Cutting carbon emissions will cause crops to die, warns UKIP

[Chippiewill]

MEP for UK Independence Party says EU decarbonisation policies could lead to food shortages – but is this correct?
European plans to cut carbon emissions could starve plants, Stuart Agnew, an MEP for the UK Independence Party warned his European colleagues on Wednesday.

“Are you aware that if you succeed in decarbonising Europe, our crops will have no natural gas to grow from,” he asked the presiding chair.

“We have to have carbon dioxide. This is madness. Absolute madness what you are suggestion. Our agriculture industry is going to suffer heavily if we attempt to bury carbon dioxide. It is absolutely mad.”

The attack was the latest from UKIP on EU-wide plans to tackle climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions, which scientists say are the primary driver for rising global temperatures.

The EU’s 28-member states last week committed to cutting emissions 40% on 1990 levels by 2030 ahead of a proposed UN climate deal due to be signed off in Paris this December.

Agnew, a member of the National Farmers Union and formerly in the Rhodesian Army, describes himself as a “lone voice in speaking up for British farmers” in Europe.

A major report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last year indicated crop levels would likely fall if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, which could lead to more floods, droughts and other extreme weather events.

It said global supplies of coffee would be badly affected, with major growing areas in Brazil and Africa under threat.

http://www.rtcc.org/2015/03/12/cutti...die-warn-ukip/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viIkd4VyiKg

This is one of the most senior representatives of UKIP, representing us at a european level. I wonder if any UKIP MPs elected in May will be as entertaining as this one.

[The Don]

Just another 'bad egg' i'm sure. UKIP seems to be full of them.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Well that is a stupid comment, given he's a former farmer himself he usually has it spot on.

I wonder if any UKIP MPs elected in May will be as entertaining as this one.

I thought Ukip were finished according to the threads you've posted?

Just another 'bad egg' i'm sure. UKIP seems to be full of them.

I'd rather a 'bad egg' make a silly comment like this than the likes of Labour councils who cover up the sexual abuse of thousands of English girls.

But that's just me.

[The Don]

Well that is a stupid comment, given he's a former farmer himself he usually has it spot on.



I thought Ukip were finished according to the threads you've posted?



I'd rather a 'bad egg' make a silly comment like this than the likes of Labour councils who cover up the sexual abuse of thousands of English girls.

But that's just me.

"BUT SOMEBODY ELSE DID SOMETHING TOO". What childish logic.

[-:Undertaker:-]

"BUT SOMEBODY ELSE DID SOMETHING TOO". What childish logic.

But they do. All the time. It's only today that Ed Miliband, potential PM, has been caught lying about his kitchen in a PR stunt.

Yet nothing posted on here. Nothing about Harman's pink van. Nothing about the Labour councillor who broke his girlfriends wrist. Instead, it's thread after thread of a comment a Ukipper has said: which hey, i'm not opposed to but none of these stories are remotely interesting if you ask me of any party.

It is interesting how it is one party though that only gets posted, despite many on here claiming it has already failed and is withering before our eyes. Frit?

[FlyingJesus]

Why do you always completely change the subject in every thread when people aren't talking about what you want to talk about

[-:Undertaker:-]

Why do you always completely change the subject in every thread when people aren't talking about what you want to talk about

I took a leaf out of your book.

[FlyingJesus]

No but really

[-:Undertaker:-]

No but really

No but really really.

[FlyingJesus]

Ok but that isn't what I do so maybe stop being such a child and answer a post properly for once