Anybody good and sick of these halfwit wannabe dictators yet? (Note: all bold mine)

People will need to turn vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming.

In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”

Direct emissions of methane from cows and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases. Methane is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas.

Hey, here’s an idea: let’s kill every living thing on the planet! Starting with watermelon nutjobs like Stern.

Ahh, but here’s where the mask slips:

Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, said that a successful deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December would lead to soaring costs for meat and other foods that generate large quantities of greenhouse gases.

He predicted that people’s attitudes would evolve until meat eating became unacceptable…

Lord Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank and now I. G. Patel Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, warned that British taxpayers would need to contribute about £3 billion a year by 2015 to help poor countries to cope with the inevitable impact of climate change.

He said that he was deeply concerned that popular opinion had so far failed to grasp the scale of the changes needed to address climate change, or of the importance of the UN meeting in Copenhagen from December 7 to December 18. “I am not sure that people fully understand what we are talking about or the kind of changes that will be necessary,” he added.

Yeah, but they will, if we keep exposing you for what you really are. And when they do, heaven help you. Best bit? This:

Lord Stern, who said that he was not a strict vegetarian himself, was speaking on the eve of an all-parliamentary debate on climate change.

Funny how these assholes are all the same the world over, innit? Everybody needs to put on the hair shirt and scrape by on much, much less…except them, of course.

Take your ascetic Climate Change (formerly Global Warming, formerly Global Cooling, formerly “the weather”) religion and jam it sideways, dipshit. You’ll see snowflakes in hell before I kneel at your altar.

(Via Insty)

Update! Captain Ed nails it — hilariously:

Climate change is just another lever for the same old busybodies to run people’s lives. Lord Stern explains that his tastes and philosophy have changed since he was a student — and assumes therefore he has the right to dictate everyone else’s choices. Global-warming hysterics want to use this as an excuse to gain control and power for their idea of a benevolent despotism.

The health-care overhaul debate in the US has the same dynamics. Its advocates want to control the delivery of health care and make it more public in order to use it to insert themselves into private choices. Call it “creeping elitism,” but it’s creeping from all directions these days.

Seven hundred years ago, man farmed and raised cows and pigs on the entire island of Greenland. When they do that again, perhaps I’ll worry about bovine flatulence as a global threat. Until then, I consider creeping elitism from horse’s asses a much more elitist threat than methane from cow’s butts.

A-friggin’-men. To every word of it.