Early this week, America celebrated National Margarita Day, a joyous occasion marked by a headline in CNN that ran, ‘Why the climate crisis might be coming for your Margarita.’ Of course, this intelligence-insulting story was some made-up scare about the weather affecting ingredients that went into tequila. Welcome to the Heartland climate conference in Orlando, where debunking this kind of nonsense is the order of the day. Introducing the conference, Heartland president James Taylor noted that since 1995, tequila production had increased six-fold, and since 2018 it had doubled.
James Taylor had earlier set the tone for the conference in ‘freedom-loving’ Florida by noting that climate extremists sought a costly and catastrophic transformation of society, justified under the guise of a so-called existential climate crisis. In the name of fighting climate change, activists are driving critically endangered whales to extinction – a major concern in the North Atlantic and blamed on the activities of offshore wind farms, slicing millions of birds and bats each year to death in mid-flight, and blanketing thousands of square miles of pristine lands and shorelines with solar panels and industrial wind farms.
In addition, he drew attention to “sending children of colour to deadly and environmentally devastating rare-earth mining pits, spurring skyrocketing energy costs, taking away gas stoves and other basic household goods, all while surrendering American energy sovereignty to China, Venezuela and rogue regimes in the Middle East”.
The Margarita theme ran throughout the day. “The world’s gone crazy. They saying things I don’t know how,” said Dr. Patrick Moore, the noted ecologist and one of the founders of Greenpeace. Moore left Greenpeace when it became, in his own words, the enemy of civilisation, “and they started peddling junk science for donations”. Moore noted that the Earth had spent the last 500 million years taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. In large parts of the paleoclimate record, when CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere were much higher, there was no link between the gas and rising or cooling temperatures. During the last three interglacial periods over 300,000 years, temperature change preceded CO2 rise by 8,000 years. “Every molecule the Earth puts into the atmosphere, it took out in the first place,” he added.
The Australian geologist Dr. Ian Plimer is another big fan of the life-giving properties of CO2. He suggested that you could count on the hand of a sawmill worker the number of geologists who believe in human-caused climate change. Plimer takes the long view and notes that we are living in boring climatic times. “Climate change is very normal, most of the time it has been warmer and sea levels have been higher,” he added. Over time, the planet’s atmospheric CO2 level has been declining. “It is not a climate crisis, it is a crisis of common sense.” We need more CO2 in the atmosphere, not less, he argued. Life on Earth is expanding, he continued, and we are gaining more species than we are losing. We are not in an extinction event, rather a period of normal species turnover.
Emeritus Professor Richard Lindzen looks to ‘polar amplification’ to provide many of the answers to natural climate change. This involves heat transfers from the tropics, where temperatures remain relatively stable, to the polar regions which show large gains over time. His work leads him to conclude that greenhouse gas warming past certain levels,“remains largely irrelevant”. Lindzen asks how a small change in temperature can imply major climate change? Every aspect of the warming narrative is “faulty”. Alarmists control the budget and provide a simple narrative. “Simplicity is a source of comfort to the scientifically illiterate,” he observes. Activists have learnt from Joseph Goebbels, he says, that a big enough lie becomes the truth.
In the climate activist world, inconsistency does not matter, he continued. The Boston Globe recently reported that a number of local hospitals had broken iced pipes, leading the newspaper to conclude that climate change was affecting health care. Lindzen observed that stupidity seemed to affect the best educated, quoting George Orwell’s famous quote about “some ideas so stupid that only an intellectual believes in them”.
Marc Morano is a well known American broadcaster and author and has recently written a book titled The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown, a title he noted could be changed to The Great Resist. To Morano, the world changed in March 2020 when democracy was brushed aside in the interest of tackling the Covid pandemic. The Left and climate activists were very impressed, says Morano, as to how much could be done by declaring an emergency. He suggests that the climate debate is no longer in the democratic realm, quoting the World Economic Forum assertion, since deleted, that “You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy”, along with the claim that meat will be a “treat”, not a staple.
Anything Covid can do, the activists decided, they could do better. In fact, both parties learnt from each other, with the climate experience providing valuable lessons for virus fanatics. Cancelling climate scientists was replicated during the pandemic, with scientists who challenged the pandemic response being cancelled. NASA’s chief scientist Gavin Schmidt called climate sceptics “sociopaths” – dissenting voices over Covid were similarly smeared. Both climate and Covid activists follow ‘the Science’, which of course is ‘settled’ at any point in time according to the approved version du jour. Both climate and lockdown and vaccine enthusiasts cherry pick data to suit the prepared narrative. Both use models, of course, with Professor Neil Ferguson’s spreadsheet even more hopeless than climate crystal balls. But models spread fear, and both sets of scientists/activists want you to panic. In both cases, restrictions on movement, rationing, along with a billionaire-bought mainstream media peddling the only source of ‘truth’, are all good things.
Another seminal date for Morano was 2016, with the game-changing election of Donald Trump to the U.S. Presidency. Noted Morano, Big Government, Big Tech and Big Media decided that such a thing could not happen again. Weaponising Covid and the weather installs a permanent crisis, and such narratives help secure “complete control”.
Watch this space for more conference reporting. Keen readers can live stream here.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Let’s wait for the “reporting restrictions” on a certain couple of trials starting (or at least planned to) in the next few weeks… Will we even find out details after the case?
In the event of (in my opinion very possible) run on the pound will that be “misinformation” and prohibited?
If we ever manage to get rid of this wholly anti British so-called government vengeance must be wrecked. For all members of the Cabinet, serving and ex the sentence must be life. For Kneel and his clique something worse as befits traitors.
Leftism is like a cancer and we all know the best way of dealing with that.
But… it’s not just Starmer. There are plenty of sanctimonious pecksniffs that would jump on the opportunity to demonstrate their self-righteousness with allegations of harassment.
Starmer should take care… there will be plenty of people willing to take on even Labour luminaries for a careless remark.
Finally, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has said she wants to lower the threshold for the recording of ‘non-crime hate incidents’ (NCHIs)
Tories are the same. Have the same policies.
Thinking will be a crime.
Oh wait, it already is, if you think, or say a silent prayer outside the baby-murder clinic. One of the icons of ‘health care’ and beloved by all.
PC Fascism. All part of the plan.
It can and will.
There are more of us than them and they’re terrified we might understand that fact.
The wokusts have to abolish free-speech because reality refuses to conform to their deranged fantasies. But our problem is not only the formal abolition of free-speech which our anti-white government is carrying out – just as dangerous is the anti-white government’s imposition of Orwellian lies. For example:
Anti-whitism is called “anti-racism”
Conformity to the anti-white agenda is called “diversity”
Exclusion of truth-tellers is called “inclusion”
These lies are framed within the wokusts’ over-arching lie of “equality” – which is a thing that simply doesn’t exist.
For a moment I thought you were reading the Kings Speech!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2KyAUSqqmZY
Nigel Farage’s New Year message filmed at Blenheim Palace. Calm, considered, thoughtful.
Nice place that, went there as a youth.
I wonder if the current Duke of Marlborough was aware that Nigel would be recording his NY message there?
Depends if he was in the public part of the building i suppose.
Thinking about the banter police business in pubs.
Yes some places may become dystopia but only the places you wouldn’t normally go anyway, like airports and chain hotels.
In most decent pubs I suspect the reaction would simply be not to employ the kind of woke twats that could be offended.
“Pubs will have to employ ‘banter bouncers’ to police the conversations of customers to make sure no one is saying anything risqué that could be overheard by a member of staff.”
They really are tying to create a Stasi 2.0 but I would like to see how that works in reality, not that I go to pubs much these days but this can include any public place.
I doubt they can afford them after the Rachel from Accounts budget.
The way to get around this is to defy all of the above. Keep saying are you blind etc and see if they can control our speech.
“ The answer is that Labour wants to criminalise parents and health professionals who deviate in any way from the ‘gender-affirming care’ approach,”
You mean deviate to the Cass Report, that long awaited report, a bit like that Danish study on masks in 2020 that the media didn’t shut up about, until that is the report came out that went against their narrative. After that, radio silence as if they just all forgot to report on its findings. Very convenient.
‘all reasonable steps’
Define reasonable. Defining things is not the forte of the Student Union government. Women? Pass. Working People? Pass.
Never mind, we’ll loath him and his party even more.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/nigel-farage-addresses-the-nation-from-blenheim-palace/
A short precis of Nigel Farage’s New Year speech from Blenheim Palance. The full film of the speech is embedded.
Strong, polite, thoughtful and considered.
“Let’s make Britain Great Again.”
“Pubs will have to employ ‘banter bouncers’ to police the conversations of customers to make sure no one is saying anything risqué that could be overheard by a member of staff….”
The problem here is that the bouncers will also be employees of someone so should also be protected by bouncers who should also be ………..!