Remember that gas tap above.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-17177035

Designed to burn coal

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17179608

It is the subtext to almost all of the BBC's science output

There must be BBC policy document that details the maximum number of words you can write in a BBC science piece (or TV show) before the words Climate Change have to be penned (uttered) preferably hedged in with a good melodramatic adjective

although we have yet to see lethiferous utilised.


No neither did I

Or possibly a lawyer-- Why the Climate Skeptics Are Winning
Too many of their opponents are intellectual thugs. The forlorn and increasingly desperate climate campaign achieved a new level of ineptitude last week when what had looked like a minor embarrassment for one of its critics​—​the Chicago-based Heartland Institute​—​turned out to be a full-fledged catastrophe for itself. A moment’s reflection on the root of this episode points to why the climate campaign is out of (greenhouse) gas.


Peter Gleick: ‘a serious lapse of my own and professional judgment and ethics’

In an obvious attempt to inflict a symmetrical Climategate-style scandal on the skeptic community, someone representing himself as a Heartland Institute insider “leaked” internal documents for Heartland’s most recent board of directors meeting to a fringe environmental blog, along with a photocopy of a supposed Heartland “strategy memo” outlining a plan to disseminate a public school curriculum aimed at “dissuading teachers from teaching science.”

This ham-handed phrase (one of many) should have been a tipoff to treat the document dump with some .  .  . skepticism (a trait that has gone missing from much of the climate science community). But more than a few environmental blogs and mainstream news outlets ran with the story of how this “leak” exposed the nefarious “antiscience” Neanderthals of Heartland and their fossil fuel paymasters. But the strategy memo is a fake, probably created because the genuine internal documents are fairly ho-hum. It seems the climate campaign is now taking its tactics from Dan “fake but accurate” Rather. http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/why-cl...ing_631915.html?nopager=1

meanwhile in the UK today we are paying the equivalent of $8.37 a gallon (US) for petrol/gasoline

Our Government has another 3p/litre +VAT = 3.6ppl fuel duty increase planned for August 2012

The Petrol Station over the road is currently selling at £1.38-9 /litre

20% is VAT = 23.15p TAX

This leaves 115.75p of which

57.95p is Fuel Duty i.e. TAX

Total tax take per litre 81.1p (tax take per gallon US $4.86)

This leaves 57.8p for the oil company out of which the oil company pays tax and everyone working for them.. the same.

For me, at the moment, to pay the £1.38-9 for the litre of petrol I have to earn £1.95 (The difference is taken as, you guessed it, TAX)

So in direct taxes alone for every litre of petrol I buy HMRC (IRS) take £1.37-2 ( the equivalent of $8.23 tax / gallon us)

and apparently this tax take is not enough.... because the failed banks have been bailed out with our cash... hence the need to increase fuel duty by effectively 3.6p per litre in August 2012.



And you wonder why the excuse of Climate Change is necessary and the lie that we are all doomed on account of the atmosphere now containing just 0.039309% CO2 simply has to be maintained... whatever the cost.



Now if everyone has had their wallets emptied (remember our Gas and Electricity prices are equally insane and behind this is HMRC hoovering up taxes in all kinds of indirect "Green" ways)

What we have left goes on food (that has to be delivered) and Council Tax, Vehicle Excise Duty and TV License (A tax by any other name)

(Think about buying anything, just a mo we'll add 20% to that and take it as Value Added Tax )

and then .....

Well pretty much nothing happens at all

Economy goes into a downward spiral. People lose their jobs and the economy goes into a downward spiral and people lose their jobs etc etc etc


and that's where we are right now


Now if any Government was there thinking and caring about it's Civilians - each one filled with amazing potential, if nurtured.

What do you think it should do?