Bishop Hill UKIP Scotland's climate spokesman
May 5, 2013 Climate: Sceptics UKIP Congratulations to BH regular Mike Haseler, who has been appointed UKIP's climate change spokesman for Scotland. The press release is as follows:
Mike Haseler known to many through his pseudo-name "Scottish Sceptic" and through his work on the Scottish Climate & Energy Forum has been selected by the UK Independence Party in Scotland to be their spokesman on Energy and Climate.
With UKIP's success in the English local elections, and growing party support in Scotland, this appointment is a huge boost for all those sceptical of catastrophic climate change and In UKIP he is joining perhaps the worlds most prominent climate sceptics Lord Christopher Monckton who already sits on UKIP's National Executive Committee.
Speaking on his appointment Mike Haseler said: "I want to thank everyone in the Sceptic community who has helped me particularly the members of the Scottish Climate and Energy Forum, Andrew Montford who through his blog has inspired everyone in Scotland, Anthony Watts and his team whose quality and quantity of coverage on Climate, Energy and Science in general is a jewel of the internet and everyone else in the Sceptic community. But one person stands out: I often felt that Lord Christopher Monckton really deserved to be called 'the Scottish Sceptic' and I look forward to working closer with him in UKIP"
UKIP is a party that wants the UK to leave the EU and is rapidly growing both within the UK and Scotland. As Mike put it, he joined UKIP because, "European Union diktats are the route cause of this ridiculous energy policy. The only way to end this policy is to end these EU diktats. UKIP is not only the only party to have consistently opposed the senseless global warming inspired energy policy destroying the British and Scottish landscape with these bird mincers, but they are also the only party working to end this tyranny of the Euro Diktats for good."
Reader Comments (65)
Katio1505
Sorry been in the garden all day apart from teabreaks.
BB
Possibly you got confused or misread the article, the key phrase is "deserved to be called" ergo he wasn't called that.
This is from Wikipedia, but I think it should be factually correct.
Monckton was born the eldest son of the late Major-General Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and Marianna Letitia (nee Bower), former High Sheriff of Kent and a Dame of Malta. He has three brothers, Timothy, Jonathan and Anthony and a sister, Rosa, wife of journalist Dominic Lawson.
Monckton was educated at Harrow School and Churchill College, Cambridge (where he received his B.A. (Classics, 1974, Cantab., now M.A.)), and at University College, Cardiff, where he obtained a diploma in journalism studies. In 1990, he married Juliet Mary Anne Malherbe Jensen.
That will explain the accent I think.
No indication of his place of birth, nor can I find one, not that is particularly relevant other than it is unlikely that he was born in Scotland.
Well done, Mike Haseler. You could start with this....
"A total of £1,146,614 was handed out to the operators of 13 Scottish wind farms, [on 29 April] including almost £300,000 for a development built on land owned by the Duke of Roxburghe.
The money, which ultimately comes from electricity consumers’ bills, was given to wind farm companies to compensate them for not producing power during periods of high generation and low demand."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/10038598/Scottish-wind-farms-paid-1-million-to-shut-down-one-day.html
May 5, 2013 at 9:16 AM | Unregistered CommenterSandyS
It was a reference to the trolls.
Mike, excellent news! UKIP could yet sweep that toff (yes, privately educated) Salmon from power. He worked for the RBS as an energy economist... could that help explain its collapse?
For the first time in my adult life (my son might question whether that ever began however) I have a glimmer of hope politically. Have been UKIP for 14 years. Stood (or rather merely sat as I did no canvassing) for local council and managed 33% of the poll... There is a great team gathering with Farage and more will come over from both Tory and, yes, Labour. Scuttle the EU (it cannot survive the UK's exit) and the climate 'issue' is pretty dead in the water. It will also free the other enslaved countries of Europe (yet again!).
Just read in the Sunday Times a business article stating that fossil fuels are worth billions to Scotland if they gain independence. But surely that contradicts there zero carbon policy? Oh I see, their own energy will be all renewables but they can sell the oil and gas elsewhere. What bloody hypocrites!
Mike - belated congratulations - UKIP is a logical step given the idiotic energy and climate policies of the four main parties in Scotland. Keep in with Jim Sillars though; I doubt he will ever return to his unionist roots but his scepticism of the EU and AGW makes him a potential ally, and it would seem that his position on the EU is now much closer to UKIP's than the SNP's. e.g. Jim Sillars: You can’t be serious, SNP....
Latimer Adler, have you tired of your little game of "prove it" now that you have the evidence that your golden boy is not the purveyor of truth you took him for? If you've ever seen him talk I'm surprised that it took you until now to recognise the ugly truth. You and the BNP are welcome to him.
Slip of the tongue, I meant UKIP of course.
BB
So I guess the fact you're attacking Latimer Alder without answering the Scottish Sceptic point means that you agree you got it wrong but as you're always right you're just ignoring thje fact.
Silence says it all.
SandyS, the quote said, "I often felt that Lord Christopher Monckton really deserved to be called 'the Scottish Sceptic' and I look forward to working closer with him in UKIP" and I said he doesn't sound Scottish. Your previous post seems to say that he is indeed not Scottish. Now you say that I got it wrong....
Attacking Latimer Adler? He accused my of being unable to substantiate my statement on falsehoods. Now that I have, it would be normal to get a confirmation that I was right. In the absence of that, a little dig can't hurt the committed. It could of course be that he has realised what a liability his Lordship is to any party with aspirations greater than that of being a group of cranks.
BB
Squirm all you can. So you didn't say Monckton was the Scottish Sceptic? I should go on a writing clearly course if I were you, otherwise people might mistake you for someone who doesn't thoroughly read anything he doesn't agree with.
SandyS, please quote the sentence where I say that he is the 'Scottish Sceptic' - and make sure you include any punctuation (question marks for example).
@bitbucket
'Latimer Adler, have you tired of your little game of "prove it" now that you have the evidence that your golden boy is not the purveyor of truth you took him for?'
I watched the video and saw nothing exceptional in his presentation.
His rhetorical remark that 'the left want them to die' is perhaps a bit OTT. His next sentence..'the left do not care about the little ones' seemed entirely correct and the lead up discussion of Silent Spring and the history of DDT seemed perfectly sensible to me.
If one OTT phrase in a 45 min prezzie is the worst charge you can level at Monckton, then he's pretty much bang on the money with the rest. And that he's got right up your nose just shows how much you fear him.
(PS My name, dear botbicket, is 'Alder'...as in the tree. Not 'Adler' as in Sherlock's lost bird and the brand of typewriters)
Latimer Alder, did you really watch the same video? Talk of a ruthless depopulation agenda, of equating of socialism with Nazis (all the same he says), of the near universal Marxism of newspapers, of Muslims immigrants breeding deliberately to outnumber us... Are these things, "pretty much bang on the money", as you claimed? Any socialists (or indeed any reasonable minded people) on this site are deeply mistaken in their choice of friends..
Alas for me (but maybe lucky for you?), I often have to be away from t’internet for prolonged periods, but feel the need to comment on one prolific AGWist poster with the moniker “BitBucket”:
BB: your political ignorance goes hand in hand with your ignorance of science and history – are you aware of the origin of the term “Nazi”? Loosely translated from the German, it is an acronym for the “National Socialist Party”, yet you castigate Lord Monckton for linking socialism with the Nazis. “Silent Spring” was the title of a book (auth. Rachel Carson) that “exposed” the dangers of DDT. It was based upon one study – the only study – of its effects on the environment; I have seen arguments that this study was seriously flawed, yet it resulted in the banning of a chemical that looked capable of eradicating many of the diseases affecting the poorest people of this planet. I suggest that you open your eyes and your mind a little bit wider than the narrow crack that they both are at present.
Now, humour us, BitBucket, and reveal the truth to us; expose the half-truths and outright lies that we have been fed by the likes of Lord Monckton. Merely attacking their philosophy with insults, and ridiculing their physical appearance suggests to us that you might not possess the truth you claim to own.
Do us all a favour, BitBucket, and look up the Frankfurt School of Antonio Gramcsi, Max Horkheimer, et al, then ask yourself two questions: why are socialists so aggressively destructive of society, offer nothing constructive, and refuse to allow any dissent of their views, usually by silencing any opposition? And: why has every country that has attempted to follow the “socialist ideal” failed so abysmally, and at the total cost of hundreds of millions of lives of their own people?