Constitution Club:
Holy carbon offset, say it ain’t so, Al! The UK’s Energy and Climate Change czar said this week that although he still believes the earth’s temperature is rising, “natural phases” may be to blame.
Translation: We didn’t do it. (Al Gore unavailable for comment.) From The Telegraph:
Tim Yeo, an environment minister under John Major, is one of the Conservative Party’s strongest advocates of radical action to cut carbon emissions. His comments are significant as he was one of the first senior figures to urge the party to take the issue of environmental change seriously.
He insisted such action is “prudent” given the threat climate change poses to living standards worldwide. But, he said, human action is merely a “possible cause.”
Asked on Tuesday night whether it was better to take action to mitigate the effects of climate change than to prevent it in the first place, he said:
“The first thing to say is it does not represent any threat to the survival of the planet. None at all. The planet has survived much bigger changes than any climate change that is happening now. Although I think the evidence that the climate is changing is now overwhelming, the causes are not absolutely clear.
There could be natural causes, natural phases that are taking place.”
While Yeo said he believes a strong probability exists that man-made causes contribute to greenhouse gas concentrations, he made it clear that he no longer intends to ring the alarmist doomsday bell.
All those jobs gone (To countries that don’t follow environmental standards anyway, like China, who we then sell our debt to, madness…) and then “Oops, well it may not be like that, oh well!”
Facepalm. What nonsense. Too bad it has helped destroy our economy.
I hate Obama for this:
When they heard of the devastation in Oklahoma, Canadians responded generously.
A Canadian shipment of relief goods bound for storm-ravaged Oklahoma has been stopped at the Canada-U.S. border in Windsor, Ont.
American officials will not allow the 20,000 kilograms of food, blankets and diapers into the country until every item on board is itemized IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER and has the country of origin of every product noted.
It’s a physical impossibility to do all that paperwork in time to get the perishable food to Oklahoma before it spoils.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2013/05/31/wdr-moore-tornado-relief-us-border.html
Has Yeo even looked at the collected temperature reading for the last two decades? Temperatures have been dropping for the last 17 years.