Increasing numbers of commentators are starting to call peak Net Zero and this process is being helped by the crumbling of the decades-long suffocating stranglehold exerted on ‘settled’ climate science by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The latest body-blow to its credibility has come from last year’s joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, Dr John Clauser. He has warned the Nobel Foundation not to model a proposed new body to police ‘misinformation’ on the IPCC, adding: “In my opinion the IPCC is one of the worst sources of dangerous misinformation.” It would seem unhelpful that at a time when Clauser voiced his criticism, the UN’s Secretary General headed for a public stage and upgraded global warming to “global boiling”.
Of course, by ramping up the fear to ‘boiling’ point, the unhinged Antonio Guterres has fallen into the ‘worse than Hitler’ trap. Where can you go after you call someone a Nazi, or tell a world audience that the Earth is bubbling beneath its feet?
Details have recently been made public about the short speech Clauser gave to young scientists in South Korea. He implored them to follow the scientific method based on good observations and experiments. Good observations always overrule purely speculative theory, he told them. Referring to climate science, he noted the current world was “literally awash, saturated, with pseudoscience, with bad science, with scientific misinformation and disinformation”.
Referring often to climate science, he told his audience that if they are doing good science they must beware since it may take them on paths that lead them into “political incorrect” areas. “If you’re a good scientist, you will follow them… I can confidently say that there is no real climate crisis and that climate change does not cause extreme events,” he said.
Easier said than done of course since most scientists are funded in one form or another by governments. In the area of climate, politicians require scientific backing for their collectivist plans to re-order society around Net Zero. Huge amounts of public money are flowing into untested, unproductive new technologies, few of which would be viable in a free capital market. Green subsidy hunters are making serious fortunes with little risk involved. The climate narrative is absurd, says MIT Emeritus Professor Richard Lindzen, but trillions of dollars says it is not absurd.
There are a number of fault lines that run through the IPCC science narrative. It maintains that all changes in the climate since 1900 are caused by humans burning fossil fuel. This is plainly odd since it asks us to ignore almost all natural variation, having accepted that natural causes were responsible for climate change in the past. It also suggests that the current period in the Earth’s history is the hottest for 125,000 years, ignoring copious evidence that temperatures were much higher in the Holocene Thermal Maximum about 9,700 – 5,700 years ago. The IPCC would have us believe that higher levels of carbon dioxide cause the temperature to inevitably rise, despite observational evidence throughout the paleo record that contradicts that simple hypothesis. After 50 years of trying, not a single credible paper has yet been published providing conclusive proof for the anthropogenic global warming boiling hypothesis.
Earlier this year, a group of scientists operating through the Clintel Foundation examined the latest work of the IPCC. The authors were damning about its most recent report, finding it emphasised worst-case scenarios, rewrote climate history and had a huge bias against good news. Its standout revelation was that 42% of the IPCC’s claims were based on climate models fed with the implausible assumption that global temperatures would rise by around 5°C in less than 80 years. Deep in the main body of its work, even the IPCC admits this is of “low likelihood”. Even worse, Clintel noted, was that about half the extreme climate model forecasts found across the entire body of scientific literature are based on this 5°C boost. It is a fair bet that almost 100% of the clickbait scare stories that dominate mainstream media are taken from these sources.
The former IPCC author and economics professor Roger Pielke Jr. thinks that the continuing reliance on these implausible assumptions by the IPCC is “one of the most significant failures of scientific integrity in the 21st Century”.
The tide could well be turning as the voices of previously cancelled giants of science are heard. In the UK, there is increasing media interest in the retrospective uplifts to temperature datasets enabling previous inconvenient pauses to be removed, and ‘records’ to be declared at regular intervals. Not before time, the Met Office’s habit of declaring heat highs amidst the jet exhaust at British airports is becoming something of a national joke.
One of those science giants, atmospheric scientist Richard Lindzen, recently told a U.S. government body that climate science “is awash with manipulated data, which provides no reliable scientific evidence”. In his view, the IPCC only issues “government-dictated findings”, noting that the important, and much quoted, “Summary for Policymakers” must be approved for publication by all governments. He further noted that, “misrepresentation, exaggeration, cherry-picking or outright lying pretty much covers all the so-called global warming caused by fossil fuel and CO2”.
Dr Clauser signed off his inspiring talk to young scientists in South Korea by telling them to observe nature directly so they could determine real truth. “Use the information gained from carefully performed experiments and research to stop the spread of scientific misinformation, disinformation,” he said.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
Stop Press: The new head of the IPCC, Professor Jim Skea, recognises that constantly pumping out apocalyptic predictions which don’t come true is damaging the credibility of the IPCC. In a series of press interviews following his appointment, he warned doom-mongering was doing more harm than good. “If you constantly communicate the message that we are all doomed to extinction, then that paralyses people and prevents them from taking the necessary steps to get a grip on climate change,” he told one newspaper. The Telegraph has more.
Stop Press 2: Janan Ganesh, the FT columnist, thinks the Conservative victory in the Uxbridge by-election is the beginning of the end of the pro-Net Zero consensus: “It was always paper-thin. In 2019, when Britain committed to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of the century, inflation was 2 per cent. A decade had passed since the previous recession. Had politicians been frank about the cost of the green transition, voters might have felt prosperous enough to pay it. Now? Not a chance.” Not paywalled and worth reading in full.
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He is a lying fat pig dictator who revelled in his Fascist Covid powers and had no interest in or care for how these”rules” impacted the population.
The real issue was and is how toothless and weak our Parliament and MPS have been .
Never forget them.
Personally I hope the ghastly Pig dictator dies a slow and painful death from something sometime very soon !!
I live in hope
Well people did die because of him ( plenty of them! ) and his ultimate decision-making so I don’t blame you for saying that actually. There hasn’t been enough Karmic happenings affecting the perpetrators of the whole debacle, both restriction and death jab-wise, so we need some sort of justice. I’m not averse to seeing some of the guilty parties suffer either.
Yes we need more Karma !!!!
I will gladly second that motion.
#metoo
“Next Time a Prime Minister Intends to Abridge the Liberty of Millions, They May Remember the Scenes of the Boris Trial and Pause”
They will pause and resolve not to get caught, then carry on.
No …. they plan to pass responsibility to the WHO so they can absolve themselves of the crime in advance.
Exactly!
Let’s face it.. all politicians are liars. Its what they do. They get paid to do it, so they’re professionals.
I’ve no time for any of them now, except Andrew Bridgen. The rest are just charlatans, witness the covid debates. Plenty of them must have known the damage those jabs were doing, but decided to behave in the way they did. That goes for Boris Johnson and his cronies too.. beneath contempt..
i had to laugh at the The Horncastle pensioners fined for eating a bag of chips in a laundrette one .it sounds like a comedy who would ever believe it to be true before 2020
Great article. Thanks.
I came across this piece regarding the Faroe Islands today:
‘By the end of February 2021, confirmed cases in the Faroe Islands were just under 14,000 per million and deaths were at 20 per million. In comparison, Iceland had 16,000 cases and 80 deaths per million during the first year of the pandemic.
In Iceland, the Government Ministers took pride in delegating all decisions to the Chief Epidemiologist, the Head of the Directorate of Health and a police officer…’
‘….what the Faroese approach shows us is how important it is that elected representatives take direct responsibility for all decisions, instead of delegating them to officials without any democratic accountability. This might in fact be the most important lesson we can learn from the tiny Faroese nation.’
https://brownstone.org/articles/faroe-islands-the-tiny-country-that-rejected-lockdowns/
This was not complicated stuff. Normal, sensible, intelligent people could easily work out an effective approach….because they had all had the common cold before.
What Bunter’s hearing clearly demonstrates is how profoundly, risibly, stupid the socialist fascist British State has become……
Bunter has become a laughing stock, trashed an entire country’s economy.
He deserves the worst that country can throw at him.
I didn’t know the Faroe Islands and Iceland had such large populations
Yes, all very well. What an MSM media feast which joe public will relish.
But can someone please tell me why on God’s earth a certain Tony Blair still thrives.
On any analysis that man should be in jail, or worse, or better – (depends on your attitude towards Capital Punishment I suppose).
20 years since Iraq. And I just love his attitude to us Refuseniks.
Damn right.. and they awarded the _____ the highest award in the land. That should tell you all you need to know..
The British establishment of which Blair is a member is rotten to the core. They know how to circle their wagons.
This man did much to prevent him having to face war crimes.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/attorney-general-block-prosecute-tony-blair-iraq-war-jeremy-wright-qc-jack-straw-lord-goldsmith-a7686801.html
It seems it is quite ok for the British establishment to put serving or long retired ex soldiers on trial for war crimes but not politicians.
It shouldn’t go unremarkable that Fraser Nelson supported the lockdowns & even argued for an additional one in Dec 2022. Kate Andrews was the only Spectator staffer arguing against the madness.
Of course.. you’re right, I’d forgotten about that..
And that is exactly why I cancelled my subscription to the Spectator. All these bloody people are coming across “oh aren’t I clever I knew this all along” but they were just as craven as the the rest as the sheepie. Makes you sick it really does.
Then refund all fines with interest and apologise with compensation to all those criminalized or who lost employment or businesses. It is apparent that if there was a real threat it would be impossible to have one rule for one lot of people and another rule for others. Reality would intervene. Therefore, it is evident that all the rules were not based on any experience or skill, but ideas that were nothing more than world Government fantasies of control freaks.
It is also important to note that Boris was advised by ‘experts’ and this happened right across the western world and beyond. Jacinda Ardern, Nicholas Sturgeon, Justine Trudeau were more authoritarian and it seemed as if all the leaders were unable to back out and had to out-authority each other, in part driven by populations that had been primed to be hysterical by all the disaster movie type imagery coming out of China.
Bozo’s “trial.” Do me a favour. A distraction, a circus for the mindless masses.
Next.
As Toby’s “friend” JD would say “bread and circuses, bread and circuses”.
Huxley. I differ slightly. I think “circuses” are precisely what is needed.
A big ampitheatre, a few hungry Polar Bears and Boris, Professor, Susan Michie, Handycock, Farrar [your bete noire here], given a wooden sword between them.
Biggest TV spectacle ever.
An excellent idea. Thanks.
Trying Johnson over birthday cake is like trying Hannibal Lecter for stealing someone else’s Chianti!!
Your comparing Johnson to Hannibal Lecter? Why would you do that?
No. I’m not likening Johnson to Lecter.
I can’t believe I have to explain this… I’m likening the ridiculousness of the charges. Johnson was the man in charge who destroyed the UK by turning it into a police state, persuading neighbours to spy on each other and sent police in to beat up freedom protestors. He’s being charged with eating cake at a birthday party, not all the many crimes against humanity he and his ruling party have committed in the last three years. Hannibal Lecter was the Chesapeake Ripper, murdering and eating a large number of people. I’m saying that charging Johnson for eating cake is like charging Hannibal Lecter for stealing one of his victims’ bottles of wine, rather than charging him for the serious crimes he committed!
Precisely. And the biggest, most egregious crime is that the very people dreaming up and enforcing the most ridiculous, damaging, regulation, were partying in full knowledge that they were at zero risk
The most important point,
I think future PMs will be much more interested in how much he got paid for doing what he did.
They certainly won’t regard what has happened to Johnson as any sort of deterrent if the bribes are big enough.
Perhaps the most troubling of all the highlights of this article is that the British public has proven to be excellent informants to the Stasi like state storm troopers. A neighbour reporting a sleepover should, in no uncertain terms, be treated like the traitor to ‘the people’ they have shown themselves to be and perhaps be given a ‘last cigarette’ before being tied to the post. One would hope though that they didnt smoke…for health reasons of course…
A quote from an excellent article by Iain Davis over at Off-G.
“In order to avert enslavement the change we need to make is first and foremost psychological.
We have to wake up and realise that nothing any government ever does is for our benefit. We have no reason at all to trust anything governments say and we need to stop believing their propaganda.”
Iain goes on:
“G3P power only exists because we imagine that it does. Based upon this misapprehension, we consequently behave as instructed by its representatives. The moment we realise, en masse, that its claimed authority is a charade, that alleged “power” evaporates in an instant.
All the G3P is left with then is violence and simple mathematics dictates that it cannot succeed.”
Our downfall will arrive via the obedience of the masses for the trust given by the sheeple is all that is required to lock the gates.
“To do this we will have to finally accept that obedience is not a virtue. Obedience to authority is not a new problem, but the scale of ambition and the technological capability of the parasite class is.”
https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/22/its-the-trust-in-the-authority-stupid/
Spot on! I regard Johnson and co as traitors to the country, to the land we live in. They aren’t traitors to the people. The people of the United Kingdom betrayed themselves by going along with what they were told with such enthusiasm.
Johnson is being pursued by MPs for three reasons:
The fat oaf was never PM material. He should never have imposed the lockdowns, but that would have required guts in standing up to the MSM, and a willingness to be unpopular with those who were howling for the suspension of our civil liberties.
Ultimately, it was ditching Cummings and the reform agenda, in favour of pandering to Princess Nut Nuts and pushing the Net Zero lunacy, which has holed him below the waterline.
But no enquiry into murder by vaccination, that Boris et al ordered.
Is that a hitlerite salute I see Johnson doing?
Indeed. My thoughts also.
How appropriate.
If ever I find myself feeling sympathy for Johnson, I need only recall his satisfaction expressed in the infamous WhatsApp files when someone was reportedly heavily fined (or quarantined, or whatever it was).
Hoist by his own petard.
The lesson must be threefold:
1) Don’t introduce patently ridiculous rules;
2) Don’t criminalise guidance;
3) Maintain a fully open debate so the truth rises to the top;
We must never allow govts to declare themselves as ‘the’ experts, especially in medicine. There’s always a second opinion.
The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh got it right. They introduced the ‘Test & Treat’ program. A kit for home use that included a Covid-19 test and some early-treatment medicines including Ivermectin, so if any household member tested positive, they all took the medicine, but importantly, no sanctions. They achieved the status of the state being declared covid-free (i.e. low enough to not be a pandemic). It was simple, cheap, and supportive/caring of people. What most Western govts did was threaten, sanction and imprison whole populations. Evil!