Yet More Eco-Lunacy

Via The Englishman, another “all go vegetarian” story in the name of saving Gaia.

People will need to consider turning vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming.

In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”

Sigh…

Man is omnivorous. Our biology supports the consumption of meat as well as vegetation. If some people choose to shun meat, for whatever reason, that’s fine by me. That’s their choice. However, using the Great Man Made Global Warming Scam in order to force this lifestyle choice on others is reprehensible.

Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, said that a successful deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December would lead to soaring costs for meat and other foods that generate large quantities of greenhouse gases.

Ah, yes, the Stern report; a complete pile of debunked horseshit. Based on his religious beliefs, he wants to force us to follow in his chosen lifestyle by increasing the cost of meat. Is there no end to the control freakery of these people? Er, that’s a rhetorical question, by the way. I know the answer.

He predicted that people’s attitudes would evolve until meat eating became unacceptable. “I think it’s important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating,” he said. “I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.”

I will do no such thing. MMGW is just the latest doomsday cult and thirty years hence we will be laughing at its prophets and high priests just as we smirk at the new Ice Age prophets of thirty years ago. I for one will not become a vegetarian based on the deranged outpourings of these narcissists and I will not ask about the carbon content of what I consume.

Lord Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank and now I. G. Patel Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, warned that British taxpayers would need to contribute about £3 billion a year by 2015 to help poor countries to cope with the inevitable impact of climate change.

There you go. Steal our money and give it to other people who have not earned it. Wonderful. That’s what this is all about; socialism by any other name still smells of shit.

He also issued a clear message to President Obama that he must attend the meeting in Copenhagen in person in order for an effective deal to be reached. US leadership, he said, was “desperately needed” to secure a deal.

Wow, there’s hubris for you. The president “must” attend, Lord Stern has issued his orders, eh?

He said that he was deeply concerned that popular opinion had so far failed to grasp the scale of the changes needed to address climate change, or of the importance of the UN meeting in Copenhagen from December 7 to December 18. “I am not sure that people fully understand what we are talking about or the kind of changes that will be necessary,” he added.

Oh, we understand alright. Public opinion has started to catch up with the charlatans, liars and doomsday banshees who want to drag us back to a medieval lifestyle. Perhaps they would like to reintroduce feudalism as well. We realise that so-called scientists have been cherry picking data to fit their preconceived ideas, thereby ignoring scientific process. We realise that politicians have been jumping onto the bandwagon. We realise that climate science is complex and cannot therefore be “settled”. We realise that the available data is insufficient and corrupted, and consequently cannot be relied upon. We realise that “peer review” and “consensus” are meaningless when raw data is withheld from anyone who may wish to check and challenge the findings. We realise that ground stations are frequently placed in urban hot-spots, so are unreliable. We realise that measurements do not include ocean temperatures. We realise that these people have sold us a pup in order to exercise control.

In short, Lord Stern can take his sanctimonious preaching and stick it where the sun don’t shine.

Interestingly, Stern is taking a well deserved pasting in the comments to the Times piece, thereby confirming that people are onto the high priests of this wack-job religion.