Hold the front page! DeSmog reports that the U.K.’s Energy and Net Zero Minister Claire Coutinho has taken a donation from a “climate science denial funder”. Lord Michael Hintze is alleged to have given £2,000 to the minister’s local constituency – a sum that should keep local volunteers supplied with paper clips and instant coffee for a short while. A pathetic smear, of course, simply blowing imaginary smoke where no fire exists. The donation is legal and without such local fund-raising political parties would cease to exist. But curiously missing from DeSmog’s reportage is any note of its own funding where, needless to say, the usual list of green billionaires are to be found.
DeSmog is an unpleasant operation noted for running a ‘blacklist’ of scientists who stick to the scientific method and discuss the causes of climate change with reference to empirical evidence. Called the ‘Climate Disinformation Database’, it lists many of the scientists who dispute the notion that humans control the climate thermostat and society must de-industrialise around a collectivist Net Zero agenda to avoid thermageddon. As part of a global political campaign, billionaire foundations are currently pouring hundreds of millions of dollars every year into organisations that can lobby for ‘green’ causes, as the Daily Sceptic has noted in a number of previous articles. Unsurprisingly, DeSmog is funded by some of these sources that seek to exert influence in all forms of media, politics and academia..
DeSmog is “predominantly” funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, the Polden Puckham Charitable Foundation, the Climate Emergency Collaboration and the Minor Foundation. Interestingly, the Board of Directors of DeSmog includes a representative from ClientEarth, a fund supported by the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and the European Climate Foundation (ECF), both groups heavily funded by Extinction Rebellion paymaster Sir Christopher Hohn. Also listed in this group is the Grantham Foundation, a green billionaire fund known for pumping money into British universities. This latter operation also helps fund the Imperial College-based World Weather Attribution which uses computer models to state with unassailable conviction that humans cause individual weather events. Another board director works for Climate Outreach, a lawfare outfit funded by ECF, along with IKEA and Joseph Rowntree. Sitting on a research advisory board of Climate Outreach is Saffron O’Neill, a geography lecturer from Exeter University who in the past has speculated on the need for “fines and imprisonment” for those heretics expressing scepticism about what she calls “well supported” science.
If all of this was oil money, we would never hear the end of it from the Guardian – $12 million from Bill Gates over the last decade and counting – as noted by the investigative journalist Ben Pile. “But climate change is a fig leaf,” he continues. “It allows corporate, big business and billionaire lobbying to go unchecked, despite the obvious consequences for democratic control of policymaking.”
Recently, DeSmog teamed up with the Guardian to state that 16 of the 31 presenters at the fast-growing GB News channel “attacked” U.K. climate policies including the Net Zero 2050 target. The Guardian reported that 10 of the presenters made statements rejecting or challenging “widely accepted scientific findings” about how humans are affecting the climate and the role the climate crisis plays in extreme weather events.
Neil Oliver, whose Saturday evening monologue is a social media hit, was singled out for criticism. In December 2022, he is said to have asserted that polar bears are “doing fine”, and the ice in Antarctica is getting thicker every year. In fact, polar bears are doing fine with surveys suggesting their numbers are at recent highs. Meanwhile, a paper in Nature noted that over the last seven decades, the Antarctica sea ice area has “modestly expanded”, and warming has been “nearly non-existent”. Terminally silly Brighton green MP Caroline Lucas noted the “truly toxic misinformation” on GB News, adding: “Ofcom cannot allow these statements to go unchallenged and un-investigated.”
Both GB News and the rival Murdoch-owned TalkTV allow journalists to discuss and consider all the facts and opinions surrounding climate change and Net Zero. But care needs to be taken with Ofcom. Any loon can talk about ‘global boiling’ and ‘climate collapse’ on the BBC and nobody bats an eyelid. But Ofcom seems to require ‘balance’ whenever anyone departs from the set text. For some inexplicable reason, no ‘settled’ climate science practitioners will debate their findings in public with critical interviewers, so both GB News and TalkTV are reduced to ‘balancing’ their coverage by platforming Armageddon hysterics.
Ben Pile has had practical experience of appearing on the 10 minute ‘debate’ slots and observes that over the last year he has appeared with a grown man wearing dungarees and plaits in his beard calling himself a “professor”, weather bloke Jim Dale, fire-and-brimstone eco-zeolot Donnachadh McCarthy and Dale Vince. “The Green Blob does not send out its best and brightest to fight its cause,” concludes Pile. “This is because it is not a movement that is founded on the best and brightest. It has no culture of debate, democracy or science, and it eschews these things, requiring only obedience and emotion from its adherents.”
Which brings us nicely back to DeSmog, with its factitious stories about piddling constituency donations, nasty attempts to destroy the reputations and employment prospects of eminent scientists, half-baked attacks on genuine, questioning journalists and sources of funding from agenda-driven green billionaires.
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Yes indeed, they’ve played this song too too many times.
So those coastal properties will go for a song from now on then? OK.
To the very same oligarchs and their creatures who are screeching the loudest. See Al Gore and Barry Obama buying beach-front mansions like they’re going out of fashion.
Whilst its true Barry has bought an estate on Martha’s Vineyard, a mere 3m above sea level, and is building, quite literally, a beachfront property in Hawaii, if the information on Gore’s property is correct, it’s a few hundred feet up a hill.
You can find it on Google Maps.
Still being bought up by climate scaremongering multimillionaires…
I’m sure the Government will pass a law to protect us from the dangers of this sort of misinformation.
Yes, for irresponsible journalism and fear-mongering the populace. And I am serious. These people need to be identified and held accountable.
Good luck. Boris was fined £50 for wasting hundreds of billions on covid.
If you mean articles like this questioning The Science, then yes. Legal, but harmful.
So get all the information you can while you still can! I see they are no longer publishing the stats that reveal that over 90% of Covid deaths in hospitals are among the “triple vaxxed” They must be worried it would reach 100%!
However, even if they censor all alternative views, we only need to assume that the ‘truth’ is always the exact opposite of anything the MSM/BBC and any Government politician says.
It works every time .
Five examples:
(1) Johnson’s ‘levelling up’ actually means ‘levelling down’ and deliberately collapsing the Middle Classes (always top of the Marxist Agenda);
(2) Johnson says “Ukraine is winning the war with Russia” Ukraine is actually losing the war with Russia;
(3) Johnson says he will fight inflation and the unprecedented rise in the cost of living – actually he can and will do absolutely nothing about it;
(4) Johnson says that all the Covid jabs protect against infection and should be even given to small children – in fact they do nothing of the kind and on the contrary, as cited by Coroners are directly responsible for an increasing number of deaths and over one million serious side-effects – like previously unknown myocarditis in the young – and of life-changing damage to health which the Government denies. These figure are regarded by the Yellow Card system as a gross underestimation of actual numbers.
(5) Johnson claims that cheap paper masks are an effective defence against the ‘virus’- science tells us they are useless.
In the ‘New World Order of Lies’ sustained by wholesale corruption – the truth is now always the opposite of what they want you to believe.
I wonder how much longer will Mark Steyn be allowed to tell the ‘truth’ and interview silenced and “cancelled” vaccine victims on GB News?
Hi David, and rather than analysing and condemning the near universally popular environmentalist creed (and its Climate Change economic assault weapon) you seem to be using the issue mainly to create social division and contempt for the democratically elected government, relatively free ‘mainstream’ media (due to its funding basis the BBC is admittedly in a slightly less independent position), and by extension the (at least partially and in theory) liberal democratic system itself.
At the same time on these boards you are vigorously defending and supporting the overtly totalitarian, anti-democratic and anti-liberal Putin regime’s brutal aggression in Ukraine (and also its aggression against the whole of humanity via the never-ending bully-boy nuclear threats).
So re:
“I wonder how much longer will Mark Steyn be allowed to tell the ‘truth’ and interview silenced and “cancelled” vaccine victims on GB News?”
The answer is almost certainly indefinitely in the same way that he has been allowed to present his shows and views (extremely critical about state policies on lockdowns, enforced vaccines, Net Zero etc) for several years now.
The return question is:
How long are journalists, politicians and members of the public given in Russia to present their anti-Ukrainian invasion (sorry, ‘Special Military Operation’) views?;
Indeed how much air time is given to anti Putin government positions in general?
As I have pointed out elsewhere, more than half the worlds population including China, India (the worlds largest Democracy), Africa and South America refuse to condemn Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
Why is that?
American debt to GDP ratio is 120%. Russian debt to GDP ratio is 12%. Could there possibly be an association between that and western (only) condemnation of Russia?
Ukraine is the organised crime and money laundering capital of the world. It’s notable there has been little, if any, condemnation of the western persecution of western based Russian Oligarchs from Putin. One theory is that he’s glad to see the back of them as they run the crime syndicates operating in Ukraine.
As for your claims of Putin being totalitarian, I know a Brit who lives in Russia since the wall came down. The national Tax rate is 14% (which includes health care) and being that Russians lived under a real totalitarian government for generations, they jealously guard their new found freedom in a way the west has forgotten how to.
He lives in a 3 bedroom luxury apartment overlooking the Hilton and Holiday Inn hotels in Ufa, it cost him £70,000. He also owns a house in the country.
Ufa is the centre for commercial and military jet engine manufacture. It has 5 universities and places of worship representing almost every faith. There has not been a religiously motivated crime there in 400 years.
There is virtually no crime there as they have a functional police force which people don’t screw with.
Russians in general are disgusted at the west’s capitulation to woke ideology. They are happy to accept there are two sexes only.
Ufa has an extensive, well maintained road network and an international airport. Neither are ever closed because of snow, and it snows a lot there.
Kindly explain to me what’s “totalitarian” about Russia.
I am afraid you are mixing up a low tax system with multi-party liberal-democracy, they are quite separate things (though they can coincide, clearly not in the case of Russia).
Kindly explain to me what’s “totalitarian” about Russia.
The tyrannical top-down presidential government directly or indirectly controlling all media outlets and attempting to silence any significant journalistic, economic or political opposition through intimidation;
And if that fails imprisonment, poisoning (both in the case of Alexie Navalny, thankfully he survived the attempt) and other types of assassination.
Both at home and abroad.
You’re commenting beneath the wrong article.
This is an article and comment section about climate scaremongering.T
The “Ukraine good, Russia bad” article is elsewhere.
Before you go, take a quick gander at the various MSM articles from a few years ago, when they were telling a different story:
https://askeptic.substack.com/p/the-msms-ukraine-amnesia?s=r
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/359609-the-reality-of-neo-nazis-in-the-ukraine-is-far-from-kremlin-propaganda/
https://time.com/5926750/azov-far-right-movement-facebook/
https://newrepublic.com/article/117692/fascism-returns-ukraine
Et cetera. Enjoy.
I have commented directly on this article on Climate Change quite separately, on this occasion I was replying to David Beaton (as you will see at the top of my post).
And I note that the main point of my message, a simple question about dissenting voices (over Ukraine or any other major state policy) being allowed publicity in Russia – never mind avoiding imprisonment or assassination – has been studiously ignored.
In any case thank you for your list of sources but I already have a perfectly clear picture of the general historical pattern of extreme right support in Ukraine, plus I never look for factual information in opinion pieces (though they can be interesting in their own right) as opposed to primary sources.
The reality is that regardless of the existence of the Azov Battalion etc, when Ukraine was invaded in February 2022 it was a vastly more liberal-democratic / non-fascistic entity than the totalitarian, journalist and opposition politician murdering, ultra-nationalist, expansionist, and overtly fascism-sympathising (see eg Ivan Ilyin and Aleksander Dugin) Putin government.
Indeed worries about ever-increasing democratic freedoms being enjoyed in former Soviet territories like Ukraine filtering back and influencing the oppressed people of Russia was one of the main motivations behind the attack.
Why would the west demonise Russia?
Here’s a clue.
American debt to GDP ratio – 120%
Russian debt to GDP ratio – 12% (yes, twelve percent).
More than half the worlds population including China, India (the worlds biggest Democracy), Africa and South America refusing to condemn Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Why is that?
If the western ‘consensus’ is that climate change is the biggest threat the world has ever faced, why would the world consensus on the invasion of Ukraine be ignored by the same people?
Don’t just downtick me, present your case.
Downticking without reply is the online equivalent of sticking one’s fingers in one’s ears and saying: “Nah, nah, nah – can’t hear you!”
It’d be far easier for them if they just stopped ”testing”. We all know these are not deaths FROM it, but only WITH it.
Or would that be too much like a return to normality?
Just the other day my local paper announced that most of my town will be under water by 2030. Maybe someone should advise the future owners of the £3m+ waterfront properties popping up all over the area. And as for Sandbanks… What will Harry Redknapp and co., do?
Rather foolhardy of your council! Catastrophic predictions are best placed a decade or two into the future, giving the predictors time to live out their lives quite comfortably.
Yeah the climate change scientists changed their tune from imminent catastrophe to those events occurring 70 years in the future.
None of their predictions of catastrophe from 50 years ago have materialised.
Arctic ice is still there, despite the worlds Arctic expert (Prof. Wadham) announcing it would be gone by 2012,2013, then 2016. he gave up after that. New York isn’t under water (Hanson) and tens of millions of people didn’t die of starvation by the mid 70’s (Erlich).
The Amazon rainforest is still a major feature of south America and the Maldives are emerging from the oceans, not sinking. They have even built/are building five new airports there.
Obama has bought a property on Martha’s Vineyard which cost him $14 million. It’s 3m above sea level. He’s also building a multi million dollar beachfront property in Hawaii.
Meanwhile, Michael Schellenberger, the principle green actor to persuade Obama to embark on a policy of renewable energy, has done a complete 180º and now condemns the entire concept in favour of nuclear energy.
Michael also published a public apology to the world, from the green community, for screwing up our lives.
Not one single event in the world can be directly attributed to climate change. Indeed, the IPCC tells us ‘extreme weather’ is no more extreme now than it ever was.
Instead, the world has enjoyed virgin greening of 14% over a 35 year period of satellite observations according to NASA. That’s two continents the size of mainland USA of extra vegetation according to one of the researchers. 70% of that greening is directly attributed to increased atmospheric CO2.
The world produces so much food it throws away around 20% of it before processing.
The downside is the WHO warned the world in 2015 that 120,000,000 people in developing nations would be dead by 2015 from inhaled smoke from heating and cooking over open fires fuelled by timber and animal dung.
Most of that death could be avoided by allowing these countries to develop cheap, reliable fossil fuel derived electricity. However, when faced with that opportunity, the head of the world bank, Jim Yong Kim refused to provide the finance available to him. Instead, he gave it to China.
Trump sacked Jim Yong Kim.
I saw someone the other day comment that they weren’t going to buy a certain property after all because ‘it would be underwater by 2030’. Presumably they consulted the EA maps, but more likely some scaremongering site, but it was the absolute certainty of this happening I found amusing.
Excellent! We can all pick up nice, cheap beachfront properties over the coming years.
We are fortunate enough to live in a wonderful apartment (2nd floor) less than 50 yards from the North sea in Eastern Scotland.
The views are spectacular in all seasons.
A neighbour who is a lobster fisherman (3rd generation) tells me he estimates the land has risen over 3 feet since he was a lad.
He can verify this by having to move his launch site of his boat.
He agrees with me that this is due to the land rising from the burdensome last ice age.
It is a pity (I suppose) that southern England is sinking.
I suspect all local paper editors have been offered a template from Climate Central. The template is then customised by the paper (very cheaply done) to produce space-filling alarmism for the local paper. Like Operation Noah in the Church of England (and similar initiatives in the local branches of many other faiths), it all goes to sustain H L Mencken’s “Imaginary Hobgoblins”.
I think that is what is known as hitting the nail squarely on the head.
The climate hysteric cult have always had a lot of money. I worked out the ratio between hysterics and sceptics as being well over 1000:1 perhaps 10,000:1.
Indeed, the gap was so large, that there was no way the sceptics could even hope to dispel the conspiracy theory of “well funded sceptics”.
Who funds them? Soros ? Gates?
The list is long, including our Royal family who gets £200m(?) a year from renting out the sea bed surrounding the UK, innumerable wealthy land owing rent seekers who rent out their land for wind farms, and corporates who benefit from the trade in carbon credits.
Al Gore closed his carbon trading investment fund to new applicants at $5Bn.
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I think at least one of those sceptics has gone septic.
Listening to talk radio this week I’ve heard a series of stories on the news that I assumed where the opposite of climate scares, 1 was an ice plug in an Alaskan river that released and caused flooding as the ice caused increased water levels.
another was huge sudden snow fall in americas Sierra Nevada.
given all the talk of warming, fires and drought I assumed the stories of cold and snow was the opposite.
is murdochs media trying to nudge me on the home of common sense?
“Global warming” evolved into “climate change” so that any alteration in weather – hotter or colder, drier or wetter – could be turned into a scare.
Snow in Hawaii
The short insert on talkradio’s weather bulletins every day telling us of snow in California or tornados in Oklahoma are getting tiresome.
It’s not news; these events have always happened and it seems designed to create alarm.
When you have lots of hours of radio-waffle to fill, anything that bungs a gap will do.
IIRC, the Somerset levels were drained to create all that useful farmland with the expertise of Dutch engineers back in the 1600s. It will be lack of maintenance, deliberate restriction of farmers by government agencies to prevent them dredging, etc etc that will cause flooding, not the mythical climate change.
Very much so. Pictures from the 60’s show the assorted drains and rivers well-dredged, wide and deep. The reduction in drainage capacity means that moderately heavy i.e. normal in many years, rainfall can lead to damaging levels of flooding. Thus reinforcing the “extreme weather; it must be CO2” narrative.
Obvious to all but the morons in charge!
Parts of the Somerset levels were deliberately not drained in recent years in order to create a wetland habit, in accordance with European Directive 2000/60/EC and implemented by the Environment Agency (Helen Ghosh, IIRC). Also dredging largely ceased, causing the banks of the drainage channels to “close up”, as at Burrowbridge.
Treasonous government agencies happy to sacrifice individual citizens and their property to comply with global edicts that will starve us all. The land in the UK has been managed for 1000s of years in order to feed and clothe the population, and the numpties in charge think they know better despite complete ignorance of local history, geography and technological practices.
Spot on comment!
Next I guess that UK farmers will be paid to “rewild” their fields, making it more profitable for the farmer to let the field become wild rather than produce crops. Perhaps we should re-learn how to be hunter-gatherers and lay traps for wild boar!
They already are! A farmer friend of mine, (beef and arable), says he is nearly at a point, due to massive increases in input costs, where not farming and taking the subsidies would make him a better more comfortable living!
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/06/englands-farmers-to-be-paid-to-rewild-land
Indeed Eagle.
It is even more insidious than that.
A new neighbour recently moved in to a property across our street.
On enquiring if we had a mortgage (we don’t) he told me he had a hell of a job getting one as some providers were reluctant to give one due to his proximity to the “imminent” rising sea levels.
This is also fractured into insurance quotes and is accepted by Lloyds of London and that German outfit ‘something’ Rea?
Crazy! Fanatics and idiots in charge!
I know it’s hardy life threatening, but has anybody else’s council stopped mowing verges, public areas etc? The idea is to ‘re-wild’ I think, but wild flower meadows don’t just appear, they need initial seeding and careful management to achieve the right balance. It seems to me that councils have seen a way to cut their maintenance budget at a stroke by pretending to be green, meanwhile I can see brutish brambles, docks and comfrey starting to grow, which will become a jungle in no time.
Cunning devils. But we’ll never rumble them.
Oh wait!
You just did.
Certainly my council has stopped mowing half the parks and some verges. Little signs, now decaying, appeared explaining about “wildflower sanctuaries” and suchlike. I guess most people are aware that this is a spin on cutbacks in park and verge maintenance. It reminds me of (so I am told) Japanese shop signs that say “opening soon” rather than “closed”: the knack of putting optimistic spin on a poor situation. More recently various roads have been “temporarily” blocked off to traffic by way of “planters” to “reduce the spread of coronavirus”. I doubt if they will be removed. I suspect they are very parochial boondoggles such as schemes promoted by councillors to block rat-runs in their suburban constituencies which did not get funding until somebody added “to tackle coronavirus” on to the introduction of the business plan. A side effect is that the need to fill the pot-holes is lessened, as the roads no longer have the level of traffic.
Absolutely true! All over the country the incompetent and neglectful mismanagement of the countryside is destroying centuries of painstaking irrigation work!
There is no-one left competent enough to fix it and no money is ever provided for proper maintenance . Now they are even destroying acres of farmland with their absurd solar farms, nice little earners for the land owners – financial gain subsidised by the tax payer, just when we need to grow more of our own food .
The totally corrupt mis-governance of this entire county, justified by a pack of lies, has never been more apparent and under Johnson and the current Tory intake of MPs is likely to continue.
A generation or two back, children picked up useful facts from their elders about how stuff worked, and how things were built. The knowledge about drainage around farmland and settlements is fundamental to our comfort, at least if you want to get out of bed in the morning and not stand in a puddle. There is all sorts of stuff underground, hidden, working for centuries, which ensures old cottages stay dry, villages aren’t inundated. No-one 70 years would take this sort of crap from officialdom.
The majority of people today are so ignorant about how practical, physical stuff works that we could lose several thousand years of technological advancement and knowledge more or less overnight, in the event of a major takedown of power supplies or whatever. Everything from drainage, metal work, carpentry and water purification is beyond most folk’s ken, it would destroy civilisation within a few months. Yet only half a century ago there would have been sufficient knowledge in the general population to repair and rebuild locally without too much of a hiccup.
I wonder if this is how it works:
I have a feeling that’s pretty much the racket.
Only in Europe. Here, it’d be a quart. (I think that’s right.)
At sea levels rising at 12″ a century it might take a while for the gift of doomsday cultists to be outed.
A hilarious quick reference ‘Climate Change and Health’ diagram on Climate Central for the benefit of moronic journalists.
Ye Gods.
These people have made a good start with their own mental health illness.
So at 7 this morning, the skies were clear blue above me. So, for the last hour, the planes are out spraying their cooling shit into the atmosphere, doing their geoengineering bit. For anyone that doubts, the govt have more or less admitted it.
I doubt. Where would I find said “admission”?
Crazies are out in force again (relative to this subject of course, mostly they are quite sane).
If chemtrails are real we would have witnessed jumps in global temperature during two notable events, the aftermath of 9/11 when air travel was virtually non existent for months, and covid, when virtually the entire passenger fleet of the world was grounded.
I can’t recall what the temperature response was during 9/11, but it wasn’t much, if anything.
Meanwhile, over the last two years of covid the global temperature observed by satellite has fallen somewhat.
It must be obvious by now to the conspirators spraying all this stuff into the air that it’s not working and they are wasting their money.
If I remember correctly, there was an estimated increase of about 1 degree C across the US after all the planes were grounded, due to lack of vapour trails.
It was mentioned more as an illustration of how cloud/water vapour affects temperatures far more than CO2 ever can.
I don’t believe that air travel in the US was “non-existent” for months, only that all the security checks introduced afterwards made little sense, ie, the Federal authorities were too worried about not being racist to do targeted security inspections.
Same here – the poison drifts and lands on our heads and in the fields – on animals and the crops.
When is this going become a national issue?.]
“Blocking out the sun”? Wasn’t this another deranged Gates backed project?
Aren’t the Maldives meant to be underwater by now? Somebody remind me how many airports are being build there?
The twenty existing airports all have runway elevations in the range zero to two metres above mean sea level.
Are there any cheap properties available in Sandbanks?
Isn’t the inevitable future of “Sandbanks” given away in the name of the location?
I highly recommend dropping the word ‘Isostasy’ into any icecaps are melting Ecoloon ‘debate’ – they always go away.
Excellent. I had to look that one up. Still wrapping my head round it.
You would think IPSO would take a dim view of newspapers being paid to spread fake news.
/sarc
Meanwhile, the approved doublethink from our regime continues to be:
BS never has to make sense – you just pile lie upon lie until people lose the will to live – that then serves their dark wider purpose..
~Cough~ Chemtrails ~Cough~
0.96% of around 3-4% anthropogenic CO2, which is now 4 molecules per 10,000 molecules of oxygen and nitrogen. That extra 1 molecule of CO2 per 10,000 is really going to doom us all and end the world.
Meanwhile we ALL exhale 40000 ppm of that “evil” plant food.
The wealthy elite are trying to turn back progress. Their vision for society is regressive where access to fuel and food is expensive and restricted – a reduced population and a return to serfdom where the elite can enjoy the wilderness experience without the poor spoiling their view and conscience. Instead we should have a vision for humanity that maximises wealth and travel, even as we protect the environment.
In terms of sea level changes, many estuaries around the world have silted up and extended coasts seaward. The Biblical Ephesus is now several km from the coast due to silting even as the land fell relative to the sea. Many Pacific Islands are also growing in size.
Back in 2019 here in Suffolk, UK we had the same. Here[1] is an article from the local newspaper East Anglian Daily Times. It includes graphics (courtesy of Climate Central) showing how much of East Anglia would be “if” sea levels rise by 10cm every decade until 2050. Around the same time the general public (through small groups) and our local councils were bombarded with presentations from the alarmists, including at least one fellow of the Royal Society (Professor Midwinter).
The use of language is obvious: “could”, “if”, as is the use of the scary graphics, he image of which stays in the mind longer than the conditional language. These include the interactive maps apparently supplied by Climate Central and presumably used cheaply by local reporters to fill space with scary stories. The scare is assisted by including real pictures of coastal salt-water marshes, that have long been there, or are being created by default when the sea defences are not maintained. The area around here has always been vulnerable to coastal erosion (not sea level rise) as otherwise we would still be joined to France and Dunwich Church wouldn’t have fallen into the sea. The sea rise scare stories all nonsense, but our local councillors and my MP pretend to hang on every word of the Climate Alarmists and the windmillers, presumably as there will be a lot of taxpayers’ money available so long as the scare can be maintained.
[1] Holly Hume: Could Suffolk’s coast be at greater risk of flooding in 30 years?
All examples gratefully received.
The reporter is being more careful on this one, but then reproduces a Climate Central map showing local towns Alderton (elevation 11m), Hollesley (10m) and Boyton (13m) are at risk.
For light relief, I refer to this “exercise” regarding Doncaster. It comes from secondary school teacher resources. To be fair, I think the creator had their tongue in their cheek, or was even ridiculing the climate catastrophists, and that the lesson objective was to get children to think and talk, rather than scaring schoolchildren about sea-level rise. Nevertheless, the “Doncaster Problem” became something of a cause célèbre at the time and this lesson plan achieved wide circulation. Echoes of it appear in the local press in Doncaster. The Suffolk and Doncaster articles were clearly derived from templates originating rom Climate Central and were heavily ridiculed at the time, only to re-appear this year. It’s very much through the local press and schoolroom that this scare, and similar ones, are injected into people’s minds.
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Get the birds on our side – we could do with swarms of Killer Bees heading for Westminster too!
It’s already infested with rats.
This Russian ‘denazification’ agenda you support seems to be quite happy to follow the NSDAP blueprint – including both a visceral hatred of multi-party democracy and dehumanisation of opponents as vermin to be eradicated.
Excellent article. I have no idea about Climate Central specifically but anti liberal democratic / totalitarian regimes such as Russia, China and Iran will certainly be funding Climate Change propaganda in the West as the best way to destroy both its morale and economies.
We are already in catastrophic waters with massively increasing energy costs (which of course effect all other economic activity) rapidly pushing up general prices – inflation in the UK could soon hit 10%.
In other words we are all rapidly becoming much poorer, with the already poorest as always hit hardest. Already tens of thousands of elderly and infirm people are dying prematurely every year in winter due to home heating poverty.
And the underlying reason for all this is the completely unneccesary abandonment of cheap and reliable fossil fuels based on a malign pseudo-scientific / political ideological agenda.
It’s time to ditch the tyrannical and impoverishing environmentalist creed altogether, and return to the route towards freedom, progress and prosperity.
The irony of the eco-loons campaigning for their own impoverishment.
Not ironic at all, they are consistent with altruism in that regard, altruism is the morality of death.
Luke 6:38 “give, and it will be given to you. …. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
A random quote from the bible is not an argument nor is it reason.
Environmentalism is a religion and, in essence, the philosophy of Immanuel Kant.
Christian faith is not naturalism granted, but why must everything be explained with reference to nature? There is blessing in living a faithful life towards God and others.
Faith is the rejection of man’s means of survival, faith and force are the destroyers of the world.
“faith…[is] the destroyer of the world”? I think that is a bit over the top. I’ll grant that Hitler is not representative of all naturalists, but he was an evolutionist and believed that the “iron logic of nature” compels us towards endless war as a means of selecting the best. He believed in the struggle for life – Mein Kampf means ‘My Struggle.’
Hitler was in no way a evolutionist, he was the product of German philosophy, Kant, Hegel, Marx and their descendants.
Hitler demanded he be seen as infallible, just as the Pontiff is seen as infallible by his church.
And, no, it is not over the top, it is demonstrable fact.
http://freedomkeys.com/faithandforce.htm
Neither of those two statements are sustainable. Sir Arthur Keith in Evolution and Ethics – “The German Führer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consciously sought to make the practice of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.” For the sake of balance, Hitler also claimed to be a ‘positive’ Christian, i.e. a faith devoid of the supernatural elements which only deceived some Catholics and Lutherans into supporting fascism. Like Ayn Rand, with her objectivism, he believed his system of thought was entirely rational, and yet it led to cold heartedness and to immense suffering. The American ‘robber baron’ capitalism was also effectively social Darwinism with lack of social provision, and disregard for health and safety. Capitalism has to be constrained by legislation, taxation and redistribution to the poor for the sake of social cohesion. Religious faith doesn’t always get it right, but at least it seeks a heart for all humanity. I would also add that atheistic systems of government have included those of Lenin, Stalin and Pol Pot, which led to the deaths of millions.
Not so. Our Pope is so far from being infallible it is beyond reason.
When (or if) our present one ever pontificates on Catholic religion rather than his frequent global warming religion, then perhaps we may pay attention.
We believe the Pope to be infallible when, together with all his Bishops, declares an article of faith.
He is ignored by a large portion of my fellow Catholics.
Feeding the programmed ‘ Russia Hate’ paranoia?
I somehow think the Russians have more important fish to fry.
Re:
Feeding the programmed Russia Hate
In spite of propagandists’ best attempts at control using the cod science of ‘psychology’ people cannot be programmed – we all have complete free will to determine what we agree or disagree with, including regarding these issues.
In any case opposing the Putin regime’s domestic tyranny plus extreme aggression in Ukraine based on compassion for all those suffering so terribly there (including Russian troops) is the opposite of hatred.
paranoia?
It’s not the least bit irrational to fear for the safety and lives of those living in Ukraine (including children) or indeed the safety of the billions of human beings (again including children) threatened by the Putin regime with immolation or horrific prolonged deaths through radiation sickness.
Plus to care for the oppressed citizens of Russia threatened with imprisonment or worse for opposing the current government, including over the recent invasion.
But Western Ukraine killing tens of thousands in the Donbass region was fine by you.
Not a flicker of recognition.
Swallowed the western propaganda hook, line and sinker.
I am opposed to all war, wish to see a speedy end to all current conflicts (including, obviously, in Ukraine) and for humanity to move towards agreed universal disarmament.
But you clearly don’t resolve the fighting that was taking place in the Donbass between pro-Russian separatists (backed by Russian forces) and the Ukrainian military by massively escalating the situation, plus threatening to destroy the world James Bond style.
As I understand it the number of civilians killed by both sides in eastern Ukraine had come down to a few tens per year in the period preceding Putin’s invasion (still completely unacceptable), not the thousands you are implying.
Plus the Zelensky regime was notably more moderate and open to a settlement than preceding Ukrainian governments.
In any case the invasion was primarily carried out for ultra-nationalist, expansionist purposes, not to protect anyone.
Just look at Mariupol.
Even if Russia doesn’t fund greens and their ideology and I don’t imagine they do, strangely enough, the fact is that green ideology in the west strangles western energy production and, since energy is a necessity, the west has to import it, if not from Russia then from other countries.
This has the effect of personally enriching Vladimir Putin.
I can laugh at the ludicrous nature of these stories, but then my son (13) said would we be ok and at what elevation was our house above sea level?
Theyre scaring kids for nothing. My son is old enough for a discussion on propaganda, but not all children will mention it to their parents & just absorb the nonsense.
There will be a backlash from our young when they recognise they have been conned.
Kids almost always rebel against the received wisdom at some point in their lives. We all did it.
Try playing Climate Change Bingo. Listen to any news report on the BBC about a commonplace weather phenomenon around the world such as heavy rain, tornadoes and drought. The first person to put their hands up when the newsreader mentions the word “climate” wins a biscuit.
FFS, I’m on a diet. Celebrating biscuit eaters is white supremacy!
Racist!
The Climate Front is just the next stage of the Great Reset Psyop to attack the world’s population. I see the Chem Trails are currently becoming very active to mess up the weather!
Report today that 5,00,000 cows 5,000,000 chickens and 700,000 sheep ‘must’ be culled for Northern Ireland to meet the Government’s absurd “methane reduction targets “. Most of the land in NI involved has no other farming use. Can this all possibly be true? Will people just accept it?
Will they be using Foot and Mouth and Bird Flu ‘epidemics’ to justify he mass slaughter they are planning?
The cretinous green Vegan Loonies and their Billionaire nerd backers are now attacking the very food we eat to create the shortages they want to bring on chaos and even, for some, starvation!
Our sold -out Government of Globalist stooges is now ‘at war’ with its own people! So when does the push back begin ?
The massacre of buffalo in America was the greenest thing evar.
But the indigenous population starved!
Racist!
Or is it Denier!?
This all gets very confusing. White Supremacist! is always safe I guess.
Your comment of starvation brings this parody to mind. First they came for the Cows and I said nothing, then they came for the Chickens and again I said nothing, then they came for the Sheep…
PS, the above not intended to be in bad taste but the loss of food growing capacity due to rewilding, solar farms and bio fuels plus global food supply issues is not looking good.
Fine.
Presumably they’ve forgotten the potato famine disaster that resulted in the starvation of so many Irish…
A single green MP in the UK.
I’m not convinced people are buying this claptrap.
But what you are not understanding Scottie is that the people that have bought this claptrap don’t give a flying fig for the beliefs/future of the majority that haven’t.
It’s an inherent characteristic of the left in general.
you don’t need any green MPs if the two main parties have already bought into it.
This was a 2018 report from the Met Office and co. Note with the middle RCP4.5 all sea level changes are less, most much less, than 1m by 2100, and with great variation. Cardiff 0.35m to 0.81m by 2100 under RCP4.5. ukcp18-marine-report-updated.pdf (metoffice.gov.uk)
As with everything, flooding is usually the result of incompetence when the problem crops up. On a small scale, whole stretches of road can be flooded simply because of a plastic bag (usually a junk food wrapper ejected from a moving vehicle)in an inadequately-sized drainage pipe. I speak from experience.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/gulf-state-opec-members-sound-alarm-about-dwindling-global-energy-capacity
The prince was referring to the surge in prices for refined oil products, in particular in the United States, where gas and diesel prices are hitting a record high, causing problems for the Biden administration.
These pieces keep referring to “when the last ice age ended”. It didn’t, people. We’re still in it evidenced by the presence of ice-caps on the planet. We are in the late Cenozoic Ice Age which began about 34 million years ago and has proceeded in a serious of glaciations and warm inter-glacial periods such as the present Holocene inter-glacial which began about 11,700 years ago. The last ice age was therefore the Karoo Ice Age from 360-289 million year ago – before the dinosaurs.
Gosh! I bet O’Bama and Peloozy, etc, are really sick now about having recently bought expensive oceanside properties.
I notice all the covid top docs, scientists, researchers and data analysts many of us follow, never mention a word about climate change or the proxy war in Russia and Ukrainia. They do not waste a moment of their time on nonsense.
Chris Morrison, the voice of reason. Thank you, sir. Keep up the good work.