States vote for an energy policy on global warming
Thursday 4th February 2010, 2:58PM GMT.
Deputy Daniel Wimberley (right) with the climate change petition and Mark Forskitt, chairman of the Jersey Climate Action Network
MINISTERS will publish a report on how to reduce Jersey’s contribution to global warming by August.
The States have approved a proposition by Deputy Daniel Wimberley, who presented a 1,000-signature petition which asks them to consider the Copenhagen summit on climate change and report on how they will respond in six months.
The proposition was approved by 42 votes to four after ministers agreed to back the proposal.
Their response is expected to include a report on a new energy policy for Jersey.
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There is No Global Warming (other than daytime and summer)and even if there was the water level would not like Al said it would that is about 2 years after his film he bought a beach front house and the used to grow grain in Greenland before it got cold there do Governments have the right to tell nature what to do, and even if we stopped all man made CO2 it would at best by proper science not the science of tax reduce temps by .5c to 1c at most. Greenpeace (and i am not even a big fan of them) have called for the resignation of the head of the IPCC over the fake data and the destruction of the source data before it could be investigated. Are the States going to be party to more lies (war in iraq)
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I am sure that any measures that the States decide to take will be expensive and ineffective. Jersey is such a small and insignificant dot on the map that we can do nothing useful on a global scale.
It seems that many of our gullible politicians have been taken in by the myth of Global Warming. There is climate change as that is always happening. It has far more to do with minor changes on the sun than on human activity. The cold winter that we have been having and the previous one were predicted based on the very low sunspot activity. That follows from The Little Ice Age at the time of the Maunder Minimum and similar events since then at intervals of about 100 years.
For more information just look at the web site of the Australian scientist David Archibald. A quick search using Google will take you to it.
Just suppose that human activity was significant then the only answer is to start to reduce the human population which is now growing in an apparently uncontrollable way. If you know of an acceptable of achieving that please let us know.
Meanwhile, the only prediction that I can make is that the myth will be used as an excuse to raise out taxes.
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They are only 4.5 billion years too late.
Why don’t they try to solve real man made problems such as War, murder, rape, theft, corruption. SNAFU!!
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A 1000 strong petition is hardly representative of the island of 90,000 plus. Perhaps the other 89,000 people view this “Global Warming” issue with a hefty view of scepticism.
Oh I do love a good bit of extra taxation, don’t you?
Que Nick Palmer to tell us how truthful Global Warming is and that the data from NASA, IPCC and the University of East Anglia have all been taken out of context….
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Another money making scam invented by “scientists”and drawn up on a computer.
I,ve asked before and i,ll ask again.
What caused the temperature to rise after the last ice age when there was no traffic no industry no nothing,but nevertheless it rose significantly?
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Strange a 19000 petition against a tax, totally ignored. 1000 petition that will lead to a new tax taken very much on board as fast as possible. Shame it is all based on very dodgy science.
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No such thing as global warming, the climate has been changing for billions of years as we all know.
Man is only worried of his demise which mother nature will end anyway.
I said a million times man needs to worry as mother nature will always heal herself whatever is thrown at her.
Simples!
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We may be seeing dramatic changes to the weather around the world and in the atlantic later in the year. The brain washers will till you its the end of the world, but its more likely its a natural ENSO knock on effect. Thats the wonderful world of nature.
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They have agreed “to consider the Copenhagen summit on climate change and report on how they will respond in six months”.
I do that with kids all the time, Its a great ploy not do to anything.
Still, so long as it keeps Wimbles happy and quiet.
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I wrote to the JEP last about this a year ago today:
http://www.thisisjersey.com/2009/02/02/our-only-limit-is-our-imagination/
We have the resources to build small hydroelectric turbines, we could easily phase them in a cost effective way, effectively eliminating our carbon footprint caused by fossil fuels.
NJ.
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Aren’t we very luck to have so many talented scientists on jersey, all posting their garbled understanding of how the vast majority of the worlds scientists view the current climate change forecasts. It is sad to see so little critical reading amongst the posters here, all preferring to rehash the daily mail last sensationalist headline. Is it not better to reduce waste and pollution and do we not all have a responsibility to use energy more carefully? I cannot see why there is so much militant support for current lifestyles which as we all know could be greener. The problem is that unless people are forced to, they will not think about pollution and waste issues, that is why th governments have to implement policies to take care of these externalities.
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Algore2 – At last, someone who speaks total sense.
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#11 I suspect what is not helping is that Governments are going for the ‘easier’ targets (and using it to fill their own pockets), and avoiding the vote-losing issues that are actually key to climate change.
The vote-losing issue is encouraging people to have no more than 2 children. No-one is suggesting murdering kids or anything (obviously) but simply through education and financial incentive (only giving out financial support for up to 2 children) gradually making it clear to people that there needs to be a slow-down in population growth. Instead on yesterday’s news we hear about the housing crisis and how a couple with 7 children HAVE been promised a larger house!!! Not one that THEY are paying for might I add.
As far as I can see this is the one area that all scientists do agree on, the biggest cause of climate change is the population level. We have allowed the population to increase beyond that which the planet can happily sustain.
I do my bit as regards conserving energy, walking as much as I can, but I will not be told to stop driving my car (I have arthritis) while others go off and have 3, 4, 5,… kids! They are doing far more damage to the environment than I ever could.
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The founder of the The Weather Channel in the US has described the concept of global warming as ‘the greatest scam in history’ and accused global media of colluding with ‘environmental extremists’ to alarm the public.
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11 algore2 and 13 Leah Holmes. I agree.
I too believe in cutting emissions and waste. Living greener is a benefit to us all. But brain washing people and ignoring 4.5 billion years of the planets climate history to control people, put up taxes and keep 3rd world countries in the 3rd world is a scam.
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Why don’t politicians just for once, try and treat us people (you know, the ones that put them in office) with a modicum of intellect. They could then tell us that we need to reduce the amount of fossil fuel we use and the amount of our waste that we create.
See, that wasn’t too difficult was it?
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Agree with these comments.
Global warming scammers,the media,the all powerful and never to be questioned health lobby exploits the gullible by force feeding them on a constant diet of phony “science” panic and guilt in true Nazi fashion.
Persecuted by the state like naughty school-children who won,t do as they are told.
zealots who take it upon themselves to dictate peoples behaviour and are deluded enough to think that they speak for the majority of the population
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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