The Climate Change Bill. Part 1 – They Don't Work for You.

Posted by admin on October 29, 2008
Oct 292008

The third reading of the Climate Change Bill took place in parliament yesterday. More on that later.

The reading was preceded by an Early Day Motion (EDM) to include shipping and aviation in the scope of the bill.

EDM 2233 – CLIMATE CHANGE BILL (No. 2) – 14.10.2008

Griffiths, Nigel

That this House welcomes the Prime Minister’s decision to ask the Shadow Committee on Climate Change for early advice on the Climate Change Bill to inform the final stages of debate in Parliament; congratulates the Committee and its chair Lord Turner for providing robust advice despite the time pressure; welcomes their recommendation that the United Kingdom should be more ambitious in its target with cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050; further welcomes Lord Turner’s further statement that this should include all emissions, including aviation and shipping; and urges all parties to support amendments to incorporate these changes in the Climate Change Bill.

The policies that the MPs signing this motion want to create will lead to a loss of jobs and a substantial reduction in the standard of living for people throughout the UK. Meanwhile, members of the Climate Change Committee, the companies they work for and are associated with will profit handsomely from the legislation they have created.

MPs are elected on the basis that they will take part in political, democratic debate. Instead, the following gutless, spineless, and brainless UK MPs have put their name to a motion to defer policy decisions to an unaccountable, undemocratic, and self-interested committee, whose decisions are based on spurious calculations about the future.

If your MP is listed below (find out here), let them know (here) what you think about their climate posturing, their failure to subject environmental policies to scrutiny, and their deferring of political debate to an undemocratic committee. Ask your friends and relatives to do the same. 

  • Abbott, Diane
  • Ainger, Nick
  • Allen, Graham
  • Anderson, Janet
  • Austin, John
  • Battle, John
  • Bayley, Hugh
  • Begg, Anne
  • Berry, Roger
  • Betts, Clive
  • Bottomley, Peter
  • Brooke, Annette
  • Burgon, Colin
  • Campbell, Ronnie
  • Caton, Martin
  • Chaytor, David
  • Clapham, Michael
  • Clark, Katy
  • Clarke, Tom
  • Cohen, Harry
  • Connarty, Michael
  • Cook, Frank
  • Corbyn, Jeremy
  • Cousins, Jim
  • Dean, Janet
  • Devine, Jim
  • Dobbin, Jim
  • Dobson, Frank
  • Drew, David
  • Durkan, Mark
  • Etherington, Bill
  • Fisher, Mark
  • Flynn, Paul
  • Francis, Hywel
  • Galloway, George
  • Gapes, Mike
  • Gerrard, Neil
  • Gibson, Ian
  • Gilroy, Linda
  • Griffiths, Nigel
  • Grogan, John
  • Hall, Patrick
  • Hancock, Mike
  • Havard, Dai
  • Hermon, Lady
  • Hood, Jim
  • Hopkins, Kelvin
  • Iddon, Brian
  • Jackson, Glenda
  • Jenkins, Brian
  • Jones, Lynne
  • Kaufman, Gerald
  • Levitt, Tom
  • Linton, Martin
  • Lloyd, Tony
  • Llwyd, Elfyn
  • Marsden, Gordon
  • Marshall-Andrews, Robert
  • McCafferty, Chris
  • McCartney, Ian
  • McDonnell, Alasdair
  • McDonnell, John
  • Meacher, Michael
  • Meale, Alan
  • Morley, Elliot
  • Mullin, Chris
  • Murphy, Denis
  • Naysmith, Doug
  • O’Hara, Edward
  • Olner, Bill
  • Pelling, Andrew
  • Pope, Greg
  • Prentice, Gordon
  • Purchase, Ken
  • Riordan, Linda
  • Russell, Bob
  • Sheerman, Barry
  • Short, Clare
  • Simpson, Alan
  • Singh, Marsha
  • Stewart, Ian
  • Strang, Gavin
  • Stunell, Andrew
  • Taylor, David
  • Thornberry, Emily
  • Tipping, Paddy
  • Truswell, Paul
  • Turner, Desmond
  • Vis, Rudi
  • Walley, Joan
  • Wareing, Robert N
  • Weir, Mike
  • Williams, Betty
  • Willott, Jenny
  • Wishart, Pete
  • Wood, Mike
  • Wright, Anthony D
  • Younger-Ross, Richard
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Honi-Soit-Qui-Mal-Y Ponce

Posted by admin on October 29, 2008
Oct 292008

After our ‘Green Aristocracy‘ post yesterday, it was amusing to see that

Prince Charles has warned that the financial crisis should not distract from the longer-term problem of the “climate crunch”.

Speaking during a visit to Tokyo, the Prince of Wales said the global economy was “rightly a preoccupation of vast significance and importance”.

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The trip is part of a wider tour of the Far East, which will also see the prince and the duchess travel to Brunei. Charles will later journey on to Indonesia alone.

In other words, Prince Charles, the multi-multi-multi millionaire, owner of one of the biggest estates in the UK, and heir to even more, who has never done a stroke of work, who has people to put toothpaste on his royal toothbrush, who doesn’t ever need to worry about what he can or can’t afford, losing his job, or having his home repossessed, whilst swanning around the world in luxurious accommodation and transport says that he thinks we might have our priorities wrong.

Charles called on developed nations to cut carbon emissions by 70% to 80% by the year 2050, saying any crisis faced today would be nothing compared with what would befall the world “if we continue on a business-as-usual basis”.

“The scientists tell us there is just the smallest window left for us to make the transformational changes in the way we live needed to stop catastrophic climate change,” he said.

“The worry of course is that this window of opportunity is available to us at exactly the same time as the global economy is under severe strain. But despite this we simply mustn’t abandon the drive towards a low carbon economy.”

As we have pointed out, ‘the scientists’ say no such thing.

His 38-year-old Aston Martin now runs on bioethanol from surplus wine, while his fleet of Jaguars, Audi and Range Rover use biodiesel made from recycled cooking oil.

Once, such ‘can’t they eat cake’ indifference to the dirty masses might have given rise to calls for his head to be removed from his shoulders. Today, of course, what he says is in agreement with the anarchist ‘revolutionaries’, class warriors and ossified socialists at the Climate Camp. Their heads are as remote from their shoulders as Charles’ is.   

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