The recent cancellation of Alimonti et al shows clearly that catastrophising bad weather events and attributing them to a collapse of the climate is now the main weapon deployed to scare populations into embracing the Net Zero agenda. Of course, reference is still made to global warming, but most recent rises seem to owe more to frequent upward retrospective adjustments of temperature, rather than any significant natural boost. Perhaps we should not be surprised by this turn of events. In a short essay titled ‘The New Apocalypticism’, the science writer Roger Pielke Jr. noted: “For the secular millenarian, extreme events – floods, hurricanes, fires – are more than mere portents, they are evidence of our sins of the past and provide opportunities for redemption in the future, if only we listen, accept and change.”
The climate is collapsing all around us, shout the headlines – they require we ignore the data, the historical record, even common sense. When all is said and done, the Earth is not actually boiling! Well Professor Gianluca Alimonti and three other Italian scientists didn’t ignore the past data, much of it in fact from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and they found little change in extreme weather events. They published a paper concluding that there was certainly not enough to justify the declaration of a ‘climate emergency’. A year later, the publisher Springer Nature bowed to the demands of a group of activist scientists and journalists led by the Guardian and Agence France-Presse and retracted the non-conforming paper. An addendum was proposed and sent to four reviewers for comment. Three reviewers argued for publication. The fourth stated that typical readers were not climate experts and “editors should seriously consider the implications of the possible publication of this addendum”.
We own climate science, boasted UN communications flak Melissa Fleming at a recent World Economic Forum disinformation seminar, and we partner with Google to keep our version at the top of the search list. What a great service these climate experts provide in telling us what to think and see as we unsophisticated rubes struggle towards the path of true enlightenment!
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres recently said we are on a pathway to climate hell, with our foot on the accelerator. Steve Koonin, President Obama’s Energy Under-Secretary for Science and the author of Unsettled, recently charged that climate scientists were negligent for not speaking out and saying Guterres’s comments were “preposterous”. Koonin is not very impressed with mainstream media click bait weather stories. “I can take current media and almost any climate story I can write a very effective counter,” he recently told Peter Robinson, host of Uncommon Knowledge. “It is like shooting fish in a barrel.”
The mainstream media has an agenda to set, namely the de-carbonisation of society. Noting the influence of green billionaire-funded operations like Covering Climate Now, Koonin said the mission was to promote the narrative. The MSM will not allow anything to be broadcast or written that is counter to the narrative. And the narrative is: “We have already broken the climate and we are heading for hell.”
You just need to look out of the window, claim the politicised alarmists. These days any half-decent storm, or scorchio summer’s day, gets them going. This year some unusual weather patterns are put forward as Exhibit A for Thermogeddon. Such deception depends upon the rubes failing to spot the difference between weather and long-term climate trends. Nobody should ask why carbon dioxide has been up to 20 times higher in the atmosphere in the past and life on Earth thrived. CO2 might gently warm the atmosphere up to a certain point, but temperatures naturally go up and down, ocean currents get warmer and cooler, change direction and melt and freeze polar ice. The idea that single events can be linked to any long term effects of CO2 is not just unproven, it’s unprovable. Computer models that ‘attribute’ single events to 30-year trends are laughable pseudoscience.
That wise sage Emeritus Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT, who’s spent decades trying to figure out how the atmosphere works, summed up all this fraud and corruption:
What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison.
For the distinguished climatologist Dr. Judith Curry, the Alimonti affair is “why I no longer publish in peer-reviewed papers”. She described the behaviour of the journal editors as “reprehensible” in retracting a widely read climate paper just because it contained “politically inconvenient conclusions”. She is right of course – the Alimonti affair is another shocking scientific scandal that casts further doubt on the climate science peer-review process. But then, Dr. Curry is merely a scientist in all this – she doesn’t own the science.
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Is that model’s guesses split by star-sign?
I think Sagittarians are most at risk, SAGE is taking the Pisces though if anyone still trusts these dice-rolling simulators.
Hey, I’m a Sagittarian!!
Talking about this sort of thing, astrology and prediction and all that, there’s this ‘news’ story about the Illuminati card game from the 90s, which some say predicted the events now.
https://www.theweek.co.uk/odd-news/106131/card-game-from-the-1990s-predicted-coronavirus
Strangely enough, a week before Princess Diana’s death, I was playing this game with my mate. There was a Diana card, which he had in play, and I killed her off with a Hit and Run – an assassination card which pictured a speeding car…
Also, there’s the card pictured below, which looks familiar, post 9/11…
Maybe Sage should simply draw cards from an Illuminati deck to determine their soothsaying. They’ll be more accurate.
It makes me think we’re in a simulation and someone running it is taking the piss!
I think you are being very unfair.
To astrologers, that is – they are far more likely to get closer to reality than certain modellers tend to be…
Sounds like you were keen to Aries your thoughts on that, you do need to ram these things home.
SAGE cant be wrong forever, they’ve got to get their cloud formation and goats entrails type
guessespredictions right eventuallyNo, it’s going to be a disastrous winter if SAGE are predicting otherwise. Goes to prove their predictions are good once you understand it’s a negative correlation.
Well that pissed on Whitty’s fireworks didn’t it? I bet he’s fuming!
Twenty wrong predictions in a row, and now they get one right. Be grateful peasants.
F. I’m worried now – looks like we could be in for a real epidemic. 🙂
I’m worried too. Could be a ‘sunk cost’ scenario. I.e. we have got ‘infections’ down, let’s make sure that they stay down by introducing plan B.
Or Psyops. Let them think it’s ok and then the Boosters do their job and will tell them, sorry you have to lockdown, wear a full face helmet and hop on one leg when you visit the empty supermarket having walked 3 miles because there’s no fuel.
All of this would be have been over 14 months ago if they would just stop meddling. Small summer blip, schools back, natural immunity built, old people released from isolating guidance. Sept 2020. If only we knew back then…….
We did know but we got sneered at, jeered at, ridiculed and brick-walled
So we like sage when it agrees with us do we?
I, for one, will still campaign for this shower of
shi*s“scientists” to be disbanded & prosecuted for crimes against me personally.This was my immediate thought too!
No, we don’t respect them at all – but it’s preferable that they come out with things which we agree with than that they follow their usual path of demanding more restrictions!
This discovery explains a lot:
“Oxford University researchers have discovered the densest element yet known to science.
The new element, Governmentium (symbol=Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312
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These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called pillocks.
Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact.
A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than a second, to take from 4 days to 4 years to complete.
Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2 to 6 years. It does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.
In fact, Governmentium’s mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.
This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration.
This hypothetical quantity is referred to as a critical morass.
When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium (symbol=Ad), an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium, since it has half as many pillocks but twice as many morons.”
Now that’s what I call science.
Love it. Nobel prize in the bag!
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Very Good!
I agree with all positive comments and this piece deserves a wider audience.
As Trabant says:
Class.
True scientific understanding.
And built from quarks of which self-interested, venal and useless are the most common.
The number of COVID-19 inpatients in Wales (21 Sep 21) per 100k is HIGHEST for the FULLY VACCINATED:
Muzzles, Nazipapiere, jibby-jabbies by the million, and the Gulag Wales ‘case’ rate goes through the roof.
Solution? More Nazipapiere, booster blackmail, more facepants – can’t fail, can it?
Don’t ‘bash’ Britain for big Covid outbreak, Oxford expert says
https://mol.im/a/10132489
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Modellers predicting declining cases! Now I’m really worried 😀
I wonder what will happen with the boosters. Heard of 3 more serious adverse reactions this week. One ending in death 10 mins after the shot. If the rate of adverse was as low as is claimed it would be odd to hear of one. I have heard of others before this, one in the family.
My Mum had a bad reaction to the booster, with hindsight she had a reaction in spring too. Affected her breathing (she has asthma), but much worse this time. Given all the stories about reactions I have heard all year, and the fact they seem to get worse with each jab, some will inevitably die. I now know 4 people with bad reactions, three of which ended up seriously ill in hospital.
V sorry to hear. Has she yellow carded both events? And can you persuade her not to have the next?
Could it simply be the cold virus has run its course for now? The koolaid is ineffective, hard to prove it helped. Herd immunity with T cell immunity a little more believable.
Thankfully we know that we can fully trust SAGE modelling! Ludicrous.
So Dishy is leaking from the Treasury against Boris and Sage.
Well done Dishy.