Feb
UK’s Climate Challenge Fund spent £9million preaching to the choir
If you're a UK taxpayer, you paid for this illustration.
The UK government’s Climate Challenge Fund was established in large part to increase pro-warming public opinion. We wanted to find out exactly what their published goals are but their website (www.climatechallenge.gov.uk) seems to be no longer active. We found this quote of its goals on one of the sites it funded: “educate, excite and inspire others so that we can start working together to tackle climate change.” In others words, government propaganda bullshit.
The good news is it failed in its goals; the bad news is that it cost taxpayers £9million between 2006 and 2008. A Whitehall report found that the initiatives were almost entirely directed to those who already believe in climate change, and in addition, the sensationalism put people off.
The Daily Mail reports:
Schemes included a £40,000 DVD in which schoolchildren explained that in ten years everyone will have to wear sunglasses all the time, because the sun will be shining more.
A tent set up in shopping centres and labelled an ‘experiential climate dome’ was subsidised by Whitehall to the tune of nearly £400,000; a computer game cost £47 every time it was played; and a series of ‘challenging pub quizzes’ about climate change cost more than £85,000.
Large grants went to councils, schools and youth groups for ‘ attitude modification’ programmes and to assure the public that man-made global warming is an established scientific fact.
And £200,000 went to Oxford University to ‘take climate change into the community’.
Of course, this information was not freely let out by government officials. It had to be unearthed by the TaxPayers’ Alliance through Freedom of Information requests. Matthew Sinclair, the group’s research director, said:
“The Government has clearly crossed the line from public information to propaganda on climate change.
“Many of the Climate Challenge Fund projects are utterly bonkers and misleading, and come with a huge price tag.
“Despite a fortune having been spent on these projects, the fund has failed even on its own spuripeopleous terms. It is infuriating for taxpayers to see their money squandered on attempts to scare and indoctrinate the public.”
We found one example of a funded project on the internet. It’s a game developed for teachers and students, called Operation Climate Control. Take a look, we think it should have been called Operation Mind Control.
Source: Daily Mail
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Not only is the whole thing a terrible idea, but also, how can one possibly explain “… in ten years everyone will have to wear sunglasses all the time, because the sun will be shining more.” with man-induced increase in CO2?
Thursday, 18 February 2010
Dutch global warming denier “was right after all”
“De Telegraaf, the Netherlands’ largest daily newspaper, has totally vindicated the country’s most prominent global warming denier in a prominent article entitled “Henk Tennekes – He was right after all.” Tennekes was the director of the Netherlands Meteorological Institute, KNMI, until the early 1990s, when his skepticism of the climate science coming out of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change led to his forced resignation.”
The cost to the UK taxpayer of the Climate Challenge Fund is trivial by comparison with the full costs of this UN-inspired scam. Instead of investing in sensible power generation facilities using natural gas, clean coal and nuclear energy this failed UK government has committed to spending millions on useless off-shore wind farms that at best will generate only 2% of our energy needs. NY Times reported on 11th January that nearly £100Billion was to be spent and that’s only a part of the cost. Apart from all of the other millions wasted on this scam (QUANGOs like the Sustainable Development Commisson, disgusting adverts, etc, etc. etc.) UK taxpayers will see the cost of energy rocket unnecessarily and can expect to experience serious power shortages in about 5 years time due to this nonsense. The question is why?
The UN’s agenda has nothing to do with controlling global climates (natures job) but has to do with:
- redistribution of wealth from developed to underdeveloped economies,
- establishment of a framework for global government,
- enhancement of the finances of a privileged few.
I leave you to guess which of the above takes priority for our “honourable” and “right honourable” representatives (hint – expenses scandal).
Even if the human-made climate change propaganda fails to win the day, the UN, supported by the UK and other global governments, has other tricks up the sleeve. Last but not least is the Robin Hood Tax (AKA Fidel Castro’s proposed Tobin Tax). They’ve even roped in gullible “celebrities” to lend support – how desparate can they be!
I passed this link on to another site that finds AGW preposterous and they’ve covered it there, but I thought I’d mention this here because as a kidney cancer sufferer I find this positively sickening.
http://www.kidneycare.nhs.uk/Ourworkprogrammes-TheKidneyCarePathway-SpRingreennephrology.cms
It makes me so angry it’s best that I don’t comment on it at all.
This is the other site that also includes comments.
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/
Is there any legal way to challenge this abuse of taxpayers’ money?
The Al Gore movie was legally challenged when it was proposed to show it to all UK schoolchildren. The 9 major factual (bias) errors in it have to be explained before it can be shown.
So, if something can be done about Gore’s propaganda, why not this ?
Ed