The Talking Clock: Sunday Paper Review: 6th December 2009

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Sunday, 6 December 2009

Sunday Paper Review: 6th December 2009

The Sunday Telegraph states that one of the scientists at the centre of the ClimateGate scandal - Professor Phil Jones - has "successfully received more than £13 million in research funding". Named funding bodies - who actually coughed up closer to FOURTEEN million quid - include: the European Union, NATO, the US department of energy, the Met Office, the Environment Agency, the National Rivers Authority and the Department for the Environment. Meanwhile, an ICM poll for the newspaper finds that only one in two British voters accept the theory of man-made climate change. This is quite remarkable, considering the relentlessly enforced news reporting complete with visions of apocalypse and the hysterical name calling that comes with it.

Britain's last democratically elected Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is on the receiving end of the pointed finger of the Independent on Sunday. Their report claims that he has been "paid thousands of pounds to 'endorse' a fossil-fuel power plant" in Azerbaijan. We won't go too far into this one, except for allowing a faint smile to cross our lips - considering the sewerage level of rhetoric being used by his former party colleagues in their attempts to quell discussion on the ClimateGate scandal.

The Sunday Times reveals that our brave troops are exceptional in their bravery... and in their judgement. For it turns out that, when Gordon Brown paid a visit to injured troops in a hospital in Selly Oak, "more than half" of our soldiers "closed curtains round their beds" and "refused to speak to him". There are several choice quotes from some of the Afghan veterans concerned - the unelected PM's visit to them being described as "opportunistic".

The Mail on Sunday reports that Her Majesty the Queen will have to give her name, age and address every time she flies into or out of the country... so that some employees of Her Majesty's government can make sure Her Majesty is not a terrorist. You really couldn't make this up. Anyway, welcome to the everyday lives of your subjects, Ma'am. Of course, it is in The Queen's gift to uphold the constitution which express forbids such harassment...

The Sunday Express cites Conservative MP Douglas Carswell who believes that there may be a secret ballot to depose John Bercow as House of Commons Speaker after the General Election. Assuming, that is, that Bercow is re-elected and his constituents don't opt for the hero that is Nigel Farage of UKIP instead.

And finally... we couldn't find much to get animated about on The Observer, but they do have a nice photograph of Cristiano Ronaldo without his shirt on. If you like that kind of thing...

...which leads us into the hard story from the News of the World where it is suggested that the England squad will be given Viagra before every game at next year's football World Cup finals. Oh, to be a fly on the wall afterwards... we need a stiff drink after that thought!

1 comments:

Anonymous7 December 2009 00:48
Well, we should not be surprised that the politicians who want our carbon taxes hane bought-and-paid-for scientists, who are funded to produce CO2 scareology science to justify them. Who can blame the human weakness and vanity and fallibility of mere scientists who take the king's shilling to run their research labs and put bread on the table? After all, we don't begrudge them a penny of our taxes, do we?

Of course not. We do however want the real scientists to get a fair crack of the whip too, and not just get a whipping. Take the Danish physics prof Henrik Svensmark now. He has an exceedingly convincingly theory which puts the chills up the spines of the scareologists because he has put 15 of solid research into studying the interaction of the sun's magnetic field, cosmic rays which enter our atmosphere like 'space rain', and the low cloud cover which controls how much sunshine the earth gets.

This all explained in his book 'The Chilling Stars' (2nd ed.), and the excellent documentary 'The Cloud Mystery', available on DVD from Lars Mortenson (easy to google), which is in English, region-free, and lasts only 53 minutes.

We can only defeat bad science with good science. The CO2mongers don't like this theory because they sense that in 15 years they will be gone and it will be THE explanation of climatology. Let's kick ass!

Michael JR Jose
UKIP, Walsall
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