In the week that the Key Government is rushing to shackle New Zealand with its rushed-through Emissions Trading Scam, it’s worth recalling what the Wall Street Journal said of it back in September:
To the annals of global warming lunacy, add this gem from New Zealand: According to [the Key Government, Nick Smith and] a parliamentary committee, Kiwis should accept lower standards of living to protect the national image abroad.”
- ‘Kiwi Carbon Haze,’ Wall Street Journal, September 7, 2009
UPDATE 1: Here’s an excerpt from a new book in which the author warns “the political disaster we are creating far outstrips any human impact on the environment”:
“This political consensus is a dangerous thing, because the remedies being proposed to mitigate the AGW predictions are breathtaking in their scope, and will have negative consequences for billions of people.
“This conclusion is not a matter of hypothetical computer modeling, conjecture, or percentages on a graph. The governmental actions being planned now are on a scale commensurate with socialist planned economies, and would place the very heart of industrial society-the motive power that keeps its industry beating-under the control of a labyrinthine maze of all-powerful government bureaucracies.
“Should these proposals be adopted, the people of the industrialized nations will be subjected to controls over minutiae of daily life on a level previously thought intolerable.
“It behooves policy planners, scientists and citizens alike to grasp the consequences of such policies, while they consider the shaky, disputed scientific grounds on which the calls for action are based...”
- a short excerpt from "History, Politics, and Claims of Man-made Global
Warming" -- an article by Dr. John Lewis, Associate Professor, Philosophy,
Politics and Economics, Duke University and published in a new book
Natural Resources, the Environment, and Human Welfare, edited by Ellen
Fraenkel Paul, Fred D. Miller Jr. and Jeffrey Paul (Cambridge, 2009)
UPDATE 2: Another quote that goes straight to the heart,just like a knife between the ribs:
- Lou Taylor at No Minister
Yep, we've all been sold out by this slick and "smiling assassin" and the lunatic from Nelson. Disgusting.
ReplyDeleteOne is about ready for armed revolt.
You can't really "hide the decline" when it comes to common sense.
ReplyDeleteGod save us all from this new world religion which is intent destroying all the gains humanity has made in improving the lot of mankind.
Fucking criminal lunatics.
ReplyDeleteI will never forgive them for this never!
ReplyDeleteSo, a premptive strike on his own foot with a bullet is the outcome of Dr Nick Smith's trying to protect the national image abroad. Who reads the Wall Street Journal?--mostly people of influence. We come out looking like utter naive chumps.
ReplyDelete"Their report, issued last week, doesn't question disputed United Nations climate-change assumptions,...This is green PR gone wild.....The law, if anything, has made the country less green, not more so."
Well did Muldoon note "There are two kinds of Doctors; Ones that make you well, and ones that make you sick"
Smith and Key should be locked up. They pass the qualifications of treachery to NZ.
George
@PC: Just for the record, I agree with you.
ReplyDeleteETS creates a market for a non-product that nobody wants.
John Ralston Saul picked it.
ReplyDeleteFrom the 1993 edition of Voltaire's Bastards.
"If the scientific-administrative structure were somehow to be won over to the Greens, it would be just as secretive, retentive and sure of itself as ever. From the self-evident truths of nuclear energy as a beneficial social good, we would pass to the self-evident truth of generalised nondevelopment."