Be Responsible – Be Free!

We’ve been predicting it, and now it appears to have happened. After Cancún, Anthropogenic Global Warming is generally expected to have oulived (by far) its fifteen minutes of fame, and will be quietly dropped by Western governments; so quietly, in fact, that they’re hoping we won’t notice. So much for the “greatest moral challenge of our time”.

But nature abhors a vacuum, and those behind the AGW racket, politically and financially, have not gone away. Like the shape-shifters of Greek and Norse mythology, the same movement behind AGW is about to be re-branded—this time, as biodiversity. Continue reading →

…or so it seems from this story in the UK Daily Telegraph. Under new guidelines published on Tuesday, the BBC will henceforth be required to give “appropriate weight” to dissenting views on controversial subjects—like Anthropogenic Global Warming.

Our God-Emperor is quoted in the above story as being highly doubtful that the updated guidelines will make any difference to the clear editorial bias displayed by the Beeb in recent years. And how could it, when staff know the £1 billion black hole in its pension fund can only be remedied by an unprecedented upswing in the fortunes of the alternative energy industry in which it is so heavily invested? Talk about calling through your pocket.

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With this topic, we are getting close to the heart of the whole matter. The history of government funding for the arts and sciences closely parallels the 20^th-century transition of Western governments from liberal democracies to social democracies I discussed earlier, and the rise of the totalitarian socialist/fascist state. Dr Dave raised the subject in his comment on the previous thread, and I thought it deserved a separate discussion space here.

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