Countless mainstream media programmes now incorporate extremist green climate propaganda into their output, seemingly without any desire to question the most outlandish and improbable statements. Last Monday’s Start the Week on BBC Radio 4 provides a case study in how fiction is mixed with cherry-picked fact, doused in error-ridden political Net Zero propaganda and presented as a learned contribution to our understanding of how the climate is breaking down. Not to put too fine a point on it, the whole affair was a one-sided, misinformed muddle.
As extreme weather becomes more frequent, are we out of kilter with nature, asked presenter Kirsty Wark. The question was rhetorical since in the same sentence she adds, “How and why did it happen and could we humans drive a climate catastrophe?” But extreme weather is not becoming more frequent. All that seems to have happened is that the BBC, like most mainstream media, has started catastrophising every bad weather event. Last year, four leading Italian scientists published a joint review of historical climate trends and concluded that declaring a ‘climate emergency’ was not supported by the data.
During the course of their work, the scientists found that rainfall intensity and frequency is stationary in many parts of the world. Tropical hurricanes and cyclones show little change over the long term, and the same is true of U.S. tornadoes. Other meteorological categories including natural disasters, floods, droughts and ecosystem productivity show no “clear positive trend of extreme events”.
The BBC programme featured three guests to help Wark “convey the story and impact of climate”. They were the Oxford historian Professor Peter Frankopan, Professor Dame Jane Francis, Director of the British Antarctic Survey, and climate fiction author Jessie Greengrass.
Frankopan noted that we were living in a world of “cascading effects”, asked how we have reached a point of “existential threat” and suggested we are living through an ongoing “mass extinction”. One can’t help wondering if students in a Frankopan history tutorial would be welcome to ask questions along the lines, what cascading effects and what existential threats? This fear-mongering is just repeating activist opinions, and there is little in the scientific evidence to back it up. As to the ‘mass extinction’ trope, trotted out constantly on the mainstream media, the evidence suggests something completely different. The bedrock extinction scare comes from the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London, who made the improbable claim that vertebrates across the planet have declined by 69% since 1970. But a group of Canadian biologists recently showed that the figure was a statistical freak. They revealed that the estimate is driven by 2.4% of wildlife populations, adding, “If these extremely declining populations are excluded, the global trend switches to an increase.”
Antarctica scientist Jane Francis said the climate was changing fast and we needed to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. To back up her observations, she referred to the Antarctica ice core explorations, noting correctly that air bubbles gave an accurate indication of the past atmosphere. From this and other elements present in the ice can be deduced both temperature and the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere going back 800,000 years. But Francis gave no further details, possibly because the ice core drilled at Vostok suggests that temperatures often rise ahead of CO2 levels.
A seminal science paper in 1999 (Petit et al.) concluded that CO2 lagged temperature during the onset of glaciation by several thousands of years. The above graph shows that over many periods, particularly during the current Holocene, temperature and CO2 levels are not in general lockstep. A more plausible observation might be that naturally rising temperatures lead to higher levels of CO2 as gas is released from across the Earth’s surface.
There were a number of contributions correctly billed as fiction from the author Jessie Greengrass, who invoked Noah’s Ark in a new book called The High House. It features the heroine who leaves her family because she is so worried about the climate that she wants to make a difference on a global scale. There were no further details about making this global difference, although it might not be a surprise if it included shouting very loudly and gluing herself to stuff. Like Noah, Greengrass is also worried about floods and is concerned about Pacific islands (most of them increasing in size at last looking) and England, which she suggested could be a “spine’”in future.
But enough fiction, back to the fiction. Professor Francis was worried about extreme weather “which we have created”, referencing the recent hurricane in Mississippi with the suggestion that such events have become “more frequent and worse”. Regrettably, a couple of small errors crept into these statements, namely that it was a tornado that hit Mississippi, not a hurricane, and far from getting worse, the recent record has got better.
Of course Francis is in good company in claiming black is white so far as U.S. tornadoes are concerned. Penn State meteorologist Michael Mann claims that the latest science “indicates that we can expect more of these huge (tornado) outbreaks because of human-caused climate change”, while Jennifer Francis, a scientist at Woodwell Climate Research Center, told the Guardian that climate change was “making some of the ingredients needed to create an outbreak like this more likely”.
Author Greengrass concluded that we needed to communicate about climate change “in every way we can to every possible audience about what is happening”. There is nothing wrong with the BBC trying to make interesting programmes with interesting people having a lively debate about newsworthy topics. But on climate change, the appalling decision made years ago to avoid debating the so-called ‘settled’ but unproven science narrative means that almost any crackpot green opinion and agitprop can be broadcast without any attempt made to inquire into its validity. This sterile approach should be left to the wilder reaches of social media, and cannot justify imposing a hefty licence charge on everyone in the U.K. owning a terrestrial TV receiver.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Islamic scholar, writer and Muslim apostate Ibn Warraq makes basically this point in his recent interview with Winston Marshall.
He uses a pseudonym to protect both himself AND his family from what he says is likely retribution if he revealed his real name.
Islam is a religion which uses violence and the threat of violence to maintain power. It appears that Keir Stalin approves of that. Can’t think why …. except it’s also the method used by secular Communists and Fascists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psHAiQyAeIw&t=3s
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free enquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.
The above is a quote from Christopher Hitchens’ book, “god is not Great, How Religion Poisons Everything”.
One can perhaps argue that Christianity in the western world has been coerced to align itself more to modern values, but the basis is still there is only one God and it is better not to take the more violent passages in the bible too seriously. And the Muslims believe there is only one Allah and the Buddhists believe there is only one Buddha. Essentially, they are all the same.
FALSE! “Allah” is not Arabic, but a Sanskrit word for Kali-Allah.
Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus & Buddhists all worship KALI-ALLAH, “THE MOTHER GODDESS OF ALL INDIA”, the Moon Spider Goddess of Death, whose Toyboy is Shiva=Satan the Moon god of Destruction, whose symbol is the CRESCENT MOON & STAR featured on the flags of most Islamic countries.
Our Heavenly Father, Almighty God, Creator of Heaven & Earth, has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE DEPRAVED MOON SPIDER KALI-ALLAH, who is worshipped by millions pointing their backsides to Heaven as they bow down to her & Satan in Hell.
The Black Cube of Mecca is built directly over a Hindu temple to Kali-Allah, the apsidal wall foundation of which can still be seen projecting from one side of the Kaaba at ground level. Have a look yourselves.
Get it through your heads, people.
“The Unholy Muslim-Marxist Alliance” has been described for many years. It has also been called “The Red-Green Alliance”.
So many ex-Muslims on Twitter, which really underscores the importance of keeping this platform as a haven for free speech, despite the amount of trolls, bots and general haters who infest the place. It’s the ex-Muslims who are the biggest, most scathing critics of Islam because they’ve lived it and can speak from personal experience, their stories often harrowing.
One of many that I hugely respect for their courage and determination is Yasmine Mohammed, who was forcibly married off to an Al-Qaeda terrorist at a young age, endured years of abuse and subsequently had a daughter with him. She didn’t want the same life for her daughter so she eventually escaped abroad and is living under a false name and is now helping others in a similar predicament. You can find out more in this 10min vid;
https://x.com/YasMohammedxx/status/1787845226049974630
This article omits an important, if rather inconvenient, fact. In classical Islam (the kind we’re now sadly familiar with), the ultimate penalty for leaving is death.
From personal experience,I have a friend who converted to Christianity over 40 years ago. A relative pronounced a fatwa for apostasy.
He escaped and has managed to live an extremely productive life.
His story started me on my long journey of ‘Islamophobia’. Being on a Tube train on 7/7 and stuck in a tunnel with my wife thinking I had been killed strengthened that conviction. Having a friend murdered by an Islamic terrorist added to it.
Islam is the most utterly hateful theology in the world and I will never bow to our thought Police over this.
Or for not being a muslim.
Infidels are put to the sword.
It was how Europe was conquered by the Moors.
At that time ~711 AD Europe included North Africa but not now after the Moors over ran it and conquered Sicily and most of Spain to establish a Caliphate which lasted 700 years into the 15th Century with some incursions into France.
It also means Palestine was not in Muslim hands until over 700 years after the birth of Christ and so means Jewish peoples have the better claim.
Is there anything that anyone can type here that would not be classed as “Hate Speech” by Oberst Starmerbanfuhrer? It is better though when it comes from Muslims themselves because then the left have no race card to play, and no equality and diversity to chuck at us for pointing out the bleedin obvious.
Ranks with Sturm in the title:
Commissioned Officer Ranks
SS-Ober Sturm Bann Führer = Lieutenant Colonel
SS-Sturm Bann Führer = Major
SS-Haupt Sturm Führer = Captain
SS-Ober Sturm Führer = Lieutenant
SS-Unter Sturm Führer = 2nd Lieutenant
NCOs
SS-Sturm Schar Führer = Sergeant- Major
https://www.oradour.info/appendix/ssrank01.htm
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Sturmführer ([ˈʃtʊʁm.fyːʀɐ], “storm leader”) was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party which began as a title used by the Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1925 and became an actual SA rank in 1928. Translated as “storm leader or assault leader”, the origins of the rank dated to the First World War when the title of Sturmführer was used by leaders of German shock troops and special action companies.[1]
By 1930, Sturmführer had become the lowest commissioned officer (CO) rank of several Nazi Party paramilitary organizations, including the SA.[2] The title was also used as an SS rank until 1934 when, after the Night of the Long Knives, the SS renamed the rank Untersturmführer,[3] equivalent to a junior or second lieutenant (OF-1b) in the army. Other variations of Sturmführer included Obersturmführer and Hauptsturmführer, ranks paralleling an army first lieutenant and captain respectively.
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Sturmf%C3%BChrer
Possibly the most baleful legacy of the civil madness, is that it’s become acceptable to criminalise speaking the truth.
Sorry, covid madness.
In my 1st year at university we had a muslim lad from Leicester who’d become a Jehova’s Witness. It was pretty grim, cousins kept driving up from Leicester to try & drag him back. He wandered around petrified. A big price to pay to join another weird religion, though i think all religions are weird.
He didn’t return after for the 2nd term, I’ve no idea what happened to him but the whole episode was very distressing.
So who’s paying for her to go to university?
Lucky she can be sure she will never be thrown into prison for putting online photos of illegal immigrant Muslim men landing on English beaches, even though they do this every day.
I look forward to research projects interviewing Working Class English Men & Boys, giving their honest views about Mass Third World Immigration.
Speaking of which, news of yet another appalling betrayal of them today: this time an English pensioner, whose one-man, years-long peaceful protest against Third World immigration at a local cenotaph attracted the attention of a Third World Millionaire with political ambitions and a grudge against Farage. The Millionaire reportedly “encouraged” an Englishman to befriend the pensioner and persuade him to go on hunger-strike. Said Millionaire then offered to bring the frail, weakened pensioner to London to meet him, and arranged a tv news interview, in which the pensioner thanked the Millionaire, and vowed to continue his hunger strike even unto death, in defence of British women and children who had suffered so many attacks and sexual harassment from illegal aliens over the years.
Well. I guess in Labour’s rule book a few thousand ex-Muslims living in fear, being intimidated or threatened is a price well worth paying for such a generally useful and immensely versatile tool for controlling and censoring the population as the idea of islamophobia.
Wait a minute— is the author actually assuming that everyone reading his research article will approve and sympathise with the Muslim Sodomite woman, calling her parents “abusive” for feeling a natural revulsion for Sodomy, and trying to stop her from engaging in Sodomy with other women???
Notice that her parents never threatened to throw her off any high buildings, a punishment reserved for only the VICTIMS of Sodomite rape.
The Bible is very clear about Sodomy, a very useful English word covering all the categories of LGBTwhatever, except for Paedophilia.
Sodomy means unnatural sexual relations between Males with Males, Females with Females, and Humans with Animals. And that is why God destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Old Testament.
This is crystal clear for all Christians of any denomination, and for all Jews who adhere to the Torah, which includes the first five books of the Old Testament, and the Talmud.
And yet, strangely, the very first Sodomite Marriage ceremonies in Britain were held in Jewish synagogues, by Jewish rabbis.
People need to understand that Sodomy is just another SOUL TRAP.
Our government is in the hands of the UKs national socialist party.
It is the Left and Far Left vs the White and Far White.
Good article. Except Atheism is not a religion. It is an absence of religious beliefs.
That is agnosticism.
Atheists believe there is/are no God(s).
Agnostics don’t give a shit either way.
I can’t resist a quotation from Winston Churchill, in his 1899 book The River War:
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism places on its votaries ! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful, fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensuality deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread through Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”
Awesome.