The BBC’s green activist-in-residence Justin Rowlatt has had two complaints upheld against him, following the broadcast last November of his absurd “Wild Weather” Panorama programme. The latest upheld complaints followed a similar rebuke last year, after Rowlatt described offshore wind as “virtually subsidy-free”.
The Panorama programme was an hour long, emotion-charged rant that tried to show human-caused climate change was behind a series of recent bad weather events. It featured a man with vascular dementia being helped into a boat from his flooded home. Improbable stories of 6°C rises in temperature were illuminated with a Met Office globe turning deep red. Not a scintilla of scientific proof was supplied to back up most of the improbable claims.
The BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit found that the wording of the introduction, which stated “the death toll is rising around the world and the forecast is that worse is to come”, risked giving the impression the rate of deaths from extreme weather-related events was increasing.
“Risked” is an interesting turn of phrase. The BBC said the wording “was not as clear as it should have been”, and accepted the obvious fact that deaths have actually been falling for many years
The ECU also upheld a complaint about a Rowlatt statement that Madagascar was on the brink of the world’s first climate-induced famine. The report about the drought in the south of the country was presented “without qualification”, but other evidence “prior to broadcast” was said to suggest there were additional factors that made a significant contribution to the shortage of food.
In fact, drought in southern Madagascar was not unknown in the past. A group of scientists and observers working for World Weather Attribution recently published their findings. As can be seen, a drought in 1992 was actually worse. Recent rains have marginally improved the current situation.
Moreover, the paper noted the finding of the sixth IPCC Assessment Report that classified the region as exhibiting “low confidence” of observed human influence on drought, “due to limited evidence”.
The core problem affecting the coverage of climate science at the BBC, and most of the mainstream media, is the ludicrous proposition that it is somehow settled and beyond debate. As the Daily Sceptic has noted on numerous occasions, nobody can put a provable figure on the actual warming that will occur if carbon dioxide, from whatever source, is doubled in the atmosphere. This is a subject of intense, ongoing debate within scientific circles. Rather than artificially divide scientists into those who say humans cause climate change and those who don’t, a more nuanced stance would be to look at their views on a scale from one to ten – one being no effect from humans, and ten suggesting humans cause all warming. Currently, you will find views spread across the entire spectrum.
But debate has long been closed down by politically inspired activists, driven seemingly to do what it takes to ‘save the planet’ and secure the Net Zero agenda. Improbable suggestions that temperatures will rise by 6°C, guessed by always-wrong computer models, are broadcast for maximum emotional impact. Attempts to debate the science are often met with the slur of denier, suggesting the denial of the World War Two Jewish Holocaust.
Consider this extraordinary photo and caption published recently on the main BBC’s climate page.
The story concerned an Eastern European group called the Creative Society that was said to have tricked a number of scientists, politicians and campaigners into participating in events promoting “climate change denial”. It was written by two BBC “climate disinformation” reporters, Marco Silva and Merlyn Thomas. The above picture was used to promote the story, alone on a separate page, but was not attributed to the Creative Society in the full article. It does not seem to appear on any of the main pages of the Society’s web site.
In the absence of clear attribution, the long nose, the pig snout and the loaded use of the term ‘deniers’, might unfortunately suggest that anyone dissenting from the settled science view is a lying pig akin to an antisemitic Holocaust denier.
The actual story is a non event. Even if the Society is promoting ‘climate denial’, whatever that is – so what? The BBC says the Society has hundreds of thousands of followers across all major social media platforms, and through them “bad information about global warming is being spread”. Not on Twitter it’s not – the Society has fewer than 4,000 followers.
On its website, the Society says a creative forum can “provide for a future without wars, conflicts, violence and hunger”. A recent tweet sought understanding for immigration, noting that the United States was founded by refugees. Climate change is often attributed to cosmic cycles. The Society seems to combine an idealistic view of society with a dash of eastern Christian mysticism and a scattering of ‘end is nigh’ warnings. Climate, it states, is the “enemy of the entire humanity”. It claims that climate cataclysms are occurring at record breaking speed. “Why are the world media silent about the scale of threats,” it asks.
It appears that the Creative Society has an idealistic message that everyone is entitled to be happy, combined with a dash of neo-mysticism and warnings of imminent climate Armageddon. In fact, in many ways, it seems remarkably similar in outlook to the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor
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The Daily Sceptic is excellent at this sort of well-reasoned and referenced article. The establishment will clutch at any number of straws to avoid the elephant in the room – they cannot bring themselves to even consider the possibility that the vaccines are part of the problem here, when even a sensible layman can see the argument by Will above is perfectly logical. Fair enough if a proper investigation was carried out and in the end it really was Covid rather than the vaccines that are causing this excess mortality. But by denying even the possibility, it is guaranteed that no investigation will happen, which is the only 100% certain way of the vaccines not being blamed.
Another example of how the establishment should be hanging their heads in shame, and then getting their coats and leaving the stage so people with some integrity can sort this mess out. Hopefully the next generation of academics, scientists, and politicians, will have the strength of character to finally dig into the data and give us some answers. Hopefully some of the previous lot will still be alive to take the blame.
If they haven’t recorded something, it hasn’t happened. That’s bureaucracy for you. Incidentally, the ONS site from which the ‘death graph’ is from, was a bit patchy this afternoon. No UK wide figures, and none of the local regional links worked at all. Perhaps it’ll work tomorrow – it’s quite common for it to be delayed.
Of course, the next batch of odd numbers will be in week 40, on account of this week’s funeral – at least on account of the extra bank holiday.
In the meantime, there are an awful lot of people who don’t want to see things that they have fallen into a trap with, having trusted the other side, as it were. Carry on the good work and present the available evidence, as long as it takes.
They won’t release the mortality stats by vax status until:
(a) They’ve found a way to present the information the way they want it to look.
(b) An acceptable narrative has been firmly established through the brute force of constant repetition that explains the additional mortality as not jab related.
But good on the DS to insist on the all cause mortality data by jab status. Maybe the pressure will grow and pay off.
Top analysis, as usual, but the real question is: At what annualized level of absolute deaths and absolute excess deaths will the jabbed people connect the dots and exit their cognitive dissonance in droves, regardless of the government&cos attribution shenanigans, spin, propaganda etc.?
Sure they hide and misstate vaccine deaths, sure excess deaths due to Covid were in a similar ballpark as these ones (around double officially, much, much lower as per single cause of death, 6k in total, see Fenton) and the reaction to that threat was a most ridiculous disaster. But unless one is personally impacted by such an excess death, the jabbed people will just continue to see that the vaccination hasn’t and isn’t killing them in real droves, aka millions, and will therefore happily continue to put their head in the sand, believe the government and its spinmeisters, ignore analysis like Will’s and, above all, continue to roll up their sleeves.
Oh I should just show the jab zealots stuff like this ( see below ) and see if they’re keen to rock up for their next shot in the arm, or offer their kids’ just because they want to go on holiday. Then there’s the footage all over ( I’ve shared stuff on here too ) of how the blood behaves in the vaxxed in comparison with pre-jab, and these mystery floating structures and particles are evident in the vials and the blood. Fascinating, if freaky, stuff. In fact, I think I’ve become a bit too fascinated….
But seriously, why wouldn’t heart-related deaths be up when you have these thingies in your body causing the erythrocytes to clump and die or get lodged in a major blood vessel, then there’s those weird clot things ( the result of these mystery structures interfering with red blood cells? ) embalmers are finding in dead people, I mean, no shit Sherlock.
https://lifeoftheblood.com/nanotech-in-the-shots/
Here is a <30min video where a scientist presents the findings of the German Working Group For Vaccine Analysis and then she discusses with others, including Dr Trozzi. They discuss what these strange things could be but not in the depth I would have liked. Other scientists have given more comprehensive speculation on this aspect. I always wondered what Big Pharma had to say by way of explanation when approached with these findings and it turns out nothing. They were asked but will not disclose what these mystery, undisclosed ingredients are in their products. So nothing remotely ominous about that at all then…We need another lawyer to force it out of them, like the trial data they wanted to withhold from us for 75 years, don’t we?
https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/multimedia/vaccine-analysis-sabine-sebel/
The issue is just that this information simply doesn’t reach the masses. It will eventually, but even then the vast majority will say something along the lines of “ah well, it wasn’t me, at least it wasn’t COVID. Oh look, a cheap holiday” and move on.
There is also the fact that this information is coming from organisations unknown to the mass of the population. Those people who get their information from MSM and only MSM don’t believe anything that contradicts what they say and believe.
I had a recent conversation with some friends during which I told them I’n not having any vaccinations and outlined why. The shock was evident but one of them said that you can find anything you want on the internet and that if you expect a bad outcome you’ll get one. She’s not known for her broadmindedness it has to be said. This is an educated woman who prides herself on knowing what’s going on and is fairly typical of a lot of people. I’m interested to see if I get invited to meet her again!
Somehow I misread “mortality displacement” as “morality displacement”.
I keep bumping into things – must be me balance, people putting bloody things in my way, serendipity. Cannot be me eyesight failing. Not possible. My eyes are perfectly safe and effective. Ouch – bloody chair. Seriously – passed a covid vaccine centre today. Could weep. The masks and sanitizer, people like walking corpses trooping in. Approached this masked woman guarding the entrance with her computer device at the ready. Name? Appointment time? Masks and sanitizer by the door. No, just curious how this lunacy is progressing I volunteered and wandered off.
Our neighbourhood houses a vaccination centre which has taken over the town hall thus rendering it unusable for a lot of activities. There are lots of visible yellow-jacketed people milling about just inside the glass corridor but no queues unlike last time where people were queuing outside into the street. I took this to be a good sign of a lower uptake but discovered that that there is a more detailed appointment system this time. The conversations with neighbours quickly move to when your appointment is so there is still much excitement around the vaccinations.
The mainly interesting (somewhat) thing in this article is that health experts
and functionaries (like guy from U of Essex and the minister from Singapore) still use everything somehow related to death as nothing but an opportunity for more speculative COVID bullshitting. The subtext of Dr Strain’s statement is basically Nobody ever recovers from COVID!! It’ll lay dormant in your body and will then SUDDENLY jump onto your weakest parts and kill you!!! (and – obviously -as Nobody ever recovers from COVID!! everybody who got ever infected with it remains INFECTIOUS and EXTREMELY DANGEROUS for all of his live).
I’d really like to lay dormant somewhere in the vicinity of this guy’s workplace and then suddenly jump onto his weakest parts, although a method to jump onto somebody’s brain would still need to be determined.
Well, maybe you haven’t quite concluded if there even is excess mortality to be worried about, let alone its cause(s).
And maybe you want to wait until a bit more peer reviewed, international data comes to light before jumping to conclusions, and are therefore leaning towards Devi’s explanation of excess deaths caused by heat waves, missed appointments and Covid waves themselves.
But surely you can’t be 100% sure, and the precautionary principle (even if you haven’t labeled it as that yet) would dictate that you wait before injecting yourself?
This stat still floors me sometimes:
Why on earth? You’ve survived 1.5+ years of the most coercive, threatening, bullying vaccine campaign ever conceived; you’ve survived (presumably) job loss threats; you’ve navigated family and friend losses; you’ve (probably) already been infected with SARS-Cov-2 and recovered ………….. and yet you get your first dose now, in September, 2022?
Why (“Novak”), why?
I just don’t get it.
I think some are likely to be pregnant women. The additional pressure and emotional blackmail that they put on expectant mothers is on another level. They basically tell you that you and your baby will die, and it’ll be an awful painful death. I did not fall for it obviously but most do.
Some may also be people who were on the waitlist for an operation/chemo for example who are now being pressured.
Perhaps children reaching the age when they become eligible? Hopefully not.
I didn’t even know you could still get the original, now obsolete because they were formulated against a now extinct strain, gene therapies. I thought they were no longer available and countries were having to chuck millions of doses ( and millions in money down the drain, no doubt ) that were near to expiry. There really is no excuse for being such a dumbass though!
Anecdotally I continue to see a large increase in patients with joint, tendon and nerve inflammation, as well as severe inflammation following therapeutic musculoskeletal injections.
The common factor- all are multiple jabbed.
Cannot recall a single unjabbed patient with these inflammatory symptoms.
Easy to extrapolate these findings to the cardiovascular system.
I read recently that the NHS is concerned about the increased incidences of the ‘Victorian’ malady – gout. I hope this isn’t going to be another affliction for the jabbed.
Saw a patient this week who developed pseudogout, a similar inflammatory joint disease, immediately following a heart attack.
Fully jabbed.
People could be forgiven for thinking the government was trying to hide something…but then again, people are not
allowedsupposed to think anymore in case it causes offence.i don’t think there’s any real empirical evidence for the existence of a ‘SARS-CoV2 virus’. there are no pathognomonic clinical features. the virus has never been isolated. it has merely been characterised in silico using random nucleotide sequences from any old goat or papaya (RIP John Magufuli, Hero of The Resistance) detected by an intrinsically fraudulent upcycled PCR test. however, there is definitely a transmissible illness going around. is it a bird? is it a plane? is it nano-Superman? maybe we’re looking at a continually changing peptide bioweapon, behaving as if it’s a virus? the entire ‘covid’ farrago is suffused with fraud. this degrades all attempts at rational conversation about ‘covid’, in accordance with Lord Denning’s seminal 1956 judgement that fraud vitiates everything it touches.
Apparently, there is no empirical evidence for the existence of any virus. The concept of a sub-microscopic organism with the properties attributed to viruses is necessary to explain disease transmission in some cases. Which is not the same thing at all as evidence for existence.
Indeed, but Experts say there are roughly 40 million virus in every cubic metre of air. I’ve never been able to discover precisely what it is they precisely measure to reach this scientific fact – do they mean there are 40 million bits of “random” nucleotides. genetic material, aka virus, floating around in the air?
If they are correct, I’d like the expert immunologists to kindly explain the precise mechanisms by which the immune system supposedly sorts the harmful ones out.
I’m familiar with the works of Janeway, Beutler, Steinman, Isaacs etc but research into immunology sadly stopped with the rise of our wonderful genetic engineers – cue lots of money/power for you know who.
The runaway train of mRNA engineered products should stop immediately before any more harm is done to humanity.
They don’t know what the effects upon the immune system are or will be.
Putting it politely they haven’t got a bloody clue :-
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152200206X
Has anyone submitted a FOI request for these data?
Sarh Caul at ONS blanked all such requests in early 2021, when, as the grim jabbers first went round, spates of deaths from care homes were reported. She has steadfastly refused to give out complete information on the vaccination status of the deceased. The ONS even categorizes deaths as non-vaxxed if the person drops dead immediately on being jabbed, the rationale being that the jabs are not effective against covid for 2 weeks. Sarh Caul has accepted an MBE for her work.
Question to Will: Where does this leave Noah Carl’s 30-Aug-22 DS piece in which he showed the age-adjusted mortality rate for 2022 shows no increase over the 5-year historical average when 2015-19 (rather than the ONS’s 2016-19 + 2021) is used as the base period?