Global cooling in 2009 - by Richard... Thursday, January 07, 2010

Global cooling in 2009 - by Richard... Thursday, January 07, 2010

A superb record of weather events last year.

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Prepared for the wrong eventuality - by Richard...

The Department for Transport defended its record, indicating that Britain experienced such weather so infrequently that investing in improved technology would be a waste of money. "Countries that regularly suffer severe weather put huge investment into buying expensive equipment but we do not believe people would want us to do this in Britain when it would be very rarely used," a spokesman said.

So reports The Times on the growing shortage of salt, which is hampering efforts to get Britain moving.

Of course, if they had spent a fraction on winter preparations of the billions they have spent on global warming, we would not be having these problems. But then it would take a grown-up newspaper to make that observation.

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Work in progress - by Richard...

The work on TERI Europe progresses, with the original list of activities now expanded to 31, and many more to come.

All being well, we will be publishing a major piece in The Sunday Telegraph this weekend, with the paper allocating real resources to the continuing investigation. Hence the pressure is on to build the dossier, collect more material and check out facts very thoroughly indeed. Blogging has had to take second place for once.

Meanwhile, enjoy the Met Office attempts to convince us that it reeely is getting warmer, honest Guv!

The mean UK temperature for December was 2.1 °C, making it the coldest for 14 years and colder than the long-term average for December of 4.2 °C. However, December was one of only two months in 2009 which had a below-average mean temperature. Therefore, climate change is taking place as the earth continues to warm up.

Yea, yea ... and I'm the tooth fairy.

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An intelligence test - by Richard... Wednesday, January 06, 2010

The coming general election is going to be an intelligence test, writes Gerald Warner. 

If people realise that voting for the slightly less objectionable choice gets them nowhere, that by holding out for what they really want they can actually obtain it, then we may be able to liberate ourselves from the tree-hugging New/Blue Labour consensus. 

If we fail to rise to that challenge we shall forfeit the right to complain about five more years of PC oppression. That is the answer: Zero Tolerance of "Green" agendas.

Thus does the man lay down the challenge. This is not a peripheral issue, where one holds one's nose and votes, despite knowing that the Party you are voting for does not share all your values.

The "Green" agenda (along with the EU) are absolutely core issues. On neither is Cameron's Blue/Green Conservatives sound. Vote Blue and get Green – and you will only have yourself to blame. As they say in the States, the lesser of two evils is still evil.

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