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Oxford’s Continued Descent into Green Hell

by Ben Pile
1 January 2025 7:00 AM

Oxfordshire’s green lunatics are at it again. The fuss has only just died down since the County Council’s experiment with Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and the so-called ’15 minute city’ agenda drew worldwide attention. Now, the ambitious council has, according to the Oxford Mail, become “the first local authority in the U.K.” to commit “to go beyond [the] Net Zero target”, which it will achieve on behalf of its 750,000 population “by removing carbon emissions from the atmosphere”.

According to the council itself, it had taken “specialist advice” from one Prof. Steve Smith, who is “Arnell Associate Professor of Greenhouse Gas Removal” at the University of Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise and Environment. This should strike us as odd, for several reasons.


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Tags: 15 Minute CitiesCarbon captureClimate AlarmismGreen BlobLTNsNet ZeroOxfordOxford City CouncilOxford County CouncilOxford University

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FerdIII
FerdIII
2 years ago

They are paid to get their results to map to a pre-determined outcome.
If you want to discuss weather talk to a farmer.
If you want a new roof, talk to a roofer.
If you want data fraud, bullshit, bafflegab, fake footnotes – talk to a quackademic, researcher, thought leader, expert, Phd Pretty Happy Dude smoking his pot, paid by special interests.
You live in a dream world Neo.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago

Indeed. Having experience or qualifications in a particular domain doesn’t make you an expert. Those things MAY be a pointer to you being an expert, but your ability to predict outcomes at consistently statistically significant better than random chance is what qualifies you, at least in the scientific domains.

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Lancer
Lancer
2 years ago

If we’re to give “the experts” the benefit of the doubt and are presuming their solutions were genuinely sincere (and not following some pre-planned agenda to usher in a dystopia), the simple fact remains when you’ve a collection of single-minded academics who specialise, even the smartest and most educated amongst us aren’t always the best equipped at seeing the bigger picture. They can’t see the wood for the trees, to coin a phrase and that’s not even including the group-think, echo-chamber phenomenon we know is a reality.

They’re often living completely different lives, indifferent to the daily struggles of many and perhaps it’s a consequence of our education system that breeds arrogance, or we’ve simply a finite amount of space between our ears but I know from experience, my brother is highly educated in an academic sense but is oblivious and quite useless at mechanical quandary (for example – it’s not a matter of talent, his brain works differently). SAGE proved their single-mindedness in their presenting a comprehensive solution to impact society with positive intent but failing to include and incorporate the collateral damage caused by their own interventions negated all their hard work and is only something that can occur when they’re held in such high regard and beyond reproach. Never again, I say – or at the very least they’ve a lot of convincing to do to regain our trust.

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RW
RW
2 years ago
Reply to  Lancer

Everything SAGE has propagated had damaging direct effects and was claimed to have collateral benefits which couldn’t really be quantified. No serious scientist would refer to himself as sage. That’s already a bullshit term supposed to appeal to superstitions conjectured to exist in the general population.

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RW
RW
2 years ago

A great day for mankind! The perpetuum mobile has finally been invented! Its composed of social scientists researching themselves in circles, thereby stimulation more social science research!

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
2 years ago

Expert predictions predictably bad

Yellow Freedom Boards – next event

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Junction B3430 Nine Mile Ride & 
New Wokingham Road, 
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Stand in the Park Sundays 10.30am to 11.30am – make friends & keep sane 

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago

As has been mentioned previously Social Scientist” is a classic oxymoron

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