As usual the eu is just abusing what is not really a problem to take even more money out of our pockets. Scientific evidence shows that the earth has been cooling since 1999, a purely natural occurrance. All the carbon trading, and so called reductions will do is kill the people who will not be able to afford to pay the greatly inflated fuel costs which this idiocy will entail.

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Barry Davies says that anthropogenic climate change is ‘not really a problem’.

Here are a number of scientific institutions which disagree with his point of view:

the IPCC, the science academies of Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, India, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the UK and the USA, as well as the International Council of Academies of Engineering and Technological Sciences; European Academy of Sciences and Arts; Network of African Science Academies; the International Council for Science; the European Science Foundation; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the Federation of American Scientists; the World Meteorological Organization; the American Meteorological Society; the Royal Meteorological Society (UK); the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society; the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society; the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences; the American Geophysical Union; the American Institute of Physics; American Astronomical Society; the American Physical Society; the American Chemical Society; the National Research Council (US); the Federal Climate Change Science Program (US), the American Quaternary Association; the Geological Society of America; Engineers Australia (The Institution of Engineers Australia); the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London; the European Geosciences Union; the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics; and the International Union of Geological Sciences.

I would be very grateful if UKIP activists could respond to this list.

Barry Davies spoke about people dying…

The WHO estimate that 150,000 a year are dying as a result of climate change ALREADY.

Do these people actually exist in the UKIP view of the world or are they ‘unpeople’?

When scientists warned us of the dangers of ozone depletion, politicians across the world responded with the Montreal Protocol.

I am optimistic, now that Obama is US President-elect, that politicians, pushed by their citizens, can rise to the challenge of this much graver problem.

To do that, though, ordinary people throughout the world have got to stand up to climate-change denialists like UKIP and their narrow myopia, and instead embrace a future based on international cooperation for the common good.

Let us hope that this vision triumphs over the background noise and scepticism, which oil companies likee Exxon will do their best to generate in the run-up to the international Climate Conference in Copenhagen (30. November – 11. December 2009).

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