Scottish Sceptic

As I regularly check news stories on global warming I have a fair idea of the press interest and yes, there have been a few idiotic “POPE BLASTS CLIMATE DENIERS” articles – but generally the response has been pretty mute with what I would describe as “copy filler” articles popping up.
That might change, but so far it looks like a lot of fuss about nothing.
Rechecked – just one mention of  the Pope’s scientific pronouncement in the last 9 news stories, that is really bad! Continue reading →

For some 2000 years the Christian Church has been condemning the “pagans”, but now in the pope’s proclaimation he has embraced paganism and talks of “brother sun, sister moon, brother to the river and to mother Earth”. Has he joined the secret order of the golden sickle?

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When I heard the pope was going to “excommunicate” us sceptics at first I laughed, then realising that rearranging the date the Pope did the same to Luther (1520) we get this years date (2015), I contemplated reproducing Luther’s 95 Thesis which I might have “nailed to the door”. But I quickly realised we sceptics only have one real demand and that is for science to be based on the evidence and not religious or political belief whether Catholic, New Age, Pagan, eco-fascist, etc.
But as I’ve watched the public mood turning overtly hostile to this scam and the mother nature not playing ball I realised the Pope had missed the boat. What appalling timing when even the very last “pro” warming indicator of Arctic ice now shows refreezing. This proclamation is a shot in the foot by the Pope which can do nothing but undermine the Pope’s own credibility.
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Anyone with even an ounce of intelligence knows that fossil fuel companies welcome higher energy prices. Anyone who’s ever worked in the wind business knows that all the big oil companies were the first with their snouts in the trough of public funding through unreliables.
They have been absolutely delighted that the gullible greens did so much to boost their share prices through higher profits on oil and public subsidies on unreliables.
But as anyone who comments online knows, we sceptics have won the debate – at least online. The alarmists have all but given up. There are now very few left to make the oil company case to raise energy prices and boost their profits.
So, recently we’ve seen a spate of articles such as “Even oil companies support a carbon tax” or “UN welcomes oil groups’ help to fight global warming” or “Even oil companies believe in climate change“.
To which all I can say to those printing this trash is ….  OF COURSE THEY SUPPORT IT YOU MORONS!!!
When will you get it into your thick skulls that the oil company support higher energy prices. That hasn’t changed, instead what has changed is that political support for this scam has plummeted. There are now so few gullible greens left to do the Big-Oil’s dirty work that the oil companies must do it themselves.
 

After 18 years without warming, when not a single one of the academic’s predictions from rising temperatures, to accelerated sea level rise to global sea ice loss has come true. When rising CO2 levels are boosting harvests worldwide and stopping famines, and when there have been some 1million extra deaths in the winter months since this scam started made far worse by rising fuel bills, when one of the big killers in the third world is smoke from wood burning fires which could be stopped completely if they had our access to cheap, clean fossil fuels.
It is just completely utterly bizarre that we are even considering wasting more money on this scam.
The science doesn’t support it, the economics doesn’t support it, and it is not morally valid.
When all sane rational analysis tells us that this scam is just that: a scam why are our politicians still going to these climate talks talking about destroying our economies? Far from being an ill fossil fuels are undoubtedly the single best thing that has happened to humans. We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, health welfare because of the economic prosperity created by our coal and oils and what do we do?
We are stupid enough to believe the single biggest contributor to our modern society is evil. Completely mad – that’s what these climate talks are.
 Horaeee!!! Finally managed to find a forum where I was the first sceptic to comment – OK the first to comment!  Hence the post – but it was only because I got up very early.  (See: Scotsman)

A rather sad thought has crossed my mind today.
Just as Karl Marx said “Religion is the opium of the people” – intending to suggest religion is used to keep the population quiet, so global warming may have been encouraged to keep the environmentalists busy on a campaign which was so far into the future that politicians could endlessly talk about action without ever having to do anything.
Think of it this way – it all started under Margaret Thatcher’s government – a government plagued by left-wing issues line anti-nuclear. So what better way to pre-occupy those who get involved in those kinds of thing? Almost everyone involved in this debate will be dead before anyone is forced to do anything. So we can talk endlessly about what needs to be done – but no one actually has to do anything.
And it’s sad – because when I think about it, the left-wing “fascist” brigade have largely been kept pre-occupied on global warming; we’ve little of the kind of strife we saw during the miners strike. Which if true -rather suggests the scam was good for society – but worse, it also means that rather than the end of global warming being a good thing – it may actually herald a new era of political strife as those “agent provocateur” who used to be occupied on global warming start to find other issues to agitate on.
… which is why I love blogging knowing that few people read my posts. Because I couldn’t say this on WUWT – because either it’s wrong and so rubbish – or it’s true and it would be best not to let on.

If  you’ve ever tried to post at DeSmug Blog – you know they don’t welcome sceptics and you get banned like I have. DeSmug is no supporter of free speech, so I have have no sympathy whatsoever for Brenda Montague (Alarmist Press Release cut & paste technican of DeSmug) who got banned from #ICC10.
URL (you’ll have to put it together yourself)
http:<slash><slash>www<dot>desmog<dot>uk<slash>2015<slash>06<slash>11<slash>heartland-heavies-silence-climate-reporters-oil-supported-summit

For years grubby politicians in the UK parliament have felt free to lie and lie and lie about global warming knowing that no would would dare stand up and tell the truth.

Well … that seems to have ended!

(Thanks Mr. Arthur Ainslie for highlighting this video)

On the 10th of June 2015, UK Member of Parliament, David TC Davies MP rose to tell the Government The Truth about Climate Change, during the debate. The Government refused to deny his well founded assertions, even though he asked the Climate Minister to correct him if he was mistaken, and if she knew any different.
A red faced Labour Party MP was embarrassed to hear that his own fatuous assertions were actually contradicted by the UNIPCC itself, in documents read out by Mr. Davies.
For more information on David Davies see his website:

http://www.david-davies.org.uk/

Most of these public scams such as bird flu (= sales of anti viral drugs), the Millennium bug, Ozone hole (=sales of new refrigerant), etc. start with a mass of publicity as those making money from the scam try to create the scare, and then as reality overtakes, they die by fading into obscurity.
However, I’ve long known the end of this scam might be very different. The problem is that the government passed legislation to force it to act. So, the usual government tactic of ignoring its own (or more accurately civil service) stupidity & saving itself embarrassment was difficult this time.
… although after perhaps as much as 5 years saying it would all come to a sticky end – and nothing happening, I was doubting my own analysis. I had resigned myself to the proverbial “watching paint dry” as we waited for the scam to slowly fade away.
But the fact is that the government are caught between a rock and a hardplace. They know the electorate do not, will not & in many cases cannot stomach the massive rises in fuel bills necessitated by these idiotic climate targets. They know that if they do not act against unreliables particularly onshore bird-mincers, the electorate in the countryside will turn against them more. But they are also compelled by their own legislation to raise those fuel bills and erect more bird-mincers.
The problem for the politicians is that global warming alarmism was always strongest amongst the left-of-centre public sector civil servants and academics and “climate” was a magnet subject for the extreme left, political active “eco-fascists” academics. There must be few more anti-tory subjects outside the overtly leftist political subjects like feminist studies.
Few academics will willingly support the government and amongst climate academics there will be a particular loathing for Tory politics. There is no way academics pushing this climate alarmism are going to stick their hands up to help the Tories out of this mess by saying “we’re to blame”.
After years of inaction, what I assumed was going to happen – is that the government were just going to ignore unreliables and slowly turn off the tap of funding – continually making statements about their “aspiration” to cut CO2 – but knowing few alarmists have any interest in actual figures – so knowing that the odd concession of a few £million to the Greens would offset cuts of £billions.
And that might still be the game plan – but perhaps not! Because soon after the election the Tories announced an end to onshore wind (clearly suggesting the Lib Dems were being blamed for stopping this move in the past).
When there was little or no outcry from the alarmists it seemed likely that unreliables would go the way of all the other scams and fade into obscurity.
But today I learn:

Stay of execution for onshore wind farms as subsidy axe delayed – Conservative proposals to axe onshore wind farm subsidies delayed amid fears of legal challenge and row with SNP

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