Put together a potty, unneccessary EU directive abour air quality, an EU-fanatical greenie nutter like Tim Yeo, and the BBC, and what do you get? A well-tried formula of alarmism warning us that unless we stop keeping ourselves warm with nasty power stations, refrain from using petrol, and wind down our industrial base completely, we’re all gonna die. One thing missing from the equation? Recent peer-reviewed research that shows that all the scare stories about air-borne pollutants should be taken with a huge pinch of salt, and that claims of massive death tolls from the type of matter involved in the EU directive are abject nonsense. But that, of course, can’t be mentioned because it would spoilt the political agenda; the boys and girls at the BBC want to send us all back to the greenie idyll of the stone age.
Oh, and build thousands of wind farms to replace the pollutant-belching fossil-fuel power stations. Ignoring completely the fact that they are hugely expensive, subsidy-guzzling monstrosities that don’t work.
Update: apologies, but this last link didn’t work when the blog was first posted, but it should do now.
the “don’t work” link points only to this site. Did you intend something else? A great book on this topic is “The Wind Farm Scam” by John Etherington.
When the AGW/eco cultists/carbon trading fraudsters lose one line of attack they always have another waiting in line, global warming then climate change warning us of imminent doooooom, then species loss/ocean acidification/sea level rises/droughts’N’floods.
Made up statistics can prove anything and the cultist-scamster alliance make the most of the flawed ‘science’ of statistics dont they?
Here are a few things that kill people in real life and they have nothing to do with made up scaremongering and fraudulant reports.
Hunger
Conflict
Diseases like malaria
Poverty
Stone age agriculture
Trade protectionism like the EU CAP
Food dumping via aid agencies
Cold weather leads to the deaths of poor elderly people
Unnafordable home energy costs
Hospital aquired infections via superbugs from filthy overcrowded hospitals
Neglect of the poorest and elderly
Political corruption
We are living in a time where the truth is hidden and trodden on by petty self interests and selfish desires, the real tragedies are left untouched and ignored where real people are starving to death because of selfish trade protectionism by rich EU nations.
Food dumping of cheap over production leading to a collapse in prices in the poorest aid reliant zones where dumped food is cheaper than home grown food and where modern farming techniques are withheld by those selfish nations in case these poor nations out compete the lavishly subsidised food production in nations like France/Germany.
A perverted world where massive grain ships dump cheap unwanted grain as aid to people who should be growing food for export and all beacuse of selfish rich two faced eurotrash and American polticians.
We are being conned and lied to on a gigantic scale, right becomes wrong and lies become the truth and all the time people are dying by the million in grinding poverty and hunger, those who lead us are criminals guilty of real crimes against real people.
To add to your list of what kills people –
policies causing diversion of crops to make “ecofuels” which hardly work, forcing up the price of grain so poor nations cannot buy it
Yes John A I forgot to add the biofuel goldrush, you can bet its making some rich people even richer.
Not from the BBC:
“Too much wind and not enough puff”
(‘Times’ Leading Article):
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article7069806.ece
That’ll be the same Tim Yeo, ( an embarrassment to the Tories) , who made a bunch from fronting a dodgy grren energy business. Guido fingered him some time back, using Parliamentry premises to host jollies etc.
Aparently yeo’s writ got lost in the post !!
On iPlayer I just caught up with a very very long interview on You and Yours, Radio4 last Monday, with Lord Stern – the “economist” whose plan for dealing with climate change by hammering our economy is central to this Government’s thinking.
He was given a very easy ride, allowed to say that Copenhagen actually achieved a lot, that even if you ignored the claims by the Uni of East Anglia the whole Warmist theory was intact, that we should expect 5 degrees increase in temperature – the upper end of alarmism.
The You and Yours interviewer said that AGW scepticism has increased. But I bet You and Yours never gives such a long slot to a sceptic. The obvious counter-interview should be with Nigel Lawson, whose book utterly destroys Lord Stern and his nonsense. Lawson effectively says he has dealt with many economists in his time but has seldom come across such an utter nutter.
We’re all waiting for a tub-thumping, trumpet-blaring greeting for the new electric cars to be made by Nissan in the UK. So beeboids, O Great Shallow Ones, where are you? Has anyone thought about just where the electricity is to come from? Of course you have. And don’t forget, these cars are going to be wonderful, provided you don’t want to go more than 50 miles in any one direction.
Come on O biased ones. This is so green! Down Tigger, Down. That’s battery acid you’re drinking!
Unfortunately this article and the figures therein do not really tell us anything about the economics of wind power. All it is doing is saying “the efficiency is X, which appears to be a small number (context unknown), therefore wind power must be uneconomic”. Without knowing the cost of building and maintaining the wind plant, its expected life etc these figures tell us nothing. It is the equivalent of the wild-eyed, dreadlocked Swampy type shouting that a nuclear power station is going to cost X hundred million pounds – a big number that doesn’t tell us anything about the economics of the option.
Consider for example that a typical coal-fired power station has an efficiency of around 33%, rising to 50% for combined cycle gas-fired power plants. 50% efficiency for a fossil-fuel power station is in fact very good and highly economic, but without being provided in context, as in this article, it can seem bad to to the uninformed public.
I don’t doubt the ability of the EU to subsidise highly uneconomic wind schemes in unsuitable places, but the fact these things are being built around the world, including in such a hard-headed country as China, suggests that they are capable of being economically viable.
Countryfile last night went into orgasms about the peat bogs in South Wales.
Some eco loons have decided that, although the area is changing as part of a natural evolution, they must save the peat bogs from change or we are all doomed.
The area has been effectively declared out of bounds for the plebs so that they can’t do anything (like what for instance?) to damage the area. Steps are being taken to use scientific methods to interfere.
These people will stop at nothing to bend the world to their own warped ideals.