Friday 14 May 2010

Doomed - by Richard... Friday, May 14, 2010



Climate change is in our view the greatest challenge for mankind. So says Huhne, alongside the not-so-supreme-leader, who says: "I want this to be the greenest government ever".

This patronising, simpering cretin actually believes this crap. The world currency system is on the edge of meltdown, and he's prattling about departmental energy targets and climate change. We are well and truly doomed ... and so say we all.


Con-Lib climate change and energy policy is a looming disaster


Published 14/05/2010 Cleggerons , Climate Change , Consensus Politics , Energy , Idiocy , Lights Out, Nuclear Power , Wind  

The Cameron-Clegg axis has demonstrated its lack of critical faculties in united fashion when David Cameron and Chris Huhne visited the Department for Energy and Climate Change.  The Cleggerons’ slavish devotion to the creed of climate change has been put before the need to properly tackle environmental problems such as pollution and deforestation. 

The focus on reduction in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (despite no evidence that proves it causes global warming) as outlined by Cameron cannot bring about the necessary energy security for this country that he also mentioned.  Wind turbines simply cannot and will not deliver the reliable generation of baseload power this country needs.  At immense cost it will produce only a fraction of its potential capacity but the huge costs will still be passed on to consumers.  We need an energy mix comprising nuclear, gas, coal and efficient renewables.  But the kneejerk political class continues to undermine its development. 

The Lib Dems will oppose nuclear generated electricity because they feel it isn’t safe or green enough; we don’t have sufficient gas storage and have to increasingly import gas from abroad as our North Sea reserves fall, driving up the cost; coal is plentiful and accessible, but EU interference and the carbon bogeyman see to it that we will reduce coal generation capacity rather than increase it to meet our needs; and we have yet to uncover a widely distributable efficient form of renewable energy as investment solar does not pay for itself, wind fails to produce when it’s needed and tidal power remains on the back burner with only the damaging Severn Barrage under consideration.

People should remember Nick Clegg’s views denying the looming energy gap that will result in rota disconnection to reduce the supply of electricity to a level that can be generated.  Cameron is buying into the same idiocy.  You can put in all the vastly expensive theoretical generating capacity you like, but if it doesn’t translate into Gigawatts of electricity fed into homes, businesses and the transport network, it is a huge white elephant.  The blinkered approach is only made worse by the pursuit of lunatic feed in tarrifs.

We may have a supposedly ‘new politics’ but we are blindly going forward to bygone days of the lights going out and huddling around candles and wondering when the power will be turned back on in our homes and when our offices and factories will be able to resume production essential to our economic well-being.  We have dark days ahead that will make the economic crisis look like small beer yet the Cleggerons insanely tinker around the fringes with their thumbs up their bums and their brains in neutral attempting to appear caring and virtuous.  On their heads be it

Cameron: I want coalition to be the 'greenest government ever'Cameron: I want coalition to be the 'greenest government ever'

PM announces commitment to 10:10 campaign during visit to Department of Energy and Climate Change with Chris Huhne

Cameron Commits Government to 10:10 from The1010Campaign on Vimeo.


The prime minister has said he wants the new coalition administration to be "the greenest government ever". David Cameron was speaking to civil servants at the Department of Energy and Climate Change on his tour around Whitehall to introduce the new government.

Flanked by Liberal Democrat Chris Huhne who will run the department, Cameron reassured civil servants that the environment was a top priority for him. "There is a fourth minister in this department who cares passionately about this agenda and that is me, the prime minister, right. I mean that from the bottom of my heart."

In his introduction, Huhne said, "Climate change is in my view, our view, the greatest challenge facing mankind," adding that he wanted to go "further and faster than ever before".

Cameron used the four-minute speech to formally announce the coalition's pledge to cut carbon emissions by 10% in the first 12 months. He said this would be helped by a new innovation to publish the energybeing used by government departments in real time. This is transparency in action to drive forward the cuts in carbon emissions. It's a new way of doing climate change, it's a new way of doing politics, it's in the spirit of our age and I think it will make a very big difference," he said. Cameron could not resist a side-swipe at the out-going Labour government. "Something I hope we can do is try and improve the record in terms of tenure of ministers," he said - a reference to the average term for Labour energy ministers of just over year. And he framed the coalition's plan to introduce five-year fixed term parliaments as a benefit for dealing with environmental issues. "Nowhere are long-term decisions more needed than actually in the fields of energy and climate change and environment."

The prime minister picked out three areas from Huhne's in tray that would need special attention - the green economy, climate change and energy security. "We've got a real opportunity to drive the green economy to have green jobs, green jobs and make sure we have our share of the industries of the future," he said.

Deborah Doane, director of the World Development Movementwelcomed the commitment to a 10% reduction in carbon emissions from central government. But she added, "History will judge this government on its green credentials by its policies to cut the UK's emissions dramatically and getting a fair international climate deal, not by turning off its lights at night. It doesn't take the scale of the problem seriously, any suggestion that blue and yellow means green government are premature because there are so many unanswered questions about the policies."

She expressed concern that the coalition agreement and the Conservative manifesto did not say anything about post-Copenhagen climate negotiations. "This is worrying as the whole Conservative manifesto also ignored its approach to international agreements," she said.

Will Day the chair of the Sustainable Development Commission an official government watchdog said: "This is an excellent first step, which has the potential pay dividends in terms of saving public money throughenergy efficiency, and contributing towards a sustainable, low-carbon economy for the future."


Posted by Britannia Radio at 18:50