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Wilson row over green 'alarmists' (UK environmental minister calls GW hysterical pseudo religion)
BBC ^ | 5 Sep 08 | staff

Posted on 09/05/2008 5:42:58 PM PDT by saganite

Sammy Wilson's view on climate change has angered environmentalists

The Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has angered green campaigners by describing their view on climate change as a "hysterical psuedo-religion".

In an article in the News Letter, Mr Wilson said he believed it occurred naturally and was not man-made.

"Resources should be used to adapt to the consequences of climate change, rather than King Canute-style vainly trying to stop it," said the minister.

Peter Doran of the Green Party said it was a "deeply irresponsible message."

Mr Wilson said he refused to "blindly accept" the need to make significant changes to the economy to stop climate change.

"The tactic used by the "green gang" is to label anyone who dares disagree with their view of climate change as some kind of nutcase who denies scientific fact," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: climatechange; environment; globalwarming; gw; uk
Poor guy will probably be out of a job soon.
1 posted on 09/05/2008 5:42:58 PM PDT by saganite
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To: saganite

God bless him in his new endeavors


2 posted on 09/05/2008 5:45:30 PM PDT by freeplancer
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To: saganite
The Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has angered green campaigners by describing their view on climate change as a "hysterical psuedo- religion".

And the problem with that is???

3 posted on 09/05/2008 5:46:37 PM PDT by BlessedBeGod
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To: freeplancer; xcamel; steelyourfaith

In before camel.


4 posted on 09/05/2008 5:46:42 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

In and out before camel


5 posted on 09/05/2008 5:48:41 PM PDT by freeplancer
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To: BlessedBeGod

He’s an heretic. He will be burned at the stake. Figuratively speaking of course. Really burning him would give off too much carbon.


6 posted on 09/05/2008 5:49:13 PM PDT by saganite (Obama is a political STD)
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To: saganite; OKSooner; honolulugal; Killing Time; Beowulf; Mr. Peabody; RW_Whacko; gruffwolf; ...

FReepmail me to get on or off


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Good Catch
7 posted on 09/05/2008 5:49:18 PM PDT by xcamel (Conservatives start smart, and get rich, liberals start rich, and get stupid.)
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To: saganite

More and more people, gathering in the finest circles, are recognizing CRAP (CLIMATE RELATED ADVOCACY POLITICS)as dangerously overprevalent and legitimized sans adequate vetting.


8 posted on 09/05/2008 5:49:23 PM PDT by givemELL
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To: saganite

People prefer fiction rather than truth.


9 posted on 09/05/2008 5:49:59 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: BlessedBeGod
''The Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has angered green campaigners by describing their view on climate change as a "hysterical psuedo- religion".''
And the problem with that is???

It should be spelt "pseudo-religion."

10 posted on 09/05/2008 5:53:25 PM PDT by sionnsar (Obama?Bye-den!|Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|ObamasUnity=EinVolk,EinReich,EinFuhrer)
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To: xcamel

Did you find the one yesterday abuot the kayakers” getting stuck in freezing ice at about 80 north latitude?

(They believed their own propaganda about being able to paddle to the north pole ...)


11 posted on 09/05/2008 5:55:03 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: saganite

It is NOT a religion, and heretics who say otherwise should be burned at the stake!


12 posted on 09/05/2008 6:04:12 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: Unam Sanctam

BUMP!


13 posted on 09/05/2008 6:29:13 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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To: saganite; calcowgirl; The Spirit Of Allegiance; Entrepreneur; Defendingliberty; WL-law; ...


Beam me to Planet Gore !

14 posted on 09/05/2008 7:17:07 PM PDT by steelyourfaith
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To: saganite
Poor guy will probably be out of a job soon.

We'll take him in Oz on a straight swap with ours (he's like Obama, but a real rock star)

15 posted on 09/05/2008 9:18:18 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Does anyone remember the olden days when the US presidential election was boring?)
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To: Oztrich Boy

Yeah, good trade. He is so bad that even his Labor party doesn’t want him talking the environment and put Penny Wong as Minister of Climate Change.


16 posted on 09/05/2008 9:30:18 PM PDT by Aussiebabe
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To: saganite

It is very easy to debunk the claim that it is “scientific fact” that man is causing “global warming”. All that is required is to refer to the following fundamental principle of science -

“ONLY EXPERIMENTAL DATA HAS THE POWER TO SHOW CAUSE.”

This is the basis of the scientific method and is not debatable.

Note that climatologists have NO EXPERIMENTAL DATA and will not have any anytime soon. Without experimental data, no reasonable conclusion can be obtained.

In order to produce experimental data on the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, the experiment would have to be performed at the same scale as the Earth’s atmosphere! Obviously that’s not going to happen.

Global Warming proponents have only observational data. A corollary to the above states:

“OBSERVATIONAL DATA CAN NEVER BE USED TO SHOW CAUSE, ONLY ASSOCIATION.”

I wonder how many “global warming” advocates know the difference between “cause” and “association”? The difference is of course vast.

As a scientist I have examined the theories and methods used by global warming proponents. It is nothing short of appalling to see their “scientific work”.


17 posted on 09/06/2008 3:09:44 PM PDT by FAERGUS
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To: FAERGUS

The principles which you rightly reassert apply equally to all sides of this debate, and certainty is thus equally suspect whether expressed by proponents or by deniers.


18 posted on 09/07/2008 1:40:44 AM PDT by Winniesboy
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