Articles Tagged "Sammy Wilson"

What a great name for a Green Film - "The Age of stupid"! Hat's off to Sammy!!

Northern Ireland’s environment minister has come under fire once again for his controversial views on global warming, this time from the director of a major new movie on the subject. Sammy Wilson — who controversially believes that climate change is not man made — has already said he will not be going to see environmental docu-drama The Age of Stupid, which opens in Belfast later this month.

The film, which is set 50 years in the future, stars Pete Postlethwaite as an old man looking back at archive footage from 2008 and asking why more was not done to stop climate change. Along with all 107 other Stormont MLAs, as well as his fellow Northern Ireland MPs, Mr Wilson has been invited to a special screening of the film at the QFT tomorrow, organised by Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland.

Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has claimed the Labour Government is using climate change to push through draconian policies and high taxes. Sammy Wilson, of the Democratic Unionist Party, ridiculed ideas such as a carbon credit card and other moves focusing on emissions.

He clashed with Whitehall earlier this year after objecting to a climate change advert from London which mentioned carbon. He said: "I can understand why it is important that the message be gotten over by a government which has now so many policies, so many intrusive policies.

"I can understand why they want to get the subliminal message over. That's the only way the Government is going to succeed in getting people to accept the draconian increases." He said these increases included taxation and challenges to people's ability to travel.

There is no threat to Sammy Wilson's position as environment minister over his views on climate change, DUP colleague Nigel Dodds has said. Mr Wilson, DUP, has faced calls to step down after blocking the broadcast of a national TV commercial urging people to cut down on carbon emissions.

Stormont's environment committee passed a vote of no confidence in the minister earlier in the week. However, Mr Dodds told the BBC he does not believe Mr Wilson should resign. Mr Dodds said his colleague had the right to express his point of view. "Sammy has provoked a debate around this issue," he told the Inside Politics programme.

Sammy speaks about the furor surrounding his decision not to show a CO2 ad. Many thanks to the Tom Nelson BlogSpot for this link.

A vote of no confidence in Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has been passed by Stormont's environment committee.

It follows Mr Wilson's decision to block a government advertisement campaign on climate change.

Mr Wilson, who does not believe that climate change is man-made, said the advertisement was part of an "insidious propaganda campaign".

Northern Ireland's largest political party has insisted it does support action on climate change - and the use of more renewable energy - as calls came for the resignation of cabinet minister Sammy Wilson over his views.

Greens have called for the removal of Northern Ireland's environment minister after he banned the broadcast of television advertising that urges people to curb their energy use to help tackle global warming.

Mr Wilson, the Democratic Unionist Party's representative for East Antrim, has gone on record many times as saying he does not believe in "man made" global warming.

Note:- we have added the Sammy Wilson YouTube link at the bottom of this article.

Sound common sense - from a Minister for the Environment? Chance would be a fine thing. In our dreams. But no - this is for real. Sammy Wilson, Northern Ireland's Environment Minister, has blocked a government "information" initiative on climate change, denouncing it as part of an "insidious propaganda campaign". Inevitably, calls for his dismissal are already being made, as disciples of the global warming tabernacle squeal like stuck pigs.

Wilson dismissed the advertisements as "giving people the impression that by turning off the standby light on their TV they could save the world from melting glaciers and being submerged in 40ft of water". This he described as "patent nonsense". He duly wrote to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to tell officials that their campaign Act on CO2 "was not welcome" in his bailiwick of Northern Ireland. The most gratifying aspect of this ministerial intervention is that, for once, the climate loonies are themselves being censored instead of gagging everyone else.

Northern Ireland's Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has blocked a government advertisement campaign on climate change.

The advertisements urged people to reduce energy consumption and cut carbon dioxide output.

Mr Wilson said the Scottish executive had objected to the advertisements and stopped them being broadcast.

He said the adverts were part of an "insidious propaganda campaign" which would not be imposed on people in NI.

Mr Wilson said they were "giving people the impression that by turning off the standby light on their TV they could save the world from melting glaciers and being submerged in 40ft of water".

Spending billions on trying to reduce carbon emissions is one giant con that is depriving third world countries of vital funds to tackle famine, HIV and other diseases, Sammy Wilson said.

The DUP minister has been heavily criticised by environmentalists for claiming that ongoing climatic shifts are down to nature and not mankind. But while acknowledging his views on global warming may not be popular, the East Antrim MP said he was not prepared to be bullied by eco fundamentalists. “I’ll not be stopped saying what I believe needs to be said about climate change,” he said.

From NewsLetter.Co.Uk

Debate must replace scaremongering of green climate alarmists
by Sammy Wilson, DUP MLA

For the first time, Environment Minister Sammy Wilson spells out his scepticism about man-made climate change, in an exclusive article for the NewsLetter.Co.Uk

At the height of the floods recently, when those whose homes had been destroyed were trying to clean up the mess, the councils were trying to get emergency payments processed and departments were assessing what lessons could be learned from the events, all the Green Party could do was prattle on about climate change.