Ask me your questions on the Copenhagen summit

Comment by Caroline Coram on December 4, 2009 at 4:35 pm

What are governments (particularly the Conservatives!) going to do to enable private householders to more readily adopt energy saving systems in the home? VAT exemptions? Easier grant applications? More relaxed planning application parameters?

Comment by John Kyffin on December 4, 2009 at 4:41 pm

As I don’t except Climate Change as nothing more than scare tack-ticks and a new way of taxation blaming it all on the People of the planet my question is this :- Of what part of Climate change has been caused by Two Nuclear Bombs, Plenty of Underground tests, relentless rocket tests, space travel, as measures taken in Unleaded Petrol and Aerosols have not worked why blame us all the time. Or Maybe because we are slowing down we are out of sync with our orbital path
caused by the tsunami which rocked the planet and no more has been said about that it was moved .5 millimeter how much damage has that caused. Thank You

Comment by Mark Nolan on December 4, 2009 at 10:36 pm

Big Brother at work again. My question is, what caused the last Ice Age and what made it melt? Guess it wasn’t a 4X4 car. How can people go from one tax raising scare to the other. We must be mad!!! Super Bug, the Ice Age in the 1970’s now we are going to burn. The “experts” never get it right, its about time the truth is really told!!!!

Comment by Tim Gardiner on December 5, 2009 at 3:50 am

With regard to the ever increasing importance placed, by current Government and many Policy documents (Planning in particular), upon the need to cut/ reduce Climate Change. It would be clear to those with half a brain that, as the economy and the population continue to grow, so to will carbon emissions increase. Would it not therefore be appropriate to put a cap on these two factors – is the population of the UK not sufficiently high already? And as regards the Economy – well, that can’t be managed at it’s current levels, so maybe it would make it easier for everybody if it wasn’t so big?!

Comment by Martin Ackroyd on December 5, 2009 at 9:59 am

When will the Conservative Party leadership wake up and realise:

- Graphs of rising global temperature are based on falsified data.

- Predictions of Global Warmiing due to CO2 are based on exaggerated estimates of its effect and untestable computer models.

- The British public has rumbled the Climate Change swindle?

Martin Ackroyd, PhD

Comment by Phil Granger on December 5, 2009 at 12:11 pm

The main problems facing the human race are over-population, the waste of finite resources and water & food shortages, partly due to climate change!
If these problems are not addressed and we continue to overload and rip-off this planet, there will be no point in acting on climate change!
As long as politicians pretend that living standards can stay the same or even increase, we have no hope of survival, but then they have never been known to deal in the truth, it is unknown to them!
As long as they play their silly games about banning plastic bags, turning off phone chargers,
cutting a few miles off a journey, etc., to save the world, we might as well kiss our backsides goodbye!

Comment by David Armitage on December 5, 2009 at 2:01 pm

Population, population, population – the biggest threat to the environment and, guess what, hardly any politician ever seems to mention it. Why is that ?

Comment by Phil Granger on December 5, 2009 at 6:47 pm

If I may answer David Armitage’s e-mail. The problem is, governments haven’t saved what we’ve paid in over the years for such things as pensions and have spent even more, putting
themselves in hock to the future! So have a vested interest in an expanding population to pay for the expanding debt, sort of like a pyramid debt system! Sadly for all of us, their chickens will be coming
home to roost in 2010! Big Time!

Comment by John smith on December 6, 2009 at 12:36 am

My feeling is that “green taxes” are a net drain on the economy. “Green taxes” raises the price of the service thereby making it less likely that people will use the service or forced to pay for an alternative service. The result is less tax revenue, job loss, and in the long-term contraction of the economy through loss of opportunities. Additionally due to job losses it means that job retraining will need to occur or those who loss their jobs to their job not being green will be kept out of the job market.

If the Conservatives win the next general election will the Conservatives cut “green taxes?” If not, please explain?

Comment by John smith on December 6, 2009 at 12:52 am

I have one more question which I hope you do not mind. The Conservative’s position on green policies has caught my attention and it is quite inline with my beliefs. When I was considering joing the Conservative Party the one thing that kept me form joining, at the time, I felt your green policies were too liberal for me and having realistic green policies is something that is vitally important to me. I realise that the general election is less than six months away and this appearant shift in policy has made me wonder if it is a “political ploy” to get votes then after annihilating Labour at the polls reverting back to a liberal “green policy”. For me I am wanting to know that if elected the Conservatives will keep the position that has now on green issues and will not revert to a policy that is even more liberal than Labour.

Comment by Chris D on December 6, 2009 at 3:54 pm

I dont suppose any negative questions on climate change will be accepted or answered, such is the state of manipulation of this topic. The UN has planned all along to use climate change as an excuse to control the world’s population, supposedly to “save the planet”…. some 20,000 misguided climate-change marchers have obviously not got the message or else are blind to fact. Global governance has some horrible and unexpected surprises in store…..those fervently in favour of “deals at Copenhagen” will be crying bitterly in the near future.

Comment by Mike Crowley on December 6, 2009 at 7:44 pm

I don’t understand why DC misses so many open goals.
EU takeover – worse than ignored: a stupid list of unattainable aims listed as EU Policy.
Labour “Ya boo you load of toffs”.
DC “Please, please don’t use double (or more) barrelled names”. For pity’s sake man, that is screaming from the rooftops that Labour have a point.
AGW – the common herd rumbled long ago that it had all the marks of a con trick.
DC still boasting how green he is. Well so he is indeed, but not the way he means.
Look Dave when you’ve decided how many fairies can dance oh a pin head just let us know and then start acting as the statesmanlike leader you obviously have the ability to be.

As EU ratified without agreed referendum the electorate must be given an opportunity to pass judgement. In 3 year’s time a choice will be given to vote on: retain full membership; negotiate a “Switzerland” or a “Norway”

Careful use of finite fuels is obviously essential but let us wait and see how the EGW debate goes before considering any inter-government initiatives.

Two statements like that would give you a landslide victory and all the authorisation needed to tackle our debt horror.

Mr Cameron you need to be, and look, bold and stop worrying about anything else.

With hope and sincere good wishes,
Mike Crowley

Comment by Patsy Sergeant on December 7, 2009 at 1:24 pm

I would like to echo Phil Grainger’s and David Armitage’s comment about over-population of the world. We already have a situation on this planet where many people do not have enough to eat. At the same time we have medical science having ever more success at keeping evermore people alive – both young and old, i.e. the ‘natural’ balance regarding death and population has long disappeared.

All countries should be debating how the world is going to find enough food and shelter for the people’s of the world NOW, rather than wait until the problem overwhelms us – which it will, without a nuclear war!

I would also like to say a very firm NO to Wind Turbines spread all across the countryside, there should be a public vote about littering whats left of the countryside.

Comment by Chamali Fernando on December 7, 2009 at 2:41 pm

Will you champion the need for an International Court for the Environment (“ICE”) to enforce UN treaty obligations and assert fair and equitable environmental rights for all? Chamali Fernando, Barrister & Advisor to the Coalition for ICE.

Comment by Steve Day on December 7, 2009 at 9:24 pm

Sir, I have just read the parties environmental policy and also the parties official position about encouraging communities to embrace the benefits of Wind Farms. Which I wholeheartedly support,. Yet sir your Parties Candidate for Sedgefield Co Durham ( Blairs old patch) states in a huge great advert sent to every household in the area, that the Conservatives if elected to represent Sedgefield will campaign AGAINST onshore wind farms, This has alienated lots of right of centre pro wind activists in the area including me. So who is telling the truth Party HQ or Sedgefield party office ?. We require a straight and honest answer if you please.
Thanks.

Comment by realist on December 8, 2009 at 4:46 pm

What are you going to do to make sure that CLIMATEGATE dominates the Copenhagen conference and removing the news blackout in Europe on ClimateGate?

Comment by David Price on December 8, 2009 at 5:41 pm

The first priority for any MP and minister must be the interests of constituents and UK citizens. Focus on ensuring energy, water and food security for the UK and you get my support. Get enviegled into focusing on others at the disadvantage of UK and promoting the true Green agenda of wealth re-distribution and you don’t. It’s that simple.

Rational conservation, re-use and recycling of energy and resources for economic reasons is sensible. The Climate issue and the UN/IPCC/Copenhagen direction is however a massive socialist scam and should be avoided.

Comment by Dr John Ferguson on December 12, 2009 at 5:24 pm

The total contribution to the atmosphere of CO2 as a result of human activities, since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, is 0.011% – yes only one hundredth of one percent . The primary source of greenhouse activity is water vapour and it constitutes 96% of this activity. The CO2 produced by humans is a small fraction of the CO2 produced naturally. No one has demonstrated satisfactorily that the change in climate is driven in any significant way by the CO2 produced by human activities. The IPCC agenda is driven by about 50 individuals, some of whom have made a fortune from their scare stories. A list of 450 peer-reviewed papers which question the assumption that human activity drives climate change has just been compiled. Most of these papers having been published this century. Over 31000 scientists, either working in the climate field or following the research, have signed a petition which affirms that climate change is not caused primarily by human activity. The UK Climatic Research Unit of East Anglia University is a primary source of information for the IPCC and the recently released e-mails and program notes shows just how flawed the data is and the lengths to which these people will go to get any contrary evidence suppressed. People like Ed Miliband say that “climate change has started” without apparently realising that climate change has been going on for billions of years. The Copenhagen conference (Dec. 2009) is like King Canute going through the motions of stopping the tides. When are the politicians going to cotton on to the biggest scam in history and the hidden agenda of those who have been driving the process? I am a scientist who has closely followed the whole sorry story over a number of years and, like many other scientists, am pleased that the edifice is cracking and crumbling as we watch. Yes – let us be more efficient in our use of energy, yes – let us encourage better insulation, yes- let us work to reduce pollution but, oh dear, the way this is being driven is an utter scandal. The destruction of our countryside by wind turbines is a shameful episode in our history which is driven by greed and massive subsidies from the public all cloaked under the flawed banner of ‘saving the planet.’

Comment by Joe Blogg on December 13, 2009 at 8:20 pm

Sadly the majority of Politicians here in the UK and across the planet have been ambushed by the Global warming zealots, these poor misguided politicicians have been fooled into thinking Global Warming is a vote catching and trendy bandwagon to jump on even though the worlds majority disagrees with it,.

As shown in copenhagen the main aims of the Green zealots is more to do with anarchy and their anti capitalist views, these misguided souls would have us all living and starving in a stone age society.

Politicians are not all as bright as they think they are or they would clearly see that the IPCC amongst others have manipulated their figures and graphs to suit their own needs, they do so because that is whats paying their overly generous wages and financing their scientific grants.

In truth the facts are that their is no change in climate, real scientific facts can prove that provided they are not doctored before they are presented..it is no warmer now than a 1000 years ago…democracy’s across the world should put it to their own people to say how far each country should go in its pursuit of its beliefs or disbeliefs.

If you think by pursuing these ridiculous claims of a global warming apocalypse that you will win the votes and the hearts of the people then you are sadly and very badly mistaken, you will alienate a generation of voters when they see through the deceit which has plunged their generation into needless financial hardship along with a crippling shortage of energy to heat their homes and run their cars or even run a business,

Yes its good to become less reliant on fossle fuels and to be less wasteful, but why should we deny our young the chance of future prosperity when we are still sitting on vast coal reserves which could be generating electrictity, at very least we should be ditching un reliable and very expensive wind turbines and divert these funds towards nuclear energy power stations.

Sadly you Politicians seem to be far to reliant on think tanks that are extremely biased towards the global warming theme as that is what keeps their services and wages safe.

So please…Enough of this nonsense before we saddle our children and our childrens children in debt in our efforts to solve an issue thats is not an issue at all.

Your party has much to offer, you would do better to focus on the real issues of your electorate, Things like distancing ourselves from the EU bullies and their mad cap directives, then your party could start to undo and unpick all of the nulab madness laws and bills of the past12 years.

Do not be afraid to disagree with other countries on global warming nor with the EU and their ridculous demands…what your Voters want is an Independant Britain which is accountable only to itself.

If you can do that you will have a long and strong stay as the main Part y in British politics.

Comment by John Smith on December 31, 2009 at 3:42 pm

Concentrate on developing a population policy, stopping immigration would be a start. By all means continue recycling and energy saving, but if this country only contributes about 3% to global CO2 why bother with all of this climate change tosh when it appears figures have been fiddled to suit vested interests. Use of resources will only be controlled when population globaly is controlled

Comment by The real John Smith on January 13, 2010 at 9:04 am

Greg,

People are seeing through this Climate Change scam now. We’ve really had enough of it and more and more people simply don’t believe it – for very good reasons!

And, I’m bloomin’ freezing!

Comment by The real John Smith on January 15, 2010 at 8:25 am

Oh Dear! It’s not looking good. Now NASA have been found manipulating the GISS temp data to show 2005 as the warmest year on record. Sooo, that’s 2 of the main 4 data sets shown to be fraudulent…

This bandwagon has to be stopped now.

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=30000