A petition started last year on Parliament’s website calls on MPs to “Repeal the Climate Change Act 2008 and Net Zero targets”. Now exceeding 10,000 signatures, the petition has had a response from the Government. The text of the petition is identical to an earlier version that was submitted in the previous Parliamentary term but closed because of the General Election. That petition also received a response from the then Government, as we reported here. However, there are some revealing differences in the replies given by the respective administrations.
If there is a shortcoming in the petition, it is that it allows the Government to hide its ideological agenda behind scientific authority. This is an ongoing problem with criticisms of the green agenda broadly, because arguments that rest on scientific authority are often alienating, and seemingly mirror the excesses of the green agenda’s apparent deference to technocrats. The petition states, not inaccurately, that “many hundreds of scientists up to the highest Nobel Laureate level have jointly declared ‘There is no climate emergency’”. This is a reference to Clintel’s petition of 1,900 experts. (Listen to my podcast with Clintel’s co-founder, Marcel Crock here.) But this is then undermined.
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It’s like they have some vested interest in lying to us.
They do; just one project in their attempt to force the globalists plan for absolute control over us.
Looking at the graph, it pretty clearly suggests that there was a substantial decrease in ‘coral cover’, which has been mitigated by an equally substantial and dramatic increase, particularly in Northern GBR… has anyone attempted to explain it? Are the graphs wrong, or is there a ‘hockey stick’ explanation?
There does seem to be some correlation of the NBR coverage to the the El Nino events which peaked in 2017 and 2020 (two events).
I was reading an interesting article that seemed to have evidence that the Australian Govt grants annual licences for the harvesting of 100’s of tonnes of coral from the GB reef each year? It seems a rum situation if a dying reef is being butchered by Government licensees? One of the comments to the article summed it up well, ‘it’s like the world only has 10 pigs/sheep/cows left and in order to protect them only allows the slaughter of 9.”
The payments for those annual licences to destroy the reef are required to pay the US$1billion grants to protect the reef… such is the level of competence in our leaders, nobody can see the disconnect here.
I doubt the Moonbat will be writing anything positive about this. If he did, it wouldn’t get past the Grauniad’s editors. Maybe the BBC will cover it?
My 1970s schoolboy book of dinosaurs taught that as the environment changes those lifeforms that are better suited to the new conditions will thrive and evolve to take even more advantage of them while those plants and animals more suited to the old ways will wither and die off.
Some you win George, some you lose.
Case in point. Crown-of-thorns starfish mount an attack when the population grows out of control, eats all the choice coral, then dies off as it’s exhausts it’s source of nutrients.
Low numbers of crown-of-thorns starfish, the reef grows over years, as does the crown-of-thorns starfish which at a critical point, mounts another over population attack.
Circle of life………
Question: Would the worlds oceans be over populated with corals were it not for crown-of-thorns starfish attacks and regular bleaching events?
Answer: Perhaps, there are corals around UK shores.
This approach is routine for climate alarmists: choose a population that fluctuates, and then only report the declines, never the increases. They did it with bees, too.
When the data is going the wrong way for the argument, the right and noble thing to do is to fudge the data. In this case, it’s a big reef so this isn’t going to be easy. But I think I have an idea, and my guess is that it will have the whole-hearted support of the Australian population, who are well noted for their perspicacity and informed insight into such matters. My idea is to blow up the entire fricking reef. With dynamite. Don’t be squeamish, hear me out. We blow the thing out of the water, lock, stock and starfish, and then. Then what, I lost my train. Oh yes, then we can say that we blew it up to save it, because of climate change and carbon, and the reason we had to do it was because of Trump. No, wait, he’s gone. Because of white supremacists. Yes, that’s it. And there are others; they aren’t the only ones, you know who they are, you’ve spent years hating them. Anyway, where was I again, oh yes, Trump destroyed the Great Barrier Reef because he’s an awful person and also because someone said something mean about Jacinda Adern and also because Novak Jkokovic refused to take the vaccine, because he’s a coward and washed up and probably wouldn’t have won anyway and was taking the easy way out. Yeah, I blame Margaret Court also, because she had a tennis stadium named after her but refused to budge on her Christian beliefs so it’s her fault. Yeah, so blow it up, and blame the enemy. Take your vaccine and isn’t that Ash Barty lovely bet she took the vaccine.
Amazing!
All the logic, articulation and sense of the average climate protester captured in a few short paragraphs
It’s enough to turn yer coral browne.
I’ve.been following this climate change garbage for a number of years. Brought to us by the same ‘production team’ that have presented us with covid! The same template with a full catalogue of failed‘scientific models, abject lack of empirical data, emotional messaging and so on. Fake problem / fake solution!
And with no open debate with real experts
if global warming doesn’t happen my faith in the government will be ruined forever.
Trouble is, if it doesn’t happen, we won’t hear the end of the green loonies crowing about their success in stopping it………
‘We have the lockdowns to thank. This is how nature recovers when people stop flying. My best mate who is a climate scientologist told me there’ll be a climate lockdown in September if this promising trend doesn’t continue and he’s been to Uni and everything.’
If he’s been to Uni, he must be right, therefore it is imperative that every industrialised nation except maybe China ban all fossil fuels by 2025. Yours sincerely XR.
Tony Heller ( youtube, censored ) has exposed all these increasingly ludicrous predictions going back many decades. As we all know it’s a gigantic fraud much like coldvid.
Much like pretty much everything we’ve been told for decades.
Putin now laughing like a drain at the west’s hysteria over military exercises.
His website “Real Climate Science” is worth subscribing too…
“Saving” the Great Barrier Reef…..like “Saving Lives” from Convid. Sounds like the Great Barrier Reef is in real trouble because their version of saving lives is poisoning murdering and maiming people with a genetic graphene bioweapon so when they say theyre going to save the Great Barrier Reef, we must assume that means poisoning it and destroying it.
Even St David (Attenborough) seems to be singing from the same hymn sheet. From YouTube: Sir David Attenborough On The Devastating Truth About Coral Reefs
9,691 views Jun 8, 2021
Unfortunately he’s just another in the line of scum who’ve sold their souls to the highest bidder.
He’s spoken of scathingly in Dr Patrick Moore’s book ”Fake Invisible Catastrophes”.
The lies published in support of the Great Global Warming Scam are simply amazing. Good that this one has been discredited but many more are still regarded as true by too many people.
Read Dr Patrick Moore’s very readable book ”Fake Invisible Catastrophes And Threats Of Doom” for an excellent refutation of the tripe talked about the Barrier Reef. And lots of other things (including the ”demise” of the polar bears, etc.)
Yep, read that. Saint Attenborough of the Blue Planet has a lot to answer for
I’m pretty sure they’ve been saying the Great Barrier Reef is dead or dying for about 40 years, but it seems to have enjoyed more comebacks than Frank Sinatra.
It’s a billion pound fraud… steal off the taxpayers to fund a non existent crisis. When the ‘crisis’ is over, kudos to the ‘scientists’ that fixed it