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And Finally…

by Toby Young
2 May 2022 11:36 PM

In this week’s episode of London Calling, James Delingpole and I talk about James’s live event at London’s Emmanuel Centre, the coming global famine and whether it’s cock-up or conspiracy (I’m sure you can work out who’s on which side of that argument), the fact that the Queen is going to be played by a woman of colour in the Platinum Jubilee pageant, Neil Parish’s fall from grace and whether either of us have accidentally stumbled across a porn site while Googling tractors, Biden’s new misinformation tsar, the rehabilitation of Tony Blair within the Labour Party, where each of us were on election night 25 years ago when he won his landslide victory, and, in Culture Corner, the anti-capitalist subtext of The Dropout, We Crashed and Super Pumped, and one of the key differences between Breaking Bad and Ozarks, which is that in Breaking Bad Walter White is the super villain, whereas in Ozarks its Wendy Bryde.

You can listen to the podcast here and subscribe to it on iTunes here.

Tags: Breaking BadGlobal FamineNeil ParishThe Platinum JubileeTony Blair

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
1 month ago

Professor Stephen Belcher, the Met Office Chief Scientist, recently said, “The latest planetary health check tells us that earth is profoundly ill.”

Decades of being on the receiving end of claptrap is getting deeply personal now.

Belcher of the Myth Office – Belcher by name, Belcher by nature.

Another state-funded windbag. Defund the Myth Office and start afresh.

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Bill Bailey
Bill Bailey
1 month ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

It does seem that the governing classes are not particularly worried about child exploitation, they stood by when the young Greta was being exploited, they did nothing when rape gangs were exploiting children.
The ills of the planet are caused by political zealotry and the young are being exploited yet again. I suppose they will want them to go to war very soon. It’s not the climate that’s the problem it’s the politicians.

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Smudger
Smudger
1 month ago
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How could he say anything else and keep his job?

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WillP
WillP
1 month ago

I was reading a very bad book by John Mortimer the other day (don’t ask), published in 1990, and in it he skips forward 10 years to describe the village where it’s set, and gives a description of how the world has changed: melted icecaps, areas of coastline vanished, polar bears drowned etc. in fact all the garbage we’ve been pumped with that has not happened in 35 years, but idiots keep believing will.

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
1 month ago
Reply to  WillP

Millenia of advancing civilisation and we might as well all be Druids.

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Hardliner
Hardliner
1 month ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

Scientifically and mathematically, most people have a similar level of attainment as a Druid. And that includes 99% of our politicians

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
1 month ago
Reply to  Hardliner

You can take water to a horse but you can’t make it think.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
1 month ago
Reply to  Hardliner

More than true – nowadays people mock the mediaevals in the mistaken belief they thought the world was flat. In fact the average undergraduate in mediaeval times would not only know it was round, but how they could easily prove it. How many of us would know how to do that?

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Purpleone
Purpleone
1 month ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

How would one go about proving that, just out of interest?

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ACW
ACW
1 month ago
Reply to  Hardliner

Without computer modelling this wouldn’t be happening.

It is computer modelling in the hands of inept politicians which is ‘climate & economic catastrophe’

Bring on rising carbon dioxide levels. The world thrives on it

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 month ago
Reply to  WillP

“temperature in 2024 reached 1.6°C above the pre-industrial level (estimated 1850-1900) – if measurements are accurate”

A simple question, how do we know that this wouldn’t have happened anyway?
Temps have rose and dropped many times before we were even on the planet!

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 month ago
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Notice the statement at the far right (no pun intended) of the graph: Start of data 1855…. just when temps were following the past dips and troughs!

107-Alley-GISP-1
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RW
RW
1 month ago
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There’s something else to notice about this: The difference between the labelled low and high points is just 4⁰C. Which means that temperatures are essentially flatlining and the illusion of something else is created by using a scale which makes no sense wrt human perception of temperature which is roughly every +/-5⁰C make a noticable difference.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
1 month ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Yes – the sense is very different if it’s expressed as “temperatures in 2024 reached 1.6C above Little Ice Age levels.” Yes of course, and…???

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kev
kev
1 month ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Ah the dreaded Null Hypothesis!

Dreaded by the zealots.

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DiscoveredJoys
DiscoveredJoys
1 month ago

Although recently our indolent politicians are only willing to push against a door that is already open…

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
1 month ago

“Globally each of the past ten years were individually the ten warmest years on record.”
Can anyone extract what he was trying to say with this statement?

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NickR
NickR
1 month ago

I notice from the MET Office dashboard that hours of sunshine have increased markedly in the UK over the past century. Is that a good or bad thing? And, how much does more sun hitting the earth raise temperature?

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
1 month ago
Reply to  NickR

How can that be?

We orbit the earth just as we’ve always done, from approximately the same distance and with no change in the duration of orbit. The axis tilt is approx 23°, so the amount of sunlight hitting the planet per season will be largely consistent. Day length is also consistent, with sunrise and sunset also unchanged.

I wonder how they measure it?

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Hardliner
Hardliner
1 month ago
Reply to  GroundhogDayAgain

They are referring to cloud cover. Goodness knows how accurate the measurement of that was before satellites
And PS the earth’s orbit of the sun is complex and subject to fluctuation, but that’s not what the article is referring to

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
1 month ago
Reply to  Hardliner

Thanks for clarifying. I did say approximately.

If historical cloud cover measures go back one century then I’d be willing to bet they’re a product of modelling.

I suspect satellite measurements could achieve this, but I also guess that the early satellites wouldn’t have had the necessary sophistication for precise estimates, so the trend would likely be patchy.

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NickR
NickR
1 month ago
Reply to  GroundhogDayAgain

It’s hours of sunshine by month, season & annual. Data goes back to 1910.
I assume it’s due in part in reduced soot & smog from domestic coal fires & the closing down of factories.
It’s very marked. It would be deliciously ironic if by ending fossil fuels we allow through more sunshine & hence warm the planet!

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Purpleone
Purpleone
1 month ago
Reply to  NickR

I was thinking there could be a smog effect as well – compared to earlier last century, the air is much cleaner now than it was. You’ve only got to look at old buildings post cleaning to see the difference

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JohnK
JohnK
1 month ago
Reply to  NickR

The definition of “sunshine hours” is the key here. There needs to be 1000 W per square metre for a sunshine hour, so it all depends on the cloud cover during daylight hours. That’s pretty variable year on year. After all, we’ve just had a month during which the sunshine hours were unusually high (and it was dry – but they’re not talking about drought yet).

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JDee
JDee
1 month ago

The fundamental backdrop is that life on earth has adapted and survived through several ‘hot houses’ as they are called, with no ice, and several full ice ages, all without mans assistance. So yes there has always been climate change! So it’s absolutely mental to spend resources on trying to stop a grand natural cycle from doing this again, even if man is now affecting things a bit more, but not outside previous natural ranges. One should spend the resource on adapting to the tide, not trying to hold it back

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RW
RW
1 month ago
Reply to  JDee

In reality, it’s more resources being spent on snakeoil salesmen who claim to be able to hold back the tide despite there’s no empirical evidence that they actually can. The story of “man-made climate change” aka “global warming” is roughly The more we do about it, the worse everything gets.

This alone should be a sufficient reason to end this exercise immediately. The present story of the UN on this is All our past predictions were wrong! Because of our new prediction, we must … ! and I’m strongly in favour filling the … with stop listenting to these morons who openly admit that they don’t know what they’re talking about. They admit that they were completely wrong in the past. Hence, they’re, in all likeliness, still completely wrong.

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Purpleone
Purpleone
1 month ago
Reply to  RW

Do they actually admit they were wrong in the past though?

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RW
RW
1 month ago
Reply to  Purpleone

More or less. The actual claim was that all climate targets must be pulled forward by ten years because the predictions which led to the Paris agreement were way too optimistic and everything is really Much Worse®.

But in plain English, this just means they had no clue what they were talking about back then and that all measures which were taken had no positive effect according to them, ie, keep on doing what we ask you do to because we didn’t know what were talking about in the past and what we asked you to do back then turned out to be wrong. Trust us again because we failed you!

Pretty absurd demand, really.

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JohnK
JohnK
1 month ago

A good analysis. Regarding the fact that increased CO2 levels are good for plant growth, this basic fact has long been used deliberately in certain greenhouse farms, using some of the exhaust from gas fired heaters to ramp up the values rather then just chucking it out.

Another matter worth exploring is the political transfer of blame from one dodgy policy to another. E.g. the lack of progress into investment in features that can reduce the risk of high rainfall, such as flash flooding. Or the avoidance of expenditure in proper maintenance. Look what happened on the Somerset levels a few years back. Or the railway line breach between Exeter & Newton Abbot by storm damage from the sea. Don’t just blame “climate change”.

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
1 month ago

Published in 1871, by George Fleming (1833 – 1901), a Victorian military veterinarian and scholar: “Animal Plagues – From B.C. 1490 to A.D. 1800“:

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/sjfhgnc6/items?canvas=134

Page 94: “A.D. 1325. A great drought in England. Here, in this and the following summer, there was so great a drought…

…In consequence of the drought, the great rivers of England were dried up, the springs failed, and in may places water had entirely disappeared. In consequence of this misfortune, great multitudes of animals, wild as well as domestic, perished of thirst.”

Source: Thomas Walsingham (“English Chronicler”, 1340-1422), Historia Anglicana.

No modern dams, no reservoirs, no electricity, no pumped water – just humanity and animals pitted against merciless nature for two summers in a row. Shades of 1975-76.

Green neophytes don’t know they’ve been born.

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bertieboy
bertieboy
1 month ago

I’m happy to be corrected but my understanding is that the ‘official’ climate narrative is predicated on the assumption that atmospheric CO2 levels are the main driver of earth temperature. I would be assuming, therefore, that if this hypothesis is true and that human activity is the main ‘forcing’ factor, CO2 levels would be at unprecedented high levels. If this is not the case then the whole thing can be shown to be scam

If the IPCC projections are based on modelling and ‘so called consensus’ then this is NOT science. Science is ‘method’.

Does anyone know if the IPCC models are published?

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Less government
Less government
1 month ago

Millions are waking up to the stupidity of Climate Change/crisis/emergency. The new US administration is leading the way. Our duty as parents is to tell our children it is hogwash, fabricated nonsense to make money and control.
Reform will abolish all Net Zero policies and the climate change act , leave the Paris accord and stop this scam and hoax.

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Michael Staples
Michael Staples
1 month ago

Who could possibly believe that CO2, the basis of all organic life on earth, essential for the food that we eat and the oxygen we breathe, was a dangerous gas and an existential threat.
Answer: most of our politicians, which says it all above their level of insight and enquiry.

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Robert Thomas
Robert Thomas
1 month ago

As Prof Ian Plimer has pointed out CO2 has been at far higher levels on many occasions in the distant past with no particular ill effects recorded. Recent researches have also suggested tharCO2 acts as an insulting layer in the atmosphere and that additional amounts have ever decreasing effects.

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