Wednesday, 16 December 2009

Are they going to kill us all at Copenhagen?

Is belief in global-warming science another example of the "madness of crowds"? That strange but powerful social phenomenon, first described by Charles Mackay in 1841, turns a widely shared prejudice into an irresistible "authority". Could it indeed represent the final triumph of irrationality? After all, how rational is it to pass laws banning one kind of light bulb (and insisting on their replacement by ones filled with poisonous mercury vapour) in order to "save electricity", while ploughing money into schemes to run cars on ... electricity? How rational is it to pay the Russians once for fossil fuels, and a second time for permission (via carbon credits) to burn them ? And how rational is it to suppose that the effects of increased CO2 in the atmosphere take between 200 and 1,000 years to be felt, but that solutions can take effect almost instantaneously?

Here is a couple of links that do try to explain the facts of Climate variability. They are quite long but well worth listening to.

The first is by Robert Felix, scientist and author. The second is by astrophysicist Dr.Willie Soon (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), climatologists David Legates and Tim Ball and meteorologist Joe Daleo.

They are both radio Interviews.

http://itsrainmakingtime.com/2009/climate-part1/

http://itsrainmakingtime.com/2009/climate-part2/

Worth a listen to. Are we at the tipping point of a new ice age?

Good news at last

Sir Liam Donaldson has quit from his post as head of the NHS. About time too.

As a fully paid up member of the Labour Stasi, he has done as much as any Politician to make our lives more miserable.

Case 1: The Junior Doctor recruitment Debacle.

Last night, Remedy UK, which represents junior doctors, said his resignation had come two years too late.
They called on him to go two years ago after the introduction of a botched online application system for junior doctors, which led to hundreds of candidates not being interviewed for jobs.
More than 15,000 doctors failed to find posts and some were forced to seek work abroad.

Case 2: Attempting to have a minimum price for Alcohol introduced.

And earlier this year his relationship with the Government was strained after his plea for a minimum price on alcohol was rejected.

Case 3: The ban on smoking in Public places.

But he was praised for the introduction in 2007 of the smoking ban in pubs and restaurants.

Case 4: His hysteria over swine flue.

In recent months he has been in charge of swine flu preparations, in which millions have been spent on Tamiflu, vaccines and facemasks.

Those are only a few of the many. Remember CJD, Bird Flue, etc, and many more.

He is just one of the Killjoys in the society that we live, that should have been hounded out by the mob many years ago. Instead he is jumping ship before the election because he knows damned well that he will be out of a job then.

Wonder which Big Pharma company will be offering him a job?

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Carter-Ruck at it again. Trafigura Part 2

I wrote about this before here.

It's all about Carter-Ruck trying to protect their client, Trafigura, from being exposed to the limelight in regards to their dumping of Toxic waste in Africa. They originally persuaded the Courts to allow them a super injuction against the Guardian.

This is a dreadfull travesty of justice in trying to prevent the truth coming out. Of course the BBCPravda meekly rolled over.

See the video and make your own mind up.

Oh and do post it on your own Blog.

Oh and bye the way, Carter-Ruck. The blogosphere fucked you last time. We can do it again this time.

Lord Monkton on Climategate

Nice little presentation about a shower of crooks.

Lord Monckton on Climategate at the 2nd International Climate Conference from CFACT on Vimeo.

H/T to OBO

Climategate and the death of the MSM

This article in the Telegraph also caught my eye today.

Climategate: the ailing 'mainstream' media are committing suicide by ignoring the scoop of the century.

A well crafted article by Gerald Warner asserting that the MSM may well have shot themselves in the foot by attempting to ignore the very fact that a great many people have doubts about AGW. A vast number of whom actually do have relevant credentials to understand the science.

And he has this to say about BBC Pravda:

That is the despised organisation that relentlessly inflicts climate alarmist propaganda, fairy tales, “bedtime stories” on the British public, in the style of Radio Moscow, circa 1954 (“Implement the resolutions of the 23rd Congress…” “We have 27 minutes to save the polar bears from melting…”). No intelligent or inquiring individual believes, respects or trusts the BBC. Ditto the print media that is similarly spewing out Al Gore’s trashy superstition.

And his final words:

It seems less than likely. The Mainstream Media are hanging themselves – it is doubtful that they can any longer be described as mainstream. These are turkeys voting for Christmas.

The article in its entirety

Is Climate change really about the money?

An interesting article written for the Telegraph, by James Delingpole, caught my eye this morning.

In his article, James writes about Dr Rajendra Pachauri who is the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

I won't print the whole article but here's the link to some quite astounding revelations about this man. I'm not sure how this man can even be associated with the IPCC, given his business interests listed in the article.

There are further thoughts over at Eu Referendum on this subject. Well worth a read.