James Ogley

A little while ago, I joined with Christian Aid to lobby MEPs to vote for a EU emissions target of a 30% reduction.  Among the recipients of my email were Mr Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP).  Now, the evidence for climate change is – as anyone who’s not a lunatic right-winger knows – overwhelming.  Sadly, Mr Farage falls into the exception category.  (No surprise given that UKIP is the blurry area that merges the Tories and the BNP on the right of British politics).

Below is a copy of the paranoid and moronic response I received from Mr Farage so all the world can see the lunacy that UKIP espouse.

Dear Correspondent

Thank you for your letter about climate-change and EU-legislation on this subject.

Global climate is always in a state of flux – although, according to satellite-data, there has been no overall temperature-rise, since 1998 – and this flux is mainly due to variations in solar activity, such that an increase in the solar wind deflects, from the Earth, the cosmic particles, which give rise to low-level cloud-cover, thereby raising temperatures.  By the same token, a diminution in the Sun’s maculae – which generate the solar wind – causes temperatures to fall.  The maculae shrink and expand over cycles of a few decades.  An expanding phase was evident during the thirty-or-so years from 1965.  Before that, scientists worried about falling temperatures!

However, the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) has little influence on this mechanism, because the greenhouse-effect operates to stabilise temperatures (equalising them between day and night) rather than to increase, or lower, them.

Furthermore, CO2 is not a significant GHG, 97% of the GH-effect being due to water-vapour.  Even if it were, less than 3% of atmospheric CO2 is generated by human activity.

Finally, increases in atmospheric CO2-concentration always follow, and never precede, rises in global temperature.  This means that increases in atmospheric CO2-concentration cannot be construed, under any circumstances, as a cause of rising temperature.

The current scare about CO2-emissions is, therefore, just that – a scare – which is making huge profits for big business.  Note the figures for Shell and BP, released recently!  These derive largely from trading in carbon-emissions quota – an entirely illusory market – which is funded by the tax-payer.

The EU is a cynical party to the enormous scam, which this scare is generating.  With its absurd legislation, it is colluding with big business to terrify and rob the public.

As evidence of this, consider the EU’s biofuels-policy, which is causing the starving to die and the poor to starve, besides accelerating the loss of natural habitat.  Could anything be more indicative of the EU’s true motives, in the matter, than this?

Yours sincerely,

Nigel Farage
Leader, UK Independence Party
Co-President, the Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group (EU’s consultative assembly)