More Deceitful Green Bollocks from Sir John Beddington

Yesterday I let out a whoop of joy when The Times finally published a major Opinion piece criticising wind power and the rest of the government's ludicrous green energy agenda - a superb half-page piece by Matt Ridley totally exposing the lunacy of it all.

But this morning joy turns to disbelief when I read that the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir John Beddington, has advised the Government to scare the public into accepting green energy policies that will send their energy bills through the roof by linking them in the public mind to major disasters around the world and blaming them on climate change.  He cheerfully admits that none of these disasters have anything to do with the UK and will not affect us, and that nothing the Government is doing on green energy will make the slightest difference even to UK climate let alone global climate.  He doesn't seem to mind too much blaming disasters on climate change even if they may well have nothing to do with climate change at all.  And his willingness to resort to deceit is broadcast loud and clear when he suggests that the Government cite measures such as the ending of the smog threat by smokeless zone regulations as examples of why we all have to pay more for green energy to protect us from other climate threats - as blatant a case of calling apples oranges as one can imagine.

And why does he suggest all this?  Apparently because if we don't do this the rest of the world will never be persuaded to take effective measures against climate change.  By destroying our industries and freezing in our homes when we can't pay our energy bills, we can apparently shame the rest of the world into doing something.  Can you believe this bullshit?


So now we know that the Chief Scientific Adviser sees his role not as providing scientific advice to the Government but as advising the government on how to distort and misrepresent science to achieve its political aims.  Seems to be a consistent character trait with climate change scientists.  Excuse me while I go an throw up somewhere.