Comments on: AGW and helicopters http://www.johnband.org/blog/2009/12/04/agw-and-helicopters/ The idle musings of John B Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:27:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: ajay http://www.johnband.org/blog/2009/12/04/agw-and-helicopters/comment-page-1/#comment-109704 ajay Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:28:20 +0000 http://www.johnband.org/blog/2009/12/04/agw-and-helicopters/#comment-109704 <a href="#comment-109341" rel="nofollow">@Neil </a> Bali too. I mean, without the Global Warming conference business, there's really no reason for foreign visitors to go there at all. @Neil

Bali too. I mean, without the Global Warming conference business, there’s really no reason for foreign visitors to go there at all.

]]> By: John B http://www.johnband.org/blog/2009/12/04/agw-and-helicopters/comment-page-1/#comment-109343 John B Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:30:12 +0000 http://www.johnband.org/blog/2009/12/04/agw-and-helicopters/#comment-109343 Mark, c'mon, you're not an idiot - wood/trees here. The assorted snake-oil salesmen, including the international conference tourist boards, all put together in their sleazy glory, still have less than 1/10 the money or power of the rock-oil salesmen. Mark, c’mon, you’re not an idiot – wood/trees here. The assorted snake-oil salesmen, including the international conference tourist boards, all put together in their sleazy glory, still have less than 1/10 the money or power of the rock-oil salesmen.

]]> By: Neil http://www.johnband.org/blog/2009/12/04/agw-and-helicopters/comment-page-1/#comment-109341 Neil Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:21:32 +0000 http://www.johnband.org/blog/2009/12/04/agw-and-helicopters/#comment-109341 Yeah, 'cos of course Kyoto and Copenhagen would have been fucked without an extra one-off conference, wouldn't they? Yeah, ‘cos of course Kyoto and Copenhagen would have been fucked without an extra one-off conference, wouldn’t they?

]]> By: Mark Wadsworth http://www.johnband.org/blog/2009/12/04/agw-and-helicopters/comment-page-1/#comment-109326 Mark Wadsworth Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:30:17 +0000 http://www.johnband.org/blog/2009/12/04/agw-and-helicopters/#comment-109326 Do you still seriously believe in Catastrophic Climate Change? <i>"... the people who’d benefit from the enormous, co-ordinated scam required to present a false AGW theory as true across the scientist community are small in both numbers and power ..."</i> The point is that one snake oil salesman after another has jumped on the bandwagon, whether it's nuclear lobby, the kill-them-all lobby (Optimum Population Trust), the cap'n'trade speculators, the windmill lobby, the home insulation lobby, the car-makers lobby (scrap your old car and buy a new one that's slightly more efficient) or just politicians with a lust for higher taxes and more power, or just 'researchers' with a lust for loads more research grants, or quangista. Or indeed the places like Bali or Kyoto or Copenhagen who benefit enormously from the influx of high-spending foreigners, or third world despots who can now ask for money in exchange for starving its own people, or fakecharities and quangoes who can ask for more money or recycling companies who can earn more by lovingly separating out stuff that is of little commercial value etc etc. Do you seriously think there are no vested interests on the other side as well? As opposed to what? Normal people who like using a patio heater, driving a car etc? We're like the evil ones, are we? Do you still seriously believe in Catastrophic Climate Change?

“… the people who’d benefit from the enormous, co-ordinated scam required to present a false AGW theory as true across the scientist community are small in both numbers and power …”

The point is that one snake oil salesman after another has jumped on the bandwagon, whether it’s nuclear lobby, the kill-them-all lobby (Optimum Population Trust), the cap’n'trade speculators, the windmill lobby, the home insulation lobby, the car-makers lobby (scrap your old car and buy a new one that’s slightly more efficient) or just politicians with a lust for higher taxes and more power, or just ‘researchers’ with a lust for loads more research grants, or quangista.

Or indeed the places like Bali or Kyoto or Copenhagen who benefit enormously from the influx of high-spending foreigners, or third world despots who can now ask for money in exchange for starving its own people, or fakecharities and quangoes who can ask for more money or recycling companies who can earn more by lovingly separating out stuff that is of little commercial value etc etc.

Do you seriously think there are no vested interests on the other side as well? As opposed to what? Normal people who like using a patio heater, driving a car etc? We’re like the evil ones, are we?

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