- “Biden tests positive for COVID-19, returns to isolation” – President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 again, the Associated Press reports, three days after he was cleared to exit isolation. The White House says it’s a rare case of ‘rebound’ following treatment with Paxlovid, an antiviral manufactured by Pfizer
- “Doctors demand NHS funds Covid drug to protect vulnerable patients” – More than 100 doctors have been joined by 19 charities to write to the Government demanding funding for Evusheld, a Covid drug which can protect patients who don’t respond to vaccines, reports the Mail on Sunday
- “How widespread is long Covid? It’s incredibly hard to pin down” – Post COVID-19 condition now appears to be much less common than previously thought, says Adam Miller for CBC News
- “I’m an epidemiologist. Here’s why San Diego Unified’s mask mandate won’t slow COVID-19.” – The San Diego Unified School District has adopted a mask mandate due to the high numbers of Covid cases. It will “likely not reduce the spread” says John W. Ayers in the San Diego Tribune
- “Death of doctor who faced threats over COVID-19 shocks Austria” – The body of Dr. Lisa-Maria Kellermayr was found at her practice office in northern Austria, the Associated Press reports
- “The Pentagon Owns Its Recruiting Crisis” – The “Pentagon’s vaccine mandate may prove its deepest self-inflicted wound”, writes P. Michael Phillips for the Brownstone Institute
- “I bet $1M that the virus originated in a lab. Anyone want to bet against me? I didn’t think so.” – “Nobody on earth seriously believes the ‘natural origin’ story,” says Steve Kirsch. If they did, they’d take his bet
- “Garbage In, Garbage Out: 96% of NOAA Temperature Stations Fail ‘Uncorrupted Placement’ Standards” – Breitbart reports on a study finding that 96% of National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration weather stations fail to meet NOAA’s own ‘uncorrupted placement’ standards
- “Toyota warns Government it may stop manufacturing in U.K. if it bans hybrid cars” – Toyota says that restrictions on the sale of hybrids will impact the company’s “manufacturing, retail and other business activities” and its “future investment” in the U.K., the Sunday Telegraph reports. More economic harm due to the Net Zero policy?
- “UN, World Economic Forum Behind Global ‘War On Farmers’: Experts” – Zerohedge flags a report in the Epoch Times, pointing the finger at the United Nations’ ‘Agenda 2030’ Sustainable Development Goals for the regulatory attack on farming
- “Tree hugging. What the hell next?” – When Roger Watson heard about the inaugural Scottish Tree Hugging Championships, he thought it was a joke, he says in the New Conservative. “In the hierarchy of pointlessness, this one surely take pole position”
- “Ban Chinese Solar Genocide Panels” – Michael Shellenberger calls for the energy bill proposed by Senators Manchin and Schumer to include a ban on Chinese-made solar panels
- “Britain is broken and hungers for reform. That’s why I’m backing Liz Truss” – Dan Hannan explains why he’s backing Liz Truss in his Sunday Telegraph column
- “China has Britain by the throat. The new PM must loosen its grip” – For too long we have turned a blind eye to China’s stranglehold over our economy, argues Simon Heffer in the Telegraph
- “How to end Big Tech censorship of free speech” – “It’s time Big Tech companies uphold American values and become fair stewards of the speech they host,” write Rep. Cathy McMorris Rogers and Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon in the New York Post
- “Watchdogs and new internet laws mean free speech in U.K. is under threat” – In the Express, GETTR CEO Jason Miller warns that the Online Safety Bill poses a grave threat to free speech
- “Does Nadine Dorries understand her Online Safety Bill?” – “The Bill is jam packed with unintended consequences that the Secretary of State does not appear to understand,” says David Davis MP in the Spectator
- “Twitter said governments are requesting social media user information to censor content” –“We’re seeing governments become more aggressive in how they try to use legal tactics to unmask the people using our service,” Twitter head Yoel Roth has said, according to Tech Outlook. “And also using legal demands as a way to silence people”
- “Senior Whitehall officials accused of wasting time on ‘woke projects’” – Six permanent secretaries – on salaries between £170,000 and £200,000 – have become Civil Service ‘champions’ of a range of woke causes on top of their official duties, the Telegraph says
- “Mass hypnosis and the gateway to tyranny – The Conservative Woman” – Woke is “perhaps the most glaring example of living in your head instead of the real world” says John Roberts in TCW Defending Freedom
- “Cecil Rhodes listed plaque set to be ‘reinterpreted’ by Oxford college” – Oriel College, Oxford plans to denounce the 120 year-old plaque commemorating its benefactor Cecil Rhodes, as well as the statue of Rhodes, with another plaque alongside it, reports the Telegraph
- “Call drag queens ‘pantomime dames’ to fool protesters, librarians told” – The Sunday Telegraph reports on a training session for council librarians hosting a country wide tour by Drag Queen Story Hour U.K.
- “BBC ‘disappearing women’ as gender quota filled by trans guests who self-identify” – The BBC is allowing a 50-50 quota for programme guests to be filled by those who self-identify as female, the Telegraph reports
- “Criminalising catcalling would be Orwellian overreach” – Wolf-whistling may be annoying, but it hardly counts as worthy of the resources of our already pinched criminal justice system, writes the Sunday Telegraph’s Zoe Strimpel
- “Air Force Includes Drag Show In Woke ‘Diversity’ Festival At Langley” – According to the Daily Wire, the drag show featured in the family-friendly Diversity, Equity and Inclusion summer festival
- “How Stonewall turned against gay rights” – “With friends like this, who needs homophobes?” writes Andrew Doyle in Spiked
- “The root cause of the problem is the lack of a free speech act” – The police need some training from the Free Speech Union, says a Kemi Badenoch supporter, after the police arrest a man for posting an offensive meme
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I’ve just read a article on rueters about Italy, the alps and Venice apparently there’s not enough water in the sea causing drought and empty canals in Venice but sea level rise is a disaster at the same time! and theres not enough snowfall in the alps causing drought in Italy, oh and at this time, antarctic ice is at an all time low but not changing! This is all getting bloody stupid!
And climate change is increasing due to continuing global warming despite there having been no increase in the rate of warming since just after 1996 (and the end of El Niño) and a slight net decline.
The temperature increase for the last 100 years is between 0.65C and 1.12C depending where your dart lands.
As I noted the other day it takes a special kind of logic to think that a rise from -57c to -55c will cause the ice to melt…
Since there are only a handful of weather stations on the West (warmer) coast and none in the interior, temperatures are ‘estimated’ thanks to triangulation, algorithms and everyone’s favourite… computer modelling.
By curious coincidence, most global warming is ‘happening’ in Polar regions.
My “Contingency Theory of Climate Change”
Everywhere on the planet is very slightly different. So:
Climate change is the net result of all local, regional and global climate change variables, and CO2 is NOT the planet’s temperature control knob.
CO2 is just one of many climate change variables, including:
1) Earth’s orbital and orientation variations towards the Sun (aka planetary geometry)
2) Changes in ocean circulation. Including ENSO and others
3) Solar energy and irradiance, including clouds, albedo, volcanic and manmade aerosols, plus possible effects of cosmic rays and extra terrestrial dust
4) Greenhouse gas emissions (of which CO2 is one, and water vapour the most abundant)
5) Land use changes (cities growing, logging, crop irrigation, etc.)
6) Unknown causes of variations of a complex, non-linear system
7) Unpredictable natural and manmade catastrophes
8) Climate measurement errors (unintentional errors or deliberate science fraud)
9) Interactions and feedbacks, involving two or more variables.
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So it is a soup of pretty much whatever flavour you like somewhere.
I think you can apply that very sound logic to pretty much any social phenomena. There is enough of everything going on somewhere that you can create any impression you like by taking the subset of events that supports your story and report those.
I have no doubt that is exactly what happens.
Yes, I started years ago with the contingency theory of management on an MBA course – sometime in the last century.
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Anyway.
There has been a generation or more taught or rather indoctrinated that the climate doom is all caused by the trickster devil/god carbon dioxide. This is so patently not the case that I look at adults who spout it as if they were saying they still believe in Father Christmas, or God.
The current cooling in The Antarctic (and other places) whilst there is warming elsewhere at the same time seems to show how versatile the magic carbon dioxide molecule is. So I feel rather generous in crediting it with any role.
Every bit of extreme weather from anywhere in the world gets beamed straight to our living rooms. This might give the impression that everything is getting worse. But actually, that is all it is.——-An impression. Because in reality there is no increase in floods, droughts, storms, wild fires, or any other type of weather related events. So where you have a reason for getting masses of people to believe something and to come onboard with an idea then it is easy to cherry pick a bunch of data or facts the seem to support that agenda or idea. And that is exactly what is happening with climate. So then you need to ask yourself WHY. My brother once said to me “Why would they say there is global warming if there isn’t any”? ——–A good question, and to understand why you need to know something about the politics involved. If you let yourself think it is all just about science, then you are missing most of it. Climate Change is a highly politicised issue, and a moral economic and social one as well. It is not purely about science. Infact the science is very weak and often the facts do not fit the theory, and in any case it mostly emanates from climate models, which to this point have all been totally wrong. —–Real science rejects it’s theory when the facts do not fit the hypothesis. In politics you seek “consensus”, which as someone once pointed out is “the last refuge of scoundrels”.
“It recorded its coldest six-month winter since records began in 2021…”
I think the year is a typo.
Just not clearly written methinks – should read ‘ In 2021 it recorded its coldest six month winter since records began’ or something similar.
Excellent article, just a small chip out of the climate change/net-zero wall but we must keep chipping away. Covid and climate change have seen a reversal in the normal way things work, usually we have technological innovations and scientific findings and then society subsequently adapts and develops to make best use of the technology and the science. With climate change and with covid we seem to have started with a diabolical and sinister narrative and then insisted that science and technology come up with answers and developments to fit the desired narrative.
Increasingly with climate change the evidence is lacking, whether it is high level scientific measurement or just looking out the window and noticing that over my three score years and ten, the climate has not noticeably changed very much and the sea has not risen very much. However the global tyrants and megalomaniacs have now got so much political, power, money and capital tied up in this net-zero scam that is going to be very hard to get them to climb down at all.
Many ordinary people who are busy with work and family life switch on their 6 o’clock news expecting that the TV News channel has done it’s homework and knows something about the issue they are reporting on. Nope. What they do is repeat what officialdom like the IPCC WEF and politicians and bureaucrats PRONOUNCE. ——-But pronouncements are not science. And computer models that do not reflect what the real world is doing are evidence of NOTHING. ——What we are all presented with is reporting on “official science” in support of a political agenda by a bought and paid for media. Most people do not have time to investigate every issue and they rely on NEWS programs to inform them without bias. ——–In that regard mainstream media have failed, and they fail deliberately in support of the political agenda called “Sustainable Development”
Meanwhile the BBC reports that there is a shortage of fruit and vegetables in the UK and Ireland “largely the result of extreme weather in Spain and north Africa, where floods, snow and hail have affected harvests.”
Where’s Global Warming when we need it?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64718823
Ah, but they’ve got you every which way. Whatever the weather, whether hot or cold, dry or wet, extremely sunny or extremely cloudy, its all down to ‘climate change’. Many people seem so brainwashed by, principally, the msm, especially the BBC, they can no longer just accept weather as weather, but as some portent of forthcoming doom. It seems a shame when many people can no longer enjoy a crisp winter’s day or a warm summer’s evening without niggling fear that the end is nigh. Their loss though.
The earth’s climate has been changing naturally for at least the last few hundreds of millions of years.
It would be abnormal for the earth’s climate not to be changing.
There is no evidence that the current climate change is caused in any significant degree by humanity.
Computer models are not evidence.
Grantham, Mayo, van Otterloo &Co. As well you know.
Ask – Who gains by the constant state of ‘crisis’, not just for climate but other areas too?
Who gains?
What do they gain?
Why?
Greta Thumberg RIP
Government is apparently less trusted than ever before. On every issue no-one believes a word they say. On the economy, on immigration, on education, foreign policy etc etc etc. Yet when they speak of the “climate emergency” most people do believe it. Maybe on sites like this they don’t, but if each person who visits this site thinks for a second about all their family and friends, how many of them simply believe most if not all of the “climate crisis” stuff. They think Polar Bears are in serious trouble, they think the planet is warming dangerously. They think weather is getting more extreme by the week. They will mostly believe all of that stuff because they see it on TV news and because they think it is all about “science” and people by and large will tend not to want to question anything that they consider to be “science” because they think they cannot possibly know more than a scientist.———- So if you have ever told them that Polar Bear numbers have increased 5 fold in the last 60 years, or that there has not been much in the way of warming of the planet for about 20 years, despite CO2 increasing all the time. Or that there is no increase in the frequency or intensity of any type of weather event, many of you will have noticed that those family members or friends will suddenly become like a rabbit in the headlights. They will look at you like you are from Mars.Most of the time when people get new information their reaction would be “Oh, is that right. I never knew that”, but on politicised issues where there has been powerful PR (propaganda) they cannot accept any new information. Propaganda works, and government knows it. The bought and paid for media know it as well. Despite almost everything we hear about the climate being a smidgeon of the truth elevated into a planetary emergency with zero evidence to back it up, the people still mostly accept it as ultimate truth and that reveals only one thing. —–The power of propaganda.
I’ve just read an item in the Times (01/07/23) – headline: ‘Antarctic ice melts to “shocking” low.’ Of course it looks authoritative, but I’d be grateful if anyone out there could help me see why it might be bullshit. If I can’t find that evidence, I’ll have to read Chris Morrison’s articles with more circumspection, despite my general feeling that he hits the nail on the head over and over again. Direct contact with me on this would be very welcome; my email is illman.clive@gmail.com. Many thanks. The Times article reads:
Antarctic sea ice has fallen to a “shock ing” record low for the end of June, with the missing mass equivalent to an area about five times the size of Britain. The loss comes as scientists warn that the Greenland melt has been “off the chart” as the area faces a heatwave.
“Despite the South Pole heading into winter, the Met Office said that the extent of Antarctic sea ice was at 11.8 million sq km on June 29, 1.3 million sq km below the previous record low. It is more than 2.5 million sq km below the average for this time of year.
Ed Blockley, of the Met Office Polar Climate Group, described the levels as “extraordinarily” low. The figures come after record sea ice lows in the Antarctic summer earlier in the year and a slow start to growth heading into winter in the southern hemisphere. Ice growth in May was 2.87 million sq km, far below the usual 3.25 million sq km for the month.
Blockley said it was too early to say if records would be broken when Antarctic sea ice reaches its maximum extent, usually in September, but he added: “We are concerned.”
The loss of such huge expanses of sea ice matters for the wildlife of the region and because it speeds up climate change. Ice reflects more of the sun’s energy into space than dark sea water.
One reason why Antarctic sea ice bas vanished this year appears to be that the region is up to 4C warmer than usual in some places.
The records this year come after about seven years of low sea ice extent in Antarctica. Previously the sea ice had been expanding for decades, but that appeared to flip in 2016 losses occurred linked with a weather cycle called the El Nino-Southern Oscillation.
Blockley said such natural weather cycles could be enhanced by global warming. “As we get this climate warming, the extremes are becoming more extreme,” he said. The world ha already warmed by about 1.2C since the Industrial Revolution.
This month science agencies in the United States the world had entered an El Nino phase, typically linked with years that are hotter than average. Blockley said that was likely to exacerbate Antarctic sea ice losses.
The losses in the Antarctic come as Greenland records temperatures 10C above average. Jason Box, a glaciology expert, said the melt rates were “punching off the charts”.