An event organised by the online magazine TCW Defending Freedom (formerly the Conservative Woman) at the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster on Thursday night was a sellout and attended by over 900 people. It probably brought together under one roof the biggest and most influential group from the U.K. Covid dissent movement. It is notable that all the U.K. mainstream media outlets were invited to attend but were conspicuous by their absence.
Originally, it was due to be hosted by Mark Dolan of GB News, but he unexpectedly had a clashing GB News event which prevented him from attending. There were moans and not a few laughs from the audience when this was announced. Already billed to speak, journalist, podcaster and leading Covid dissenter James Delingpole hosted the evening.
The evening started with the London Premiere of the film Safe and Effective: A Second Opinion (2022) produced by Oracle Films, directed by Philip Wiseman and narrated by John Bowe. The focus of the film is on people who believe they’ve been harmed by the mRNA vaccines, with some moving interviews. The film features some clips of Bill Gates, Boris Johnson and Tony Blair, which were drowned out by booing from the audience.
Following the film, two panel discussions, which were supposed to be followed by Q&A sessions, were hosted by James Delingpole, interviewing members of the panel, while injecting as much humour as possible along with his self-confessed view from “the rabbit hole”. The first panel was comprised of medics including doctors Clare Craig and Ros Jones along with Professor Angus Dalgleish, all of whom have bravely shared their concerns, to much opprobrium, about the wisdom of the Covid vaccine rollout. However, this session was stolen by the much-heralded special guest, former Pfizer Vice-President and respiratory pharmacologist Dr. Mike Yeadon. While the others modestly took to the stage and sat down, Yeadon remained in the wings and was loudly introduced, with much whooping and hollering from the audience, by Delingpole. Yeadon, dressed down in jeans, bounded on to the stage seemingly lapping up the adulation. He has the demeanour of an ageing rock star and if he had turned to a handler at the side of the stage and said “hand me my axe” I would not have been surprised.
That said, he is a very engaging and entertaining speaker. But he spoke for too long, ignored those trying to impose a time limit on him and strayed well off course on to central bank digital currencies (the evening was supposed to be about vaccine harms). Nevertheless, his explanation of how respiratory pandemics, except for the common cold, which is relatively harmless, are impossible and how asymptomatic transmission is an oxymoron were clear, if not universally accepted by those present. Yeadon’s digressions meant that there was no time for the Q&A session.
Mike Yeadon’s approach is interesting; he seems to be ‘all things to all men’ in the Covid debate. An early dissenter regarding the nature of Covid and its dangers, he thus became a darling of the lockdown sceptics. He later turned his attention to the vaccines and became a hot favourite amongst the Covid vaccine sceptics and outright anti-vaxxers. He then aligned himself with the virus sceptics (sometimes described as virus deniers) who do not believe that any viruses exist, let alone SARS-CoV-2, yet he is not a confirmed virus sceptic himself; he told the audience how he had twice had flu – an anathema to the virus sceptics. He also said he reserved the right to be wrong on occasions, which is not a notable trait of the virus sceptics. He made a perhaps telling reference to his time at Pfizer, where he said he won people round by always being well-intentioned even when he was wrong. This may not have been as reassuring as he intended. Referring to his wife, who was in the audience, he told us they had just flown in from Florida which, last time I checked, was still in the USA, where a vaccine passport is required for entry. Far be it from me to cast aspersion, I am merely curious.
The final panel, after which there was a very much attenuated Q&A session, consisted of Right Said Fred, Andrew Bridgen MP, Sir Christopher Chope MP, Revd Calvin Robinson and the cartoonist Bob Moran. Again hosted by James Delingpole, this was a very lively session with both Chope and Bridgen, the latter more vociferously, explaining how dissent over Covid within Parliament was nearly impossible. Bridgen gave a window into the minds of our politicians when he recounted his recent efforts to bring the vaccine safety data to the attention of senior colleagues; one seemed open but said that like thalidomide it would have to come out in 20 years, not now; another simply refused to accept the validity of any data showing harms at all, including coroners’ reports.
Robinson was vitriolic about how the Church of England, in which he trained for ordination, closed its doors during lockdown. Bob Moran just thought he was doing his job as a journalist-cartoonist in deflating the increasingly ridiculous Covid narrative. However, it was his outburst at a doctor which finally cost him his job at the Daily Telegraph. Right Said Fred have had it made very clear to them that a great many acts whom they used to appear alongside now refuse to work with them.
Despite Delingpole’s request for short questions and not life stories, the brief Q&A session was hijacked by several people giving their well-rehearsed views, advertising their own organisations and one woman who even led us in a rendition of the Lord’s Prayer. Since this was the Protestant and not the Roman Catholic version, I was very offended.
Also spotted in the audience were: Piers Corbyn handing out leaflets about his latest conspiracy theories; Robin Tilbrook of the Workers of England Union, a large and jovial figure; comedian and scourge of Aseem Malhotra, Abi Roberts; James Bembridge, Deputy Editor of Country Squire Magazine, conspicuous by his Panama hat; and our own Will Jones, Editor of the Daily Sceptic. Kathy Gyngell and her team at TCW Defending Freedom should be well pleased with this event.
Dr. Roger Watson is Academic Dean of Nursing at Southwest Medical University, China. He has a PhD in biochemistry.
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No scientist would ever use the term climate emergency, it’s entirely political.
Or utter the word “consensus”.
Consistently excellent articles from Mr Morrison.
Very interesting. Thank you very much.
I’m 61.
If the climate had changed since I was a nipper I’m sure I’d have noticed .
I am going tobe 62 this month and I cant see any difference either !!
Same here, early ’60s … climate hasn’t changed in my lifetime.
Mid 60’s and ditto.
Mid ’70s and ditto
Same here. Over the years, there have been quite a few weather events, but climate variation appears to be normal. I can just about remember one winter, which must have been 1962/3, and summer 1976, and a few others. Many of the changes where I live are more to do with urban development, not meteorological changes, though – e.g. minimum temperature on cold nights.
“In fact, a slightly warmer and wetter planet and a little extra CO2 seem to have done wonders for global crop yields.”
Huh? But the crops are all dying. Ah wait.. they’re banning fertiliser to create food shortages they can blame on the ‘climate emergency’. I get it now.
When they say they want to get rid of carbon, they mean you and me.
And the rest of life on Earth, it all being carbon-based…
‘Climate Emergency’ has nothing to do with the climate.
I think that should be pretty obvious by now, but it seems 90% of the world is brainwashed with this nonsense, some to the point of it being a religious experience. There are also lots of people who need this to be true because its how they earn their living, or run their business. They aren’t interested in a reasonable case against their beliefs. They didn’t use reason to formulate their beliefs. Reason will not change their thinking.
Then we have the Great Resetters who have to have a nice fat excuse for all the horrors they are foisting on us, and this one is perfect. ‘Save the world..!’ Just let us tax you to the hilt, and I’m sure it will all be alright. What a load of cobblers.
But Greta said –
We MUST note this properly documented observation: That emissivity (the gas property that is supposedly responsible for ‘trapping’ heat) does not trap heat at all. It’s a measure of how fast a gas can absorb heat and is a zero-sum game. If it absorbs faster it also EMITS faster at equilibrium temperature and emissivity is not a factor in that temperature (Kirchoff’s law of thermal radiation – at equilibrium temperature, emission=absorption). See page 14 of the document linked below
That’s the reason there’s no human-forced climate change. Fill the entire atmosphere with Co2 if you like and it won’t make a jot of different to the climate. (Mars is 95% Co2. It can lose 100 degrees of temperature overnight. Why ? Because the atmosphere is THINNER and no Co2 ‘greenhouse effect’ does anything to offset that. It’s atmospheric density that traps heat and the relevant thermodynamic property is SPECIFIC HEAT CAPACITY).
Earth atmospheric Co2 is 4 hundredths of 1 percent !
See this document where it’s all worked out by a gas turbine engineer – someone who actually understands thermodynamics. Observed temperatures are all accounted for without recourse to any Co2 ‘trapping. If you don’t read the whole document at least see PAGE 14:
https://gvigurs.wordpress.com/2019/04/28/the-emperors-new-climate/
So far, so good, but it’s more complex than that. E.g. local temperature is strongly related to wind direction (when there is any), and cloud cover, which reduces thermal loss from the ground after dark, leading to frost. Quite rapid variations like that are noticeable when you are inland far enough, compared with being near the coast.
It’s not more complex than that. The document calculates the two reference temperatures based on the available solar heat flux: surface temperature and atmospheric radiative equilibrium.
These are the “controls” if you like for everything, including the kind of physical phenomena you describe.
The discontinuity in the two reference temperatures is accounted for by physical activity in the tropopause which is analysed in detail in the document which derives the atmospheric temperature lapse rate from first principles and accounts for the existence of the tropopause within which all “weather” (including the phenomena you describe) is to be found.
The radiative equilibrium temperature is then found above the tropopause in the stratosphere which is isothermic (demonstrating the veracity of the equation shown on Page 14). It also notes that the stratosphere is found at the same pressure level on other planets and moons of planets having an atmosphere.
There’s no role for emissivity in all of this – as I say it’s a zero sum game. The constituents of the atmosphere have very little to say, it’s rather about atmospheric thickness (density).
Spot on petro, but tell that to ‘the masses’ who fell for the COVID nonsense, the Lockdown lunacy, the VAX and multi vax farce, the Ukraine Russia war by proxy and on and on and on, and who will continue to worship at the altar of mendacity.
Over time the truth will prevail. It simply isn’t possible to sustain such basic scientific fraud forever because it’s in the interests of everybody (even ultimately the elite “fraudsters”) to take advantage of the real characteristics of natural phenomena. The greenhouse effect is on very thin ice now due to the amount of time past with nothing happening and, in particular, its single point of failure described in that document above.
i.e.
A: the fact that the gas property of “emissivity” is not a factor in the radiative equilibrium temperature and
B: that the atmospheric reference temperatures (surface and atmospheric radiative equilibrium at the stratosphere) can be accounted for without recourse to some voodoo “trapping” effect beyond the heat capacity of said gas
Is the snowball starting to roll downhill? We will know it has when the BBC permits free and open discussion of climate on its airwaves.
It’ll never happen. Hell will never freeze over.
“For the period 1961-2019, maize, rice, soyabean and wheat global average yields are reported to have grown every year by 3.3%, 2.4%, 2.6% and 3.8% respectively.”
source please, Mr. Morrison.
Repeating the good that co2 does in being turned into carbohydrates by plants might eventually get through to people how stupid, – evil, really, – decarbonisation policies are.
limate Crisis In The Australian Alps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz5e-gKV8qI
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The IPCC reports have been misleading for decades. The summaries say that they are “90% confident that human activity is changing the climate” but in all the main studies and reports, a phrase search of ‘90% confidence’ shows that “we are 90% confident that temperature is changing the climate”.
I have been trying to tell anyone who will listen, but am always ignored by those with self interest, or who can’t believe such a simple mistake.
Not a series of documents (the summaries) that have any credibility…
I just looked up this article with the intention of sharing it with a friend, to back up the comments I made last night. Lucky I thought to click through to the source material – the paper now appears with « Retracted » on every page. What has happened? Why was the paper retracted. Not a good look for me.