Eat your hearts out greenies! Whatever you do, do not attempt to recycle them.

With the collapse of the China market for our rubbish,The Sunday Telegraph is telling us that Hertfordshire county council has withdrawn a scheme that allowed residents to recycle everyday items like yoghurt pots, margarine tubs and other types of plastic packaging. It has now become uneconomical to do so. The items will now go into landfill sites and the council has asked residents to avoid buying products with too much plastic packaging.

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Sorry, off-topic. I have been waiting patiently for your take on the potential VAT reduction on Monday. This would seem to be against EU rules and as it is one of your favourite subjects I had thought your pages would be covered in comment - instead we get silence. You're not getting doubts are you Rae?

If you'd looked at the other forum post ... which isn't OT, you would have seen that I wrote that I'm planning to post on this.

And my name is not Rae.

Sorry Richard, cannot believe I called you Rae - have read your 'stuff' and Booker's for ages. Too much impatience my problem.

Not a problem ... New post here!

I see Willis Eschenbach at Climate Audit is giving the greenies a further MAJOR drubbing with a new statistical analysis.

Join the fun here.

The spectacle of lots and lots of greenie squirming to be had soon.

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I wonder how long they will be able to perpetuate the AGW myth if we do have 23 years of cooling despite rising CO2?

To paraphrase Tina Turner,
"What's facts got to do with it?"

What really intrigues me, is whether, when they've admitted there is no connection between the 'theory of AGW' and reality, the scientific community will attempt to heal the holes in its credibility. The public wants to trust science, scientists and scientific reports yet they can see that 'science' is lying through its teeth as it chases politically inspired grants.
That such a lie can be promulgated as 'Science' shows that our whole peer-review system of science has become suspect, though I know of no better.

Commenters MarcH and John A at Climate Audit gave the following two links respectively on the current state of peer review:

1. Being published does not turn fiction into fact.

2. Why Current Publication Practices May Distort Science.

I now recycle more than ever - I can't wait until our local council has to annouce it is piling up 'recycled materials' everywhere while we pay additional council tax for the 'recycling service.' On that note, our local East Sussex council now collects plastic bottles etc - more fat geezers in hi vis vests to do so, more lorries (0h the carbon footprint of it all) and of course no end market for the collected plastic.