An Ending....For The Time Being

If you were to carry out a quick google search you could find more than a few of these, but i will select one at random. And here she is...

Meet Philippa Bigham. Aged 28. In 2009 she was given two years to live, as the NHS refused to stump up £3,000 to pay for a cancer drug she needed to take before she could have a bone marrow transplant.

So, initial thoughts. 1) Surely her life is worth £3,000. 2) She's paid into the system and - assuming she lives - will be paying into it for the rest of her life, far exceeding the £3,000 she wants to take from it now. 3) The NHS should not be God-like, in that it decides who to treat and who to abandon.

I confess to not knowing where Ms Bigham is now. She may have got the treatment she needed and hopefully she's doing just fine. Like i said, she was just one i plucked from the internet, an example of someone being let down by the system.

I called this blog An Ending, as i'm now about to 'bang on' about something people are probably tired of hearing about. This shall be my last say on it for a while. Or at least until fresh bullshit compells me to put pixels to screen.

£1.3 million pounds.

Like it? Would ya? Yeah you would. Some say a million isn't that much these days. Whoever says that is a) Wrong and b) Greedy. I could make a million last just fine, and have a ruddy good time while i was at it. I'd even treat you. Not you though.

If you had £1.3 million pounds, you'd help Phlippa wouldn't you? Why not? It's 3 grand. Not too much out of your cash pile and you'd be saving a life so if there is a heaven you're taking a giant step toward it.

£1.3 million pounds is the amount of money the NHS had to pay out purchasing 'Carbon Credits' in 2006. You can bet your last penny it's increased substantially since then.

So yes, i'm on about this century's biggest con again; Climate Change. For those that don't know, 'Carbon Credits' is a scheme cooked up by the EU, and copied by America only they called it 'Cap and Trade'. It works like this; each EU country agreed to cap its CO2 emissions at a certain figure, and individual enterprises within that country are allocated 'Carbon Allowances'. If exceeded, they could then continue to 'pollute' but only by purchasing Carbon Credits from firms or countries which were emitting less than they were allowed.

I put pollute in these things '' because i don't believe CO2 is a pollutant.

The flaw in this idealistic nonsense, is that each country was allowed to nominate its own allowance. So, pop quiz. What would you do? You'd set it high right? High so that you could 'pollute' all you want - pollute or help plants grow depending how you look at it - and not only that you can make MONEY FOR NOTHING by selling your excess carbon to other suckers. Brilliant. You are literally getting paid for nothing. Germany was a wiley old fox, setting their levels much higher than their existing ones. As a result, Germany made £300 million pounds on carbon credit sales. Britain, led by that fucking collection of useless cunts known as the Labour party, set their levels lower than their existing ones, in order to 'honour the spirit of Kyoto'.

This honouring of the spirit meant Britain paid out £470 million pounds buying......nothing.

Nearly half a billion pounds on fuck all. Of that figure, £1.3 million was paid by the NHS.

People die of cancer, but we can't afford to give them drugs. Our planet experiences a change in temperature which - if you look at history it does every now and then - and we can find £1.3 million pounds to make ourselves feel better about it.

Try as i might, i cannot find words to describe this. Despite all the best evidence to the contrary, the IPCC are still doing their best to convince everyone that we're in a whole heap of trouble. I'm happy to observe that there is an up-rising now. People are sick of it. They're sick of hearing about it, and they're sick of the money being spent on it.

Then there's things like the other day, where some bright spark said we'd just experienced the warmest January ever. Warm for him, he was in Australia. For us, who are glad to be free of the snow, it sounded pretty fucking ridiculous.

In an attempt at hyperbole, the climate changers made themselves look as stupid as they are. With all this cold weather, we are now expected to believe the cold weather is 'masking' the hot.

Because the dream of the doom mongerers doesn't seem to be coming true, the new theory is 'Yes, the planet is cooling down, but thats just masking how hot it really is'.

If i were to pour some scalding hot water into a bucket and shove a Climate Changer's head into it, do you think that a) He'd scream because the flesh was falling off his face, or b) He'd be just fine, as my scalding hot water is really cold, its just that the hot is masking it?

And for those who are quick to point out water and air are two different entities, i was just making an example. If something is cold, it's cold, and all the best efforts of the IPCC won't change that.

If i were a psychiatrist - hey you never know, one day - i might say the planet as a whole is feeling guilty. It's feeling guilty because, despite all the odds - and if you learn a little about physics and the mechanics of the universe, those odds are rather high - we're doing just fine. For me, it's akin to Survivor's Guilt, where you feel bad because you're in one piece and everyone else is dead. We look at a dusty Mars or a frozen Pluto and think....well, that could have been us. But our friend the Sun keeps us locked in it's orbit just fine, and our plants and trees have learned how to use the sun's rays to grow and flourish.

And, without sounding like the very hippies i despise, it's a beautiful thing. The inhabitants of this planet are a mixed lot. Outrageously intelligent in some corners, and in others that intelligence is used negatively.

Wasting time, effort and money convincing ourselves that we are all doomed is not the best use of either of those things. There are a few things you can't change, and the weather is one of them. For years civilisation was kept in the dark by the church, that's what's known as the Dark Ages. We pulled through that, and science came into its own with splendid fellows like Newton and Galileo. Fellows that came dangerously close to being persecuted by the God botherers, but that have had a huge influence on society today.

Now, our threat is not the church, it is the politicians who turn things like Climate Change into new religions. Religions you cannot question, faith you cannot shake. Again things are hidden, and again those that go against the grand plan are ridiculed and cast aside. Thankfully they are not burned at the stake as heretics anymore, we've come some way at least.

A follow up to the Copenhagen Conference is coming up. I see it as nothing more than a waste of time, and as ignoring the real problem, that of an energy crisis.

Some of my facebook friends joined some kind of group banging on about how they'd have a wind turbine in their back yard if needs be. Commendable, but useless. See, wind turbines suffer from a problem. That is, wind doesn't blow at a constant speed, so the thing about a 2MW turbine means very little. 2MW is what it CAN generate, but only if the wind is blowing it at optimum speed all the time. It won't, and in winter when electricity demand is at it's highest, high pressure means the blessed things won't turn at all.

Because of their unreliability, and in order to generate a continuous supply of electric to consumers, there needs to be a back up. The back up is powered by alternative sources. The alternative source is.....gas.

So, with all the talk of 'renewable energy', the fact is wind turbines need a fossil fuel to keep running. This would use the fuel up, emitting steam and the dreaded, mean, nasty, foul CO2. Like you, you emit CO2 so you must be evil too. In conclusion, wind turbines don't save CO2, and they're fuck ugly on the landscape too.

If you're asking why you didn't know that turbines need gas as a reserve, its because you've been successfully fooled by the powers that be and the energy companies. Fool. Our beloved Labour fuck wits are planning on spending £100 billion pounds on turbines. No, i didn't type it wrong, it really is one hundred BILLION pounds on.......something that relies on fossil fuels and generates CO2.

Genius, Gordon. Really. The worst news? That cost is going straight to YOU. The consumer. Your power bills will be astronomical and you'll still have black outs where supply can't meet demand. Why? Because no-one wants to go nuclear, and no-one's allowed to burn coal or gas. This means only one thing; an energy crisis. One like nothing you've ever known.

This is going on too long now. There are many other points to bring up, and false ideas to shoot down, but its up to you to do so. Without wishing to sound paranoid, don't believe all they tell you. Now, where's my coat? It's bloody freezing out there.