Like the predictions of the progress of Covid, we need to ask what the limitations are to climate modelling. Too easily the model output is given the status of truth, and quickly becomes unchallengeable.
by James Dent Climate change is now a fixed part of our national psyche, as is Covid, and perhaps not surprisingly, a lot of features are shared. Perhaps the main connection is that both topics are very dependent on computer models for their illustration and projection, and are widely open to media exaggeration. I would suggest two things are important. One is that we realise that for the last 12,000 years, our climate has been changing gradually after the last glacial advance. Secondly, that during this period there have been distinct warm and cold periods that have persisted for several decades or even centuries. The most prominent of these periods have been warm conditions at the start of the Roman occupation of Britain, the early Medieval period and the last 150 years: distinctly cold periods occurred from AD 350 to 850, the ‘Little Ice Age’ lasting from about 1500 to 1700 and then most of the 19th century. Even within these periods, there were groups of years where warmer or cooler conditions prevailed. Similar fluctuations also occur in relation to wet and dry periods. For most of the time, the main anthropomorphic causes postulated for climate change i.e., industrial development and increasing carbon dioxide emissions, did not occur. We perhaps should ask what defines climate change, as opposed to climate ...
Imperial College London, home to 'Professor Lockdown' Neil Ferguson, has enraged parents and students by banning parents from attending their children's graduation ceremonies due to 'Covid safety'.
The dangers of a culture of silence and compliance exposed in the Shrewsbury maternity scandal are being repeated in the Covid vaccine programme, as doctors keep quiet about things which go against the current ideology.
A group of medical researchers and bioethicists have written a comprehensive assessment of Covid vaccine policies, arguing that these measures are “scientifically questionable” and “ethically problematic”.
The Guardian has been running a series to mark the second anniversary of the first lockdown called "Rewriting COVID-19", but it's more like rewriting the facts.
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about politicians’ efforts to control the virus – and other acts of hubris and folly – not just in Britain, but around the world.
