Posted on 10/15/2014 12:11:25 PM PDT by Rusty0604
LONDON, United Kingdom – Former Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has called for Britain to abandon is carbon targets, saying that renewable energy cannot help Britain meet its energy needs and only a combination of shale gas, Combined Heat and Power and more, smaller nuclear power plants can provide renewable energy for the foreseeable future in Britain. Speaking to the Global Warming Policy Foundation in London, Paterson also derided wind farms, saying that Britain's wind energy policy is the "single most regressive policy we have seen in this country since the Sheriff of Nottingham," calling it: "The coerced increase of electricity bills for people on low incomes to pay huge subsidies to wealthy landowners and rich investors." He added that it was "immensely costly, regressive and damaging to the environment", and has had virtually no impact on carbon emissions. Paterson also said that many of the forecasted effects of climate change have been "widely exaggerated". "The stopping of the Gulf Stream, the worsening of hurricanes, the retreat of Antarctic sea ice, the increase of malaria, the claim by UNEP that we would see 50m climate refugees before now – these were all predictions that proved wrong," he said. The former minister also slammed all current forms of renewable energy in the UK, saying they will never help Britain achieve "zero carbon" by 2050.
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Shale shatters when a round hits it.
I’ve never used a nuclear target so I don’t know how well they work.
Works for night ops since they glow in the dark. :>}
He’ll be crucified.
Who does he think he is to question “settled science”? Galileo Galilei?
Ruh Roh. Looks like he’s gonna get labeled as a.........................DENIER! Off with his head. Probably plenty of sleepers in London that would do the deed.
What kind of prison sentence will he get for such blasphemy? Hasn’t he been listening to John Kerry?
Then he’ll be in excellent company.
And the left wing newspaper response -
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