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jamesp -
What unintended forms arise,
When states commence to subsidise.
stewgreen, M Courtney
The Civil Servants Code deserves to be enforced - but the serially delinquent Civil Service Commission - the folk supposedly tasked with "enforcing the code" simply won't do it - and are making it near impossible to hold civil servants to account. The Ombudsman (PHSO) cannot / will not afaict deal with individual misconduct.
It is an iniquitous situation fomented by obstruction perpetrated by venal nabobs erm... in the "Civil Service"....
btw - there is no legal basis for the CSC's claim that only civil servants can make complaints under the code .... it's obstruction - pure and simple - and it's rotten as .....
Our local (Isle of Wight) planning dept has seen fit to allow some farmers to build a digester plant nearby, to generate methane. This was originally intended (we were told) for unsaleable crop waste, but they quickly realised that they could feed it with the crop itself and make even more money.
Now, the owners boast that the plant will generate “as much money as all the arable crops grown on the Island” (!)
I wonder how long before they stop growing food to sell altogether..?
stewgreen, That's been on the cards since Dr David Kelly died.
Scientists have too much public respect to be allowed to speak on politics - if they are employed by politicians.
They aren't the politicians, after all.
have we seen this Nature Article saying UK scientists are set to be muzzled by the govt published April 1 ? ..surely it's the usual scaremongering ?
On 16 March, the Civil Service Code was amended to state that all UK civil servants require “ministerial authorisation for any contact with the media”. There is some confusion over who exactly this applies to, but it could affect thousands of scientists, including those who work directly for government departments and those in arms-length agencies such as the Met Office.Doesn't seem to affect our friends RB .. In fact isn't it the other way for climate ..Don't ministers have to get permission from Bob Fraud before they can speak on it ?
via ABC Radio "Robyn Williams: I thought there would be an uproar and things would be changed.
Philip Campbell: That's right. So there has been an uproar" ..really was there ?
BTW Robyn Williams gave Mann a soft interview in March he titled it "Attacks on hockey stick graph tracked to those whose interests are threatened"
look how Williams spoke "Robyn Williams: Yes, the last time I looked at the income of the Koch brothers, I think in one year their income went up £32 billion, that's $64 billion, which is staggering. " yes instead of showing ANY evidence that Koch recently gave any money ..he just insinuates the biggest possible number he can think of ..The shamelessness of a cult member.
Mike Jackson
It was a typo, but I quite liked the context so I left it in.
Harry
"6,000 or 4.5 billion years"
Now, that's what I call uncertainty! And here we are fighting about 2 degrees...
SandyS 6.26PM
Did you mean to miss the 'r' out of 'friendly'?
Just askin' ☺
oops " dscott saying Averaging global Temperature records never has been a proxy for calculating the amount of heat of the climate system"
...since different areas (and times of year) have vastly different humity
From Greenie Watch this article suggests that sea level rises in Australia have been negligible in the last 150 years.
and
Article here
http://morningmail.org/isle-of-the-dead/