Inevitable really, but the Daily Sceptic‘s recent article on the World Climate Declaration (WCD) has attracted a green-activist ‘fact check’, and on that flimsy basis has been labelled “false information” by Facebook. On August 18th we published an article reporting that scientists across the world had declared there was no climate emergency. We added that the assertions that humans cause most or all climate change and that the science behind this claim is ‘settled’ have been dealt a savage blow by the WCD. The lead signatory is the Norwegian physics Nobel Prize laureate Professor Ivar Giaever, and he is followed by over 1,100 scientists and professionals. No fewer than 235 professors have signed the Declaration. Our story on the WCD went viral on social media, and is one of the most widely read articles we have ever published. The article and the WCD have now been branded “incorrect” by the green activist blog Climate Feedback.
The blog’s author writes: “Natural (non-human) drivers of climate change have been mostly stable since the onset of modern warming and all the available scientific evidence implicates human greenhouse gas emissions as the primary culprit.”
To claim that the climate has not undergone any natural change for almost 200 years is nonsense. Not a scrap of evidence can be submitted to back up this proposition, and it flies in the face of all climate science. The climate has changed on Earth since gas first made an appearance in the atmosphere. Climate Feedback’s claim is in fact a denial of climate change.
The second part of the charge sheet runs: “Scientific evidence also indicates that climate change is contributing to intensified or more frequent natural disasters such as heatwaves, drought and heavy rainfall.”
Again show us the evidence for this outlandish claim. Not a single scientific paper, not a scintilla of scientific proof, can attribute a one off bad (extreme) weather event to a change in long-term climate caused by humans burning fossil fuel. Any evidence supplied arises from climate models – evidence being a polite term for fanciful and wishful thinking.
A great deal of social media criticism of the WCD is reserved for the signatories. Their skills and interests range over many disciplines including pure science, such as chemistry and physics, along with useful related fields such as geology and paleoclimatology. The Climate Feedback review highlights the involvement of lead signatory Professor Antonino Zichichi, who is said to have links to the influential libertarian U.S. Heartland think tank. Furthermore, it is said he does not have a background in climate science. The attempted slur is interesting since Climate Feedback provides a link that does nothing more than present the professor’s impressive scientific and academic credentials. Zichichi “does not have a background in climate science”, it is said. In fact, Professor Zichichi is a physicist of immense international standing. He is credited with a number of scientific discoveries including nuclear anti-matter, served as President of the World Federation of Scientists and was awarded Italy’s highest honour, the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
But, obviously, when dealing with the settled science of climate change, Zichichi has spent a lifetime studying the wrong sort of physics.
Timothy Osborn, a climate professor at the University of East Anglia, claims that all natural warming stopped by the late 1800s, although, confusingly, he adds that natural factors, “would have caused a slight cooling over the last 70 years”. Such certitude of course doesn’t arise from the scientific evidence – there isn’t any to back up this absurd claim.
Osborn continues with his tale:
Scientists estimate the effects of various potential climate drivers [influences] by running model simulations, mathematical representations of the climate system. The effectiveness of climate models is evaluated by their ability to capture real world climate trends. Models used by the IPCC have been faithfully predicting climate since the 1970s, which gives researchers confidence in their performance.
In fact, as the above graph shows, “real world climate trends” haven’t got a great track record when it comes to accurately forecasting future temperatures. The thick green line above shows the satellite record, the other lines the predications of climate models. From the turn of the century, when green activists went to war on fossil fuel, the predictions of thermogeddon have become increasingly detached from reality.
Finally, the ‘fact check’ disputes the statement in the WCD that there is no statistical evidence that global warming is intensifying weather events. This is said to be at odds with the most recent IPCC report, which states in its “Summary for Policymakers” that “human-induced climate change is already affecting many weather and climate extremes in every region across the globe”. As the Daily Sceptic has noted, these ‘attribution’ claims are mostly the product of climate models, slammed by the WCD as “not remotely plausible as global policy tools”. Meanwhile, the IPCC summary for policymakers has recently been criticised as “government-dictated findings”. Professors William Happer and Richard Lindzen of Princeton and MIT respectively, laid that charge, noting that an IPCC rule states that all summaries must be approved by governments. “Climate science is awash with manipulated data, which provides no reliable scientific evidence,” they said.
Academics around the world are becoming increasingly frustrated and angry at the politicisation of science in the interest of promoting the command-and-control Net Zero agenda. The science is not settled – far from it. The WCD is a powerful fightback and is attracting worldwide interest and debate. This latest so-called fact check from Climate Feedback is just a recitation of a political narrative.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor
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So poaching nurses from overseas, which will lead to a shortage in poorer countries. Fuck the poor, eh? Typical western approach.
Exactly what i first thought. What about patients in Kenya?
They can all move here and get free health care. And houses and money.
Millions went hungry in Kenya last year, collateral damage from our lockdowns. They don’t care about black lives unless they’re in Britain.
This has been happening for at least 20 years. Nurses from the Philippines, Sri Lanka, India and multiple African countries. I’m not going to get into discussion about being supernumerary or employed. They need to keep the 50:50 split between academia and clinical practice has to remain, simulation cannot substitute for real life.
But the Wah!NHS depends on stealing from the poor including countries poorer than here.
Obvs the Wah!NHS loses staff to countries with a 1st world healthcare system at the same time.
The quality of degree trained nurses is inferior to the SRNs & RGNs which they superseded, far less hands on experience & the result is HCAs are now used as the SRNs with less training & for far less remuneration. This change seriously reduced the quality of in-patient care.
the SEN SRN system seemed to work well for many years, until they decided to mess with it.
I wonder what the drop out rate is for these classroom trained “higher educated” nurses the first time they have to deal with some whacked out junkie that’s shuffling around in a psychotic delirium with its soiled underpants around its ankles.
Best to get that introduction to reality done up front, I suspect.
The new ‘degree’ nurses won’t deal with patients who have soiled themselves or other such ‘demeaning’ tasks. They believe they are above such things. My sister left school at 16 and went through every stage from Nursery Nurse through SRN/SCM to Matron. That’s the way to learn and deliver (forgive the pun) true care. Before she retired the Nursing 2000 graduates were talking down to her and refusing to do basic nursing tasks. Maybe the Overseas nurses are more interested in patient care than letters after their name.
Isn’t Kenya where the UK wouldn’t let people enter because of defective AZ vaccines ( how they tell the difference?)? What could possibly go wrong.
Defective?
The UK gifted them to Kenya FFS.
Talk about bureaucratic ineptitude.
Importing nurses from Kenya? There was a story last year that many people were going hungry in Kenya in part because of the UK’s lockdown and related measures, that people were eating giraffes to survive and teenage girls doing “bad things”. Well, I hope that they are going to ensure that there are enough nurses to look after people in Kenya as well. It wouldn’t be very nice to make millions of poor people in Africa suffer again, would it?
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I thought there were supposed to be many highly qualified nurses and doctors among all the “refugees” arriving by RNLI taxi in Dover aren’t there? No?
Mandating vaccinations is probably not the way to entice people into nursing or midwifery and yet that is the direction we are going into. However, your head will spin when you see how quickly this gov’t makes up for the falling numbers by enticing all double vaxxed nurses from the Phillipines and India to this country in lickety split time. No loyalty to all those frontline nurses and midwives who put their lives at risk(who most likely have a very strong immunity related to being exposed to Covid repetitively). That is the UK in a nutshell. Not one ounce of loyalty to their own, but we now have fifteen Afghan families living next door in a best western. The males assisted the British military in Afghanistan. But the nurses and midwives who served their fellow Brits, here in the UK during the Covid war are treated with contempt. Told they need a vaccine passport. Treated like criminals.
what can be expected of the N&MC when they appointed as Chief Registrar the same muppet who guided the banal Care Quality Commissions social care division and who repeatedly stated without a trace of irony or insight that there is not a link between quality-of-care and fee rates, right – so go tell that to the airline industry or the hotel sector or a car salesman … and then this dope gets to be the boss at N&MC, and we are left wondering what does a member of the elite Idiocracy have to do to get a reputation that matches their incompetence
There will soon be plenty of health care professionals from USA, Aus, Can, NZ, that will be looking for jobs if we have the guts to offer them one and not insist on requiring a useless jab to perform their duties.
Win, win…