The lastest missive from arch climate denier Farage is in this week's Kent on Sunday. This time he is complaining about the Thanet wind farm and wanting Dungeness C instead (plus more coal and gas too). Feels like time for a letter, so...
Dear Editor,
Nigel Farage is right to point out the coming energy crisis and that government should be working to close the energy gap but he is way off the mark with his solutions.
As a well publicised climate denier, Farage is content to dismiss the overwhelming evidence of scientists on climate change prefering to cite well known capitalists with vested interests instead. Rather than trusting the people who have brought us the current economic crisis, I would rather put my faith in what almost all the climate scientist are agreed on and look for energy solutions that are not going to worsen climate change.
Nigel Farage's pet solution, Dungeness C, is particularly strange. Ignoring the fact that it would be sited on an area most at risk from sea level rises, ignoring the fact that there is no long term solution to nuclear waste and ignoring the fact that nuclear power puts us into even more dependency on imported fuel, nuclear power cannot a long term solution as it relies on finite resources.
The amount of nuclear fuel is constrained in a similar way to oil, gas and coal, there is only a limited amount that can be dug up. The impact of continuing to use up these resources, especially with their impact on the climate, will be staggering. It is surely immoral to use up these finite resources when renewal energy is available.
If Mr Farage hates wind power so much there are other alternatives such as concentrated solar power, geothermal, tidal and wave power - all of which can combine to make power dependable. If we cut down on our energy use as well, we can have safe and affordable power now and power that our grandchildren can enjoy too.
Green Party campaigner in Kent. Also a nurse, academic, former manager, writer, Druid, husband and father...
Showing posts with label UKIP. Show all posts
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Sunday, 3 October 2010
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Maidstone man invents cure for flu and MS
Did you know that Lord Monckton, UKIP's very debuncked climate denier-in-chief, has his roots in Maidstone and claims to have invented cures for 'various infectious diseases' including flu and MS.
From the UKIP website: "Director responsible for invention and development of a broad-spectrum cure for infectious diseases. Patents have now been filed. Patients have been cured of various infectious diseases, including Graves’ Disease, multiple sclerosis, influenza, and herpes simplex VI. Our first HIV patient had his viral titre reduced by 38% in five days, with no side-effects"
Impressive stuff, with all this ground-breaking work he'll be able to pay the legal bill for UKIP accepting illegal donations. Of course if his science in the medical labs is as bad as it is when he tries to deny climate change is man-made then he won't be making very much money at all.
Oh, and is there really a virus called "herpes simplex VI"? I don't think so! Try searching on PubMed to see the wealth of articles....
From the UKIP website: "Director responsible for invention and development of a broad-spectrum cure for infectious diseases. Patents have now been filed. Patients have been cured of various infectious diseases, including Graves’ Disease, multiple sclerosis, influenza, and herpes simplex VI. Our first HIV patient had his viral titre reduced by 38% in five days, with no side-effects"
Impressive stuff, with all this ground-breaking work he'll be able to pay the legal bill for UKIP accepting illegal donations. Of course if his science in the medical labs is as bad as it is when he tries to deny climate change is man-made then he won't be making very much money at all.
Oh, and is there really a virus called "herpes simplex VI"? I don't think so! Try searching on PubMed to see the wealth of articles....
Thursday, 11 February 2010
More on Bloom's Glorifying
Just to follow up on the appalling email from the UKIP MEP that I posted a few days ago, below is his video glorifying the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior and therefore the murder of Fernando Pereira. A facebook group has started "UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom must go for ‘glorifying terrorism’"
Sunday, 7 February 2010
UKIP MEP: Greens are a greater threat than Al-Quaeda
Below is a piece from a Green in Sheffield, Adrian Cruden. He exposes one of the loonie UKIP MEPs and clearly demonstrates what a nasty piece of work this one is. Be careful what you vote for! This is the piece:
Godfrey Bloom was elected 6 years ago as the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) European MEP for Yorkshire & Humberside. He achieved brief notoriety when he got onto the European Parliament's Women's Committee and declared that the main issue he wanted to raise was the number of women who did not know how to clean behind fridges properly. Not for the last time, he later claimed his comments were a joke.
A sexist? Yes. A buffoon? Yes. Harmless? No.
Godfrey has now spent years and thousands of pounds of taxpayers money on his favourite activity of denying global warming is man-made. His spends much of his time spreading the lies and myths of the climate change deniers and rubbishing eco-activism. He is entitled to his opinions and I dare say to express them - it is for greens to challenge and expose them as the inventions and fibs that they are.
However, he recently posted a video on his Youtube channel, hilariously called Goddervision, entitled "Well done the French for sinking Greenpeace boat". In this, you can guffaw riproaringly as our representative claims global warming and Greenpeace are part of a middle class conspiracy for some sort of outward bound holiday (?!). But he finishes by celebrating the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior by the French secret services back in the mid-1980s. "Vive la France!", the smirking Europhobe concludes in a self-knowing display of faux irony.
I wrote to him pointing out someone was killed, and querying how he could support what, in effect, was an indiscriminate terrorist attack against a civilian target. I also asked him, as a constituent and a Green Party activist, if he felt that someone like myself is therefore a legitimate target for violence in his eyes.
Our correspondence is below. He rambles on about death being unacceptable (but does not condemn violence and is silent on the validity of Green people as targets) but then launches into an incoherent tirade about Greens being responsible for many many deaths - I think from hypothermia because, according to Godfrey, we don't have any nuclear power in the UK (which seems strange - I wonder what is going on in all these nuclear reactors at Sellafield, Hunterston, etc?).
Godfrey Bloom is a disgrace to Yorkshire. But more than that, by sowing confusion about the emergency facing us, he is potentially very dangerous - UKIP after all beat the Labour Party into second place in last year's European elections.
I can claim a small victory though - he has removed his video from Youtube...but not before I downloaded it and I happily present it on my video panel on the lower left side of my profile page for your edification. If you are a Green, remember that face - and beware if you see Godfrey lurking near your house.
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From: adriancruden@talk21.com
To: gbloom@ukip.org
Sent: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 9:43
Subject: Goddervision
Dear Mr Bloom
I am writing to you as one of your constituents to express my concern having watched your video, "Well done the French for sinking Greenpeace boat."
I would like to ask why you feel that it was acceptable for French secret service agents to attach and explode limpet mines to an unarmed, civilian ship when it was docked in a civilian port and, at times, open to members of the public to go on board and visit (and indeed this was something the French agents took advantage of as part of their reconnaissance). Whatever your objections to Greenpeace's activities, how can action of this nature be acceptable?
You will presumably be additionally aware that during the sinking, a photographer, a photographer, Fernando Pereira, was killed. Do I take it then that you endorse the murder of environmental activists? If so, what distinguishes your line from that of, say, the IRA or al-Quaeda?
I am an active member of the Green Party in Yorkshire and so I feel I need to ask you, as one of my local representatives expressing such views, if therefore you consider someone like myself or my property to be a legitimate target for violence?
Yours sincerely
Adrian Cruden
Re: GoddervisionThursday, 28 January, 2010 4:56 PMFrom: "emmabrader@aol.com"Add sender to ContactsTo: adriancruden@talk21.com
Dear Mr Cruden
It is extremely regrettable and indeed unacceptable for any loss of life of which incidentally I was not aware, memory being at fault here I think.
However, let me offer you another view. National Socialism, Islam-Fascism, eco-fascism always ends in the deaths of the innocent. The biggest threat to us today is not terrorism but eco fascism. It is eco fascism closing conventional power stations, trying to stop the building of new ones that work. Destroy whole communities with the ludicrous windmill fanaticism. That we have no nuclear power is a direct result of eco-fascism. Hundreds die every year of hypothermia, thousands more will join them after 2015. Green taxes and significantly higher fuel bills will drive industry abroad and impoverish old age pensioners. All, so spoiled middle class ‘environmentalists’ can do their thing at the expense of poor people in wealthy countries and the emerging African and Asian economies.
No Mr Cruden, you bear and will continue to bear responsibilities for deaths on a much bigger scale than the IRA or Al-Quaeda, and all based on fraudulent and junk science of which ordinary people are now being made aware.
Yours sincerely
Godfrey Bloom
Godfrey Bloom was elected 6 years ago as the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) European MEP for Yorkshire & Humberside. He achieved brief notoriety when he got onto the European Parliament's Women's Committee and declared that the main issue he wanted to raise was the number of women who did not know how to clean behind fridges properly. Not for the last time, he later claimed his comments were a joke.
A sexist? Yes. A buffoon? Yes. Harmless? No.
Godfrey has now spent years and thousands of pounds of taxpayers money on his favourite activity of denying global warming is man-made. His spends much of his time spreading the lies and myths of the climate change deniers and rubbishing eco-activism. He is entitled to his opinions and I dare say to express them - it is for greens to challenge and expose them as the inventions and fibs that they are.
However, he recently posted a video on his Youtube channel, hilariously called Goddervision, entitled "Well done the French for sinking Greenpeace boat". In this, you can guffaw riproaringly as our representative claims global warming and Greenpeace are part of a middle class conspiracy for some sort of outward bound holiday (?!). But he finishes by celebrating the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior by the French secret services back in the mid-1980s. "Vive la France!", the smirking Europhobe concludes in a self-knowing display of faux irony.
I wrote to him pointing out someone was killed, and querying how he could support what, in effect, was an indiscriminate terrorist attack against a civilian target. I also asked him, as a constituent and a Green Party activist, if he felt that someone like myself is therefore a legitimate target for violence in his eyes.
Our correspondence is below. He rambles on about death being unacceptable (but does not condemn violence and is silent on the validity of Green people as targets) but then launches into an incoherent tirade about Greens being responsible for many many deaths - I think from hypothermia because, according to Godfrey, we don't have any nuclear power in the UK (which seems strange - I wonder what is going on in all these nuclear reactors at Sellafield, Hunterston, etc?).
Godfrey Bloom is a disgrace to Yorkshire. But more than that, by sowing confusion about the emergency facing us, he is potentially very dangerous - UKIP after all beat the Labour Party into second place in last year's European elections.
I can claim a small victory though - he has removed his video from Youtube...but not before I downloaded it and I happily present it on my video panel on the lower left side of my profile page for your edification. If you are a Green, remember that face - and beware if you see Godfrey lurking near your house.
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From: adriancruden@talk21.com
To: gbloom@ukip.org
Sent: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 9:43
Subject: Goddervision
Dear Mr Bloom
I am writing to you as one of your constituents to express my concern having watched your video, "Well done the French for sinking Greenpeace boat."
I would like to ask why you feel that it was acceptable for French secret service agents to attach and explode limpet mines to an unarmed, civilian ship when it was docked in a civilian port and, at times, open to members of the public to go on board and visit (and indeed this was something the French agents took advantage of as part of their reconnaissance). Whatever your objections to Greenpeace's activities, how can action of this nature be acceptable?
You will presumably be additionally aware that during the sinking, a photographer, a photographer, Fernando Pereira, was killed. Do I take it then that you endorse the murder of environmental activists? If so, what distinguishes your line from that of, say, the IRA or al-Quaeda?
I am an active member of the Green Party in Yorkshire and so I feel I need to ask you, as one of my local representatives expressing such views, if therefore you consider someone like myself or my property to be a legitimate target for violence?
Yours sincerely
Adrian Cruden
Re: GoddervisionThursday, 28 January, 2010 4:56 PMFrom: "emmabrader@aol.com"
Dear Mr Cruden
It is extremely regrettable and indeed unacceptable for any loss of life of which incidentally I was not aware, memory being at fault here I think.
However, let me offer you another view. National Socialism, Islam-Fascism, eco-fascism always ends in the deaths of the innocent. The biggest threat to us today is not terrorism but eco fascism. It is eco fascism closing conventional power stations, trying to stop the building of new ones that work. Destroy whole communities with the ludicrous windmill fanaticism. That we have no nuclear power is a direct result of eco-fascism. Hundreds die every year of hypothermia, thousands more will join them after 2015. Green taxes and significantly higher fuel bills will drive industry abroad and impoverish old age pensioners. All, so spoiled middle class ‘environmentalists’ can do their thing at the expense of poor people in wealthy countries and the emerging African and Asian economies.
No Mr Cruden, you bear and will continue to bear responsibilities for deaths on a much bigger scale than the IRA or Al-Quaeda, and all based on fraudulent and junk science of which ordinary people are now being made aware.
Yours sincerely
Godfrey Bloom
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