This year’s climate jamboree is on its way to Azerbaijan next month, and the Silly Season is well underway with all sorts of absurd climate scare stories, all designed to persuade us to accept the Net Zero agenda.
On Sunday the Telegraph reported on a speech by Jim Skea, who heads up the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Skea warned us that if we don’t start rapidly cutting emissions, U.K. summers would be 6°C hotter by 2070.
Why the Telegraph gives credence to anybody who can seriously make such a ridiculous claim is a mystery.
In reality, U.K. summers have warmed on average by less than a degree since the 1930s. More importantly, there has been no increase in the temperature of the hottest summers since the 1970s. The tiny rise in average temperatures is mainly due to the relative absence of the unusually cold summers, which were commonplace in the 1950s and 60s particularly.
A rise of 6°C would mean that Birmingham would be as hot as the French Riviera is now. This is a meteorological impossibility. The reason why the Riviera gets much hotter in summer is because the sunshine is much stronger at that latitude.
Skea also made several other equally absurd predictions, such as summer droughts in Britain becoming more frequent. Again, the actual data show that long term rainfall trends have changed little since 1840. If anything droughts have become less frequent:
It goes without saying that both of these predictions originated from the U.K. Met Office, which does not say much for its credibility!
Skea also raised the spectre of surging numbers of heat-related deaths, despite the fact that many more people die in winter, while summer mortality rates here are always the lowest of any season, even in the hottest of summers.
Skea also said: “It’s very clear climate change is no longer decades in the future. It’s very obvious it’s happening now, so we need to adapt.”
I doubt whether anybody actually living here would even be aware of “climate change” if it was not rammed down our throats every day. The simple fact is that the natural variability of British weather far outweighs the minute trends identified over the last century or two. As for adaptation, quite what are we supposed to be adapting for?
Skea goes on to list all of the other flawed predictions of climate scientists, which continue to be debunked by reality – rising sea levels, more extreme weather, reduced food production and so on.
Skea has benefitted very nicely from the climate scam, as Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College, a Director of The U.K. Energy Research Centre and then a founding member of the Government’s powerful Climate Change Committee.
He was a natural choice to be Chair of the IPCC. But as he admits, it is no longer about science, it is about politics:
Frankly, it’s down to human agency and choice. It’s our politicians, our political system, that can choose or can choose not to implement the measures that we need.
In that case, the IPCC should be shut down and the billions spent on climate research around the world ended. It is about choice and always has been.
We don’t need lectures from the high and mighty. And the choice is simple.
Fossil fuels have already brought immeasurable benefits to the world. Do we want to throw all that away while preventing the developing world from sharing those benefits?
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“Frankly, it’s down to human agency and choice. It’s our politicians, our political system, that can choose or can choose not to implement the measures that we need.“
First, demonstrate the need?
With the climate-liars the “need” always seems to correspond with their personal self-interest.
And Agenda 21/30
The air conditioner that I bought a decade ago has languished pretty much unused ever since.
The sunshade in the garden has only been used twice in the last two summers. Both times it was used as a rain shelter during summer social events.
My fig tree has been cut down to ground level twice by extreme cold. L:uckily it regrows. My olive tree is now an olive stick but it supports a flowering climber.
If it’s too late, let’s give up spending money on Net Zero and enjoy the warmth. But though it’s always too late, it’s never too late to keep trying, for some reason.
I’m thinking of joining Jim Skea in the manufactured panic by becoming a climate-liar. Not only will I thereby be able to present myself as morally superior, but I’ll become very well paid. Marvellous.
When you do, then tell us where you are selling it so that I can buy a box of it for my own use.
UK is at the same lattitude as those noted warm place such as Canada, Denmark, Poland and Belarus. The thing that affects our climate and not theirs is the Gulf Stream, and as a consequence our climate is controlled as much by that as it is by atmospheric events.
“In reality, U.K. summers have warmed on average by less than a degree since the 1930s”
Measured how exactly? Which thermometers, placed where? Same ones as in the 1930s? If not, how can we compare? Conditions very near those thermometers are the same as in the 1930s? If not, how can we compare?
UN = Grifters united.
6C is the difference between breakfast and dinner on many days in the UK.
But 6C hotter compared to what? Today in tropical Kent it is a balmy 14C, so 6C hotter would be a pleasant 20C.
Unless these people are stopped, the rubbish “science” and the dark money behind this grift exposed, we are all seriously up the brown creek.
The vital infrastructure of our societies will be dismantled in front of us. This is absolute, complete lunacy and these people are utterly brainwashed and in thrall to a cult.
Too late. The train has left the station and it’s unstoppable now. We just have to prepare for the inevitable crash. What form the crash takes is the only question for me. How bad will the economic destruction be, will the population revolt or will they be pacified. These kind of questions.
If it’s “too late” to Save Britain, why is Milliband persisting with his net zero nonsense? Give it up, Ed – it’s Too Late!
Cos it’s all BS, and the money won’t transfer itself…
The thing that is never mentioned is that there is not one document in the entire world that proves the world is warming due to CO2. Sure, there are documents but they all rely on modelling and falsified data. The Met for example have at least twice falsified the data and it is well known the majority of their sensors are useless.
There is a fact which is also ignored: more CO2 equals a healthier planet. Indeed, there is inconvenient evidence of this in deserts. The lunatics deem it to be Global Greening and it’s a “bad thing”, search for “global greening is a bad thing”.
Thousands of years ago those deserts were green, verdant and supported life. The Nile Delta for example was a wonderful place. CO2 was far higher and, curiously, there were no 4×4’s. How can that be?
One major thing is that the Moon is on a 10 year wobble cycle. NASA announced it about 4-5 years ago, it was something I hadn’t heard of. According to NASA it will cause 10 years of strange weather. Yet every downpour is Man Made, every spot of sunshine is Man Made and every blade of green in a desert is evil beyond comprehension.
Man no more controls or affects the Planets temperature than any person can control their bowel after a dodgy curry.The difference is that the Global Lie shits out scrounging MP’s who never go away. The symptoms of a bad curry are gone by lunchtime and its only influence is a bad smell. Parliaments across the world reek of the same smell.
The answer is no. The use of the term fossil fuel is almost certainly a deliberate invention to promote the concept of not using natural resources. It’s kind of contradictory with the old marketing name of extracted methane as a fuel – “Natural Gas”, it was called, being an alternative to gas manufactured from coal or oil. It’s still doing a good job for lots of us.
The idea of droughts looks a bit silly this year, given the actual rainfall statistics. However, if there are problems with water supply from time to time, they are related to the structure of the industry compared with the location of the population. Then there is the financial position of the firms involved. E.g. in the case of Thames Water, it’s almost certain that there are projects on the shelf that could better match demand and supply, such as the idea of installing a link between the River Severn into the Thames via Sapperton. That one’s been on the shelf for years.
well if it’s already too late, let’s go back to good old fossil fuels, and do the people who fund t£££s like this other Imperial twonk a break .
Come to Dorset everyone, we are commandeering the Bibby Stockholm – going to build an ark !!
The UK would benifit from some heating. Is the man aware of how cold and wet and miserable the weather is there?
Extraordinary statements by someone who said in his August 2023 Spectator interview with Ben Lazarus, “Keep calm and carry on having kids: the UN’s climate chief on eco-anxiety”headed: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/keep-calm-and-carry-on-having-kids-the-uns-climate-chief-on-eco-anxiety/
Long article but worth reading. Full of optimism. For the Skea clan. Boiling for the rest of us. Obviously, he has accumulated enough wealth for children and grandchildren (himself will be cryopreserved by then) by misselling terror.
Among others:
…He is willing to distance his organisation from the increasingly fatalistic view that many young people have about humanity in relation to the environment. Polls show one in four young Brits is considering having fewer (or no) children in order to do less harm to the planet. ‘I’m about to become a grandfather in January,’ says Skea. ‘So clearly I think it’s sad that people might be making these decisions. I’m delighted the Skea line will continue.’
Although Skea is clearly wrong on his climate facts, some of his words are quite interesting.
In climate policy circles, there are basically two strategies to combat climate change: mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation is basically cutting emissions by installing windmills and solar panels (as well as the less often mentioned deindustrialisation)
Adaptation is things that work locally like flood defences, new crop varieties and so on.
What’s interesting is that Skea talked about adaptation, not mitigation, effectively firing a cruise missile at Miliband’s energy policy.
Notice always the scaremongering is 50 years away at least so most of us will be dead by then—–It’s the eco socialist version of the carrot and stick
How can it be that we’ve bent over backward to “cut emissions” for several decades, yet we never manage to get to a point where anything actually improves because of this? How can it be that we’re stuck in a
loop? Doesn’t this suggest that whatever we’re doing is of no practical consequence wrt “the catastrophe”?
In January 2022, when Boris Jelly-Johnsonsfish’s renewed mask mandate was about to be lifted, the UN sent a special COVID envoy to London who – in an interview – dramatically asked the rethorical question “What do these people [British politicians about to abolish the mandate] know about The Virus me and my colleagues, who’ve been studying it from the start, don’t?” and who predicted the gravest of grave consequences for the UK and the world at a large within a fortnight or less, should the mandate actually be dropped.
2½ years later, I’m will waiting for these consequences to manifest themselves. Does this story perhaps communicated something about UN experts which should be taken into account before meeting their demands?
Sounds fantastic, can have summer holidays at home and save on heating
Oh dear; I would suggest a possible antidote to this insanity might be the excellent book by Prof Steve Koonin, ‘Unsettled, What Climate Science Tells Us, and What it Doesn’t…’
(the 2024 updated and expanded edition)
“reduced food production”: it was worked out recently that in order to come close to matching one fossil fuel power station we would need 100 square miles of food producing land for useless solar farms. MadBand has just removed great swathes of food producing land with his stupid ideas of Solar Farms.
We are in the position where in less than 10 years time we will be importing every single thing we consume from batteries to electricity, bread to steel. This is not a clean way to live, it is insanity. It not only will kill people it makes us incredibly vulnerable on every front. Another Covid happens and millions will die but not from a bug, from starvation and cold.
“I doubt whether anybody actually living here would even be aware of “climate change” if it was not rammed down our throats every day.”
Vis a vis Covid (if there am ever was such a thing).
“Fossil fuels have already brought immeasurable benefits to the world. Do we want to throw all that away while preventing the developing world from sharing those benefits?”
Answer – Yes the Marxists do and are trying very hard to succeed.
Clayton-on- Sea like the Riviera?
Bring it on.
97% of climate crisis scientists would be unemployed if there was no climate crisis. It is the perfect perpetual machine.