Alternative Vote vs. First Past the Post

Left or Right? It’s a free choice!

Back in my youth I was a liberal democrat and even stood once as a councillor (gaining 200 votes, or as I put it: doubling the vote). So, I used to be a strong supporter of the alternative vote, because I always felt that the “middle” was squeezed out by people who feared labour or Tories so much that they voted for the opposite party.
I’m now an agnostic on voting, in part because I don’t want to see a party like the present liberal democrats in constant power, in part because I don’t want to see the dirty little deals that our politicians get up to behind our backs. Continue reading

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A view from the other side

For those of us fed up with the lack of press coverage of the many revelations that continue to bulldoze each and every claim of the global warming zealots, perhaps a view of the ecozealot trenches will highlight the fact that even if we still don’t get anything like the press coverage the real facts deserve, if anything, the fall from “press darling” of the other side is far far worse to stomach. So, for those of a strong constitution this article may be worth a read:

Nisbet set out to “assess the performance of the mainstream news media in 2009 and 2010” and concludes in his Executive Summary that “major U.S. news organizations have overwhelmingly portrayed the consensus view on the reality and causes of climate change”

Or in plain English: Continue reading

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Global warming Death threats

The chief executive of the Met Office, John Hirst, has revealed that, in common with global warming sceptics such as former children’s TV presenter Johnny Ball, he has received death threats for his stance on climate change.
(Read more: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/77902,people,news,met-office-boss-gets-death-threats-over-climate-change#ixzz1JtxSXvJ9)

Usually I’d have every sympathy with people who receive death threats, but when it comes to the Met Office, they supposedly provide a life and death service and we have been so let down by the Met Office so many times because of their fixation with global warming rather than the real killer in Scotland: Cold winters.
The real death threat the Scottish people face, is not some nutter writing an email, but a supposedly “official” even “scientific” body like the Met Office who fail to provide the life and death service they are supposed to due to poor politically motivated leadership.

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Global warming must be true, Charles Manson believes in it.

Global warming must be true, Charles Manson believes in it. Killer breaks 20-year silence on 40th anniversary of gruesome Sharon Tate murders.
‘If we don’t change that as rapidly as I’m speaking to you now, if we don’t put the green back on the planet and put the trees back that we’ve butchered, if we don’t go to war against the problem…’ he added, trailing off.
Manson, who described himself to his interviewer as a ‘bad man who shoots people’, brainwashed members of a commune known as The Family into butchering eight people including film director Roman Polanski’s pregnant wife Sharon Tate in July and August 1969.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1378178/Charles-Manson-breaks-20-year-silence-40th-anniversary-gruesome-Sharon-Tate-murders.html#ixzz1Ju1WNezJ

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A climate of apathy

In selling his carbon tax compensation plan last week, Greg Combet told the ABC1’s Lateline: “Australia is not acting alone. We’re not out ahead of the rest of the world. Other countries are taking important steps as well.”
So, it’s a good time to see how the big polluting nations are faring in the battle to price carbon. So far, not so good. Australia in the cold on global warming

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Media interest falls to record low

In 2007 the average number of google hits for a news search for “global warming” was around 20,000 stories. It then steadily declined until just before climategate it was around the 10,000+ news articles.
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Our Carbon

Our carbon, which art in the heavens,
Damned be thy name,
Thy power be gone,
Emissions none,
On earth as it is in heaven,
Give us this day our daily rations,
And forgive us our emissions.
As we forgive those who emissions are greater,
For their need is more,
His name is Al Gore,
For his is the kingdom, the power and the glory for ever and ever, Carbon.

Addendum

It’s now four years later and WUWT have highlighted a far better version by Dominic Lawson in the Daily Mail:

Our Gaia, Who art in danger,
Sustainable be thy name,
Thy renewable energy resources come,
Thy Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s will be done
On Earth as it is in the upper atmosphere
Give us this day our daily organic ciabatta
Forgive us our carbon emissions
Though we can’t forgive those multinationals who emit against us
Lead us not into excessive plane travel
Deliver us from genetically modified crops
For thine is the moral high ground
The onshore wind farms and the subsidies
For as long as the taxes can be raised. Amen.

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Scientists discover why wet soil is dark

In a major breakthrough Associate Profession William Philpot of Cornell School of Civil & Environmental Engineering has cracked the secret of wet soil. He has now produced a simple theoretical model describing the reflectance from wetted soils which describes the major variations of changes in the spectral reflectance which lead to soil getting darker when wet. Continue reading

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No news – the lull before the storm?

For three of four years I’ve been keeping tabs on the news headlines by regularly using a search engine to highlight the days news. Even a year ago, that would daily harvest a couple of really juicy stories on global warming. So what is the headline news today?

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England expects every Scot to do their duty

Chris Huhne is back on the bandwagon proclaiming Scotland’s renewable “industry” as “mission critical” to England achieving its global warming targets. Too true.
Of course Scotland is mission critical because scamming the Scots has been a key part of this policy from the beginning; the way Scottish politicians have allowed Scotland to be yet again fleeced on energy policy makes my blood boil. (hence the nationalist rant … even though I’m a unionist, but sometimes nationalists do have a point)
Even before all this nonsense over global warming started, Scotland was already producing something like 8% of our energy from “clean green” hydro (or as others would see it: “another blot on the landscape”). So, when the UK government committed to a  policy of 1% increase in renewables each year from 2000, Scotland should have been able to sit back for eight years watching the English struggle to achieve their own targets, and even have benefitted from all those ugly eyesores that dot the Scottish landscape: we could have “sold” the benefit of hydro to allow England to meet its self-imposed target and raked in millions and millions for Scottish public services even allowing those greens to bask in the glory of doing more than our fair share to salve the conscience of the world.
EEeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (scratching sound of record being hastily changed) Continue reading

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