In a new report, Friends of the Earth Europe is crying foul about the production of biofuels, claiming it is leading to a land grab in Africa. In the best patronising style of the liberal neo-colonialists, it thinks the niggers should be using the land to grow subsistence crops instead of generating economic activity on the backs of gullible Europeans, which can then be taxed and used to foster independence from whitey and his NGOs (like Friends of the Earth).

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Way to stick to these super intelligent geniuses, Dr North

REDD requires standing forests to be left alone - for 'carbon stocks' to have value.
Biofuels require semi-arid 'non-agricultural' land to be converted to fuel farms

It is the same HFC 22, 23 story over again.

That is the interesting thing about a hyperactive, legislative and policy-making machine. In due course, it starts producing conflicting policies and ends up colliding with itself. I guess that is what happens when you are driven by dogma.

It will be interesting to see what happens when the EU/Greenies/NGOs and the Chinese clash in Africa.

Yes, there is an inherent tension there ... especially as the Chinese pay better money with no strings. We are very rapidly being outflanked by the Chinese there, and elsewhere. They are buying up Afghanistan, for instance.

For money?

Just testing my activation before I comment. :0)

Dr North, I know that you are exposing the superior elite type racism of the people who made this report using irony, but they will quote you back to attack you, I would suggest that you take out the N word, if they can crucify Ron Atkinson for the use of this word when he obviously was not a racist, just think how they could use this against you.

They will quote anything and everything, guilty or not, and if they can't do it legitimately, they will misquote, take me out of context or even fabricate. I might as well be hung for a prize steer as a lamb!

Fancy that!

IPCC told to stop lobbying and restrict role to explaining climate science




WARNING: The piece is headed by a revolting picture of that hideous little w0g, pachauri. So have a paper bag handy.

From a link in the above:


I wonder what that moonbat twat has to say about all this. Pachauri vindicated, eh?


More details at Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog.

Strange. Phil the Fiddler Jones saw fit to be a 'Contributor to the Review' but Slippery-Sam Mann didn't. Perhaps he considered it infra dig for such an esteemed personage as himself.

Roger Harrabin (or whatever he is called) was laying out his stall as a closet soft sceptic on R4 tonight, he even called the CRU emails "leaks" and told us how Al Gore got angry with him for asking difficult questions. Then the BBC news talked of a conflict of interest at the top of the IPCC, maybe naming Pachauri. Well that was a story started on this blog by Richard.

This is From WUWT


I know you are very busy Richard but now is the time to finish what you started. Pachauri still has not corrected his accounts for TERI-Europe. He is a wounded animal , has deep pockets and plays dirty. It is better to keep all comments very dry and factual when dealing with him.

We have not forgotten ... the story is developing, as the Charities Commission is proving extraordinarily hard to pin down, so the story is beginning to acquire new legs. We were just waiting for the Carter Fuck situation to clear the air (the one victory we secured was to reject any undertaking not to publish on Pachauri again) and we will be running the story.

It would be kinder if you were to finish the job this time

You can't kill zombies ... not by any normal means.

Normally you're supposed to remove the head and destroy the brain. Of course, this pre-supposes that a brain is present.