Murray Sackwild, who was the Green Party’s candidate for Harlow in May, has become the latest loony Green to be caught out using sick Nazi slurs online:
Local MP Robert Halfon is a former director of Conservative Friends of Israel. Sackwild as well as being a bigwig in the Green Party, Sackwild is the general secretary of Harlow and Epping Forest NUT and the deputy general secretary of Essex NUT. Showing their true colours…
This morning Gaia attended a “scientific briefing” held by the Soil Association, a pro-organic lobby group. It coincided with the launch of their #BanGlyphosate campaign which is calling for a ban on glyphosate as a herbicide. Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the world and is relied on by farmers to protect their yield. Every major regulator regards glyphosate as completely safe…
The Soil Association have jumped on the back of a recent finding by the International Agency for Research on Cancer that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic to humans”. The IARC did not conduct any original research and drew their conclusion after reading the same research used by the regulators.
Other things ranked as “probably” or “possibly” carcinogenic by IARC include coffee (IARC 2B classification in 1991) and baked breakfast pastries (IARC 2A classification in 1994). Which is exactly what the Soil Association served your reporter for breakfast…
“In the last 40 years the world has lost half its wildlife” claimed Sarah Montague on the Today Programme as she introduced Springwatch presenter Martin Hughes Games, who also repeated, unchallenged, the bizarre wildlife extinction claim:
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“As you say that report last year from the World Wildlife Fund clearly showed that we lost 50% of the world’s wildlife in the last 40 years.”
If the WWF figure sounds like cow poop, that’s because it. Even climate change fearing conservationists think it’s a meaningless arbitrary number picked out of thin air.
Say hello to Delphine Batho, the latest addition to our increasingly popular series of Environment Minister beauties. A lifetime left-wing activist, Delphine became the French Minister of the Ecology in 2012 but was fired by President Hollande after she criticised cuts to her department.
She also received criticism for hogging a “logement intermédiaire” apartment in Paris intended for low-income famlies. What’s French for Bob Crow?
Osborne’s Budget announcement that green energy producers will no longer be exempt from the Climate Change Levy is driving the renewable industry into meltdown. The levy used to only apply to non-renewable energy but, in a spectucular trolling exercise, now businesses have to pay this green tax even if they are purchasing green energy:
Caroline Lucas: “We’ve seen yet another example of reckless short-term policy making that prioritises the profits of polluters over the public interest in a safe and habitable climate”
RenewableUK: “It’s another example of this government’s unfair, illogical and obsessive attacks on renewables”
Greenpeace: “This will make it more expensive for business to buy electricity from renewable power. He is man out of step with the times”
Friends of the Earth: “This is totally bizarre, making renewable electricity pay a carbon tax is completely counterproductive — like making apple juice pay an alcohol tax”
The green tax raid on green energy producers will raise almost £1 billion a year. Hoist by their own petard…
Countries neighbouring Germany are spending $180 million installing huge transformers in their power lines to protect themselves from wind power surges. Every time the wind picks up, wind turbines in the north of Germany produce a spike in electricity that spills out into Poland, the Czech Republic and Austria. The overloading is so severe it could start triggering blackouts.
Despite investing heavily in wind power, the Germans have failed to upgrade their power lines so they are capable of dealing with erratic surges in power. And of course went the wind stops blowing, there isn’t any electricity at all. So Energiewende going spinningly then…
