UK government commitments to cutting 80% CO2 emissions by 2050 were slapped down by the Royal Academy of Engineering today as being unrealistic.
In a damning report, it was claimed that eco-bling such as solar panels and wind turbines will not cut emissions fast enough, and there’s no chance that all new buildings will be carbon neutral by 2020 due to a lack of skilled workforce.
Devil’s Kitchen has excelled itself once again with two brilliant rebuttals of climate change and inherent corruption behind the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
After the government funded IPCC were found to have been making up facts in order to lobby governments, DK unveils a string of controversies, cover ups and sexing ups that serve only to scare the public into paying more tax, which after all is the main point of the hysteria surrounding climate change. “Facts” based on phoney data that even the source withdrew as being unlinked with climate change; “facts” based on fundamentally flawed data; “facts” based on the opinions of self interested groups.
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This week Labour MPs have endorsed the third runway at Heathrow Airport, doubling passenger throughput from 67 million per year to 135 million. This equates to an additional 220,000 flights per year. Without this expansion, according to government boffins, these passengers would go via other European airports such as Paris Charles de Gaulle or Schipol instead.
Blackpool South MP Gordon Marsden has been talking complete bollocks about climate change to pay lip service to his self interested, tax reaping Government cronies.
After a politically motivated visit to Blackpool Sixth Form’s “eco-council”, the well heeled Brighton based sausage jockey said that “a lot of people” in Blackpool want to see lots more legislation in the name of climate change. Students at the college have as expected been toeing the line, spewing out Labour rhetoric on behalf of Marsden.
Why is it that all of the solutions these fucking morons in the Government and in local authorities can come up with to reduce congestion culminates in making the motorist pay money to them?
Why?
If I have to commute to my workplace and there is no viable alternative, then I have to use my car whether they charge me to drive it or not. It’s not going to reduce congestion at all: rather make the local authorities more money to waste on frivolities.
These people need to understand that cost is never going to stop people driving, because there are simply no alternatives that are appealing enough, accessible enough or cheap enough.
Driving your car means you’re in your own space with your own tunes on, your own air conditioning, your heated leather seats, and so on. It means you are in your car from your house to your destination and you don’t have to keep changing forms of transport.
The only way they will get me or anyone else to walk to a bus stop and stand there freezing hoping it’s not late, then sit crammed into rock hard seats with chewing gum on them behind plastic windows decorated with graffiti with the dull drone of a large diesel engine for aural accompaniment is to make cars simply unaffordable or make bus journeys take 50% of the time in a car. (And I didn’t even mention that bus journeys these days cost the same and often more than the equivalent in a normal family car).
But they wont, because their evil schemes rely on people driving. If everyone suddenly decided to use public transport, it would be in crisis and furthermore they would have no income from motorists to pay for it. Since buses rely on the same roads as cars they will never be much faster. Bus lanes, yeah, but not many places have them and it’s not much of a time saver anyway: buses don’t take the direct route you’d take in your car since they have to go around the houses to pick up passengers.
There are also trains of course, but who has a train station that’s near them? Trains are only practical for commuting between towns or into cities from suburbs. The shorter the journey by train, the less of a time saving it is compared to the car, since you have to go to your nearest train station and again hope it’s not late or cancelled – plus your destination station probably isn’t near where you actually want to go so you have to find other means of transport to complete your journey.
Train carriages are also just as bad as buses and in many cases worse when using local commuter trains. Personally I just hate having to sit next to tramps that smell of shit, or gangs of youths that go out of their way to make trouble. I don’t have to suffer any of this in my car.
Trains are overwhelmingly expensive too.
If the Government wanted to take some positive steps, it needs to lose the ideology that taxing motorists reduces congestion and emissions: because it doesn’t. It’s one of those things where if they tell you it enough times you start to believe it despite their being no evidence to suggest that heavy taxes on cars works.
A bit like climate change.
Just seen an interview on Sky with the Director of Friends of the Earth. Can’t remember his name but he had grey hair and black eyebrows and reminded me of Alistair Darling.
He actually said something that I agree with, and that is that IF Government wants people to care about global warming they need to make people feel like the small things they do affect the bigger picture rather than issuing negative warnings that the world is going to explode in 2025 unless everyone recycles their empty cans of baked beans and pays more council tax.
It’s a strange one. What is global warming? It could either be a genuine climatic condition that the world is affected by. Or it could be propaganda on a grand scale that lures us into believing we’re all going to die unless we pay the Government loads more tax on stuff we can’t live without, like fuel.
This Friends of the Earth bloke on Sky was ranting on about the world being less congested, fuel being cheaper, more jobs, bigger houses, less poverty, cure for cancer and so on IF and only if we use energy saving bulbs, switch our lights off when we leave the room religiously and continue to get down on our knees and pay the ridiculous so-called green taxes that the hypocritical Government ministers keep slapping us in the face with.
You see, I don’t really think the UK Government is interested in global warming in the environmental sense. Of course, there’s no doubt they love the guilt tax they can keep applying to life’s pleasures in the name of it but other countries have provided incentives to be greener. In Germany for example their Government introduced incentives for people to get solar panels in 2000. They have the world’s largest solar farm in Germany. I don’t see our Government subsidising solar or any renewable energy for that matter. I don’t see our Government doing anything about the crisis they claim to be imminent other than making money from it.
What difference does me paying 200 quid or 300 quid for my car tax make? None whatsoever other than to fund Gordon Brown’s wasteful public spending plans that reform all the things Labour manifested to reform when they were voted in in 1997. Does it even pay to build new roads? No. Does it pay to improve bus travel or rail travel or subsidise their use? No.
Even so-called eco friendly fuels such as LPG are not cheap enough for people to want to spend thousands to convert their cars, devaluing them in the process. Where’s the incentive?
They have the right idea in London. Making people pay £8 per day to drive into the city probably pushes car travel up to similar prices as rail travel. It’s a shame it’s gone that way rather than rail prices coming down.
I laughed at what an environmentalist on Sky News said when questioned as to his views about the opinion that global warming was a load of rubbish. He claimed that it must be true because all the world leaders support it.
How many of them have a clue about science?
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