GREEN IS THE COLOUR AUTHORITARIANISM IS THE GAME, GREEN IS THE COLOUR AUTHORITARIANISM IS THE GAME, GREEN IS THE COLOUR AUTHORITARIANISM IS THE GAME….
Earlier this week Professor Phil Jones, who until recently was of the director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA), said the results of the research unit’s work would “stand up to scrutiny.”
This was the same climate research unit which towards the end of last year had its server hacked, resulting in leaked emails which exposed that scientists at the one of the world’s leading climate research units had been manipulating data concerning climate change.
Prof Jones claims his work will stand up to scrutiny. My question is who’s doing the scrutinising? If there is any further inquiry or scrutiny of the conclusions made by Prof Jones and the Climatic Research Unit, it’s likely to be undertaken by bodies of the same government that wants to use the excuse of climate change to tax and regulate us all.
Though I’ve concerns with the ethics of how the these emails were acquired, they have proven that those of us who were dubious of climate change catastrophe aren’t a bunch of kooks as the green authoritarians have often accused us of being.
It’s not that I’m a climate change denier; it’s pretty obvious that there is constant climate change. But I’m seriously dubious that there’s going to be a climate change catastrophe anytime soon or 50 years from now. The meteorologists told us that Britain was going to have a mild winter, yet it has had the worst deluge of snow in decades. It seems to me that meteorologists and climate scientists can’t predict the climate for the next month, let alone the next century. Long ago it occurred to me that all the fear surrounding climate change was something of a magic bullet of an excuse for governments to increase their power.
How can one argue against not wanting a clean, safe, and stable environment?
I’ve long maintained that a factory which starts belching shite into the atmosphere which affects the health of people living in the area is committing an act of aggression, and that the government or some other authority should step in to cease the harm being done. The current problem is that more often than not, the owners of factories have usually bribed, manipulated or bullied government into allowing them to do so.
Greenie types often think that all the taxation and regulation they propose will hit those large corporations which they accuse of being the biggest polluters. Err, no. Money = power = influence. It’s not going to be large corporations which will be taxed and regulated up to their eyeballs, but ordinary plebs like you and me because our equation is, no money = no power = fucked!
When I heard Professor Jones claim that his work will stand up to scrutiny, he struck me as an arrogant man. But hey, he’s got government scrutinising, and therefore backing, him. The government needs to instil fear in the masses, and impending environmental disaster is a very effective way to do this. Thing is, now that all the crap surrounding climategate is in the open, I wonder for how much longer government thinks it can continue to bullshit people and use climate change as an excuse for ever greater authority.
….GREEN IS THE COLOUR AUTHORITARIANISM IS THE GAME, GREEN IS THE COLOUR AUTHORITARIANISM IS THE GAME, GREEN IS THE COLOUR AUTHORITARIANISM IS THE GAME!

It’s not that I’m a climate change denier; it’s pretty obvious that there is constant climate change. But I’m seriously dubious that there’s going to be a climate change catastrophe anytime soon or 50 years from now. The meteorologists told us that Britain was going to have a mild winter, yet it has had the worst deluge of snow in decades. It seems to me that meteorologists and climate scientists can’t predict the climate for the next month, let alone the next century. Long ago it occurred to me that all the fear surrounding climate change was something of a magic bullet of an excuse for governments to increase their power.
I just want to point out that you are confusing climate with weather here. Not indicting anything else, just this.
Funny enough the BBC published a survey yesterday which shows that scepticism towards global warming is on the rise
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8500443.stm
A heathy dose of scepticism is never a bad thing