Saturday - February 06, 2010
Here We Go Again
The anti-whaling ship the Bob Barker and a Japanese harpoon boat collided in the icy waters off Antarctica on Saturday — the second major clash this year in the increasingly aggressive confrontations between the two sides.
No one was reportedly injured in the latest strike. The U.S.-based activist group Sea Shepherd, which sends vessels to confront the Japanese fleet each year, said a small hole was torn in the hull of its ship, but it was above the water line and the vessel was not in danger of sinking.
Sea Shepherd founder Captain Paul Watson said by satellite telephone that the Japanese ship rammed the Bob Barker — named after the U.S. game show host who donated millions to buy it for Sea Shepherd — as it blocked the slipway of the Japanese fleet’s factory ship.
Watson’s claim that the Bob Barker was deliberately hit could not be independently verified.
The Bob Barker sustained a 3-ft. long, 4-inch wide (1-meter long, 10-centimeter) gash in its hull. Welders aboard the ship were already working on patching the hole, and the Bob Barker would resume its pursuit of the whalers, Watson said.
While the typical laser pointer is labeled 5mW and is pretty harmless, you can buy green lasers 100 times as potent over the counter. A 500mW laser sells for about $3000, and has a NOHD (Nominal Ocular Hazard Distance) of 149 meters. Which means it can damage your eyes right quick at any range shorter than that. The most potent 500mW model from Wicked Laser is a Class IV laser, which is nearly a weapon. A green laser runs at a frequency of 532 nanometers. This is the same wavelength generated by a YAG laser. YAG lasers of 1.5W are used for eye surgery; 1KW to 5KW models are used to cut and weld steel. They all produce green beams of similar size. Sea Shepherd has plenty of money to spend, and no ethics at all, so there is no real telling just what kind of laser is being used in the above picture. You’ll never know if it’s a toy or an industrial weapon until it burns your eyes out.
Follow this link for a short brochure on laser safety and classification.
These greenies seem to be this close to trying to start an actual war. I don’t like whaling either, but if the Japanese whalers “accidentally” sink these fools, more power to them. If the whalers call in their navy and they shell the bastards to Davy Jone’s locker, that seems fair to me too. Assholes.
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Permalink • Saturday - January 16, 2010
I let the darndest things annoy me. Thing is, I find it impossible to tolerate the warmists.
OUR LIFESTYLES ARE KILLING PEOPLE IN AFRICA AND ASIA
So says this ridiculous idiot devotee of the new church of green.
He says the inconvenient truth is that our lifestyles are indeed killing other people.
Yeah? Well maybe they’re overpopulated anyway and frankly you flake, I don’t give a damn!
I won’t copy his entire letter, too damn much there and sorry there isn’t a link to it. It’s a letter to the editor and those folks printed this utter balderdash.
He says,
It is in African countries like Kenya and Asian countries like Bangladesh, that people are dying prematurely as a direct result of of climate change from greenhouse gas emissions of the people in developed counties.
The damn fool goes on:
Reductions in the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the lifestyles and consumption patterns are the cause and that,
It is now widely understood that that the sooner cuts in emissions are made, the lower the costs of moving to a low carbon society are likely to prove to be.
The stupid idiot then gives this address:
http://www.winacc.org.uk and he btw is the chairman of The Winchester Action on Climate Change.
He says of our recent severe snow storm and cold snap that “global warming does not abolish winter. “ Maybe not but it sure was colder this year then last and last year was NOT warm either.
He wants us all to reduce our “carbon footprints” sooner, not later. Screw him. I want HIM to CONSERVE so there will be MORE for ME.
He also doesn’t think that Hampshire (our county) residents are doing the right thing fast enough.
Inconvenient truth is, they should not be doing anything at all.
OK so I read his damn letter and the more I thought about it the more frustrated I got because he assumes he has the word from on high and with evangelistic zeal he expects everyone to fall into line. In spite of the recent comments by other scientists that say the issue is NOT closed.
So I wrote this.
GORE’S GREEN LACKEYSThis little island and people like Mr. Robert Hutchison of WinCAA , believe they are going to save the planet as they rush to bend the knee to their new religion, The Holy Church of Climate Change and Global Warming.
The silly extremes they go to as they genuflect before pope bore and the new faith and what they achieve, amount to no more then a flea on an elephant’s ass, though they would have us believe otherwise.It is delusional to think that the vast majority of people throughout Europe and the UK, all buy into every edict demanded by the grasping self congratulatory powers that be . Many of those who feel that not everything is exactly right and do their bit i.e. recycling etc, do not buy into the doomsday scenario as preached by the new church and Robert H.
A full year before the EU dictated that all member states must stop manufacture and sales of those old nice bright 100watt light bulbs, millions of people started buying and hoarding them. Even that most politically correct and green loving state, Germany, led Europe in the rush to collect the old and more favored light bulb in spite of the opposition of Gore’s Green Lackeys in that country. Clearly, a majority of the people prefer the older type but majorities do not matter much in the new age of the green and pc world dictatorship.
Meanwhile back in happy slap, binge drunk England, a newspaper called The Daily Mail, which is a conservative paper, started a silly campaign to ban plastic shopping bags. One village has already happily announced to the world that they are, “Plastic Bag Free,” Mein Fuehrer, to the applause of The Mail who proudly announce victory in our time, over plastic. Ignoring of course that these bags are 100% degradable.
However, it is very important to show the few fanatical faithful who dominate the majority, their religious devotion to the new church.Following in the path of the paper, and in an effort to increase their profit margins, many a business is making a public display of their conversion to the new faith.
Back at the ranch however, manufacturers continue to package their products in impossibly difficult to open non-degradable multiple plastic.
But hey, who’s looking at that?
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Permalink • Friday - January 15, 2010
People (?) in Haiti protest and block roads because aid is too slow in coming. WTF
Now these are clearly dumb-heads of the first degree but fine. Let em block the roads with rotting bodies (as they are doing) because they somehow thought that relief was permanently stationed off shore just in case Haiti needed help.
I can’t say as I blame them if that’s what they really think altho I made that part up all by myself. See the thing is, those folks have been getting handouts from the world at large (and especially the USA where they think money grows on trees) for so long, that they think all they have to do is hold out their hands and the help is immediate. Well it usually worked that way in the past.
So there they are, protesting by blocking the very limited roads they have where help might come through. Smart thinking. doh.
The upside of what some will see as tragedy, is that there are now far fewer who will breed. Of course that’ll change very fast and they’ll double the lost number in short order.
Downside? You betcha.
I M M I G R A T I O N !! And where oh where will they be headed to? Oh let us see. Gee whiz this is a hard one. Now let me think. Hmmmm
Haiti earthquake survivors blockade roads with piles of corpses in protest at lack of aidBy Liz Hazelton
Last updated at 11:09 AM on 15th January 2010* Hundreds of criminals on the streets after prison collapses
* 7,000 corpses are dumped in Haiti’s first mass grave
* Aid workers pour on to island as emergency fund launched
* Fears for British woman Ann Barnes who worked in collapsed building
* Reports of looting as situation spirals out of control
*Britain pledges £10m in aid as Brown describes ‘tragedy beyond imagination’
Desperate Haitians have set up roadblocks of corpses in Port-au-Prince to protest at the lack of emergency aid reaching them after the catastrophic earthquake.
Although billions of pounds has already been pledged to the devastated country, help is only just beginning to trickle through.
Rescue efforts have been blighted by poor infrastructure and lack of heavy lifting equipment - as well as the damage wrought by the disaster.
Shaul Schwarz, a photographer for TIME magazine, said he saw at least two roadblocks formed with bodies of earthquake victims and rocks.
‘They are starting to block the roads with bodies. It’s getting ugly out there. People are fed up with getting no help,’ he said.
You probably have this on TV 24/7 so I’m keeping it short. Below is the link to the article source.
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Permalink • Tuesday - January 05, 2010
ANOTHER DAFT IDEA FROM THE LEFT NANNY STATE WHO WILL INSPECT YOUR KITCHEN.
Well maybe not quite literally but it comes close. Of course, there’s an election coming up in 5 months and so the pols are breast beating and tossing out ideas and claiming they’ll save not just the UK but ze verld as well. Sure they will.
Grow ur own veggies they say. Uh huh. Like everyone is in a position where they can. And even where some can, they may not be able to. Anyway, everyone knows veggies come from supermarkets so what’s this talk about growing ur own?
This govt. does tend to get into everyones lives. We already have two bins in our kitchen. This loony tune wants to add a third? Good luck with that. Can’t even imagine what they might come up with next. Hey I know. Lets all collect it and then forward on to Al Bore’s house. Now that’s a positive thought.
by the way ... This idea has it’s origins in the EU, I have read. What a surprise.
Hey ... it’s still snowing. Could be this time the weather guy has things right.
Our milkman made his 5am delivery at 9pm tonight. I had him leave some extra eggs and bread for us.
Hooray ... I think I may have my browser working at long last. Still checking things out but apparently it was one of the add-ons causing a problem.
Now all I need to do is get more memory. Ok, here’s the story. Jerks! No not you. Them. These guys.
Householders to be forced into using slop buckets for waste food or face penalty finesBy David Derbyshire
Last updated at 8:34 PM on 05th January 2010Householders could be fined hundreds of pounds if they throw food scraps and vegetable peelings into the dustbin, it has emerged.
Instead they will be forced to use slop buckets.
Environment Minister Hilary Benn wants to ban food going to landfill sites - and for leftovers to be collected by dustmen and used to generate green electricity.
The move, which would see compulsory buckets in every kitchen, came as the Government published a major report on the future of food and farming.
The report - aimed at boosting food production, tackling climate change and improving the nation’s health - called on consumers to buy more British food, eat more seasonal food and grow their own fruit and veg.
And it controversially claimed that GM crops had ‘potential’ to help feed the world’s booming population.
But it also called for less food to go to rubbish dumps, where it releases greenhouse gases.
Before launching the report, Mr Benn went even further - and gave his strongest backing yet to a ban on food landfill sites.
‘I’m going to consult a little later on this year on getting to a point where we say we’re not going to put food in landfill anymore where we know we can turn it into energy through anaerobic digestion,’ he told the conference.
If the ban gets the go-ahead, slop buckets - already used to collect food scraps in millions of homes - would be extended across the whole country.
The proposals were condemned by critics.
Matthew Elliott, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: ‘Time and again these new recycling policies always end up being based on punitive fines, which is the last thing ordinary families around Britain need.
‘It is fine to aspire towards more recycling, but any attempt to start policing people’s kitchen bins and registering their potato peelings will be a costly farce.’
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Permalink • Friday - December 18, 2009
Rocket science factoid … England is an island. It’s a small country and a population less then USA
Amazing that. Who’d have guessed?
This is not a continent with a population in the hundreds of millions. However, it seems that nobody has shared that info with the pie in the sky prime minister,
Gordon Brown. Who in a magnanimous gesture has just pledged an extra £6 billion to fight climate change. (what happened to warming?)
Where the hell is all this cash coming from? I guess he’s gonna print more and get it from the same place he got the trillion to bail out the banks.
It has been promised at that meeting in Denmark, from which there seems to be an odd smelling odor, I think there’s something rotten there, that billions must be given to turd world countries to offset the effects of climate change and to help them as they are poor. And guess what. Some spokesman for Africa has already said that it won’t be enough.
No kidding but no surprise.
I’ve been listening to the radio again. Yeah I know. That or the papers. I need to give one up as it’s all causing an ulcer.
Oh yeah ... America can be proud. Hilary has pledged US backing for a $100bn fund.
This country is in deep financial trouble. These things do manage to right themselves after a time but how long is now the question.
Services are being cut and the govt. claims to be looking for ways to save. BUT ... MPs (Member of Parliament) have been found even AFTER the scandal of expenses to be, “CARRY ON CHEATING.” Not only that, a large group of MPs ( I think the number may be 81) have refused to return monies they took claiming a right to same. It’s getting so that one doesn’t know who to believe anymore. While I hope Labour is voted out, I am not certain the conservatives will do a heck of a lot better. OK, maybe a little better. But so many of them seem to be Cons in name only. Gets a bit daunting.
On climate change this govt. is committed (they say) to leading the world in the saving of itself. Oh great. Who the hell is gonna save England while all this noble nonsense is happening?
On another politically correct front, the govt. wants to force tobacco companies into giving up the use of company logos on ciggy packs. Not enough that packs already carry huge black lettering saying THIS PRODUCT KILLS. What makes em think logos like the Lucky Strike target being banned, will cause ppl to quit or not start?
It’s really difficult remaining positive folks. Here’s an example of how well things are working here. Wife found this letter in the Times today. Unbelievable.
Sir, In keeping with the time of year, I recently ordered my diaries for 2010. When, after several weeks, they had not arrived, I contacted the company to establish the cause of the delay. I was informed that the courier had been unable to find my place of work.
Given that the distribution centre is located in Scotland, I cannot be sure if this is a symptom of cartographical ignorance, failed GPS technology, or perhaps, devolution?
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne
House of Lords (large building by River Thames with big clock tower)
Jeeze people .... The freekin House of Lords? Clock tower? as in BIG FREEKIN BEN? THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT? THE FRACKEN SEAT OF GOVT.?
The courier couldn’t find that?
It goes on and on.
The fresh injection of British taxpayers’ cash will be part of a $100billion (£67billion) a year fund which was backed by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday.
In what was seen as a major development, Mrs Clinton said: ‘We have come to Copenhagen ready to take the steps necessary to achieve a comprehensive and an operational new agreement.’
Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband said the fund would require ‘around £1billion a year from Britain’.
He added: ‘Some of that money comes from overseas aid, some will come out of revenue but this is absolutely in the UK’s economic - as well as environmental - interest.’Britain is expected to ramp up its contribution to the global fund for poor countries from £500million a year in 2012 to the £1billion target by 2020, landing taxpayers with a bill for £ 6billion in additional aid over the period.
That is on top of £1.5billion the UK has already pledged for developing countries. But Mr Brown says the financial outlay is essential to maintain progress. After talks with Chinese premier Wen Jiabao he suggested China was prepared to allow more checks on its carbon emissions.Mr Brown yesterday pledged an extra £6billion to persuade developing countries to sign up to a deal.
As the Prime Minister prepared to sip champagne over dinner with Robert Mugabe and more than 100 other world leaders, he told reporters that ‘the conditions for an agreement are now there’.He effectively committed Britain to handing over billions more in ‘additional’ money in an attempt to win over poorer countries who say current proposals are unfair.
Mr Brown has already offered to cut Britain’s carbon emissions by 42 per cent, the highest proportion of any country and ten times the best deal put forward by the U.S.A. - raising the prospect of higher fuel prices and a wave of green taxes.
His latest offer will fuel concerns that Mr Brown is making a disproportionately generous offer on Britain’s behalf in a desperate attempt to secure his place in history.
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Permalink • Friday - December 11, 2009
GLOBALWARMINGGLOBALWARMINGGLOBALWARMINGGLOBALWARMINGGLOBALWARMINGGLOBALWARMING
Some other nice photos at the link ...
UPDATE WATER HEATER
OK so, we found someone through age concern and he came out and looked at what we have. Doesn’t look very good as the immersion heater won’t come cleanly away from the the tank it sits in. There was always that danger and I was aware of it the last time that part was replaced.
Cut to the chase we are looking at a new water tank/heater. Doubtful it can be done today, it’s already late in the day. So we hope by tomorrow.
I suppose the upside is that a new water tank will be more energy efficient cost wise to run.
Stay Tuned.
Temperatures to plummet to -3C as Britain faces a weekend of freezing fog and ice
By Arthur Martin
Last updated at 1:18 PM on 11th December 2009After enduring the wettest November on record, you might have hoped for a bit of respite before the Big Chill.
Alas, any relief you might have enjoyed will be frozen out this weekend by sub-zero temperatures and widespread frosts.
Temperatures will drop to lows of 3C (37F) in the daytime and will plummet to minus 3C (27F) or less in northern parts of the UK at night.
Forecasters believe the cold temperatures could bring snow to northern and eastern parts of the UK next week, most likely over hills.
Travellers attempting to make an early start to their weekend today were hampered by a thick layer of fog which shrouded much of the country.
The RAC warned drivers of increasingly treacherous conditions on the roads, with visibility limited to less than 100metres in some places.
Bosses at Heathrow Airport were forced to cancel 56 flights today. Holidaymakers and business travellers whose flights were still operating faced delays of up to an hour.
Stunning: In this picture from the Lake District, sheep graze as a blanket of fog covers the valley beneath them. It was taken by Becki Higgins on the A6 in Keswick, Cumbria
Forecasters said much of the fog had cleared by mid-morning, but some pockets are persisting.
Sarah Holland from the Met Office said: ‘Over the past couple of weeks we’ve seen very unsettled weather, although it has been very mild.
‘It’s going to feel significant colder over the next few days, but at least many will be able to enjoy bright crisp days.
‘The cold weather is caused by a cold front coming in from Scandinavia.’
The Met Office said it was too early to predict if this cold snap would increase the prospects of snow on Christmas Day.
However, Paul Michaelwaite, forecaster for NetWeather.tv, was less reticent. He predicted the cold spell would last ‘right through Christmas’.
‘There are no certainties,’ he said. ‘I’d say 30 per cent to 40 per cent risk of snow [on Christmas Day] - not a bad risk two weeks away.’
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Permalink • Saturday - December 05, 2009
Forget climate change - save the planet from the thermomaniacs .
We follow Simon Heffer on a regular basis. I don’t post everything he does but generally the ones I think Americans can relate to easily.
Or the things he writes exposing the lunacy that has overtaken his country.
One thing I have found over time and I suspect you have as well, is that those on the left seem to get hysterical, their faces twist into misshapen masks of the most grotesque kind as they hiss and spit at authority. These are “Protesters” - “Activists” and generally, this is what they look like.
Male or female it never matters. They appear to be of a kind. Almost a race apart you might say.
Take a look at the face here. Is this a face of reason?
Forget climate change - save the planet from the thermomaniacs
At last people are telling David Cameron that his bunny-hugging has the potential to cause extreme economic and political damage, writes Simon Heffer.
By Simon Heffer
Saturday TelegraphAlthough I risk immediately being branded mentally defective for saying so, I am not convinced by the notion of man-made global warming. My lack of conviction, I would be the first to admit, is based on nothing resembling great scientific understanding: I have not so much as an O-level in physics or chemistry.
All I do know is this: that the planet has heated up and cooled down at various points in its history without any help from factories, lorries or a beef-farming industry. Other planets have done, and continue to do, the same: I am still waiting for an answer to John Redwood’s excellent point that the surface temperature of Mars has risen over the past few decades “and they are still looking for the 4x4s that did it”. I therefore remain, in the phrase of Sir Antony Jay, the creator of Yes Minister, a firm thermosceptic.
Various other factors have contributed to an acceleration of my thermoscepticism. There was Lord Lawson’s detailed and challenging riposte to the Stern report. There is Christopher Booker’s superb recent book, The Real Global Warming Disaster, which I recommend that you all read. There is the hectoring tone of the BBC on the question, where any contributor to any programme who appears to be a thermo-denier is treated with incredulity and astonishment.
Also, thermomania has become the latest rallying point for the Leftist rent-a-mob, which finds it a suitable focus for its hatred of capitalism and the established order. That so many respectable people feel happy getting into bed with international anarchy would be funny were it not so threatening to our futures.
The latest blow to the thermomaniacs is the leak of emails from the University of East Anglia which suggest a complete unwillingness to engage with the opposite point of view. This was rather how the church used to behave before Martin Luther, and it enforced its will by torture and burnings at the stake. With those sanctions not currently available, the thermomaniacs prefer simply to pretend that the argument has only one side.
That argument – well, their argument – seems also to have reached ludicrous levels. We are told to stop eating beef because eructating bovines are also damaging the planet. This is an object lesson in the madness of these people.
Not only is there no proof that every time a cow passes wind a flower dies, but such absurd claims are made with an utter disregard for the economy of large parts of the world (mainly the Third World) that depend on such farming. Mind you, the only time I ever attended a Green Party conference, 20 years ago, I heard a woman tell the assembly (to their agreement) that the population of this country would have to be halved to 30 million; though she failed to explain how this would be achieved.
Nutters, anarchists, anti-capitalists, fanatics, absolutists: why are these people taken seriously? Three cheers for the Australians, who this week have started to rise up against this indoctrination and lunacy.
Three cheers for David Davis and the Tories who think like him, who are at last telling Dave that this particular bit of grandstanding and bunny-hugging has the potential to cause the most extreme economic and political damage. At last, there is recognition not just that there are two sides to every story, but that when politicians conspire to limit argument, it is always an attack on the public interest.
So if, next week, the Copenhagen summit passes from fraudulence to complete collapse, and misery and panic break out, no one should feel it is the end of the world – yet.
Oh, I have a message from the Prime Minister of this country for all of us.
Mr, Brown says that climate sceptics are “flat-earthers” and that we are also “Anti Science.”
And if you would like to know exactly what he said, it was this.
“With only days to go before Copenhagen we mustn’t be distracted by the behind-the-times, anti-science, flat-earth climate sceptics. We know the science. We know what we must do.”
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Permalink • Wednesday - December 02, 2009
Copenhagen summit is last chance to save the planet.
Drew beat me to the topic ... had a heck of a freaky storm and shut down and pulled the plugs for a couple hours. lightening/massive thunder kind of unusual this time of year.
Oh dear,oh dear ... The sky really is falling ... uh huh. yawn.
Anyway ... this headline is interesting. Be curious to see what happens if the this summit falls apart.
The Copenhagen summit is the world’s last chance to save the planet from “catastrophic” global warming, according to a major study led by Lord Stern of Brentford, the country’s leading authority on climate change.
By Louise Gray, Environment CorrespondentWithout an international agreement to limit global warming, temperatures are likely to rise by 9F (5C) by the end of the century - triggering mass migration, warfare and world hunger, according to the report.
But Lord Stern, who produced the report together with the London School of Economics and other leading academics, said it was still possible for the world to keep the temperature rise below 3.6F (2C) - but only if world leaders agree to cut global emissions at next week’s UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen.
However the world must be prepared to spend more money on tackling climate change through both public finance and a new raft of “carbon taxes”.
Lord Stern described the summit as the “most important gathering since the second world war, given what is at stake”.His comments come as the Prince of Wales confirmed he would attend the summit to urge world leaders to take action against climate change. The outspoken campaigner on environmental issues it expected to put particular emphasis on the need to stop deforestation.
“Let us not allow mistrust, pessimism and lack of ambition to take us stumbling into profound dangers. Instead let us have real vision and leadership in both developed and developing countries which seize the opportunities offered by Copenhagen, for us, our children and future generations,” he said.
The former World Bank economist’s report on climate change in 2006 - known as The Stern Report - is regarded as the single most influential political document on climate change in Britain.
However, Lord Stern admitted that even he had underestimated the risk of global warming in the past.His new report, compiled with the London School of Economics, University of Leeds and Economic and Social Research Council, has calculated the cuts the world will need to make in greenhouse gases to stand a good chance of keeping temperature rises within a safe limit.
Previously Lord Stern had said the world must keep levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere below 550 parts per million of carbon dioxide. However, following scientific evidence that the world is losing its ability to absorb carbon dioxide in the soils and oceans, he said this will now have to be kept below 500ppm.
This will mean halving the amount of carbon dioxide the world is currently pumping into the atmosphere through factories, transport and other emissions.
Yeah well .... Charles Moore of the Telegraph is worth listening to and reading.
Nigel Lawson on climate change: ‘Saving’ the planet will be the real disaster
Charles Moore reviews ‘An Appeal to Reason’ by Nigel Lawson.
By Charles Moore
This book appeared last year, but I am reviewing it now because I have noticed that its arguments are beginning to catch fire. It is a well-known feature of British culture that we usually come to the right view about something in the end, but only after we have indulged the wrong view for too long. This helps to explain why Nigel Lawson had such difficulty in getting this book published. But as the Copenhagen summit on climate approaches, people are at last beginning to question whether it can really be true that we have only – as Gordon Brown has said – a few days in which to “save the planet”. “Nations will vanish and millions lose their homes to rising seas,” shouted a headline in a serious paper yesterday, carefully on time for Copenhagen. But we are wearying of being terrified by what are essentially speculations.
Lord Lawson is highly unusual in being an intellectual who has also held political office at the highest level (he was Mrs Thatcher’s chancellor). He can therefore master, dissect and expound argument without forgetting how ideas and ideals can be grotesquely distorted by politics. He was also a good journalist, so he can explain things in clear English.
This admirably short book is simple. It goes through the claims made by the principal promoters of action against global warming, and subjects them to analysis. Lawson is careful to choose mainstream bodies or sources – the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Stern report, Al Gore – rather than the lunatics who pullulate at the fringe. But he succeeds in showing that even these apparently respectable institutions and individuals pullulate quite dottily enough.
I particularly like the ending paragraph ..........
Stern, Gore, the IPCC etc speak as if human beings will not do the one thing most characteristic of civilisation – adapt. There is no disaster facing us which we cannot mitigate by changing our behaviour over time. The real disaster will be if we cede to politicians what the author calls the “licence to intrude” in everything we do by pretending to “save” a planet which no one has proved will be lost.
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Permalink • Friday - November 06, 2009
Judge rules believers in gorbal warming have same protection under religious laws
Think it’s a joke? Nope.
A few days ago I ran across a story that beggars belief and lost the damn article. Tried to find it in Google and failed but fortunately Richard Littlejohn brings it up here in his column today in the Mail.
I have edited the article to this subject but really do suggest you use the link to read his entire column. This guy is spot on .
By Richard Littlejohn
Daily Mail
Nov. 6, 2009This column has long argued that ‘man-made climate change’ is a new religion. So I suppose it was only a matter of time before that status was conferred upon it by law.
A judge has just ruled that a ‘global warming’ fanatic, made redundant by a property company after refusing to fly on business, can seek unlimited damages for religious discrimination.
Mr Justice Burton said that ‘a philosophical belief which is based on science’ is entitled to receive the same legal protection as a sincerely-held religious conviction.
The trouble with ‘man-made climate change’ is that it isn’t based on settled science, despite what the alarmists and their allies at the BBC would have us believe.There is a welter of countervailing evidence that, far from warming up to boiling point, the Earth is actually getting cooler and the ice caps thicker.
More than 300 eminent, reputable scientists and research fellows in America have signed a declaration that ‘man-made global warming’ is a myth and dispute the link between carbon emissions and so- called ‘climate change’.
The founder of the Weather Channel says that Al Gore should be sued for fraud over his movie, A Convenient Lie
The founder of the Weather Channel, a meteorologist who can be fairly assumed to have some idea what he is talking about, says that self-righteous hypocrite Al Gore should be sued for fraud over his scaremongering movie, A Convenient Lie, which British judges have already agreed contains a number of obvious distortions of the truth.(Incidentally, it has just been revealed that Gore is on course to become a billionaire off the back of his stake in a number of eco-related enterprises. It’s an ill wind...)
Look, I don’t know for sure which side is right, maybe neither of them, but my natural inclination is always towards scepticism.
What does seem patently apparent is that when you look at the assorted vested interests lined up on the ‘man-made’ side of the argument, you can’t help concluding that if all these opportunist politicians, madwomen, social engineers, sexual inadequates and quasi-communists agree then they are almost certainly wrong.
Politicians, in particular, love the great ‘climate change’ scare because it takes them a step nearer their fantasy of global government and allows them to impose an exciting array of new taxes, punishments and controls upon the peasants who pay their wages.
It has spawned a vast, self-perpetuating industry worth a fortune, of which the great ‘carbon offset’ scam is the most exploitative and ridiculous incarnation.
Paying someone conscience-money to plant a tree every time you fly? I wish I’d thought of that. .
President Obama back-pedals, China opens another coal-fired power station every day, India pollutes with impunity and tinpot African states demand cynically that the West pays them hundreds of millions of dollars to play ball.
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Biofuel refineries in the US have set fresh records for grain use every month since May.
Well, yet again I have to H/T LyndonB but this time there’s more. Got my eyes opened WIDE on a subject that frankly I had given no thought to.
I don’t recall exactly what I wrote to Lyndon but his reply was this:
The US may be down (with an ass clown at the helm) but it is not out. It is still a superpower. Not just militarily but in terms of agriculture. Years ago I worked on Mississippi river barges which came up to Iowa empty and went back down to New Orleans full of soy beans and maize. Unless you have seen this first hand the sheer scale of this industry it is hard to get across. We loaded up barges with maize. Each of them were 200’ long and we then moved them out to the line boats which took them on to the gulf fifteen at a time. I therefore found this article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard very interesting. The arabs and Chinese think they have the US by the balls. One through oil dependancy, the other through their dollar holdings. When I worked on the river one of the owners of the company once remarked that hunger was the most important factor to consider, because at the end of the day you can’t eat gold or drink oil. Something I feel a few of these piss pots would do well to remember.
And the link he provided me was the following which I found quite surprising not just for the info. What surprised me lots was the fact that I found it so interesting. It isn’t a subject to set the blood rushing lets face it. Like the rolling movements of the Qs on NASDAQ. But darn if I wasn’t glued to every line. I had no idea.
Thanks L.
Food will never be so cheap again
Biofuel refineries in the US have set fresh records for grain use every month since May. Almost a third of the US corn harvest will be diverted into ethanol for motors this year, or 12pc of the global crop.
By Ambrose Evans-PritchardThe world’s grain stocks have dropped from four to 2.6 months cover since 2000, despite two bumper harvests in North America. China’s inventories are at a 30-year low. Asian rice stocks are near danger level.
Yet farm commodities have largely missed out on Bernanke’s reflation rally in metals, oil, and everything else. Dylan Grice from Société Générale sees “bargain basement” prices.Wheat has crashed 70pc from early 2008. Corn has halved. The “Ags” have mostly drifted sideways over the last six months. This divergence within the commodity family is untenable, given the bio-ethanol linkage to oil.
For investors wishing to rotate out of overstretched rallies – Wall Street’s Transport index and the Russell 2000 broke down last week – this is a rare chance to buy cheap into a story that will dominate the rest of our lives.Barack Obama has not reversed the Bush policy on biofuels, despite food riots in a string of poor countries last year and calls for a moratorium. The subsidy of 45 cents per gallon remains.
The motive is strategic. America is weaning itself off imported energy at breakneck speed. It will not again be held hostage by oil demagogues, or humiliated by states that cannot feed themselves. Those Beijing students who laughed at US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner may not enjoy the last laugh. The US is the agricultural superpower. Foes will discover why that matters.The world population is adding “another Britain” every year. This will continue until mid-century. By then we will have an extra 2.4bn mouths to feed.
China and Southeast Asia are switching to animal-protein diets as they grow wealthy, as the Koreans did before them. It takes roughly 3-5kgs of animal feed from grains to produce 1kg of meat.A report by Standard Chartered, The End of Cheap Food, said North Africa and the Middle East have already hit the buffers. The region imports 71pc of its rice and 58pc of its corn. It lacks water to boost output. The population is growing fast. It will have to import, and cross fingers.
The UN says global farm yields must rise 77pc, which means redoubling Norman Borlaug’s “green revolution”. It will not be easy. China’s trend growth in crops yields has slipped from 3.1pc a year in the early 1960s to 0.9pc over the last decade.“We’ve all heard the stark anecdotes: precious topsoil weakened by over-farming, dust clouds darkening the Asian skies, parched land becoming desert and rivers running dry,” said Mr Grice.
Since 2000, China has lost nearly 1,400 square miles each year to desert. Urban sprawl is paving over fertile land in the East. Water supply from Himalayan glaciers is ebbing. The Yellow River has been reduced to “an agonising trickle”. It no longer reaches the sea for 200 days a year.Farmers are draining the aquifers. Environmentalist Ma Jun says in China’s Water Crisis that they are drilling as deep as 1,000 metres into non-replenishable reserves. The grain region of the Hai River Basin relies on groundwater for 70pc of irrigation.
China’s water troubles are not unique. North India lives off Himalayan snows as well. Nor can we take fertiliser supply for granted any longer since “peak phosphates” threatens.
One can be Malthusian about this. Grizzled commodity guru Jim Rogers certainly is. “The world is going to have a period when we cannot get food at any price, in some parts.” He advises youth to opt for a farm degree rather than an MBA, if they want to make serious money.
Mr Grice remains an optimist, believing that human ingenuity will rescue us. You can trade the “Ag” rally by investing in exchange traded funds (ETFs), but this amounts to speculation on food. There are ancient taboos against this practice.
Or you can invest in the bio-tech, fertiliser, and land services companies that will both make money and help to solve the problem. Monsanto, Syngenta, and Potash are popular, but trade at high price to book values. Golden Agri-Resources, Yara, Agrium, and Bunge are at better multiples.
Kingsmill Bond at Moscow’s Troika Dialog suggests the Baltic company Trigon Agri as a way to play the catch-up story in the Eurasian steppe. He likes sunflower processor Kernel, grain group Razgulay, and fertiliser firm Uralkali.
Strictly speaking, the world has enough land to feed everybody. The Soviet Union farmed 240m hectares in Khrushchev’s era. The same territory now farms 207m hectares. Troika says crop yields could be doubled in Russia, and tripled in the Ukraine using modern know-how. Africa’s farms could come alive with land registers, allowing villagers to use property as collateral for credit.
None of this can be done with a flick of the fingers. What seems certain is that the terms of trade between country and city will revert to the norms of the Middle Ages. Landowners will be barons again.
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Permalink • Saturday - October 17, 2009
Man Made Global Warming
This would be the world’s biggest barbecue if anyone lived nearby.
In 1971 Soviet geologists accidently found an underground cavern filled with natural gas when the ground collapsed and their drilling rig fell through. In order to prevent the area from being poisoned by the gas escaping, it was set alight. 38 years later it continues to burn. The hole is 200 feet across and 70 feet deep. And it’s filled with fire. This burning pit is in the middle of the Karakum desert, out in The Middle of God Forsaken Nowhere, Turkmenistan. ( Seriously, that’s the address! ) Also called the Derweze gas crater, the reek of burning sulfur can be smelled from miles away. It lights up the whole horizon.
Quite a number of excellent photographs of this can be viewed here.
How many BTUs do you think this puts out per hour? For nearly 40 years. But the birds like it, since it keeps the air warm. Even the fwench find it amazing! “It gives the feeling of schools of fishes swimming around in an inversert aquarium.”
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Permalink • Tuesday - October 06, 2009
Homeowner who won right to protect his home falling into the sea faces fresh legal challenge
Woo-Hoo ... look at this photo. In fact, if you go to the link you will be able to see an enlarged version.
What is it with conservation that a guy has to live with the threat of home loss. Oh well. Some castles aren’t meant to be an Englishman’s home I guess.
Peter Boggis, 78, has had his legal victory in the fight to prevent his home falling into the sea challenged by a conservation watchdog
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 2:25 PM on 06th October 2009A legal victory won by a modern-day King Canute in his fight to prevent his home falling into the sea was challenged by a conservation watchdog in the Court of Appeal today.
Natural England wants fossil-bearing cliffs near Southwold, in Suffolk, to be allowed to erode naturally for scientific reasons.
It has disputed a High Court ruling made last December that its plan was unlawful because it failed to carry out an assessment of how a nearby wildlife haven might be affected.
Since 2002, retired engineer Peter Boggis, 78, has spent tens of thousands of pounds installing his own ‘soft’ sea defences built from 250,000 tonnes of compacted clay soil in front of cliffs near his Easton Bavents home.
He said this has so far saved more than eight acres of land and four properties ’at no cost to the nation’ and that his efforts would, if anything, slow down the expected loss of habitat on the wildlife site.
Mr Boggis wants to be allowed to maintain his defences to prevent further erosion of the cliffs.
He said the decision of a conservation organisation to allow the sea to destroy people’s homes was ‘immoral and totally unsatisfactory’.
In 2006, Natural England notified a coastal Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) between Southwold in the south and Kessingland in the north.
peter BoggisBarrier: Mr Boggis has spent thousands of pounds building ‘soft’ sea defences using 250,000 tonnes of compacted clay soil in front of cliffs
In the High Court, Mr Justice Blair said the evidence showed that part of the intention of the SSSI was to allow the destruction of Mr Boggis’s defences, for which consent was unlikely to be given, and the rapid erosion of the cliffs behind them.
The judge ruled this amounted to ‘a plan or project’ which might have an effect on a special protection area (SPA) for birds - particularly the little tern, bittern and marsh harrier - which is located to the north of Mr Boggis’s sea defences.
An assessment of the risk to the SPA should have been carried out to comply with the EU Habitats Directive, the judge said.
Natural England said it sympathised with the situation faced by Mr Boggis and his neighbours, but was concerned that the High Court judgement set a precedent requiring environmental assessments to be carried out when they were entirely unnecessary.
When the case was heard in November last year, Mr Boggis’s lawyer Gregory Jones told the court that, in contrast to King Canute, the 11th century king who made his futile attempt to hold back the tide in order to demonstrate to his followers how insignificant his power was compared with that of God, Mr Boggis’s sea defences had been highly effective.
John Howell QC, acting for Natural England, today told Lords Justices Mummery, Longmore and Sullivan at a three-day appeal hearing in London that Mr Boggis built his sea defences without planning permission or an environmental impact assessment.
He pointed out that the High Court had rejected all the arguments by Mr Boggis and the Easton Bavents Conservation group to the effect that the notification of the SSSI was in itself unlawful.
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Permalink • Friday - October 02, 2009
Eco Terrorists Hold Coal Mine Hostage
Climbers from Greenpeace have since early Friday morning been blocking the loading of coal from the Svea mine at Svalbard. The action is a protest against coal mining and climate changes.
The Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise has spent the last months in the Arctic sailing in the waters around Greenland and now over to Svalbard area. Onboard are both activists and scientists
researching the climate changes impact on the Arctic.
Friday morning, 22 activists from the vessel are participating in the action. Svea coal mine is operated by the Norwegain state own company Store Norske Spitsbergen Kullkompani.
A huge banner at the loading crane says “Coal fired Arctic meltdown.”
Svea mine is located in the inner part of the Van Mijenfjord in the southern part of the Spitsbergen Island at 75 degrees north in the Norwegian Arctic.
Four of the Greenpeace climbers are Friday morning hanging over the loading crane stopping the coal from land to be transferred over to the coal bulk vessel Pascha.
Greenpeace says the coal mining at Svalbard should be stopped.
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Permalink • Thursday - October 01, 2009
The betrayal of white working-class boys and the death of normal society.
This is one of the articles I was referring to in my last post. This is law (lack of) and disorder (LOTS of) in modern day England.
And the populous is UNARMED.
Now then, a natural supposition of those opposed to guns in homes is that, should they be that easy to come by then the bad guys will be just as well armed. Well, that may be so but that argument misses the point that firstly, criminals are already armed for the most part. People who advocate gun ownership have never to my knowledge suggested that ANYONE should be able to buy a gun merely by walking into your local grocery store. Frankly, I don’t know how that would work out here in the UK if gun ownership was allowed. And how many people answer a knock at their door with a gun in their hand? (ok, I once did but it was very late at night, beyond any expectation of nightly visitors and the outside light was not on. Turned out to be a songwriter friend from England visiting Nashville who decided to pay a surprise visit. ) Anyway people, the older ya get the more vulnerable one feels because, you are. And btw, based on the things I have read about here, if we had access to guns, there’s no way that under some circumstances I would answer the door unarmed.
I’m not implying that this unfortunate mother would have had a gun even if allowed. But in many other cases, I’m certain lives could have been saved had the victims been well armed. The punks and street rats are perfectly willing and proud to use violence. And why the hell not? There isn’t anyone or anything in place that they’re afraid of. They have little if anything to lose. Or at least, nothing they place much value on.
Except of course their own lives and their own well being. But unless that’s threatened in some way, they own the streets.
33 separate complaints to the police
By Harriet Sergeant
October 1st, 2009Already we are beginning to forget the horror of the story of Fiona Pilkington and her 18-year-old daughter Francecca.
We heard this week how bullying neighbours tormented them for ten years, finally driving Fiona to burn herself and Francecca, who had a mental age of four, to death.
What made matters so much worse was that she made 33 separate complaints to the police - yet was all but ignored.
Simmons familyHow bitterly ironic it is that the police are now visiting her street in huge numbers, providing protection to the Simmons family who allegedly helped drive Fiona Pilkington to such a desperate act.
What scant consolation it must be for Fiona’s grieving relatives that her death has at last stirred the police into action.
I will never forget that photograph of the Simmons family. There is nothing particularly wicked about them. And that’s the horror. The four sons are smiling, relaxed, leaning affectionately against each other and their father. Their clothes are clean. They are posing, for goodness sake, in front of flowered wall paper.
Yet this is the family who allegedly tormented a woman to such horrific extremes after enduring a decade of terror.
I have spent the last ten months interviewing teenage boys in poor neighbourhoods. The Simmons boys are no worse, and even a lot better, than many of those I met. Like a lot of adolescent boys they did the reprehensible because it was fun - and because they could.
As one of the boys chillingly told Fiona Pilkington’s 72-year-old mother: ‘We can do anything we like to you and you can’t do anything about it.’
In any normal society those boys would have been pulled up short - by their parents, by neighbours, by the police, by pillars of the local community - the first time they threw an egg at the Pilkington household.
BUT WE NO LONGER LIVE IN A NORMAL SOCIETY. No one censured them, so they were able to continue their reign of terror in Barwell in Hinckley, Leicestershire, for up to a decade.
The sorry truth is we live in the twilight years of a social experiment that has failed. The Pilkington family has paid the worst possible price for that failure.
In the caring, sharing culture of our social services, one fact gets forgotten. In order to protect the vulnerable, you have to take a stand. But our Government and our institutions are uncomfortable at exercising authority. And in the vacuum that this creates, bullies like the Simmons family move in.
As one policeman remarked to me: ‘Sometimes it’s not enough to be all pink and fluffy. You’ve got to be nasty sometimes. You’ve got to be getting stuck in there.’
The failure to get ‘stuck in’ by social services, schools and the police means they have the blood of people like Fiona Pilkington and her daughter on their hands.
Fiona Pilkington and her daughter
Failed: Fiona Pilkington and her daughter were let down by the authoritiesTake the local community. In the old days, a neighbour would have seized boys urinating against a house and clipped them around the ear - or worse. Now what happens when a grown-up tells off a gang of youths? Those community-minded individuals risk getting stabbed or beaten or are themselves arrested by the police.
The Pilkingtons’s neighbours complained. ‘We tried our best to stop what was going on,’ they said. They contacted the police and council. ‘But our pleas fell on deaf ears.’ Our local communities have been totally emasculated.
What about schools? What role did they play in socialising and directing the youths in Barwell? White working class boys like the Simmons brothers do worse at school than any other group. At 14, 65 per cent of them have a reading age of seven or below.
Schools today appear incapable of exercising the discipline and moral authority so clearly needed by teenage boys. In fact one of the Simmons brothers, Alex, boasted he has twice been expelled from school for ‘fighting with teachers’.
So what kind of punishment can a school inflict? They can hold a boy in at break time or, of course, with the appropriate procedure and letters to the parent, after school for a few hours. None of the boys I interviewed looked on that as a life-changing experience.
When authority is ineffectual, bullies flourish. When one mother at a North Yorkshire school complained her son was being persecuted by a group of boys, his headmistress replied: ‘There is nothing I can do about bullying.’ At least she was honest.
Indeed in the topsy-turvy world of our ineffectual institutions, victims of bullying often find themselves cast as the villain simply for demanding justice. Many parents told me that if their child complained, they were the ones who suffered and were forced to withdraw the complaint or even move school - not their tormentors.
Normally on a story this long I’d edit and provide a link. But not this time. The whole article is here and continued below.
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