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Just in case no-one picked this up, Haunting the Library has highlighted the government sponsored climate change and sustainable lifestyle advisers, that are being dispatched by 39 councils at vast expense (£156m) to lecture their unsuspecting citizens on their own doorsteps during unannounced visits:
http://hauntingthelibrary.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/uk-gov-advisers-to-visit-people-at-home-with-tips-on-sustainable-travel/
Apparently they may call twice to ensure that dissenters who have ignored the advice are put into the little book. Norman Stasi Baker said the money will 'support authorities in delivering local economic growth while cutting carbon emissions'. How so? Can we see his business plan?
What is going on? There is a surreal aspect to nearly all news at present, and I can't help wondering why the creeping authoritarianism - that seemed to be fading in the last year or so - seems to have suddenly taken a lurch forward in just a few months... Is it just me? People's bodies are being snatched....

Dear Mr Huhne
With your panoply of green initiatives — the EU ETS, a carbon floor price, Renewable Obligation Certificates, feed-in tariffs — plus the exorbitant cost of electricity from wind turbines, you are set to give Britain the most expensive electricity in Europe, and thus probably the most expensive electricity in the world. This will devastate the competitiveness of our economy, and will drive jobs, industry, production, and investment out of the UK (and maybe out of the EU altogether). This is gesture politics on a grand scale. It will impoverish our children while doing nothing for the climate. We may claim to lead, but no one will follow.
Roger Helmer MEP writes an open letter to Chris Huhne
http://rogerhelmermep.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/an-open-letter-to-chris-huhne/#comments

Polar bear cubs dying as climate change melts Arctic and forces them on long swims
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2016322/Polar-bear-cubs-dying-climate-change-melts-Arctic-forces-long-swims.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/jul/19/climate-change-wiki-heartland-institute
Leo Hickman running a pointless article about Heartlands closed wiki..
I (bbcbias) point out in the comments that Realclimate has a closed wiki, and that W connolley behviour at wikipedia

Via a comment on WUWT, a trenchant discussion of Australian CO2-related policy:
http://papundits.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/co2-emissions-reduction-a-radical-plan/

DR Emily's supporter - LIving with Environmental Change has these backers..
Arts and Humanities Research Council
Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council
Department for Communities & Local Government
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for International Development
Department for TransportDepartment of Energy and Climate Change
Department of HealthEconomic & Social Research Council
Engineering & Physical Sciences Research CouncilEnvironment Agency
Forestry CommissionLocal Government Association
Medical Research CouncilMet OfficeNatural England
Natural Environment Research Council
Northern Ireland Environment Agency
Scottish Environment Protection Agency
Scottish GovernmentTechnology Strategy Board
Welsh Government
http://www.lwec.org.uk/activities
Have a browse of the websites, and consider where all that money is coming form to fund this nonsense. (clue - us)

Does anybody remember Dr Emily Shuckburgh and her outreach program engaging with 'sceptical' blog, perhaps she was a little less than honest in her intent.....
"Bishop Hill - Antartica Fox, fraternisisng with Josh and Andrew Montford)
http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/5/22/antarctic-fox.html?currentPage=2
Dr Emily thinks we appropriated the word 'sceptic' from the scientists!
http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/4402-Scientists-and-sceptics
"It is a debate in which the very word “sceptic” has formed part of the battle, seized as their own by those who question global warming.
“Scepticism is a major part of science, and it’s a shame it has been appropriated,” says Shuckburgh. “That leads to a lot of confusion. If we could reclaim the word … that would be progress.”
She was working/supported by - Living With Environmental Change -
"But over the past few months she has been rolling up her sleeves and travelling across the United Kingdom to confront the public heat over climate change.
With support from Living With Environmental Change, a partnership between government departments and funding agencies, she has run a series of focus groups exploring people’s views on media coverage of science."
THe Director of the organisation is Andrew Watkins (and the partners are the uual suspect groups, et Office, Dept
Bio: "Andrew Watkinson is Director of the Living With Environmental Change programme. He was until recently Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and a Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia,"
http://www.lwec.org.uk/people/andrew-watkinson
I do enjoy so much being condescended to :(

The latest Ipsos MORI "issues" survey has just been published. As has been the case for several months, respondents, unlike our rulers, are hardly concerned at all about "pollution/environment".

At least the British Brainwashing Conspiracy won't have to pretend any more.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2016299/Climate-change-sceptics-BBC-coverage-challenged-vigorously-corporation-body-rule.html

New Science and Technology Committee Parliamentary Inquiry of Met Office Science & Climate Modelling announced
http://www.thegwpf.org/uk-news/3480-parliamentary-inquiry-into-met-office-a-climate-modelling.html