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President Obama accurately summed up the Copenhagen fiasco; inevitable failure declared a success. All objections to the man-made global warming theory have been suppressed, with the conference falsely debating it as established fact.

From various reports I have studied, at least as many prominent scientists oppose as support the case for CO2 pollution. Repeated planetary warming and cooling throughout history is common knowledge.

Weather forecasting beyond three days is speculative, yet the “warmists” do so over decades. They use computer modelling, but we now know that many of these were deliberately calibrated to provide desired results.

Blatant cheating indicates falsity in the arguments, suggesting that climate change is not the genuine agenda, although carbon certainly is, being the sole common factor to all the claims. Can it be that world powers see it as a new form of currency?

Increased power is another aim; the Copenhagen Treaty aims to create a world government which would enforce wealth transfer from western to poorer countries as “climate debt.” The words “democracy”, “vote” and “ballot” appear nowhere.

It’s all about power and money, with an unelected global government the ultimate aim.

Bob D.

Considered priorities (to The Courier - Dundee)

Sir, - Dr. Cameron’s recent letters as regards the state of this country have been excellent and his latest letter is another accurate assessment of this present Prime Minister who is completely carried away with his foreign ego trips, TV coverage, and mixing with foreign Presidents and EU leaders.

  As opposed to the above it is overdue for the present Prime Minister to expend more time on which should be his main role, i.e.by concentrating on resolving the increasing problems in this country that affect normal decent U.K. young and old citizens. Examples of concern being about the economy, companies closing down, resultant unemployment, crime, over the top political correctness, and the increasing breakdown of society etc.

Harry L.

Sir,
 
 
(A writer to “The Scotsman”) Walter J Allan is too soft on our cowardly prime minister’s feeble response to the Muslim extremists’ planned march through Wootton Bassett. He is also right to call on all party leaders to join in condemnation of this intended insult to our fallen servicemen.
 
Mr. Allan then warns of the danger of “playing into the hands of the BNP” in failing to ban the march. He is presumably unaware of the response of that party’s leader, Nick Griffin. He knows he could easily have thousands of supporters on the streets to prevent the march, but refuses to do so in deference to the feelings of the inhabitants.
 
However, he and the party’s other MEP and its London Assembly member intend to bar the marchers’ way in person. Now, if Brown, Clegg, Cameron and Salmond joined them, we could have the Magnificent Seven to the rescue.

Bob D.

Sir,

CROOKED MPS

 I find it nothing short of terrifying that anyone allowed to vote could place someone as thick as James Devine in a position to influence the running of the country.

He openly admits the extremely serious crime of false accounting, but claims this is acceptable because he didn’t personally benefit. But he did make it possible for someone else to benefit from his criminal act. It seems not to occur to him that surpluses in his allowances might be returned to the taxpayer.

 So dim is he that he can’t appreciate the significance of separate account headings. Why didn’t he take the money from his second home allowance, for instance? He is actually quoted as saying he did not lie – in submitting a falsified account!

However, this is an indictment of the whole parliamentary environment, with members on the make at every opportunity, so they should now acknowledge public outrage by throwing out this miserable specimen immediately - without severance payment.
Robert Dow (Feb11)

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EURO HEAVEN?
In light of the latest problems facing the european currency, eg Ireland and Portugal having had a bailout Greece facing collapse and needing another bailout, should the UK adopt The Euro?

A cross-section survey of 10,000 people in Blackburn, made up of Afghans, Albanians, Pakistanis, Indians, Poles, Iraqis, Somalis,Bosnians, Turks, Moldovans, Latvians, Lithuanians, Bangladeshis, Ethiopians, Russians, Congolese and Zimbabweans were asked if they thought Britain should change its currency and adopt the Euro.

99.9% said no, they were happy with the Giro.

 To: LWG+

I think that all graphs I've quoted are 'official', & usually have a bibliographic reference to a published paper in a peer reviewed journal.

I was going to list the separate sources, but looking at http://www.Blog.GodfreyBloomMEP.co.uk/ for first time on another matter I found all graphs in one place, from where you should be able to track back to originals at quoted sources if you don't trust Bloom's representations.

CRU = UK Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, http://www.UEA.Ac.UK/Menu/Acad_Depts/Env/CRU/ Land & Ocean data

GISS = USA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NASA, http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts+dSST.txt Land & Ocean data

HadCRUT3 = UK Hadley Research Centre of Met Office (Exeter) version of GISS data from http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climatechange/science/monitoring/hadcrut3.html Land & Ocean data

UAH = University of Alabama in Huntsville,USA National Space Science and Technology Center http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/public/msu/t2lt/tltglhmam_5.2 Satellite data for lower troposphere of atmosphere (i.e. not surface observations) of whole earth.

The most comprehensive areal coverage is the satellite data, with marine observations (two thirds of the Earth) being of dubious quality, and poor coverage going back in time.

UK & USA are only countries inputting globally averaged temps to IPCC. At least India may have had enough of them http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7157590/India-forms-new-climate-change-body.html

Professor John Christy (an IPCC Lead Author) & Dr Roy Spencer (climatologist, author, former NASA scientist, see http://www.DrRoySpencer.com/about/. Wrote book 'Climate Confusion' (Encounter Books; http://www.amazon.com/Climate-Confusion-Pandering-Politicians-Misguided/dp/1594032106/ref=pd_sim_b_title_16). Worked with Dr. John Christy). both of UAH & been prominent AGW sceptics & can be seen on 'The Lies Of Global Warming pt 1' video @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zeGY8zbzc8&feature=related

At http://www.DrRoySpencer.com/global-warming-natural-or-manmade/ "This website describes evidence from my group’s government-funded research that suggests global warming is mostly natural, and that the climate system is quite insensitive to humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions and aerosol pollution."

-Mike Arthur

 

BBC Complaints,
PO Box 1922
Glasgow
G2 3WT

Dear Sirs

Further to my complaint of 5th February, today 8th February, the Today Programme had Tim Yeo for several minutes talking about the collapse of the price of carbon credits etc.

What should have been made clear is that Tim Yeo is chairman of AFC Energy plc, who are developing “environmentally friendly fuel cells” and made £80,000 from that connection since last July, see http://order-order.com/2010/02/04/tim-yeos-green-networking-in-parliament-pays-off/ .

Hence it is clear that Tim Yeo has a considerable interest in sustaining this Man Made Global Warming theory.

Why was it that Tim Yeo’s conflict of interests was not made clear during that programme?
 
I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours faithfully

Paul F Withrington

Copied to "Today" Programme (BBC Radio 4)

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Letter for publication : June 17, 2011

I’ve never been on strike in my life and I’ve always distrusted trade unions, but I’d like the whole country to join in the proposed stoppage on June 30th. That is not an argument against the proposed cuts which will hit our living standards; the country is broke and we must economise, but there is a lack of honesty in governmental selectivity.

How are we able massively to increase our contributions to the EU and the IMF? We should be slashing these payments by at least 50% and obliging them also to economise.

Why do we give aid to countries so that they can prioritise the development of nuclear weapons and spacecraft over the poverty of great numbers of their populations?

To return to the matter of striking; why do we allocate taxpayers’ money to trade unions which should be responsible for their own finances? I read recently that this costs us some £86 million a year, comprising £18 million in direct grants and a whopping £68 million in officials’ salaries.

Politicians’ lofty but empty phrases often return to discredit them, and “We’re all in this together” is surely the emptiest of all. Britain can survive this bad patch, but only through co-operation between people and government; right now there are too many self-serving divisions.

 Robert Dow

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries, improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement, the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome ."

Sir Winston Churchill; (Source: The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50

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