ENVIRONMENT, ANOTHER VIEW
an alternative look at 'environmentalism'
AN APPEAL TO REASON
click the link to read our serialised review of Nigel Lawson's book
13 Billion plastic bags ' a small proportion of waste'...
19/05/08
... this is according to Professor Chris Coggins,'environmental expert'. He claimed that government policy on disposable bags allows supermarkets to pass on responsibiltiy for their disposal to shoppers. Coggins called the dumping of 13billion bags, which take 1,000 years to decay as a small proportion of waste. Perhaps by weight or volume more is wasted of other resources but these bags are highly visible and harm wildlife.
Environment Minister Joan Ruddock got close when she said 'It's very symbolic of our throw-away society so we do need to do something quite dramatic'. That's the point, it's a question of raising awareness of the fact that we can't go on thoughtlessly throwing stuff away without some thought to the consequences.
All this talk of Climate change bills and various international agreements is mere politicing as practiced by the likes of Al Gore.
OPPOSITION TO THE CON CONTINUES.
22/04/08
Al Gore's 'An inconvenient truth', or a convenient myth?
Gore's successful book and film merely promote the interests of the Western Military - Industrial Complex. Further, another agenda attempts to stem the rise of the 'emerging nations'. Some claim that within three years China will have overtaken the USA as world superpower. It can only do so by resisting Western attempts to impose constraints on its growth. This new religion has yet another hidden agenda, also, by imposing further constraints on our liberty. Recently a young family man was taken to court by his local council, fined and given a criminal record for over-filling his rubbish bin - and this after a period of covert surveiliance, a minor event maybe but an indication of things to come.The Vatican of this New Religion is the IPCC. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a Nato-backed umbrella organisation promoting this nonsense. Obviously, for 'United Nations' read USA.
However, they are now having to accept, through their own research that periods of temperature rise precede increases in greenhouse gases, not the other way round.
Soon, the IPCC will have to announce that their sea level rise predictions will have to be greatly revised - downwards. As for Antartica, not only is the notorious hole in the ozone layer healing itself but though the ice is melting in the East it is growing in extent in the West.
At the other end of the scale it has been established that the great nemesis of the environmentalists, Global Warming is a localised not global phenomenon. The writing is on the wall for this groundless nonsense and the sooner the media realise this the better.
FREQUENTLY PUBLISHED AUTHOR ( and former Chancellor ) RUNS UP AGAINST ENVIRONMENTAL ORTHODOXY
08/04/08
Former Chancellor, Nigel Lawson, now Lord Lawson, had great difficulty in getting his latest book published. Much to his surprise - having experienced no such difficulty in the past - he found that his British publishers wouldn't touch it. Fortunately an American publisher friend who owns a British publishing company did so.
On last Sunday's AM show he described environmentalism as having become a religion. He points out in his book that the evidence for global warming is, at best, flimsy. Lord Lawson has discovered what we at the ST have advocated all along. Scientific Heterodoxy is punishable by excommunication. Whatever the merits or otherwise of the book ( we haven't read it yet ) This is an example of insidious censorship bordering on the fascistic.
The scientific community closes ranks when a tacitly agreed consensus is challenged. Put simply, there is too much money at stake. Research grants, scientific papers, lucrative speaking engagments are all under threat by any voice of dissent.
not so 'super' markets under the spotlight The Southfields Times has campaigned in favour of shopping locally wherever possible. This also means supporting a move to ease parking restrictions in Replingham Road so as to make shopping more leisurely. The main advantages that supermarkets possess are 'one - stop shopping', the provision of free parking and control over the prices producers are paid.
The one-stop shopping includes petrol and diesel sales as so many garages have been forced to stop selling fuel. Petrol station closures mean that for many motorists the supermarket is their only source.
Retailers are fighting back however, encouraged by a report by the competion commission, some six months ago. However, in practice these recommendations have been watered down, in particular the proposal to force supermarkets to sell the land they have bought to prevent competitors from opening stores in the same area. Not surprisingly, Tesco is the name that crops up most frequently in this. A series of protracted and expensive legal challenges seem inevitable.
It must be remembered that the the same councils that impose and regulate parking restrictions in our high streets allocate generous provisions of land so that supermarkets can provide free parking.
The effects of this domination are increasingly apparent in the area. A recent example being the decades old market in Northcote Road, Clapham. The presence of the major players in the 'supermarket league' is threating the future of local traders who provide a variety of high quality produce to local shoppers.
28/02/08
Good news! or is it? Ailing retailer Marks & Spencers today announced plans to start charging 5p for a plastic disposable carrier bag. some chains such as Lidl have been doing this for years. We suspect that this is just a way of Lidl offsetting some of their discounting as they make no environmental claims for their doing so. Most people wouldn't think twice about paying 5p for a bag if they needed one. How about 10p, or even twenty?
M&S intend to offer free 'long-life' bags from April. Why not now? and besides, these 'free' bags have to be paid for. How and by whom? As if we didn't know. The only environmentally sound answer is a total ban of disposable bags.
17/03/08 When it comes to the 'environmentalist' approach to alleviating the plastic bag problem, Friends of The Earth have a hopelessly inadequate website. Find it on A cursory glance at their website shows their main concerns, preaching to the converted and raising funds to keep them in their cushy jobs. Green Peace are culpable of the same patronising attitude: In their dash to 'save the planet' ( more of this nonsense later) their dirty diesle driven boats and expensive helicopters pollute the oceans and the skies. As for saving the planet, it was here before we arrived on the scene and will be here long after we are gone so, it's time for:
A REALITY CHECK CO2: one molecule of Carbon Dioxide, which can't do much harm on its own. There is a body of evidence that shows this gas actually cooling the atmosphere. It is used in commercial greenhouses to speed-up plant growth. This increase speeds up transpiration which in turn has a cooling effect.
It is essential to see the difference between climate and weather. Weather changes quickly. None of our children's children will live long enough to see if the planet is undergoing 'permanent' climate change.
The major engines driving our climate are little understood: the 'Carbon Cycle' whereby Carbon Dioxide is 're-cycled' from the atmosphere, into the land and by way of the rivers back to the oceans only to fall as rain again, still has many mysteries to be uncovered.
The sun generates intense gravitational waves in the upper atmosphere which are considered by many to be of overiding importance in defining our weather patterns. There are also other powerful effects of the sun and the moon to be considered. We have no control over these forces.The military are the biggest polluter and nothing is going to change that. The emerging nations have a cogent argument in that:
' You did it so why can't we?.
This whole nonsense may yet prove to be one of the greatest cons pulled on the electorate in political history. Increases in taxation are inevitable and have already begun. GLOBAL WARMING IN PERSPECTIVE
It must be true, it's on the computer! The influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) claims that global warming and climate change are established facts. Their computer modelling proves it. However, computer models are only that. One of my favourite computer acronyms is 'GIGO' - Garbage In, Garbage Out. We don't need the expensive and patronising reports of the IPCC to remind us of what we already know. The earth has undergone extremes of climate change for several thousand million years.
Our traditional 'White Xmas' has its origins in the 'mini ice age' that spanned the mid- 15th to the mid- 19th centuries. The 'medieval warming' had England out-doing France as a wine producer. In fact we severly affected their wine trade by selling them superior wine.
During an even earlier period Hippopotamus wallowed in the glorious mud of the extensive swamp we now call the River Thames.
The simple truth is that we just don't know and 'Geopolitics' is using this to promote its agenda.