Before we carry on let us not waste time on the science. You will recall that there ain't none in the warmist's favour. Not a jot. Nuffink. Diddly sqaut. Zero. Stupid computer modelling that couldn't model its way out of a paper bag aplenty, but a big fat donut in the fact department. You will also recall that the planet hasn't warmed at all in the last seven years. Bloody nuisance, I know, but them's the breaks. We've been down this road so many times I'm bored with it. You either believe me or you don't. And if you don't it is vanishingly unlikely you would be wasting your time reading this anyway.
The National Government disappoints me greatly in its announcement of today that we will be shooting for a 10-15% reduction in something. Carbon? Jelly beans? Sabre tooth tigers? I dunno. Anyway this reduction will 'only' cost every man woman and child in New Zealand $1400 per annum. What a snip. From now until the man with the long beard and scythe turns up at my front door with his clipboard I can throw $1400 down the dunny every year confident I am helping save the planet. 'Cos a government told me I was. Terrific. If you think I am buying into that sort of crap you can think again. Oh, and as well as the dosh we have to reduce the size of our dairy herds 'cos all the cows break wind too often. The farmers are into this like a robber's dog - not. And we have to swap the automotive horsepower for the type with tails. Where am I going to find stabling for 390 horses? Mind numbingly stupid, all of it.
$1400 a year for every man, woman and child eh? How are the kids going to find their $1400? Sausage sizzles? BarBQs to save the planet from evil CO₂. Brilliant. Where will the OAPs get their $1400? The full time career beneficiaries (and we aren't sort of them) aren't going to have a spare $1400 at the end of the year after they've bought their beer and Sky subscriptions are they? I'll tell you who is going to pay for the kids, oldies and idle. It'll be you and me, the compliant taxpayer. I reckon today's estimate of $1400 per head will be looking more like four or five grand a pop for those of us who actually earn our crust.
What is becoming apparent to even the terminally stupid, however, is the blindingly obvious truth that all this global warming bollocks has less to do with science and everything to do with politics and nasty left wing politics at that.
I said earlier on that Nick Smith and the Nats have disappointed royally over all this but they may have been more cunning than I give them credit for. We are only in the gun for this economically stupid reduction of bullshit stuff that matters not a toss if the rest of the world signs up for it at a meeting in Copenhagen or somewhere equally not very warm later in the year. If those well known anthropogenic global warming disciples China and India don't sign up we can walk away and say 'Love to help, but the dog ate me homework'. Well India have already said that they are as interested in all this crap as they are in getting rid of all their cows so there ain't going to be a big bit of paper with subcontinent signatures on it in Denmark in November.
So we might yet be alright.
But that's just us. There are an increasing number of theories circulating that the damned IPCC is just a front for much more evil fings at the UN. Tuvalu disappearing (which it isn't) is just a stalking horse for the real thing. World governance (read government) and redistribution of wealth on a global scale. Helen Clark is the third most powerful in the UN to hand out blankets in the Congo? I don't think so. She got the job in New York because John Key wrote a nice note to the Korean bloke? Or she got it because it was the sort of thing her and her international socialist mates had been working towards for the best part of thirty years? Would they be interested in undeveloping the developed countries to make every person on the earth equal? You bet they would.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist but there has to be a good reason why all this climate non science has grown such legs. As the evidence accumulates that the warmists predictions are a load of crap the obfuscation by the Al Gores of the world are getting louder and more unbalanced. Even in the face of a rising tide of fact the warmists as a group are still winning as they have captured the mainstream media. Surely their tide will start going out soon.
Oh, and who else is winning? The fat slug himself. When Al Gore left proper politics he was worth US$2 million. He is now worth $US120 million. I'd lie through my teeth for half that.
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