – who do they think they are kidding? In any case, the EU will come to a deal at the 11th hour, and the harder we push them the better. Second referendum? I shall vote leave again. Sadly our UK politicians are largely incompetent and useless at present. I wish it were otherwise.
Indeed. If Trump was in charge, Britain would have had a deal a year ago, and the EU would be paying money to Britain so the British would allow them to continue trading.
May has to have been picked to intentionally do her best to get the worst possible deal. Either that, or the Tories are literally too incompetent to organize a piss-up in a brewery these days.
They have managed to kill democracy, so in a way you can say they’ve achieved something.
As a former Energy Secretary, was she involved in the mass clear cutting of U.S. forests for wood pellets to feed UK boilers?
So npw Brexit is another form of climate denial. Sorry that Amber feels that way. Both are questionable products of environmentalist pseudo-science. Just a look at a global warming crve such as the one from HadCRUT3 will convince you that no way can carbon dioxide cause global warming. HadCRUT shows the entire length of the global carbon dioxide curve as entirely smooth, with only a slight upward curvature due to human influence. Not so with global temperature curve of HadCRUT. It zigs and zags up and down. Carbon dioxide curve at points where the temperature curve changess, like in years 1910 and 1940, remains completely undisturbed by that. This is impossible if any heat transfer has taken place between carbon dioxide and its surrounding atmosphere. But heat transfer is required to make the greenhouse theory of warming work. And this lack of heat transfer makes the greenhouse theory invalid. t. Not to mention the fact that there is no way to lower air temperature by using carbon dioxide.
Rudd is an authoritarian socialist so these comments should come as no surprise.
The Prime Minister is from the same political sphere as Rudd.
No she is a right-winger. A member of the Conservative Party.
A senior member. She has served in the Cabinet under two Conservative Prime Ministers.
MCourtney
The Conservative Party itself is just an extension of the labour party.
The only reason I’ll vote for it next time round is if labour is still a threat. Otherwise, I’d rather vote UKIP, at least they have a published climate policy which is entirely sceptical.
HotScot
The limp dems, Labour and fake conservatives are ALL a threat. (At least Labour is honest, they actually tell us they’re going to wreck the economy!) Our only hope is everyone votes UKIP regardless of who might or might not get in.
The more they speak, the better we look.
Amber is a complete airhead; almost as thick as our future King, ‘Chuck 3’
I think Christopher Hitchens called him a ‘bat-eared loon.’
An example of the vile remain campaigners.
“This is one of the abusive emails sent to Brexiteer Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns last night. Warning: unpleasant content.”
As one poster on Guido Fawkes said: “Jenkyns is doing exactly what she was elected to do in the manifesto upon which she stood, and is representing the interests of the majority of her constituents who voted to Leave.”
Unlike Amber Rudd.
Did you have to?
Now I know with great certainty that leaving with no deal is an excellent idea – and that AGW is a hoax .
You can’t leave the EU until we negotiate an agreement.
Oh, by the way, we have no intention of ever negotiating an agreement.
Brexit is the crisis that just keeps looming….
>In the words of chief Remoaner Alastair Campbell, ‘No deal Brexit means no food Brexit and no medicines Brexit…’. Imagine being Alastair Campbell. Imagine giving the green light to the destruction of a foreign country and the deaths of tens of thousands of people in the name of delivering democracy, only to decide 15 years later that you don’t believe in democracy after all and so you devote your entire life to overthrowing the largest democratic vote in British history. Scientists should study Mr Campbell to discover how such a human being manages to sleep at night. Also, no one is saying there will be ‘no food’ after Brexit. Campbell is lying now as surely as he was when he said Saddam could bomb Britain in 45 minutes.
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/the-remainer-politics-of-fear-has-become-unhinged/21634#.W177xtJKj4Z
There’s years more of this to come.
That’s terrible. There won’t be any medicines available to manage Alistair Campbell’s manic-depressive psychosis.
Abandoning “climate change mitigation” is one of Brexit’s top advantages which will favour, not threaten British economy. Extremely likely.
It is however quite possible to be sceptical of AGW and still be against brexit. And vote DEM, for that matter.
As the planet seems currently to be on fire I am rapidly losing my faith/belief in cagw scepticism; like Julian the Apostate am rapidly returning to paganism.
‘Belief in scepticism’ is an oxymoron.
In your opinion, there have never been wildfires prior to this summer?
Wow, no deal is that good?
she looks awfully young..
This pretty much answers the question. Climate alarmism and the European project are elitist causes, supported by the same bubble-dwellers. Well, Britain has its own deplorables and they will not take well to being messed with.
Anyone who thinks mangoes taste good is being as cavalier as those who believe that belching the exhaust of fossil fuels into the atmosphere has no effect on climate.
Now you try it — just put together two totally unrelated circumstances, and pretend like their juxtaposition constitutes a rational statement.
There’s a reason why many of us Brits begin her name with a “C” because she speaks so much of it.
People like Amber give females a bad name.
I tend to agree with her to the extent that the two views fall about the same place on the good-bad spectrum. The difference is that I put them squarely on the eminently sensible, good end.
“claiming Brexit ease” = “denying human-caused planetary warming”
The two presumptions are not even logically parallel. How is claiming something like denying something? Claiming is NOT like denying.
A seemingly more logical statement might look something like, “Claiming that Brexit is easy is like claiming that transitioning away from fossil fuels is feasible.” Here the presumptions would be logically parallel — with one claim compared to another claim — one instance of presumed difficulty compared to another instance of presumed difficulty — “claiming” = “claiming”, rather than “claiming” = “denying”.
So, not only is her statement conflation, but also it is false equation of terms.
This belongs in the just-making-shit-up department.
There once was a girl named Rudd,
Whose statements were naught but mud.
The fool redhead’s newest being,
Brexit and climate conflating,
Is clearly naught but a dud!
Sorry, couldn’t pass-up the opportunity.
That said, we still have to many of “them” in government here in the U.S. and unfortunately, they are mostly in the Republican party. They say they believe in the rights of the individual but pander to groups when in office.