The BBC’s Roger Harrabin was keen to highlight this:
‘No case’ to water down CO2 targets, chancellor told
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says there is no legal, environmental or economic case for lowering the fourth UK “carbon budget”, set in 2011.
It says the budget (running from 2023-2027) should be tightened if the EU agrees strict targets on emissions.
But of course he has never once examined the vested interests, both financial and ideological, that the members of the climate change committee hold…unlike the Daily Mail which does its journalism properly…..
Web of ‘green’ politicians, tycoons and power brokers who help each other benefit from billions raised on your bills
How half of key Climate Change Committee is in the pay of green business
No institution plays a greater role in dictating green energy policy than the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) – the body set up by Ed Miliband when he was Labour Energy Secretary through his 2008 Climate Change Act.
The Mail on Sunday’s investigation has established that four of its nine members have recently had or still have financial interests in firms that benefit from its rulings.
This site has looked at such a web of intrigue before…..
Massive corruption at the heart of the environmental and climate change industry…including those in the Media who cover up such corruption whilst attacking the climate sceptics?
You be the judge.
With the pyramids of Giza under six inches of global warming ,and half of the Middle East experiencing blizzards .
Such a rare event should be featured prominently on the news programmes, but not a squeak from the BBC ,but a mild spell in January brings out all the ecolunatics repeating the same old global warming mantra.
Hell could freeze over it would make no difference , so besotted are these dangerous people that reality is not allowed into their world of delusion and outright lies and idiocy.
what do polar bears think of Roger Harrabins coverage of global warming?
If these ecomorons were to be confronted by a real live polar bear they would wish with every fibre of their being that the bastards were extinct
I seem to remember that sadly one was a couple of years ago.
The bear clamped its jaws around the young mans head and had to be shot.
Shamefully I cant remember if the man survived
I think it was this one.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14415592
Very sad, and quite harrowing.
Thanks,unfortunately (for bears as well as humans) polar bear attacks have been rising for a number of years due to their booming population and still the BBC parade pictures of sodden bear cubs as proof of AGW
From the very article
‘Lars Erik Alfheim, vice-governor of Svalbard, said polar bears were common in the area.
“These days when the ice comes in and out like it does right now, it’s not unlikely to encounter polar bears “‘
And further on
‘A blog on the group’s website dated 27 July described polar bear sightings from their camp where they had been marooned due to “an unprecedented amount of ice in the fjord”.’
And yet in the side bar analysis ends.
“As climate change reduces ice cover, there are concerns that more polar bears will become displaced and will move further inland to seek food, bringing them into contact with more people.”
The BBC promoting superstition over reason
In other words, the College of Cardinals votes to keep Catholicism going? Yawn. And the second sentence could be translated as “National sovereignty? What national sovereignty?”
No wonder Harrabin and Co. love it. Religious belief and totalitarianism: it’s a winning combination.
re. Harrabin
One for the site admins –
Why are the comments on this posting off?
It’s the posting where Harrabin posts a comment in response.
Fortunately Harrabin’s posting was reported by Robin Horbury here.
Yes, it is interesting to see the blatant bias and political stance by the BBC, when the Philippines gets hit by a tropical storm it is immediately talked up and of course is all down to Global Warming and Climate change. Cairo gets it’s first snowfall for 100 years and guess what from the BBC? In comparison? Naff all! Time really is running out for the Greenies and the BBC.
‘No economic case for watering down CO2 targets’.
Absolutely dead right! We will get our wealth from money trees and our central heating will be fired by angel farts.
This came in from another site. Can’t recall the BBC covering any of this:
Another Energy Company Lays off Hundreds of Workers
King Midas will for ever be known for turning things into gold, “the Midas touch” Obama, (the Obama touch”) will be know through out history as turning a golden country to shit!!
“Just seven months after California-based solar power company Amonix Inc. opened its largest manufacturing plant, in North Las Vegas, the company’s contractor has laid off nearly two-thirds of its workforce,” reports the Las Vegas Sun.
The company was also highly-praised by the White House and has close ties to top Obama donors and fundraising bundlers.
“Flextronics Industrial, the Singapore solar panel manufacturer that partnered with Amonix to staff the new $18 million, 214,000-square-foot plant, laid off about 200 of its 300-plus employees Tuesday,” the Las Vegas Sun reports.
Eric Culberson, Amonix’s director of manufacturing operations, claims that the mass firings are a necessary part of “retooling” the factory so that the company can prepare to “roll out its next-generation product.”
“The new 8700 utility-scale CPV solar power system is a higher efficiency and lower cost,” Culberson said. “Once it is ready, we will ramp back up to meet the demands of the industry.”
Culberson said the job cuts are “temporary and expects to begin hiring more people in the second half of the year to meet demand.” Layoffs were made at all levels of the company.
One employee, Theodore Lewis, was working at the plant for six months before he and several other employees were called into a “mandatory meeting” Tuesday.
“There was no excuse,” said Lewis, who was never told his job was temporary. “They just said our job was done.”
However, given that the company was hiring as recently as three months ago — from entry-level assemblers, process engineers, production supervisors and quality-control techs, according to one employee — the firings seem very odd.
They were hiring “production supervisors” and “processes engineers” and then promptly fired them?
Many critics contend that no normal, long-lasting business would operate in this manner. Indeed, the time and effort that would go into hiring and training new employees (once that market “demand” goes up) would far outweigh the cost of, say, scaling back current employee’s hours.
Unless the company has no intention of ever hiring these employees back and the “we’ll rehire soon enough” claim is far from factual, the firings make very little sense.
One Amonix employees said they were “confused and disappointed” when they heard the news and were directed by human resources to look for other local jobs in retail, according to the report.
The firings and mass layoffs are contradictory to what was promised when the plant first opened its doors, namely, to bring hundreds of clean energy jobs and boost the local economy.
In fact, the plant was praised as a success earlier this month by Mayor Shari Buck in her state of the city address. Buck said Wednesday that she was aware of the layoffs but has “faith the company will bring back the jobs.”
“They were temporary employees brought in to handle a major project,” she said.
Wait. Two-thirds of the company’s workforce was “temporary”?
“Amonix is taking the opportunity to automate their system better and get ready for the next big project. I expect Amonix to continue to be successful and have a great future in their solar production,” Buck said.
Her words are reminiscent of the warm praise President Obama had for the company in 2010.
“A solar panel company — a solar power company called Amonix received a roughly $6 million tax credit for a new facility they’re building in the Las Vegas area, a tax credit they were able to match with roughly $12 million in private capital,” Obama said, while touting his policy of subsidizing green-tech companies, according to the Daily Caller.
“The only problem we have is these credits were working so well, there aren’t enough tax credits to go around,” Obama said. “When we announced the program last year, it was such a success we received 500 applications requesting over $8 billion in tax credits, but we only had $2.3 billion to invest.”
Yes, it’s true: Amonix was given a $5.9 million investment tax credit through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) in 2010, and another $12 million in private capital helped finance the plant.
And, as mentioned in the above, three of the company’s investors has close ties with the current administration.
Neil Munro of The Daily Caller explains:
The investors include John Doerr’s venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Daniel Weiss’ Angeleno Group LLC and Steve Westly’s eponymous Westly Group, according to Amonix’s website.
These three investors have also invested heavily in Obama and other Democrats — and the president’s aides are now trying to minimize the political damage.
According to a database maintained by the Center for Responsive Politics, Doerr has donated $171,900 since 2008. Weiss has donated $26,480 and Westly has donated $181,250. Nearly all of those contributions went to Democrats.
Together, the three have also bundled at least $700,000 for Obama.
Therefore, much like Solyndra and Ener1, Amonix is simply the most recent “green energy” company to have received the White House’s blessing and generous financial backing, only to fail to make good on its promise of jobs creation.