Extreme weather storytelling now dominates the headlines promoting the Net Zero madness, and the rush to climb on board the ‘attribution’ bandwagon proceeds apace. Reading University Professor and publicity master Ed Hawkins is famous for his temperatures stripes which brighten up the uniforms of numerous green activists, and he is now seeking a full-time researcher to provide “plausible” storylines of bad weather. These of course will be fed to all the helpful messengers in mainstream media and politics. A new "reanalyser-based" approach is to be used which is said to offer a “novel way to develop plausible storylines for some types of extreme weather events that other methods may not be suitable for”.
The use of the word "plausible" is interesting since the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as “superficially fair, reasonable or valuable but often deceptively so”. Climate "reanalysers" merge weather observations with computer model outputs. In attempting to attribute bad weather to warmer climates assumed to be caused by humans they will do little more than provide a speculative explanation of unprovable validity for events in a chaotic, non-linear atmosphere that is impossible to predict with any degree of accuracy. Any "stories" that emerge would fail the fundamental Popperian principle of the scientific process in that they cannot be tested or falsified. Such stories might be true, they might be false, nobody knows, or at least can prove it – they are just opinions. Opinions, of course – as we see almost every day – that are used
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“UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)…detects little or no human involvement in almost all weather trends, both in the immediate past and going forward to 2100”
Relevant links would be jolly useful for circulating to one’s fearful friends.
In a reanalysis of the alleged “climate science” I have found that almost none of the model outputs can be supported by either Physics or Chemistry. In fact it is rather worse than that, because the “models” have so many fudge factors that they actually model nothing real, most particularly the climate. I will apply for this job as it sounds like money for free, as there is nothing that can be truthfully written to support the job requirements, so I will stay at home and produce nothing, as it is impossible to publish lies as fact with any kind of integrity. Unfortunately I still have that rare commodity!
Why not just describe it as creative writing? I doubt that would attract government and green money. I guess that must be the reason why. I find the most plausible explanation!
What is happening in Australia? There seems to be a flurry of “hottest evah” stories despite the total discrediting of the Australian Board of Meteorology ‘s records and indeed NASA/GISS and UNFCC narratives. Are these people in the real world or some fantasy world maintained solely by echo chambers and taxation?
Can we take this to mean that the IPCC is sobering up and moderating it’s usual anthropogenic model of climate catastrophism, or is it just that this latest idea of a BadWeather Bard is a step too far even for them?
“We seek a motivated researcher to develop storylines of extreme weather events, including their attribution.
Extreme weather events are increasing in frequency and intensity, leading to more severe impacts. Understanding how these types of extreme event have already changed, and will change in the near-future, is of critical importance to inform decisions on adaptation.
This project will develop a reanalysis-based approach to translate observed historical and recent extreme weather events into different climates to quantitatively describe how those weather events and their impacts would be different in warmer or cooler ‘counter-factual’ worlds.
You will work within the National Centre for Atmospheric Science in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, one of the world’s largest research centres focusing on the science of weather and climate. This project is part of a collaboration with the University of Edinburgh.”
My bold – it’s taken as read that this is true. That’s science!
Job title RESEARCH SCIENTIST IN EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS
So if you employ someone to find X or Y, they are not going to say “actually, there are none, or they are not increasing”.
JOB TITLE——-IMPOSTER
PLACE————Climate Scaremongering Department, University of Reading.
DUTIES———–Gather all information that supports the idea there is a Climate
Emergency, and completely ignore all information that does not support this claim. QUALIFICATIONS———No experience required as you will be given full indoctrination (training) so that you will become expert in name calling the “deniers” who we hope will all soon be jailed.
Would love to be a fly on the wall during the interview process, especially if a “climate denier” applies!
The elites are at war with CO2.
That’s plant food to me and you.
But what chances have we got.
When governments loose the plot.
And wreck the futures of me and you.
The media are the shop window for the climate change agenda. TV news is awash with activists making statements of certainty where there is NONE. I can only think of TALK TV and GB NEWS that will question the climate change crisis narrative and have on guests like Ross Clark, Andrew Montford, Rupert Darwall etc. The rest, led from the front by Eco fundamentalist channels BBC and SKY NEWS with its own “Climate Show” present all manner of un-validated garbage for which no evidence exists to the public as if they were reporting on facts. Every storm or flood is to the activists “evidence” of the damage fossil fuels and capitalism are doing to the planet, when real world data actually shows no increase in the frequency or intensity of any type of weather event. This is PREPOSTEROUS. ——-An unsuspecting public are being told a pack of lies with no mention of the huge uncertainty in everything they are hearing. Recently I saw a Nana Akua show looking back over 2023 climate on Youtube featuring the consistently insidious Jim Dale and Climate Scientist Paul Burgess. Jim Dale proceeded to say that every single thing that occurred was because of human… Read more »
JHB is perhaps hoping to redeem some credibility after her ill determined support for the jibby jabs.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/15/climate-crisis-making-days-longer-study
Words fail me.
Preaching to the converted…
Incredibly, there are people out there who actually believe this stuff!