Feb 21st 2008 - Sustainable agriculture and Biogas, EU legislation

Delivered by Derek Clark on 21 February 2008

Tags: EU's future, global warming, CO2

Lets be clear. This biogas thing is driven by the alleged global warming effect of man derived emissions of carbon dioxide. Forget carbon footprints, CO2 is a natural constituent of the atmosphere: it is not some kind of devil potion it is made out to be in, "An Inconvenient Truth".

This hyperactive film is not a truth at all, it is a theory and a very long way from proof. You see, as a chemistry teacher, and I bet there are few of those in this assembly, I know what it takes to go from hypothesis, to theory to chemical law. I do not go by the theatrical, dramatic rantings of a US politician on the make.

Fortunately we now have the Manhattan declaration released by 500 scientists last week which says that there is no convincing evidence that CO2 from modern industry is causing climate change. It reminds us that the global climate has always changed, it always will. Does no one here appreciate that the earth we know is not in a final state but in continuous dynamic development?

To tax us all to achieve the unattainable and unneeded is political greed. To turn over farmland to produce bio fuels when populations are increasing, in a world shortage of cereals is madness.

To grow bio fuels by cutting down whole areas of rainforest, burning the timber where it falls to get about four years worth of nitrates and then move on, gang raping the precious forests is criminal.

So what's causing the current, minimal degree of global warming? To paraphrase former President Clinton, its the Sun, Stupid.