I'm sorry, what??

Sometimes, it's the little things in big stories that make you stop:

Bimlenbra Jha, chief executive of Tata Steel UK, told the Business select committee that the UK had "structural weaknesses" that made the UK steel industry uncompetitive.

Business rates and high energy costs were top of the list.

On energy, he said that if Tata was operating in Germany, its energy bill would be £40m a year lower. The Tata chief defended the company's decision to put the business up for sale saying that the company and its shareholders could not continue to bleed. The business is estimated to be losing £1m a day.

OK, let's break this down. The civil service think man-made climate change is a big thing, therefore the government has instituted massive energy taxes to discourage people from making stuff that needs a lot of energy. Making steel takes a fucktonne of energy. Closing down Port Talbot will be a non-trivial step towards meeting our civil service approved emission reduction targets.

In other words, whether or not you agree with climate change being a thing, and our fault, and something that we can fix, and are fixing in the right way, the fact of the matter is that saying "tata to Tata" is exactly the the kind of outcome you would expect and want from our climate change policies.

However, despite the fact that it's only Morlocks losing their jobs, of course, there are votes to be had here, so now everyone has to panic and pretend to care. It's the usual fiasco of a planned economy.

Hidden away further down, though, was this little nugget:

Mr Javid said steps had already been taken to help on energy costs with £130m paid out since 2013 to compensate high energy users who incur environmental surcharges.

Just think about that: the glorious state has decided that we need saving from ourselves, so let's make energy more expensive. We start to get saved from ourselves, but suddenly we need to compensate businesses who have to pay the environmental surcharge.

What the actual fucking fuck is that all about? Make someone pay a tax and then give them a fucking handout to say sorry? I'm really dying to know which fucking retarded spastic cunt thought this was a remotely sensible fucking idea.

Missing the point

The Eventard misses the point by a wide margin here:

Here is the bad news if you own a low-emission car:

Britain’s biggest supplier of biofuels will announce today that it is closing its pumps because the Government is ending financial support from April.

It is the second time in five years that the Government has changed its mind and cancelled subsidies after encouraging motorists to invest in a particular type of green car.

What you must now do:

Businesses and individuals which have adapted their vehicles to use the high blends of biofuels will find that their investment has been wasted. They will have to revert to using ordinary petrol and diesel and will no longer be able to claim any environmental advantage.

And the irony:

The Environment Agency ….bought fleets of flexible-fuel vehicles on the assumption that the Government would continue its 20p a litre duty discount on ethanol.

That's lovely, dear, but have you fucking wondered where that fucking 20p subsidy is coming from? I think more voters will be happy than are unhappy. Well, we would be if we weren't sure that the fat monocular fuck and his merry band of gimps, mongs, idiots and retards weren't going to spunk the money at something equally stupid.

And really, why the cunting fuck are we pissing money away on any of this green shit if it can't make a decent buck without inserting their fist into our collective rectum?

Big Oil

Whenever you read about someone being sceptical about global warming, or even worse, a "denier", you will almost always hear that they are in the pay of big oil, especially if there is any academic rigour behind their comments.

Well, read this and then reflect on the motivations of those promoting the scam.

Still not convinced?

More green big business

For some time now, I've had a healthy dislike of Tim Yeo. He seemed to be peddling the same bullshit lines that Ed Milipede and the rest of the Gaia green posse do. Now, thanks to Guido, we know why:

For example Tim Yeo MP is the current Chairman of the Environmental Audit Select Committee, not a surprising position for a former Environment Minister. In July last year he sponsored an evening event for 150 members of the Environmental Investment Network. Held in the impressively plush Members’ Dining Room overlooking the Thames, it certainly is a pleasant environment in which to woo and lubricate potential green investors. Coincidentally Tim is also chairman of a small investment-hungry AIM listed company called AFC Energy plc, who are developing “environmentally friendly fuel cells”.

I watched the video of Guido and Tim Yeo discussing this, and Yeo was far too quick to scream defamation and reach for his handi-pack of Carter-Ruck.

Another traitor to humanity, disguising it as concern for our well-being. The stench of hypocrisy is strong in this one.

Make sure the organic, sustainable, renewable hemp rope is nice and thick.

What a load of FUCKING bollocks

Fucking fuck.

I picked up a copy of the Independent last night which had this fucking load of outright cuntbollocks as its lead on the front fucking page:

'Climate emails hacked by spies'

Interception bore hallmarks of foreign intelligence agency, says expert

What a fucking load of fucking shit. Especially when you see who the fucking expert is:

A highly sophisticated hacking operation that led to the leaking of hundreds of emails from the Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia was probably carried out by a foreign intelligence agency, according to the Government's former chief scientist. Sir David King, who was Tony Blair's chief scientific adviser for seven years until 2007, said that the hacking and selective leaking of the unit's emails, going back 13 years, bore all the hallmarks of a co-ordinated intelligence operation – especially given their release just before the Copenhagen climate conference in December.

My guess is that David Kunt wouldn't know a fucking hack from a fucking crack and as a result, this is just a load of rancid cockwaffle from the greenies biggest fanboi clubs.

The Independent: sucking Al Gore's cock since forever.

Fucking arsebandit cock-sniffing cuntweasels.

Ed Milivanilli

In this context, Miliband’s comments are extraordinary. His intellectual complacency is irritating, his sanctimony nauseating and his hypocrisy palpable.

In this context, and in every other. Seriously, what the cunting fuck did anyone think this fucking dickhead was going to say when the run was pulled out from under his twattish feet?

Who'd want to go back to the stone age?

To all these environ-mentalists who want to drag us back to the stone age: how the fuck do you think we're going to have our post-first-coffee-of-the-day morning shit without electricity to make the espresso, then?

Cunts.

Taking the piss

Fick dich durch technik

I was idly thumbing through an old copy of Private Eye when I saw an advert for something called the Driver Information System from Audi. Apparently, if you're in the wrong gear, or the window is open or the rear screen heater is on for too long (in the fucking car's opinion!) you will be told nicely to cease and desist, in the name of Gaia.

Well, Audi, all I can say is shove that fucking nannying shit right up your arse.

You cunts.

I wonder how Timmy will feel about this?

Is this a situation where they both lose? Timmy always says that jobs are a cost, not a benefit, so is the fact that:

for every green energy job created:

2.2 on average will be lost, or about nine jobs lost for every four created, to which we have to add those jobs that non-subsidized investments with the same resources would have created.

In addition actually nine out of ten promised green jobs created were not even permanent. To put it in a different way: every green megawatt created:

destroyed 5.28 jobs on average elsewhere in the economy: 8.99 by photovoltaics, 4.27 by wind energy, 5.05 by mini-hydro.

So does Timmy think this is a good thing or a bad thing?

It think that this bit is incontrovertibly bad, though:

the investment of $36 billion so far created only $10 billion worth in real market prize of energy. Thus renewable mandates have caused already severe damage to the Spanish economy with energy costs increasing nearly 55%. For some companies such as Ferrroatlantico energy cost for its production of iron alloys soared from 37% in 1997 to 43 % in 2005.

Fucking hell.

More egregious hypocrisy from the Indie

Fuck me gently with a broken bottle:

Silicon Valley, as everyone now calls it, pioneered the developments that gave rise to the computer industry in the 1970s. In the 1980s, it led the biotechnology revolution. In the 1990s it famously drove the dot-com boom. And now it is taking on the biggest transformation of all by staking billions on making the future green.

I go there every year to judge some environmental awards.

I can only guess that he paddles a canoe across the Atlantic every time.

Overweening, self-righteous cock-sniffer that he is.

Is James Hansen fiddling the climate change numbers?

James Hansen is one of the world's most active MMGW alarmists. He personally controls the GISS data set, which is, oddly enough, the one that shows the greatest amount of global warming, often when other sets show no warming or even cooling. Via Bishop Hill, this bit of speculative statistical analysis:

One of the main sources of global warming information, the GISS data set from NASA showed significant management*, particularly a deficiency of zeros and ones.

* Or "fiddling" to you and me.

What Dubya got right

The papers are all full of "what Bush got wrong" today. But I disagree violently with this one:

Abandoning the Kyoto Protocol

In 2001, Mr Bush refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty that requires participating countries to lower their greenhouse gas emissions. He cited its effect on the economy, but the auto industry is already on the brink and global climate change is a real problem. Even merely as a sign of intent, his signature would have been helpful.

Utter cock. It's the one thing Bush got absolutely right, the Kyoto Protocol is a load of wibble that will achieve the square root of fuck all, at enormous cost.

Google searches kill the planet

Fuck's sake. What fucking drivel will these greentards come up with next, then?

Assertions by a Harvard University environmentalist and green-website promoter that two Google searches cause carbon emissions equivalent to boiling a kettle appear to be based on questionable numbers. Building on the new research, the Reg can also exclusively reveal that three days of normal human farts cause the same amount of damage to the planet as a Google search. Google, however, say that a use of their search engine is only equivalent to farting once.

Drink tea, use google and fart as much as you like. Just kill a greentard every day to balance out your CO2 emissions.

There is a God, after all!

Via the excellent Counting Cats comes some truly uplifting news that should gladden the heart of every reader:

Organic farmers have asked the Government for permission to take a “holiday” from strict organic standards in an attempt to survive the recession.

In other words, we're not making enough money, so can we please fuck our "principles" to compete?

And even better:

In its attempt to cut costs, Toyota has scaled back production of many of its vehicle lines, including the Prius, and postponed the new factory investment in Mississippi. Also, even Toyota, which has strived relentlessly to establish its image as an environmentally conscious carmaker, can see that with crude prices back in double digits, the consumers are cheerfully postponing their need to go green.

Those pesky consumers! Always thinking with their wallets!

So, it's clear to me that "green fashion" will be one of the major casualties of the credit crunch.

Bring it on!

Matt Davies of the Woking Libertarians raises another nanny state classic:

Daily Fail

In the latest initiative designed to make us more environmentally friendly, Government advisers are calling on businesses to appoint tea monitors to make sure staff don't overfill the kettle at work.

The quango Envirowise is also telling workers to use teapots when making rounds of hot drinks and is calling for a return of old-fashioned tea urns.

Envirowise - which gets £10million a year from taxpayers to advise businesses on being green - says the crackdown will cut greenhouse gas emissions and help beleaguered businesses save money.

Critics pointed out that in the current testing economic times, small firms had bigger problems to worry about than tea bags.

Susie Squire of the TaxPayers' Alliance said: 'This is yet another example of a taxpayer-funded quango doling out useless advice. People are sick of these quangocrats wasting our time and money.'

Envirowise - which is funded by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs - estimates that more than 30billion cups of water are unnecessarily boiled each year.

Could you make this up? Oh no.

Now once again, most people paying attention will know that most of these quangos, and indeed DEFRA itself, basically report direct to our masters in Brussels.

Is is 10 million (stolen from the the taxpayer) worth it?


Is it fuck. The only people who should be funding this, IF, they want to, is the business themselves. They have to fund the energy bills and if they want to take an environmental line, that is up to them too. Robbing people to fund this kind of utter shite, is morally repugnant.

Yep the EU is the source of this shit, but they wouldn't be able to do this, if it wasn't for the traitors we have in Westminster.

1984 isn't an instruction manual. Let's hope the 1984 campaign reminds them of that tomorrow.

I'm personally not that optimistic ...

How to manipulate world opinion for fun and profit

From the Whited Sepulcre:



Here's how the mafia extorts money:
Say you have a restaurant. The mafia has a trash removal service and a laundry. You prefer to use someone else's trash removal service. You prefer to use someone else's laundry for your tablecloths. Someone comes by your restaurant and "encourages" you to use the mafia's incredibly expensive trash and laundry service. Otherwise, your restaurant will have a fire.

Here's how Albert Gore, The Goracle of Music City Tennessee, winner of the freakin' Nobel Prize, winner of Oscars, Grammys, etc., extorts money:

Say you want to build a new coal-fired power plant. And Albert Gore has a $5 billion company called Generation Investment Management. There are currently no excessive requirements for "carbon capture" on coal-fired power plants. Generation Investment Management, has a "strategic alliance" with Gore's other bedfellows at Kleiner Perkins. Both of these outfits specialize in "carbon capture", "emissions capture", "perpetual motion", etc. (Albert Gore's previous scams can be viewed by hitting the Al Gore label at the bottom of this post.)

Next, Albert Gore appears at something called "The Clinton Global Initiative", and encourages young people to engage in ACTS OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE "to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration."

In other words, buy Albert Gore's weather-changing, rain-making, hurricane-stopping equipment, or he's gonna shut you down. Through illegal means. And he's gonna encourage kids to do the dirty work.

Albert Gore would have to evolve for billions of years to rise to the level of pond scum.

The irony of all this is that Albert has just spotted a major opportunity to a) get very rich and b) get a lot of ego-stroking, both of which are the things that politicians live for. In fact, Albert has done it really well, because he's gotten out of the relatively small stage of US politics into a place where he can influence world events. As much as I hate and despise his hypocrisy and demagoguery, I admire his achievement.

Oh Noez, Climate Chaos!

Extreme Weather Alert: Meteorologists Predict Intensely Brisk Autumn

Erm ... ?

Am I reading this right?

A US firm Thursday unveiled plans to build a massive one-billion-dollar (667 million US) charging network to power electric cars in Australia as it seeks cleaner and cheaper options to petrol.

Better Place, which has built plug-in stations for electric vehicles in Israel and Denmark, has joined forces with Australian power company AGL and finance group Macquarie Capital to create an Australian network.

Under the agreement, Macquarie will raise one billion dollars to build electric-vehicle networks in the country's largest cities -- Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane -- while AGL will power the system with renewable energy.

So, let me get this straight:

1. You're going to drain a billion dollars from the real economy to fund
2. a project that will upend millions of lives
3. and cause massive amounts of carbon generation as new plants are built
4. to create "renewable" energy sources that are horrendously inefficient to
5. transport energy over long distances with the inevitable energy losses
6. to second-rate cars that people are buying for the wrong reasons
7. to solve a problem that doesn't exist in the first place.

It's becoming clear to me that greenwashing has achieved a major miracle: both tree-hugging lentilists and rent-seeking corporate statists are united, using the same PR scam to fuck over everyone else who isn't in "the game."

Fucking cunts.

Ouch!

Periodically, like sunshine after rain, a smile would break across his face as if by remote control and for no apparent reason.

and

That may be the secret of Gordon's ability to take the punishment. Adversity never gets him down: he's down already.

and

The herbivorous Benn was clearly there to play the soft warder while Hutton, wild-eyed at the very thought of energy profiteering, was Mr Hard. Any proof of that and he'd promised to come down on profiteers "like a tonne of bricks". The idea of getting energy monopolists on the rack in a Whitehall basement clearly excites him.

More here.