- “Scientists raise alarm over new Covid variant and call for face masks” – The chin-wobblers were out in force yesterday, ringing the alarm about Eris, which one over-excited scientist called “the real deal”, reports the Mail.
- “First ‘confirmed’ COVID-19 cases in America were on U.S. aircraft carrier” – Studies suggest crew members aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt may have been infected with COVID-19 before America’s first confirmed case, writes Bill Rice Jr. on Substack.
- “Have you suffered from ‘pre-Covid’ phenomenon?” – Scientists say the ‘pre-Covid’ phenomenon may be caused by someone catching a mild bug or other virus before getting Covid, or could simply be the early stages of a Covid infection, reports the Mail. Or maybe it’s just in their heads.
- “Steve Barclay’s misrepresentation of the cancer crisis has betrayed thousands of Britons” – The Health Secretary’s claim that cancer survival rates are improving takes the biscuit, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
- “Fewer HMRC staff are working in the office than during lockdown” – 95% of tax office staff work from home at least once a week despite poor customer service, reports the Telegraph.
- “Working from home is the new British disease” – Ever since the Covid lockdown, the U.K. has conducted a massive experiment in home working and the results have been catastrophic, says Matthew Lynn in the Spectator.
- “Did Direct Energy Weapons start the fires in Maui?” – The thing is, after Covid, nobody believes a word the Government or media tells them, says the Naked Emperor. Although he thinks poor management of natural fire hazards is to blame.
- “How to solve Hawaii’s wildfires: Eat sheep or fry” – Controlled livestock grazing could solve Hawaii’s wildfire problem, but it will require facing down rampant eco-zealots, writes Richard North in Turbulent Times.
- “Greta and her fanclub need to get real about the climate challenge” – Condemnation and intolerance are Greta Thunberg’s stock-in-trade, says Eliot Wilson in CapX. What’s much less clear, however, is the Maid of Stockholm’s solutions.
- “The new elite is out of touch… again” – Matt Goodwin on his Substack argues that the Government’s efforts to house Britain’s asylum-seekers on barges has exposed a familiar divide between the new elite and the general public.
- “Dr Rakib Ehsan addresses missed chance to send warning to abusive fathers” – In the Mail, Dr. Rakib Ehsan gives his low opinion of Hussein Alinzi and the justice system that let him off with a suspended prison sentence and a ‘rehabilitation activity’ programme after he beat his 15 year-old daughter with an iron bar.
- “Asexual and ‘aromantic’ flags to be hung in public buildings under Welsh Labour plan” – The Welsh Labour Government has been accused of prioritising “woke virtue-signalling” after it ordered public buildings to fly flags celebrating asexual and ‘aromantic’ people, says the Telegraph.
- “PM says Starmer putting women and girls at risk over self-ID U-turn” – Rishi Sunak has hit out at Keir Starmer after he said he would not have blocked the SNP’s proposed reforms to the Gender Recognition Act, reports the Mail.
- “Woke Eton College has become a lost cause” – “My old teacher, Michael Kidson, inculcated in his pupils a healthy disrespect for received wisdom. He would not survive in the Eton of today,” laments Jamie Blackett in the Telegraph.
- “Doubt in Denmark” – Another progressive country is having second thoughts about transitioning children, writes Bernard Lane on Substack.
- “Gov employees want those who resist anti-racism training ‘taken out’” – A survey among employees of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada suggests that some believe colleagues should be fired, or not hired, if they are against mandatory anti-racism training, reports True North.
- “The German disillusionment” – Germans have lost faith in the political establishment, writes Uwe Steinhoff in the Critic.
- “Oliver Anthony and the sorry state of Rolling Stone” – The once-great Rolling Stone magazine’s coverage of the viral country star Oliver Anthony is embarrassing, says Winston Marshall in the Spectator.
- “Do we want to get rid of human nature?” – We can choose to be human and by making that choice we affirm the existence, relevance and importance of our nature, argues Thorsteinn Siglaugsson on Substack.
- “‘Museum curators and librarians are the Storm Troopers of woke ideology’” – New Culture Forum’s Emma Webb and Rafe Heydel-Mankoo discuss the ongoing scandal of museums rewriting our history on GB News.
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I don’t know how Chris keeps going in the face of the msm lie machine and the dishonest scientists on the other side. Well done though I do notice climate scepticism becoming more mainstream especially on the right.
Scepticism in science is essential. Otherwise it isn’t science, it is activism.
“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”
Richard P. Feynman
“It does not matter who you are, or how smart you are, or what title you have, or how many of you there are, and certainly not how many papers your side has published, if your prediction is wrong then your hypothesis is wrong. Period.”
Richard P. Feynman
An incredibly smart man, he knew that he didn’t know. This is how scientists should think.
$cientists on the other hand…
nod———-Or “Ah yes, science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture from such a trifling investment of fact”——Mark Twain.
Scepticism = science; consensus = religion.
One of the main controllers of climate is El Nino and El Nina events. But data regarding these huge weather changing oscillations only goes back to 1989. ——It is worth pointing out to people who have already decided what is true about climate that there is actually nothing unusual about current temperatures or climate. To those people who are always saying things like “Climate Change is real and is happening now” what are you talking about? These kind of statements are about as scientific as a monkey with a test tube.
I’d say that climate change is normal; the climate is not normally stable at all. The real scam is manipulating the language, and perhaps the lack of understanding, so as to promote a campaign.
Remember when you say that “climate change is normal”, that the term “climate change” has come to mean changes allegedly caused by humans. It does not mean changes that occur naturally.
And Malenkevich cycles. The wobbles and orbits of the earth are not stable and affect hownclose we are to the sun.
And sunspot activity. Climate change and global warming are lies by green communists
I still worry about the polar bears.
“When Al Gore was born there were about 5,000 polar bears, today only 25,000 remain.”
Someone forgot to tell them bears they are supposed to be in deep sh.t
“The arctic will be ice free by 2015”
– John Kerry 2009
A true visionary.
It must be catastrophic. There are no penguins left in the Arctic and the polar bears obviously can’t cope with the lack of ice in Antarctica.
I was about to politely correct you and then saw what you did there, faffor
…and the fish population of Mt Everest has been utterly devastated.
I don’t see anything soaring. What I see is an incredibly stable pattern which confirms to me the absolutely staggering and amazing predictability of our weather.
The seasons come and go almost like clockwork. Temperatures move within the narrowest of bands.
How something so vast and complex works so elegantly is really a thing of beauty. Much like the human body or any living organism.
Which is what makes the idea that you can just control the weather by fiddling with CO2 so comical and preposterous.
Thanks beautifully expressed post.
Played for Fools
Great article, as ever. It seems to me that the western world are being played for a bunch of fools on climate change;
China has announced its new climate envoy;
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202401/1305432.shtml
Whilst at the same time China continues to burn coal as if butter would not melt in their mouths!
”There are a total of 3,092 operating coal-fired power plant units in China. As of January 2023, the province of Shandong, which lies to the south of Beijing, houses the greatest number of coal power plants, at over 400 units.3 Jan 2024”
As I say, it seems to me that we are being played for a bunch of fools, while China, Russia etc. plan the demise of the western world.
We are being played for fools? ——-But the western world is complaint with this. To understand why, you need to realise what the politics are all about. Then to realise that the Sustainable Development Politics isn’t really about the climate. The climate is simply the excuse given to the public for the politics.
Western world is compliant. Exactly. Fat, lazy and stupid we have become.
Lucky you realised I meant compliant rather than complaint.
Club of Rome 1972.
China and Russia don’t have to play us for fools we are doing OK just destroying ourselves.
nod——–Then you have to figure out why. Once you do, it will explain why there really isn’t a climate crisis and why a crisis is essential for putting political agenda’s in place and government never want to let a good crisis go to waste.
Excellent article as always, Chris. I wish there was some mechanism within the DS software to give articles ‘likes’ (as on FB) or…stars? (As on Off Guardian.)
There used to be, but what works better for ranking is activity, i.e. comments BTL.
Seconded 👍
There was a large increase but November was rather low so it doesn’t take the level to anything extraordinary. As you can see from this chart, if you look at the whole of 2023 ice extents followed the the 2010-20 average pretty closely.
Tony Heller you are emphatically not; is there no end to the Diversity of your Expertise?
Yeah I saw this story on the BBC