Henry’s gentle readers may well recognise HWG’s dismissal of climate alarmism as a futile gesture in the face of overwhelming consensus, but they are wrong, for the God-Head which drives climate alarmism, Europe, has become the land of lunacy.

Most of us would have noticed the difficulties with the world’s financial systems, generally obscured by an acronym, GFC (Global Financial Crisis), being used here in Australia, though this tends to be confusing since it is very similar to another acronym, KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) which has nothing to do with central banks and their shenanigans over the past few years but with the preparation of chickens which, to popular lore, occasionally come home to roost.

Well in this particular case the climate chickens have come to roost in a most noisy fashion.

It seems the dopey Europeans are calling on President Obama to provide the billions of dollars to help finance the battle against climate change, according to the AFP here.

Well.....as the ‘Winged Weekend Warrior,’ Chicken Man, might have said, there is a slight problem with this proposal.

America is bankrupt as well as being in debt up to its ears and above. It has increased the quantum of US dollar money by the issuance of further bonds which the Chinese and others have bought. And now the EU proposes that this money be applied to China and India to mitigate climate change. Let’s see, we borrow off China and India, and then donate this back to them as our contribution to fighting climate change.

Sounds cool and an eminently satisfactory way to solve a non-problem. But perhaps the EU isn’t as daft as we assume it to be, and this proposal is a neat way of solving the non-problem of climate change by actually engineering a double entry in the World Bank’s ledger.

However, as a means of redistributing wealth from the West to the developing nations, HWG can think of less complex ways.

Like foreclosing the US and the EU and thus eliminating the need to issue bonds, and hence the money stays where it is in the first place. And it hardly needs mentioning that this wacky idea hasn’t come from the hated capitalists but the ‘fiat money morons.’

The EU is redundant in any case as EU stupidity and hubris has resulted in the importation of millions of people of Middle Eastern Appearance as guest workers (EU haughty polloi wishing not to be inconvenienced with the menialities of assembling cars or washing them, or sweeping streets or zut alors, cleaning the pissoirs!).

No, the EU with its embrace of social democracy has prepared itself for its next mutation to an Islamic caliphate.

This probably won’t happen though because history has shown that the Europeans have a special knack in solving problems over the centuries, the last one being somewhat conspicuous in its blood-thirstiness.

Closer to home HWG has noticed that the Prime Minister has ratcheted up the Climate Change (CC) agenda by telling us that he hears the climate clock ticking and has set up an institute called the GCCSI – a splendid acronym for the non-problem of climate change.

In case Henry’s gentle readers haven’t worked this one out, it’s the acronym for The Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute with seed capital, sorry tax payer’s money, of $A100 million to be dispersed to the politically connected carbon rent seekers.

And it’s all to do with clean coal technology as well, just in case our readers have become mesmerised with the deluge of acronyms befalling the occupants of the land of Oz, and not realised the GCCSI’s true purpose.

This is a strange development because the Victims – the Coal Miners, have just noticed that the proposed ET scheme (no not that ET!) has the potential of closing a couple of NSW coal mines with up to 10,000 job losses nationally if it goes ahead.

It’s really a bit like holding two competing ideas in one’s mind at the same time without being schizophrenic, but HWG is fast getting the impression that there are many headless chooks darting about in Canberra these last few weeks.

But our ‘acronymous’ politicians should be wary for La France has just indicated political movements of a most serious kind – the impending appointment of France’s premier Climate Sceptic to the position of Environment Minister. None other than Dr. Claude Allegre who converted from a ‘Carbon Clown’ to a committed climate sceptic by, wait for it, “les evidences.”

Monsieur Dr. Allegre, a socialist, is of course a turncoat and will be turned on by his fellow egalitarians for heresy. His mocking of Al Gore’s science fiction movie, “An Inconvenient Truth” as a gimmick will be seen by the ‘Climate Clowns’ as a provocation of a most serious kind.

Of course the climate rent seekers have also noticed a shift in attitudes towards climate research, one of the most bountiful of taxpayer funded gravy trains in the history of the rent-seeking classes.

“The very fact that he is a serious contender for the post of Environment Minister is in itself a clear signal that climate politics in Europe are changing rapidly. It also mirrors similar changes in Poland, Italy and Germany where political opposition to self-destructive climate policies is rising sharply,” Peiser said.

“Allegre, a former French Socialist Party leader and a member of both the French and U.S. Academies of Science, was one of the first scientists to sound global warming fears 20 years ago, but he now says the cause of climate change is "unknown."

"Allegre has authored more than 100 scientific articles, written 11 books, and received numerous scientific awards including the Goldschmidt Medal from the Geochemical Society of the United States.“ (CCNet email).

Henry’s Adelaide readers might not have noticed this but they are invited to the launch of Professor Ian Plimer’s latest book “Heaven and Earth: Global Warming – The Missing Science” at the Balcony Room, 1st Floor, Parliament House, North Terrace Adelaide, 11 AM April 22nd. (RSVP to get a visitor’s pass to (03) 5368 2570 or Anthony@connorcourt.com).

Henry’s Melbourne readers get to see it on 6th May, 5:30 PM at the Hotel Windsor, 11 Spring Street, Melbourne – RSVP – Bree Ambatzis, (03) 9600 4744 or bambatzis@ipa.org.au.

And now for something which the mainstream media has managed to muzzle – a prediction that has come true.

“Last year a blogger on the Vanity Fair website, Jim Windolf, reported that he had found in a junk shop "a worn-out copy of The Book of Predictions, a compendium of '4,000 exclusive predictions’ edited by the family team of David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace, and Irving Wallace.” Among the gems from 1980 for his readers to chortle about, Windolf picked out the following:

"British science journalist Nigel Calder wrote that, by 2000, 'the much-advertised heating of the Earth by the man-made carbon-dioxide 'greenhouse' fails to occur; instead, there is renewed concern about cooling and an impending Ice Age." (CCNet).

That Nigel Calder managed to predict this outcome suggests that he relied more on the behaviour of mobs than on climate science, for the concern with climate catastrophe is more a cultural thing than a scientific fact.

Henry’s gentle readers should prepare themselves for a period of cooling, not warming, for if one scientific fact is known, life does not proliferate during cold climes and times.

Louis Hissink

HWG