Britain’s parliamentary system seems to provoke rather frequent fits of official candor. BBC reports one illustration from earlier this month. The U.K.’s Environment Minister, Sammy Wilson, provoked cat calls from the extreme green lobby by “describing their view on climate change as a ‘hysterical pseudo-religion’”:
In an article in the News Letter, Mr Wilson said he believed it [climate change] occurred naturally and was not man-made.
“Resources should be used to adapt to the consequences of climate change, rather than King Canute-style vainly trying to stop it,” said the minister. . .
Mr Wilson said he refused to “blindly accept” the need to make significant changes to the economy to stop climate change.
“The tactic used by the ‘green gang’ is to label anyone who dares disagree with their view of climate change as some kind of nutcase who denies scientific fact,” he said.
The minister said he accepted climate change can occur, but did not believe the cause had been identified.
“Reasoned debate must replace the scaremongering of the green climate alarmists.” . . .
Indeed. Good for you, Sammy! More at the BBC.
Meanwhile, Stateside, look who’s making a killing of high oil prices and the “hysterial pseudo religion”: Monsanto corporation has reported clearly $2 billion in profits in one year from corn seed sales alone.
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You have no heart, can’t you see these people are hurting!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEaHyzbqTA
It is getting so when I hear anyone mouth that overused word– green– I want to puke. Talk about gods made of stone or wood, who neither speak nor hear. Icebergs that do not (really) melt, ozone holes that (really) have no impact on the earth. Global warming that (really) produces lower average temperatures. And do I prefer paper or plastic bags at the grocery checkout? Don’t ask.