Climate Change (2): a weird poll from the Environment Agency
My post of a graph showing how Brown has climbed on the climate change bandwagon has caused a little flurry. Numerous lefties have frantically trawled the last manifestos to show that Labour mentioned climate more than the Tories (they don’t say in which conext - would “the climate of fear we have created” count, for example?). The best oponent is Tom Freeman, and because of his interest in the issue I have discovered his rather good blog HERE.
Anyway, whichever way you cut it, Labour has failed on climate change. Their failure to push through any meaningful policies, combined with the failed climate change levy, means that emissions have actually risen under Labour. The only way we will meet our Kyoto target is because of the work of the last Conservative government.
Which makes the Environment Agency’s “100 Greatest Eco-Heroes of all time” poll look frankly bizarre. The first UK politician to rank is Michael Meacher (I kid you not) at no. 24. No Margaret Thatcher, despite being the first world statesman to recognise climate change and say that man was contributing; no Chris Patten, despite “This Common Inheritance” and actually cxreating the Environment Agency; no John Gummer, despte being widely recognised as the most effective Environment Secretary in the last two decades (actually did he set up the EA?). If they wanted to include a Tory but still succeed in upsetting us, they could even have included Ted Heath, who set up the Department of the Environment!
So Lefties shouldn’t worry. Despite every significant environmental initiative happening under the Tories, lefties still get the credit.
Tim Worstall said on November 23rd, 2006 at 12:10 pm:
Ed Vaizey…
Really?So Lefties shouldn’t worry. Despite every significant environmental initiative happening under the Tories, lefties still get the credit….
matthew said on November 23rd, 2006 at 12:16 pm:
this poll was hilarious.
Ecoterrorist Swampy features prominently. As does Ken Livingstone.
The list was compiled by Jonathon Porritt
at number 3 in the list, er, Jonathon Porritt.
Of course Thatcher is side-swiped at amid this far-left nonsense, implying that she was bad for the environment:
(10) Gro Harlem Brundlandt
At the peak of Thatcherism, here was a woman Prime Minister putting forward an alternative worldview: that of ‘sustainable development’.
It’s stuffed with left-wing propaganda:
Al Gore:
Forty-fifth Vice President of the US, who ran for the presidency in 2000 and was defeated by George W Bush after the US Supreme Court halted all legal recounts in the state of Florida.
Hilariously, Red Ken Livingstone ranks above Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Good to know that our taxes are funding this stuff.
Not sure why it’s just been publicised now, when it was released on November 8, 2006.