Goodbye Global Warming

Only a few weeks ago, the Met Office, an organisation not particularly well known for their ability to accurately predict next week’s weather let alone that of the next decade or century, claimed that temperatures are set to rise by 2014.

Unsurprisingly, for organisations that already firmly believe in the politicised pseudoscience theory of global warming and wish to present evidence to justify their beliefs, it’s not really all that difficult to do.

First you select the outcome you desire – in this case higher mean temperatures in the next couple of decades. Next you take your data (usually carefully hand picked or manipulated in some specific way) and then adjust the output graphs until you obtain your end-goal result – ie. predictions that ‘prove’ temperatures will rise, and thus global warming ‘must’ be happening. Simple.

Gordon Brown in his tenure as Chancellor used similar methods to forecast and present favourable economic growth. The most valued statisticians at the Treasury were those that, regardless of the data, managed to fiddle around with economic models and arrive at the ‘best’ figures – usually 2.5% growth or more.

However, what’s really interesting about the Met Office report is highlighted in an online article by the Guardian. It says the forecast reveals ‘natural shifts in climate will cancel out warming produced by greenhouse gas emissions and other human activity until 2009, but from then on, temperatures will rise steadily’.

So, what exactly does that mean? Well, it’s basically saying that the climate will cool slightly due to ‘natural variations’, meaning that any evidence of rises in temperature caused by us humans will be cancelled out – but that despite this, global warming still exists. How convenient.

For the next few years the global warming pseudoscientists will have no basis for their claims and it’ll all be a matter of blind belief – it’s just that they’re getting their excuses in early.

Rising Violent Disorder

Today brings yet more news of the growing violent crime problem in this country, with two men in Hertfordshire reportedly having been shot, leaving both lying critically ill in hospital.

This is just the latest in a long series of brutal and completely unacceptable assaults which are reaching seemingly epidemic proportions, and unfortunately becoming more common by the day.

Yesterday there was the tragic news that an eleven year old boy, Rhys Jones, had been shot dead on his way home from evening football training. Today, more shootings. Tomorrow it will be someone else.

Yet, what do the Government and the Police have so say about these incidents? Very little is the answer, and when they do eventually remark upon these cases, it is of small comfort to families like those of Garry Newlove, Evren Anil, or Rhys Jones.

I found this selective quote featured at the end of a BBC report particularly telling of the liberal establishment’s attitude: ‘He died because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time’. This apparently neutral statement in actual fact suggests that somehow the blame falls, in part, upon the shoulders of poor Rhys Jones, rather than the sickening thugs that murdered him – that being in the wrong place by his decision, he died, whereas being in the ‘right’ place, he would have survived.

Like those signs in car parks which tell you to hide your valuables, lest you tempt the poor criminal to steal them; this statement makes out that the victim is as much to blame for the crime as the perpetrator.

How many more people will be condemned to die; how many more families must suffer until something is done?

Bagshawe To The Rescue

Louise Bagshawe is the adopted Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Corby, and also writes a regular weekly cheerleading column for the party leadership on ConservativeHome.

In her latest article, Louise attempts to give readers ten ‘good’ reasons to vote Conservative at the next General Election. Unfortunately, she makes a few glaring mistakes in the process.

Firstly, the very fact that most people who read ConservativeHome are already Conservative party members or voters makes you wonder why she has chosen to write a piece extolling the supposed virtues of Cameron’s ideas and urging members to vote Conservative – unless she and the leadership believe that support among it’s own members needs firming up? Either that of course, or she just had nothing more interesting to write about.

The article is, in places, frankly hilarious – or at least it would be if Ms Bagshawe were not such a high-ranking party candidate with very close connections to the party’s hierarchy and leadership. She could also easily be the next Member of Parliament for Corby.

For example, when remarking upon the Conservative’s ‘Vote Blue, Go Green’ drive, where David Cameron has said a Conservative government will increases taxes on airlines and pollutants, she writes, ‘Yes, I used to be a sceptic on climate change. Then I went out into my garden last Christmas and my rosebush was in bud. I’m not a sceptic now’. Eh?

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Unions Join Call For EU Referendum

Yesterday, the National Union of Rail Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) and Britain’s General Union (GMB) submitted formal motions demanding a referendum on the EU Constitution.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) also said that there would be a full debate on the EU Referendum issue at its annual conference in Brighton.

The question of Britain’s relationship with the European Union is, I believe, the greatest and most defining issue of our time. Not hospital waiting list times. Not the war in Iraq. And certainly not ‘climate change’.

The challenges that face Britain today can all eventually be traced back, in some shape or form, to the monolith institutions of the European Union and the binding legislation they create. These affect all aspects of British life including how much we spend on our hospitals, which criminals we can or can’t deport, control of our national borders and the core tenants of our criminal justice system. The EU now governs and presides over most aspects of how British people go about the business of their everyday lives.

The referendum announcements by the Unions are therefore, on the face of it, very good news. The more voices that collectively call for a referendum, the harder it will be for Gordon Brown and the Government to ignore us.

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