- “The BBC’s hypocrisy is now clear for all to see” – The BBC refused to call Hamas ‘terrorists’ because it’s a ‘loaded word’. But isn’t the same true of ‘far-Right’, asks Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “A ‘two-state solution’ now is a dangerous fiction” – In the wake of the October 7th massacres, what would an independent Palestine look like and who would run it, asks Charles Moore in the Telegraph.
- “Is identity politics to blame for the rise of antisemitism?” – It is now hip to view Jews as ‘problematic’, says Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator.
- “Stunning new charts from New Zealand shows a large gender effect that should not happen in a safe vaccine” – On Substack, Steve Kirsch questions COVID-19 vaccine safety using new gender-specific mortality data from New Zealand.
- “The architecture of isolation 6: Fever hospitals” – In their latest historical review of infectious disease management, Dr. Tom Jefferson and Prof. Carl Heneghan revisit Manchester’s Monsall ‘fever’ hospital.
- “Almost 10,000 sex crime cases languish in U.K.’s broken court system” – From overcrowded prisons to record court backlogs, the criminal justice system is being pushed to breaking point, reports Bloomberg.
- “London set to become like drug-ravaged San Francisco, says policing chief” – A senior police officer warns of a U.K. opioid surge mirroring the one in the U.S., reports the Telegraph.
- “Civil servants were paid £150 million in ‘golden goodbyes’ last year” – Figures reveal that a ‘golden goodbye’ of nearly £400,000 was among more than £150 million-worth of exit packages lavished on civil servants in 2022, according to the Mail.
- “Is ‘immigration’ good for the economy?” – The claim that “immigration is good for the economy” is so vague as to be meaningless, says Noah Carl in Aporia.
- “Unilever has turned mediocrity into a fine art. It faces a painful reckoning” – Without a genuine overhaul, Unilever is sleepwalking into a painful reckoning, warns Ben Marlow in the Telegraph.
- “How the CCP infiltrated Britain” – Whatever else Britain’s China policy does, it must never again make Cameron’s mistake of taking the CCP at its word, says Sam Dunning in UnHerd.
- “EU launches an ‘illegal content’ probe into Elon Musk’s X” – The EU has launched an “illegal content” probe into Elon Musk’s X for allegedly breaching new social media regulations, reports the Mail.
- “Why the EU is coming for Elon Musk” – The Brussels investigation into X is a brazen attempt to crack down on free speech, writes Norman Lewis in Spiked.
- “Europe on cusp of mass secret censorship” – The European Commission is in the midst of a sweeping crackdown on free speech, says Michael Shellenberger in his Public Substack.
- “EDF customers ‘terrified’ to put heating on after sudden rise in bills” – Panicked EDF customers say they are now too scared to put the heating on after a ‘system error’ caused energy bills to soar to eye-watering sums, reports the Mail.
- “Wasted wind power adds £40 to household energy bills, says think tank” – According to the think tank Carbon Tracker, wasted wind power will add £40 to the average U.K. household’s electricity bill in 2023, says the BBC.
- “Another heat pump myth has just crumbled” – It’s time we stopped pretending that going green will save us money, writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph.
- “What could happen if we just stopped oil? Six billion might die” – It’s difficult to see how an immediate ban on fossil fuels will allow civilisation to continue to flourish, says Neil Record in the Telegraph.
- “Cop28: Not much cop” – Cop28 is yet another triumph of ignorance and hubris over experience, writes David Turner on Substack.
- “Teachers can’t be forced to use pupils’ chosen pronouns, says Government” – Schools will be told to presume that a child cannot change gender in the Government’s first guidance for teachers on trans issues, reports the Independent.
- “Trans guidance offers route back to sanity” – What is important now is that the sensible new trans guidance for schools is implemented as quickly as possible and is no longer beset by delays, says the Telegraph in a leading article.
- “Teachers can ignore transgender guidance, suggests biggest teaching union” – The National Education Union says that teachers can ignore the Government’s new transgender guidance, according to the Telegraph.
- “Activist schools threaten to flout new trans advice being issued today” – Activist schools are already threatening to flout the new trans guidance, reports the Mail.
- “Teaching children they can be born in the ‘wrong’ body is ‘harmful’” – Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch says that teaching children they can be born in the wrong body is “harmful”, according to the Mail.
- “Wanting to hire ‘fewer white men’ for a job is not discrimination” – A tribunal has ruled that wanting to hire “fewer white men” for a job is not discrimination, says the Telegraph.
- “Police record hate incident against Tory deputy chair after trans row with Greens” – Redditch MP Rachel Maclean says she will not apologise for her comments about the Green Party’s embrace of gender ideology, reports the Telegraph.
- “Rees-Mogg calls for Equality Act to be scrapped to save taxpayer cash” – Jacob Rees-Mogg says the Equality Act should be scrapped to tackle “wokery” and restore common sense to the workplace, according to Guido Fawkes.
- “Esther McVey has a tough task bringing back common sense – it’s been made redundant” – Esther McVey must tackle the waste and wokery plaguing the public sector from the ground up, writes Celia Walden in the Telegraph.
- “Why October 7th may mark a turning point for universities” – Psychologist and public intellectual Steven Pinker tells NY Magazine’s Benjamin Hart that the debacle at Harvard is a blow to campus leftism.
- “Harvard’s plagiarism hypocrisy” – Harvard President Claudine Gay is teaching us a lot about how corruption of words and the seductions of ideology go hand in hand, says Peter Wood in the Spectator.
- “Keir Starmer ties himself in knots trying to define ‘working class’” – On LBC, Keir Starmer struggles to provide Nick Ferrari with a definition of ‘working class’ and lands on the aspiration to own a car!
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Now I understand the current war the current Dutch government is waging on farmers, a war which unfortunately seems to be gaining allies across the world.
Our mega-clever leaders wish to prepare us for the dire prospect of losing a great deal of global food production due to climate change by 2100, by eliminating as much of global food production as they can by 2030… A most cunning plan. Cull hundreds of millions to save – well, if the corona response is anything to go by, to save no one.
Some people might say the better plan would be to make plans for areas that are predicted to be subject to extreme weather to better help them deal with droughts, heat, cold, floods, whatever. Sort of like we should have simply treated sick people suffering from a virus-indiced illness rather than trying to prevent it altogether.
Yes, preparing for any changes to climate that might occur would be 100 times cheaper than NET ZERO and removing fossil fuels. But I think we have to remember that “Climate Change” isn’t really about the climate. Climate Change is simply the excuse for the Eco Socialism. It is the excuse for “Sustainable Development” (A world run by technocrats, controlling the worlds wealth and resources and the global economy). PS There are not really any “predictions” about future climate. There are “projections” from climate models full of assumptions and speculations that don’t even include many of the climate parameters, because they are either poorly understood or not known at all.
Every scientist who remains silent in the face of these ludicrous, laughable, nonsense predictions of doom and gloom is complicit in causing poverty, immiseration and mental distress. There is no excuse that bears any scrutiny. They are self-serving cowards, more concerned with their own precious careers than their responsibility to be decent, honest human beings.
I expect deceit and lies from politicians and journalists, for the truth is not in them, but those that claim to be scientists who still go along with this fantastical, groundless soothsaying deserve a special place in hell.
But there has always been this symbiotic relationship between government and scientists. Today more than ever before though science has been corrupted for political purposes. Scientists are like any other group of people with families to feed and mortgages to pay. If government want to pay them good money to look for purple horses then it is very hard for them to quickly report back that there are NONE . ———They might decide to hedge their integrity with phrases like “The likelyhood of there being purple horses is not inconsistent with our studies”. That way the government get to say they are following the science and the scientists get to say they haven’t told porkies.
“pay them good money” is more accurately described as “waste hard earned taxpayers money”
Yes “hard earned taxpayers money”. But it was good money till the government decided to splash it about like confetti in support of anything remotely they think will help them pretend to save the planet.
If you want the names of the guilty, look no further than the celebrity scientists on TV.
If there was a climate emergency, don’t you think that all these ULEZ, CAZ and LEZs would not be based on paying a fee but on stopping all vehicles that do not meet emissions levels from entering? I, in my trusty old 16 years old diesel can drive happily into any urban centre, spouting my noxious fumes, IF I pay a fee. Likewise, don’t you think that housing estate developers would be forced to include solar panels, wind turbines, triple glazing, EV charging units etc on all their new builds? They aren’t. With rising sea levels predicted, wouldn’t people like Obama, Gore, Gates et al not be buying sea front homes? They are. Also, with air traffic one of the big emitters, wouldn’t all the same lot be leading by example and doing their G7 meetings via zoom? They aren’t. And these are just a few of the examples of the utter hypocrisy that lies at the heart of this fake emergency. Let’s look at what the emergency entails:
No more gas boilers
Less meat
Less farms
More EVs (with their dirty lithium batteries prone to catching fire)
More restrictions in driving
Phasing out of petrol and diesel cars
Phasing out or ban on woodburners
etc etc
And for Absolute Zero (which sounds like a vodka and maybe you need a stiff one to read the following):
No more flying
No more ships
No meat
No gas/fuel
No driving
etc etc
All this for what? Emissions of a gas that is at 400 parts per million, a gas that is plant food. This is not only a massive hoax, it is criminal. The mobsters who pass themselves off as bankers, politicians, judiciary, media…all of them fan the flames of this criminality. Most people would call you and me conspiracy theorists or some label or other. It’s just their way of shutting down debate because they know that in a debate they would lose. If ever the snoozing masses wake up to this and realise they’re prisoners on day release and not free and about to be locked up in zones while the globalists slowly kill us off, this would end.
Agreed – but it’s fewer farms not less.
I know, Epi, I wrote it in haste though.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51281986
Frim 29th Jan 2020
By Matt McGrath
Environment correspondent
The worst-case scenario for emissions of CO2 this century is no longer plausible, say researchers.
Proponents of climate change and climate policies in government, media and the useful idiot class that glue themselves to things think that climate change is a purely black and white issue. They think it is an issue where you either agree it is happening or you don’t agree (in other words you are a climate denier). To these people there is no in-between the black and white. So when a person asks any kind of question or points out any kind of discrepancy or inaccuracy in some claim about the climate then that must mean they are a “denier”. ———– But isn’t the issue of climate change not supposed to be about science? ——-In science isn’t it the case that scepticism is the highest calling and blind faith the one unpardonable sin? ——–YES. —— So, when science cannot be challenged, because it has simply been declared as ultimate truth and when that science cannot be falsified and there is no way to disprove those scientific claims, then actually we are not really dealing in science anymore. We are dealing in Politics and dogma. We are dealing in “Official Science” that exists for one reason only. ——-To provide the excuse for public policy.——- This “Official Science” that cannot be challenged and which cannot be falsified is the science that supports the Politics of “Sustainable Development”. Without that science, the whole Sustainable Development agenda collapses. So, this is why there can be no discussion, no questions, no expressions of doubt, no indication that maybe there are uncertainties that could use further investigation. But we do not live in a scientific dictatorship. Truth cannot simply be declared by government funded data adjusters, where if they torture the data for long enough it will confess to anything. If they do try to torture data for political purposes then along should come all the Investigative Journalists to expose their shenanigans, but the horror is confounded when we discover that vast swathes of the media supposed to be doing the investigating have simply morphed into climate activists (BBC, SKY NEWS, CNN, Independent, Guardian, New York Times etc etc.. ———We are reminded on TV News nearly every day of the “Climate Emergency”. But where is this emergency? Are storms floods and droughts getting more intense and more frequent? ———Eh NO. They aren’t ——-If someone asks me if there are such things as pillar boxes I can say yes there are, because I have seen them. I have posted letters in them so I know they exist. I have NOT seen a “Climate Emergency” despite the fact that I am continually reminded there is one. It turns out that the emergency exists in only one place —Climate Models. How have we got to a place where 40% of young people don’t want to have children because they fear for the future of the planet? The answer is that propaganda is a very powerful tool which is why governments love using it. They know it works.
Governments are shameless we know. But taking on Goebbels views on the ‘Big Lie’ is the worst of all their crimes.
Please watch Geoengineeringwatch.com. Those chem trails we see EVERY SINGLE day in the UK and around the world, but choose to ignore, are manipulating the weather. And not in a good way.
If you read it, the Washington Post article seems to be more of a discussion of climate change and turbulence than some kind of alarm.
For example, having explained why rising temperatures can increase turbulence, it writes:
But that doesn’t necessarily mean flight turbulence is becoming more common …. Airlines have taken measures to minimize or avoid bumpy air, including through improved forecasting of atmospheric turbulence.
In fact the article makes no predictions at all, much less doom-laden predictions. Yes it refers to Paul Williams but not to the paper that Chris links to. Chris links to a paper first published in 2017 about modelling turbulence. However, the WP article only refers to a 2019 paper providing data on what has been happening on the North Atlantic route (presumably this is the paper it is referring to).
Also amused to see this from Chris:
Apart from small upticks in warmth due to powerful and natural El Nino events, the recent warming is barely measurable within any reasonable margin of error.
Whenever Chris talks about the pause I assume he is referring to Spencer and Christie’s UAH record. There are of course many other global temperature records but even the UAH record looks very much like a rise (and Spencer and Christie don’t deny it). However, allowing for El Nino years is, I think, new. Can we equally allow for the La Nina which has suppressed global temperatures for the last three years?
Yes, but just because something warms does not mean humans warmed it.— Over the last hundred or so years official temperature records seem to indicate warming and cooling periods. There was cooling from 1940-76, slight warming from 76-98 and statistically not much since then despite more CO2 going into the atmosphere. Even the IPCC admit they cannot tell the difference between natural variability of the climate and changes allegedly caused by humans. They also recently admitted that their worst case scenarios are very unlikely to occur, which kind of eliminates the need for “climate crisis” kind of talk. ————— The temperature record of earth though has been fiddled about with more than a hookers knickers. So as Judith Curry has said “Sure, all things being equal, CO2 may cause a little bit of warming, but all things in earth’s climate are not equal”. ——-A little bit of warming is not a “crisis”
Climate change crisis is the biggest Cash Cow in the history of the world. Tens of thousands of scientists and academics rely on this for funding. There is 1 thing driving and maintaining this and it is western governments cash! Until that stops this will continue.
Is public trust in science really being undermined? If so, this article may explain why, but does not show that it is so. Its headline is misleading.
I *suspect* that the current state of science is such that no-one really knows how the climate might change, or what factors might change it. But that is just me, not the public.
Science is not about consensus or trust. What we are witnessing is an utter failure of the education system to prepare people to live in a technically advanced society. I suspect this is deliberate. An educated population ask too many questions.
The humanity-caused climate change industry is very lucrative for some.
They will try their best to keep the money flowing to them.