"Neil" wrote in message
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Hi all,

Not really about weather but many here have an interest in "Global
Warming" so I thought I'd let you know about a C4 programme showing
tonight at 8pm - it's a Dispatches programme called 'the Great Green
Smokescreen' - which promises to dissect some of the 'solutions' to global
warming:

Thanks for the info Neil this should be very interesting.



You know I've recently wondered about this 'carbon off-setting ', how does
it work in practice ? Actually it reminds me of atonement for your sins,
some kind of confessional where you say three Hail Mary's or in this case
promise to drink organic tea for a week and use reusable nappies for a
month! Hey presto absolution. The CO2 mob are like that, evangelical
religious nutters and ironically they permeate from the left middle classes
who not so long ago professed to hate all religion as the opium of the
people; now of course they promote religion as long as it isn't western
Christianity.



What's this got to do with GW, well I see that a a new religion for those
spoilt never-had-it better middle classes of the western developed world.



We really do though find ourselves in odd times a world where information is
open to all and yet it has never been so dishonestly manipulated to the
point where we can't tell our heads from our arses.



Let's give some of the increasingly numerous examples: many people living
in registered community care for adults with learning disabilities come
under very stringent and frankly sometimes nonsensical policies. The local
authorities send around their Environmental health officers who then
threaten to close a home down if a hand bowl isn't fitted in the kitchen or
insect nets are not in place. Yet these same Environmental Officers as they
leave the home they've inspected walk past rubbish that hasn't been
collected with wheelie bins overflowing and bags ripped open by foxes and
rats.



At present I'm having a battle with a local London authority that have the
cheek to tell you their policy is a weekly collection and yet they are
practising a two week pick up! Of course the complaints procedure has been
put out to a privately run call-centre with a snappy name.



This is underlined by the lying ludicrous government plans to make
two-weekly household waste collections the norm; as it supposedly more
green. What lying rubbish (puns intended) I say.



Yep this programme should be further proof what a lying deceitful twisted
bunch these robber-baron politicians have became.



It's almost 8pm I'm off to watch Dispatches-it won't be pretty