Politicians and Whitehall mandarins are pandering to global warming ‘alarmists’ and consigning Britain to a future of inflated fuel bills and economic misery, the former head of the Civil Service warned last night.
Lord Turnbull – who served Tony Blair as Cabinet Secretary from 2002 to 2005 – accused MPs and civil servants of failing to challenge the ‘climate change consensus’.
He suggested that by blindly following the green agenda, the Government had hit hard-working families with a range of costly policies
‘It is regrettable that the UK Parliament has proved so trusting and uncritical of the (global warming) narrative and so reluctant to question the economic costs being imposed in pursuit of decarbonisation,’ he said.
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On the IPCC’s work on the impacts of climate change, he declared: ‘This is where their work is at its shabbiest; lots of dramatic claims about sea levels, melting glaciers, ice, crop yields, extinction of species eg polar bears.’ He denounced the senior scientists who have become ‘campaigners, trying to close down debate’.
h/t Christopher
in related news . . Lizzie in a Tizzy May says she has more important things to do than save the planet from her self described “Climate Crisis”
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“OTTAWA—Elizabeth May has been an environmental activist for decades, but now that she is the first elected Green MP she plans to focus her limited powers in the Commons on improving parliamentary democracy.
“It’s not that I’m choosing to avoid the issue that I think is the single largest threat to our survival of civilization on this planet, but I want to use the opportunities I have in question period not to make rhetorical points, but to get real answers,””
http://tinyurl.com/3r3ztgu
On the IPCC’s work on the impacts of climate change…
I’ve said this before: The very existence of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change presupposes that climate change is an issue of such concern that a UN Intergovernmental Panel needs to be set up in the first place.
Nobody should be surprised that the IPCC is biased and wants to continue to tout disaster just to keep their own jobs existing.
Of course the IPCC is going to say that catastrophic anthropogenic climate change is occuring.
If climate change isn’t a problem the IPCC needn’t exist and if the problem isn’t caused by human action then no solution can be recommended and the IPCC needn’t exist.
“consigning Britain to a future of inflated fuel bills and economic misery”
I thought that was the point of the green agenda.
Our progeny will call us fools.
oz – exactly right. Thanks.
You’ve said it perfectly. The fact that this heavily funded and eventually entrenched fiefdom was set up …suggests that they had come to a conclusion before any research..and were merely going to live, richly, off the monies to be fleeced from govts via that false conclusion.
Notice that Harper/CPC has refused to sign the next Kyoto accord.
And Lizzie May – a naive and ignorant loudmouth – she wants to focus on ‘improving parliamentary democracy’? What is that? Parliamentary democracy is: votes within a parliament.
Notice that she suggests that her talks on ‘climate change’ would be ‘rhetorical points’ rather than ‘real answers’. We knew that already.
Even the UK government knows this can’t work. If their programs cost 1% of GDP, and their economy is growing less than 1% per year, what is the likely outcome?
[quote]He suggested that by blindly following the green agenda, the Government had hit hard-working families with a range of costly policies[/quote]
The hardest hit are those on a Fixed Income…The retired that can’t makeup the cost of Gas or Electricity (energy) costs….They are normally
not engaged with the political world,… not any more and they will VOTE against the A**holes.
// Lord Turnbull’s unprecedented assault comes in a report The Really Inconvenient Truth for the sceptical think-tank, the Global Warming Policy Foundation. //
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_Warming_Policy_Foundation
http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2011/05/lord-turnbulls-gwpf-briefing-paper-suffers-from-basic-factual-inaccuracies
A nice little retirement earner though.
The battle is far from over yet. Just heard a story on CBC TV today talking about how the Rocky snow pack is melting earlier and this will lead to a N.American fresh water crisis, lack of not too much.
This flies in the face of what is obvious, high mountain passes still under snow, skiing has never been better for this late in the season, we haven’t seen spring yet on the prairies and the phrase ‘from sea to shiny shiny sea’ now means Quebec and the border of Manitoba west…..
Despite reality, tens of thousands continue to buy the proclamations of the AGW crowd and as the article states they still have control of the agendas of major governments such as Great Britain, Germany and other EU nations. Churchill’s quotation “we are merely at the end of the beginning” is appropriate in our attempts to silence the stupidity of AGW.
Lizzie May is far too obese to be taken seriously, just like her hero Mikey Moore.
When she starts showing some self respect and looses some weight then maybe I’ll take notice of what she’s blathering about. Until then she’s just another fat frump to ignore.
There is still snow to the base of the cut on Grouse Mountain in North Vancouver.
Lizzie wants “real answers”? BOLLOCKS! Her entire life has been based on lie after lie…I’m nauseous.
Oh and Rob – no spring in “Lotus Land” (har!) yet either. Cloudy and chilly, day after day. I count, what – 4 days, maybe 5, that have felt like spring so far this year.
Pravda apparatchiks, stick your heads out the friggin’ window next time you want to talk about the weather.