And Mr Helmer has The Hockey Stick Illusion down as recommended further reading (bottom of the page). Good man!

Did you send him a copy Bishop?

Aha, I've just come across an article on Helmer (he's an MEP not MP) here:

http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2011/06/flying-porkies.html

In a response to him the BBC minion reiterated their stance on the Climate Debate.

"Thank you for your correspondence concerning the Climate Change page on the BBC's Weather website. Firstly, it is worth pointing out that in terms of impartiality, the BBC has come to the view that the weight of evidence no longer justifies equal space being given to the opponents of the consensus."

So no moving with the times there then.

An excellent presentation from Roger Helmer MP at http://www.rogerhelmer.com/greenclimatepolicies.asp.
This is highly recommended!

The Government believes that "climate change is one of the gravest threats we face, and that urgent action at home and abroad is required".

I sometimes wonder where exactly climate change should rank when we include: Jobs, Growth, Crime, Justice, Security, Defence, Health, Immigration, Education, Pensions, Transport, Honesty, Integrity ...

Lord Turnbull, demanded that politicians ‘stop frightening us and our children’ about the threat of global warming. He demanded that Whitehall and ministers consider the damaging economic impact of blindly following the ‘climate change agenda’.

The drive for wind turbines is being subsidised by the Renewable Obligation – a scheme that forces power companies to buy a proportion of their energy from renewable sources such as wind.

The scheme artificially inflates the cost of coal, oil and gas power, and subsidises green power, making investment in costly wind farms profitable. The cost is passed on in fuel bills.

A second scheme, the European Emission Trading Scheme, forces energy companies and heavy industry to offset greenhouse gas emissions with ‘carbon credits’ – permits that allow them to generate a certain amount of carbon dioxide.

The scheme has been hit by scandals including tax fraud, the re-sale of used carbon credits and the theft of millions of emission permits.

Once industries have used up their free allocation of credits, they must buy them on the open market – inflating the cost of energy even more.

Bills are pushed up further by the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target – which forces suppliers to subsidise home insulation and new boilers.

Bills are also inflated by the Feed In Tariffs – a scheme that encourages homes and small businesses to install wind turbines and solar panels by guaranteeing a fixed, high price for electricity they sell to the National Grid.

And yet, despite the growing cost of these taxes, you won’t find any mention of them at all on your gas and electricity bills ...

‘That, of course, suits the Government down to the ground. If it raised the huge sums required to encourage renewable energy and limit carbon emission through general taxation it would make the Government itself very unpopular.'

Not often one sees all the scams listed in a single article.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2001181/Hidden-green-tax-fuel-bills-How-200-stealth-charge-slipped-gas-electricity-bill.html

Massive sunspot has been seen. Isn't this the 1st one for ages??

Peter Walsh

No need to go to confession! Instead of having to visit that pesky priest, the evidence for your various crimes against humanity can be automatically added to your Facebook page. Photos of bloody rags, empty syringes, debt collection letters, used condoms and sanitary towels, suppository packets, AZT bottles, old clippings from the Guardian, .. in full colour for all your friends (and Representative Weiner) to see. Sounds too good to be true? Not at all.

Woodentop beat me to it, the report at The Register should be compulsive reading for every household. A letter should be attached to every electricity bill outlining the increased costs.

Energy price rises and the green stealth tax connection:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/green_stealth_taxes_driving_up_leccy_price/

Tallbloke has posted (June 2nd) an excellent summary of why CO2 has nothing to do with the warming of the 20th century -

http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/what-caused-global-warming-in-the-late-c20th/

I don't think this has been picked up by many folk - surely worthy of wider coverage?