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OPINION:
GREENS' FLAWED POLICIES BURDEN FAMILIES
by Babette Francis December 25, 2010
A few weeks ago, on the same day that my electricity
bill arrived, showing a big increase, came an e-mail from MOSS (Models
of Success and Sustainability, Australia’s industry body for corporate
responsibility and corporate sustainability) informing me of the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change in Cancun, Mexico, being held between November
29 and December 10.
It said: “MOSS will host a business delegation to the UNFCCC. Despite
no international climate agreement, there is no question the Green Race
is on between countries to transform to low-carbon economies and become
the leading suppliers of resource-efficient technologies and solutions.
“Whilst Australia works to develop a policy, the rest of the world
is building competences and scale. … The European Union and Japan
have embarked on a green path. “Although we do not expect an international
agreement to be formalised in Cancun, official negotiations will continue
alongside hundreds of official and unofficial side events. “Return
flights to Cancun via Los Angeles start from $2,000. Tickets for the World
Climate Summit (are) $1,000. Accommodation is at the Ritz Carlton.”
A tax-deductible junket for big business — and MOSS does not mention
that the economies of Europe and Japan are in serious trouble. All that
“greening” and not enough babies may have something to do with
it.
Some facts which MOSS has apparently overlooked:
• Germany put up solar panels funded by €47 billion in subsidies.
The result? Massive debt, inefficient solar technology on rooftops throughout
a cloudy country delivering a trivial 0.1 per cent of its energy supply.
• Denmark’s wind industry is almost completely dependent on
taxpayer subsidies, and Danes pay the highest electricity rates of any
industrialised nation.
• Spain has discontinued its solar subsidies as too costly.
• South Korea’s unit price of electricity, using Australian
coal, is lower than ours, despite the cost of shipping the coal.
Dominated by the Greens, Julia Gillard’s Labor Government aims to
price carbon emissions when US President Obama, having lost control of
the House of Representatives, cannot, and China and India will not.
Fraudulent
More revelations about frauds at East Anglia University’s Climate
Research Unit (CRU) may emerge once Virginia’s attorney-general,
Kenneth Cuccinelli, obtains information from e-mails at the University
of Virginia, or from hearings on Climategate by the new U.S. Congress.
The frauds bear an eerie resemblance to frauds in the abortion industry,
e.g., hiding ultrasound evidence that the foetus is a small baby, and
requests to researchers on maternal mortality to “harmonise their
numbers” so that they matched fraudulent feminist claims that “over
500,000 women die each year in childbirth”.
Leaked e-mails from the CRU show that the researchers, when talking among
themselves, admit using a “trick” to “hide the decline”
in the Earth’s temperature since 1960. Another e-mail says: “We
can have a proper result, but only by including a load of garbage.”
Scientists defending the e-mails have explained to us non-scientists that,
among scientists, the words “trick”, “hide the decline”
and “garbage” do not mean “trick”, “hide the
decline” and “garbage”, but something completely different,
and we should place them in proper context.
I placed the words in context and my word-check spells out “academic
fraud”. This behaviour might not have occurred if the IPCC had not
appointed the CRU’s Professor Phil Jones to review not only his own
papers but also those of his critics. The IPCC have unashamedly appointed
one of Jones’s closest colleagues as co-ordinator for their next
report.
Claiming to have collected the most complete data on the Earth’s
temperature for the last half century, the CRU’s summary was used
by the IPCC for its 2007 report demanding we adopt a few modest lifestyle
changes — such as the example of Greens’ leader Senator Bob
Brown saying he has lived happily in the Tasmanian wilderness without
electricity or running hot and cold water.
In the middle of the e-mail scandal the CRU said that all its data on
the Earth’s temperatures since 1960 had been irretrievably “lost”.
What they meant was that in their attempt to cook the books, the data
itself was overcooked. It would be as if Christians on citing the Bible
as authority then turned round and said, ‘“But you can’t
verify its contents, because we have mislaid our Bibles.”
The worst feature of the Greens’ ideology is their antipathy to people.
If there is any death-dealing cult, they are for it — abortion, euthanasia,
assisted suicide, embryo experimentation. Greens want a world devoid of
humans but with millions of windmills churning to produce “renewable
energy”.
Aztecs believed that they had to cut the beating hearts out of living
human beings to ensure the sun rose each day. Idolatrous Israelites sacrificed
their children to the flames to Moloch. In Victoria, subsidised by our
taxes, a living aborted foetus is dropped into a bucket of formaldehyde,
as reported by Mark Durie (see News Weekly, November 13, 2010). This is
the ALP and Greens’ notion of “progress”.
Babette Francis, B.Sc. (Hons), is national coordinator of Endeavour
Forum Inc
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