Arctic sea ice has continued its recent recovery despite 2023 being claimed as the hottest year on record globally, according to data recorded by Germany’s Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). From the AWI website (hat tip: Pierre Gosselin):
The slight recovery trend since the Arctic minimum was reached is continuing at the beginning of 2024, with the sea ice extent at the beginning of the year below the average value for the years 1981-2010, but in the lower range of the extreme values (minimum/maximum) of this international climate normal period (Figure 1).
If we look at the new reference period 1991-2020 introduced by the World Meteorological Organisation in 2021, January 2024 is roughly in line with the mean value of this period (see interactive graphic). The average Arctic sea ice extent in January was 13.99 million square kilometers, around 400,000 square kilometers greater than the ice cover in January over the last 20 years (Figure 2). During the month, the extent increased by approximately 29,000 square kilometers per day, which was slower than the average increase from 1981 to 2010.
Gosselin notes that the chart shows “a stable trend over the past two decades” with the recent January maximum “higher than 15 of the past 20 years”.
Polar bear specialist Susan Crockford remarks: “It’s almost like Arctic sea ice extent in winter has almost no relationship with global temperatures!”
The Daily Sceptic‘s Chris Morrison reported on this “stonking recovery” in Arctic sea ice back in February. But with other agencies and commentators now catching up with the news, it never hurts to keep the counternarrative facts in front of the public.
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The more that institutions become captured by the ‘woke’ neo-Marxists the less control can be exerted upon them by democratically elected ‘right wing’ politicians.
Blair weaponised state institutions and quangos against any change by stuffing them full of Common Purpose ‘graduates’.
This is why despite 13 years of Conservative government our state apparatus still remains ultra-liberal left leaning.
“We are all Socialists now” —Nancy Pelosi ——–(At least I think it has her). But no matter who said it, that is basically the state of affairs we have now where right wing thought is criminalised. The Liberal Progressive Virus has spread all over the western world and there appears to be no antedote. —————But wait. Look at Poland. Look at Hungary. ——-Maybe it isn’t over until the fat lady sings. Or am I not allowed to say “fat lady”? F..k it I am saying it anyway.
John Major was influenced by evil right-wingers? Lol!
The author elides Conservatives with conservatives so I stopped reading.
Yep. Hole in one.
What no Scruton? I am sure he would be miffed,and smiling wickedly from an elegant armchair dressed in hunting pink.
He knew his Fools,Frauds and Firebrands.
The Straussians themselves didn’t do much but their neocon acolytes have held huge sway over foreign policy for decades. I don’t think the distinction described in this writing makes much sense anymore. If you study neoliberalism you will see that it borrows from fascism, communism and free market economics. Essentially combining the extractive power of all of these and the concommitant control measures needed to ensure the smooth flow of resources upwards. This article might’ve made sense twenty years ago now it sounds more like a cry for help given the true horror of the situation.
But how on earth do we get the West to go un-woke? Is it even possible now? An interesting viewpoint on the woke ideology from a Latin American perspective;
”I would say that woke ideology is the worst threat to Europe in its entire history. It is more dangerous than the Ottoman Empire trying to conquer Europe and more dangerous than Russia was in times of the Iron Curtain.
Woke ideology is destroying Europe from within without Europeans even noticing it. They are absorbing this woke ideology without noticing that it is a poison that is killing them. Cultural warfare is very dangerous and very effective. It is the most advanced kind of warfare, and Europeans must find ways to face it, some kind of antidote.
When you have lost a sense of truth, when there is no truth, when you have lost a sense of family, when young people are confused, when they want to undergo surgery to change their sex, when they start asking questions about what sex they are and believe their sex is not determined anymore by nature but by perception, then you have a society so confused and so weak that it can be taken over by other forces.
And this is what is actually happening. Europe is not being conquered with tanks and rifles, but it is being conquered through cultural warfare. European civilization is becoming too weak to resist the different threats it is facing because it is being destroyed from within.
With my latest book being translated into several European languages, I would like to contribute with the experience of a Latin American and Venezuelan to convey this message: that Europeans not only need to answer this threat with a political movement, but they must also build a social, grassroots movement to defend their families against woke ideology.”
https://rmx.news/woke/exclusive-europe-is-not-being-conquered-with-tanks-and-rifles-but-through-cultural-warfare/
Interesting post Mogs.
Especially this:
“Europeans not only need to answer this threat with a political movement, but they must also build a social, grassroots movement to defend their families against woke ideology”
Unfortunately democratic politics in the UK produces parties who all cleave to the same transnational agendas such as DEI and ESG because their central bank bonds have been sold to Blackrock, Vanguard et al.
All political parties who stand a chance of election have all signed up to The UN Paris Agreement which forces increasingly stringent environmental legislation upon us all. Hence no real push back on London’s ULEZ from the Tories.
The Tories stole Farage’s populist thunder and dressed themselves up as the Brexit party simply to thwart the dismantling of the LIBLABCONGREEN consensus. If the Tories were serious about enacting cultural change they would simply force all state funded quangos and civil servants to declare whether they are Common Purpose graduates. If this is found to be the case they should be forced to reapply for their job.
To defend your family against wokery, parents need to remove TikTok from kids phones and schools need to have a proscribed curriculum which covers race relations and sex education in a fair and balanced manner.
Very Good Post ——Have you read “War on the West” by Douglass Murray”? Or how about “While Europe Slept” by Bruce Bauer?
No I haven’t tbh. Thanks for the recommendations though.
Scruton made fun of the notion of ‘neoliberalism’ and in a sense he was right. Because the term doesn’t contain this force very little does. There is a film called The Lady From Shanghai starring Orsen Welles and Rita Hayworth. And he talks to her about the shark feeding frenzy. How they are drawn towards blood and then start eating everything in sight. So frenzied they are that they start to bite each other. And in the end they are so crazed that they bite at their own stomachs til their death.
If you are worried about the health and general survival of your loved ones then you have to be thinking certain thoughts there is no room for deviation. First and foremost you have to be thinking about likeminded people and more importantly networks of survival in your local area. Don’t be scared by numbers if you can then get a group of intelligent people together at this point and share the best of all of your insights it will count for a great deal in the time to come.If you can’t then just do the best you can whilst being informed from the spirit.
Well speaking of intelligent people, this guy is the polar opposite. Imagine if we were surrounded by people like this. Not only is he thick as mince but doubly so because he’s admitting to it live on national TV. But these meat robots walk amongst us undetected, much like the alien imposters in ’80s classic, ‘V’. They look human, they sound human but they definitely do not pass the scratch ‘n sniff test!
https://twitter.com/SKMorefield/status/1696305217770287159
I’d expect him to use a hidden zipper on his back starting just below his shirt collar to get out of his human costume once he’s off stage and shuffle away on all fours as the reptilian he clearly is. I also wouldn’t be overly surprised when these repitilians had four different sexes at various stages of their lives and were highly allergic to carbon dioxide. Would explain a real lot.
I’m increasingly of the opinion that the majority of the population are not conscious beings.
They’re sort-of conscious beings but they only rarely have the time to regain their conscience because they keep being flooded with noise information by TPTB in order to render and keep them intellectually helpless.
But a major part of what the woke cult involves is this ‘guy’ below. I think he’s just one of many of its victims. I genuinely don’t know if this is parody or if he really did go through all of this and is speaking from personal experience. It’s like humour, pathos and regret all mixed into this 3min poetic ditty. Not sure whether to laugh or commiserate..
https://twitter.com/TheOfficial1984/status/1696520163196317906
He comes across to me as a normal male who has possibly observed what has happened to a friend or relative and isn’t happy about it.
But who knows?
Absolutely shitty parody of the quite nice song we had here not that long ago. Is this really so difficult to recognize? And that’s all these people are capable of. Provided someone else comes up with something, they can make a 2nd rate copy of it where they’re talking at length about the output of their digestive system and about other gay paphernalia. At this point, all the so-called liberals explode with mock laughter and congratulate themselves that they’ve won another round of the so-called culture war with the tried-and-trusted method people will always fall for.
Of course its difficult to recognize, that’s what I posted. And I have no clue which song you’re on about so your reference is obviously lost on me. I literally couldn’t tell if the guy is taking the piss or has really had his penis chopped off and is lamenting his decision.
There was an article here not that long ago about some guitar player/ singer whose song Rich man north of Richmond had become a Twitter-hit. We also immediately had local wisecracks pointing how PRIMITIVE (!!1) this really was. That’s where the chorus with the It’s a damn shame … comes from, only that it’s here accompanied by someone who can really neither sing nor play the guitar (or at least intentionally tries to avoid showing skills at either of both) and with some pretty unappetizing lyrics centered on human excrement and gay this-and-that.
Run-of-the mill Wera indelleggdually so soupirior and suffisicated! parody attempt.
…just my two penneth……I don’t like this ‘parody’ of Anthony Oliver’s Rich guys north of Richmond….
The original, seemed to me to be a genuine song with genuine feelings felt by the singer …. and something people could relate to and get behind.
This parody is at worst some kind of attempt to downgrade or belittle that song and the people who identified with it….or at best a shitty parody….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqSA-SY5Hro
Oliver Anthony!……LOL …..that’s what happens when your name is two Christian names!!!
I agree it’s hard to tell what his point is….but it is a pretty crappy parody of another song…I’ve replied to RW and put the ‘original’ song on….
There has been no substantial left wing in this country since 1990. As for the tradionalist view it was going out of vogue in the mid nineteenth century and the countervailing force has got stronger and stronger. You can see the energy and attraction of the industrial revolution and it was at that point that the force that opposes us made a big move. Not only did it assert itself but it prevented redemptive forces from entering the atmosphere of the earth. This stopped in 2014 and so it might not look like it but in some sense humanity is trying to heal itself and the bright lights are returning.
“There has been no substantial left wing in this country since 1990.”
Which “substantial” wing have we had in this country since 1990? What are your definitions of “left” and “right” wing?
I remember in 1990 people standing out on the streets selling copies of ‘Living Mrxism’. And there was still a sense of an oppositional force. I felt a deep melancholy in 1994 because I read the signs of the previous three years and saw that Bush’s ‘New World Order’ was coming into place. Not only abroad but at home too in the way that this would affect local communities, jobs, working conditions etc. This whole time period makes me feel sad given the potential we had and how we squandered it.
Yeah, we need more “Living Marxism” – it has been a roaring success wherever it has been attempted.
But not in Albba nia.
Boosh, the left wing republican.
Mine – republican and monarchist. Hence the idea of a right wing republican is a nonsense.
Collectivist vs individualist
I am ok with a monarchy, wouldn’t get rid of the institution here, just the current incumbents, but think you can make a success of things without a monarchy
You have to have some balls and some energy. What if you don’t have any and our current situation leaves you cold – this is no good. Just do it anyway even if your balls are shrunken. Because the alternative is a world of shrunken balls forever. Not just yours but everyones. It really is as simple and fundamental as that. Our enemy is very powerful but not very intelligent.
Don’t just fall into their trap. This is part of the trap. I say this now because we are in the easiest time in terms of saying things in the time to come. I know that the West has been essentially an adventure playground for many decades This is changing very quickly. I’m sure regular readers of this page understand the situation.
Just get a sense of reality because no matter what your background this is a different arena.
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/is-us-getting-new-covid-vaccine-heres-president-joe-bidens-bold-plan-for-mandatory-immunization/articleshow/103109424.cms
Courtesy Dr Mike Yeadon.
Mandatory “vaccines” anyone?
Somewhat related.
Jordan Peterson lost his appeal against the Ontario College decision, and he now faces ‘re-education’ training of an indeterminate length.
His articulate rage is wonderful to hear. He’ll attend it, and record it, and then publicise it. He’s talking of the supreme court. If he’s going down, he’s going down swinging.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_o8goN6FOA
Great article.