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Britain Abolishes Department of Energy and Climate Change

Jack Hays

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Theresa May's new government in the UK seems to be downgrading the priority of climate change.

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Britain abolishes the Department of Energy and Climate Change

The Global Warming Policy Forum welcomes the decision by the new Government to abolish the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Both the GWPF and its chairman, Lord Lawson, have been calling for this much-needed rationalisation for several years. As the new government under Theresa May focuses on the much more important issues of economic growth, international competitiveness and leaving the European Union, the decision will provide vital savings. It is hoped that the abolition of DECC will also encourage a new emphasis on cost-effective policy-making.
“Moving energy policy to the new Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy should give ministers a fresh impetus to ensure that the costs for consumers and businesses are driven down, not pushed further up,” said GWPF director Dr Benny Peiser. . . .



 
The rise of the skeptics — Brexit shifts the ground: Boris promoted, DECC gone


Don’t underestimate the Brexit effect. The landscape is shifting.

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The Paris agreement just became less likely. The UK Dept of the environment will submerge, and Boris Johnson, the outspoken skeptic and Brexit figurehead, has been promoted to foreign minister.
James Delingpole says: Britain’s New Prime Minister Drives A Stake Through The Heart Of The Green Vampire
Britain no longer has“the greenest government ever.” This is good news. Very good news. The agonised screeching of all the usual suspects in the Environmental movement will be enough to sustain many of us in lols for weeks and months to come.
Five years ago, could we imagine an “infamous climate denier” like Boris rewarded in any Western Government? There were closet skeptics in the cabinet, but that’s not the same. In Australia, Tony Abbott once said climate change was “crap” and somehow still managed to become PM, but once he was, his official line was the permitted global warming story. ( He pandered, but in the most sensible possible way. And because he did not flagrantly add to the climate slush fund they still called him a “denier” but he rarely said anything openly skeptical.).
To have Boris in such an influential position is new ground. No more pandering.
He is unapologetically, absolutely a skeptic: Here’s Boris in 2013 explaining why Brits were installing swimming pools:
For more than 20 years now, we have been told that this country was going to get hotter and hotter…
That’s what they said: the BBC, and all the respectable meteorologists
They [home owners with pools] thought they were doing the sensible thing and getting ready for a Californian lifestyle – and they were fools! Fools who believed that the global warming soothsayers really meant what they said or that they had a clue what the weather would be in the next 10 years.
A lot of fence sitters have just been offered a ladder on the skeptic side of the fence. This makes it so much easier for people to “come out”.
[h=3]The UK Dept of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) will be folded[/h]Yesterday the GWPF said Let’s scrap DECC. Today it’s happening.“The UK’s Energy and Climate Change department is to be merged with the business department, according to people who have been briefed on the plans.”
Business will get control over energy and climate policy. Greens will cry. The Business portfolio has other agendas. It’s existence does not depend on whether we can change the weather.
[h=3]What about Theresa May?[/h]I confess to being skeptical. (Boris for PM!) How could any sensible person campaign for Remain? But not only has May appointed Boris, but her right hand man on UK Steel and climate policy type stuff has called the Climate Change Act a “unilateral and monstrous act of self-harm”. Furthermore, Paul Matthews looked at her voting record in detail and suspects she may be a quiet climate policy skeptic.
James Forsyth in the Spectator, says May is serious about Brexit:
Keep reading →
 
The rise of the skeptics — Brexit shifts the ground: Boris promoted, DECC gone


Don’t underestimate the Brexit effect. The landscape is shifting.

uk-flag-w-bg.jpg
The Paris agreement just became less likely. The UK Dept of the environment will submerge, and Boris Johnson, the outspoken skeptic and Brexit figurehead, has been promoted to foreign minister.
James Delingpole says: Britain’s New Prime Minister Drives A Stake Through The Heart Of The Green Vampire
Britain no longer has“the greenest government ever.” This is good news. Very good news. The agonised screeching of all the usual suspects in the Environmental movement will be enough to sustain many of us in lols for weeks and months to come.
Five years ago, could we imagine an “infamous climate denier” like Boris rewarded in any Western Government? There were closet skeptics in the cabinet, but that’s not the same. In Australia, Tony Abbott once said climate change was “crap” and somehow still managed to become PM, but once he was, his official line was the permitted global warming story. ( He pandered, but in the most sensible possible way. And because he did not flagrantly add to the climate slush fund they still called him a “denier” but he rarely said anything openly skeptical.).
To have Boris in such an influential position is new ground. No more pandering.
He is unapologetically, absolutely a skeptic: Here’s Boris in 2013 explaining why Brits were installing swimming pools:
For more than 20 years now, we have been told that this country was going to get hotter and hotter…
That’s what they said: the BBC, and all the respectable meteorologists
They [home owners with pools] thought they were doing the sensible thing and getting ready for a Californian lifestyle – and they were fools! Fools who believed that the global warming soothsayers really meant what they said or that they had a clue what the weather would be in the next 10 years.
A lot of fence sitters have just been offered a ladder on the skeptic side of the fence. This makes it so much easier for people to “come out”.
[h=3]The UK Dept of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) will be folded[/h]Yesterday the GWPF said Let’s scrap DECC. Today it’s happening.“The UK’s Energy and Climate Change department is to be merged with the business department, according to people who have been briefed on the plans.”
Business will get control over energy and climate policy. Greens will cry. The Business portfolio has other agendas. It’s existence does not depend on whether we can change the weather.
[h=3]What about Theresa May?[/h]I confess to being skeptical. (Boris for PM!) How could any sensible person campaign for Remain? But not only has May appointed Boris, but her right hand man on UK Steel and climate policy type stuff has called the Climate Change Act a “unilateral and monstrous act of self-harm”. Furthermore, Paul Matthews looked at her voting record in detail and suspects she may be a quiet climate policy skeptic.
James Forsyth in the Spectator, says May is serious about Brexit:
Keep reading →

Greetings, Jack. :2wave:

All those Brits that built pools can fill them in and plant vegetables, which is already happening here. With the cost of food rising, it makes sense, and gardening is good exercise - just not as much fun as swimming! :mrgreen:
 
Greetings, Jack. :2wave:

All those Brits that built pools can fill them in and plant vegetables, which is already happening here. With the cost of food rising, it makes sense, and gardening is good exercise - just not as much fun as swimming! :mrgreen:

Good evening, Polgara.:2wave:

I'm not sure a swimming pool would be a good investment in the UK climate anyway.:mrgreen:
 
Conservative pollster Lord Michael Ashcroft surveyed 12,369 Brits voting in Thursday’s referendum and found 69 percent of those who voted to leave the EU saw the “green movement” as a “force for ill.” Some 62 percent of those voting to stay saw environmentalists as a “force for good.”

Not sure about that one..... back in my day a result of 131% would have been seen as wrong in some way......
 
Not sure about that one..... back in my day a result of 131% would have been seen as wrong in some way......
I am thinking they are two different questions, and are separating the "the green Movement" from "environmentalist".
 
Funny grammar made it sound like Britain was trying to legislatively abolish climate change.
 
Trump is beating Hillary. Bernie endorsed the establishment. Brexit. A coup in Turkey. Now this?

Somebody call Billy Joel ASAP, because the world is going insane.
 
United Nations
[h=1]UN Accuses Germany, Britain of “Betraying” the Paris Climate Accord[/h]Guest essay by Eric Worrall In the wake of a dramatic rollback of climate policy in Britain and Germany, the UN has accused Britain and Germany of “betraying the spirit” of the Paris Climate Accord. Ban Ki-moon’s climate change envoy has accused the UK and Germany of backtracking on the spirit of the Paris climate…

As Ban Ki-moon’s tenure as UN Secretary General draws to a close, he is no doubt thinking about his legacy, how history will remember him. Given the accelerating collapse of political climate enthusiasm across the world, my prediction is Ban Ki-moon will be remembered as the UN Secretary General who presided over the downfall of the green movement.

Just perhaps....;)
 
United Nations
[h=1]UN Accuses Germany, Britain of “Betraying” the Paris Climate Accord[/h]Guest essay by Eric Worrall In the wake of a dramatic rollback of climate policy in Britain and Germany, the UN has accused Britain and Germany of “betraying the spirit” of the Paris Climate Accord. Ban Ki-moon’s climate change envoy has accused the UK and Germany of backtracking on the spirit of the Paris climate…

I can't take him seriously standing next to that thing.
 
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