Climate Skeptic: Global Warming ... Accelerating?

...it is staggering to me that so many people can insist, with a straight face, that warming is "accelerating" or, crazier, that it is "worse than forecast."

UK MPs In Cloud Cuckoo Land

We must hold our MPs, of all parties, accountable for next week’s sheep-like vote when the lights go out; when businesses collapse; when we plummet down the world economic league table; when people can no longer afford energy; when the rest of the world ignores us over climate hysteria; when their wondrous carbon targets are missed - as they surely will be - by miles; when the climate doesn’t do what politicians think it will, or should, do; but, above all, when they themselves finally grasp that they can have no predictable effect on climate.

Voting Against Carbon Witchcraft

As Samuel Johnson would have surely noted acerbically, our MPs have tragically fallen for “the clamour of the times”. They are predestined to be disappointed, and to fail.

Their vote on the Climate Change Bill might well be compared to the infamous Witchcraft Act of 1604, which, somewhat reversing today’s Parliamentary processes, was read for the first time in the House of Lords on March 2, 1604, and committed on March 29. However, having been considered and found to be imperfect, a new Bill was brought in on April 2. On May 7, amendments were read, and the Bill appointed to be engrossed. On May 11, it was read in the House of Commons for the first time. A month later it was passed, and was returned to the Lords.

It is salutary to recall that it was this statute which was ultimately enforced by Matthew Hopkins [above left], the notorious ‘Witch-Finder General’.