The really chiling element of climate change activism is the extent to which it has taken hold. Take Forest Europe, a co-operative body which sounds on the surface to be a sensible initiative. It is not part of the EU, exists independently, and should be playing a sensible, active role in encouraging strategic cross-border co-operation in the management of one of Europe’s biggest assets. Not a bit of it. The whole shebang was actually set up as a front for alarmist, nonsense messages about “carbon”, to ram down our throats the need for “sustainability” above all things, as well as to convey gloom and doom predictions about how using wood is bad for the planet. Greenpeace are involved, as is the dread, dead hand of the UN, and of course the BBC loves it. Mark Kinver has been on a jolly to their annual conference, and he’s come back dutifully with the main message that forests can play a key role in achieving climate targets.
The real story is that forest cover in Europe is on the increase, and that, despite all the alarmism over-exploitation, European forests continue to provide millions of people with food, fuel and medicine. But Mr Kinver doesn’t give a stuff about that – it’s all part of the BBC carbon panic crusade.
In case you missed it, there is increasing evidence that we may be heading into a period of cooling similar to the one which probably caused the little ice age of the 17th and 18th centuries.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/06/14/all-three-of-these-lines-of-research-to-point-to-the-familiar-sunspot-cycle-shutting-down-for-a-while/
As Frederick says there was a major announcement by NASA yesterday warning that we could be going into a little ice age like in the late 1600’s I have looked in vain for the story on the BBC (I didn’t really expect to see it).
I bet it would have been there if they had said it was going to heat up.
This is where ecofascism has killed/murdered people in its green jihad. Forest management has been meddled with and intefered with to the extent that millions of acres of forest have beenn allowed to build up a massive amount of forest fire fuel in the form of dead wood and leaves and brush. Because of ecofascist inteference in forest management techniques and kneejerk unthinking eco diktats there has been a series of wholly avoidable deaths. If forests are not properly managed the fuel build up eventually contributes to a real wildfire that destroys everything, while regular burn offs and thinning out the forests by logging mean the forest recovers faster from fires and the burn contribures vital nutrients. leave a forest with no management for twenty years and when the fire does come it leaves a wasteland and kills anything and everything in its way.
Ecofascism kills.