House of Commons Cancels Sceptics’ Climate Meeting
By Paul Homewood
I mentioned a while back a meeting on climate and energy issues which was scheduled to take place in the House of Commons on 5th Nov. UKIP MEP, Roger Helmer, was one of the speakers invited.
I was therefore astonished to see Roger’s post today on the event.
Dear Rt Hon John Bercow MP,
Climate Meeting: House of Commons: Nov 5th
On Wednesday November 5th I travelled from Brussels to London, where I had been invited to speak at a meeting on climate and energy issues which was scheduled to take place in the House of Commons in Meeting Room Nine. The Room had been booked by Mr. Sammy Wilson MP. Press releases had been issued, as well as 45 formal invitations, though attendance was expected to be close to double that figure.
On arrival, I was advised that the relevant parliamentary office had peremptorily cancelled the booking the previous day, despite the prior arrangements and advance publicity. The organisers managed to find a new venue at the John Harvard Library in Southwark, but naturally it was difficult to ensure that all attendees were advised.
To add injury to insult, visitors arriving at the House of Commons and enquiring for the meeting were variously told that “it had been cancelled”, or that staff knew nothing about it. As a result, the meeting in Southwark was poorly attended.
Attendees included distinguished figures from the climate debate, including Piers Corbyn of Weather Action (the brother of your member Jeremy Corbyn MP), Professor Peter Gill of the Institute of Physics, and blogger Derek Tipp – as well, of course, as myself, the Energy Spokesman for a major political party.
It seems to me that this action by your administration was reprehensible, and reflects very poorly on your House. I have never before had occasion to compare the House of Commons unfavourably with the European parliament, but I cannot believe that such a peremptory cancellation would have taken place in Brussels.
This was a deliberate attempt to frustrate public debate on a major political issue, and it was a calculated snub to the Party which won the European elections in May this year, and which is now represented in your House.
I should be grateful for your explanation of these circumstances, and I believe that a formal public apology would be in order.
Yours faithfully.
Roger Helmer
http://rogerhelmermep.wordpress.com/2014/11/20/open-letter-to-rt-hon-john-bercow-mp/
Now maybe, just maybe, there was a justifiable reason for this cancellation. On the face of it, though, the whole affair stinks.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
What are they afraid of?
Ed Davey was on the BBC News Channel today, defending the Green Climate Fund, in which he asserted that climate change “was already happening”.
The person interviewing him didn’t ask for examples but to Davey, all extreme weather is “climate change” and no evidence is needed.
You don’t think that they would let a little thing like evidence get in the way of their theft, do you?
I wonder if the same will happen to this one ??
Date: 3 December 2014
Time: 18:00
Venue: House of Commons, London SW1, Committee Room 15
Svensmark: The Cloud Mystery:
INVITATION: Cosmic Rays, Chilling Stars & Climate Change
(Written by Dr. Benny Peiser, GWPF on 14 November 2014 .)
Prof. Henrik SvensmarkProfessor Henrik Svensmark is a physicist at the Danish National Space Institute and director of the Center for Sun-Climate Research at the Danish Space Research Institute.
Since the early 1990s there has been strong evidence that changes in the Earth’s climate follow changes in the Sun’s electromagnetic activity. In principle this correlation might explain much of the warming in the 20th Century, but no mechanism was known by which the Sun could affect terrestrial climate so much.
Svensmark’s research has established a possible link between galactic cosmic rays and terrestrial climate change mediated primarily by variations in the intensity of the solar wind. This celestial mechanism can significantly influence cloudiness and thereby temperatures on Earth.
In his talk, Dr Svensmark will present an update on his Sun-Climate research.
Hello Paul. I attended that meeting and wrote a brief report of it on my blog here. I am pleased that Roger is looking into this. Perhaps we may get some answers, though I shan’t hold my breath.