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Wind Farms- Rupert Wyndham to Bishop of Exeter letter 14 June 2012

Submitted by climaterealists on Wed, 20/06/2012 - 13:44

14 June 2012.

Rt. Rev. Michael Langrish

Bishop of Exeter

The Bishop's Office

The Palace

Exeter, EX1 1HY

 

Dear Bishop Langrish

Earlier in the week I listened to what you had to say following the welcome decision to withdraw the diocese's application to erect wind turbines in Devon. I see that your remarks have now been republished in The Daily Telegraph. In particular, it is striking that you consider that you and your staff were subjected to abuse by objectors. Well, I was not part of any such exchanges and do not condone, in your own words, 'bullying tactics'. On the other hand, I cannot help pointing out - to a churchman and so an ethical standard bearer, most especially - that such tactics are an absolutely routine component of the dialectical arsenal favoured by climate change proselytisers, amongst whose ranks the prelatariat of all denominations have constituted a prominent and discreditable cadre of alarmist partisans. Accordingly, whilst I will certainly not stoop to the use of opprobrious language, neither do I have any intention of pulling punches simply in deference to 'the cloth', if I may so put it.

In the IPCC's own words

Submitted by climaterealists on Sat, 02/06/2012 - 20:41

Wheels Coming Off Wind Energy Gravy Train

Submitted by climaterealists on Sat, 02/06/2012 - 20:33

Monday, 14 May 2012 Marita Noon

And subsidy-dependent wind energy supporters are running scared  

The wind energy industry has been having a hard time. The taxpayer funding that has kept it alive for the last twenty years is coming to an end, and those promoting the industry are panicking.  Perhaps this current wave started when one of Big Wind’s most noted supporters, T. Boone Pickens, said in an MSNBC interview, “I’m in the wind business…. I lost my ass in the business.”

But the industry’s fortunes didn’t get any better when the Wall Street Journal wrote an editorial titled, “Gouged by the wind,” in which they stated: “With natural gases not far from $2 per million BTU, the competitiveness of wind power is highly suspect.” Citing a study on renewable energy mandates, the WSJ noted that states with renewable energy mandates “paid 31.9% more for electricity than states without them.”

Left vs. right? That's really so 18th century

Submitted by climaterealists on Sat, 02/06/2012 - 20:25

Published in The Dominion Post (Wellington), 21 May 2012

 

Leaving political polarisations behind would open a path to a much more constructive dialogue.
 
As a newcomer to New Zealand, one of the biggest surprises to me was the degree of polarisation I perceived in its political discourse. In the complex world of 21st century globalisation the way in which debates are still conducted as "Left versus Right" is not only anachronistic. It almost guarantees that we will not find good answers to the challenges of our time. Such answers can only be based on empirical evidence. Political namecalling will not get us anywhere.
 
It was in the course of the French Revolution that political parties began to emerge, which then positioned themselves along a Left-right scale. The world has changed dramatically since the days of Hebert, Danton and Robespierre. But though nobody still rides in horse-drawn carriages or writes with feathers and quills any more, we cling on to the political labels developed in their days.

The last ditch stand for the climate propagandists - that means you, too

Submitted by climaterealists on Sat, 02/06/2012 - 20:04

Dear Editor,

 

You’re pretty entrenched in the “catastrophic human-induced global warming” fraud, aren’t you?

What would it take to cause you to actually behave like an investigative institution?

Skeptical Certainty winning the battle

Submitted by climaterealists on Sat, 02/06/2012 - 17:01
The visiting author – and Spectator columnist – threatens the religion of man-made global warming
 
The Spectator - Australian Edition
Tim Blair 28 April 2012
 
During Mark Steyn’s recent local tour, the Australian’s Janet Albrechtsen joined him on stage in Sydney to discuss, among other things, why current conservative pundits seem to be winning the battle against their ideological rivals. Confidence, Janet confidently suggested. The secure tone of these conservatives has the dual effect of winning audiences and infuriating leftists. It’s a confidence borne of some considerable effort; Steyn and others may have the tone nailed down, but it’s backed up by near-obsessive gathering of facts.
And it is having a measurable effect, which is more than anyone can say for atmospheric CO2. Perhaps made soft by decades of cultural primacy, established leftists seem ill-equipped to deal with opponents whose skills were sharpened during the rise of the Internet, a forum for argument that sometimes resembles a three-ambulance night at the Ultimate Fighting Championship. When these abilities are brought to the slower-moving worlds of party politics and traditional media, little wonder that the old-school left ends up being loaded into the meat wagon. Or the geothermal nationalised health-care vegan buggy, in the case of global warming hysterics, who more than any other group during the past ten years have suffered at the hands of the ascendant right.

Submission to ETS Review Panel (#4)

Submitted by climaterealists on Sat, 02/06/2012 - 16:39

NZCPR Submission on the Emissions Trading Scheme Review

1. THIS SUBMISSION IS FROM:

Dr Muriel Newman on behalf of the New Zealand Centre for Political Research
 

Submission to ETS Review Panel 2012 (#3)

Submitted by climaterealists on Sat, 02/06/2012 - 16:32

Gentlemen:

I have read the consultation document regarding updates to the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme. It was all about HOW this onerous scheme (estimated to cost the average NZ household $1500/year for starters) could be implemented, but nothing about WHETHER it should be implemented. Apparently, that’s a subject that’s not open to discussion, since Nick Smith directed the Panel last year as follows:

 

"The review panel should NOT focus on:

Submission to ETS Review Panel 2012 (#2)

Submitted by climaterealists on Sat, 02/06/2012 - 16:28

Please add my name to those requesting that the ETS/carbon tax scheme end as soon as possible.

 

Recent more responsible research has cast doubt on the whole basis for the scheme.

 

We are experiencing the end of an ice age, and the human component is so miniscule that it will

 never be measurable. 

 

PLEASE REMEMBER, THE WHOLE HUMAN RACE COULD BE PACKED INTO ONE CUBIC MILE, AND

APPEAR AS NO MORE THAN ONE PIXEL ON A GOOGLE EARTH IMAGE.

 

STOP THE HUBRIS!

Submission to ETS Review Panel 2012 (#1)

Submitted by climaterealists on Sat, 02/06/2012 - 16:24
We are concerned about the unwarranted cost increases to NZ small businesses todate which, may have been largely absorbed since having the 'forced' introduction of ETS taxes on both petrol and power consumed within our economy...
 
1. General:
All the services our company offers to the NZ market place have been affected both directly and indirectly... For example:
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