The British Government is one of the main financial backers of a new international campaign designed to suppress online climate science scepticism ahead of next year’s ‘make-or-break’ COP30 in Brazil. Run by the United Nations and UNESCO, the Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change was signed off at the recent G20 Summit in Brazil. Part of its remit will fund non-profit outfits rooting out so-called disinformation and promoting ‘public awareness campaigns’. Commenting on the campaign, the UN’s global communications flack Melissa Fleming noted that a growing number of people are waking up to the harms caused by climate disinformation and “toxic information ecosystems in general”. She suggested that a global movement for “information integrity is gaining momentum”.
In fact this initiative is a desperate throw of the dice to further trash the scientific process and curb free speech and commentary. Fed by decades of failed doomsday climate predictions, fake, cherry-picked and massaged statistics, farcical weather ‘attribution’ claims and an increasingly obvious politicised ‘ban’ on sceptical discussion of the actual science, the ‘momentum’ is turning towards a demand for genuine debate. This terrifies global elites faced with a loss of credibility – as evidenced by popular votes in numerous recent elections – who thus launch yet more crackdowns in increasingly desperate attempts to cancel their critics.
This was always likely to happen as deindustrialisation and the need for radical life-changing (and life-threatening) economic and societal changes started to become obvious under the Net Zero fantasy. Removing hydrocarbons from a modern industrial economy is impossible. But taking a different view has offered countless opportunities for command-and-control nuts from the Left of the political spectrum. To fuel their dreams over the last 40 years, the traditional scientific process of debate and inquiry has been cast aside and replaced with a climate-modelled pseudoscience ‘consensus’ and global campaigns to induce mass psychosis over an invented climate emergency.
Fleming and her UN employers have always been aware of the need to control the global narrative. At a recent World Economic Forum ‘disinformation’ seminar, she noted that the UN had partnered with Google to ensure that only UN-approved climate search results appeared at the top. In chilling tones, she explained: “We are becoming more proactive, we own the science and the world should know it.”
Few details about the initiative are available but it is noted that it will strengthen existing campaigns on climate change “to mitigate and counter climate disinformation particularly in advance of COP30”. After the unmitigated disaster that was COP29 where, to comment realistically, nothing was agreed, there are concerns that next year’s meeting in Rio de Janeiro will make or break the crumbling international boondoggle. Matters will not be helped over the next four years by the contempt for the entire climate circus that is likely to be shown by the Trump administration in the United States. Perhaps, already, the U.S. is going missing when the climate plate is handed around. Funding this latest UN-inspired free speech assault, the country is notable for its absence, unlike the U.K. (of course), Chile, Denmark, France, Morocco and Sweden.
Needless to say, when science needs to be trashed and free speech quashed, the big money suspects are never far from the action. Fleming noted that a “wide network of civil society partners” was joining the work of the initiative.
One of these partners has been identified as the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE). Some might see the speech frequently expressed in robust terms on social media as a natural and welcome development of the free speech ideals of the European Enlightenment. IPIE seems to take a difference view. It notes the creation of a “global information environment crisis” and an existential threat to humanity. “The cost is billions of dollars, millions of lives and an erosion of trust in science, our institutions and each other,” observes this convocation of cheery souls. Amusingly, IPIE claims to provide “neutral assessments on the condition of the information environment”. One of the main funders of IPIE is the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, the main vehicle for money distributed by Sir Christopher Hohn, an early paymaster of Extinction Rebellion. Other foundation cash comes from Oak, Ford and Heising-Simons.
Another partner signed up to the “landmark initiative” is the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). The goal, notes the WMO, is to protect the integrity of information in the public sphere, ensuring that decisions on climate action are based on “accurate, reliable and science-based data”. Of course it could be noted that a start on supplying accurate data might be made within constituent WMO operations such as the U.S. weather service NOAA and the U.K. Met Office. Both operations supply temperature readings corrupted by massive urban heat and invent local temperatures from non-existent stations. Despite nearly 80% of its stations being sited in WMO Class 4 and 5 locations with ‘uncertainties’ of 2°C and 5°C respectively, the Met Office publishes figures claiming accuracy down to one hundredth of a degree centigrade. The world has warmed a little over 200 years since the ending of the Little Ice Age, but an accurate rate cannot be taken from these obviously inaccurate figures.
Celeste Saulo, WMO Secretary-General, emphasised the importance of fighting “disinformation” in the battle against climate change. “In this age of disinformation, stating the facts is not only a moral imperative but a critical tool for survival,” she noted. A less charitable view of the WMO participation is that it is about trade protection for on-message scientists. To date, the growing scientific scandal around global temperature figures has been largely kept out of the mainstream media.
It is far too early to call the death of Net Zero. Powerful interests to keep the show on the road are embedded throughout controlling elites. Emeritus Professor Richard Lindzen of Harvard and MIT has spent decades pondering how the fraud and corruption works. What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries, states Lindzen, is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled a coalition of powerful special interests to convince nearly everyone in the world that CO2 from human industry was a dangerous, planet-destroying toxin. “It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison,” he added.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Pah, who goes on Google now anyway? The rise of non-partisan internet search engines has been in full flow for years, with more and more people realising that Google routinely censors results which don’t “toe the line”.
Just more of your money splashed on futile censorship.
I use it for maps sometimes – although it is not necessarily up to date, with no real version control on it when road alterations are done, but not for general searching for anything else.
I use Google frequently. It’s great for most searches, very useful. For example, I googled the title of this article by Chris Morrison published here less than two hours ago – “U.K. Government Pours Big Sums into Latest UN Crackdown on Climate Dissent” – and it comes up immediately as the first result. That’s pretty good.
And then I googled the title of an older Chris Morrison Daily Sceptic article, from more than four months ago – “New Research Debunks the Latest ‘Tipping Point’ Climate Scare to Frighten People into Supporting Net Zero” – and same again, two Daily Sceptic results and two Twitter/X results come up.
So if Google doesn’t totally censor articles by Chris Morrison and the Daily Sceptic, it’s hardly going to interfere at all in searches which are not considered to be a problem, which is most of my google searches.
Fair enough, I’m glad you found what you were looking for. The information contained in this article seems to suggest that may not continue.
“May not continue”.
Ha!
It stopped a long time ago for true information about health. If you want to see official misinformation and disinformation in action cancelling truth this site which directly challenges decades of official health misinformation and disinformation with hard facts used to get millions of views until cancelled totally by Google and other search engines:
Vaccines Did Not Save Us – 2 Centuries Of Official Statistics
But it looks like Trump’s election as US President is bearing some fruit.
Pick a search engine and do a search on the title.
Before Trump’s election the site did not exist on Google. But today for the first time in decades the site came up on Google.
But it is still cancelled on many other sites. It is not on DuckDuckGo, not on Bing, not on yep.com, not on openverse.org, not on yahoo.com, not on ecosia.org, not on aol.com ………
You might find sites which refer to it or copy its content but not the site itself.
Some AI search engines have not yet been tainted with Google’s censorship and cancel culture – but it is only a matter of time.
If you search for something explicitly you are likely to find as everything is indexed. However, if you search more broadly Google will rank the results as it sees fit. They have been asked/instructed to rank climate article so that pro climate narrative are top, while the more sceptical can be buried.
Yes, I agree. I don’t trust google in regard to a few topics, such as Covid vaccines information, but for most things it’s very useful.
Not true for cancelled sites as I show here.
…asked/instructed/*PAID*… some serious cash shapes the google output
The article is now the eighth search result, with an article from the Guardian about government crackdowns on environmental protestors (!) in first place.
I wish you were right,Tonka, but they do, in their millions. Mention a few alternative podcasts, websites, search engines etc to most people and you’ll get a blank stare
There may be plenty of vested interests who know they are producing and defending Climate Change propaganda so they see any opposing views as counter-propaganda, i.e. disinformation and misinformation.
There are plenty of useful idiots who are taken in by the propaganda – and they form a human shield to defend ‘the settled science’. They are going to be quite upset by being taken for fools, although a few might be hold-outs because of their previous convictions.
There are lots of them around. However, looking on the bright side, look what happened in South Korea the other day.
Yes that sanctimonious Naga on BBC Five Live “bonkers”….I sent a reply saying how Lockdowns were also bonkers. Abuse of Public Health Act 1984 for a virus with a 99.97 recovery rate. Emergency powers were used with no journalistic intrigue, must be all that extra money they had thrown at them. She never read that message out.
At least they have admitted that a lot of it is fundamentally unscientific. Rather, it is state polemic funding for a particular belief, by the look of it.
‘Civilisation’. ‘Age of Science’. Or is it $cientism. The clueless modern. 80% goose-stepped happily supporting the Rona Fascism. I would guess the Rona-Climate Con party memberships overlap. 80% will happily gas you the dissenter for expressing the truism that plant food is a trace chemical necessary for life.
“It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison,” he added.
Here is some misinformation for you that government and MSM spout regularly. ——“Renewables are now cheaper than fossil fuels”—-No they are not. Huge subsidy given to renewables and massive environmental costs added to fossil fuels, plus the fact that renewables are only part time energy that require full time backup from reliable sources, mainly gas, means that this is a blatant lie. On a level playing field fossil fuels are by far the cheapest way to generate electricity and to provide heating. That is why the poorest countries prefer to use coal.
—On the claims about climate change as well, we find it riddled with uncertainty. There is no empirical evidence that CO2 is causing or will cause dangerous changes to climate. The Political Agenda of Sustainable Development and Net Zero requires there is a “Climate Crisis”, and the Political Class are pulling out all and every stop to ensure that the public remain deeply concerned about it. They want the people to accept the “official science” that questions none of the claims, rather than actual “science” that questions everything. But in science you question everything or it isn’t science, it is POLITICS. Asking questions is not “misinformation”. Alternative views are not “misinformation”. This is not a black and white issue where there are only two choices (1) There is climate change, or (2) There isn’t climate change.—-Climatologist Judith Curry explained it this way. “Sure, all things being equal, CO2 may cause a little bit of warming, but all things in earth’s climate are not equal”
Coal is the best fuel for generation and the new coal plants are more efficient than anything we have left. I suspect a lot of the Chinese plants are to replace old polluting plants with new fluidised bed plants as much as additional plants. That leaves gas for heating and for industrial processes if we still have any left.
Yes but the silly UN lackey politicians want rid of it all
Mercury is toxic and neurotoxic in parts per billion and is a liquid metal at room temperature which also releases mercury vapour into the room.
Coal fired plants release tons of mercury into the atmosphere every year to pollute the rain, land and oceans.
There is no safe level. The UK Committee on Toxicity only has a “permitted tolerable level” of 0.3 millionths of a gram per kilo body weight per day.
How many millionths of a gram are there in one ton of mercury? How many children will one ton of mercury in the atmosphere poison?
That’s why mercury is used as an adjuvant in vaccines!
I caught some of the discussion on Farage’s show with that Irish climate zealot (don’t ask me to spell his name) Farage mentioned gas but never mentioned coal. They went out of their way to blow up some of the last pits, coal is why energy bills were much lower in the past. I look around at my house, with all the old storage heaters (there was a gas fire that I got rid of and replaced with a log burner) and think, this house must’ve cost a fortune to heat until I remind myself that I’m thinking in today’s standards. Surely most of the BBC climate zealots know they’re spreading propaganda but have mortgages and families to support.
Is it that cretinous Baldy headed Irish guy that is always on GB news spouting his rabid climate junk? Donnchadh McCarthy?
Ofcom requires “balance” on GB News (not on the BBC, ITV, Sky, C4 though).
I think GB News has decided that the lefty “voice” will be the most extreme, ridiculous and annoying person they can find … to demonstrate the idiocy of their arguments. Another one is Benjamin Butterworth …. whose up there with Owen Jones in the ridiculousness lefty league.
Just another strand in the lavishly funded propaganda industry, academia has been awash with taxpayer funded propagandists for years, try searching for professors of “Science Communication” or “Energy Policy”. Schools and the MSM are also at it like crazy.
Is this really a legitimate use of taxpayer cash?
No, I hope that Trump will defund this aspect of the UN, and think about kicking the UN HQ out of New York, as a cost cutting measure.
Yes please.
One advantage of the US paying the piper is its generous funding for the UN when other countries will not pay up but are happy to indulge in it as a pointless talking shop and dangerous organisation for world health.
So the US under Trump could do us all a favour and pull the plug – or stop paying the useless and dangerous UN what is in effect US social security money.
WHO is a UN organisation.
The corruption is so thick you can dig it out of the jar and it spreads rapidly.
The ‘greatest mass delusion’ will still be covid-19… but climate change catastrophism isn’t far behind!
The climate one has been going since the Club if Rome 1970s.
Interesting that.
All the doom mongering organisations and 1970s think-tanks with frequently publicised reports predicting world collapse with population growth, water rights wars and fossil fuels running out suddenly stopped.
It was as if the elites realised there was nothing they could do so they just shut them up and let nature take its course.
I was told a couple of decades ago by a UK government insider that there were plans in place including covert. You won’t get them with an FOI request.
Did they really convince nearly everyone? Or do they just provide endless streams of Baffle them with bullshit! material politicians who have been bought can utilize as justification for plundering the people they have power over? I’d wager a bet that even knowing that there’s supposedly a climate emergency is mostly restricted to members of the American and European upper middle class, ie, the kind of people whose offspring ends up going to a university. Muslim (or Hindu) owners of small businesses in the UK very likely don’t as that’s not part of their everyday problems and they’re socially not part of BBC culture.
The point is reached when fatigue sets in and people just stop listening to the “official narrative” particularly when it is obvious the relentless, exaggerated, fear-mongering claims it makes – melting ice-caps, droughts, blistering hot Summers, snowless Winters, etc – just don’t materialise.
Also the Covid propaganda all now exposed as lies, has vaccinated and immunised (sorry couldn’t resist) much of the population against “official narratives” and few believe what is in the mainstream media.
A message to Fleming: No-one “owns” the science. The fact that you and your cronies are currently holding it hostage and only allowing it to send out messages of which you approve does not give you any kind of moral authority.
Oh and, by the way, in my personal thesaurus, “information integrity” = censorship
“It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison,”
The sooner this delusion is shattered, the better. I know a few die hard believers (Earth Science graduates), who are fully paid up members of this delusion. They will be happy with this proposed (battle of the Bulge) offensive.
However, they are on the losing side. Net zero will become discredited and die a death. Most reasonable and sensible people can see through this scam, and have no desire for pointless penury.
“Pointless penury”. That’s it, in a nutshell. If renewables really were cheaper than fossil fuels, cleaner and infinitely available, then we’d be daft not to embrace them, regardless of whether fossil fuels are having any measurable effect on the climate. But the only indisputable fact in this whole scenario is that renewables are a costly luxury, suitable only for vanity projects.
Nicely put. One person I know, who has bachelor, masters, and doctorate science and engineering degrees, cannot see what the rest of us see. I suspect people like this, who have taken a certain position, cannot back down, for fear of losing face, and in some cases, livelihood.
Keep Climate Dissent Alive
The elite behind this nonsense are being displaced, and they know it – hence the panic. A new axis is emerging, led by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. It is noteworthy that Mr Trump has been consulting Jamie Dimon, the powerful head of JP Morgan.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-uses-jp-morgan-chief-jamie-dimon-as-informal-adviser/ar-AA1v4eav?ocid=BingNewsSerp
It looks like there is a new gang in town, and the net zero peacocks are about to have their feathers plucked.
Let’s hope so.
In 1616 the Pope arrested, imprisoned, and banished Galileo and banned his writings for daring to contradict the church and its “settled science” that the sun revolves around the earth. In 1992, a mere 376 years later, the Pope finally, officially, formally apologised and confirmed that indeed the earth does revolve around the sun. Seems familiar somehow.
AKA the thought police
Britain is bankrupt and any supposed funding is fanciful. Trumps ream will uncover the corruption of all globalist leaders
“It will be remembered as the greatest mass delusion in the history of the world – that CO2, the life of plants, was considered for a time to be a deadly poison,”
Just one of four mass delusions currently driving us mad, the others being:
Islam is just another religion like all the others,
Girls can be boys and boys can be girls
and
The Covid jab is safe and effective.
Open debate, not propaganda, is the only way forward to rebuild trust and get tontye best possible outcomes.
Wicked problems suggesting one solution = propaganda.
PROJECT VERITAS: EPA ADVISOR ADMITS ‘INSURANCE POLICY’ AGAINST TRUMP FUNNELS BILLIONS TO CLIMATE GROUPS – 5:07
Brent Efron, an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) special advisor implementing Biden’s climate agenda, told Project Veritas the agency is frantically shoveling billions in grants to nonprofits, making sure that the Biden administration’s climate projects stay afloat — no matter who’s in charge.
“Now it’s how to get the money out as fast as possible before they [Trump Administration] come in … it’s like we’re on the Titanic and we’re throwing gold bars off the edge.”
https://rumble.com/v5vl73n-gold-bars-epa-advisor-admits-insurance-policy-against-trump-funnels-billion.html
So taxpayers pay to be propagandists.
I note that UN aid charities say they are issuing heaters to people living in tents. Clearly won’t be electric so must be fossil fueled