Greenwashing a jury

A great piece on the stupidity of the recent decision to acquit the Greenpeace vandals in the UK follows:-

Britain’s astounding retreat from reason is now legitimising anarchy. A jury has solemnly decided that it is ok to break the law and cause more than £35,000 criminal damage to a coal-fired power station because of the threat of man-made global warming. The Independent reports:

In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage. Jurors accepted defence arguments that the six had a ‘lawful excuse’ to damage property at Kingsnorth power station in Kent to prevent even greater damage caused by climate change.

Apparently they reached this decision having sat through a propaganda barrage by militant mmgw fanatics, including the pioneer evangelist James Hansen and the activist (and Tory party green guru) Zac Goldsmith. The story does not record whether the jury also heard the opposite case; if it was subjected only to mmgw indoctrination, then this was truly a mind-bending trial.

Even if mmgw was well-founded, that should not be used to excuse and legitimise criminal behaviour. But it isn’t. One of the defendants, Emily Hall, said:

The jury heard from the most distinguished climate scientist in the world. How could they ignore his warnings and reject his leading scientific arguments?

Because he is totally wrong, and is being spectacularly shown to be wrong. The jury seemed totally unaware that the mmgw theory has collapsed. The world is getting colder, not warmer, and has been for the past decade – even while carbon dioxide levels have continued to rise. The computer-generated projections and forecasts on which the entire theory depend never projected or forecast what has now happened. Arctic melt has happened before, the polar bears are increasing not dying out and the Antarctic ice is expanding. This year is set to be the coolest globally this century, as even the BBC has acknowledged.

The mmgw industry is in disarray. More and more climate-related scientists are coming out and saying the whole mmgw theory is wrong or fraudulent, with many reversing previously held views in the light of the evidence in front of their eyes. Here’s just one of them — Dr. William J.R. Alexander, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Civil and Biosystems Engineering at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and a former member of the United Nations Scientific and Technical Committee on Natural Disasters — who writes:

I believe that global warming is the biggest scientific scam ever. There is no evidence to prove that the current climate variations are not a natural cycle

and that the outcome of such anti-scientific alarmism is environmental terrorism (as now legitimised by the jury at Maidstone Crown Court). Here’s another: meteorologist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who writes:

Not all scientists agree that the warming we’ve seen is necessarily anthropogenic.  It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.

Here’s Professor Kunihiko Takeda, Vice-Chancellor of the Institute of Science and Technology Research at Chubu University, who says:

Fear is a very efficient weapon: It produces the desired effect without much waste. Global warming has nothing to do with how much CO2 is produced or what we do here on Earth. For millions of years, solar activity has been controlling temperatures on Earth and even now, the sun controls how high the mercury goes. CO2 emissions make absolutely no difference one way or another. Soon it will cool down anyhow, once again, regardless of what we do. Every scientist knows this, but it doesn’t pay to say so. What makes a whole lot of economic and political sense is to blame global warming on humans and create laws that keep the status quo and prevent up-and-coming nations from developing. Global warming, as a political vehicle, keeps Europeans in the driver’s seat and developing nations walking barefoot.

Here’s the Space and Science Research Center which said last July that the warming that has occurred since the end of the Little Ice Age in 1850 was completely natural, i.e., had nothing to do with human or industrial activity.

‘After an exhaustive review of a substantial body of climate research, and in conjunction with the obvious and compelling new evidence that exists, it is time that the world community acknowledges that the Earth has begun the next climate change.’ The current warming period is=2 0 not only at an end, but a distinct cooling cycle has begun and will bring ‘predominantly colder global temperatures for many years into the future.’

There are many, many more such scientists making such points, some of whom I have reported on in earlier posts. While we must guard against falling into the opposite trap and panicking that a new ice age is upon us, it is now beyond doubt that mmgw theory – which has been clear to some of us ever since it first got going at the end of the 1980s that it was a giant scam rooted in  unsavoury anti-capitalist and anti-human ideology – is now deader than the Monty Python parrot.

And yet a British jury thinks it justifies criminal damage and suspending the rule of law. Such is the power of brain washing. Terrifying.

Melanie Phillips

Cheers Comrades