Monbiot and Other Nonsense

For those who do not know Monbiot he is a warrior for those affected by global warming and ungreen policies and now it seems those wanting a roof over their heads. According to his article in the Guardian this morning he has discovered that there is an enormous number of houses with excessive bedrooms, i.e. bedrooms that are never or hardly ever used. He thus wants these bedrooms to be allocated to those who are unable to get pads of their own. The Soviets tried this and indeed house sharing of some sort or other is still probably being practiced in parts of those countries now freed from having to hide behind the old Iron Curtain. It was certainly still alive and well and greatly resented by those forced to live with others in Hungary when I was there 10 or so years ago. What is it with these people who want to dictate how others should live their lives? What makes them think they have any idea worth imposing on others? I suppose though useful idiots do have a function by giving the rest of us something to laugh at. Sadly though his support for the global warming nonsense is costing us all a huge sum of money and will continue to do so until the pseudoscience is slain. On this topic I see that the Met Office is saying it did not publish its long range forecast of a cold winter because it was concerned about the reaction to it. It seems though that whilst it forecast a cold winter it was still publishing charts on its website showing rather the reverse - see http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100070451/how-the-doomed-met-office-tried-to-spin-its-way-out-of-trouble/