Tory goes to end of world to discuss climate change
SNOW greeted Stroud MP Neil Carmichael on his return from the South Pole.
The Tory is home after joining the annual Foreign and Commonwealth Office trip to boost morale and supply links for the 90 staff based with the British Antarctic Survey at Rothera Base.
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Neil Carmichael at Rothera.
It was also a fact-finding trip for the MP as the Antarctic Bill he is promoting moves through Parliament.
"It was a chance to talk directly to scientists about their important climate change work," said Mr Carmichael. "I needed to understand more about the logistics and challenges for people down there."
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Mr Carmichael was among a group of MPs who stopped a merger of the BAS with the National Environmental Research Council.
He held diplomatic talks with Britain's ambassador in nearby Chile about the UK's presence in Antarctica during the mission.
The purpose of the trip was to take a group of engineers out to Rothera and bring scientists and a doctor back.
Comments
by Lecorche
Wednesday, January 16 2013, 10:52AM
“He's just another Bandwagon rider.
I fail to see how he's helping Climate Change by going to Antarctica and South America.
Why didn't he just phone or use the Internet?
For that matter,why didn't the whole group of Jolly Boys Office,sorry, Foreign and Commonwealth Office tourists use Skype or Voip?”
by IsitJimKerr
Wednesday, January 16 2013, 9:56AM
“"I needed to understand more about the logistics and challenges for people down there."...................meaning, what, exactly?
How about, that this cyclical global warming has in fact come to an end for the moment, as current temperatures are due to stay steady for fifteen to twenty years, that the stopgap energy considerations like solar panels, wind turbines and river barrages, are just a tiny proportion of the ever increasing energy requirements that can only currently be supplied by nuclear.
Oh, and irony of ironies, he comes back to the coldest snap for two years.”