Posted on 11/28/2009 8:58:20 PM PST by nwrep
Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National party, is to represent the European parliament at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, which opens next week.
Last night politicians and scientists reacted furiously to news that the far-right politician and climate change denier should be attending the summit on behalf of the EU.
Griffin, who was elected to the European parliament in June, confirmed last night that he would attend as the representative of the parliament's environmental committee. World leaders, including Barack Obama and Gordon Brown, are hoping to forge a new global agreement to curtail greenhouse gas emissions.
Without such a deal, scientists warn that world temperatures will increase by more than 2C by the end of the century, triggering ice cap melting, sea-level rises, widespread flooding, the spread of deserts and devastating storms.
In a speech in the parliament last week, Griffin denounced those who warn of the consequences of climate change as "cranks". He said they had reached "an Orwellian consensus" that was "based not on scientific agreement, but on bullying, censorship and fraudulent statistics".
"The anti-western intellectual cranks of the left suffered a collective breakdown when communism collapsed. Climate change is their new theology… But the heretics will have a voice in Copenhagen and the truth will out. Climate change is being used to impose an anti-human utopia as deadly as anything conceived by Stalin or Mao."
Griffin will be one of 15 representatives chosen to speak on behalf of the EU in Copenhagen. The shadow climate change secretary, Greg Clark, condemned the move last night.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Why can’t we get a guy like that?
Stuff just keeps coming out of ClimateGate, they still call us “deniers”....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen#Honors_and_awards
“Also in 2006, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) selected James Hansen to receive their Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility “for his courageous and steadfast advocacy in support of scientists’ responsibilities —>to communicate their scientific opinions and findings openly and honestly<— on matters of public importance.”[64]”
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Will the AAAS ask for the award to be returned?
Can he please represent the U.S. too?
Some people will point out negative things about the BNP and Griffin but he and the BNP are teh only ones in the Uk standing up to Islam. No the Tories are not and UKIP so far is getting little traction.
As I read this I thought it a hit piece on Nick Griffin and the BNP, or the author of this would have mentioned the 40,000 or so listed scientists whom signed the anti AGW document. (Perhaps it was a petition. I don’t recall precisely.)
Perhaps somebody could aid my fuzzy recollection.
Bwaaaa - Hahahahaha! Ooooooo, Nooooooooo!
Comments are great. Great insight into UK.
That's what they're saying when they call us 'deniers'.
Paging Mr. John Bolton...
In half a dozen sentences, Mr. Griffin nails all the essentials perfectly.
"The anti-western intellectual cranks of the left suffered a collective breakdown when communism collapsed. Climate change is their new theology… But the heretics will have a voice in Copenhagen and the truth will out. Climate change is being used to impose an anti-human utopia as deadly as anything conceived by Stalin or Mao." — Nick Griffin EUMP
well done, sir!
This man needs bodyguards - and our prayers.
Seriously.
This may be this best news article I’ve read in years.
Nick Griffin is my new hero. He’s right, the radical left had no where to go after the wall fell and Jerry Garcia died. All the low-life commie bed-wetting hippy scumbags hitched their beat up volkswagon buses to the eco-fecal chicken little cult.
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You just added to my tag line!
This sounds like a coup, in the non-political sense.
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