The UK Guardian is definitely a liberal news source and they had this delightful article about changes in the current Conservative government:
David Cameron's reshuffle gets rid of the 'green crap'
First the “badgers moved the goalposts”. Now environment secretary, Owen Paterson, has been shown the red card in a cabinet reshuffle.
The environmental views of Paterson's replacement, Liz Truss, are little known, but the former Shell employee is a free market enthusiast who backed the doomed sell-off of public forests. That suggests someone who – like Paterson – sees environmental protection as so much red tape to cut.
Elsewhere in the reshuffle, the departure of foreign secretary, William Hague, who clearly recognised climate change as the global strategic threat it is, and irrepressible green cheerleader Greg Barker as energy minister, removes two of a rare breed: strong green Tory voices in government.
Only time will reveal Truss's views but the absolute minimum required is that – unlike Paterson – she accepts global warming as a manmade danger. It was fundamentally ridiculous to have a climate change sceptic leading the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and damaging too. Paterson slashed the funding for adapting to climate change by 40%, just as the warnings of rising risks becoming deafening.
More at the site.
They bring up last winter's floods. They do not bring up the reason. The waterways were natural streams and rivers that had been dredged into canals for transportation. Some of these are still maintained but the environmentalists sued and won to halt dredging in other waterways. Natural silting filled them in to the point that they were no longer capable of handling the runoff from the remaining canal system. The flooding was because the enviros prevented people from maintaining an existing system. The responsibility for the flooding lies firmly on their shoulders...
You can almost see the author fidgeting in his seat.
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