“A frantic race to play the winning ‘green card’ will take place in Westminster this week, as Britain’s three main political parties focus on the environment and global warming as the main battleground of the next general election,” according to Nigel Morris in an article ‘Politicians step up the battle to secure the green vote’ published yesterday in The Independent Online.
“Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Miliband and David Cameron are all placing unprecedented emphasis on the environment as they set out their plans to combat global warming.
“The manoeuvring over green issues suggests the political elite believes success or failure in the ballot box depends on their ability to convince a sceptical electorate they can tackle the biggest issue of the day.
Read the complete article here: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2350048.ece
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.
That should be a PC panderfest of orgiastic dimensions.
I don’t think alternative energy sources will win many votes in Wales, where, so I am told, hundreds of ugly wind turbines have been built on Mount Pumlumon, a sacred Welsh site. See http://www.cambrian-mountains.co.uk . Green has different shades in different countries.
Or try this one – http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2030593,00.html
I just can’t wait for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Climate Change – The Musical”.
“The hills are alive with the sound of melting glaciers
With ice that has not melted for ten thousands of years
The hills fill my heart with the sound of the Inconvenient Truth soundtrack
My heart wants to sing every song it hears
My heart wants to beat like the wings of new migrating bird species
that rise from the evaporating lake to newly planted trees sequestering carbon
My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies
from the church of unfettered belief on a increasingly warming breeze
To laugh like a flash flooding brook when it trips and falls over
stupid denialist arguments on its way
To sing through the warmer night like a DDT laden lark who is learning to pray for drought breaking rain
I go to the eroded hills minus the the glaciers when my heart is lonely
I know I will hear what I’ve heard before
My heart will be blessed with the sound of ranting contrarians
And I’ll abuse them all once more”
Geeez Lukey,
You are a genius ;)!!!!
I don’t think so Quasimodo. I was thinking more like;
“turn your thoughts away from the role of cosmic rays and surrender to the music of the fright”.
Sounds like another re-run of “there’s no spectacle more ridiculous than the British public in one of its periodic fits of morality”
What do you expect from people who drink their own effluent?