At the time I wished to become an approved UKIP candidate I was encouraged to go to a training session run by Tom Rubython (PPC for Northampton South) together with his friend who embarrassingly I cannot now name. For my two-minute talk I chose Global Warming quite expecting them both to be enthusiastic climate sceptics. To my great surprise the friend was an AGW, (anthropogenic Global Warming) believer. Both advised me to NOT to do a talk on global warming as this might not be in the party’s interest.
Thereafter I have been as circumspect about this in UKIP circles as others were about immigrants. Yet I personally feel that the present stance by successive governments since the Climate Change Act of 2008 under Tony Blair, when Ed Miliband became Sectary of State for Energy & Climate Change and the requirement in the act for no new coal fired power stations to be built in the UK without carbon capture and storage has been as damaging to the UK economy as the regulations of the EU.
No other country in the World has adopted such a restrictive stance and put it into law. Together with the environmental campaigners who number less than 1% of the population we are steadily being forced to reduce and even eliminate all forms of power generation by fossil fuels. Not only this but international pressure is being put on third World countries not to invest in coal or gas fired electricity generating stations in order to supposedly save the World.
The environmental movement has for decades been searching for a cause to blame mankind for ruining the World in order to elevate their status as saviours of the planet. Also to pursue a course by which they demonise something humans do that they can control in order to force mankind into a World Government ideally controlled by themselves. I mean nothing can be more important than saving the planet and we have to be just lucky that they are the high priests that can save us.
Whilst searching for a cause there was in the 1970’s a scare that the World was heading for another ice age and that we would be unable to cope. Though I cannot remember what the cause or solution was. Then from 1977 through to 1998 the World Meteorological Organisation was pursuing the demonising of carbon dioxide emitted by the burning of fossil fuels as the cause of the increasing temperature at that time.
In 1998 the Hockey Stick appeared in an article in Nature by Dr Michael E Mann of the University of Massachusetts based on studies of tree ring growths of Bristle Cone Pine trees in California. Using in addition some 112 data sets from fairly recent era they were able to suggest that the results were robust enough to claim that temperature in the late 1990’s were warmer than any time since at least 1400BC.
The Hockey Stick was an amazingly powerful tool because from 1400 to 1850 it was almost flat and in the last 150 years the curve just flew upward producing a shape like a hockey stick laid down.
Since then and the efforts of Al Gore on his Worldwide travels promoting global warming we have had a number of proofs that it is happening and we are to blame;-
1. The Earth is getting warmer since the industrial revolution began in 1850.
2. The Glaciers are Melting, more today than ever before.
3. The Sea Levels are Rising and low-lying islands are getting swamped.
4. The Polar Ice Caps are Shrinking.
5. The Polar Bears are Endangered.
6. The Number & Strength of Hurricanes and Tropical Storms are Increasing.
7. Plants and Animals are becoming extinct or moving to colder climate zones.
8. CO2 levels are steadily rising in line with global temperature.
9. Coal fired electricity generating stations produce unacceptable amounts of CO2.
10. Vehicles produce unacceptable amounts of CO2 and must be replaced with public transport or bicycles or electric cars.
11. Just recently in October 2016 NOAA (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration) has announced that this year has been the hottest since records began.
Interestingly though in Roman times Britain and all the northern continents were warmer than they are today and grapes were grown in huge quantities in southern England.. In the middle ages the Vikings invaded a large island in the north Atlantic that had been uninhabitable for centuries due to being covered in snow and ice and started a colony there, they called it Greenland. Both these periods had temperatures for centuries warmer than we presently experience in the northern hemisphere today.
Now the Climate Change supporters are actually reworking old datasets to rewrite history to show it has always been colder than it is today, and we are to blame. Hundreds of billions of Dollars have been obtained through taxes over the past two decades to support the reduction of CO2 emissions, to support endangered communities and to save the planet.
In the 1950’s a new type of CO2 measuring system was installed on Mauna Loa in the Hawaiian Islands and has been working faithfully ever since. It has algorithms to take into account prevailing winds and vegetation absorption of CO2 on the islands so it accurately records only the CO2 around the islands from the ocean and atmosphere. Interestingly it produced a lower result at the start than expected so they actually just shifted the previous data sets to match with the start of the Mauna Loa data to create a continuous series.
Since then the CO2 level has increased steadily year on year by about 3 parts million of atmospheric gases from 250ppm in 1950’s to 400ppm today. The prediction from the general circulation models on very expensive computers was that a doubling of CO2 would produce a catastrophic rise of an average of 2 C in world temperature and indeed reach a tipping point in thermal runaway.
Well we have just reached 400ppm, which is a 60% increase in atmospheric CO2 and as far as I can tell there is no noticeable increase in summer temperature and the winters seem as bad as they have ever been. So what do you think and what do you believe?
Just follow the money to identify a scam. Gore is the worst scammer ever to walk on Earth.
I might add: Just another facet of the God of Control worshiped by our politicians in the hope that they will be spared and free whilst the rest of us are forced into an Orwellian existence.
The sun and La Nina are likely to settle the debate during the next two years. http://www.vencoreweather.com/blog/2016/10/31/1040-am-sun-quiet-again-as-it-heads-towards-solar-minimum Climate change, as it is now called, is steadily dropping down the list of concerns of most voters. Whether that is because they believe the alarmists have already saved the planet so there is no more to be done or whether it means people just don’t care because there is evidently no cause for alarm is not clear. Personally I would like UKIP to stick to its core business of Brexit rather than spread its meagre resources into other areas of policy. Mrs… Read more »
Indeed, all else will be in vain unless we have a full exit. Let’s just keep the controversial policies on the back burner for now.
Peter & David, the problem about the use of fossil fuels for power generation in the UK is probably the most significant issue after leaving the EU. If you wish to pursue a single issue without UKIP moving forward to become more than a pressure group then Arron Banks is pushing Leave.eu to all people on the UKIP mailing list, and is looking for your support. I doubt we will get a clean break with the EU as Theresa May is looking for the best fudge to try and prevent the Europhiles from wrecking the Conservatives electoral chances again. I… Read more »
It’s a another scam on a global scale in part to foster globalist policies via the United Nations. An idea cooked up years ago as one of several common factors that might encouraging international relations. Common fear factors Here are some of them. 1/ Alien invasions 2/ catastrophic climate change 3/ Environment 4/pollution 5/overpopulation 6/over-fishing 7/ deforestation 8/ Asteroid or comet impact Most of these policies are coming straight of the United Nations, like Agenda 21/30, in our case adopted by the EU and then passed onto member states of the EU unchallenged. It has become quite a gravy train… Read more »
Just a thought where did all this GW business kick off? I seem to remember there was a hoo-ha about the depletion of the Ozone layer and so they got rid of CFC`s. In the mid 1980`s I saw a programme put out I think on BBC which depicted Sutherland in Scotland , which is pretty sparsely populated, They said “would you believe this area was populated by 300,000 people 3000 years ago – what happened to them?” The answer was given as “Acid Rain” apparently they could prove by snow cores or something that pollution from Icelandic volcanoes had… Read more »
Roger, acid rain is just one consequence of emitting sulphur dioxide from any burning process. The other of course is sulphuric acid created in the upper atmosphere. We get smog from low level sulphur dioxide and acid rain from upper atmosphere sulphur dioxide. Probably all industrial burning processes in Europe now include sulphur dioxide removal from the effluent. Not so though in China where they had to close down huge parts of industry in the run up to the Beijing Olympics to get rid of the dangerously poor quality air. Some compounds really are pollutants, others like CO2 are not.
The UN has become a serious liability and needs to be de-funded.
I thank you all for your comments. I would also consider myself well versed in the science of the climate and was till recently a member of the ClimateSceptics discussion group on Yahoo for well over a decade. I am hoping to engage with those who are either undecided or take the establishment view. The total solar irradiance of our planet is not a constant and varies over decadal and centenial periods affected by the gravitation pulls of its planets and the rotation of the Solar System in its orbit around the centre of the Galaxy. The sunspot cycle itself… Read more »
Professor Ian Plimer – Climate Change driven by the Sun https://youtu.be/94BeCbh80EQ
It is the Sun that drives Climate Change, not CO2…… http://tinyurl.com/mlqueot
Dear Anthony Nailer,
Thanks for your good article.
As you may know we have three top experts on the topic in UKIP: Rev Philip Foster, Roger Helmer MEP, Christopher Monckton (= Viscount Monckton of Brenchley).
Unfortunately their clear message does NOT seem to have reached all UKIP members. There is a big task for the new leader to ensure that our policy follows what our 3 experts are saying.
Not only is this good policy, it is totally at variance with what the other parties are saying … and we need lots of such policies IMHO.
Regards
Toby
I’d like to congratulate the writer on raising a topic on which any debate is so fiercely opposed and alternative opinions so intolerantly condemned by the alarmists. Anyone with any open mind might like to listen to the recent excellent lecture on this topic by Matt Ridley at the Royal Society (link below). You might notice Stuart Agnew amongst some other familiar faces in the audience. Alternatively, a transcript is available on the Global Warming Policy Foundation website. http://www.thegwpf.com/matt-ridley-global-warming-versus-global-greening/ You might also notice that in his introduction Lord Lawson refers to the ‘fanatics’ who angrily attacked the Royal Society for… Read more »
Thank you, Anthony, for your article. CK has nailed it with his pithy comment.
My (uneducated) take is that climate change is the false flag to divert attention from the fact that global population growth at this rate is unsustainable.
ck, thank you for your supportive comment. I am hoping that those who are unconvinced either way, or ‘believe’ man is responsible for global warming will come forward to make clear why they are persuaded by the establishment.
Another first class article sir. Many thanks for the delight in reading it.
We are in the grip of dogooder liberals who consider themselves an elect group whose destiny is to save mankind from itself.
These milliband clones belong in the nut house and the sooner society wakes up to the need to dismiss them from their elite positions in the media and education and government the better.