31 August 2011

Global warming - it's the sun, stupid

 

www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/782/global-warming-its-the-sun-stupid

Advocates of the man-made climate change hypothesis should accept that there has been 'no significant global warming since 1995' - claim UKIP

It may have come to readers' notice that CERN has produced some pretty serious data concerning the effect of solar activity on climate change. For those who do not know, CERN is one of the oldest and most prestigious research establishments devoted to the discipline of physics, it is independent and Swiss based.

Now recent pollsters in Europe and Northern America have suggested interest in this subject is on a rapid downward spiral. This is a shame because it is one of the greatest global economic dilemmas we have faced. Independent climate scientists or, indeed, scholars from every discipline - including economists - are equally split in their views. As a substitute member of the parliamentary Energy and Environment Committee, I am privy to significant information - which does not float across the desks of journalists, businessmen, professionals or any of the chattering classes. If a researcher is employed directly or even indirectly by an organisation, which has a vested interest in the outcome, I fear I am deeply sceptical.

But it is time we approached the subject anew. Especially in Europe, where the stakes are so high. Rather than reproduce graphics and statistics from CERN to make the point for or against man-made global warming, we would do well to ponder the current position. I aim to run some pretty non-controversial facts past you, not to change anyone's view per se - but to attain some common ground, which might prove a fruitful base from which to move the debate forward.

What do we know, therefore? Well it is pretty indisputable that the world has been, if not warmer, as warm in our history. The Minoan, Roman and Medieval periods were warm. Vineyards at Hadrian's Wall and cereal crops in Greenland were familiar to the young O-Level student of my generation. We are also familiar with the mini Ice Age, which came upon us at the time of the War of the Roses, the English Civil War and lasted through most of the 19th century. Those pictures of Londoners skating on the Thames were not "romantically" based.

We also know - well, actually, you might not because it is a bit of a well-kept secret - that there is no evidence of increases in carbon dioxide preceding global warming. In fact, quite the reverse. If you have the Al Gore film - banned in American schools by the Institute of Science - freeze frame when he refers to this graphic. It is quite clear carbon dioxide increases after global warming by a few hundred years. We know also that the University of East Anglia deceived the public with the fake "hockey stick" graph. Make of that what you will.

Both NASA and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - advocates of the hypothesis that man-made carbon dioxide emissions will cause cataclysmic global warming - have conceded that there has been "no significant global warming, statistically since 1995". Another generally accepted concession is that the globe has actually cooled by 0.7 centigrade in the last five years. No, I am not suggesting that means anything. On a more anecdotal note, we know in the UK that we have had three freezing winters in a row. The last one, the coldest on record. It would also appear that this latest summer is the coolest for 18 years. 

None of this proves anything. But, billions of euros, dollars and pounds are being spent by politicians - who have completely accepted this warming hypothesis. Fuel poverty is rising rapidly. European manufacturers are threatened with ever-increasing costs. Third World countries are seeing food prices rise as we burn food. Communities and landscapes are devastated by wind turbines, which are already seen to be failing.

Perhaps, CERN is on to something. It's the sun, stupid. When I was 25 years old, the science was "settled". We were going into a new mini Ice Age. I wonder if our children and grandchildren will wonder what we were on when we made some of those strategic energy decisions.

 

August 31, 2011

 

Latest EU unemployment figures highlight success of flat tax policies: UKIP

The introduction of a “flat, fair tax rate” was supported by local MEP Godfrey Bloom, UKIP Business spokesman, today following the release of the Eurostat EU unemployment figures.

"It is no surprise that those countries in the EU who have the fastest falling unemployment rates are those with Flat fair taxes. Look at Estonia (17.9% to 12.8% between the second quarters of 2010 and 2011), Latvia (19.9% to 16.2%) and Lithuania (18.2% to 15.6%) and you can see the efficacy of their taxation schemes,” said Mr Bloom.

"A flat, fair tax rate allows businesses to plan and significantly reduces their compliance costs. It allows them to hire with confidence which in turn leads them to be able to employ more people.

"Our own tax code system is confusing, punitive and has enormously complex compliance requirements which in turn leads to retrenchment and discourages employers to take on new staff.

"Britain needs to take a lead from the Baltic states and allow our businesses, especially our small enterprises, the freedom to compete and therefore employ more people.

"UKIP has long advocated a simple, fairer flat tax system for the UK."

 

Notes
Eurostat figures
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/3-31082011-BP/EN/3-31082011-BP-EN.PDF

 

August 29, 2011

 

NEW UKIP BRANCH

A new branch of the UK Independence Party has been formed in North Yorkshire.

The branch - North Yorkshire Rurals - has been set up to extend the reach of the Party in the county.

There are branches in the area already but because of growing interest in UKIP it has been decided to open new ones, including the North Yorkshire Rurals.

"It is such a wide-flung county that we are planning to hold our meetings in different towns to make it easier for people to get there," explained chairman, Claire Palmer.

"Our next meeting will be in the Station Hotel in Boroughbridge Road, Northallerton, on Monday, October 10 starting at 7.30 pm. Anyone who is interested in joining or just finding out more about UKIP is welcome to attend and be sure of a warm welcome.

"We already have members from Richmond, Malton, Bedale, Brompton and Northallerton and the idea of the branch is for people from towns and villages all over the county to join us.

"The Party is growing in strength in Yorkshire, as well as nationally, as more and more people realise we are the only viable Party of opposition," said Ms Palmer.

The secretary of the new branch is Graham Cullen and the treasurer is Toby Horton.

 

August 26, 2011

Scientists at CERN question the validity of Climate Change modelling

Local MEP Godfrey Bloom today spoke out after the the world famous scientific establishment CERN called for climate models to be changed in  light of their findings.

"According to CERN, climate models will have to be revised.  This is massive. The enormous, subsidized climate change industry is based almost entirely on the reading of computer models.

“And now their accuracy is being questioned. The report from the Swiss- based institute makes it clear that the impact of the sun is far more important than previously accepted by the political masters of the UN's IPCC panel, and the impact of mankind is far less so,” said Mr Bloom, UKIP energy spokesman.

“Our Government is force feeding the country expensive power, driving business offshore and domestic prices through the roof. It is doing this to plant a carpet of wind farms across the land and round our coasts. Wind farms that are as expensive as they are inefficient".

"And now we learn that their precious models are inaccurate".

“It is time to get a grip. Stop pandering to the Green lobby and save this country from the state sponsored idiocy of the Climate Change Act.

“The physicists have shown us, that contrary to what you are constantly told, the science is not settled.," said Mr Bloom, Euro-MP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

ends

Notes

The Cern study

http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2011/downloads/CLOUD_SI_press-briefing_29JUL11.pdf

 

August 19, 2011

 

EU rail regulations could raise UK train fares by 50 percent

 

Fears that UK rail fares could soar by as much as 50 per cent if new EU regulations are given the green light have been expressed by local MEP Godfrey Bloom.

The UKIP Euro-MP said that new rules proposed in a White Paper by the European Commission would lead to colossal increases in rail fares. And this hot on the heels of fare rises.

Bureaucrats in Brussels would apparently like to see government subsidies removed on rail travel and passengers footing the entire bill. If the move is
allowed to go ahead, then it is estimated that commuters will have to come up with around £4 billion to plug the gap left by the removal of taxpayer cash.

The paper also outlines proposals to establish a Single European Railway Area which would hand additional powers to Brussels to get involved
with the running of the UK’s rail networks. 

"New regulations from Brussels would lead to the creation of a ‘user pays’ system where passengers would be forced to incur the full cost of rail travel," said Mr Bloom.

"Government subsidy of rail travel would come to an end as a result of the proposed rules which would plunge our railways into crisis. And they would force more cars onto our already congested roads.

“More and more people would stop using our railways and the Government still wants to waste billions of pounds on High Speed Rail 2 (HS2).

“The EU also wants to introduce more tolls and pay-as-you-go travel on British roads. So there would be no escape. It would be a catch 22 situation – pay high rail fares or pay excessive toll charges.

“Britain would be further along the track to ruin. These latest proposals are yet another example of unwanted EU interference in our affairs.

“We should control our own roads and railways and not be bullied by Brussels,” added Mr Bloom.

 

August 18, 2011

 

Light Bulbs

When you get to my age one of the last bedroom pleasures left is a good read.  The demise of the 100 and 60 watt bulb has sadly cut off this remaining indulgence.  With older peoples’ eyesight, light is a vital ingredient to be able to see what you are doing. 
 It is simply not possible to read by the light of the new super greeny bulb inflicted on us by the gnomes of Brussels.  That would assume we could afford them, their price has all but doubled in the last three years.  This is, of course, all due to the holy grail of carbon dioxide emission reduction.  Lord only knows what our grandchildren will make of this totally bizarre non-sensicle new diktat by one of the Commissions many loony ex-Communists.  
When you next snuggle down anticipating a good bed time read in your holiday hotel, or perhaps trying to stay out of your gentleman’s club bar of a London evening by taking a library book up to your room you might ponder some of the following facts.
Now we all want to save the planet.  Of course we do.  But one is reminded of the great Blackadder sketch when Lord Melchett calls him in with the delicious line “The Commander in Chief feels we have reached a stage in the war where we need a futile gesture”.  The concept matches the magnificently absurd wind turbine pest.  The new dark light bulb takes the biscuit.
Not only does it actually eat some of the world’s rarest elements, they are to be found only in China, so far so bad, but at the risk of antagonising the zealots of the man made global warming theory we could do worse than revisit the whole hypothesis. 
Let us look at what we know, not what a government sponsored computer projection might lead us to conjecture.  The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is 0.38%, or thereabouts.  It is, interestingly. at an historical low. No, I don’t mean the last 150 years, I mean a proper perspective to the planet’s history, 300 million years, when there was three times the amount there is today. 
 We know that the Minoan, Roman and Medieval periods were certainly as hot if not hotter than today.  We also know that we are emerging from the mini ice age, which gives a statistical imbalance to short term interpretation.  We also know there has been no statistically significant global warming since 1995, that in the last six years the globe has cooled by a few basis points centigrade. 
We also know that higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere follow, do not precede periods of global warming.  We also know that a significant and growing scientific body do not concur with the man made hypothesis.  Of course there are many things we do not know.  Nobody knows, solar effect for example. 
But perhaps when your house price slumps because they have stuck windmills next door, your granny can’t afford her electricity bill, grandpa can’t read his newspaper in winter and the local manufacturing company has moved to China, you might wonder if it is all worth it.

 

 

August 18, 2011

 

RiOts

 

Riots are hardly a new phenomenon in Britain, but they usually follow a political or religious protest.  It would seem, prima facie, that the recent riots seemed to have but criminal roots.  However I feel this is too simplistic.  For over seven years I have been visiting some of the estates in my constituency, usually at the request of people, often old age pensioners who are living in fear of ‘neighbours from hell’ or groups of young men and women who roam the streets after dark like packs of feral dogs.
Like most of our modern political leaders I came from a middle class, middle England background.  These areas were as unknown to me as Mars or Venus.  They are often loosely referred to in the media as ‘deprived’ areas.  But they are not.  
They consist of houses, usually semi detached, three bedrooms and small but adequate gardens.  In more fashionable areas they would command significant prices.  Many are beautifully kept and cared for, something which surprised me.  Most of the people are good people in every sense of the word.  
However there are also wrong ‘uns.  Here lies the rub.  Over the last forty years a middle class liberal elite has gradually degraded the discipline in society.  State schools seem to live in a world where children and teachers are regarded as equals.  Police forces have metamorphosed into police ‘services’ with senior officers recruited for their politically correct ‘right on’ attitudes.  The Crown Prosecution Service seems to deliberately avoid confrontation with neighbours from hell, as does the council.  ASBOs are a mark of social status, young peoples’ role models are drug dealers.  Many of the youngsters are unemployable even if there were jobs.  The cancer of welfarism keeps people in a twilight world of semi poverty, lack of self esteem and despair.  We now have a third generation who do not even expect to work.
We need to put in some immediate and permanent responses.  They are both obvious and practical.  A switch to workfare.  No money for able bodied people without a contribution to society.  Litter picking and graffiti removal would be a start.  
Let’s get people back into the work habit.  Getting up in the morning and catching a bus to the council depot would keep youngsters off the streets and restore self respect.  Those with good records at this could move to more interesting work with more skill acquisition opportunities.  
We need a zero tolerance of petty crime and anti social behaviour, which is where respect for the law starts.  Discipline in schools restored and teachers given 100% support for its enforcement.  A restoration and retraining of the police as a force, this is a difficult one because it has been allowed to slide quite a way.  This of course would also restore morale.  A revamp of the Crown Prosecution Service to retarget criminals, not victims.  A reshuffle at the Home Office and Ministry of Justice especially at senior civil service level where defeatism seems to reign.  Perhaps a review of public sector broadcasting, long an anachronism, where so many apologists for anti social behaviour lurk with private political agendas.  
More short term, a freeze on both EU and overseas aid contributions which have now reached the phenomenal level of £70 million per day to kick start these ideas ,as well as compensation for those betrayed people of middle England who have borne the brunt of crime and taxes for so long.

 

http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/744/riots-in-uk-resulted-from-welfarism-ukip

 

 

August 17, 2011

 

SMOKING BAN PLANS SLAMMED

 

Moves to extend the smoking ban to open spaces have been criticised by MEP Godfrey Bloom.

 

It has emerged that councils are planning to make use of the Localism Bill to follow New York’s lead in extending the ban on indoor smoking to open places such as parks, play areas and streets.

 

‘We have already seen the dreadful impact the smoking ban has had on the pub trade resulting in hundreds of pubs across the UK shutting down.

 

‘If this new proposal goes through it will mean no more going out for a walk and having a smoke," said Mr Bloom, UKIP Euro-MP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

 

"I do not believe there is any evidence to show that anyone, young or old, has been adversely affected by second hand smoke in the open air.

 

"It may well be considered a bad role model for children to see adults smoking but for many it happens in their own homes and it features in so many television programmes and films," he said.

 

"Education is needed to deter people from smoking - not heavy handed rules from bureaucrats who want to dictate every aspect of our lives.

 

"I've heard it claimed by one council busybody that It is getting to a stage where people think it is socially unacceptable in parks. I've never heard such twaddle," said Mr Bloom.

 

"And the obese better beware, they'll be after you next and eating in the street will be first for the chop," he warned.

August 16, 2011

 

LIGHTBULB MOMENT

 

The imminent ban on manufacturing traditional 60 watt light bulbs is one more attack on people's freedom of choice, warned local MEP Godfrey Bloom today.

 

A similar ban on 100 watt bulbs came into force two years ago and now the more widely used 60 watt version is to be switched off at the end of the month.

 

"I hope that this will be a real 'lightbulb moment' for people in this country, a realisation for those who have not already realised, just how much the EU increasingly dominates and controls our lives," said Mr Bloom, UKIP Euro-MP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

 

"They have no regard for people's right to choose and absolutely no concern for the terrible impact this will have on those with light-sensitive health conditions.

 

"Time and time again we watch with despair as the EU churns out legislation with unintended consequences - and here we go again," he said.

 

"We are being bullied into this in the name of climate change but what about the mercury contained in the new energy saving bulbs. I have no doubt that the issue of their disposal has not been given proper consideration.

 

“If the bulbs break in the house various important precautions must be taken and even after this there will be a high level of mercury in the air, which is particularly dangerous for children.

 

“Once they end up in landfill the mercury can evaporate further, seep into the ground and contaminating water. The amount of mercury in one lamp is enough to contaminate 6,000 gallons of water. But even if they don’t break, they constitute a time bomb for future generations.

 

"People who are light sensitive suffer by from the effects of the new compact fluoresent bulbs (CFLs) and a whole range of illnesses are involved including lupus, psoriasis, eczema, porphyria, migraines, ME, epilepsy and autism.

 

"Meanwhile the cost of the low energy bulbs has soared and is expected to rise even further," he added.

August 11, 2011

 

ROBUST ACTION DEMANDED

 

Proposed tougher action to deter and punish rioters and looters has been welcomed by UKIP.

 

But Godfrey Bloom, MEP, has expressed serious doubts about how it will be enforced.

 

"We all know that police forces are suffering staffing cuts, magistrates courts are being closed and judges and magistrates are under pressure not to send people to jail.

 

"So are all those cuts to be reversed to enable David Cameron's tough words to be given life? said Mr Bloom, UKIP Euro MP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire.

 

"There will have to be some urgent reversals of the Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill to enable tougher sentencing, there is already a Tory rebellion fermenting.

 

"We are living in extremely difficult financial times but robust action must be taken. The budget for police forces has been cut by a quarter while the foreign aid budget has been increased.

 

"If we stopped handing over taxpayers cash in foreign aid and the £48million a day we give to the EU we would have the necessary funds to try to address the urgent problems facing our country," said Mr Bloom.

 

August 8, 2011

 

Toulouse : Intervention de M. Schulz

 

The Beloved Martin Schulz is an economic guru. His librarian experience allowed him to say in a meeting in Strasbourg on the 24 th of november 2009 that " la crise se termine , les chiffres economiques se calme , la situation s'ameliore" ( crisis is ending , economic data are improving , the situation is getting better).
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x93en5_toulouse-intervention-de-m-schulz_news

Check from min 1.15

August 5, 2011

 

Death Penalty

 

I remember well the enormous impact the death penalty had when I was a youngster in the 1950s. Murder in the United Kingdom in those days was a rare event, most Britons today under forty have subconsciously accepted murder as fact of modern life, somehow inevitable. This is simply not so. Decadent, modern, mercantilist, pseudo-democratic states, i.e. Europe and most of North America have lost respect for the sanctity of human life. So poorly do they regard it that life imprisonment, which was promised as a substitute for the death penalty has been left to wither on the vine and ‘indeterminate’ sentences and modest minimum sentences have replaced it. It is far from unknown for murderers to be released in just seven or eight years and indeed kill again. Quite how the families of such victims must feel as a result of these murders is beyond my comprehension.

 

A few years ago a colleague of mine was gunned down in his own house by a murdering, thieving swine who was already on bail for a violent offence. Obviously this low life simply did not care. This contempt for society and human life was fatal. He and his ilk only understand one thing and that is the enormity of just retribution by society against perpetration of these monstrous acts. Only by such an uncompromising response by the state can potential murderers be dissuaded from the ultimate crime. Such retribution successfully repressed the murder rate for generations before its shameful abandonment.

 

Statistics are impossible now to collate on the deterrence effect. What would have been murder forty years ago is often logged as manslaughter. For example an old lady is bashed over the head for her purse, she temporarily recovers but dies a week later. Manslaughter! A husband goes into his front garden to protect the trashing of his car, he is kicked to death in front of his family by a gang of teenage thugs, manslaughter. Plea bargaining by sharp lawyers get charges altered in exchange for a guilty plea to a lesser charge. The statics become unworkable.

 

I hear all sorts of nonsense arguments advanced for the continued abolition of the death penalty. The ultimate is “it does not deter”, as if that were measurable. John Stuart Mill made the point admirably in the House of Commons in 1868 that it was immeasurable but on the balance of probability it almost certainly deterred. I would urge everybody to Google it. It is unsurpassed. One might also argue that it is not healthy in a democracy to thwart the long standing massive majority in favour. It has always been a free vote in the Commons, political parties including my own have a loss of nerve when grasping the nettle of crime prevention which incidentally has left us with the ludicrous and suicidal drugs policy that we now suffer. Politicians who equivocate i.e. nearly all of them, must grow a backbone, it is necks that need wringing not hands.

 

The state must take responsibility for its citizens’ welfare before vigilantism raises its head and the respect for sentencing already near to collapse manifests itself in other ways.

 

Of course it is all academic. We are bound by the Treaty of Lisbon and therefore cannot reintroduce capital punishment. We are no longer a self governing country. But that is another story.

 

Godfrey Bloom, UKIP MEP for Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire

August 9, 2011

 

EURO BOND PLAN HORROR

 

Local MEP Godfrey Bloom today spoke of his horror about George Osborne’s support for Euro-bonds.

 

"It would appear like his counterparts at the US Treasury, The Federal Reserve Bank, The ECB and the Bank of England that politicians and bureaucrats simply do not understand international currency and bond markets. Which is probably why we are in this mess," said Mr Bloom UKIP Euro-MP for Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire.

 

"Euro bonds would simply ‘monetize’ the debt. In other words shift the burden of debt to taxpayers in more efficient countries who have AAA ratings.

 

"Credit rating agencies only allow guarantees of AAA status from those states. What is proposed by Osborne and fascinatingly other supporters of this non-solution in the EU parliament socialist group, is simply the creation of a debt union.

 

"It would be doomed to failure as this whole lunatic political project has been from the start. We now have a third successive Chancellor with no understanding of his job. Was he ‘got at’ at the Bilderburg conference one must wonder?" said Mr Bloom, who is EFD Group Coordinator on the EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee.

August 8, 2011

 

NO REFERENDUM ANGER

 

MEP Godfrey Bloom has reacted angrily to news that David Cameron has no intention of giving the British people a referendum on continued membership of the EU.

 

Following a request by a Conservative Party activist for a referendum on the subject, the PM's Private Secretary has written back ruling it out, according to an article in the Sunday Express.

 

"The response has been that a 'very clear result' was delivered on the issue 36 years ago and that the British people did not want another in or out vote on the EU because it would be 'artificial and simplistic'," said Mr Bloom, UKIP Euro-MP for Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire.

 

"This is an outrages snub to the will of the electorate. We have finally seen the true colours of the Prime Minister when it comes to the European Union.

 

"He professes to be a euro-sceptic, well I hope that those Conservatives who have been fooled so far will finally see the light," said Mr Bloom.

 

"It is patently clear that Mr Cameron has no intention of letting us have our say on future EU membership.

 

"The argument that the 1975 referendum delivered a clear mandate for membership is extremely poor. Firstly, that was when the British people were asked about the Common Market. Over the last 36 years it has morphed into the EU with its tentacles now reaching far and wide.

 

"Secondly, anyone under the age of 53 was unable to vote in 1975 and consequently have never had a say. By refusing a referendum it shows utter contempt for a huge chunk of the population," said Mr Bloom.

August 4, 2011

 

DEATH PENALTY PETITION

 

Local MEP Godfrey Bloom has signed a controversial e-petition calling for MPs to reinstate the death penalty.

 

The on-line petition has been launched by political blogger Guido Fawkes with the aim of attracting the necessary 100,000 signatures to trigger action.

 

"I am in favour of restoring the death penalty for child and serial killers," explained Mr Bloom, UKIP Euro-MP for Yorkshire & North Lincolnshire.

 

"I think capital punishment is needed for such heinous crimes and I know that many other people feel the same. A YouGov poll last year found that 74% of people supported the death penalty for murder in some circumstances.

 

"Generally too much attention is paid to the so called 'human rights' of offenders, what about the rights of victims and their families?

 

If the e-petition collects the number of signatures it will be considered by a committee of back bench MPs, who have the power to allocate debating time in the House.

 

"I am sure that enough signatures will be collected and it is such an issue of public concern it should be allocated time for debate by all MPs.

 

"Child and serial killers are never safe to be released back into society and quite frankly keeping them behind bars till they die is a waste of taxpayers money. They forfeit any rights when they murder innocents," said Mr Bloom.

 

"With improvements in science there is virtually no chance of mistaken identity - especially when it comes serial killers.

 

"While is not UKIP policy to bring back the death penalty I would vote yes if any such referendum was held on capital punishment," he added.

 

It is a UKIP policy to hold a referendum on any issue that gains the support of 5% of the population.