Author Archives: Robin Horbury

RUSSIANS ARE WRONG

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Hurrah! Most Russians don’t give a monkeys about climate change. And who can blame them? If I lived in Siberia, I’d be pretty keen to see a bit more sun, especially at this time of year. But for the BBC correspondent Katia Moskvich, evidently as right-on in her political views as her London comrades, it’s a bit of a problem. She’s thought very hard about it and come to the startling conclusion:

But there may also be other factors involved, such as the lack of political discussion – because of the absence of any real political opposition – and the non-existence of a powerful middle class that would not only worry about its children’s health but also be ready to stand up and do something about it.

So that’s it, then, case solved. The Russians are waiting for the rise of the middle classes before they see sense and go potty about climate change, just like the BBC. It can’t be because they are sensible and have seen through the whole freak show scam, it’s because they are idiots.

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IPCC CHIEF WHITEWASH

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James Delingpole of the Daily Telegraph, and Richard North Of EU Referendum, are this morning hot on the trail of Dr Rajandra Pachauri, the head of the UN IPCC, and also of a so-called research organisation linked to the Tata steel company, which stands to benefit massively from CO2 trading. It’s a long, complex tale, but well worth persevering with because it shows the corruptness at the heart of the UN and thereby in the whole ‘climate change’ freak show.

They point out that the man who is the world cheerleader for climate change panic stands to benefit – to put it mildly – from the lunatic measures he is so assiduously pursuing. I have searched very carefully to see if the 35 BBC staff at Copenhagen are interested in this, but – surprise, surprise – it seems they aren’t. Instead they are keen to give Dr Pachauri a platform to lecture us that, despite all the hullaballoo and revelations over Climategate, the science is sound. No doubt the boys and girls at the BBC are hoping that he will continue to feed them such earth-stopping exclusives.

Update: The Times shows graphically this morning the nonsense that ‘climate change’ fanatics such as Al Gore spout. Again, at the time of writing, the story is conspicuous by its absence on the BBC website.

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BENN NONSENSE

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Hilary Benn, who has spent his entire useless life as a lefty trade union official and politician – after reading eastern European languages at right-on Sussex university – has risen, by some fluke, to be a government minister with a brief to pontificate about “climate change”. Not content that he and his government cronies last week pledged to blow £1.5bn of our money on “carbon emissions”, he is today to warn the the new world government assembled in Copenhagen that we face yet another threat – “ocean acidification”. Despite his complete lack of relevant knowledge, he somehow believes he’s qualified to interpret to the world the highly complex science behind the absorption of CO2 by seawater. Of course, to him and his fanatical brethren, it’s another huge threat, another reason to spend billions of our money on vast nonsense schemes. For the BBC and its environment correspondent Richard Black, another man without a single scientific qualification to his name, it’s a top story that must be breathlessly reported without qualification or challenge. And without reference to latest scientific papers (here and here)that suggest that the whole issue is yet another greenie load of hot air.

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CARBON KLEPTOCRACY

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For a truly mind-blowing analysis of how the new carbon dioxide-trading kleptocracy operates – and how it destroyed Redcar steel works with the full connivance of our own government – read this piece on EU Referendum (a distillation of Christopher Booker’s column in the Sunday Telegraph). Chances of the full sorry tale being reported by the legions of intrepid BBC staff in Copenhagen? Absolute zero. The Redcar closure story is still being reported without mention of the carbon trading dimension, despite Booker first mentioning it last week. And meanwhile, the BBC focus is on making the thuggish “protestors” in Copenhagen look like world-saving heroes.

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MAKING PENSIONERS SUFFER…

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While nutter “flat-earth” Brown promises to blow £1.5bn of our money towards “climate change” (see below), and the BBC continues to push greenie protests as if they were important, the real consequences of all this lunacy are coming home to roost. With cheese-paring savagery and utter cynicism, Chancellor Alastair Darling is preparing to rob £350m from pensioners – already struggling because they can’t afford bills pushed up by “green” energy policies. So the government is prepared to burn billions on ludicrous measures that will never work and in any case aren’t needed. To find the money, it makes the most vulnerable suffer. The BBC, of course, doesn’t give a stuff about this vicious cowardice, and doesn’t deign to report the undoubted connection between the two.

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CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE

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Richard Black, reporting self-indulgently and with puffed-up arrogance about his earth-saving role at Copenhagen, notes:

Most of the real deals are done behind closed doors guarded by security guys with stern faces and impressive pectorals.That’s where the important countries and blocs reveal more of their real demands, where trades are bartered between national delegations. Reporting it is a nightmare.

So that’s how the new world government that Richard wants to much will operate? Thugs barring entry to lesser mortals while the “important” shadowy blocs impose their lunatic will on the rest of us? Yet our intrepid Richard seems only to be breathless with admiration, and proudly tells us how he procures the crumbs from their dictatorial tables. And meanwhile, he and the rest of his 35 cronies at Copenhagen continue to spew out their lying propaganda.

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COPENHAGEN CHALLENGE

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So far, the BBC is totally silent on the Copenhagen Climate Challenge, an open letter to the UN signed by 141 leading international scientists who work in relevant fields. It challenges them to provide hard evidence on 10 questions relating to alleged AGW, including whether CO2 rises are causing harm, whether surface station measurements are accurate, and whether there has been a threatening rise in sea levels due to ‘climate change’ or an increase in hurricanes. I would like to be pleasantly surprised by seeing this splendid initiative reported soon by the BBC – it would make a lively item on Today, for example. But I’m not holding my breath.

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THAT SINKING FEELING

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Wonderful letter here from a genuine expert on the science of sea-level changes to the president of the Maldives saying that – despite his publicity stunt in which the cabinet met underwater – his fascist little fiefdom is not going to sink between the waves. What do the BBC do? Report the president’s demands for more money to deal with the impending (non) disaster:

Mohamed Nasheed said there was so little money offered to vulnerable nations that it was like arriving at an earthquake with a dustpan and brush.

Not a peep that he’s completely, utterly wrong.

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BLACK IS WHITE (AGAIN)

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This morning, the Times reported that the World Meteorological Orgainsation, using data from CRU, and with the clear purpose of influencing the discussions at Copenhagen, had claimed that this year had been the fifth warmest on record. Hours later, our dear BBC environnment correspondent Richard Black reports the same story. He mentions that there’s some controversy about the figures – and about CRU – but without a peep about the key propaganda point. He seems to take the whole thing at its face value, and ignores completely that these weather organisations are involved in a massive rigging exercise. Not only that, his story is illustrated with a blazing sun and a rigged graph that is a crude schoolboy variation of the hockey stick. How much more blatant can you be?

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ONE MAN AND A BLOG!

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The BBC’s job is to report impartially what goes on in the world. To pursue that task, it receives at least £750m of your money every year, and it has almost 5,000 staff who are directly involved in journalism. So when steel-making on Teeside, one of our oldest manufacturing industries, faces closure, with the loss of 300 years of tradition and 10,000 jobs, you would expect the corporation to be in the forefront of explaining why.

You would be wrong. Richard North, writing on his excellent EU Referendum blog, brings us today in glowing technicolour the real reasons why Tata steel have mothballed the Redcar steelworks (losing immediately 1,700 jobs, but in the longer term almost 9,000 more who support or whom are dependent on the plant). In an nutshell, it is being “mothballed” (but more likely permanently closed)not because of “falling demand“, but as a direct casualty of the pernicious gravy train that is the EU emissions trading scheme. This makes it more lucrative for the host company to suspend production at the plant and use it instead to accumulate ‘carbon credits’ on its balance sheet. The cumulative worth of this sleight-of-hand juggling is, according to Richard, a staggering £1bn+. Against such forces, the poor saps in Middlesbrough did not stand a chance.

I searched the BBC website for more than half an hour looking for any mention of this. There are dozens of stories and backgrounders about the closure, and lots of hot air from Mandelson and his henchmen, but not a whisper of this crucial angle. It seems also that BBC reporters were present at the press conference where Kirby Adams, the Redcar divisional boss, told the Times that the EU rules were behind the closure. They ignored what he said. So when it comes to climate change issues, the BBC are not only not reporting the truth, they are in cahoots with government ministers in deliberately hiding it. Their passion for global warming zealotry is so great that they simply cannot bring us facts that do not support it. And one man and his blog are more effective in bringing us the truth than all the wind and puff of the BBC’s £750m news machine.

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