How can it be beneficial to "leftie charlatans" (not really sure what that means either!!) to continue with the drive to make our factories, and the rest, more environmental friendly, let alone closing many "dirty" ones, which will continue to cost jobs (rather a right wing policy to increase profits) ? Arthur Scargill certainly did not care a damn about that!! Have I got that wrong? 
"Leftie charlatans" is my term
du jour for what a number of commentators refer to as "watermelons" (green on the outside, red on the inside). Essentially, such folk want to get rid of nation state powers in favour of a globalist bureaucratic cabal. These are not just lefties, but true Marxists who feel that the West is too rich and that our wealth and capitalist system should be stripped, to be replaced with a far-left new world order. The climate bandwagon is the one they chose as one of the best vehicles to achieve this.
Take these three genuine quotes:
"We need to get some broad based support, to capture the public's imagination... So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements and make little mention of any doubts... Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest."
- Prof. Stephen Schneider, Stanford Professor of Climatology, lead author of many IPCC reports
and:
"No matter if the science of global warming is all phony...climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world."
- Christine Stewart, former Canadian Minister of the Environment
and:
"The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe."
- emeritus professor Daniel Botkin
Notice the common theme?
Now, don't get me wrong, I was concerned about the environment long before this current craze and have lobbied locally to save trees and protect green spaces. I am also appalled by the amount of fly-tipping and littering that goes on. (The plastic in the oceans is essentially the aquatic result of these two behaviours).
However, I do not believe that global governance, directed by a cabal of the rich (look up The Club of Rome), is in any way an answer to theses issues. In any event, I am more concerned about the prospect of another Dalton Minimum. With the recent castration of our energy grid, we could be in deep do-do. I notice, for example that, wind power was contributing just over 2% of our needs today and coal generation came back online. If anyone thinks we could manage a severe cold spell, they are living in cloud-cuckoo land.
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