Do you think the British government is a little hypocritical when it comes to Global Warming?

Question

Also it isn't the government building the Severn Barrage I think it's an electric company, well it must be as i don't see anyone else building it.

Answer 1

Yea, it all boils down to global warming being nothing but a scam to line the pockets of another long series of fear mongers.

Did you get cold last night when the sun went down?  Where did all that global warming heat go?

See, global warming enthusiasts, fear mongers and haters tout that we are like a greenhouse, when we are nothing like a greenhouse!

They should monitor how cold it gets at night too, so that you have a truly legitimate view of what is going on....

Yea, absolutely nothing is going on....

Answer 2

Margaret Thatcher led the way on global warming hysteria and they're now building nuke reactors. Her credentials helped her to convince other politicians GW was a problem but I doubt she ever believed it herself. Maybe a future memoir will tell us.

Since we get most of our oil from Venezuela and Canada, the argument about war for oil is hollow. As for recycling, the only way it will happen is if the government subsidizes it since noone is too anxious to lose money doing it today.

Solar panels are expensive but there's another method being used in Nevada today that uses mirrors to focus sunlight on a liquid-filled pipe. The water becomes steam and turns a turbine to produce electricity at a bit over 10cents kwh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Sola...

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/con...

Your reference to a movie is odd and the Thermohaline Circulation won't shut down any time soon. It's also unlikely the stratoposphere will abruptly freeze anything on the ground  - that movie was as inane as Dante's Peak.

You don't mention nuclear power which should have a bright future if not for the hysterical fear-mongering by it's opponents. If they put money into new ways to use spent fuel rods they could recycle them, leaving almost no radioactive waste and boosting efficiency.

The Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period used to be commonly taught in school but since they don't fit GW theory they've now been down-sized to localized events. Which is an outrage but just one among many from global warming advocates. They discount the impact of the sun on the temp of the globe, which is ridiculous. When their models don't pan out, they re-do them or else 'adjust' prior temp records, read up on James Hansen at NASA's GISS and see for yourself.

The Great Global Warming Swindle was a highly politicized work but just citing it isn't proof that skeptics are wrong. Al Gore was laughably wrong but I don't attack him in posts since he's neither a scientist nor honest.

If a super-volcano ever goes off there's nothing we can do, it's going to be time for Earth to reset since almost nothing in the ecosphere will survive. Fortunately that's even less likely than the catastrophic heating and drought they predict from GW.

Answer 3

Yep, that's the problem with Government.

Larry, its not daily temperatures we're worrying about, its the global averages that can cause the huge changes. In mars (I think), the temperature varies about 300'C daily because it has no atmosphere.

Answer 4

Don't cite the Day After Tomorrow as a scientific reference. However, our government is more than a little hypocritical. They let terminal 5 go ahead at Heathrow, but refuse to build a Severn Barrage. For any of you who don't know what that is, it's a huge hydroelectric dam that would go from Wales to near where I live, which is Bristol. It could generate so much renewable energy, yet they don't build it.

Answer 5

misinformed... you will understand some day.  Stop believing we are in iraq for oil, there isnt any proof that we are over there, loading ships up with oil and taking it anywhere.

Global warming doesnt cause a cooling effect.  The cooling effect is part of a natural cycle, just like global warming is.  One doesnt cause the other, its just variation in the north atlantic current.  There has been a warming trend, which dilutes the northern atlantic current, causing it to "float" for longer, traveling farther north, carrying more warmth to the north pole.  When there isnt enough melting ice each summer to dilute the current enough, it will get disrupted, the northern reachs of the current will sink because of their salinity, and the sink area will be farther south than it is now, cooling the north pole.   You can see what Im talking about by looking at sea ice maps, and the GISS temperature anomoly map, it is much warmer than average in just one large spot, where the north atlantic current is making it to.

Answer 6

that is why the rest of europe detest us .two faced politicians who let this country down .!!!!

Answer 7

they are also building a massive coal fired power station

Answer 8

No.....It starts with each one of us and we are more hypocritical

Answer 9

What can any government solve ? War and taxes, they never stop one and the other never gets lower.  I think politicians are like bad drivers, they stop by the mailbox, toss in their brains, I won't be needing this any more.

Answer 10

Yes. but i think the main reason they are doing the recycling thing is because the citizens put pressure on them. but they need oil for tanks, trucks, black hawks.

Answer 11

Very hypocritical......................

Unfortunately their actions speak much louder than their words.

They are obsessed with big projects rather than working on a local scale. Energy efficiency should come first. The money from Fuel taxes and Road Tax should go straight into public transport and not family support (that should come from tax increases).

Unfortunately politicians in all developed countries are unable to make the crucial decisions about our future.

Answer 12

British government are hypocritical - end of!

Answer 13

Yes our government is MORE THAN HYPOCRITICAL imho.

But I don't think the other parties would do any better, except maybe the Lib Dems, but they would never get anything done, as even if they if they had a minority government they would always be the b****** party. and never get anything done.

Answer 14

Of course the gov. is hypocritical.They tax us more & more in the name of the environment but carry on using big gas guzzling chauffer driven cars themselves.It is a case of do as I say not do as I do. Britain is such a small dot on the globe, whatever actions we take will make little difference so long as the major powers such as USA China Russia India etc. take no action.

Answer 15

i think that most governments are very hypocritical on most policies.yet to see a politician driving the smart cars they seem so keen on.

Answer 16

Definitely hypocritical.

If they were serious about it they would help us to have solar panels on every home and solve our energy problems overnight.

Answer 17

Go to this link:

http://www.youtorrent.com/tag/?q=The+Gre...

And download the documentary called "The Great Global Warming Swindle"

Then get the propaganda follow up called PROOF THAT 'THE GREAT GLOBAL WARMING SWINDLE' WAS A SCAM.

Do some research into these topics:

The year without a summer

The Little Ice Age

Global Dimming

Super Volcanoes

When you look at the FACTS... FACTS AND ONLY FACTS... you will see that Global Warming is nothing but a cult being used to manipulate the small minded and perpetuate the adgendas of anti-advancement and anti-globalism political groups.

Nothing more.