Recently retired MP and former minister under the Major government Ann Widdecombe comes right out and says it like it is. And gets it printed in a daily. Is the UK print media ‘coming over the wall’ in retaliation for Leveson?
Even scientists are cooling on climate change
Ann Widdecombe – Daily Express 22-3-2013
WHAT do Peter Lilley, Andrew Tyrie, Philip Davies, Christopher Chope and I have in common? We were the only MPs to vote against the 2008 Climate Change Bill, which is to say we had by then considered all the evidence and found it wanting.
For years we have endured insults. Behind the scenes Fiona Bruce, normally the most courteous of broadcasters, called me a “flat-earther” to my face. Others branded us “deniers” as if we were disputing the holocaust. The Al Gore film was accorded the status of Holy Writ. David Bellamy lost his job. Doubting scientists were scorned. Nigel Lawson found it difficult to get his book An Appeal To Reason published.
In short there was an orthodoxy which was enforced with all the rigour of communism or fascism or, for that matter, the Spanish Inquisition. Dissenters must not be heard and global warming became a religion. Well the dissenters have now been proved right. Heaven knows how many billions of pounds later the world is now being told that actually the warming is so far off predictions that all bets are off and indeed the world’s temperature is static or falling.
Hopefully offical Brittain is waking up from dreams of utopia:
“Follow the money” is an old advice if you want to find the cause of human behavior. Also scientific institutions can be considered as special interest groups.
“Heaven forbid that it should be because of all that money tied up in their research.”
Recent correspondence with my local MP.
Really does sum up the cognitive dissonance affecting Government.
“there is more work required on large-scale energy storage”
is a bit of an understatement!
Dear XXXX
Thank you for your recent emails about the Government’s policies on wind power and Tim Yeo’s amendment to the Energy Bill to set a decarbonisation target.
As you will be aware, we take rather different perspectives on the significance of anthropogenic climate change, and you will I’m sure not be surprised that as a consequence I disagree with you on this. I will be supporting the decarbonisation target.
I have long believed that we should invest substantially in renewable energy, including wind power. However, I do accept that we cannot realistically seek to provide all of our energy from renewables at the moment. You are correct to say that wind power fluctuates, and there is more work required on large-scale energy storage, for example.
I hope that this is helpful in setting out my views.
Yours sincerely,
Julian Huppert
Member of Parliament for Cambridge
Dear Dr. Huppert.
I really think you have an ideological problem with assessing the threat of “decarbonisation” on the U.K.
See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21878059
The boss of the energy firm SSE has warned that “there is a very real risk of the lights going out” in Britain.
Ian Marchant said the government was significantly underestimating the scale of the capacity crunch facing the country.
He was commenting on the company’s decision to cut back on power generation at five sites.
The energy regulator, Ofgem, has also warned of an increased risk of a blackout.
If such events do come to fruition, I know exactly who to place the blame on.
Yours sincerely,
XXXXX
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