As I drew last week's podcast about hoaxes to a close, recognizing that the clock was against me because I never want these episodes to drag on for too long, I had realized that there was no way I could do justice to one of the biggest hoaxes of our lifetime and that is global warming referred to now as climate change, because for the past ten years or so it has been very obvious that the planet is cooling down rather than warming up.
Yes, I freely admit that in the early days of the scam I thought there could potentially be some cause for concern with ice sheets melting and causing mayhem and so on, but I never believed in the man made causes pointed to by politicians because, well, here in The UK we were already beginning to see green energy surcharges on our electricity bills and stealth taxes have the same effect on me as a red rag does on a bull.
We suffer very high rates of tax in this country disproportionately targeted on low to middle income earners imposed by politicians who bleat on about equity and fairness in connection with skin color with little or no knowledge of the matters in which they are meddling.
For example, filling quotas that dictate employees be engaged according to race or gender to protect minorities, quote unquote, is ridiculous and downright dangerous in occupations such as flying aircraft where merit should be the one and only standard for entry and taking charge of something as important as a passenger plane or any sort of plane. But back to taxation.
In successive budgets, starting way back in the nineteen eighties, various chancellors dropped the basic or headline rate of income tax by 1p, each time to great fanfare and applause whilst employing ever more cynical ways of collecting even more for their coffers by using other means. They gambled that no one would notice and generally they were right.
When Gordon Brown announced a truly swinging attack on carefully planned pension funds in what I think was his second or third budget in around 1999, practically no one picked up on it. I don't think it was ever challenged. I can't say with absolute certainty but when I discussed the ramifications with my husband he was utterly horrified and recommended that I write to a program called Working Lunch, and that was a daily BBC money program that he rated very highly.
Not surprisingly it aired at lunchtime and I was at work so I never used to watch it. But I duly followed his advice and wrote and I wasn't even graced with a reply. I think they thought I was away with the fairies. I will now attempt to rein myself in here and focus specifically on the cost to us average folks of their eager embrace of this enormous hoax surrounding climate change.
I am well aware, of course, that opinion is still severely divided over the truth of climate change and that a huge percentage, even of thinking people, were utterly convinced by Al Gore's film called An Inconvenient Truth back in 02/2006. I didn't see the film at the time, but I certainly have seen it since, and I was aware of all the furore about that film back in o six.
I freely admit that he does a fabulous job of convincing his viewers that we were, what, ten years from losing huge swathes of land from drastic flooding. Places like The Maldives would disappear. Half of The UK would be underwater. Major coastal cities would disappear and on and on in the same vein.
You're not really noticing it now, he would say going on to explain exponential growth and using his famous hockey stick diagram to horrify everyone about the steep rise we would definitely experience in the coming decade unless we stopped using fossil fuels. Al Gore, I believe, was a very popular politician. But back in 02/2006, I didn't have time to follow US politics. And to me, he's best known as the global warming spokesman.
Well, that film and his other activities in politics have made him extremely rich. And this is typical of senior politicians, maybe more so in The US than The UK because everything's bigger over there. However, it's such an obvious trend on both sides of the pond that it would bear very deep investigation. Who pays these people? The millions of dollars or pounds that they all have as their net worth is way greater than they could possibly have earned doing an honest politician's job.
Oh and the few honest ones don't make the megabucks and they quickly disappear from the radar. Al Gore and the Global Warming Brigade were the public face of a devious plan hatched in the early seventies by the Club of Rome. Denis Meadows wrote the famous book called Limits to Growth, which outlined their plans for attempting to control population growth. They came up with the idea of making the population feel guilty and responsible for a perceived crisis.
That is that there would be too many people for the planet to support if measures were not taken to control not only the reproduction rate but the behavior of populations worldwide but particularly in the developed West. I'm well aware that I've discussed the global warming hoax before, and today I'm not revisiting old ground.
I'm on a mission to demonstrate the folly as misguided policies implemented by career politicians who have never run businesses nor had to bother their heads about balancing a family budget. In The UK, we talk about the Westminster bubble. Westminster being the area in London where our parliament buildings are located, and many politicians have or occupy additional properties in that region so that they can generally be close to their place of work for convenience.
The average person doesn't have the luxury of two residences even if one of them is a compact one or two person apartment rather than a house. Those senior politicians that dictate policy are right out of touch with what matters to the population. One female Conservative MP famously described prime minister David Cameron and his chancellor George Osborne, this was probably more than ten years ago, as two posh boys who don't even know the price of milk.
Throughout the West, global warming has been the perfect excuse to do much more than extract money from the population via hidden taxes. Successive governments have introduced policies which are purposely crippling economies. There was a UK Politician, Liz Truss, whose name you might recall because she was our shortest ever lived prime minister in 2022. It was thirty nine days, I think. But she understood growth and she was no fool and neither was her chancellor.
But it seems they didn't run their budget past those shadowy powers that shouldn't be before going public with it and the economic establishment freaked out. What? All our carefully installed plans will be devastated. People will be happier. Life for them will be more affordable, and we can't have that. So the establishment rolled out their big guns. Liz Truss was forced to resign ignominiously, and most of the country believed the lie that she and her chancellor were clueless. They weren't.
They wanted to halt the decline of The UK economy. Compare that with last year's budget presented by our first female chancellor, Rachel Reeves. She truly is clueless and has invented her 22,000,000 black hole left by the conservatives, the opposition party, and she blames that for every disruptive tax rise that she has now proposed. I know I've also discussed that budget before and its super dangerous consequences for The UK food supply. Her attack on farmers' livelihoods is indefensible.
Demonstrations have been held in London where farmers have organized protests or protest blockades with their tractors desperately trying to wake up the government with this simple message, no farmers, no food. All of us in The UK are unnecessarily suffering ever increasing energy costs because of misguided green policies pursued by successive governments. Green energy is not sustainable, although that's the word most commonly used to describe it.
Yes, it might be in some cases renewable, but at what cost? Wind turbines have a life of only twenty years and then they have to be replaced. They're impossible to dispose of and the electricity that they supply is unreliable because wind conditions have to be just right in order for them to work at all. There are literally landfill sites that have become graveyards for white elephants such as bikes.
These can't be repaired or recycled once their useful lives are over and I believe they're pretty toxic in terms of being disposed of. The same applies to electric cars which are, you know, twenty, thirty, 40 times bigger. The cost of replacing the battery in an electric vehicle is eye watering. You can't make long journeys without stopping to recharge. Think of the expense, the waste of time and the inconvenience.
Charging points, you'll probably have noticed if you're in The UK, have proliferated in most motorway service areas. And I suppose the catering companies there are rubbing their hands in glee at all the extra trade. But this energy that's delivered when you plug in your e vehicle, where exactly does it come from? Something has to generate it in the first place.
E vehicles also have a nasty habit of exploding spontaneously so much so that ferry companies are very reluctant to allow such vehicles on board at all. And we know that batteries for these e vehicles require cobalt. They can't be made without it. And at present, it's a pretty rare mineral, only available from a very few third world countries such as The Congo or DRC.
This stuff is mined under slave labor conditions Often by children younger than the age of six, tiny family businesses exist where every member of the family works by scratching a living from these open cast mines under a baking African sun. It's long hours of backbreaking work and it's for the equivalent of a few cents or pence per day. Are the people who buy these EVs and feel so pleased with themselves even aware of this hidden cost to humanity or is it a case of out of sight, out of mind?
I'm totally delighted to see that Joe Rogan has taken up the baton declaring that the temperature on Earth far from rising has been demonstrably falling on average over the past few hundred years. His is a very loud voice and he is seeking to reassure those who are freaked out by the climate change hoax that it is not happening. What is happening is that governments are doing everything they can to restrict economic growth by keeping energy prices so high that businesses can't afford it.
The carbon reduction policies set out by, most recently, the Paris agreement are irrational. They are not sustainable, and countries that have implemented them attempting to reach their targets have begun to recognize the economic costs of doing so. Clearly they're not bright enough to see what was going to happen in advance. The need to restrict carbon dioxide is a totally false premise anyway because carbon dioxide is the gas of life.
Trees and other plants happily remove it from the atmosphere as they make their own food via photosynthesis. In fact, if you run a greenhouse and you want better production from the plants in there, what do you do? You pump in carbon dioxide. Just two days ago oil giant BP announced that it was abandoning its recent ventures into green energy because they weren't profitable.
Presumably their shareholders were asking why a certain Swedish company and Shell's profits were so much higher, and it was down to the crazy pursuit of green energy investments. BP shuns renewables in return to oil and gas was a very cheering headline that I read only yesterday. But climate change is real cry those dyed in the wool followers of the hoax. And they point to flooding, forest fires, hurricanes, and so on.
Well, these disasters are indeed man made, but they're caused by cloud seeding, directed energy weapons, and installations such as HAARP, h a a r p, which is the high energy auroral active research project up in Alaska and the 50 other versions of it that you can find all over the world. And all of this, I've spoken about at some length in previous podcasts.