- “SAGE models need a reality check” – Rather than the advisory group SAGE listening, debating and adjusting its hypotheses, dissenting voices have been quashed, writes Clare Craig in Reaction.
- “Failure to share Covid vaccines equally is ‘immoral and stupid’, says U.N. chief” – The WHO global vaccination plan calls for $8 billion to ensure 40% of the world’s population is covered by the end of the year, reports the Telegraph.
- “Humanity will win the war on Covid” – “Whatever medical interventions we deploy against Covid, it is vital that they are subjected to proper trials and scrutiny,” writes Rob Lyons in Spiked.
- “Wales draws up emergency Covid plan to stop NHS being overwhelmed” – The “Urgent” plan could mean restrictions – but the Government says the most likely scenario is that the country will remain at ‘Alert Level Zero’.
- “Northern Ireland axes social distancing in bars and restaurants and allows nightclubs to reopen” – The one-metre rule will be removed for the hospitality sector from October 31st – the same day nightclubs will be allowed to reopen – with dancing finally allowed again, reports Sky News.
- “Ivermectin: How false science created a Covid ‘miracle’ drug” – Thousands worldwide have taken ivermectin to fight Covid. But what’s the evidence? Here’s the BBC’s take.
- “The dangers of the Nobel Prize” – Why was the inventor of lobotomies given science’s highest honour, asks Stuart Ritchie in UnHerd.
- “Fauci Careful with His Words Yet Still Misrepresents That Vaccinated Don’t Spread the Virus” – “Dr. Anthony Fauci should know better than to declare with so much data now available on waning vaccine effectiveness that the main reason to get the vaccine is to not transmit the disease to others,” writes TrialSite.
- “Republican senator booed by own crowd after suggesting they ‘ought to think about’ getting Covid vaccine” – Senator Lindsey Graham was met with boos at a conservative event after he tried to promote Covid vaccination to the crowd, reports Russia Today.
- “IBM latest company to tell U.S. employees to get vaccinated” – The tech company, which employs more than 100,000 people in the U.S. told American workers that it must comply with President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors, reports MailOnline.
- “Trudeau mandates Covid jabs for all travelers, federal workers” – Trudeau says only a “limited” number of medical exemptions will be made for those who are un-jabbed and want to travel or work in the public service.
- “Government’s switch to greener fuel was ‘major factor’ behind petrol crisis” – Petrol retailers were “emptying their tanks” for the switchover to E10 fuel when garages were swiftly drained by panic buying, reports the Telegraph.
- “It’s no wonder young people have ‘eco-anxiety’” – “If children are suffering from ‘eco-anxiety’, there ought to be a pretty easy cure – namely for government, media, schools and everyone else to dial down the scaremongering and offer more reasoned coverage,” writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “The Facebook whistle-blower is just another enemy of free speech” – “By positioning herself as a Silicon Valley renegade, Haugen gives those in Washington the perfect stick with which to beat the last bits of freedom of speech which exist on major online platforms,” writes Frederick Edward in Bournbrook Magazine.
- “A tone deafness epidemic is sweeping the nation – and the Tories are at the heart of it” – For all the Prime Minister’s talk of levelling up and building back better, they’re so out of touch with the electorate it shames us all, writes Judith Woods in the Telegraph.
- “Justin Trudeau uses latest sexual identities acronym 2SLGBTQQIA+” – Justin Trudeau has been mocked online for using the latest sexual identities acronym, 2SLGBTQQIA+, in a tweet – which includes the number and letter “2S” which stands for “Two-spirit”, reports MailOnline.
- “Badges of obedience” – Behind the NHS Rainbow is compulsory training and enforced ideology, writes Caroline Ffiske in the Critic.
- “Critical Race Theory’s new disguise” – A rebranded campaign for ‘equity’ is just as divisive, writes Ayaan Hirsi Ali in UnHerd.
- “‘Suddenly, we’ve gone into violent reverse-gear’” – David Starkey tells talkRADIO: “We do need to sound the alarm. There’s a risk that we’ve got a Chinese virus, and we’ll finish up with a Chinese society.”
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Life in an arrid dust bowel is not conducive to human beings, they just don’t have a choice! Corrupt govanance and squandered western help has just exacerbated the already terrible situation, war and pestulance has done the rest.
There is no NHS or pension fund for their old age so, having many children in a country with a high infant mortality rate is your only insurance that you will be cared for in your later years, all tragic but true!
If you where born in a western country then you have already hit the jackpot!
There are lots of countries with less rainfall than Somalia.
We all have choices, but of course how attractive the realistic options are varies enormously depending on where you live etc. We in England are benefiting from the choices of all those people who came before us, going back to the humans that left Africa whenever that was.
Those “choices” you refer to were the use of fossil fuels, but now those fuels are to be removed for political purposes and I reckon 90% of the public think that is entirely for the purposes of “saving the planet”. But fossil fuels empower people. They free people from a life of misery, which until we started using them was the default situation for the people of the world. You can see even today that the one billion who have no electricity and the other two billion with only enough to power a operate a fridge only start to come out of that medieval existence when they get access to coal oil and gas. But global politics tries to stop them doing so. ———The western world has become prosperous by using fossil fuels, and our life expectancy has doubled, but UN Sustainable Development politics insist we must stop doing that and instead use wind and sun. We can afford to dabble in such fanciful technologies, but already we see energy prices rise and living standards fall. I am afraid “saving the planet” does not come cheap, and that would not be so bad if it were really about the planet.
Indeed
The insistence of the climate change folk to not just ignore population changes as a contributing factor to ‘climate issues’ but to actively steer the discussions in the opposite direction is truly weird. It is quite possible that most ‘climate problems’ of current years are simply the impact of normal climate fluctuations (normal flooding, normal droughts) on higher population densities.
Correct, blaming this on climate change is totally destructive to the true causes that need immediate attention, not constant liberal hand waving towards the net zero monster!
Absolutely. Another factor which often seems to be ignored (and I am talking about the UK here) is the failure to update, or even maintain, drainage. New houses are built, for example, and the rainwater drainage is just tacked on to what already exists, similarly with sewage. Ditches and culverts are not cleared, rivers are not dredged. Hey presto, we get heavy rain followed by flooding and its the fault of ‘climate change’, nothing to do with penny pinching by developers and local authorities.
Spot on.
The current situation in Somalia, tragic though it undoubtedly is, is the future we are facing if we do not stop the Davos Deviants.
Judging from the graphic, the population of Somalia has been growing exponentially for about the last 70 years, ie, roughly since the former British Somaliland became an ‘independent’ recipient of so-called aid money. Consequently, the situation for humans there can’t be too tragic. Otherwise, they wouldn’t keep multiplying so fast.
Actually, it is the world’s poorest who have the highest birthrates. It is only when people become wealthier, with better education, affordable energy, contraception, proper sanitation and generally living more organised lives that birth rates fall to levels of the wealthy west. ————Poor people can only do that by the use of fossil fuels, but climate politics stops them doing that and instead fobs them off with some money and bribes for turbines, keeping them forever poor and birthrates high.
Someone wrote this letter, then travelled (by jet, obviously) to Somalia in order to find six children from fairly wealthy families(!) – they wouldn’t be in school otherwise, they’d have to work – who agreed to put their names onto it. One would hope that the families at least got decently paid for this disgusting publicity stunt by the very people who plan to make their lots a lot worse to combat their own, irrational fears about the weather in 100 years (as if they stood any chance of ever experiencing it).
Rather like the “unprecedented” floods in Pakistan ….. which weren’t unprecedented at all.
But they did affect more people since Pakistan’s population, which was 32.5 million in 1947, is now 240.5 million and growing. And most of these people are poor, are living a subsistence existence and have built their “houses” on flood plains.
And the Pakistani Government is doing nothing about the population explosion …. and won’t since they believe it is acceptable for a man to have four wives and keep them permanently pregnant.
Leaving the monogamy vs polygamy issue aside, why wouldn’t it? It’s normal for people to get children. The Sex is fun but kids suck so much! faction will eventually die out for the better. Contraception is just a self-imposed reproductional disadvantage and will have the usual evolutionary effects. And no, immigration laws won’t help against this, as 500,000 catankerous OAPs can’t defend any border against anyone.
Using standard GangGreenLogic™ and looking at the charts, it is quite clear that CO2 is causing the population of Somalia to increase.
Unsure of the mechanism. But that’s always the case with GangGreen SettledScience™.
Perhaps that’s why our own and kindly Beloved Leaders are so keen to import boat loads of them to Blighty. Alleviate Somali droughts and increase our own (rather paltry) CO2 output whilst maybe even reducing our occasional floods? What’s not to like?
On any claims, or articles or pronouncements about climate change from bureaucrats and the mainstream media, people need to realise that they have entered a FACT FREE ZONE. Almost nothing we hear is true and is mostly a tiny smidgeon of the truth elevated into a planetary emergency, but with NO EVIDENCE. In the real world there is no increase in the frequency or intensity of any type of weather events, so therefore claims of a “Climate Crisis” are a total fabrication for political purposes. It is very easy to insist that every single bit of extreme weather, every flood and every drought is caused by human activity, but it is impossible to disprove, which is why the proponents of climate change get away with their misinformation. When claims cannot be falsified, they are not science, and when everything that happens is claimed to be caused by our industrial activity then you are not indulging in science. Even the IPCC admit that they see no human signal in the data at this time ——-Did that information appear on BBC or SKY???? No, it certainly did not. All of the climate hysteria emanates from the UN IPCC, but it grows arms and legs like an Octopus on mainstream media. No wonder people glue themselves to the road.