Is Global Warming a con to get more Taxpayers Money?

[pdq1]

In the pursuit of tackling Climate Change severe restrictions are put on companies and individuals and hefty taxes are put on us to comply.

But isn't mother nature able to tackle the problem. Only this week temperatures have been lower than at Xmas. There has been an exceptional amount of cloud cover meaning the sun's rays are unable to reach the ground.
Storms and tornados have diluted the carbon in the air. While we have been acting like King Canute hasn't nature tackled it much more successfully.

[baza]

yes it is a bl...y great con, energy suppliers put up prices vat goes on top, government gets more money, windfarms sprout up everywhere but do not produce enough energy to offset that used to make the windmills. dont get me started on the blot on the landscape they cause.

[jake-the-peg]

What part of the word "Global" in global warming are you having difficulty with?

Just because we're having a bit of cold weather for the time of year in Britain doesn't mean the rest of the world is

And where on earth do you get the idea that a few storms have diluted the carbon dioxide in the air?

[TTG]

Yes it is a con and only the UK seems to tax it's people because of it.

[deggers316]

yes! deffo

[weecalf]

its lib /con hot air that causes the global warming

[ludwig]

// But isn't mother nature able to tackle the problem. //

Absolutely she is. Humans will make themselves extinct. Problem tackled. Life will go on.

[birdie1971]

To a large extent, yes. It is a convenient method for governments throughout the world to collect more tax revenue but it is really a smoke-screen for something else entirely.

To illustrate my point, here are a few choice quotes. Make of them what you will.


“We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse ... isn’t it our job to bring that about?” [Maurice Strong, senior advisor to Kofi Annan, U.N. Secretary-General]

“The data doesn’t matter. We’re not basing our recommendations on the data. We’re basing them on the climate models” [Professor Chris Folland, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research]

“The models are convenient fictions that provide something very useful” [Dr David Frame, climate modeller, Oxford University]

“Unless we announce disasters no one will listen” [Sir John Houghton, first chairman of the IPCC]

“One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth” [Ottmar Edenhofer, IPCC official, in November 2010]

“No matter if the science of global warming is all phony... climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world” [Christine Stewart, former Canadian Minister of the Environment]

“Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it” [Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute]

“The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet” [Jeremy Rifkin, Greenhouse Crisis Foundation]

“It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true” [Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace]

“Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control” [Professor Maurice King]

“My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it’s full complement of species, returning throughout the world” [Dave Foreman, co-founder of Earth First]

“The Earth has cancer and the cancer is Man” [Club of Rome]

[naomi24]

I'm not much up on the pros and cons of it all, but whilst I do my best to care for the planet, I do think a lot of people are making a lot of money from it.

[Gromit]

True, mother nature will compensate for the changes and the planet will survive.

Unfortunately, the conditions here will change making it less habitable for humans and as a species will decline (we'll take a lot of others with us) and maybe eventually die out.

Global warming (and cooling) has happened before in Earth's history and is natural. The difference now is that we as a species are clever enough to see it is coming and that things we are doing are accelerating the adverse changes.

Unfortunately short term self interest (both personal and global political) prevent us doing the right thing. We say we can afford to be wasteful with polluting energy. Taxing is an attempt to make it so we cannot afford to be as wasteful with energy.

Stop polluting or everyone dies is a no-brainer. Unfortunately, we still need a big stick (Tax) to stop us doing the bad things we are addicted to.

[beso]

Birdie's quotes are irrelevant. He has chosen them to illustrate his prejudice. The are a vast number of other quotes that could be chosen to support the Global Warming Theory.

The fact is there is a vast body of observation and other evidence that indicates human activity is resulting in an increase in the heat being retained by the planet.

[Gromit]

Out of interest, what

// ...severe restrictions are put on individuals and hefty taxes are put on us to comply. //

What are those? What would you like to do but can't? How much hefty tax is it costing you?

[bazwillrun]

how about flight taxes for starters, increases in utility bills etc etc etc

but then you already know the answers but just like to try and argue with people hoping theyll get some little fact wrong/incorrect and then youre off on one of your usual pedantic/semantic trips

[andy-hughes]

I will be delighted to 'do my bit for the environment' as the saying goes, or 'reduce my carbon footprint' as the nonsensical red-braces-brigade phrase tells us, and I will, as soon as China stops building coall-fired power stations at the rate of one a week!

Individual input such as recycling is futile unless nations do their best to address polution.

Not because of 'global warming', but because it is good for us. The globe has always warmed up and cooled down and always will - but we can avoid poisoning the air, and should do, but that is for governments, not individuals.

The idea of rec-cycling is about as much as use as the boundary signs around the city where I live proclaiming it as a 'nuclear-free zone'. I assume this meant that they didn't allow weapons to be driven along its roads, since the flying enemy nuclear missiles which may be headed here cannot read.

[razza]

Just look at weather patterns over thousands of years,one big con.

[Mick-Talbot]

There is a simple solution

http://anongallery.or...warming-troll-physics

[beso]

Andy-Hughes I am sick of hearing the trite responses from ignorant fools with no interest in the facts nor changing any of their indulgent wastage of resources.

China is building modern efficient coal fired power plants and closing down old inefficient ones.

They have booming solar and wind energy industries. Indeed the plummeting global price of photovoltaic panels is largely due to Chinese industrial development.

China is also investing heavily in reconstruction of buildings to be far more energy efficient.

[beso]

Lazy people who can't be bothered recycling on the flimsiest of excuses are pathetic.

[beso]

razza // Just look at weather patterns over thousands of years,one big con.//

Why don't you actually go and read the science instead of simply believing what you would like to be true.

If you did you would see your post is complete folly.

[bazwillrun]

beso...get over yourself

"Why don't you actually go and read the science instead of simply believing what you would like to be true."

and theres just as much "science" to refute a lot of the spoon fed garbage you take as gospel.