There’s some work on electric cars reported in the New York Times that says:

• People who own all-electric cars where coal generates the power may think they are helping the environment. But a new study finds their vehicles actually make the air dirtier with 3.6 times more soot and smog deaths than petrol – but they are beneficial as they produce more atmospheric plant food (aka CO2)
• Ethanol isn’t so green, either. “It’s kind of hard to beat gasoline” for public and environmental health, said study co-author Julian Marshall, an engineering professor at the University of Minnesota. “A lot of the technologies that we think of as being clean … are not better than gasoline.”

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Just been reading the kinds of idiotic greenspin that has been written by the drooling half demented green journalists after Lima and this headline really sums it up:

The Lima climate deal is largely voluntary. That may be its biggest strength.

These guys take an agreement for someone to do something, sometime somewhere and write it up as something great and write it up as something worthwhile! Continue reading →

Apparently the politicians of Scotland today know better than thousands of years of parents and have decided that children no longer need the institution of marriage to protect children from the stupidity of their parents.
Parents will continue to be stupid, but instead of marriage being the contract by which parents agree to look after their children, now that institution of marriage does not exist.
Instead like the pied piper, they intend to round up children and gradually take them under the state’s control as the state appoints “guardians” to replace parents – cheered on by these selfish “parents” and so called “social reformers” from the side. In short, what these people hate most of all are married couples who actually do what marriage is for and care for their own children rather than farming them out to child minders or the state so that they can get on with their own selfish lives.
Unfortunately, it’s the way this PC hate-filled society is going. If you sit in Holyrood and won’t be a good parent, you hate anyone else who does care for their own children and you are damned well going to bring down the rest of society to your own selfish level.
And it’s applauded by the most selfish of modern society with their “me me me” mentality where children aren’t people with rights but are instead just a luxury consumer good to be acquired like fridge freezers by adults – and like all the optional extras they will be treated as optional extras and when they cause a problem it’ll be “out they go” – because parents no longer contract to look after children through the institution of marriage.

It’s the children that lose out,
not the the selfish ignorant “parents”
who sit in Holyrood and the anti-family BBC
and who long ago gave over their children for others to bring up.

Lima press conference.

“Sam Smith, chief of climate policy for the environmental group WWF, said: “The text went from weak to weaker to weakest and it’s very weak indeed.” (BBC)

In reality, it’s not weak but non existent as the governments have stopped even pretending to be doing anything. Here’s what the very very pro “it’s a wonderful agreement” BBC have said the agreed document calls for:

• An “ambitious agreement” in 2015 that reflects “differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities” of each nation
• Developed countries to provide financial support to “vulnerable” developing nations
• National pledges to be submitted by the first quarter of 2015 by those states “ready to do so”
• Countries to set targets that go beyond their “current undertaking”
• The UN climate change body to report back on the national pledges in November 2015

“Differentiated responsibilities”  -translation for those for whom destroying their economy is seen as a political advantage may go ahead – sane countries will do nothing.
Support for “developing nations” – so no change from the normal foreign aid (aka bribe) budget.
National pledges by “those read to do so” – LOL!
Countries to set targets “beyond their current untertakings” – translation, to re-designate expenditure and call it “green”. So, e.g. new roads to “cut down on polluting traffic jams”, would I fit this meaningless drivel
UN to report back – but they’ve been doing that for 20 years – so to get the UN to agree to do what they are doing just about sums up how pathetic this whole waste of air miles has been.
The GWPF are equally scathing:

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