Greens Have Been Trumped: Fracking Should Go Ahead In Britain, Science Report Says
Fracking should be permitted in Britain because the risk of earthquakes and water contamination is minimal, a government-ordered report has found. Scientists from the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society said the controversial method of extracting natural gas from shale should be given the go-ahead, subject to tight regulations and continuous monitoring of drilling sites. --Nick Collin, The Daily Telegraph, 29 June 2012
Can the green lobby win the shale gas argument over environmental objections? I don’t think it can. Ten or 20 years ago it could have won when governments were willing to burn billions, but the economic climate has changed, we’re facing the biggest crisis in decades. No government in the world would give up this opportunity, not even the British government, which is very green indeed. I don’t think they have a leg to stand on when it comes to shale. –Benny Peiser, The Greens Have Been Trumped, 25 October 2011
Cheap and abundant shale gas is a competitive threat to all forms of renewable energy – and also to the coal and nuclear industry. Vested interests have turned against shale, using flawed and misleading environmental arguments to protect their market share. David Cameron would be well advised not to allow his green minister to squander Britain's golden shale gas opportunity. --Benny Peiser, Public Service Europe, 27 September 2012
The campaign to stop shale gas proving its case in the market is political, not scientific. Behind it lies vested interests. The Russian gas industry, which is alarmed at losing its impending near-monopoly on European gas supplies, has been vocal in its criticism of shale gas. The coal and nuclear industries too would like to see this baby strangled at birth, but have been less high-profile. Most of the opposition, though, has come from those with a vested interest in renewable energy, including the big environmental pressure groups, which are alarmed that the rich subsidies paid to wind, biomass and solar may be under threat if gas gets too cheap and cuts carbon emissions too effectively. --Matt Ridley,The Times, 18 April 2012
With nice timing – but largely ignored by the media – is a report out today by the Committee on Climate Change, a statutory body set up to advise the UK government on greenhouse gas emissions. It urges the government to give up on its "dash for gas" in order to help avoid dangerous levels of greenhouse gas emissions. But there are plenty of legitimate environmental concerns, too, not least that the climate risks have yet to be fully analysed or face democratic scrutiny. And there are worries that fracking will likely hinder or damage the fledgling renewables sector. --Leo Hickman, The Guardian, 29 June 2012
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Nice dress, though.
In one painting, a child painted the sun, dressed as a doctor taking the temperature of the earth. The diagnosis? "I'm sure you have humans!"
Our children are being taught by fraudulent scientists and extremists that people are a plague!
These extremists who are teaching our children are so entirely detached from any form of rationality or reality that they no longer understand how malevolent, unpleasant, anti-Democratic, anti-Western and how downright unfair their policies are to the people and the other creatures on this planet.
But speaking out at these conferences has become increasingly difficult. This was the first time at any UN conference that I’ve attended with CFACT, that the negotiating text was hidden from non-negotiating delegates such as myself until after the negotiations were complete.
We only saw the final draft after the document was ratified!
But CFACT had secured a copy of the draft before the conference started so we knew exactly what they were trying to hide from us.
I need to tell you: we are seeing a hungry power grab by the world's governing class against the ordinary people of the world. And of course the poor get hurt the worst.
South Africa produces 60 percent of the energy on the entire continent of Africa and farmers in Uganda are paraded from their property at gunpoint so their land can be turned into a fictitious carbon sink. We need to understand this threat to our way of life and democracy.
If we properly value our freedom, we should be more than concerned at what they're about to do
The UN framework, run by tinpot dictators, is designed to close down the West through global governance on a local level. That means the absurd so-called environmental laws that cannot be passed on national levels will now be forced upon us through city and county governments. We risk the loss of the property and livelihoods that advance our society from right under our noses.
That’s why we must fight and fight and fight again to save the rationality and reason, the cheerful constructive chaos of the free market, and the prosperity of the West which we have until now been fortunate enough to take for granted.
It will all come crashing down one day. A lie can only be perpetrated for so long, and then it is exposed.
I make sure I tell our children that climate change cant be proven and that itys all a bit suspect. All kids need ot hear is that there is doubt, and thats all it needs. In many cases, shouting from the rooftops is useful, but quiet conversations can do just as much to spread the truth.
The ebst thing you can do is challenge someone publically to a debate - 99% of the time they will run for cover. People see stuff - they dont miss that sort of tail-between-the-legs routine.