Westminster eco-lobbying outfit the Green Alliance this week published two new reports linking allegedly growing health and mental health risks to climate change. But rather than offering any new research, data or insight, these reports are merely concatenations of spurious green factoids. The reports reproduce their authors’ ignorance, making the link between climate and health by depriving the reader of any historical or numerical perspective. Their unmistakable goal is to influence the new Government. But all they really reveal is the Green Alliance’s desperate clutching at straws to save the green agenda from its looming collapse.
The Green Alliance (GA) is the epitome of the Green Blob think tank: favoured by MPs, funded by opaque ersatz ‘philanthropic’ outfits, blinded by ideology and incapable of reading any room outside SW1. As energy prices began their inexorable rise in 2020, for example, the GA launched a campaign to increase the VAT on domestic gas from 5% to 20%. This, it claimed, would benefit the poorest, because wealthier people tend to use more gas. Arithmetic, it seems, is the first casualty. And the ideological blinding doesn't stop there.
The report on mental health, for example, after the summary, begins a discussion on “eco anxiety”. “Researchers say it is linked to a perceived lack of agency and the inadequate response of governments to the unfolding emergency,” says the report. And this does much, in my view, to demonstrate the callousness of green campaigners. Whether or not one believes that anthropogenic climate change is
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“Ideology is more dangerous either than Covid or climate change.” Yes indeed. Ideological thinking underpins most of our current problems.
mental and physical health are related to access to open spaces. HMG don’t want to discuss that because it make their development of the Green Belt look foolish, which it is.
“…temperatures of 404C in Nottingham, 384C in New York and 378C in Sydney…”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kjrp2rngzo
Now that’s what I call global boiling!
That’s clearly already global melting!
I think the Met Office has gone a bit OTT with the weather forecast today.
Although there may be some that believe it.
After all if it is on the BBC or Met it must be true. 🤣😱
Climate change causes weather app to malfunction driving up suicides because of extreme-weather anxiety! Windfarms subsidies must urgently be increased to combat that!
Shame these foundations can’t do something useful with their money like the Victorian philanthropists.
I like the empty seats image! Don’t forget that sometimes severe weather brings life as well as destruction ( such as killing off pests agriculturally). It’s almost certainly true that I exist on account of the harsh winter weather of 1946-47, which led to my parents getting together.
My suspicion is that the reports are suffering from the ‘American disease’ – the admiration of rhetoric over that for truth.
Rhetoric is using language effectively to please or persuade – so using ‘framing’, ‘spin’, selective datapoints and straight up lying are seen by those impressed by rhetoric as just using language effectively.
And since use of rhetoric is persuasive countering with mere facts is not persuasive. So keep reporting true data but consider it subordinate to a rhetorical counter. The rhetorical counter has a lot of ground to take back.
“Their unmistakable goal is to influence the new Government”—–The new government doesn’t need much influencing. Infact it is probably the other way around.—-It is likely Miliband will influence the Green Alliance and give them a right ticking off for not influencing him harder.
I suspect that what might cause suicides during heat waves is not the absolute level of heat but the abrupt rise in a matter of days.
Any “global warming” is certainly going to take place gradually and people will acclimatise over a period of years. The actual measured rise is not a single measured value, but is an average of numerous values at varying locations and as such is an artefact. Even if you believe the published values the annual rise is typically a few hundredths of a degree per year.
Or, given the even pattern of suicides throughout the year, maybe the whole claim was spurious.
I suspect that what might cause suicides during heat waves is not the absolute level of heat but the abrupt rise in a matter of days.
I suspect that this is a case of people with a chip on their shoulder trawling through publically available statistics to find “alarming” correlations they believe to be useful for their preconceived agenda.
This – ‘solutions’ looking for problems… see it all the time
I thought “correlation doesn’t prove causation.” That’s certainly the Establishment’s attitude to the gene therapies.
So now we have a two-tier response to a spike in deaths. If it happens to be hot, then they are a response to fears about the climate. But if you have a stroke/heart attack/blood clots/sudden death syndrome etc the fact that you had multiple jabs of a dodgy, poorly-tested gene therapy is simply a coincidence.