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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Permalink • Monday - October 26, 2009
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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Permalink • Tuesday - September 29, 2009
Americans are ‘illiterate’ about climate change, claims expert.
Right. All it takes for Americans to be illiterate about any subject, is to not see it from the pov of the left.
This is one of the stories on America that appears today in the foreign press.
And there is NO chance at all that this fellow could possibly be mistaken. Just ask him.
According to one hack, America’s lack of knowledge on climate change could prevent the world from reaching an agreement to stop catastrophic global warming. WOO-HOO
America’s lack of knowledge on climate change could prevent the world from reaching an agreement to stop catastrophic global warming, scientists said in an attack on the country’s environmental policy.
Professor John Schellnhuber, one of the world’s leading global warming experts, described the US as “climate illiterate”
He said Americans have a lower understanding of the problems of climate change than people in Brazil or China..
More than 100 scientists are meeting at Oxford University to discuss the dangers of climate change causing droughts, floods and mass extinctions around the world.
The conference is designed to put pressure on world leaders coming together at the end of the year for the “most important meeting in the history of the human species”.
The UN Climate Change Conference in December will try to reach an international deal on cutting carbon emissions so global warming stays below an increase of 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels.
Prof Schellnhuber, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Change, said the chance of getting such a deal was “pie in the sky” because rich countries like America are unwilling to sign up to ambitious enough targets.
“In a sense the US is climate illiterate. If you look at global polls about what the public knows about climate change even in Brazil, China you have more people who know about the problem and think deep cuts in emissions are needed,” he said.
“Why can’t we save the world without the US?”
Well that’d be a first professor. Please, be our guest.
If you look at global polls about what the public knows about climate change
What the public knows, or what the public has been indoctrinated to believe? So far, the ppl who do not see it all in the same light, have been very slow to produce a movie shown round the world and with much hoopla. In fact ... no movie at all. Maybe it’s time.
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Permalink • Saturday - September 26, 2009
Miscellaneous
First, let me start off with a joke one of the guys at work told me as we were clocking off for the day:
Al Gore, Bill Clinton and Barrack Obama go to heaven.
God addresses Al first.. “Al, what do you believe in?”
Al replies: “Well, I believe that I won that election, but that it was your will that I did not serve. And I’ve come to understand that now.”
God thinks for a second and says: “Very good. Come and sit at my left.”
God then addresses Bill . “ Bill , what do you believe in?”
Bill replies: “I believe in forgiveness. I know I have sinned, and hope I will be forgiven. I’ve never held a grudge against my fellow man, and I hope no grudges are held against me.”
God thinks for a second and says: “You are forgiven, my son. Come and sit at my right.’’
Then God addresses Barack. “Barack, what do you believe in?”
He replies: “I believe you’re in my chair.”
Well, that’s where I found it after Jeff told it at work.
NEXT
The war against… toilet paper:
There is a battle for America’s behinds.
It is a fight over toilet paper: the kind that is blanket-fluffy and getting fluffier so fast that manufacturers are running out of synonyms for “soft” (Quilted Northern Ultra Plush is the first big brand to go three-ply and three-adjective).
It’s a menace, environmental groups say — and a dark-comedy example of American excess.
The reason, they say, is that plush U.S. toilet paper is usually made by chopping down and grinding up trees that were decades or even a century old. They want Americans, like Europeans, to wipe with tissue made from recycled paper goods.
It has been slow going. Big toilet-paper makers say that they’ve taken steps to become more Earth-friendly but that their customers still want the soft stuff, so they’re still selling it.
This summer, two of the best-known combatants in this fight signed a surprising truce, with a big tissue maker promising to do better. But the larger battle goes on — the ultimate test of how green Americans will be when nobody’s watching.
“At what price softness?” said Tim Spring, chief executive of Marcal Manufacturing, a New Jersey paper maker that is trying to persuade customers to try 100 percent recycled paper. “Should I contribute to clear-cutting and deforestation because the big [marketing] machine has told me that softness is important?”
He added: “You’re not giving up the world here.”
Toilet paper is far from being the biggest threat to the world’s forests: together with facial tissue, it accounts for 5 percent of the U.S. forest-products industry, according to industry figures. Paper and cardboard packaging makes up 26 percent of the industry, although more than half is made from recycled products. Newspapers account for 3 percent.
But environmentalists say 5 percent is still too much.
Doesn’t look recycled. Just looks used…
H/T: Belowthebeltway
Egads! I’ve got so much stuff to post!
Guess the rest will have to wait…
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Permalink • Saturday - September 19, 2009
Walmart sucks up to the sky is falling crowd and launches its own green revolution.
Yeah, no kidding.
Or perhaps you knew already. I saw it just today. What drivel. Bah!
I’m gone ... Enjoy the wkend everyone.
Walmart launches a green revolution
Being environmentally friendly makes good business sense, says Geoffrey Lean.
Published: 7:48PM BST 18 Sep 2009Walmart – once a byword for cheap, and not necessarily cheerful, goods – is working on starting a revolution in environmental quality. It is developing a “sustainability index” for rating its hundreds of thousands of products.
Everything it sells would be labelled with a number or a symbol, showing the product’s ecological impact, from the extraction of raw materials to its disposal as waste.
The move would reach far beyond Walmart’s stores. Its 100,000-plus suppliers would have to reveal their ecological impact or have their products taken off the shelves. They are also likely to become greener to attain a higher rating, as shoppers use them to guide purchasing. The impact would be global; one in every five of China’s factories is thought to be in the supply chain of goods the retailer sells.
It’s an example of the green entrepreneurship that one Wamart top executive calls “the biggest business opportunity of the next 50 years”. Or, as the business guru C K Prahalad put it in the Harvard Business Review: “The quest for sustainability is starting to transform the competitive landscape. Sustainable corporations will emerge from today’s recession to upset the status quo.”
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Permalink • Sunday - September 13, 2009
Barking Moonbats. Speaking of which … Is this Moonbat er what? Fined for NOT having trash?
Well now if ya read this story it sure seems that way. Or as Christopher of BMEWS has stated when referring to another subject,
over here (UK) one has to prove they are innocent even before a charge is leveled. Not an exact quote but close enough for this poor fellow.
And all in the name of planet saving mind you, which is as we all know, the new religion.
BIKE SHOP OWNER IS FINED BY COUNCIL ... FOR NOT PRODUCING ANY RUBBISH
By Andrew Levy
Daily MailWith its emphasis on re-using old materials or selling them as scrap, Mark Howard’s bicycle shop is a model of environmental efficiency.
So you might have imagined that his local council would be grateful to him for enhancing the area’s green credentials.
But instead the father of four has been hit with a £180 fine - because officers refuse to believe he doesn’t create any commercial waste.
Green effort: Mark Howard, pictured outside his bicycle store, has labelled Southend Council’s move to fine him as ‘totally stupid’Green effort: Mark Howard, pictured outside his bicycle store, has labelled Southend Council’s move to fine him as ‘totally stupid’
If the charge is not paid within ten days it will rise to £300, and ultimately Mr Howard could be hauled before a court.
Mr Howard stores surplus materials such as cardboard boxes and old pedals away for re-use, while bent steel or aluminium frames that can’t be salvaged are sold for scrap.
* Council to give families dept. store vouchers… for putting their rubbish in the right bins
* Now town halls want to fine you £500 if you put out wheelie bin on the wrong dayThe dispute centres around a certificate issued by council waste contractors Cory when businesses pay them £80 to supply 50 commercial waste bags, which can be collected when full. Five weeks ago Mr Howard, 50, who runs Sutton Road Cycles in Southend, received a letter from Southend Council asking how he disposed of waste.
When he rang up to explain, no one believed that he did not use the service and he was told that someone would visit his premises.
‘An officer came round a week later but he didn’t look round or ask any questions,’ he said. ‘He just handed me another letter which said I must pay a fixed penalty.
‘They didn’t give me a chance to show them what I do - which is better than the council contractor’s service because their waste goes to landfill.’
Mr Howard, who is married to Karen, 46, says he can prove what he does with his waste by showing council officials his paperwork.
But he added: ‘Despite repeated calls I was fobbed off all the time. I have tried to get an interview with the director of the department but nothing has happened. This is totally stupid. The council must have money to burn because they want this case to go to court.
‘I’m not some environmental fruitcake trying to save the world. I’m just an ordinary person using my brain to avoid waste. But they don’t seem to care.’
Southend Council yesterday defended its actions. Simon Crowther, group manager for waste, said: ‘Mr Howard is required under the Environmental (Duty of Care) Regulations 1991 to produce evidence as to how he legally and lawfully disposes of commercial waste under his control.
‘Mr Howard has been issued with a fixed-penalty fine due to the fact he failed to provide this evidence.’
Now then do I understand correctly that Mr. Howard couldn’t provide evidence because .... there wasn’t any evidence to begin with?
Catch 22?
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Windfarms? We might as well use hamsters on treadmills.
Another good one from one of my favorites. I doin’t always agree but then I’m not supposed to. But I try and find something on this subject every wkend, as it touches all of us in one way or another.
And btw, welcome to our German readers and congradulations on leading Europe in the hoarding of the old style light bulbs. The bulk buying that almost stripped the stores here were bought it turns out, by Germans and exported. Why do I bring that up here.
Well that’s quite interesting. You see, it was a German tree hugging planet saving minister in the EU, that instituted this whole ban the bulb thing to begin with.
Anyway ... Heeeeeerrrs Peter. (Hitchens)
The lightbulb purge will have a piffling effect on energy consumption, nothing like enough to justify the expense and inconvenience forced upon us. I suspect that it has been designed specifically to advance the cult, to make believers feel good about themselves rather than to do good – the main aim of all false religions.
Windfarms? We might as well use hamsters on treadmills
By Peter Hitchens
The Mail on SundayA weird and irrational cult has us in its grip. If the Mormons or the Moonies started taking over the BBC and the Government, which then harangued and persecuted us into wearing funny underwear or getting married in mass ceremonies, we would – I hope – rise in revolt.
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Irrational choice: Even Stirling Castle has not escape the new windfarm madnessBut the ‘Man-made Climate Change’ fanatics are applauded and praised, even as they force us to abandon perfectly sensible electric lights, and instead subject ourselves to strange, flickering substitutes, simultaneously worse and more costly than the ones they replace.
There is worse to come. The same people wish to compel us to rely for our power on windmills, million upon million of them, as if we had never discovered more efficient and reliable ways of generating electricity.
Irrational choice: Even Stirling Castle has not escape the new windfarm madness
And they are succeeding. Few areas in Britain are now unthreatened by deranged projects to install intrusive, gigantic wind-farms on prominent sites.This must be one of the first instances of a civilisation voluntarily and consciously going backwards. We might as well rely for our economic and industrial future on tens of millions of hamsters pattering frantically round treadmills. Hamsters only do this by night. Windmills only make electricity when it is windy. See the problem?
For most of us, the truth has yet to sink in. Our old lightbulbs still function, or we have stockpiled a few. And the nuclear and coal-fired power stations which keep our country going have some years yet to run before they wear out or a Brussels decree shuts them down for ever.
But the time is not far away when we will find the irrational opinions of these maniacs being forced upon us unpleasantly in our daily lives. The lights will be too dim to read by. Then they will go off for long periods of the day or night. Our computers will be down much of the time.
The well-off will buy expensive generators and our suburbs will be like Baghdad, with smelly, noisy, petrol-driven motors bursting into life every few hours as the central power shudders and fails.
Even if the prophecies of the man-made global warming cultists were proven, which they aren’t, these measures would be an idiotic response to the problem. Nuclear power, as the French well know, produces no carbon emissions and also ends dependence on Russia for gas and the Middle East for oil. And it works in a dead calm, too.
The lightbulb purge will have a piffling effect on energy consumption, nothing like enough to justify the expense and inconvenience forced upon us. I suspect that it has been designed specifically to advance the cult, to make believers feel good about themselves rather than to do good – the main aim of all false religions.
Why don’t we resist? Partly because, once again, there is now no major political party which speaks for common sense
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The inconvenient truth about ozone-puncturing , Did someone mention climate change?
I’d subscribe to this newspaper for Richard Littlejohn alone. Sure, can see on line for free. But I’ve a long addiction to actual print on paper, with which I can curl up on a sofa or in bed. Even with a laptop it is not as comfortable. So then ... even for Americans this may prove an interesting bit of reading.
I do not recall any major paper I ever read in the states, that calls a spade a spade in quite the way Brit papers do. Or at least some journalists, like Littlejohn.
I enjoy the invective and the raw insults which trust me, are well deserved. And not just because they are directed at the liberal left. The jabs are well founded and hit the nail dead center.
In the great debate about nonexistent global warming, this freeloading, flatulent, frequent-flying fool is about as relevant as the polar bear on Fox’s glacier mints.
Two Jags is Littlejohn’s name for the former fat head deputy PM, John Prescott. Brits are still paying dearly for things he set in motion some yrs ago.
Currently, he’s reincarnated himself as a climate change guru and devoted follower of Al Bore. So that alone tells my American friends something about two jags. Right. he owns two.
Initially, I was only going to post a few lines by Littlejohn. But then couldn’t see how I would do that as everything here deserves to be posted and read.
The inconvenient truth about ozone-puncturing Two Jags
By Richard LittlejohnThe preposterous figure of Two Jags has apparently been reincarnated as something called the Council of Europe’s ‘rapporteur’ on climate change. That’s a new one on me. Wasn’t the dwarf in Time Bandits called Rapporteur?
I’ve no idea what a rapporteur does, but I would imagine it involves a lot of first-class air travel, five-star hotels and lobster suppers. There’s probably a bird thrown in, too.
Two Jags is flying to China this week to deliver a lecture on global warming. That’s right, he’s jetting halfway round the world and back to talk about the need to cut carbon emissions.Don’t these people have any idea how ridiculous they are?
What astonishes me is that anyone, especially in my trade, takes him seriously. Two Jags is a circus act. Come to think of it, the dwarf in Time Bandits had considerably more gravitas than Prescott.Yet, in some quarters, he’s treated as a proper person. Yesterday’s Independent carried an interview with Two Jags, in which he announced that Europe’s target of cutting emissions by 80 per cent was nowhere near tough enough. The paper even ran an editorial praising Prescott’s authenticity.
The only thing authentic about this old fraud is his ocean-going, ozone-puncturing hypocrisy and self-importance.I didn’t christen him Two Jags without reason. This was the man who insisted on having not one, but two ‘gas guzzling’ limousines.
He had his wife chauffeured 200 yards along the seafront at the Labour conference so her hairdo wouldn’t get windswept. Pauline’s creosote-thick hairspray has probably done more damage to the atmosphere than a fleet of SUVs.Two Jags took a helicopter back to central London from the rugby league final at Wembley and commandeered an RAF flight to turn on the Blackpool illuminations.
After giving a speech on the importance of public transport to the railwaymen’s union in Scarborough, he made an ostentatious display of boarding a train home.He then got off at the next station, where his driver was waiting with the Jag to convey him back to London in air-conditioned, eight-cylinder, 15-miles-to-the-gallon luxury.
Once he returns from China, he will embark on a tour of Britain, lecturing schoolchildren about global warming. We can assume he won’t be travelling by bike.
When he was ‘in charge’ of the environment, he was so concerned about the delicate eco-balance that he ordered tens of thousands of houses to be built on flood plains.Yet now we are asked to believe that he is a born-again Al Gore. According to the Indy, he is the brilliant global player who brokered the Kyoto deal in 1997 and ‘is now returning to a major role in climatechange politics’.
All you need to know about the Kyoto ‘deal’ is that the rest of the world ignored it, while here in Britain it has been used as a catch-all excuse for everything from the extortionate tax on petrol to fining people £500 for putting out their dustbins on the wrong day.In one sense, I suppose you could argue that Kyoto was a success, since the world has actually been getting colder over the past decade, despite China opening a new coal-fired power station every five minutes.
That inconvenient truth has not deterred the climate-change industry-from cranking up the rhetoric, inventing ever-tougher targets and dreaming up an exciting range of new rules, fines and punishments.Britain’s ridiculous obsession with ‘man-made global warming’ has prevented our building a new generation of power stations.
As a result, we are facing the looming prospect of rolling power cuts in the not-too-distant future.
But you won’t find a forest of windmills in the back garden of Two Jags’ turreted mansion.Just as Al Gore consumes enough electricity to power a small town and flies by private jet to deliver his lavishly rewarded pieties on polar bears, so Two Jags, too, thinks that cutting your carbon footprint is for the little people.
This week, The Guardian - which is The Independent with adverts - carried a spread about everyday people who were doing their bit for the planet.
They boasted about how they were going to eat more root vegetables, wear thicker undies and travel by train not car.A more self-righteous, self-flagellating bunch you’d be hard-pressed to find outside of, er, the pages of The Guardian.
But even though I think they’re all barking mad, at least they are prepared to make some kind of self- sacrifice in pursuit of their quasi-religious crusade.
Two Jags was conspicuous by his absence. While those poor, deluded saps are turning down the thermostat, shivering in their thermals and eating their own toenail clippings, you won’t catch him chowing down on turnips or taking a slow boat to China.Our esteemed ‘rapporteur’ will relax in the rear seat of his limo or at the front of the plane, tucking into the finest food flown in from around the world. And to hell with the ice caps.
He will continue to leave a trail of yeti-sized carbon footprints as he tours the globe lecturing the rest of us on how we’re all responsible for razing the rainforests.
In the great debate about nonexistent global warming, this freeloading, flatulent, frequent-flying fool is about as relevant as the polar bear on Fox’s glacier mints.
FYI: The Guardian is a VERY LEFT and VERY LIBERAL paper and follows the party line, without any questions.
Comrade Commie-sar Prescott, a very wealthy man himself after a lifetime of union activity and politics ...
has in recent years called for a culling of the rich. Not in those words of course but pretty damn close, insisting that welfare housing needs to be set up in more afluent areas so that the ppl enjoying the fruits of their own labor MUST live among the less fortunate. Except of course for Comarde Prescott.
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Permalink • Thursday - August 27, 2009
I object to being forced by politicians to change the way I use light
I like this guy. I feel a bit less like the Lone Ranger now.
I really wasn’t going to raise this subject again until I saw his comment in one of our papers.
Just felt like sharing it.
John Walsh: “I object to being forced by politicians to change the way I use light”
Tales of the CityFrom a week today I shall be a marked man. An outlaw. A renegade, beyond the reach of polite society. Call me a dreamer but I believe there are others like me, out there on the hillsides, like wartime maquis or partisans, storing and stockpiling our precious supplies. I can’t be sure. This could be a one-man crusade.
I’ve always considered myself a hyphenated sort of person, a go-ahead, onwards-and-upwards, into-the-future kinda guy, an early embracer of technologies. I was the first guy in my generation to go for the Sony Walkman-cum-roller-skates look, circa 1981. I didn’t acquire it myself, obviously, but I was the first to acquire a girlfriend who had it. She was called Sue and soon Sue roller-skated into the embrace of someone called Jimmy, but the principle holds. Technology and progress, I’m your man. Even things which initially seemed foolish and badly-thought-out have had my blessing. Electric carving knife? Sinclair C5? Lava lamp? Bring ‘em on.
Sometimes, though, you hit a wall. You bunch your fists, you grind your teeth and you refuse to be told what to do. You risk looking like an obstreperous six-year-old, but that’s the price you pay for being a renegade. You risk sounding like Charlton Heston saying he won’t give up his .44 Magnum until they prise it from his cold, dead hands, but you must banish all negative thoughts. You’re going into battle against a repressive government and a fascist diktat from Europe, and taking this rebellious stance won’t be easy. But it’s something a man’s gotta do. From next Tuesday.
Didn’t I mention what it was? Sorry. It’s light bulbs. As of 1 September, that’s it for light bulbs. Finito. It’s Goodnight Vienna for old-fashioned, Osram 40-watt or 60-watt, I’ve-just-had-a-good-idea light bulbs, the ones shaped like Philip Larkin’s head. Also the incandescent 100-watt ones that floodlight your kitchen. They’ve all been banned by European law, and nobody will be allowed to make them, import them or sell them in British shops after next Tuesday – from which day I’ll be stockpiling them like Fagin under the floorboards of my home, arranging secret “bulb drops” in Brockwell Park with the bloke from Herne Hill Electrical Goods Ltd and organising meetings in my draughty, lamplit cellar with similar suburban mavericks with whom I’ll plan the backlash ...
The Brussels legislators want everyone henceforth to buy energy-saving bulbs, the harsh ones with fat filaments like tubular pasta. I could tell you that I think they’re rubbish, and they don’t light a room properly, but you’ll think me a whinger. I could point out that, by 2012, we’ll all be required to use compact fluorescent “green” light-bulbs from Chinese factories where many workers have been poisoned by their mercury content, but you’ll think me alarmist. My main objection is that I cannot stand any longer being told what to do by manufacturers, governments and shops. When computers brought built-in obsolescence into the world, when Currys stopped selling camera film, when Sainsbury’s stopped accepting cheques, when parts of Canary Wharf objected to people smoking in the open air, when Dixons stopped selling audio cassettes, I rode each blow and accepted it, telling myself to get with the digital thing and stop living in the past. But there’s something about light bulbs that goes in deep. I object to being forced by politicians to change the way I use light, and the strength of the light I use, because it will supposedly have an effect on climate change. It’s a simple objection, but a fundamental one. It’s, literally, elemental.
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AMERICA, YOU DAMN WELL BETTER GET YOUR BUTT IN GEAR AND READY FOR THESE ASSWIPES.
RCOB. Again.
Some of you just have to recall me banging on as much as a year ago, saying things that happen here will spread to the USA, and that what saved us (it’s only temporary ) is our size.
It’s the idea that theses foreign mother!*%!+=s will come to the states and do EXACTLY what this group is trying on.
If Americans want to argue amongst ourselves that’s our business. What we don’t need is a foreign based group (and god alone knows we already have enuff of those) coming to America to preach their fucked up green agenda to us.
Just be warned folks these bastards are on the way to add to the argument.
I really hate these bastards. It’s like a fire that never goes out.
Just so ya know. I’ve censored myself. But you can guess more then likely, what I’d like to do if I have my way with regard to these intrusive ppl.
Today nagging the British, tomorrow the world: Green quango launches campaign to preach abroadBy James Chapman
Last updated at 2:10 AM on 26th August 2009A green quango funded by the British taxpayer has caused outrage by launching an international campaign to preach about the need to curb emissions.
Despite growing pressure for public spending cuts in the UK, the Carbon Trust is expanding its empire to establish a presence in the U.S. and China.
The Daily Mail has learned that the organisation, which received almost £100million in taxpayer funding last year, is trying to recruit a Head of Carbon Trust U.S.A.
Critics expressed astonishment that the trust was attempting to influence the democratic debate in the U.S.
Matthew Sinclair, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance campaign group, branded it an ‘extremely questionable’ use of British taxpayers’ money.
The trust was created as an independent, but taxpayer-funded, company by the British Government to encourage firms to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.
But this summer, it created a new arm - Carbon Trust International Ltd - to ‘further its international objectives’.
The organisation has signed agreements with a Chinese national investment corporation and the state of Florida.
Its American boss will be expected to work at establishing organisations across the U.S. to engage in green lobbying.
But Mr Sinclair said: ‘It is shocking that an organisation funded by British taxpayers is trying to expand into new territories as if it is a multinational company.’
Iain Murray, an energy expert at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a U.S. think-tank, said: ‘ Americans are extremely sceptical about the cost to America of emissions reduction. I suspect they will be even more annoyed if their representatives listen to the British Government rather than to them.’
But Tom Delay, chief executive of the Carbon Trust, said: ‘They are barking up the wrong tree.
‘We do not lobby governments wherever they are in the world, we help business reduce carbon emissions now and in the future.
‘Our work overseas is funded by overseas companies and governments and our support for this represents 1 per cent of our UK budget.’
Meanwhile, this is what the Daily Mail has to say on the subject in an editorial this morning.
The £100million-a-year empire of the green quangoBy Daily Mail Comment
Spending cuts are the last thing on the mind of Tom Delay, £223,000-a-year chief executive of a green quango funded by British taxpayers.While the rest of us tighten our belts, he’s expanding his £100million-a-year Carbon Trust empire to establish a presence in the U.S. and China.
‘Our work overseas has one sole purpose - to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy,’ he says.
What conceivable business is it of ours to subsidise preaching to the Americans and Chinese?
At an estimated £100billion a year, Britain’s 700,000 quangocrats cost more than enough as it is, without spreading their tentacles around the globe.
This week, Gordon Brown is under pressure to draw up a list of ‘compassionate cuts’, to fall where they will cause least pain.
He should start with the Carbon Trust.
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