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05/12/09 :Labour duo wave off Climate Wave :
Continuing their commitment to the fight against climate change, Labour candidates Anneliese Dodds and Naz Sarkar were at Reading Station at 8 a.m. this morning to support Reading people going to the Climate Wave demo in London, timed to give impetus to the Copenhagen conference.
Anneliese and Naz endorsed the 10:10 campaign immediately it was launched - none of the other candidates have publicly done so - and were also part of the 'wake-up' call in Broad Street on 22 September.
Naz says: "Climate change is about our children's future, which is why many in Reading have told me that it's at the top of their agenda. We as a community need to act now. That's why I was determined to be part of what is both a local, national and global movement- and to show my support for those people from Reading attending the Wave demonstration."
Anneliese said: "It's more important than ever that people concerned about climate change make their voices heard. We need a strong agreement in Copenhagen- and we have to show that this issue is right at the top of the public's agenda".
"But sadly", she added, "right-wing parties across the world are coming out against action to fight climate change. These include members of the Conservative Party who are desperate to sabotage Gordon Brown's efforts to ensure that Copenhagen comes up with tough and binding measures."
Anneliese and Naz point out that neither Rob Wilson nor Alok Sharma have spoken out on this issue and that it is not mentioned on Conservative leaflets or websites.
"We challenge candidates of all parties, but especially the Tories," they say, "to support the huge efforts the British Government is making to get the best possible outcome from Copenhagen, to reverse the damage that mankind is doing to our planet."
Some of the key Tory climate-change deniers
John Redwood MP (local Conservative MP)
www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/03/09/the-global-warming-swindle
"I have always thought we should remain sceptical about all scientific theories, for that is the way that science advances by constantly submitting theories to test. Meanwhile we are living in a period when things are warming up, so we should manage any unhelpful consequences of that and welcome the good effects it will have. We do need to increase the water supply in the drier south of the UK and make sure we have enough water stored in case we have longer drier periods, and we do need to improve sea defences in case there is going to be a combination of small rises in sea level and higher storm and tidal surges. We will benefit from the better weather for tourism, agriculture and outdoor sports. Fewer people will die of the cold and from snow and ice in the winter".
Daniel Hannan MEP (Local Conservative MEP- for the South-East Region)
(Fox News, 9.11.09)
"I see guys with clipboards and white coats telling me one thing and then guys with equally impressive white coats telling me another thing and you know I don't know what the science is, I'm not qualified, and I envy the moral certainty of some of the guys on both sides of this argument. But I am worried about the direction that these talks are taking in the sense that it's completely disproportionate, even if you take the figures being quoted by the most optimistic supporters of the whole process, they're talking about a nugatory reduction in climate change rates over the next century and look at the price that they're wanting us to pay for that. We together, Western Europe and the US, account for a tiny, at most 15% of all the CO2 emissions so what we do is really not going to affect things very much, even if you're wrong and al l the climate change guys are right about this, it isn't going to make much difference."
David Davis MP (former leadership contender and mentor to Rob Wilson MP)
(The Independent, 2.12.09)
"Today, the economic climate makes people question whether we can afford the expense of these policies. The UK's environmental policy has a long-term price tag of about £55bn, before taking into account the impact on economic growth. The fixation of the green movement with setting ever tougher targets is a policy destined to collapse. The ferocious determination to impose hair-shirt policies on the public - taxes on holiday flights, or covering our beautiful countryside with wind turbines that look like props from War of the Worlds - would cause a reaction in any democratic country."
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