Water Water Everywhere

A major scare report has popped up with lovely dramatic pictures of cities under water, due to rising sea levels, due to Climate Change. I wonder these people don't run around the streets, clutching their heads screaming, 'We're all gonna die, we're all gonna die'.

Anyway, it is a report by 'experts' apparently so we can be fairly comfortable ignoring it. Amusing is it not, that we are implored by 'scientists' to stop believing in God because it is so implausible, but then they tell us they believe in Global Warming (caused by Man). Of course, to the activists who run this scam it is important that it is Man made so a) we feel guilty, b) we must atone c) they can claim we can do something about it and d) they can impose capitalism destroying economic measures to achieve their real goal.

Imagine if we still lived in days when scientists discovered something and said, 'we think the earth is heating up and we think it is due to solar activity. If this is right it could lead to all sorts of problems and we cannot do anything about it'. Or maybe it will just be a bit of heating and everyone will feel a bit better, more crops will grow and it will be really quite nice. That would be science and more than that, science that served the people.

How would that serve the Marxists? In what way does that help destroy capitalism? When you are proposing a system of control (they would say government) that is known not to work, over a system that has worked very well indeed, you cannot do it through debate. (Otherwise you wouldn't need to demonise a successful politician and her policies, for instance).

It is customary in discussing revolution to see the enemy as a king or evil military ruler and this is certainly what the Left promote as a vision. But the enemy of the Left today is the people, for they have power to a large extent in a democracy and have resolutely rejected, repeatedly the ideas and ideals of Marxism. So the riots in Britain, exclusively the domain of the Left (to the extent that it was Left led police who were instructed to attack the peaceful countryside marchers), are aimed at the common people.

They terrorise the local population and destroy the property of innocent businesses, at random. The images on the television spreading the fear to communities fearful that it may visit them.

Now, these self appointed fund-suckers, these leeches on society may feel that their climate crap is a harmless bit of cant, that keeps them in work and they don't mean any harm, but they are doing the work of the Marxists. Doubtless some are with the cause but many I would guess are just useful idiots.

Fracking - New Light On The Debate

A report has concluded that ‘fracking’ or hydraulic fracturing of rocks, to gain access to shale gas deposits, does not cause earthquakes or indeed any sizeable seismic activity. A reporter from Bleeding Obvious News spoke to a group of experts. Nils Forktongue of the Institute for Checking Stuff said that fracking was not just the cause of massive earthquakes like the one that caused a tsunami on Boxing Day a while back, but also would lead to the industrialisation of the British countryside, falling house prices and noise pollution.

When it was pointed out that what he was referring to was Wind Turbines not fracking, Mr. Forktongue enigmatically answered, ‘that is just your truth’.  Because of the desperate need to reduce output of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) or ‘Carbon’ (C) as the experts like to call it, BON asked a different group of experts, who looked very similar to the last lot but with moustaches and glasses, if fracking would not help reduce the UK’s ‘carbon footprint’ as it had in America. The spokesperson, Fork Nilstongue said that shale gas was not actually combustible and people were being sold a lie by the energy industry, by a government that is overwhelmingly supportive of Big Oil and that even the BBC is ridiculously biased in its reporting towards denying Global Warming.

Fork said that if people wanted to learn the truth about fracking, Global Warming and that proven facts are quite often wrong then he had a leaflet available, free of charge by writing to him at the University of Tadcaster, Serious Climate Change Research, c/o WWF, London.

After the formal interview, the BON reporter asked, in a personal capacity, how it was that it had been warmer before, the Roman warm period, Medieval warm period and also extremely cold with mini ice ages, without the effect of Man’s CO2 or Carbon output playing a part? Unfortunately Professor Doctor Sir Fork Nilstongue said he had to rush away, answering his phone that was now on silent, apparently. One thing he was able to clear up though was a common misunderstanding. After proving by shouting it, that Global Warming is caused by Man’s activity he said that one thing he could absolutely assure us of, was that the Sun has absolutely no part whatsoever to play in heating the earth. This he told us, was a lie put about by druids.

*This article has been viewed by Hacked Off in accordance with their self appointed role as guardians of the truth, They asked us to also point out that it is now established fact that people who deny global warming catch painful diseases that kills them. 

Nothing New Under The Sun

In times less prone to sensational squealing by supposed 'scientists' we get this, measured, responsible view;

'In a report published in January (1966 US National Academy of Sciences, quote from the Britannica book of the Year 1967), the committee stated that while apparently reliable measurements of the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere showed an increase of the order of 10% during the preceding 50 or 60 years, the effect of this was considerably modified as a result of the absorption of carbon dioxide by the oceans. Thus, contrary to earlier theories which had held that a relatively small increase in CO2 content would modify the earth's heat balance considerably and seriously raise the temperature of the troposphere, the 1965-6 investigators found the effect on the earth's temperature would be quite small.'



Also on the same page is a table of 'Weather Headlines' including for England -

Parts of England    April 1-2     Late season snowfall 12in; 5ft drifts     Blizzard winds in some localities; unexpected traffic hazards led to many accidents.


But Global Warming due to Man's output of CO2 is real, present and an impending disaster. Apparently. Only now it is from articles written by Green activists for the WWF rather than scientists reports of actual investigations.

The Left Partying

With the death of Thatcher we are being treated to two types from the Left, the useful idiots repeating tosh they have been fed about the nasty Tories and the clever ones rewriting history. Ken Livingstone said that Thatcher was responsible for the banking crisis and wrecked the mining industry. Quite spectacular inversion of the truth. In fact the Left using Bill Clinton, a politician every bit as dim as Tony Blair, brought about the banking crisis by insisting mortgages were given to people who couldn't afford them.

In Britain, Brown ensured that his friends (and big taxpayers) in banking were not troubled by the regulator, which was in effect, switched off. It's like the Hacked Off campaign for state control (or better still for them to run it) of the Press. What is being said up front is not what they are actually up to. They want to be able to use the media to spout Leftist propaganda and delete any criticism or investigation. (Look at how they are squealing having been caught lying themselves).

The Left claim that the Seventies and Eighties were disastrous because of Thatcher's policies. But the reason the Cortina Man supported her was because he prospered under her. (Benefits claimants didn't and it is they who are complaining now). But it was clearly the Unions who destroyed the country. The mining industry was wrecked by the strikes Scargill called and then dumped the loss of their industry in Thatcher's lap. In Suffolk, the Port of Felixstowe stayed resolutely at work and threatened at one point to throw a Union official into the river when he insisted they strike.

The Port went from strength to strength and it wasn't due to Left wing politics, it was due to hard work. That is what the Left don't want. For them, it is important that the Right doesn't succeed or that they can hide it through lies, because it means their assertion that only Left wing policies work, only the Left can help the poor and disadvantaged can be pushed. What they actually do of course, is create more poverty and disadvantage. If ever you feel that you would really like to destroy your country then vote Labour of Lib Dem, support the Socialist Workers Party. When you feel that other people owe you a living, you are Left wing.

Margaret Thatcher - RIP

With the sad news that Margaret Thatcher has died, I find myself unable to watch the BBC, knowing they will be struggling to hide their smirks amid endless whining. But Lord help us Sky News is a stream of miners strike, poll tax riots and morons like Derek Hatton given air time. Derek Hatton! The corrupting communist who is delighted he doesn't live in a communist country.

What seems to have been missed is the fact that Thatcher was elected because the country was fed up with yet another Labour government of incompetent and ignorant misfits, who had wrecked the economy and saw refuse piling up in the streets because Labour wouldn't confront their paymasters, the Unions.

Thatcher did take them on, as they would otherwise hold back her revolution and the communists such as Scargill realised they had to provoke a confrontation. So he set about winding up the poor miners who, already facing losing their jobs in a woefully broken industry supported by massive taxpayer input, he needed to riot. When any other business goes broke, its staff lose their jobs and though it is to be regretted, what should be, can be done? The Left claim, the State should pay. How is not explained.

So, under a proper, committed politician of stature the country prospered. The Left derided Yuppies, but who were Yuppies? The Left say they were selfish people, invented by Thatcher; the Me generation. But Yuppies were just people who had done well by working hard. Their ambition was not checked by taxes and rules and regulations, which is always the way of the Left. They were allowed to keep more of their money and spend it how they liked. Wealth redistribution based on effort not theft.

The Me generation had to wait for the vacuous Blair and his drive to become personally wealthy at our expense. He denied and derided ambition and insisted that if you want something you have to take it off someone else.

The Poll Tax was a bad idea in the way it was brought about, but it was a gift for the Left as it was particularly their supporters who had previously been able to dodge the tax man. Being accountable and being expected to contribute was such an outrageous idea to the Left apparently, that it became essential to riot and attack properties nearby. Attempting to murder police officers was also an acceptable political statement. This was how scared, how desperate the Left were to get rid of this clever, reliable, honest and committed politician heading a hated party. Hated by them, no one else.

It is a sign of how successful communist influences are within our institutions that today, people who know nothing about it, never experienced Thatcher's Britain, see her as someone who destroyed Britain and ruined lives. Schools and Universities ensured an endless stream of Left oriented propaganda was directed at the young to paint a picture that wasn't true, but a 'narrative' of the truth as the Left wanted it.

In short the Left were indignant that many of their supporters, traditional Labour voters had deserted them for the Conservatives, not as they saw it, because the Conservatives had made them and the country more successful, more wealthy, but because they were stupid and had been duped. Always the refuge of the Left when faced with their inevitable failure; to blame the people who were too stupid to realise the Utopia just around the corner, if only the Left could run everything with sky high taxes and very little private enterprise, if any. A Utopia like Albania.

What Thatcher believed was that, if someone worked hard they should be allowed to keep the vast majority of what they earned. Their efforts would make the country successful. As we have seen from the last bout of Labour government, what they offer is high taxes, reducing services, massive over-spending and growing national debt. People like Polly Toynbee who is rich and has several houses including one in Tuscany ranting about redistributing wealth through taxation, but not her wealth and companies acting immorally by not paying UK tax, without mentioning that her employer is one of those. With Thatcher you got opportunity, with Labour you get corruption and hypocrisy.

A great leader of this nation has died and we are a little diminished. It would be a fitting tribute to this conviction politician, if Tony Blair was convicted for the several crimes committed whilst lining his pockets as PM.

Here's An Idea

Global Warming as caused by Man is a crock. We shouldn't use a recession to back away from the idiot measures being introduced to fight it. I'm not sure if we are supposed to see ourselves as Cnut or Icarus, but either way the Sun is having a laugh at our expense.

So, we can get rid of the subsidy towers, which I think are referred to as wind turbines and all the green taxes. That will help the economy quite a bit (and do no harm). We should then ignore all the demands to shut down power stations and do what we need to. That keeps the lights on and industry working.

The carbon levy, by which they tax the entirely different substance carbon dioxide, can be binned helping the economy even more. This is going well. But.....

We really should, as intelligent, inventive animals be doing something about our pollution. Not for the empty headed reasons that Lib Dems espouse and all other stuck-in-adolescence lefties, but because we should be able to do better. The emissions do have some effect, but even if it isn't significant at all, it isn't beneficial either. Wouldn't it be better to design things with a goal from the outset of 'first, do no harm'.

The sole reason a wind turbine gets erected is because there is an incentive. The incentive is money, but somehow the turbine doesn't actually have to be any use to get the money. I think the wind farm companies are probably trying to refine their pitch to government so that they don't have to actually build anything, but still get the money. No one is disturbed by a wind turbine, no birds or bats get murdered and it produces exactly as much utility as if it was physically there.

Let us hope our politicians don't go that far, though  the evidence to date isn't encouraging. No, what I think we should do is actually incentivise people to come up with technologies that don't pollute. For no other reason than pollution isn't nice and we should be able to invent something better.

Everything we do comes down to energy. An apple contains a static energy equivalent to a million tons of TNT. Energy isn't the problem, it is our ability to make use of it that is. And the real problem is, government isn't pushing this as an agenda. Think how rich the UK could be if we took the lead in advances in this area, just because we set off down the road first!

But we are saddled with navel-gazing politicians of no ability whatsoever. Scoring points off other politicians is their entire goal. Big new technological leaps, now! Let's start with the internal combustion engine. (And that doesn't mean stupid battery cars).

Mary And Martha

Richard Curtis, the playwright and unprincipled bigot, has written a film about malaria. This disease has been a scourge of mankind for millennia, killing untold millions. One of the actors, Brenda Blethyn appeared on a BBC breakfast show to talk about the film and her experiences. She passionately told how the disease is a horror and blights the lives of many. Treatment that is cheap to us, is hideously expensive in many of the countries plagued with it.

Brenda talked money; she said £5 would buy a net. This is probably a summary of where she gets her information. The money seeking NGO's talk of the horrible disease and the medicines they can administer and nets they could give out, as long as they are there.

What I wait to see (and Brenda not mentioning it might give us a clue) is whether dear old 'kill global warming sceptics' Curtis can bring himself to mention why malaria is so prolific. Despite no study showing it causes any harm to humans, DDT was banned. This pesticide was very effective; its use in Sri Lanka led to a reduction in cases of malaria, from 3 million in 1946 to just 29 in 1964. Within 5 years of the ban, the number of malaria infections was up to half a million.

Why the ban? Because an early eco-campaigner wrote a book claiming it was dangerous based on loopy visions of Mother Earth, floating around in her head. So well done Rachel Carson for Silent Spring, another fairy story that caught the imagination and led to millions of deaths and unimaginable misery. That is, in the real world. I wonder that she hasn't been given a Nobel Prize; crass stupidity and the promotion of crackpot ideas seems to warrant one these days (eh, Obama?).