Father of global warming admits that that the earth has been warmer before

Even James Hansen, sometimes called "father of global warming" must admit that there were times when the earth was much hotter than now:

The narrative since that day in 1988 is that Earth is entering a dangerous warm era created by man’s carbon dioxide emissions. Every heat wave, cold snap, drought, hurricane, heavy snow, torrential rain, and change in sea level has been supposedly caused by man. And all are allegedly unprecedented events.
Except they’re not. It’s been warmer, and extreme weather has visited us before, all in a time long before man began to drive cars and operate power plants that helped move him from an almost primitive existence to a modern one.
Hansen has even admitted this.
“The last interglacial period, 120,000 years ago, that’s the last time it was warmer than today, sea level was 6 to 9 meters higher,” he said in an interview with online magazine Yale Environment 360.
So it has been warmer, and sea levels have been higher. And those conditions were entirely natural. Yet the alarmists want us to believe that the predicted warmth of today — which has yet to occur — is man-caused. How do they know? And why do they never mention that we are leaving the Little Ice Age and entering another interglacial period, an era that should be warmer as we gain distance from the cold period?
The Watts Up With That blog points out another hole in the narrative: While implying that we’re headed for another 6-to-9-meters increase in sea level in the coming — or just-arrived — interglacial period, “Hansen failed to say” that “paleoclimatological studies have indicated that it took a number of millennia for sea levels to rise those 6 to 9 meters when temperatures were warmer than today.”

David Cameron is now "a huge boost for Brexit"

David Cameron must be desperate now:

So low has the Prime Minister sunk that last week his ratings even fell below those of Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn, an unreconstructed socialist radical who has spent his entire political career in the wasteland of the far Left.
This dramatic collapse in Cameron's popularity will cause real damage to the proEU campaign, given his key role at its front. The entire pro-EU strategy has been his, from his first call for a referendum in 2013 to his botched deal with Brussels this year.
NO OTHER senior politician is in a position to lead Remain. Corbyn is not only a socialist extremist but also has a long past record of opposition to Euro federalism, which renders his current pro-EU stance profoundly unconvincing.

Read the entire article here

The UN organizes another wasteful high carbon footprint photo opportunity for "some 60 world leaders"

The UN has announced another wasteful and totally useless global warming photo opportunity:

Bonn, April 7, 2016 - The Paris Climate Change Agreement opens for signature on 22 April 2016 during a high-level ceremony convened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York, marking an important international push on the way to the agreement’s timely entry into force.
Over 130 countries have confirmed to United Nations headquarters that they will attend the signing ceremony, including some 60 world leaders, amongst them President Francois Hollande of France.

PS

One wonders why the greenies are not voicing a strong protest against this high carbon footprint tourism paid for by ordinary taxpayers in "over 130 countries"? ...

Tim Stanley: "A vote to stay in the EU is a vote to validate David Cameron"

Tim Stanley is spot on in the Telegraph:

"in the public’s mind, a vote to stay in the EU is a vote to validate David Cameron – at the very moment when he is at his least appealing. Tax credits, disability benefits, the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith, the junior doctors strike, etc: whether you regard these things as innocent mistakes or proof of villainy, they all give people reason to vote for Leave in order to punish its most important champion. And with new revelations about the Cameron family's financial arrangements, the champion looks more and more vulnerable."

Quote of the week: Lord Owen on Brexit

Lord Owen, former Labour government Foreign Secretary and Europhile, is now strongly for Brexit:

"The EU/Eurozone from 1992, in marked contrast to the old European Community of 1975, creeps into every nook and cranny of our life.
"It is now becoming entrenched in the NHS and this June we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get it out."

Panama Papers: Putin and his friends

An excellent video about the world´s richest and most corrupt political leader and his friends:

It’s inconceivable, though, that the network could have existed without the knowledge and support of Putin, said Karen Dawisha, a U.S. political scientist who has written extensively about Putin and his regime.
“He takes what he wants,” said Dawisha. “When you are the president of Russia you don’t need a written contract. You are the law.”

Here you can read more.

The EU open borders model "is turning steadily into a catastrophe for European civilasation"

It is not difficult to agree with what Iain Martin, editor of CapX, writes:

It is manifestly clear that the idea that the EU equals security and Brexit equals isolation (splendid or otherwise) for Britain is complete bunkum. It should be perfectly possible for the major players to cooperate against ISIS as national governments, within or outwith the European Union, and to work together closely, without the need for an ever-expanding and self-serving EU superstructure.

But then the inability to see this is at root what is wrong with the EU more broadly, and the reason the UK is having its referendum at all. Even when Britain talked of leaving and tried to negotiate a distinct set of arrangements, and suggested that the federalist mantra of Jean-Claude Juncker and co is a dead end, it did not seem to produce much of a recognition of reality. Speaking as a European (who is nonetheless sceptical of the EU, which is not the same thing as Europe) my concern is that what has been constructed is transparently unfit for purpose. It is a botched bureaucracy, built on a notionally nice idea, being rendered inoperable by history. The EU open borders model and obsession with anti-democratic integration rather than trade and friendly cooperation is turning steadily into a catastrophe for European civilisation