Kallaste december på 135 år - by Richard... Friday, December 17, 2010

Kallaste december på 135 år - by Richard... Friday, December 17, 2010

Coldest December in 135 years says SvD, the cheery Swedish newspaper – announcing still more global warming. How do we know it's global warming? Easy … everything is global warming – be it hot, be it cold, be it wet or dry, windy or calm. It is all, always, global warming.

This, of course, used to be a huge joke. But we didn't know we were going to have to die laughing.

Meanwhile, British global warming continues apace with the Daily Mail telling us that the cost to the economy so far this winter is £4.8 billion … and a further £8 billion to come if more snow materialises. I don't know where they get these factoids from but, if the figures are correct, then the warmists have been looking in the wrong direction. Now there's a surprise.

Talking of warmists, the moronic Moonbat is back in town, spraying indignation about this blog around like it was global warming. How touching it is that he cares so much.

Interestingly, there was at least one of the commentariat who jeered about the lack of comments supporting North. However, there was one, from a poster with the username "No Pressure". It said:

It is quite interesting how the Holy George gets all worked up about North using the term "jungle bunnies" but was so silent about the 10:10 campaign which depicted blowing up schoolchildren because they did not believe in the global warming campaign.

Had the HG explored the issues a little further, and got his head round them, he might have been aware that the 10:10 campaign was being deliberately provocative, aiming to shock as a way of getting the message through. This was thought (by the 10:10 campaign) to be a perfectly acceptable way of doing things.

HG then might have stop to think whether North is doing exactly the same thing. If there is one thing that gets the left-wing groupescules worked up, it is perceptions of racism - although, interestingly, only in the white man. Jungle Bunnies are perfectly in order when they display the most severe form of racism and indulge in ethnic genocide. That is OK ... as indeed is depicting the blowing up of schoolchildren.

The great irony (and we know that warmists don't "do" irony - it is above their pay grade) is that, if this was North's intention, he has succeeded. As one of the few truly independent bloggers, without a newspaper to hide behind, his hit-rate is not only respectably high but increasing.

Moonbat blog readers, however, will not be able to respond to this comment. It has been deleted ... although it has now re-appeared under the username "mrfleming". It will be interesting to see how long that lasts ... which turns about to be not very long. However, another replacement appears.

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A third world country - by Richard...

Tucked away safely in their comfortable offices in London, our political slime might be able to convince themselves that they are running an advanced, progressive country. But the test – or one of them – is not soaring ambitions or the rhetoric, but the capacity to secure the basics, ensuring that the nuts and bolts of society are provided and kept on track. And here, as we learn, they can't even do that.

Huhne, as climate change and energy secretary, is soooo full of himself and his energy revolution but he and his department can't even ensure that the estimated two million homes, schools and hospitals which rely on oil for their heating are going to get supplies over Christmas.

Most of these, of course, are in remote areas, where there is little choice of fuel, and as many as 60 percent of families in Northern Ireland – some 505,000 homes – are reliant on heating oil and now face rationing.

Yet this fatuous excuse for an energy secretary is so obsessed with his plans to increase the costs of energy and deliver "low carbon" electricity that he has let a supply crisis build up under his very nose, and is completely unprepared to deal with it. This – as with so many things in modern government – is where the fault lines lie. These "clever" people are so buoyed up with their own importance and ambitions that they completely fail to address the basics.

Much of this is about ensuring that roads are cleared and properly gritted, so that delivery tankers can get through – something local authorities are manifestly failing to do. But it is also about being prepared for the unexpected and ensuring that the utilities, suppliers and users are given warnings in good time.

Possibly, though, the bigger problem is that our politicians are so self-obsessed that they do not even realise – or care – where they are going wrong. But, as their ambitions soar, through their actual endeavours they are increasingly presiding over a third world country.

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Just another lie - by Richard... Thursday, December 16, 2010

"European judges kill off British law that curbed sham marriages", was the news yesterday - a bizarre ruling from the Court of Human rights in Strasbourg.

Today, we get another equally bizarre ruling, this one that gives Mohammed Ibrahim, a Kurdish asylum seeker (pictured), the right to stay in the UK, even after running down 12-year-old Amy Houston, leaving her trapped and dying under the wheels of his car – which he was driving after having already been banned.

And now we have the same court ruling that the Irish abortion ban violates human rights – riding rough-shod over Irish law and the results of a 1983 referendum which asserted that the unborn child is an Irish citizen with full rights.

That ruling is going to cause ructions in Ireland, but patience is also wearing thin in the UK as we get a succession of these cases. Of course, there was a certain David Cameron who did actually promise to repeal the Human Rights Act. But from the mouths of lying political scum we expect and will get nothing but lies.

Euroslime Dave had no intention of doing anything at all about this – his promise was just another lie.

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The world goes white - by Richard...

It started this morning at 09:26 precisely. We can be so definite because the noise of the snow lashing at the window alerted us to the moment when the global warming hit us again. Within minutes, the ground and the roofs were white. Now the snow has settled down to a light, persistent downfall, from leaden skies, leaving a wet, slushy reside, intensifying as I write (12:10), with the snow on the ground deepening by the minute.

How ironic it is that this is the day that that idiot Huhne (pictured below) launches his new energy plan – the one designed to save us from global warming. But then, morons such as Huhne don't do irony. It is beyond their capabilities.

As to how much it is going to cost us all, no one really knows. One newspaper says about £500 a year, the BBC says otherwise and the Financial Times says something different. Biased BBC has sussed it. The details are so vague that you can shape them to convey whatever message is required. Obfuscation is the name of the game.

Generally speaking, it seems that the agreed figure needed by way of investment is £200 billion - about twice what would actually be needed sensibly to renew the estate with conventional capacity.

And from what we know of Huhne's mad ideas, it would appear that the Renewables Obligation is to go, replaced by graded feed-in tariffs, which will include nuclear. How that gets past the EU's prohibition on state aid is unclear and, given the lacklustre performance of the modern civil service, you cannot guarantee they've got it right.

Secondly, there is going to be a "capacity payment" to bribe suppliers to build back-up plant – mainly gas-fuelled power stations – to deal with the majority of occasions when wind does not deliver. This is where we pay twice for the same thing, duplicating capacity that would not otherwise be needed.

Then we are to have madness itself, a minimum price for "carbon" – i.e., carbon dioxide – a tax by any other name, which will penalise CO2 emitters and further jack up our energy bills. This will be skewed to make sure that back-up plant is only used for back-up, which means our electricity is going to be very expensive indeed.

The fourth Huhne madness is an "Emissions Performance Standard". This is supposed to impose tough emissions regulations on new power plants, effectively banning the construction of new coal plant without CCS. Again, how that impinges on EU law is not made clear.

The thing that is very clear though is that, outside, it is very cold and very white. Needless to say, that will not have the least effect on the warmists. They will go to their graves insisting that this is the warmest year since dinosaurs first inhabited that planet. WUWT explains why they are mistaken, but again that will have no effect on dyed-in-the-wool warmists.

People are not stupid though, and energy prices are the stuff of politics – an issue that the so-called "political" sites are largely ignoring this morning. The MPs ignore it at their peril though - as the hammering Huhne is getting on the Daily Telegraph comments will attest. When people are cold and are having to pay even more for their basic needs, taking home reduced pay and pensions, while paying more taxes, you have a recipe for some very unhappy bunnies.

And unhappy bunnies bite.

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A Fox is shot - by Richard...

We were gutted to learn from The Guardian that Fox News isn't objective on climate change – and has been caught out ordering its journalists to cast doubt on well-founded warmist claims that we are about to fry. Who could possibly have thought that this broadcaster had an agenda – unlike the totally objective BBC and Guardian? We are well and truly shocked.

This news has been so upsetting that we had to avert our gaze from the news of blizzards in the US Midwest, for fear that we too might start thinking like a Fox journalist. That is scary.

Instead, we focused on the heroic James Hansen who came all the way from snow-bound USA to defend those valiant green warriors who have now been wrongly convicted for wanting to close down Britain's second-largest coal fired power station. We think it is absolutely terrific that an American civil servant should come all the way here to defend their actions, even if they have been now been found guilty of a criminal conspiracy.

Just because newspapers like the … er … Guardian are speculating that the winter here might be the worst since 1963 - and they are planning cycle lanes on the Thames (pictured) - this is no reason whatsoever for suggesting that Fox News might be right. One must be vigilant at all times to ensure that we maintain the correct perspective.

This is especially so when one of The Guardian commentariat thinks that when the results of global warming become apparent in the next decade or so, the public mood toward denialists is going to turn very ugly. He wouldn't be surprised if we saw Nuremberg-style trials of prominent denialist propagandists.

According to The Guardian, these could even include the likes of Chris Huhne, and every single Tory who ever lived, for the "disaster" that is the "scaled-down green investment bank". This terrible insult to greenery also finally lays to rest any pretence that this will be "the greenest government ever".

One just cannot be too careful on these things.

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