Source:  SPPI

Source - Vestmanna Travel Guide

by Dennis Ambler

This is probably the sort of stuff you can expect from Jane Lubchenco and the National Oceans Council  in the not too distant future…. Note, the UK no longer has control over its own coastal waters and we signed up to the UN Law of the Sea years ago. We cannot stop other countries hoovering up our fish, as the Spanish have done in the past and put thousands of small fishermen out of business for good, also destroying fishing ports and other businesses in the process.

EU makes effective tough new fisheries control system from “net to plate” — MercoPress

“With the adoption of detailed rules on how to carry out controls throughout the market chain “from net to plate”, the EU now has the means to break with the past and establish a real culture of compliance to stop over-fishing and help make EU fisheries truly sustainable”, said Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Maria Damanaki. (more…)

Source: UK Telegraph

by Christopher Booker

The government’s new energy policy will lead to widespread power cuts and economic disaster

by Christopher Monckton

Thanks to Wikileaks, everyone here in the Mañana Republic of Mexico now knows just how much bullying and arm-twisting the administration of Barack Obama in the United States applied to various countries around the world so that they would (and did) sign up to the Copenhagen climate accord.

Without that pressure, nothing at all would have happened at Copenhagen this time last year, and “the Process” – the interminable round of flatulent annual climate conferences in exotic locations at taxpayers’ expense – would have tipped into the gulch forever. (more…)

Source: Hoover Institution

by John Rosenthal

The leaking of the East Anglia “Climategate” e-mails and data last November shattered the appearance of a scientific consensus on supposed “man-made global warming” and provided a disturbing insight into the corruption of the scientific process as it relates to the “man-made global warming” hypothesis. The spectacle of scientists stonewalling freedom of information requests, destroying records, hiding unwelcome results, colluding to keep dissenting viewpoints out of scholarly journals, and even suppressing their own acknowledged doubts — all of this made it perfectly clear that other interests were at stake than the pure pursuit of knowledge. The centrality of the quest for funding in the e-mail exchanges made it equally clear that for the scientists in question, money, unsurprisingly, was first and foremost among those interests. (more…)

From The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley in Copenhagen

Today the gloves came off and the true purpose of the “global warming” scare became nakedly visible. Ugo Chavez, the Socialist president of Venezuela, blamed “global warming” on capitalism – and received a standing ovation from very nearly all of the delegates, lamentably including those from those of the capitalist nations of the West that are on the far Left – and that means too many of them.

Previously Robert Mugabe, dictator of Rhodesia, who had refused to leave office when he had been soundly defeated in a recent election, had also won plaudits at the conference for saying that the West ought to pay him plenty of money in reparation of our supposed “climate debt”.

Inside the conference center, “world leader” after “world leader” got up and postured about the need to Save The Planet, the imperative to do a deal, the necessity to save the small island nations from drowning, etc., etc., etc.

Outside, in the real world, it was snowing, and a foretaste of the Brave New World being cooked up by “world leaders” in their fantasy-land was already evident. Some 20,000 observers from non-governmental organizations – nearly all of them true-believing Green groups funded by taxpayers – had been accredited to the conference. (more…)