The climate ghouls were out in force recently following the severe clear air turbulence incident on board a Singapore Airlines Boeing 777 that led to a passenger suffering a fatal heart attack. The Guardian asked if the “climate crisis” was making turbulence worse, and both the newspaper and the BBC pointed to one model-based report stating that it was. Needless to say, actual data were ignored in the rush to feed the politicised climate emergency, Net Zero-inspired narrative. Figures published by two safety bodies show there has been no increase in turbulence accidents or rise in injuries per passenger mile over the last 30 years. This in the context of at least a quadrupling of global air passengers over the same period.
The figures above from the International Civil Aviation Organisation confirm the continued low level of turbulence incidents across the United States, the largest air market in the world. There has been no statistically significant increase since 1989.
The second graph above was produced in a 2021 report from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board. It showed no increase in passenger and aircraft accidents, allowing for the enormous growth in traffic during these decades. The NTSB concluded: “There was no obvious trend in turbulence-related accidents during this period.”
Whatever the actual data show, you can’t beat a good climate predicting model when there is Green Blob-inspired work to be done in mainstream media. Both the BBC and the Guardian cited the work of Professor Paul Williams of Reading University. He suggested that atmospheric dynamics have changed significantly since scientists first observed them via satellite data in the late 1970s. Using climate models and the RCP8.5 scenario, he forecast huge increases in clear air turbulence.
Of course he is using the RCP8.5 pathway that assumes soaring temperatures of up to 4°C in less than 80 years. This pathway is little more than a climate model plaything, and an increasing number of scientists believe it is not remotely plausible. Even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states it is of “low likelihood”. Nevertheless, the clickbait addiction to this scenario is still high, with an estimated 40% of IPCC climate impact statements still based on its modelled use. In addition the pathway is said to be behind an astonishing 50% of impact findings produced across the wider scientific community, and these provide a convenient ‘scientists say’ tag for the latest climate scare du jour. The science writer Roger Pielke Jnr. notes that the world imagined in RCP8.5 is one that “becomes increasingly implausible with every passing year”.
The investigative climate journalist Paul Homewood has been debunking nonsense climate and weather stories over many years. He was disgusted with the latest effort from the BBC. Can the wretched BBC sink any lower, he asked, adding: “You are utter scum, BBC – how can any organisation try to play politics with a tragic death like this one?”
Homewood’s bitter comments are understandable as the BBC and most legacy media seek to catastrophise almost every bad event and human tragedy that can be related to the weather. This despite the fact that many authorities state that there has been no increase in most extreme weather events over the last 100 years, human caused or otherwise. In this latest case around atmospheric turbulence, it is surely grossly irresponsible to scare people, young and old, about air travel using the unverifiable findings of computer models fed with highly contentious data. Unless, of course, the mostly undeclared aim is to stop people flying altogether. As regular readers will know, many journalists attend courses to learn how to insert climate scares into almost any story. In addition, they sign up to ready-made copy outfits, all funded by green billionaires seeking to radically reorganise the social and economic lifestyles of global populations.
At this moment, BBC Verify’s climate ‘disinformation’ specialist Marco Silva is coming to the end of his six-month sabbatical at the Oxford Climate Journalism Network (OCJN). This operation is run out of the Reuters Institute and has attracted past funding from a number of green foundations including the European Climate Foundation, an operation heavily supported by Extinction Rebellion paymaster Sir Christopher Hohn. Over 400 journalists from around the world have been re-educated at the OCJN, which aims to move climate specialists “beyond their siloed past” into a strategic position within newsrooms, “combining expertise with collaboration”.
Take a mango, or indeed any fruit, and write about how it is less tasty than before due to climate change, is one suggestion for the delegates. Past speaker and BBC regular Dr. Friederike Otto uses climate models to attribute individual weather events to long-term changes in the climate through her billionaire-funded World Weather Attribution operation. Following her OCJN presentation, attendees were reported to have shown a “massive jump in self-confidence” when attributing individual weather to climate change. The more curious might wonder how this can be so, given the computer-modelled pseudoscientific claims are, to coin a phrase, unfalsifiable and unverifiable.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Baroness Morgan……
…….just let that sink in – almost as risible as Baroness Bennett – the former Green leader who gives new meaning to the word ‘mediocre’.
If in the last 20yrs we have not been presented with sufficient evidence to abolish the House of Lords, and say nothing and keep voting the same way – then I think we deserve everything that comes our way.
The left wing Establishment it only interested in women when it suits the agenda
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Abolishing the House of Lords is irrelevant in this context. Go and stand on a different orange box for that and concentrate on this Breast Screening
matter.
“My name is Boris Johnson, King of Kings; Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains.
He has done this with his followers through his policies and his behaviours, he will as he is doing try to blame business, employers, ordinary people. It his work and his work alone that has done this
There is a bit of a confusion here – between routine screening and the follow-up of individuals with symptoms.
It is an important distinction. Routine screening suffers from the same problems as the PCR testing of an asymptomatic population – false positives etc.
The situation is often examined as a case study in texts covering statistical fallacies.
Well yes sort of. The difference is that 1 in 7 women will still get breast cancer in the UK! Even if a mammogram is “positive” then these results are still confirmed for definite with a biopsy or MRI. So yes it increases anxiety for the women who are waiting but they still get a proper diagnosis and treatment (well unless chemo is halted for covvie). Unlike cov screening it’s also optional, plus you get all these scenarios and the likelihoods in advance so you can give proper informed consent!
PCR tests are all kinds of bollocks because we have no idea what the incidence of covid is, what the false positive and negative rates are, the ct count significance, whether it’s just picking up fragments of dead virus or reacting to other viruses etc. And if you have symptoms they don’t test for the other 200 viruses it might also be. Even if there was zero covid you’d still get some positives.
I tore up the screening form when I saw masks were mandatory.
Right on. I had to argue and fight to get into a hospital so they could look at my daughter’s arm, but they caved in eventually!
Your fault, not the system if you get breast cancer then. Sacrifice your principles, not your health.
Project Veritas interview what they claim are 3 Pfizer scientists. They don’t tell us anything we don’t already know but it’s nonetheless interesting to have it confirmed.
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/project-veritas-quot-pfizer-quot_Tzk7jJbghHdgVlw.html
Savage Jabby will probably just say “well these women obviously *couldn’t be bothered* to get checked up”
If they don’t like cancer, they can just get another disease.
When is it going to sink in that the effects of the govt lockdown and refusal of the WahNHS to perform proper medicine means the UKs medical services are an order of magnitude worse than any other 1st world country, despite the billions shovelled into the ever more demanding ” stretched NHS”
It is the very structure of the NHS that condemns Britons to 2nd world healthcare in perpetuity.
Why will no one ask why Brits are not allowed the level of healthcare available to Germans, Austrians, Swiss Dutch etc etc.
It is no good comparing the UK NHS with any other country. Comparisons throw up very strange anomalies. The NHS is staffed with tens of thousands of nurses who are not performing nursing tasks at all. My daughter is a Nursing Sister but is actually a pen pusher, not even being able to help out during covid because she had not conducted any nursing duties in ten years. She is still listed as a nurse. I used to be a soldier, but I am not classed as a soldier still. Too many nurses are specifically trained and cannot be used in any other nursing discipline. There are still general nursing staff, but not like in the days of SRNs and SENs. Any nurse in those days could be used just about anywhere.
“if it saves just one life”
I heard, today, of a church elder whose wife has gone from “well” to intensive care, with breast cancer, in the course of a few weeks. Something is rotten in the NHS.
It isn’t just women that this is affecting. I have had an experience over the weekend which suggests that GP’s, as soon as they hear the word cough, want nothing to do with you.
I developed a chest infection over the last week, which was affecting my breathing. I finally plucked up the courage on Friday to call for a GP’s appointment, and was told to present at the surgery at 1600, where I was kept waiting intil 1700.
A routine exam,blood oxygen, blood pressure, checked my chest and she started asking me questions. As soon as I mentioned that I had a cough, and was bringing up a lot off rubbish of my chest, instead off asking further, or looking to see, I was told to go and have a covid test. She wouldnt prescribe me anythihg for the symptoms I was describing, presumably because a cough equals covid and you become a statistic.
My health detriorated massively over the weekend, with massive side affects of severe dehyration, loss of bladder control, panic attacks, and I finally got to talk to the same GP yesterday afternoon. She was still not willing to prescribe antibitics, refusing to accept me description. Instead, she arranged for an appointment with a colleague, who did one of the most comprehensive exams I have ever had including asking second opionions of the hospital about the possibility of a Urinery Tract Infection. it took over 40 minutes. The question again came up of the cough, and I got the same you need to do a covid test, but this time I was armed with a sample of the crap I had been coughing up. It was enough to prescribe me antibiotics that I should have been prescribed last Friday instead of letting a massive infection invade my body for four days and cause massive side effects.
So if you go to the doctors and have cough, which you KNOW is not covid related, go prepared to push back with evidence, because your GP is not likely to accept your word for it.
Covid is more important than cancer. It’s also more important than heart disease, diabetes, stroke, dementure…
Correction. Covid is easier to make lots of money out of compared with cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke and dementia.
Propaganda fed muppet. It is not. Or are you being sarcastic?
He’s being sarcastic.
My wife is a Breast Screening Clinal Director, Consultant Radiologist at a Major Regional Hospital in England. In spite of the pause in screening at the beginning of the Pandemic 2020, When she returned to work, she got on with the job and caught up with her lists, and she has continued and been praised for her success. So, not all is doom and gloom. It is a case of the GPs doing their job and refering their symptomatic patients by seeing them and not doing telephone or video triage, the government and media stopping frightening women who need screening from attending their appointments, and Breast Screening staff pulling their finger out and getting on with doing the job. And don’t use Covid as an excuse in England because vaccinated staff no longer have to isolate if in contact with an alleged positive case. The Government and Hancock have a lot to answer for.
Strange, how they haven’t yet found a cure for cancer, or have they? German New Medicine ~
Sacred Medicine. https://youtu.be/45ffPalsA0Y