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Scientists Challenge UK Govt Climate Committee to 'Drop flawed science and the Climate Change millstone - Save the economy'. CO2 is the Gas Of Life ('GOL'), it is not a problem

The recommendation that the UK cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 per cent* is "total madness based on false science" said Piers Corbyn of WeatherAction long range forecasters.

Updated from the BBC below




"There is no evidence that Carbon dioxide has ever controlled, is controlling or will ever control world temperatures or climate and I challenge the promoters of this nonsense to produce evidence to justify their policies - or drop them, just as 13 world scientists** have similarly challenged the UN.

"Climate Change policy is a millstone around the UK and world economies. The beneficiaries are oil companies who ram up prices with abandon (taking advantage of limits placed on expansion of coal), bio-fuel producers who are increasing food prices and starvation, and the booming industry of climate change parasites such as carbon traders and nuclear power-mongers.

"Taxpayers and the developing world are the losers. There is a world recession now upon us which is being made deeper by Climate Change policies and the perpetrators must be called to account. Banks and industry are going bust yet the green fundamentalists want to impose more of this madness on the world. They actually want to increase their burden on the UK economy and deepen the world recession**.

"Genuine green policies to defend bio-diversity and reduce waste should be supported but the deceitful manipulation of the goodwill of many people in order to promote policies of mass taxation, expensive and dangerous energy like nuclear power and cuts in world living standards must be stopped. The UK and the world now need cheap energy solutions like coal to diesel technology which can be made smoke free. The danger for honest green campaigners - unless they break from the stranglehold of the Climate Change lobby - is that when the Global Warming swindle is exposed their spirited defence of nature will be forgotten too.

"CO2 is no problem - it is the Gas of Life (GOL). The problem is Climate Change Policy - not Climate Change which is beyond man's control. Global warming is over. World temperatures have fallen from their peak ten years ago while GOL (CO2) has been rising rapidly. The world was much warmer than now in the Bronze age 4,000 years ago and there was much less GOL (CO2) then. The bounteousness of world vegetation goes up with GOL. We need more GOL not less!

"13 world scientists wrote** to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in July asking for evidence to justify UN Climate Change policy and calling for the UN's climate committee (IPCC) to be made accountable. Tim Yeo MP** (chair of the Parliament Environment Audit Committee) was also written to in July. Neither have acknowledged or replied. The reason is they have nothing to say. I urge members of the public to send the scientists' letter to the UN** to their MP and ask their MPs to make the UN and Tim Yeo+ 'Put Up or Shut Up'. Gordon Brown** was also written to and his office promised to reply".

*see: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/uk-should-cut-greenhouse-gases-by-80-per-cent-953797.html
"...The UK should cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 per cent*by mid-century, the Government's climate change committee recommended (7 Oct). In a letter to the new Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband, the committee's chairman Adair Turner said the tougher target would be "challenging but feasible", and could be achieved at a cost of 1 per cent to 2 per cent of GDP in 2050..."

** For links see below:
+ and Adair Turner see above.
The letters to UN and Gordon Brown contain graphs and many informative links on the science

Letter from 13 world scientists to UN Secretary General ( inquiries@UN.org ) 14 July 2008
http://www.lowefo.com/pdf/Letter_UN_Sec_Gen_Ban_Ki-moon.pdf
http://co2sceptics.com/news.php?id=1551

Letter from 4 world scientists to UN Climate Committee (IPCC) 14 April 2008 (also included in 14 July letter)
http://www.uncapsa.org/Topics/IPCC_letter_14April08-1.pdf

Letter to Tim Yeo MP Chair UK Parliament Environment Audit Committee 8 July 2008
http://www.lowefo.com/pdf/Letter%20to%20Tim%20Yeo%20MP%208Jul08.pdf

Letter to Gordon Brown from Piers Corbyn 10 Aug 2008
http://www.lowefo.com/pdf/To_GB_from_PC_10_AUGUST_2008.pdf
http://www.ilovemycarbondioxide.com/letters/Gordon_Brown.pdf

Information & letter to Gordon Brown from Piers Corbyn 23 July 2007
http://www.lowefo.com/pdf/To_GB_from_PC_23_JULY_2007.pdf
http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=158&Itemid=1

Article (Guardian) about 'Global Warmers' wanting a recession!
http://co2sceptics.com/news.php?id=1726

Thank you

Piers Corbyn

Updated from the BBC

Tougher climate target unveiled

The government has committed the UK to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by the middle of this century.

Climate Change and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said the current 60% target would be replaced by a higher goal.

He told MPs the government would not "row back" on green issues in the light of the current economic crisis.

He also warned the big energy companies they face a crackdown on "unfair" pricing policies in his first statement as head of the new department.

Mr Miliband told MPs the government accepted all the recommendations of the report from Lord Turner's Committee on Climate Change.

The target does not include aviation or shipping emissions - but Mr Miliband said they would "play a part" in the government's overall strategy.

European row

It came as European Union leaders agreed to stick to their plan to cut greenhouse gases - despite a surprise demand by Poland and six other member states to drop them to ease the impact on industry struggling with the global credit crunch.

Speaking at the end of a two-day summit, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said: "The deadline on climate change is so important that we cannot use the financial and economic crisis as a pretext for dropping it".

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Tougher climate target unveiled