Our Wanker this Week is the anonymous spokesman for Friends of the Earth who this week spoke out against the Bishop of Chester.
As reported in the Liverpool Daily Post the Bishop, Dr.Peter Forster, is under fire for suggesting mankind is not to blame for global warming, which he said would happen "come what may". Christians are, as Grumpy readers will need no reminding, quite au fait with inevitable catastrophic events - forty days and nights of rain, plagues of locusts, fire, brimstone, death of first-born, bands of orcs and goblins (oh no, sorry, wrong fairy-tale), wives turned to pillars of salt, heavenly hosts flitting about and spoiling your television signal, etc.
While his near-neighbour the Bishop of Liverpool in his wisdom once warned that the chances of Earth surviving the century were no better than 50/50, Dr.Forster has a more realistic view. In a House of Lords debate on energy, he said discussion about the causes of global warming was "still open", that there was no consensus among climate scientists that "carbon dioxide levels are the key determinant", and that "Climate science is a notoriously imprecise area, because the phenomena under investigation are so large. That makes precision difficult to achieve."
But he was living dangerously - you're just not allowed to think that sort of thing any more, are you? It was totally predictable that someone from the loony green left would get involved sooner rather than later, and as it happened it was Friends of the Earth.
So what did the Friend of the Earth say? Did he trot out some statistical evidence to show that the Bishop was talking through his hat? Did he invite the press to visit sites that demonstrate the deleterious effects of global warming on our wild life? Did he quote the opinions of some eminent scientists who must surely know more than a mere priest? Did he point to recent climatic anomalies to prove that global warming is live and dangerous and that it's all our own fault?
Well, no, he didn't.
He just insisted that scientists were united in their certainty that global temperatures were rising because of carbon dioxide emissions, and said everyone had a responsibility to "wake up to the threat posed by climate change", adding "the debate is over. The alarm bells are ringing."
That was that. That was all he could manage - a straightforward quote from the notorious "Warm Words" document in which the Institute for Public Policy Research, a left-wing think-tank, advised global warming hysterics not to take the sceptics on in scientific argument based on the evidence (because they'd lose), but simply to keep banging on about "everyone's agreed" (they ain't), "the debate is over" (it's not - plenty of people are still talking), and "anyone who doesn't agree with us is a fool" (which is probably the opposite of the truth, given that rational curiosity and the application of logic to evidence is generally believed to be the mark of intelligence). Friends of the Earth obviously think we're all very stupid, if this is all they have to do to win the argument.
The facts, in case Friends of the Earth are interested at all, are that scientists are NOT united in their certainty that global temperatures are rising because of carbon dioxide emissions, because quite a lot of scientists have noticed that global temperatures aren't rising and haven't for the last ten years. We don't all have "a responsibility to wake up to the threat posed by climate change" because the climate is always changing - that's what it's for. It's been changing for millions of years and will probably continue doing so without permission from Friends of the Earth. The debate is not over - plenty of us are still debating away, even if Friends of the Earth prefer to sit with their hands over their ears going "La, la, la! I can't hear you! La, la, la!"
Mind you, the alarm bells are ringing, all right. They're the bells that warn us of a massive fraud being perpetrated by politicians like Al Gore with stakes in carbon trading, by scientists anxious to secure great wads of funding, and nasty little jobsworths who welcome any opportunity to boss people about.
Quite staggering, the contempt shown by Friends of the Earth for the intelligence of ordinary people - let alone members of the House of Lords.
Wankers.
That's Friends of the Earth, not the House of Lords. The House of Lords are a bunch of old gits, and being an old git himself The GOS has a certain respect for their accumulated wisdom. Sometimes they're the only thing that stands between us and the total lunacy of Neue Arbeit and their little verschwörerisch friends, Steinmauer, Asche, Bremse and Die Freunde der Erde.
Sieg Heil!
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