Yeovil at dawn

I'm having a bit of a picture theme at the moment. This one was taken at 7.35am on Saturday 19th December. It is the view from Yeovil Post sorting office looking towards Tesco. (103 Huish. Yeovil, Somerset, BA20 1AA to see it on a map).

The temperature was -3.5 degrees C at the time. Global warming? According to Gordon Brown I'll be with the anti-science, flat-earth brigade.

Local climate change is driven by local changes, urban areas create heat islands. Cutting down trees in Africa changes precipitation patterns. Glaciers melt and reform all the time. Sunspot activity drives weather patterns and we make only the tiniest amount of difference except for the kind of examples I already mentioned.

As ever, if you follow the money trail you begin to see the real motivations of the big names behind carbon trading and carbon reduction strategies. Some will already know this but it's worth saying again, Carbon Dioxide is not a pollutant. We breath it out and plants transpire the CO2 to produce oxygen. Commercial greenhouse growers increase the amount of CO2 in their glasshouse to increase the plant growth and yields!

Now the Copenhagen summit has closed and the agenda did not seem to be about how much of the world could be saved, it seemed to be about how much money the developing nations would get from the 'developed' world. It's easy to believe in Man Made Global Climate Change when you might be getting a share of £100 Billion per year.

Some of the comments made by a minister from Sudan that liken the agreement to the Jewish Holocaust are particularly sickening given that nation's record on human rights abuse.

The Global Climate Change circus is and remains, a nasty sordid money grubbing affair that seems to have little to do the growth of mankind or care for the environment.