Yearly Archives: 2015

Lots of pious, sanctimonious harrumphing about Trump’s call to stop Muslim immigration to the US….temporarily.  Cameron is the classic craven, opportunistic politician who fawns over the Muslim voters with his ‘I’m voting for Nadiya‘, his PR praise for ‘You ain’t no Muslim bruv’, and now his attack on Trump, and yet dares not criticise Islam or raise questions about problems Islam brings to The West….he ducks the issue by the usual slippery route of insisting he is tackling Islamism and its ‘poisonous ideology’…..so Cameron, just what is that poisonous ideology and how does it differ from Islam ‘proper’?

Despite the politicians’ and the usual suspects’ grandstanding and cowardice on this subject I imagine judging by what normal people say, that the vast majority of people probably agree with him.

Max Hasting points out the ‘ugly’ truth whilst at the same time distancing himself from it…

MAX HASTINGS: Our politicians lie and treat us like idiots. No wonder Trump, Le Pen and the ugly Right are on the rise

Donald Trump, the rogue elephant of American politics, this week unleashed a liberal firestorm on both sides of the Atlantic.

The aspirant for the Republican presidential nomination demanded a total ban on all Muslims entering the United States.

This provoked outrage from the New York Times, BBC reporters and our own Prime Minister.

How do the politicians get away with it?  The likes of the immensely powerful and influential BBC run cover for them and block criticism and debate and orchestrate campaigns of abuse and vilification agianst those who speak out.

Note how the BBC has endless reports that ‘warn’ of the rise of the French ‘far right’ Front National...and yet nothing in a similar tone and vein about the hijacking of the Labour Party by a very dangerous group of terrorist sympathisers….the proof that that is what they are is copious.

Hastings himself unfortunately displays the problem he says is the problem…

The Establishment’s attitude towards extremist Muslims, too, is increasingly out of touch.

The priority is for us to strive for harmony with Muslim communities in our own societies. We are not at war against Islam, and must give no grounds for allowing ISIS to pretend that we are. But nobody should refuse to acknowledge — as the BBC sometimes does — that the _fanatics who threaten us today are not Jews, Mormons or Catholics, but are indisputably extremist Muslims.

The response of Home Secretary Theresa May to the Paris bombings was worryingly out of touch with most people’s daily fears. She said we should be ‘alert, but not alarmed’. Yet how can people not be alarmed by the threat from Muslim extremism?

For his part, Donald Trump is a fool to call for a total ban — albeit temporary — on admitting Muslims to America, for such a policy is wholly impracticable as well as morally and politically wrong.

But opposition to further large-scale Muslim immigration is rational and is a view which deserves more respect than it gets from politicians and most of the media on both sides of the Atlantic. 

One minute banning Muslims is impracticable and immoral then…..it’s rational and a view that deserves respect…..classic attempt to disassociate himself from the ‘ugly right’ and yet still espouse their views….ala the BBC’s Nick Doody….Racist Islamophobe?  

A man who slags off the EDL as racist islamophobes and yet is part of the ‘One Law For All’ campaign against Islamisation…. No to Shariah law! No to the EDL!

Confirmed speakers and performers include: Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Mina Ahadi, ‘AK47,’ Fari B, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Roy Brown, Nick Doody,

What’s the campaign about…..

• It is dangerous to incorporate religious laws

• It is not racist to criticise Islam

• We will have nothing to do with the English Defence League
  

• One Law for All is against the Beth Din too

• The pathetic excuse of much of the European Left is no better
  

• The battle against Sharia is against both the Islamists and the far right

• Please don’t export your Islamists, deal with them

The BBC et al concentrate on what Trump said not on the issues and the reasons for his statement….again the politicians and the media run for cover.  Isn’t it the BBC’s job to challenge and question those who are charged with dealing with these issues?

One minute Roger claims the UK is the bad guy in the climate change farce….

COP21: UK under fire on climate policy

Allegations of hypocrisy will be levelled at the UK when the Climate Secretary Amber Rudd appears at the Paris climate summit on Monday.

Environmentalists say the UK government is talking impressively on climate change to its international audience, but down-grading energy policy at home.

Craig Bennett from Friends of the Earth said: “The government is totally hypocritical on climate change.

“George Osborne’s anti-environmental policy decisions on energy fly the opposite way to the low-carbon route the vast majority of other countries are pursuing.

“There is a total mismatch between his policies and the warm words of David Cameron.

Three days later we’re the heroes…for now (good old Roger, always playing games)……

UK ‘scores well’ on climate, for now

Denmark, the UK and Sweden have topped the international rankings in an index of countries combating climate change.

The annual table is compiled by green groups Germanwatch and Climate Action Network.

They analysed progress in the 58 countries producing more than 90% of energy-related CO2 emissions.

Harrabin could have saved himself a lot of embarrassment if he’d just looked at the figures….

Emissions from the energy sector have been reduced by 32% since 1990 and so on…

Kyoto Protocol target

UK emissions of the basket of six greenhouse gases covered by the Kyoto Protocol were an average 607.9 MtCO2e per year over the first commitment period (2008-12), 22 percent lower than base year emissions. The UK’s target for this period was a 12.5 percent reduction on base year emissions. Final reporting on the UK’s emissions under the first commitment period will not take place until late 2015 or early 2016, but it is unlikely that there will be any significant changes to the emissions presented in these statistics.

For the second commitment period a UK target is yet to formally be agreed.

The Climate Change Act 2008

The first carbon budget ran from 2008 to 2012. In 2014, the UK confirmed that it had met the first carbon budget, with emissions 36 MtCO2e below the cap of 3,018 MtCO2e over the first carbon budget period.

Between 1990 and 2013, there was a 32 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the energy supply sector. This decrease has resulted mainly from changes in the mix of fuels being used for electricity generation, including the growth of renewables, together with greater efficiency resulting from improvements in technology.

So we’re well on target….shame Harrabin chooses to trumpet green propaganda from the likes of Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace.

Interesting that instead of investigating Greenpeace’s claims against a climate sceptic Harrabin preferred to merely point the BBC audience in the direction of their libellous entrapment….does he know the claims are nonsense but isn’t interested in debunking green allegations against sceptics?

I noted in the last post Roger Harrabin’s speed at tweeting that the GWPF was to be investigated by the Charity Commission in relation to the Greenpeace entrapment scam….

roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 47m47 minutes ago

Charity comm has opened case into @thegwpfcom after #coal funding sting. http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/12/08/exposed-academics-for-hire/ … It’s NOT a formal investigation. @ECIU_UK

Not so quick is our Roger to Tweet that the founder of Greenpeace has reported them, Greenpeace, to the FBI (thanks to Mice Height in the comments)…from WUWT:

BREAKING: Greenpeace co-founder reports Greenpeace to the FBI under RICO and wire-fraud statutes

By Dr. Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace

Greenpeace, in furtherance of what is in effect its war against every species on the planet, has now turned to what, on the face of things, looks to me like outright breach of the RICO, wire-fraud, witness-tampering and obstruction-of-committee statutes. I have called in the FBI.

The organization’s timing was clearly intended to spring the trap on Professor Happer hours before he was due to appear in front of Congress. This misconduct constitutes a serious – and under many headings criminal – interference with the democratic process that America cherishes.

I have reported Greenpeace to the FBI under 18 USC 96 (RICO statute); 18 USC 1343 (wire fraud); 18 USC 1512 (tampering with a witness due to appear at a Congressional hearing); and 18 USC 1505 (obstruction of proceedings before committees).

I shall also be asking the Bureau to investigate Greenpeace’s sources of funding. It is now an enemy of the State, an enemy of humanity and, indeed, an enemy of all species on Earth.

Greenpeace is a charity…..I wonder if they have broken any rules that need investigating?  Checkout a few facts about the green megacorp…..

Revenue Canada, the Canadian IRS, said Greenpeace’s activities have “no public benefit” and that its lobbying to shut down industries could send people “into poverty.”

Greenpeace is now the largest environmental organization in the world with annual revenues of $368 million, an international supporter base of some 24 million, and what Forbes magazine describes as “a skillfully managed business” with full command of “the tools of direct mail and image manipulation – and tactics that would bring instant condemnation if practiced by a for-profit corporation.”

A meager six percent of revenue went to field operations while 11 percent went to legal expenses to attack the organization’s critics and defend members who had run afoul with the law.

According to classified documents he obtained, an astounding 60 percent of the organization’s revenue went to salaries.

And a Bishop Hill commenter has noted that in relation to donors who wish to stay anonymous Greenpeace has one or two itself….providing large sums of money…

From Greenpeace’s annual report:

“We are also extremely thankful for the gifts of two donors who wish to remain anonymous; one who gave $250,000 for our work to protect oceans and the other who gave $250,000 for our efforts to avert the worst impacts of global warming.”

I wonder what sort of correspondence passed back and forth regarding that anonymity.

The BBC’s dodgy Roger Harrabin doesn’t miss a trick…very quick off the mark with this smear….

• roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 2h2 hours ago

  Climate #sceptic academics for hire? http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/  @Greenpeace @thegwpfcom @Revkin @DECCgovuk

This relates to a Greenpeace attempt to libel a climate sceptic….

Exposed: Academics-for-hire agree not to disclose fossil fuel funding

Investigators also approached Professor William Happer of Princeton University, who is chairman of the climate sceptic George Marshall Institute and a former Director of Energy Research at the US Department of Energy under the first President Bush where he “supervised all of DOE’s work on climate change”.   

Professor Happer, who is a physicist rather than a climatologist, told Greenpeace reporters that he would be willing to produce research promoting the benefits of carbon dioxide for $250 per hour.

Academic for hire?  If he is commissioned to do work he wants paying….as does every other academic…and journalist.

Note the way the smear was worded by Greenpeace…’he would be willing to produce research promoting the benefits of carbon dioxide for $250 per hour.‘

Makes it sound as if he would be willing to make up ‘research’ that fitted in with what the ‘client’ wanted.

This is entirely false……for a start the reason Greenpeace targeted Happer is because he is a sceptic with well known views, he is not someone who believes in the full blown climate change narrative and so is not altering his views for money……Happer states clearly that he would base his report on material he had already produced….

Dear Jonathan,

I am attaching a white paper that was written (with major input from me) by new group, the CO2 Coalition, that I helped to organize this past year. Also attached is some testimony I gave a few months ago at a regulatory hearing in St. Paul, MN, on the social cost of carbon.  I would be glad to try to help if my views, outlined in the attachments, are in line with those of your client.

To be sure your client is not misled on my views, it is clear there are real pollutants associated with the combustion of fossil fuels, oxides of sulfur and nitrogen for most of them, fly ash and heavy metals for coal, volatile organics for gasoline, etc. I fully support regulations for cost-effective control of these real pollutants. But the Paris climate talks are based on the premise that CO2 itself is a pollutant. This is completely false. More CO2 will benefit the world. The only way to limit CO2 would be to stop using fossil fuels, which I think would be a profoundly immoral and irrational policy.

Absolutely clear what his views are and that he would not be inventing material to suit the client……also he
would not be receiving any money personally but any payment would go to his group The CO2 Coalition...

The CO2 Coalition seeks to engage thought leaders, policy makers, and the public in an informed and dispassionate discussion about the important contribution made by carbon dioxide and fossil fuels. We seek to shift the debate from the unjustified criticism of CO2 and fossil fuels to one based on a solid scientific foundation. Any discussion of climate change needs to address the extent of our knowledge of the climate system, well-established uncertainties, the limitations of climate models, and the consequences of mandated reductions in CO2 emissions.

It is quite clear where he stands on CO2 and fossil fuels…

Fossil fuels are likely to remain the world’s dominant sources of energy for decades to come because they are abundant, have a high energy density, and are superior to alternatives in terms of reliability and cost-effectiveness.

A labour of love not money….

My activities to push back against climate extremism are a labor of love, to defend the cherished ideals of science that have been so corrupted by the climate-change cult. If your client was considering reimbursing me for writing something, I would ask that whatever fee would have come to me would go directly to the CO2 Coalition.

On the other hand we know that Harrabin altered a report to suit an eco campaigner, that he took £15,000
from a climate change propaganda unit that they intended to be used to silence climate sceptics and even today
Harrabin is doing work paid for by the government to fund yet more climate change propaganda…sorry, BBC journalism.

Harrabin and his mates on the attack….

• roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 47m47 minutes ago

  Charity comm has opened case into @thegwpfcom after #coal funding sting. http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2015/12/08/exposed-academics-for-hire/ … It’s NOT a formal investigation. @ECIU_UK

Always worth a trawl through Harrabin’s tweets.   Check this one out…

Why doesn’t Roger point out that funding for climate alarmism is coming from the insurance industry that has a huge vested interest in promoting alarmism and getting people to cough up billions in premiums?

And what to make of this….Harrabin up his own backside…looking forward to ‘scientists’ trashing Matt Ridley..

I look forward to reading this. Scientists respond to my @mattwridley int. http://www.carbonbrief.org/scientists-respond-to-matt-ridleys-climate-change-claims …

Trouble is the first thing those scientists did was to tell a porkie and deny the Medieval Warm Period claiming that the present warming is unprecedented in 2000 years….except for the MWP and perhaps even the Roman warm period….they also whinge that it is OK to criticise but the ‘science was new at the time of its construction…and the science has moved on’.  Yes it certainly has…and it shows that the MWP was as warm as today….as the IPCC tells us…

Continental-scale surface temperature reconstructions show, with high confidence, multidecadal periods during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (year 950 to 1250) that were in some regions as warm as in the late 20th century.

One claims that the infamous and wrong Hockey Stick graph was only based on the last 600 years…which is why every image of it is of at least 1000 years…this being from the IPCC…

Funny how impressed Harrabin is with old Arnie…so much so that he repeats the tweets of his advice several times.  Guess old Arnie must have picked up some ‘science’ when making all those space age Terminator films.

 

• roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 4 hrs4 hours ago

  Thoughts of Governor Arnie: love tech, shun meat, love sub-nationals http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35039465 … @ECIU_UK @ClimateHome @ClimateWire @Revkin

 

• roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 10 hrs10 hours ago

  Arnie tells me – go veggie. Video: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35031230 … @revkin @eciu @CarbonBrief @jeremycorbyn @wattsupwiththat @jeremycorbyn @BBCNews

 

• roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 10 hrs10 hours ago

  Arnie tells me people should go veggie 1 or 2 days a week to cut CO2. Even body builders. @eciu @CarbonBrief @Revkin @vegsoc @NFUtweets

 

• roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 18 hrs18 hours ago

  Arnie the Terminator tells me: avoid meat 2 days a week to save #climate. Vegetarians are good body-builders he says. @vegsoc @NFUtweets

 

• roger harrabin ‏@RHarrabin 18 hrs18 hours ago

  Arnie the Terminator tells me: avoid meat two days a week to save the #climate. Vegetarians are good body-builders he says. Yes. @ECIU_UK

Must be love.  Shame Harrabin will be back.

Oh and look….the Guardian coordinating with the BBC?

All a very cosy club between climate activists, BBC journalists and the Guardian.

‘Sometimes foul-mouthed, sometimes sick, sometimes Biblical, Fury’s Twitter timeline reads like the outpourings of an extremely turbulent priest. Which is why some might find it worrying that Fury rejects the suggestion his Twitter voice is merely a persona.’  BBC

Interesting that the BBC thinks Tyson Fury’s angry views are religiously inspired…and that they are worrying…..the BBC on the other hand don’t show a similar concern for people who kill others under the influence of religion.

Would the BBC’s Clive Myrie say this about non-Christians who express the same views about gays and women?

In the BBC News clip, presenter Clive Myrie was in discussion with journalists Miranda Green and Christopher Hope when he said:

Not sure what the Islamic position on Jessica Ennis-Hill in a dress might be (or maybe I am….if Fury had said she’d look great in a Burkha would there be any outrage?) but the rest of his views seem in line with Islam…the upper cut to his missus aside….

On Jessica Ennis-Hill:”She’s good, she’s won quite a few medals, she slaps up good as well. When she’s got a dress on she looks quite fit.”

On women in boxing:“I think they’re very nice when they’re walking around that ring, holding them cards. I like them actually. They give me inspiration when I’m tired. I’m all for it. I’m not sexist. I believe a woman’s best place is in the kitchen and on her back. That’s my personal belief. Making me a good cup of tea, that’s what I believe.”

On homosexuality and abortion:“There are only three things that need to be accomplished before the devil comes home: one of them is homosexuality being legal in countries, one of them is abortion and the other one’s paedophilia.”

On his wife:“Sometimes she needs an upper cut, but other times she doesn’t.”

On his SPOTY nomination:”I can honestly say I’m not really interested in winning BBC Sports Personality of the Year. I know for a million per cent I’ve got more personality in the end of my little finger than the whole of the nomination group put together.”

That’ll be $15 million dollars thanks….and a trip to the White House……

Motorway closed and bus passengers left standing by the roadside for an hour in howling wind and rain after bearded musician’s e-cigarette was mistaken for a BOMB

A motorway was closed and passengers were dumped on the roadside in the pouring rain after a bearded punk musician’s e-cigarette was mistaken for a bomb. 

Chris Barron, 25, from Ayr, was coming home from Glasgow when a fellow passenger mistook his e-cig vapouriser for an explosive device.

In a panic the bus was immediately stopped on the M77 by the driver and police closed the motorway and swooped on the vehicle to search it.

Strangely enough the BBC hasn’t mobilised to report this latest bit of ‘Islamophobia’.

Well, Obama manages to pry himself away from the Golf Course to deal with the act of workplace violence Jihad in San Bernadino and the BBC is here to try and sell us his vacuous codswallop as if it were Holy Writ.

US President Barack Obama has made a rare Oval Office address after the San Bernardino shootings that left 14 dead. He said the killings were “an act of terrorism designed to kill innocent people”. But “freedom is more powerful than fear,” said President Obama, warning that falling prey to divisiveness in American society would play into the hands of extremists. He also said the US must make it harder for potential attackers to obtain guns.

Obama was wriggled like a worm on a hook over this one. Initially his regime sought to play down the Islam/Jihad angle but when that became impossible in the light of evidence  it then turns into being all about gun control. Who knew? Islam control might be a better idea.

In a sense, transgenders have replaced gays in the BBC pantheon of victims and it seems to have a stream of stories to win our hearts over.

“A transgender woman who was sent to an all-male prison has told the BBC that she was terrified and traumatised by the experience. Tara Hudson, who was jailed for assault, was transferred to a female jail after thousands signed a petition to move her. She says she considered taking her own life while in the all-male prison in Bristol.”

Perhaps if “Tara” did not run around assaulting people “she” might not end up behind bars in the first place?

Oh my. World Champion Tyson Fury is NOT playing the BBC game and the BBC are out to ensure he gets dropped from their Sports Personality of the Year!

The wife of BBC Sports Personality of the Year presenter Clare Balding has condemned boxer Tyson Fury’s inclusion on the shortlist for the award, branding him a ‘homophobic idiot’. The stinging attack by Alice Arnold – who married Balding earlier this year – came after a vile diatribe by the newly crowned world heavyweight champion in a Mail on Sunday interview in which he equated homosexuality and abortion with paedophilia. Ms Arnold, a former BBC Radio 4 newsreader, said his comments could lead ‘to young people suffering bullying and mental illness, and in some cases being driven to suicide’.

So, the winner of this BBC competition is to be based on politically acceptable views rather than sporting prowess! Sounds right.

BBC hit pay dirt. Just as they are hyping the climax of the Climate Conference in Paris, parts of the UK get hit by a winter storm, Desmond, and associated dramatic flooding images are then used to sell us on the notion that this “extreme weather” is brought about because the one-worlders haven’t reached a “break through” at the Paris summit and found new and exciting ways to tax us more and curtail our liberty!