Prattling while the plebs freeze - by Richard... Friday, December 03, 2010

Prattling while the plebs freeze - by Richard... Friday, December 03, 2010

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 every as Britain freezes and the fools at Cancun prance. The good news there is that Japan has refused to extend the Kyoto agreement – which is highly symbolic, 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 desoigned 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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The march of the incompetents - by Richard...

Yesterday say the ultimate humiliation of that fool Cameron, who was unwise enough to allow himself to get involved in the England world cup bid. It is no business of a man who purports to be a prime minister of a once great nation to meddle in such issues, even without taking into account the very high risk of failure.

But then, the euroslime hasn't has a particularly good week of it, with Bruno Waterfield reportingthat he has failed in his endeavour to cut back the EU framework budget for the next spending round.

The lad was trying to get a budget cut from the current level of 1.1 percent of Gross National Income to 0.85 percent – but even this modest reduction is something the "colleagues" have failed to agree on, leaving him high and dry.

Then, in a week where snow and freezing weather has brought the UK screeching – or slithering – to a halt, we not have good evidence that HMG has been unduly influenced by the Boy's global warming obsession - proof that they are under-estimating the extent to which we are in a cooling cycle.

It would appear that the Department of Work and Pensions has budgeted only £40 million for the whole winter, to cover cold weather payments. Yet, it seems, the early bout of arctic weather has already triggered £100 million of extra benefits spending, more than double the sum expected.

Of course, if energy prices had not been artificially inflated by a combination of government policy and incompetence – if there is a difference – there would be no need for cold weather payments, which kick in when temperatures are recorded as falling to freezing point over seven consecutive days.

And, given that last year's winter payment amounted to almost £300 million, and this year's winter is already colder, earlier, it looks as if Cameron and his little mates might have to find at least an equivalent sum, if not considerably more.

If the man had spent a little more time on evaluating policy areas for which he is responsible, if he listened to the right people, and then avoided the facile displacement activity in which he has so recently indulged, he might at least have saved himself (and us) some embarrassment - and possibly a few hundred million as well.

But then, that would actually require a degree of competence and political intelligence, neither of which we are likely to get out of this man.

Yet into Zurich went David Cameron, making promises of not only billions for an England World Cup but billions more to help FIFA spread the football gospel around the world.

And nor, for once, are we entirely on our own here, with Jeff Powell of the Daily Mail railing at our incompetents. He writes:

After the embarrassment which followed, our student protesters are entitled ask why the nigh-on £15 million squandered on this ill-begotten venture was not better spent on providing them with a university education. England never had a chance yet they carried on spending lavishly.

By the time they arrived in Zurich - bleating about the media - they were like a football team citing injuries and fatigue as their excuse in advance for losing. Shame on them ... From England yesterday it was a case of too much hot air. Too late.

What did we do to deserve these idiots and this shambles?

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Public stupidity - by Richard... Thursday, December 02, 2010

When it comes to public services, one of the great myths is that there ever was a time when the public sector performed flawlessly and rose to whatever challenge it was confronted with. Generally speaking, at the first sign of stress, public services collapse – the above photograph, taken today as mute testimony. The bins were supposed to be collected Tuesday, before we got yesterday's fall of eight inches of snow.

What is different now – if anything – is that the public authorities are more "in your face", demanding more money while delivering less and less . Additionally, of course, with direct relevance to the current situation, they are spending huge amounts of time and our money on their fools' errand of "climate change", while the country grinds to a halt, and the transport systemcollapses.

Thus, we get Graham Dalton, the head of the Highways Agency - on a nice comfortable £160-165,000 a year (with the salaries of the executive board costing more than £1 million) - telling us tostay off the roads that we have paid for. Meanwhile, we learn that currently only "£160 million is earmarked to help the country deal with bad weather", a tiny fraction of the spend on "climate change".

It is time therefore to recall that fatuous idiot Dr David Viner who so gaily told us in The Independent ten years ago that "Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past". Then, Viner was a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, from which seat of learning he so cleverly informed us that within a few years winter snowfall would become "a very rare and exciting event".

What is worse is that Viner is still on the public payroll, working for the British Council, where he is helping to spend the £2.9 billion of our money allocated by the British government as aid to assist developing countries in "adapting" to climate change – far more than is spent on dealing with the weather conditions here (below - the vista from south Bradford, where not even the bus routes are properly cleared and you don't even dream of seeing the pavements free from snow and slush).

If there was any sense or justice in this world, the likes of Viner would be stripped naked and forced to parade in the snow he so confidently predicted would become "a very rare and exciting event". Then he should be drummed out of office with neither pension nor compensation.

But as long as fools like Viner are rewarded, and we continue to pay for it, then the public stupidity will continue to prevail. Yet, the existing political parties are not listening - and we cannot rely (and nor should we) on students to do our dirty work. We need to put a million angry people on the streets.

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Were they misled by the Met Office? - by Richard...

Dr Vicky Pope – the Göbbels of the Met Office - puts this current freezing weather down to "climate variability", telling us that our senses are deceiving us. If you look at the long term trends, we are in fact experiencing fewer freezing winters and more heatwaves, she says.

This follows suggestions from the self-same Met Office, offered at the end of October, that we should expect an "unusually dry and mild winter" – a prediction which famously relies on the same computer systems which produce the models for global warming projections.

Now, as Britain grinds to a halt, we hear that the government has ordered "an urgent audit of the country's snow-readiness". Amongst other things, transport secretary, Philip Hammond, says there is "no excuse" for poor communication with stranded motorists and passengers.

What might be more productive to investigate, however, is the degree to which the various authorities have been totally misled by the fools in the Met Office (again), and how much winter budgets have been trimmed as money is siphoned off into "climate change" projects.

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