Climate change misinformation is flooding into British schools, funded, it would appear, by the dark green money of elite billionaire foundations. Schoolchildren are encouraged to plot implausible temperatures rises of 11°C, taught that alkaline oceans are ‘acidic’ and encouraged to write letters to policymakers claiming “our house is on fire” in the style of Greta Thunberg.
The material is being distributed around schools by a London-based operation called Climate Science. An introductory video says its mission is to bring “high quality climate education to every school, company and individual in the world”. Such aims of course do not come cheap. Among the lobby group’s “partners, supporters and friends” are green activist funders such as Schmidt Futures – the family foundation of former Google boss Eric Schmidt – and the Grantham Institute at Imperial – partly funded by green billionaire investor Jeremy Grantham.
Give me the child until seven, and I will give you the man, said Aristotle, a phrase understood down the ages, not least by the Jesuit Christian order. Blind faith is more readily accepted by minds whose critical faculties have not been fully developed. And there are few ideas in today’s climate political agenda that require more faith than the forecasts of climate models. How exactly do we know about future climate change and the frequency of extreme weather events, asks Climate Science. “It’s all down to climate models,” is the answer, adding: It’s “pretty cool” to get a glimpse of a potential future, isn’t it?
The school briefing notes suggest that climate models “have been used to make accurate projections for the past 50 years, and have advanced significantly during this time”. Of course, as we have seen in the Daily Sceptic, those “accurate projections” do not apply to temperature forecasts. In fact, it would more accurate to say that they have never produced an accurate forecast in 50 years of trying. Far from becoming more accurate, they are becoming almost laughably inaccurate.
The above graph was produced in a recent paper by the physicist Nicola Scafetta. It analysed 38 of the main models and found that most had overestimated global warming over the last 40 years. Many of them should be “dismissed and not used by policymakers”, he concluded. The thick green line shows the actual temperature measured by accurate satellite recordings. Interestingly, the models started to go haywire at a time when the warming scare was gaining political traction and critical debate on the science started to be discouraged. The World Climate Declaration has been signed by almost 300 university professors, led by a Nobel physics laureate Professor Ivar Giaever. “We should free ourselves from the naïve belief in immature climate models,” says the Declaration. “In future, climate research must give significantly more emphasis to empirical science.”
Meanwhile, back in British classrooms, schoolchildren are being told that we can “expect to see an increase of 4.5°C in global temperatures by 2100 and an increase of roughly 11°C by the end of 2200”. To ram the message home, children must plot the graph below.
There is of course no mention that it is unknown how much temperature will rise if carbon dioxide is doubled in the atmosphere. Scientists debate a range from around 0.5°C to 6°C. Recently, the estimates have tended to fall away from the upper end, not least because global warming has been running out of steam for over two decades. Some scientists argue that the warming properties of CO2 diminish on a logarithmic basis past certain concentrations as the gas becomes saturated in the atmosphere. If, and it is an if, CO2 doubles in the atmosphere by 2200, even the most extreme estimates of temperature rise come nowhere close to 11°C.
Further misinformation is contained in the statement that average temperatures over the last 10,000 years have risen “very gradually” by no more than 1°C. Living things are said to have had time to adapt to gradually changing conditions. This entirely misses the point that over the last 10,000 years there have been a number of warming periods when temperatures were higher than they are today. Last week we noted evidence that suggested the high Austrian Alps were up to 7°C warmer in summer between 4,000 BC and AD 70 than today. Humans, of course, are capable of adapting quickly to temperature changes much higher than an almost unnoticeable 1°C.
Corals are tricky territory for climate alarmists these days since the Great Barrier Reef is currently reporting 35-year record levels. But they are said in the schools material to have been “harmed by the effects of climate change”, although there is no evidence that observed long-term changes in the climate have caused recent significant damage. In fact tropical corals have been around for 500 million years and grow in waters between 24-32°C. Recent bleaching was mostly caused by temporary spikes in water temperatures, easily attributed to natural El Niño oscillations. Instead, Climate Science puts an emphasis on ocean “acidification”, although an entry level chemistry course would note that oceans are not acidic but alkaline.
Humans are said to release “nasty gases” into the air and this “sours” the ocean. The corals become stressed, die and turn white. In fact, corals don’t die first, they bleach and this process is almost entirely due to changing water temperatures. ‘Nasty gases’ of course is a way to demonise CO2 among the younger generation, despite the gas being vital to all life on Earth. The ocean is in fact very alkaline and numerous exchanges, many little understood, influence its pH value. In addition, slightly higher temperatures release CO2 from the oceans.
Needless to say, schoolchildren are encouraged to engage in “climate activism”. This is despite the fact that many activists are said to be in danger of “persecution”, and receiving “threats” from animal farmers, fossil fuel and mining interests. Further information on these threats is not provided. Could it be that the butcher will stop delivering sausages, BP will turn the heating off and Rio Tinto will cease paying dividends into parents’ (and teachers’) pension schemes? Children are also advised to pick an activist from a list including Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot, and fill a poster board full of their good works. Letters to policymakers should stress the emotional, they are told. It is said to be important to learn how other writers present their arguments so children can use these techniques in their own writing. One of the “pillars” suggested is Thunberg’s claim before the World Economic Forum in 2019 that: “Our house is on fire, I am here to say, our house is on fire.”
As with the Jesuits, so with the new climate religion. Belief is everything. “There are no grey areas when it comes to survival,” the children are told.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but…
Another nice piece of irrefutable data demonstrating the UK should always have followed Sweden’s lead ( until Johnson dropped a bollock ) but instead went ahead and cocked everything up in the most ruinous way possible, perfect for being studied in the context of the Covid Inquiry. Yes how will Whitty explain this uncomfortable truth I wonder..
Simple. Put up a chart referring to old data and…
No, wait… That won’t work. The old data doesn’t support the narrative either.
In an alternative universe, Boris Johnson grows a pair, holds the line, Britain stands with Sweden as an example of the huge benefits of maintaining a free society, this has much greater global repercussion – because (sorry Sweden) the UK zagging would have had much more global impact than just Sweden – and Johnson is now the most celebrated national leader in the world with huge popularity ratings.
One would hope that the man deep down came to realise this and decided to commit properly from now on to the free, liberal values he once pretended to espouse.
But I think it’s more likely that he blames his dumpster fire political career on others and in his lowest moment is recruited to be another washed up ex-leader like Blair to prostitute himself for the global oligarchy.
Sometimes a frog…………..
Johnson had no bollocks to drop. A ballless wonder, he proved to be.
If only Johnson had checked the data properly and had the courage to follow Sweden’s lead, both he and our country and many people dying or dead now would be in a much better place. To do that, he would have needed the courage to get rid of the totally incompetent Sage Committee and substitute it with a smaller group of proper scientists who actually had detailed knowledge about viruses and pandemics and could have advised him accurately.
I just hope the massively expensive enquiry into covid identifies how useless the Sage committee were, but I doubt it will. It will only be another waste of time and our money, dishing out another whitewash report submitted far too long after the terrible effects of the government’s disasterous actions have lost their news focus.
BTW, it is not looking good for these five poor people stuck and lost 2.5 miles under the sea in a tiny submersible. The time has just passed that they were estimated to run out of oxygen. It’s down to pure luck now due to the massive search area and no power on the sub. You can get live updates here;
”The British government said Thursday it has dispatched one of its senior submariners, Lt. Cmdr. Richard Kantharia, to assist with the rescue mission.
Kantharia was already embedded in the United States’ Atlantic submarine fleet and joined the rescue effort Tuesday, a spokesperson for No. 10 Downing Street said by email.
Britain is also providing a Boeing C-17 Globemaster aircraft to transport equipment involved with the search.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live-blog/missing-titanic-submersible-live-updates-rcna90538
The epitome of misadventure…
Well it seems like all is lost and luck wasn’t on their side after all. Debris has been found. I assume by this last update that the sub imploded. But as I’m the only person who gives a f*ck, evidently, there’s no need to share the link so whatever…back to masks and jabs it is. Rinse repeat.
Sorry Mogs it is interesting to keep updated, on such matters. But not a great deal of sympathy. If I want to see a graveyard I can wander over to my local church.
They knew the risks …. or should have. I find the idea of paying £hundreds of thousands to examine the scene of a tragedy and what has officially been declared a grave-site of over 1000 people quite ghoulish.
You couldn’t have paid me to get on that submersible.
And how many of these deaths were caused by the vax?
Or Mizadolam.
Or other drugs sold by pharma….
From the BBC article:
Oh FFS! Built a database?
Perhaps they might look at the Human Mortality Database https://www.mortality.org/Data/STMF where they can find weekly mortality data for many countries.
If they like they could look at annual data. Sweden’s goes back to 1751. The UK’s only goes back to 1922 – just after the partition of Ireland. If they tried they might be able to spot some long term trends.
A couple of things to note: China’s data is not covered at all and Russia’s annual data stops in 2014 – perhaps they don’t meet quality (credibility) criteria?
The following chart shows Age-Standardised Mortality Rate (ASMR) for England and Wales (separately) based on the European Standard Population 2013. ASMR is a convenient way of comparing a country with its own history or that of other countries. However, it can also conceal changes in death rates between age groups.
If instead of years based on Jan 1 to Jan 1 we look at mid-year to mid-year years the combined England and Wales chart from 2011-2022 looks like this:
Note the huge dip in mortality in the year to mid-2019 – the so-called ‘dry tinder’. The dark blue solid line shows a made-up adjustment increasing the 2019 figure by 55 and decreasing the 2020 figure by the same amount; it just shows that the low death rate before neatly balances the high death rate during 2020.
The various coloured dotted lines are straight trend lines based on different selections of years. I find the 2011-2022 trend (ie all the data) most convincing.
In a few weeks time we should have the ONS data to end of week 26 of 2023 and I’ll be able to extend the chart by another year.
I’m already getting a sense that the wrong questions are being asked of the wrong people, and the outcome will be simply that we should have locked down sooner, harder, with more facemasks and more vax. Anything else is just not open for discussion. Then the actions for the next ‘pandemic’ are pretty much set in stone, aren’t they.? A sham, if I’m being kind.
The really insulting point about this fake inquiry is that many, many people will draw a good butty from it for many years , all off taxpayers, and for an outcome that any of us on here could write in half a day.
Absolutely sick of it already and because we know the end result I truly CGAF.
Please don’t give up. We must try to get the counter-narrative talked about.
Thanks you but this inquiry is nothing more than a P. take.
Nobody is talking about the “counter narrative” in this inquiry, and save a few diehard sceptics everybody I know believes there was a good pandemic and wants to move on.
I will continue to resist as best I can and give my views when asked, but most people are sheep who will only wake up when the wolf is taking its first bite.
Except that there will be lot of evidence on file, it we make good use of it in the future. There will be a lot of junk, but there could be one or two useful nuggets in due course.
It’s a rabbit hole.
No inquiry is required because there was no pandemic- it’s a figment of the collectively insane imagination triggered by evil people.
The only response required is “prove there was a pandemic”.
Anyway, my objections to lockdowns and all the other crap are not in the first instance practical or empirical but philosophical. I don’t believe any state should have the kind of powers that were exercised, no matter what the supposed emergency, nor do I believe that I should be responsible in any way for other people’s health.
For the MODS- there is a posting problem on the “Elites weaponised” thread.
The pandemic (that never was) ended in June 2020 – as evidenced by ONS weekly deaths. From then on, it was unscientific interventions and restrictions that increased deaths – until January 2021. Then we see the deaths mounting, year on year, due to the dreaded jab.
So we are not comparing ‘pandemic’ mortality which was only 3 months from three years. We are comparing rates of manslaughter.
“We are comparing rates of manslaughter.”
An excellent point.
Interesting that you’ve found some numbers on this issue. They don’t like them on the Beeb News! Another related comparison could be to review the US states independently, rather than cobbling it all together, as there were some States that were more in line with the Swedish attitude – e.g. Florida, and a few others. You’d need to be familiar with the variations in age profile in various US states, especially at that time of year, to make good use of the stats, but it could bolster the view that some of them panicked, like some places on this side of the pond.
The BBC: here are some facts. But we don’t want you to pay any attention to them; here’s some propaganda which we approve of.
Same applies to ALL MSM.
The BBC are a failed lying heap of crap when it comes to its news output, why are we still being effectively forced to pay for it?
What a nasty piece of work is Sridhar. Do us all a favour and go to Africa and count wild monkeys – what you might actually be qualified for.