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Jul022015
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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill ECC elections
Jul 2, 2015 Climate: Parliament Results are coming through for the election of committee members for the Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee.
As well as the SNP chairman, we now have:
- Alistair Carmichael (LibDem) - a windfarm proponent
- Ian Lavery (Lab), former head of the National Union of Mineworkers
- Melanie Onn (Lab), MP for Grimsby, a centre for offshore wind
- Matthew Pennycook (Lab) - looks like a machine politician, allegedly pro-shale
- Alan Whitehead (Lab), a green
Which means Graham Stringer is no more. No sign of the Conservative members yet.
Reader Comments (19)
Well, with "Climate Change" a part of the committee's title....
So Labour don't want anybody with a scientific background on the committee. That says all you need to know about Labour.
or anyone Scottish
Graham Stringer is no more - clearly having someone that knowa what they are talking about is considered a 'bad thing '
if it were not so sad you have to laugh
Perhaps what is needed a short e-mail to the committee which says 'we will remember ', just a little wake up for those that consider the lights going out to be 'minor problem' that the public will does no hold the same view and there may well be a reckoning.
Noting their areas of experience, wouldn't this lot be more useful advising FIFA on forecast sales of ice cream?
So far looks like a bunch of nutters - and that is why the electorate did not vote for labour and libdems.
Well they were right after all. It is going to be worse than we thought!
Is the former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers present, in order to recommend bad places to bury good science?
Surely Ian Lavery's only concern is getting coal mines opened up? Is that such a bad thing?
Mailman
Mailman, it would be a good thing! But as the FORMER leader of the NUM, who is paying him now? Len McCluskey, that champion of Ed Miliband's Climate Change Act?
Think we must be at peak stupid now.
On Judy Curry's site I have just read...
So climate change is caused by ..... climate change. D'oh.
Actually it's worse than we thought™
Climate change is in fact a side effect of climate change.
Peter Lilley and Graham Stringer were the two competent members of the committee.
Has Lilley resigned?
Why isn't he there?
Why aren't they both there?
This particular breed of politicians are all signed up members of the self preservation society. So the switched on ones are likely to give this committee a wide berth.
With UK spare energy capacity falling a 'lights out' becomes more likely with each coming winter making the energy part of their remit a potential poisoned chalice. Considering the only reserve left is to turn on dirty and CO2 producing diesel STOR units, squaring such decisions with the other part of their remit will be wondrous to observe.
Musical committee seats? The aim is not to be in one of these seats when the lights go out!
Heaven forbid that a committee should have knowledgeable members to present different view-points. It's now nothing more than a bunch of rubber stamping "nodders". Older readers will understand the double-entendre in that statement.
Mike Singleton:
You'd think the committee would rate at least one yes man.
BBC World Service last night...daily global climate change - poison edition :
A female going on about climate change ...this + that. An expert journalist likely? Anyway, about two thirds thru she broke down and cried about her children not being able to see/use/play (whatever) any Oceans. Its all going to rats seemingly?
I suppose with the 1000 being sacked they'll use them in future interviews to keep similar cr*p going?
On Breakfast, this morning: sea life is threatened by warming oceans and acidification, according to a report in Science (hoho) magazine. (Cue pictures of pretty fishes and corals, but not a word of explanation. examination or simple enquiries.)
Expat Colin
These days you're not allowed to say that women cry, as TIm Hunt knows to his cost.