Marco Silva is taking time out from his role as a senior reporter for BBC Verify specialising in ‘climate disinformation’ to enrol on a six-month course at the Oxford Climate Journalism Network (OCJN), a green activist operation funded by billionaire foundations promoting the collectivist Net Zero project. Past direct funders of this course include the Laudes Foundation and the European Climate Fund, the latter heavily supported by Extinction Rebellion funder Sir Christopher Hohn. Also signed up for the course is Mora Morrison, a BBC World Service producer.
I guess the cat's out of the bag…
— Marco Silva
In January, I'll be joining the Oxford Climate Journalism NetworkSuper excited about it! https://t.co/yTLNmM00YE
The OCJN runs what is described as an intensive programme for about 100 journalists/activists around the world. Participants can expect to be immersed in the correct political narrative surrounding climate collapse, the so-called ‘settled science’ and the need for extreme Net Zero measures, whatever the economic and societal cost. A flavour of the echo-chamber discussions can be gleaned from past essays produced by ‘alumni’, which include titles such as ‘Journalists should help audiences understand extreme weather – even when they lack climate data’, ‘To report fully on climate change, journalists need to integrate indigenous knowledge into their coverage’, and ‘Newsrooms should develop a mental health strategy to help climate journalists cope’.
Marco Silva should enjoy his time confirming his climate science priors. He has a keen nose for what he calls ‘disinformation’, basing his work on what he deems to be the authority of 99.9% of scientists who say humans are primarily responsible for the current warming of the climate. This is provided as a reason for not hearing from the “other side”. The ongoing scientific process, alas, seems to play little part in the BBC’s Net Zero agitprop. Alas, again, Silva seems unaware that the 99.9% consensus claim that he holds to be true is the creative work of cream pie thrower and green activist Mark Lynas. This work was demolished recently in a paper led by the chemistry and physics professor Yonatan Dubi. He found that massive flaws and biases riddled Lynas’s work, implying the conclusions of the study do not follow from the data. In fact, looking at the data presented by Lynas, Dubi concludes that the actual number of scientists agreeing with human-caused warming may be on the “low side”. A previous 97% consensus claim has also been widely debunked, with former Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) author Professor Richard Tol saying that the climate community still has a long way to go in weeding out bad research and behaviour.
None of these issues need bother the hundreds of journalists now passing through the hands of the OCJN. Started last year, it is part of the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford. The Reuters Institute is backed by the Thomson Reuters Foundation and numerous green billionaire funders including the Laudes Foundation, the European Climate Foundation (backed by Sir Christopher Hohn’s Children’s Investment Fund Foundation) and the Knight Foundation. During 2022-23, funding of “over £1 million” was received from the Google News Initiative and Meta Journalism Project.
At the OCJN, the Advisory Board is dedicated to “improving the quality and impact of climate change journalism worldwide”. Again, careful curation is evident in its goal to “establish connections between the Network and leading organisations and ideas in the world of climate journalism, climate science and climate policy”. Members include OCJN co-founder Wolfgang Blau, who’s also an adviser to the United Nations Climate Change Division and a trustee of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation; Dr Fatima Denton, a co-ordinating author for the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report; Aldine Furio, the Strategic Communications Director, Europe, at the European Climate Foundation; Leo Hickman, the Editor of Carbon Brief, an activist blog funded by the European Climate Foundation; Dr Radhika Khosla, contributing author to the IPCC; and Catrin Thomas, who helps the Laudes Foundation to “catalyse broad impacts through the development of external relations”.
Marco Silva claims that he is investigating and debunking bad information about global warming. “Not everything is what it seems,” he tells us. “Bad actors can be incredibly clever in the way they try to manipulate our knowledge and perception of climate change. Don’t rush, take your time to dig deeper, and dare to ask: why is this narrative being shared? Where does it come from? Who stands to benefit from it?”
Perhaps he might care to put those last three questions to the well-funded organisers of his sabbatical over the next six months.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Sounds as if they’ll have to be brave and start speaking out.
Yes. I realise it is easy for someone like me to say how wrong all this is and that people in a position of authority should speak out, but reality is, of course, not quite that easy.
But I genuinely believe we are looking at outright crimes against humanity and the only way to stop it is to say: No more! If there really are so many people leaving these positions, they must be able to reach out to each other. They can join Robert Kennedy, Dr Malone, Dr McCollugh, Dr Kory, Dr Doshi, Dr Vanden Bossche and all the other people in the medical profession and science community who have spoken out, to their cost. The greater the number that speak out, the stronger they are. More will follow, even those who don’t necessarily agree with what they say must see that if they wish their profession to be respected, they must stand up for their colleagues. They need to realise that if grifting politicians and public health authorities will crush their colleagues, they will crush them too as soon as they step out of line.
They should reach out to Robert Kennedy, Steve Kirsch, Naomi Wolf, Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, Del Bigtree.
The momentum is growing and the dam will break. Be on the right side of history.
Perhaps they are watching their backs now?
No one wants to be first through the door, do they?
Well, I have news for these “frustrated, exasperated and alarmed” scientists:
MANY OF YOUR PEERS HAVE BEEN SHOUTING ABOUT THIS SINCE THE BEGINNING, AND YOU KNOW THIS ALREADY. AND YOU KNOW THEIR NAMES. GROW SOME BALLS, AND TELL EVERYONE YOUR NAMES, TOO. AND THEN START SHOUTING, PLEASE. THERE IS NO EXCUSE NOW.
I have done my shouting now. And I have shouted a lot, since the beginning, in front of New Scotland Yard, in front of the BBC and many more places. I have been proud for all to know my name. In my workplace and more. And to lead by example, here it is:
Mr Joe Vorlicky, and I say, for what it is worth,
TO HELL WITH ALL THIS SILENCE AND FEAR!
I do understand that nobody wants to destroy their own careers but how can they live with themselves? Also, and perhaps this is being naive, but if enough of them called this out then just possibly these organisations could, you know, do some actual science. Wouldn’t that be more rewarding than being shills for pharmaceutical companies?
Here’s something senior FDA and CDC officials might want to listen to attentively on their way home from work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtqPlB-oC4w
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Well I guess this is good, but they need to speak out harder. There are whistleblowing procedures. If the CDC and FDA are being pressured by government, someone needs to whistleblow hard. RICO or something.
You don’t really believe that whistleblowing procedures would be followed if it became known that government officials were secretly in league with far-right antivaxxer conspiracy theorists, do you? Unless something seriously dramatic happens, a future US government may chose to investigate this issue. The present one certainy won’t. That would amount to self-impeachment.
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Why do people say the regulatory agencies are captured by a political narrative? I have seen this a number of times where people are saying that public health agencies are putting political motives above public health. I do not think this is accurate. This is not about ideology or politics. This is about money. They are putting financial considerations over public health as in the pharmaceutical industry owns the public health agencies like Bill Gates owns the WHO. It is all about the money in the end. This is a good article, but let’s call it what it really is. Thanks.
It’s probably both. There’s sort-of a positive feedback cycle here: Politicians make certain decisions. Like treating a benign coronavirus as if it was Yersinia Pestis on steroids because the great chieftain of the yellow people of the far east is terribly afraid of it. This opens an avenue for the health industy to make money by developing products promised to be tailored to it. As these become available, politicians feel compelled to make decisions favouring the new product(s) because it provides them with a seemingly easy way to avoid admitting that their original decisions were dangerous nonsense. The health industry now senses that there is Real Money[tm] to be made here and not only research grants. Hence, it puts more resources into products claimed to be tailored to … and so on.
It’s also important to assign responsibilties properly here: The great campaign to murder American children with mostly harmless injections serving no purpose is the responsibility of an immoral political class to whom humans are mostly pests endangering a precious huge ball of stone they’re very much concerned with. The pharma industry is just amoral and exploits whichever opportunities happen to be available to it. To re-use a slogan of the gun lobby: Vaccines don’t kill people. People kill people.
More than a little late in voicing their concerns ….. but better late than never.
An excellent article—I have forwarded it to decision makers here in N. Ireland, some of whom will actually read it!
Ethical Doctors actually interested in people’s health? Who would have guessed.
There’s one word that is the reason for all this – Fauci
I imagine there are many people who’ve been in denial about what’s going on, realising they should speak out but afraid of being ostracised. The longer they submit to cognitive dissonance the harder it will be to break out. They need to look into their hearts and find the confidence to do what’s right. That’s not easy and we need to give them as much support as possible, saving our anger for those who have been driving this madness from the beginning.