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Global Warming Isn’t Caused By Humans, Scientists Say
Kyoto And Its Ilk Will Damage Health and Economies
Massive Petition Challenges Climate Change Consensus

Why Isn’t This All Over The Papers, TV? 

32,000 Americans with university degrees in science including 9,021 with doctorates have signed a petition saying the Kyoto Treaty, which seeks to slash Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions, was a counterproductive mistake.

The scientists agreed that limiting greenhouse gases will harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind. They also denied any scientific consensus exists linking the warming of the earth to CO2, and said there was ample evidence to suggest that more CO2 has a beneficial effect on plants and animals. (see www.petitionproject.org organised by Dr Frederick Seitz, former president of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences).

You may find it hard to believe that this petition has been ignored by Britain’s national media and the BBC. After all, the British government and the opposition Conservatives can’t talk about anything without declaring that this new tax or that policy decision has been designed to help them in their fight against climate change.

Prime Minister in waiting David Cameron talks about the “consensus” that humans are changing the climate and must be stopped. Never mind that a consensus in science is worthless. There was a consensus for a while that the earth was flat and that the sun revolved around the earth. In science, proof is everything. Consensus proves nothing.

To its credit, The Daily Telegraph mentioned this petition in its May 31 edition. Given that the European Union is about to clobber the car manufacturers with huge new costs and taxes in the name of saving the climate, energy policy is producing massively higher costs for heating for the same reason, isn’t it about time that our leaders were forced to confront the possibility that they’ve got the wrong end of the stick about the climate?

It is clear to me, as a former Science and Technology Correspondent for Reuters, that the science which alleges humans are responsible for changes in the climate is dodgy to say the least. Do you recall the news a month or so ago that in fact, the climate hasn’t warmed at all since 1998? That means that as man-made CO2 emissions accelerated to their highest level ever, temperatures refused to go with them. The United Nations’ IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission) has based all its predictions of woe on computer models. Why didn’t these expensive models predict the actuality of temperatures from 1998? Could it be that we don’t have the power to change the climate? I fear a multiple collapse of stout parties. 

Labour Torment Shows No Understanding Of Why It Won

Tories Making The Same Mistake 

One of the more pleasing aspects of the death throes of temporary Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Labour party of arrogant, useless fools is listening to their analysis of the reasons for their decline, and how it mirrors almost exactly the wrong analysis of David Cameron (speaking of arrogant, useless fools).

Various Labour apparatchiks have been saying over the airwaves recently that yes, they must change this or that policy, cut this or that tax, listen to the people, and it will all turn out alright, and their jobs will be saved. Cameron, in his analysis of the 1997 election debacle in his lie-by-omission campaign for the party leadership, said the Conservatives had to change completely to be able to face the electorate again successfully. In fact, in 1997, the only reason the Tories lost was because the public had become bored with them. In 1992, boredom and contempt of the Tories wasn’t enough to convince them to allow Neil Kinnock to take control. He was viewed as unattractive, and still too close to the loony left. Tony Blair was able to get past this obstacle and convince people that his government would be halfway competent.

So Britain voted Labour, not out of any great enthusiasm for their ideas or personnel, but only because people though it was time for a change, and Labour probably wouldn’t screw up all that much. It was worth taking the risk, they thought. Labour timeservers really seem to believe that they won in 1997 because of public enthusiasm. Maybe they’ve seen too many reruns of Phoney Bliar and the Wicked Witch working the crowd outside Downing Street, which was in fact totally organised by Alistair (I didn’t say Andre was only a f……ing hairdresser) Campbell. 

Now that the public is bored with Labour, and more importantly, sees its uselessness and its incompetence, there is no going back. The Labour party is heading for inevitable and huge humiliation from which it may well never (fingers crossed) recover.

The Tories have wasted much effort trying to make themselves nice again, and by trying to distance themselves from Tory policies of old.

This has been a complete waste of time.

The Tories were always bound to be the beneficiary of a Labour meltdown. They only had to stay patient, not do anything silly and mainly dust down traditional policies – lower tax, smaller government, grammar schools – and add a few tweaks here and there. But instead the party panicked and saddled itself with the superficial, light-weight David Cameron. This desperate rush to embrace the Cameroons means that the first couple of years of Tory government is going to be a cul-de-sac before traditional policies reassert themselves.

 Neil Winton – June 4, 2008