Now they decide - by Richard... Friday, December 03, 2010

Now they decide - by Richard... Friday, December 03, 2010

It is one of the coldest days of the year, so the local electricity morons decide that a fault that has existed for God knows how many years must urgently be fixed. So, having dug a hole, they disconnect us, leaving us without heating, computers and telephones - all with about half an hour's warning. Then the "workmen" piss off to have their sarnies and tea in their vans.

We are, now, back on ... at last. Mind you, it might have been a little bit earlier if the workmen had not had to recover their equipment and the contents of their toolboxes from the bottom of the trench. But there you go. Accidents do happen.

Talking of morons, I see that the oh-so-grand Roger Highfield has been drafted in to the Daily Scarygraph to do a spot of damage limitation – trying to convince us that, despite the freezing weather, "the World Meteorological Organisation announced that 2010 is almost certain to rank among the three warmest years since records began in 1850".

Also, it has long been accepted, writes the egregious Highfield, that one of the effects of climate change could be an increase in the frequency of harsher, Continental-style winters. Of course, one of the effects of a period of cooling could be an increase in the frequency of harsher, Continental-style winters. But that doesn't seem to have occurred to the Great Man.

One just wishes that the paper would hurry up and retreat behind its paywall, so we can forget all about it, just like the ... er ... the ... er ... whatever it was that suddenly disappeared. It is nice to see, however, that the Göbbels of climate change, Vicky Pope, is stuck in Gatwick, unable to get to Can'tcun to tell them how hot it is – because there is too much snow. Still, at least she is still alive - unlike some other poor souls.

One might hope that this stupid woman might actually learn something from the experience, but that is highly unlikely. She has too much money invested in being wrong to change tack right now. It will take cyanide and a pistol in a bunker before she manages to change what passes for a mind.

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Prattling while the plebs freeze - by Richard...

Dellers is on fine form, stonking the climate change zealots, and drawing our attention to the Bastardi person who says we ain't seen nuttin' yet.

In any other circumstances, it would then be the height of comedy to learn that Prince Charles has descended from his fairy land to open the Science Museum'sclimate change gallery. This £4 million extravaganza is officially a "Climate Science" gallery, hastily renamed after "Climategate", prior to which it was going to be called the "climate change gallery" - which is, er ... exactly what it is being called, unofficially of course.

The huge fun here, of course, is that one of the main sponsors is Royal Dutch Shell, so it is "Big Oil" pushing the boat out - as it always has done, giving far more money to the lucrative climate change industry than it ever has the sceptics.

There was a time, of course, when the Science Museum did science, but now - as the sponsorship indicates - it is part of the corporate-govermental nexus, much approved by the BBC, up to its earsin EU money and networking, selling corporate dogma and belief systems.

And that is what it has come to, which is now clearer than ever as Britain freezes and the fools at Cancun prance. The good news there is that Japan has refused to extend the Kyoto agreement – a vhighly symbolic development, it having been the host to the original climate talks which spawned the agreement.

Needless to say, though, Louise Gray is out there with her daily scare, adding to the waves of derision greeting the increasingly fatuous Daily Telegraph, as the little girlie prattles about "ocean acidification". This is one of those classic science hoaxes which only a science-free newspaper could embrace without dissolving into laughter. Read this, by Dennis Ambler and it will tell you all you need to know.

But then, this isn't about science – it never has been. Like Dellers, we are gradually learning that the way to deal with it is to expose it for what it is – a series of mantras designed to support a belief system which in turn shores up a failed and increasingly oppressive power system, all sustained by fools and rent-seekers.

Small wonder that Prince Charles will waft through the snow today to open up the "climate change" gallery, with the BBC there to applaud, prattling while the plebs freeze.

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