Maurice Neligan and green bashing

On Saturday I read a really "right on" letter in the Irish Times on the damage Neligan did to the "cause" in his article last Tuesday. We are fortunate that all our medical doctors are also trained scientists, and in the main can judge facts or lack of facts when it comes to scientific issues. They are also in general not dependent on research grants which are awarded on paying homage to the new green religion. Thankfully Brian Cowan has appointed Peter Clinch as an advisor. Prof Clinch prides himself on evidence based policy making, he will not find any evidence in any of the IPCC (International Panel for Climate Control) reports linking man made CO2 emissions to climate change.

Cowen Counting on Academics

So Brian Cowan has appointed Peter Clinch as an advisor according to the Irish Times ( for goodness sake would someone teach their subeditors how to count, there is a difference between 3 and 7, where I eventually found the article, €2 for innumerate babbling). Let’s hope it is not one well intentioned person appointing another. Peter considers him self very good technically, looked up his CV and couldn’t find any science credentials, let’s hope he did chemistry in the leaving.

The appointment of academics especially economic academics worries me. They are in general not used to working with live economic data. Also it brings back uneasy memories of Garret the Good who after running the country for many years and at the tender immature age of sixty something lost his shirt on the GPA floatation.

So we voted NO !

So what happened ? Bertie put the treaty together, redid it and put it to the people, and we said no. Probably more people than before realised the the powers of the institutions and said "hey they can do that....I didn't know that.", thanks to the straight forward leaflet which we all got. The intention of the treaty was to make the life of the institutions a little easier, a lot of work went into it, so it is not going to happen. It does not mean the end of the EU, at worst ( for the EU) nothing is going to change at best another attempt to speed up the process will be put in place.

I loved the scare tactics "if you vote No you are a shinner" or "if you vote Yes you are an abortionist", but the best one was the Dustin factor, "all those types from the south will vote together".