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Mar082014
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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill Davey stamps his feet
Mar 8, 2014 Climate: Parliament Ed Davey really is starting to turn into a big sulky kid isn't he? Yesterday flew into a complete temper tantrum about global warming sceptics, demanding that we just shut up, shut up, shut up. However, rumours that he also plans to scream and scream until he is sick are said to be unfounded.
Mr Davey told EurActiv, a Brussels-based news website: My recommendation to most politicians who want to talk about the climate is to listen to the scientists and listen to the evidence.
‘Of course you can question it, but when there is overwhelming evidence you should tend to shut it.’
Reader Comments (58)
Apparently dim Ed was on the Andrew Marr programme this morning (Sunday). I didn't watch it because Ed + climate change + BBC is more than my blood pressure can stand. Was it as bad as I feared?
Re: Barbara at 10.57am -
Quite right, too. We should take every opportunity to remind our "representatives" that that is just what they are - our representatives, They are NOT the masters, they're the servants, and the sooner we knock that into them, the better. We've been too supine for too long, and a reminder to these "representatives" of just who they really are is probably long overdue. Davey is entitled to his opinion, but when it's wrong and he's still able to force it upon us means that democracy don't work! Hrrrmmphh!!
Cat: Yeah. Watched it. Davey [lamp - dim as] had the sheer gall to say that he was really pushing for shale to come on stream!! It was all about keeping within prices for the proles, really. He really thought that there was no problem with Russia/Ukraine because the UK had so much reserve in terms of stored/tankered/local supplies. The man lives in a dream world - unfortunately, we have to live in it with him.
Davey (dim) lamp holds forth again: does anyone listen, d'you think?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10686012/Ed-Davey-warns-energy-companies-not-to-profiteer-off-Ukrainian-crisis.html
It doesn't add up: that Economist article does at least give some visibility to "The Pause" but it is full of reassurances that it is only a temporary phenomenon, with many complimentary explanations.
Anyone just skimming it and jumping to the conclusion would read this:
"The solar cycle is already turning. And aerosol cooling is likely to be reined in by China’s anti-pollution laws. Most of the circumstances that have put the planet’s temperature rise on “pause” look temporary. Like the Terminator, global warming will be back."
Move along, nothing to see here....
357 comments on the Mail article, comments now closed.
Davey took a pounding.
The Lib Dims are incredible. When Huhne resigned and got banged up, I breathed a sigh of relief, wrongly thinking that things could only get better...
Rightwinggit:
'If Ed Davey was any thicker, he'd set...'
Thanks a bunch - you owe me a new keyboard, to replace the coffee-covered one - but absolutely LOVE the vision..