egin to meet such a target without closing down most of our economy is as fanciful as the idea that we can meet our EU commitment to generate 30 per cent of our electricity by 2020 from ‘renewable’ sources, such as wind and solar.
Many want that law scrapped. The UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change has taken much more seriously the second part of its name than the first, and now the country is facing the consequences, with the first blackouts of possibly a long series, while fracking is hysterically opposed by environmentalists, who with their celebrity-filled protests, managed to stop it in some locations.
This is the paradox of the AGW theory of man-made climate change. Not only are UK pensioners suffering and dying from some of the coldest winters on record – which refutes the theory, since temperatures haven’t increased with the risen levels of CO2 in the last 15 years, as the computer models based on the theory predicted – but they also may not be helped by an efficient energy system, providing the heating that could save their lives, because of policies dictated by the very same theory.
For years energy experts have warned of an impending energy shortage crisis in the UK due to the closure of many coal-based and gas-fired power plants, while new ones have not been built and the reliance on an astronomical number of newly-built wind farms to generate the necessary energy has proven a huge mistake.
The IPPC, the United Nations body responsible for research and policy recommendations on climate change, is a confused mixture of science and politics.
The IPPC comprises scientists and government officials, some of whom are scientists and some are not. There are two main types of IPCC documents: the reports written by scientists and the Summaries for Policy Makers which officials write on the basis of the scientists’ reports often in greatly altered and misrepresented form.
The Summaries for Policy Makers are usually the only IPCC documents that journalists and governments see. Repeatedly the scientists who wrote the original scientific essays referred to have complained that their views had been misunderstood and inaccurately reported in the documents for policy makers, invariably to make them appear more strongly in favour of the AGW theory than they actually are.
Even allowing for the remote possibility that there was some truth in that theory, whatever the reality about climate change, the policies of both the UK and the USA are nothing short of insane.
With China and India, the world’s most populous, fast-developing (and polluting) countries, with 40% of the planet’s human inhabitants between them, never subscribing to AGW theory – mainly supported by Western nations – and never accepting even the minimum restriction to their CO2 emissions because this would have hampered their economic growth, Britain’s and America’s attempt to cut down CO2 will only serve to damage their economies without helping the environment in any way, shape or form.
This is what Columnist Charles Krauthammer has recognized when he called Obama’s proposals “nuts.” A diagnosis which is hard to fault.
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