Author Archives: Robin Horbury

Everything that the EU does is mired in corruption, illogic and waste. Billions are being spent on recycling and CO2 measures, even thought they have zero beneficial effect and are the bureaucratic symbols of a jackboot centralised dictatorship of poilitical elites. The worst part of it all, of course, is the Common Agricultural Policy, a sharp-practice, mafia-like scam dreamed up by de Gaulle to protect French farmers in the 1950s, and virtually unchanged since (despite cosemtic changes). As a result of it, British farming has been put in a strait jacket of anti-competitive regulation and our agrarian lifeblood has been slowly been squeezed dry. Where once we led the world in innovation and ingenuity, we have been relegated into rape-growing, begging-bowl laggards.

The BBC, of course, does not give a damn. CAP is a major corruption scandal, a major thorn in the side of most British farrmers and a central reason why food prices are kept artifically high by market-rigging. And yet all the BBC does about this scandal is to file a desultory report or two approximately once a year or so when the EU overlords deign to hold “talks” about reform. What the BBC should be doing is ripping into the cant, exposing the lies, and explaining why the whole criminal scam is one of the biggest cons against British consumers every perpetrated. Instead, it meekly recycles a Brussels press release to tell us that “big changes” are on the way.

Don’t hold your breath. And do hang on to your wallets; our Brussels masters probably want a new CO2 tax on farm production – and let’s rein in all those dangerous, farting cows.

The prescience of BBC reporters knows no bounds. Here Michael Fitzpatrick, the latest “science and technology” guru on the web team, tells us in no uncertain terms that the world’s aviation industry as we know it is doomed. He intones/drones:

Facing a fate shared by other fossil fuel guzzlers, the jet will have to find alternatives to burning kerosene if it is to survive beyond the middle of the next century. Which is when, according to the most optimistic figures, the Earth gives up its final barrel of oil.

So there we have it. The BBC will have its heart’s desire – the likely end of all jets by 2150 unless “alternatives can be found to kerosene”. We are on offical warning, and of course, this will be a cause for massive celebration for the eco crusaders at White City because they can now sense we will be forced back to Shanks’s pony, and to live through subsistence farming in nice eco mud huts with windmills on top.

There’s just one problem that would have taken Mr Fitzpatrick – had he been so inclined – just a few minutes to research. As Matt Ridley eloquently points out in his book The Rational Optimist, Jeremiahs like Mr Fitzpatrick have been predicting such fuel shortages for time immemorial. In 1939, the US Bureau of Mines told the world that oil would run out in ten years. Jimmy Carter said the same thing in 1979. He did so so when known reserves were 550 billion barrels. By 1990, 600bn barrels had been used, and reserves totalling at least a further 900bn barrels had been found; on top of that, 6trillion barrels of reserves are known in the mountains of Venezuela. Of course, they will be costly to extract; but complexity and cost of extraction have not been the real barrier in most of the history of oil drilling. As Mr Ridley so eloquently points out, human ingenuity has consistently led to solutions that would once have been unthinkable.

The real agenda here, I suspect, is that the BBC hates aeroplanes because they allow nasty inferior social classes to go abroad; they fervently want this to stop.

For a truly chilling account of the dissembling, back somersaulting, contortionism and duplicity the broadcasting establishment is prepared to engage in to defend its alarmist approach to climate change, I recommend you have a good look at this masterly piece of forensic journalism by Tony Newton at Harmless Sky. Ofcom, Channel 4 and a spaghetti soup of useless, scheming, economical-with-the-truth “regulators” have decided that Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth is not a factual documentary, and is not a piece of outrageous, lying political propaganda, despite a high court judgment that it had to be treated with extreme caution. They make Pontius Pilate and his hand-washing look innocent. OK, Tony’s post is not about the BBC, but of course those who control Channel 4 (almost all its chief executives have been ex-BBC) and Ofcom are drawn from the same smug, elite lefty-liberal cadre. What Tony has discovered is simply jaw-dropping. How do these people live with themselves?

Back then, in 2007, under the wonderful nuLab , local councils switching off street lights in Devon and elsewhere was hailed by the BBC as a social experiment to be lauded, an essential part of the green crusade. It saved tons of that vile substance called carbon, don’t you know? Now, according to Newsnight, tonight, it’s part of the nasty cuts agenda. Snuffing those carbon-intensive sources of illumination was transformed into an issue of “fear” sometime after the general election. Funny, that. Not sure yet how Matt Prodger is going to handle the subject on Newsnight, but I can guess.

I have concluded that the BBC is frantically busy compiling the equivalent of the Malleus Maleficarum, the documentation of “proof” by the medieval Church that witches existed. Here, we have alien species – in this case, floating pennywort, a nasty invader from the nasty US – callously and viciously invading the pristine waterways of Northern Ireland. Here, strange men called Megonigels are devising new and ever more cunning ways of detecting the noxious and treacherous substance called carbon (even though it makes plants grow faster), and building fantastical new contraptions in pursuit of their prey. Here, the Black priest of the new religion is intoning the need for us to part with our cash to go on a new crusade in order to slay the dragons that are causing grievous loss of species. And here, nasty products that come from our sinful, dirty way of life are polluting and defiling the innocent creatures that should be protected at all cost.

Once upon a time, these non events would never have made the BBC, or any other, news. But because the BBC is engaged in a religious crusade based on cod science, anything goes. Strange signs and strange portents, indeed.

As dodgy Dave sells out more of our sovereignty to the French, Indian scientists are off on a jolly jaunt to the south pole, no doubt with their expenses paid by our uncut international aid budget. To the BBC, there is only one purpose; to measure the unavoidable impact of climate change. Actually, the exact purpose of the mission is not clear, other than to establish an Indian research station in Antarctica. But the BBC signpost to the story says this:

India is to make its first expedition to the South Pole, in a mission focusing on the impact of climate change.

If that does not make it clear that ice is melting faster than a lollypop in a heatwave, when you arrive on the story page, right at the top is a picture of a fast-melting chunk of ice. To ram the message home further, there is then a quote from an expedition member that “everything is now linked to global warming”, a statement that sums up precisely the BBC religion. And if that does not get you to the correct propaganda point, there’s another subtle hint: it’s all about changes in the last 1,000 years, ie, when men began their evil industrial activities that are leading irreversibly towards destruction. Exactly in tune with this chilling kill-us-all-final-solution board game, which could have been devised by the BBC writer.

To round off this exercise in unbiased, fair, and factual reporting, the writer provides helpful links to five more Antarctic end-of-the-world fairytales, including that ice is breaking off from west Antarctica, and, from Richard Black, of course, when all the ice there does melt, we will all drown anyway.

There’s just one inconvenient truth that this alarmist claptrap does not take into account. Warmists have been trying to prove for 20 years that Antarctica is melting. But it isn’t – it’s stubbornly, unremittingly, colder than ever. Even when warmists go looking for confirmation of their bias.