Welcome to Orlando, Florida, for the annual gathering of climate science sceptics. You will not hear much about the event in the mainstream press of course since taking a sceptical view of ‘settled’ climate science is akin in such quarters to denying the Holocaust. But the expertise gathered represents many hundreds of years investigating all aspect of the climate and the atmosphere. Not only will the science be placed under the microscope (where it properly belongs), but the disastrous political plunge into a Net Zero catastrophe will be a major topic of conversation. The title of the two-day event asks: “The True Crisis: Climate Change or Climate Policy?”
The conference is organised by the U.S. think tank, the Heartland Institute, which states that it takes a “data-driven realistic approach to climate science”. It argues that the scientific method must be restored and the alarmist narrative broken. It asks: “Why are we making life poorer and more miserable for most people on the planet when there is no climate crisis?”
The Daily Sceptic is covering the event and I shall be sending back news reports. Among the important U.S. politicians attending are Republican Ron Johnson, a member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and Rep. Lauren Boebert, a member of the House Resources Committee. Worth catching will be former Trump Administration appointee Steve Milloy. He is a man who pulls few punches and is the founder of Junk Science, an online publication that is said to defuse “faulty scientific data used to advance special and often hidden agendas”. He will give a presentation titled, “Net Zero is Unachievable and Will Kill People”.
Marc Morano is a well known speaker and broadcaster and founded the Climate Depot site. He recently wrote a book titled: The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown. He is expected to expand on his work which is described as “the antidote to the Left’s sinister push to use a worldwide crisis to infuse our lives with the values of colossal statism and dystopian self-hatred, all accelerated by the duplicitous manipulation of the recent pandemic”.
Energy realism is set to take centre stage in a session titled, “What it Takes to Power Our Modern Society”. Speakers included Ronald Stein, who recently wrote a book titled Clean Energy Exploitations: Helping Citizens Understand the Environmental and Humanity Abuses That Support Clean Energy, and Alex Epstein, author of the NYT best-selling book on the moral case for fossil fuels. Epstein’s presentation is titled, “Global Human Flourishing Requires Much More Energy”.
Always a box office draw is Dr. Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace, who is due to speak in a session titled, “Killing Agriculture to Save the Planet”. Moore helped run Greenpeace for 15 years when it argued against the testing and proliferation of nuclear weapons, but left when it turned its attention to green political agitation. “Net Zero is Killing Whales and Betraying the Purpose of Greenpeace,” is his chosen subject.
As regular readers will recall, Moore is known for drawing attention to the dramatic fall in levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide over geological time. He argues that it is currently at dangerously low levels, and more of the gas in the atmosphere would be highly beneficial to life on Earth. Another scientist taking a similar view is Australian geologist Professor Ian Plimer, who will give a keynote science address. Again, as regular readers will note, Plimer is known for demanding to see the evidence that human-caused CO2 is responsible for all or most recent global warming. If there was a single credible science paper that proved the hypothesis, you would not hear the last of it, he says. There isn’t one, only a deafening silence, he adds. All the Gretas beware, Plimer points out that much of the climate hysteria on display in public forums from the UN to the school classroom is due to the dumbing down of the educational system over the last 50 years.
Of course, the silence over proof is filled by climate models. Energy scientist Dr. Tom Sheahen will explain the need to apply the scientific method to modelling. A complex climate model is a collection of hypotheses, based on assumptions, he notes. Physics Professor Howard Hayden will point out the “glaring numerical inconsistency” between the IPCC’s AR-6 climate models and “physical reality”. Economist Ken Haapala will discuss the impact of IPCC’s continuing errors.
Two eminent meteorologists will be “taking the temperature of global temperatures”. Anthony Watts has spent a decade examining the siting of U.S. weather stations, and recently concluded that U.S. temperatures have been “hopelessly corrupted”. Again, regular readers will recall we have covered his research in detail, along with recent work from Dr. Roy Spencer and Professor John Christy that shows massive urban heat corruptions. Joe Bastardi of WeatherBell will look at the effect of oceans on global temperatures. This subject is likely to attract interest since many scientists argue that latitudinal heat transfers, rather than any future warming by CO2 (human or otherwise), hold the key to understanding many of the complex interactions in a chaotic atmosphere.
Watch this space. Keen readers can also follow the conference live, here.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Our government and our bureaucracy is compromised and has lost its legitimacy.
All we have now are dictators lording it over the population.
Collapse is coming and there is going to be a lot of suffering.
I’m afraid we just need to accept it and prepare.
A bloody revolution is looming.
NEIL: What do you mean, revolution?
RICK: Blood runs! Flags wave! Come on, everybody, throw down your tools and knock down the barricade. Come on, run into the Winter Palace. Run into the Winter Palace and stand on tables, waving bits of paper at each other! Yes! Yes!! Hello, are you the Czar?
Yes, I am, actually. [points a finger] Bam bam! Tough luck, fascist!!
I wish.
Bloody revolutions! I hope there’ll be no ‘reign of terror’. Oh, wait…
“Once again, the Covid pandemic and its response have shone a harsh light on British democracy, and revealed it to be in a dilapidated state indeed.”
On modern British culture as much as on British democracy, I think.
And, even more depressingly, on the bulk of the British population.
It helps when you get a State Governor providing legal protection against this sort of thing. However court cases have now been heard in a growing number of States and some Courts have ruled that non-elected officials cannot make these ‘rules’ that affect citizens in profound ways. No doubt a lot if most of this will trundle its way up to the Supremes but at least its been halted for now. One can only hope that the Supremes do the right thing by enforcing the rulings across the nation.
This is why Fuelmich knows that its only class actions in the US that will work. Europe is far too far gone to have any chance of a fair hearing. He thinks the same of the UK, unfortunately he is probably correct.
Well, they’ve been intent on diluting British culture and nationality for decades. I had a look at the long list of MPs recently and was shocked by the number who are from a different cultural background. Many of them shouldn’t be there – different history, different values. We want to be led by our own people.
It is evil. Period.
What exactly is “resultant harm?” Where do these idiots get such nonsense?
If they mean death then perhaps they should point out forcefully that resultant harm has not led to the deaths of any school children who do not have severe comorbidities and the worst case scenario for “resultant harm” might mean a few children needing a couple of weeks off school.
The Director of Public Health is another rotten bastard.
I worked in social care, meeting up with NHS nurses and managers years ago. What struck me was there is no NHS, but hundreds of local Trusts who had huge power, appointed their old colleagues to positions of significant renumeration and control, and were not it seemed answerable to anyone.
Meetings were held. Something fairly simple that could take half a dozen people on the ground to resolve in 15 minutes would take 2 hours, due to the management class. Someone would always raise an objection at 1 hour 58 minutes. Solution? Let’s table in another meeting next month, I’ll get my PA to arrange. Cheers! That’s £150 earned for doing sweet F.A. for the patients!
Ask anyone who works in the NHS and they will tell you it is a completely dysfunctional organisation.
One thing is putting up with dysfunction. But a whole different thing is having to worship it and sacrifice your life (in the broadest sense) for it.
It’s not just the NHS, councils operate in exactly the same way.
And all other state run organisations. When you don’t have to earn the money you don’t give a toss about wasting it
Correct, but it’s also true about large corporations in general, whether they are private or nationalised. Been though all three of those, over the years. Time for a psychologist to comment on, maybe.
As an experienced patient near the geographical border between different “Trusts”, I’m well aware of the internal politics of it all. They can say: “we’ve called another meeting, so something has been done”, and so on
Major work going on in the USA right now to counter this. Time we got organised and mobilised here.
With pointed sticks?
I have a mask exemption card.
Will not wear a mask.
I realise that using the exemption card is a kind of compromise.
The moral thing to do is just not to comply. Period.
“I realise that using the exemption card is a kind of compromise.”
Indeed, it is exactly that – a crutch for those who need it. But better to walk with a crutch than not bother to walk at all.
I agree. It also is a visible talking point – if you see someone seriously physically struggling, it may be worth showing them, an easy indicator if they are open to discussion.
Use the card if you have to. If some vile little Hitler insists.
Never offer it.
I won’t be offering any cards or any explanation. I won’t even engage in conversation, I will simply barge past and go about my “irreversible” business
I’m still on the fence if I will wear it this time or not. I’m worried about the potential fines.
The fines from the last lot were not legal and nobody paid them.
I’m not wearing a face nappy any more.
Was asked at the supermarket entrance yesterday if I needed one and replied firmly ‘No, I’m exempt’. End of. Today I was at the checkout behind a mum with a toddler and she turned round and gave me the most beautiful smile – a vital part of human interaction. Meanwhile the brainwashed and brain dead meekly complied with more useless diktats from the Johnson junta.
As Dr MrGrogan is a professor at Northumbria Law School he is well placed to answer his own question. Why is it that these measures have not been challenged in court and the officials making them not sued for damages?
Because that’s time-consuming and expensive and pretty much guaranteed to end with some judge declaring himself incompetent on the matter as this is all about a terrible pandemic to government has to manage according to itself. People have tried that before.
Spot on! Especially when it comes to enforced face nappy wearing. When they were first bought in they were to encourage people to go retail shopping. If mandatory face nappy wearing is now specifically brought in to supposedly stop transmission and infection then surely they become medical devices, the use of which would require informed consent.
This what the Government says:
What makes a medical mask a Class 1 medical device?
Regulatory status of equipment being used t…http://www.gov.uk/guidance/regulatory-status-of-e
The judiciary is corrupt and will be of no use in what is now literally a fight for survival. Covid was always all about the vaccines and the vaccines are all about genocide. Now roll up your sleeve, you need your omicron booster.
Here we go, another round of mass hysteria
Fuck, these people are thick
As stated the other night, I’ve given up on them.
Lemmings.
The British at play:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdo5LMrWedM
My youngest daughter is doing her teacher training and is working with 5 year olds (year 1). She said they’re so far behind with reading, writing and numeracy it’s scary. She says if they don’t catch up this year then they’ll struggle in the future just to do the basics in life. She says they have to flag concerns up but nothing is ever done by the teacher in charge of the class. It’s scary to think that tens of thousands of kids futures will be screwed up by a virus that had no impact on them whatsoever apart from what the government has placed on them. Sickens me to the core.
What do totalitarians want more than another generation of morons?
This is why (amongst numerous other reasons) I take part in demonstrations, refuse to wear a face-nappy, participate in a prayer group, tear down notices and generally make a nuisance of myself.
Three things the Lord hates, yea four: false scales, a lying tongue, a haughty countenance and tyrannical, oppressive regimes.
Nah. This is the will of the collective ‘Lord’.
This is part of the plan. The aim is to produce school leavers so badly educated that they will believe any crap put out by MSM on behalf of the government. Not only that but the children also have to be gibbering wrecks.
If children remain uneducated, they are less likely, as adults, to have the ability to judge whether or not they are being treated fairly, or to compare their situation with other people’s, both currently and in the past, and make judgements about it.
Having said that, both China and North Korea (for example) are hot on education.
I said to my husband the other day I can see the time coming when the only country in the world will be China and the only shop will be Amazon.
It’s not the virus that is screwing them up, it’s the government
A friend of a friend teaches reception class. She said that when the kids came back to school they had seriously regressed in terms of development, wearing nappies, reduced social skills. I think many kids got locked up in their homes (during an incredibly hot spring) while parents who couldn’t work at home went out to work. Probably the same for the elderly living at home. It’s criminal.
Absolutely none of this makes any sense any more unless one looks at it from the perspective of it being a depopulation agenda. I can’t actually believe I am writing that but it honestly feels like the only possible reason for the complete lack of logic around the decisions now being made.
There are a few hopeful people who still blog that it appears as a sustained outbreak of mass hysteria, heaped upon previous hysteria, which becomes self-fulfilling, especially among politicians who don’t have a clue what mRNA is.
However, there are always opportunitsts if not conspirators hanging around. Talking of this, watch Astrid Stueckelberger’s videos describing Gates’s/GAVI’s empire-building in Geneva. She used to be high up in WHO but became a whistleblower.
How can a DP agenda succeed if Africa, the most rapidly-growing continent, is only ~25% jabbed? If the death rate in developed countries rises by say 30-50%, too many people would start to smell a rat.
I’m expecting Youtube to take down John Campbell’s video where he mentions quite a sharp rise in the risk of heart disease. (Campbell is trusted by ‘believers’ too so surely they’ll now smell a rat.)
I believe the slaughter in non western nations will be brought about by mass starvation. Part of this entire Reset is the elimination of fossil fuel use, which has a massive effect on nitrogen fertilizer production. Our global population cannot be sustained without the industrial scale farming we have (think huge farms in the Midwest US). Crop yields for next year are already predicted to be alarmingly low.
Well you are right. The agenda is depopulation.
And yet, overall mortality is running at near normal levels. Must be an awful slow-burning fuse. Power, on the other hand has been taken in great dollops, and very rapidly.
And always was.
The last paragraph is the crucial one :
“Once again, the Covid pandemic and its response have shone a harsh light on British democracy, and revealed it to be in a dilapidated state indeed.”
The UK has basked for so long in its historical myths, most of which are of the same substance as the Round Table when held up to the light.
When a concerted totalitarian putsch comes along, the country is defenceless in the face of massive overreach of bureaucratic power. Thus the innocuous by-way of Public Health – tremendously important in a proportionate and proper context – has become a raving monster with no constraints, promoting a caricature of ego-preening and significance seeking. And few recognized the constitutional flaws that made it possible.
We’ve taken >>60 years to reach this state, culminating in this massive outbreak of severe and chronic safety-ism. How to cure safety-ism – a course of ivermectin tablets …?!
It’s very interesting that we have such an insane culture of safety, as you mentioned. Mandatory seat belts, smoking bans, kids can’t walk to school, no one can eat peanuts in a school if one kid is allergic, the list is endless.
And yet in regards to everything involving this new ‘vaccine,’ all of that safety obsession is thrown directly out the window.
New technology never successfully used in humans? Who cares?
Giving these drugs to populations they were never tested on (pregnant women, COVID recovered patients, etc)? Everyone gets it!
Injecting literally every single human on the planet with no regards to previous medical conditions? What are you, a conspiracy theorist?
Already established databases for safety monitoring (VAERS, Yellow Card, etc) that are completely ignored and disregarded? Nothing unusual here, totally normal.
It’s so insane and so reckless that it cannot possibly be anything other than malevolent.
Spot on mm1741!
“Caruthers thanks for attending. We have a mission for you”
“Of course Sir”
“We want you to take something to deepest darkest Africa, well Botty to be exact”
“Ah dear old Botty”
“Before you leave pop into Porton Down and Miss Moneypenny will insert something in your anus”
“Spiffing, Is it still the elephant polo season down there”
“Caruthers there are no fucking elephants in Wiltshire, get a grip. Make sure you get a PCR test before you get on the plane back. Christmas depends on it”
(On news that the Botswana omnicrap was first detected in a British diplomat returning to the UK)
How come the JVCI is approving a second dose for kids when they refused to approve a 1st one?
It’s a competition with Whitty – to see who is the fastest to approve it!
Some dissenting opinion-holders were pushed from their sinecures for thought crimes.
The photo of the article shows how kids are being trained to adapt to prison life.
Do you remember the footage from Romanian childrens’ homes after the communist regime fell? The children rocking in their beds? That will be this generation soon.
Yes, terrible. And right at the start of this pandemic a little Chinese girl playing with toys inside her own secure plastic bubble. Absolute evil.
Today a German “law expert” is discussing imprisonment of those who reject vaccination, comparing to 1 year prison sentence for DUI.
Well if there’s a double indemnity clause it might not be so bad… one year and then you are free!
On the otherhand I think it’ll probably look more like a one year stint at Auschwitz.
Today a general was nominated to lead the new German government’s corona “crisis” team. Seriously, you can’t make this up, we will soon have the chancellor following orders of a military guy here.
If you ever need a good example of how the BBC is just a propaganda arm of this fascist government, check out what they say about face coverings. It’s a ‘mask fest’.
BBC News: Omicron: How are rules for face coverings and masks being tightened?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-51205344
Dear me, triple layers of cloth and a chicken wire round the nose, and pigs will arrest us all if we don’t comply!
Bring it on, first person to challenge me will be bowled over aggressively
They’re still missing something important: For this to be of any effect, all men visiting shops must be clean-shaven tomorrow. Wearing a mask over a beard is exactly the same as wearing a loose-fitting mask.
Source: Navy gas mask drill when I was in the military (conscript in the German navy). People were allowed to have beards there. But in order for a gas mask, ie, one designed to filter harmful stuff and not just to look silly on the face of a Chinese person, to be effective, the beard must be drenched with vaseline (or similar) to ensure an airtight fit.
I simply can’t watch anything on BBC. That’s it!
I would like to ask how you came to receive this email telling you that the Nativity Play was to be cancelled so promptly first thing on a Monday via the school when this so called variant announced only a couple of days before over a weekend. Looks to me as though well planned in advance just waiting for the go ahead.
The photograph of the children sitting in their chalked in squares reduced me to tears. I saw the same for my American great nephew in the US but even worse as he had to wear a mask as a three year old at nursery school.
https://twitter.com/UsforThemUK/status/1465029150914355209
https://usforthem.co.uk/resources/template-letters/
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Dear
Re: Face coverings. NAME AND FORM
I am writing to let you know that my child NAME is not able to wear a face covering. Therefore as stated in the most recent government guidance on face coverings (20th July 2021) is not required to wear one. There are a wide variety of reasons people are exempt from wearing face coverings and it is unlawful to request proof of exemptions. This means that NAME will not be required, or able, to wear a face covering at school, at any time.
I would appreciate it if you and other staff could ensure they are not made to feel uncomfortable or singled out because they are unable to wear a face covering.
Kind regards
There Are Now 365 Studies that Prove the Efficacy of Ivermectin and HCQ in Treating COVID-19. Any hospital administrator who mandated the shots to employees to comply with the government mandate for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and who refused to allow alternative treatments to be tried, doctors who pushed their patients to take the EUA drug without giving fully informed consent, anyone who forcefully administered the shot, the AMA, AAP, Boards of Health, CDC, FDA, NIH, WHO, scientists who participated in the development, Big Pharma (Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, Astra Zeneca, et.al.), anyone who pushed the sick into nursing homes resulting in deaths, all must be arrested, prosecuted, tried and if found guilty sentenced to prolonged imprisonment and fines or death for intentional homicide. Get your ivermectin before it is too late! https://ivmpharmacy.com
A stupid policy to try and stop transmission among healthy people at low risk, excessive compulsive sanitation is one of the biggest problems in Britain today.
The Devon Director of Public Health has a BSc in sports science and a hypnotherapy qualification.
At least we know how he got the job.
If you really want this to be over, pull your children out of any school that re introduces masks, distancing, and continues with testing and exclusion. They learn very little of value at school these days so a few weeks off leading up to Christmas will not harm, and if enough parents stop their children from going to school then the teachers might just wake up. Its worth a try because carrying on will mean more of the same forever
Great if they could but tell that to my niece who has to go out to work every day as the small business she was running from home had to close down in the summer thanks to all the restrictions. There must be millions like her who are not able to take kids out of school, no matter how much they’d like to.
True but… nothing worthwhile ever came easy. Instinct should be to protect your child at any cost. That means admitting there really is an issue. Many can’t accept the harm that really is being done to children. Assuming there is. If not…well.
The appointment of all sorts of senior officials in any organisation is essentially “opaque”, whether the organisation is commercial or governmental. Looking on the bright side, they are often competent at the task in hand compared with elected politicians. No-one votes for the Borough Solicitor, or the Planning Officer and so on. One of the major factors is that fashions come, and fashions go, whatever the field of competence is – e.g. planning, highway development – maybe even public health. Many professions tend to move in lockstep, as it were, as well.
“Whilst it is clear that the vaccination programme is effective in preventing serious disease and deaths,”
I’m sick of seeing the above unquestioningly quoted, i’ve read quite widely, articles from doctors, epidemiologists, statisticians etc. and there is simply no hard evidence to support this.