Rio Produced The Best Possible Result

Rio+20 took place last week and thankfully the full on climate fright seems to be calming down. The louder the activists speech the more they make the rest of us question their claims if not their sanity. The World Wildlife Fund is guilty of exaggeration on all things environmental and if I am not mistaken is one of those charities whose income comes in part from Government funding i.e. the taxpayer. I object strongly to any charity of whatever kind being funded out of taxes unless of course it has provided some service to the Government when it should receive reasonable compensation for its work. It seems that the WWF provides no service to the Government but instead spends taxpayers' money lobbying the Government. Even if the WWF were lobbying for a cause about which I felt passionately I would still object to it doing so out of taxes. Even though it seems the scare tactics of the climate change believers are at long last beginning to have a negative effect on their cause it still leaves us with a huge problem as the only country in the world that is legally obliged to cut our CO2 emissions by 80% in forty years because of the Climate Change Act. This is estimated by the Government to cost £18bn a year until 2050. Thanks to Christopher Booker for this information which I have taken from his article in Sunday's Telegraph which you can read here. When is the Government going to repeal this ridiculous piece of legislation? When is it going to abandon its current climate change policy to something less juvenile and more responsible? Even the body set up by Cameron to review major government projects doubts that Britain's energy supply from green sources will be reliable and keep energy bills affordable (see Bishop Hill's blog here). The rising cost of energy will inevitably ensure that the vast majority of voters will make it very clear that when it comes to a choice between costly unproven green policies and cheaper more traditional means of energy generation that they will want the latter. The projected wind farms incorporating monster windmills to be built in our national parks will invite justifiable outrage and unless the Government is completely barmy will never get erected. The abandonment of such plans will  act as another nail in the coffin of green energy and hopefully will spur the Government on to ensure that shale gas exploitation is given every encouragement to proceed at full speed.