I have only been back at school for two days and already found something to be sceptical about. During a French lesson we had to write a sentence describing ourselves – mentally and physically – and halfway through the teacher stopped us. At first, I thought she was going to give us help or instructions. However, it was even better. She wanted to make us aware that the French are creating ways to use gender neutral terms so if someone is transgender they have their own way of describing themselves. This made my day. I did not believe the teacher at first. However, after some research at lunchtime, they actually have joined the bandwagon of trans inclusivity. C’est absurde!
There are moves to create feminine versions of masculine words to “balance the scales of centuries of male domination”. It gets worse. Some French institutions – such as Le Sorbonne – are using gender neutral terms in lieu of their traditional masculine alternatives, such as saying ‘être humains’ (the human beings) instead of ‘hommes’ (men). Le Sorbonne has also added the feminine ‘e’ and plural ‘s’ to masculine words to neutralise them. For example, turning ‘cher lecteur’ (dear reader) into ‘cheres lecteurices’. Other gender neutral pronouns include ‘ol’, ‘ul’, ‘yul’ and ‘iel’. They just sound like grunts.
France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron, who clearly has not yet received ‘le memo’, has spoken out against the use of gender neutral pronouns saying:
Learning French is already difficult. Let’s not add complexity to complexity. It’s a cultural position. The language is beautiful. And two pronouns are fine.
French is one of the hardest languages to learn because its grammatical structures are difficult for English speakers. For example, word order, compound nouns and the agreement between adjective and noun, which can change depending on number, gender and case. Students in lower ability classes already find learning the basics extremely difficult, let alone mastering these new terms.
However, one positive for students is that it will make it easier to gain higher marks. It is likely we will still be marked on the correct use of feminine and masculine terms – for example, using ‘une’ for a girl and ‘un’ for a boy. However, if we make a mistake and use ‘une’ for a boy and ‘un’ for a girl, how is the teacher to know that you were not using the language in an inclusive way to describe a transgender person?
It is to be hoped that British schools will not prioritise or even introduce the use of gender neutral French into the curriculum. The U.K. already has problems with illiteracy among children – 413,000 children do not own a single book and one in five children struggle to read and write. In particular, students are struggling with French. Only 12,500 students received a 9, the top grade, in their French GCSE last year, representing 10.3% of overall entries. In French, pupils should be learning how to have a conversation with a person who speaks French. Let’s not put more obstacles in their way.
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This for the Guardian, et. al. is an easy sell for people who don’t know baseball and accept all such climate-is-a-disaster story.
Easy sell to the walking brain dead
Or Guardian readers, as their called!
Maybe better players, stronger players, bigger men in general, far better bats and technology, a lot more training? Hitting, or not hitting a ball, has nothing to do with plant food.
It really is a cult of idiots, with St Greta the Moron and others as the apostles all supported by the miracles of fake data, fake studies and endless bullshit, not to mention money, money, money. $cience.
Better results are all to do with the weather, eh? Who knew. What a total insult to all the dedicated sportspeople, coaches, trainers and specialist sports scientists out there who have been honing skills, techniques, diet & nutrition, even aerodynamic improvements to kit and clothing over the last few decades.
I hear Pigs will fart a semi tone higher by the end of the century because of global warming. —–We must “Act Now”. Scientists would like to keep pig farts from rising above F Major by reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. ——–Lets all get a heat pumps to help reduce the pig pumps.
“The climate crisis is reported to be causing more home runs in baseball”. ——–Why speak of this “climate crisis” as if it is something we can all see in front of us like a pillar box or an elephant? I know pillar boxes and elephants exist because I have seen them. I have NOT seen a Climate Crisis. ——–By using that terminology, which is the language of political agenda’s, all we do is surrender to the narrative that a crisis actually exists, and we can all see that in front of us and by looking at the climate data. ———–But wait a minute. The IPCC themselves admit they see no human signal in the climate data at this time. There is no increase in the frequency or intensity of any type of weather event. Not storms, not floods, not droughts not wildfires —NOTHING. So where is this “crisis”? —————- It exists entirely within speculative climate models full of assumptions that do not include many of the parameters, and others are simply guessed at. Is it any wonder that those models and real world observations continue to drift apart as each year passes? ———-But I can tell you where there is a genuine “crisis”. It is the Energy Crisis where politicians pandering to the UN /WEF /EU Sustainable Development agenda are taking away our affordable reliable energy of coal and gas and replacing it with unaffordable unreliable energy of wind and sun. This is a genuine crisis and as the UK seeks to pretend to save the planet harder and faster than every other country with it’s absurd Climate Change Act and NET ZERO policies that we are forced in law to adhere to, our standard of living is plummeting. Millions are being forced into energy poverty and having to be bailed out with monthly payments because they cannot pay the bills. Some may say this is only temporary and is because of the war in Ukraine, and that certainly has masked the negative effects of the silly green agenda, but prices were already rising year on year before that. The general public mostly do not understand how energy works and are being conned into thinking that they can save the whole planet if they only accept more and more and more turbines. There is currently a Hydrogen experiment going on in Fife in Scotland where residents are being asked to sign up to get Hydrogen heating fitted into their houses in Buckhaven instead of their current gas central heating. These people will likely have no idea of what hydrogen really is, how expensive it is, and how corrosive it is. They will likely not realise it is the most volatile element in the Universe and isn’t actually a fuel. It has to manufactured and this makes it very expensive. ——We are putting ourselves through all of this clutter at astronomical expense all based on this idea there is a “Climate Crisis” which real world observations do not show. —We CAN see a pillar box. We CANNOT see a “Climate Crisis”
Of course you can see the climate crisis – just count the home runs and it’s slam-dunk.
I have NEVER and I mean NEVER understood “climate crisis.”
We live – define ‘live’ – on a planet as a part of the cosmos. We are a function of the planet. Climate is a given. Accept what we have. Climate is Climate. That’s it.
Next thing we know some Next Tuesday will be telling us that we need to move 1.337 degrees further away from the Sun, to reduce fictitious ‘global warming’ and to achieve this huge tow ropes will be fixed to the planet and these will be connected to thousands of space rockets which will pull us to safety.
World is full of evil Nutters.
We wont need tow ropes. A carefully timed massed nuclear explosion somewhere like, I dont know, say, Ukraine, should shift the planet a few microns further away.
Fair point Neil.
Three things emerge from this story.
The message I take home from this is that climate change can have some positive outcomes.
It is shame that so many plants bought on the promise of a Med climate in Britain have died as a consequence of the cold snap late last year. My olive stick (formerly a tree) is testament to that along with numerous other casualties. Thanks, BBC Gardeners World, for your advice.
This ‘analysis’ by some no-doubt lucratively rewarded academics is so laughably weak and anti-scientific as to be almost not worth commenting on. It parodies itself (as does The Guardian’s uncritical and propagandist utilisation of it).
However, though I was already an emotional wreck after discovering that home runs in US baseball have apparently increased by 0.9% due to humanity’s evil industrial ways I couldn’t resist carrying out a fact check on another heart-breaking claim made in the report / article:
“Though the Texas Rangers’ previous ballpark opened as recently as 1994, the summer heat in the Dallas region proved so uncomfortable that the club moved to a climate-controlled $1.2bn new stadium with a retractable roof in 2020. Among the league’s 30 stadiums, eight have retractable or fixed roofs. More roofs on ballparks is going to be unavoidable. That is frustrating,” said Christopher Callahan, the lead author of the study. “One of the joys of baseball is sitting in the open air, sitting under the blue sky and the breeze.” However, he added: “At a certain point over the course of the next couple of decades it’s going to be unsafe to play baseball games in very high temperatures.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/07/climate-crisis-more-home-runs-baseball-study
Having looked at the relevant data I have to say it seems rather strange to link the Texas Rangers’ move to a new stadium in 2020 to temperatures in the Dallas region allegedly heading rapidly towards microwave levels (again due to that nasty polluting humanoid species) when the historic record summer temperatures of 113F (June) and 111F (July) were recorded in 1980 and 1954, 43 and 69 years ago respectively. Moreover the average date of the 12 monthly record highs is 1982, 41 years in the past.
https://dallascreates.org/locations-and-venues/dallas-area-information/historic-average-temperatures-in-dallas-texas/#:~:text=Dallas%2C%20TX%20%E2%80%93%20Monthly%20Averages%20%26%20Records%20%E2%80%93%20from%20Intellicast&text=The%20highest%20recorded%20temperature%20was,8%C2%B0F%20in%201899
It sometimes feels as if the whole ‘Climate Change’ scam is the greatest instance of mass trolling combined with ‘dupers’ delight’ in history.
Facts are such inconvenient things, especially when attempting to promote an agenda. Or as Mark Twain put it ———–“Ah yes science, One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture from such a trifling investment of facts”.
There’s a word that springs to mind to describe theories like this, which also describes an essential part of the male anatomy.
Guardian: Climate change increases home runs.
In the Guardian every day is April Fools day
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Excellent piece on climate change by Matt Ehret
https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/an-earth-day-special-in-defense-of
I bet both of their readers were mortified. The Giddian is giving Private Eye a run for its money
Analytically adept at challenging climate orientated junk science ad always Chris. Sky has been peddling the narrative via the threat to football. Obviously any ground near the sea will soon be inundated. Carrow Road will replace seating with Greta designed Lilos. Seriously these people just make stuff up and very few journos challenge them. GB news had a Cameroon Climate Goon called Gemill on. Such a patronising bell end, he is heading up the Climate Party which is standing in the 100 most marginal seats to publicise the “emergency”. He is the nice (passive aggressive), middle class face of XR and he could have been manufactured in a laboratory
He boasts of being funded by rich donors and the City of course. Sadly both Bev Turner and Andrew Pierce though pushing back on this odious hack were way underpowered. He just steamrollered through with his ridiculous perspective that we should go further and faster to land green jobs. We need you in there Chris putting the case against this insane drive to impoverish the masses. We also need a guide to climate lies to counteract this narrative aimed at the few critical journos and for sceptics like us. If readers could think of three lines what would they be?