The Wheels Are Coming Off

It all comes down to more taxes, to say government can control the weather. We had a snow storm this weekend, it dumped four feet of new spring snow in parts of the west. Gummed up the works terribly, Interstates closed, people told to stay inside, as the blizzard raged. It's not that unusual to have late spring snows, but it just adds to the winter that seems to never end.

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Had to happen, sooner or later people were going to realize what the hysterical arm waving global warming hoax was all about -- And when they did, they would act. Last Friday in England, that event happened. That election was all about the hysterical ranting of idiots and the taxes they wanted to raise. "Red Ken" Livingston took the lead, he was at the top of the list and he lost the election. Gordon Brown the PM spectacularly lost the people's support everywhere. Here is a choice series of quotes before and after the election.

Gordon Brown is poised to scrap a series of unpopular tax rises as part of sweeping changes to stave off a dangerous revolt over the rising cost of living which last week dealt Labour its worst electoral hammering in 40 years. Today the Prime Minister will respond to a growing suburban uprising by signalling moves to help motorists and other consumers. Last night Downing Street sources hinted the 2 per cent rise in fuel duty due in the autumn may not go ahead, in a concession to tight household budgets.
--Gaby Hinsliff and Jo Revill, The Observer, 4 May 2008

Internal polling in London found Ken Livingstone's green policies, such as new charges for gas-guzzling cars, alienated older voters, while the environment was at best a low priority for others, suggesting that, as families' budgets shrink, so does their willingness to pay to save the planet. 'My colleagues will say Labour has got to be brave on green issues, but the public are really feeling the pinch,' said one senior minister.
--Gaby Hinsliff and Jo Revill, The Observer, 4 May 2008

U.K. voters resoundingly rejected the Labour Party in local elections last week. It was no capricious shift, but a citizen revolt against trendy carbon and nanny-state taxes that empower only bad government. For Labour, it was the worst election in 40 years. Every tax and intrusion imposed by Labour in recent years was justified as being for voters' "own good." Ending global warming, reducing carbon footprints, lowering carbon emissions and raising public funding of renewable energy - all were excuses used to hit the voters' pocketbook with more taxes. Yet none of these taxes improved the quality of life.
--Investor's Business Daily, 2 May 2008

If I may inject, the only thing increasing CO2 does is raise taxes ...

Oh dear! The inevitable is happening. The 'global warming' trope is unravelling on a daily basis - scientifically, economically, and politically. The wheels are coming off the hysterical bandwagon, and it is not going to be a salutary sight watching the politicians and the media junkies jumping cart and trying to throw mud in everyone's eyes.
--Philip Stott, 3 May 2008

Global warming is a new religion and blasphemy against that religion is not a laughing matter. The high tide of unthinking adherence to this new religion has been reached and I think it may well be in the coming years the tide will gradually recede but it will be a very glacial progress.
--Nigel Lawson, The Guardian, 3 May 2008

But, of course, people aren't interested in these kinds of facts. They want the religion. They want the sweet moralistic feeling of telling someone to stop doing something. They want to be able to rage about Chelsea Tractors and Tony Blair's flights, and they want to give vent to their feelings of disgust at the whole triumph of Western consumerist capitalism.
--Boris Johnson, The Daily Telegraph, 11 January 2007

For the first time in years, voters seem skeptical that solar, wind, ocean waves and currents, biofuels and other so-called renewable sources of energy can replace gasoline, petroleum-based diesel, home heating oil, natural gas, and propane to any significant degree in the foreseeable future. Among ordinary middle class, working class and poor voters, global warming appears to be a non-issue. More and more hard-pressed people are more afraid of pauperization than the manmade greenhouse gases that supposedly cause climate change.
--China Confidential, 3 May 2008

Same as in the USA, where polls show the hoax polling at the bottom of a list of 20 issues. And rightly they should be concerned, because the 'green nonsense' is just nonsense. The technology does not exist.

Last but not least, Socialism takes one in the shorts. The only thing socialism does is implement a bottomless pit of demand which then leads to rationing, and finally the whole collapses. Still waiting for gas prices to go down are you...

Failed asylum seekers are sneaking out of Britain - because they are fed up with the poor healthcare and bad weather. Scores have been caught trying to break past border controls in recent weeks, according to immigration staff. Les Williams, a chief immigration officer for the UK Border Agency, said: "We cannot explain exactly why they are trying to go, but when some of these people were questioned they said they wanted to go to a warmer country as they are fed up with the English weather."
--The Daily Mail, 3 May 2008

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
--Lao Tzu, 6th Century BC Chinese Poet

And that's the truth. What we know about the Earth's climate you could write a book about. What we don't know would fill a library. Any scientist will tell you that.