Last month a small but powerful cyclone named Chido made landfall in Mayotte before sweeping into Mozambique, causing considerable damage and leading to the loss of around 100 lives. Days after the tragedy, the Green Blob-funded Carbon Brief noted that scientists have “long suggested” that climate change is making cyclones worse in the region, while Blob-funded World Weather Attribution (WWA) at Imperial College London made a near-instant and curiously precise estimate that a Chido-like cyclone was about 40% more likely to happen in 2024 than during the pre-industrial age. Not to be outdone, Green Blob-funded cheerleader the Guardian chipped in with the obligatory “cyclones are getting worse because of the climate emergency”. Almost unnoticed, it seems, among all the Net Zero dooming and grooming was a science paper published during December by Nature that found no increase in the destructive power of cyclones – the generic term for typhoons and hurricanes – in any ocean basin over the last 30 years. In the South Indian basin, the location of cyclone Chido, there was a dramatic decrease in both frequency and duration in recent times.
Reality rarely gets much of a look-in these days when fanatical Net Zero activism is afoot, but the paper, written by a group of Chinese meteorologists, makes its case by considering the facts and the data. The scientists apply a “power dissipation index” (PDI) which they consider superior to single measure indicators since it combines storm intensity, duration and frequency. The graphs below show the cumulative index for tropical cyclones across all ocean basins along with a global indication.
Downward trends in the cumulative PDI can be seen in a number of Pacific regions, while the trend holds steady in the North Atlantic. The southern Indian ocean downward trend is particularly pronounced while the overall global line is also heading in a similar direction.
So why does all this scientific twaddle get written by the green activists in mainstream media? Much of it arises from the new pseudoscience that claims it can tie individual weather events to human-caused climate change. Press releases peddling climate Armageddon are issued days after a natural disaster and are eagerly reprinted by activist journalists promoting the Net Zero fantasy. The distinguished science writer Roger Pielke Jr. is a fierce critic of this new pseudoscience, which he calls weather attribution alchemy. In a recent Substack post in the aftermath of Chido, he noted that the WWA at Imperial College simply assumes the conclusion that it seeks to prove by accepting that every storm is made stronger because of warmer oceans. Using this explanation, continues Pielke, it is straightforward to conclude that the storm was made more likely due to climate change. Or as Imperial states: “The difference in the storm intensity and likelihood of this storm intensity between the counterfactual climate and today’s climate can be attributed to climate change.”
As the new Chinese paper shows, the matter is not quite so simple. Pielke notes that tropical storms encounter numerous environmental influences such as vertical wind shear and storm-induced ocean surface cooling, even when they remain over warmer waters. “Such complexities mean that simple storyline attribution – warmer oceans predictably mean stronger storms – is inappropriate when used to characterise the behaviour of individual storms,” he argues. Pielke also comes down hard on the statistical evidence backing the WWA claims. Even if storms such as Chido were more likely in the future, it would take a very long time to detect a significant change using the threshold 90% confidence set down by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). And by very long time, he means thousands of years.
“Perhaps that is why assumptions are favoured over evidence,” suggests Pielke.
There were plenty of assumptions on display in a now routine end-of-year weather report from the BBC headed: ‘A year of extreme weather that challenged billions.‘ Written by Esme Stallard, it claims that record-breaking heat brought extreme weather including hurricanes and month-long droughts. Pride of place is given to Dr. Friederike Otto, lead of WWA and Senior Lecturer in Climate Science at Imperial, who claimed: “We are living in a dangerous new era – extreme weather caused unrelenting suffering.” “The impacts of fossil fuel warming has never been clear or more devastating than in 2024,” she added.
The redoubtable Paul Homewood is unimpressed with Stallard’s opening line about increasing extreme weather and has filed a complaint with the BBC. Stallard goes on to list a handful of random events, “but fails to provide any evidence that these are anything other than natural events which happen all the time”, states Homewood. “Nor is any evidence provided that such events have been getting more frequent or extreme over time,” he adds.
The BBC story highlighted typhoons in the Philippines as well as hurricane Beryl and stated that such events may be increasing in intensity due to climate change. Official data do not show any evidence of them becoming more powerful over time, notes Homewood. Much play was made of a recent drought in the Amazon, but Homewood points out that the World Bank Climate Portal reveals that rainfall has increased in the area by 5% over the last 30 years. Throughout the report, observes Homewood, the BBC bases its claims on weather attribution computer models. “However, computer models are not evidence, and can be manipulated to provide whatever results are desired. That is why they are widely derided by the wider scientific community,” he states.
For Roger Pielke, extreme weather attributions are “puzzling”. The most charitable explanation for their proliferation is that there is a demand for them, including from many in the media. The demand will be filled by someone, he concludes. “A less charitable explanation is that there is a systematic effort underway to contest and undermine actual climate science, including the assessments of the IPCC, in order to present a picture of reality that is simply false in support of climate advocacy. We might call that pseudo-scientific gaslighting,” he suggests.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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And not just heart attacks.
Indeed. I have an awful feeling in the pit of my stomach about where this is going.
Nothing but dark clouds gathering and getting darker, as far as I can see.
Injecting a whole population with improperly tested spike proteins for vast profit, I mean what could go wrong?
They tried in 2009 with the Swine Flu ‘pandemic’. Back then the media was not entirely owned by the major corporations and so following the withdrawal of vaccines that had caused damage to a far smaller number than the Covid vaccines there was widely expressed and accepted outrage. This is from the International Business Times, 2009: “The government is expected to receive a bill of approximately £60 million, with each of the 60 victims expected to receive about £1 million each.
Peter Todd, a lawyer who represented many of the claimants, told the Sunday Times: “There has never been a case like this before. The victims of this vaccine have an incurable and lifelong condition and will require extensive medication.Following the swine flu outbreak of 2009, about 60 million people, most of them children, received the vaccine.
It was subsequently revealed that the vaccine, Pandemrix, can cause narcolepsy and cataplexy in about one in 16,000 people, and many more are expected to come forward with the symptoms.
Across Europe, more than 800 children are so far known to have been made ill by the vaccine.”
This incident was proclaimed the Scandal of the Century by John Snow in a Channel 4 news program and an enquiry was called into how the pharmaceutical industry had managed to have such influence over the WHO.
It was remembering this that made me very wary of this mRNA mass vaccination roll out, especially when they continually moved the goal posts as regards to the age groups recommended to received.
Why the silence in the media? Is it because the only people who might have learned from any enquiry that took place were those connected to big pharma and so set about buying up swathes of media outlets so as to widen their sphere of influence and control?
There are probably many of them who don’t want to admit that they made a mistake and took on an unnecessary risk – perhaps not even to themselves.
Actually they first tried this in the Swine Flu “epidemic” (it wasn’t swine flu) which maybe killed all of ONE person. See the Kennedy book on the evil Fauci and Gates. Fauci has been spinning up non-existent “epidemics” for 50 years, heedless of the effect on recipients. One of the great mass murderers of our time
It was clear that this important meeting would be swallowed by political drama such as Truss resigning – well not only was the morning news obsessed with Braverman’s resignation but now Truss has just announced her resignation too.
Thursday could be a red letter day provided enough MPs turn up and they are not hiding under their desks.
They won’t turn up!
The witch hunt of Aseem has already started in earnest!! Christopher Snowdon has done what I consider in my view is a paper thin, shabby, hit piece on this doctor, I have read it. Nothing in it! But global manslaughter and injury through coerced vaccine, well that there is a sub stack worth your time writing.
Those who may be proven wrong by this doctor are gunning for him. Their personal character reputations investments at stake. Guns cocked.
Good luck to this doctor!!
Christopher Snowdon is a turncoat “cafeteria libertarian” at best. He was against the first two lockdowns, until he switched sides and supported the third one, because reasons. So who got to him?
Don’t know who got to him?
but de
But definitely scraped the barrel.
Somebody said to me yesterday because you are not vaccinated you probably have killed someone. Incredible brainwashed. These turncoats are responsible for this.
As I say good luck to Aseem he is going to need a lot friends !
His written piece in Aseem scraping barrel but hopefully C Snowden will see there should be only one side, truth for people of which he is one!
I trust you gave the idiot that claimed you killed someone both barrels point blank.
Would you believe it was a vaccinated friend. She was saying that I was causing anti vax sentiment and people would less likely to have their children vaccinated with traditional ones because people like me were dangerous. I calmly and slowly explained it wasn’t a vaccine like those ones because they had been tested for at least ten years and that I had my children vaccinated with those. But she couldn’t see it and believed I would have a bigger covid viral load than the vaccinated and therefore pass it on more and that is when she said “you have probably killed people” I stayed calm because I can see she is convinced and frightened by the narrative and to be fair she will not know where else to find information and is very wary of going off piste from MSM. So I evidenced by explaining that there was staff with covid at work and I had not got it and last time I had it was a little cold and also that there are people injured and killed by the vaccine. Incredulously she had not seen any reports of that and would not look at anything I offered.
I am afraid people are clinging to this lie because the alternative is too scary for them. I just said calmly that it was all going to come out in the wash and that perhaps she could look out for it.
It was a very draining conversation, this is what Aseem is up against a wilful deafness. Best wishes
Any idea what is driving Chris Snowden? He has been highly supportive of the covid narrative throughout – dismissive of anti-lockdown comment and any questioning of the efficacy and safety of the injections. Is it simply that the IEA, for whom he works, has been bribed, or even simply that he has been bribed?
All I know is that brave people will swallow their pride and admit they are wrong especially when so much is at stake. Let’s hope and pray there is that strength of character still present as it once presented itself.
Let’s hope so but I fear there will be some other drama such as Truss resigning and all the MPs will flock to the main chamber. Most of them are entirely culpable and so the cover up will be perhaps the most powerful and extensive ever known.
resignation Thursday then. How convenient.
And lo it came to pass. Truss resignation just in.
Bloody Hell Maria, not the red letter day day I’d hoped for. Someone really doesn’t want the truth about the injections to become common knowledge. Do you have a tip for the 2.45 at Haydock Park? My money is on Clown Tyrant Returns.
The globalists and the remoaners will never forgive him and us for Brexit. Hence lockdown, loss of liberty and theft of money from the world populations siphoned off and realised as now REAL money in volts of the cabal. They have made a fortune!!!!so easy for them to ride out the storm they have created. And remember cabal member Fauci, said there would be a pandemic in the last year of Trump, he knew!! Their punishment of us who they consider the unwashed will continue unless more of us stand up for ourselves. My TIP therefore is If Boris returns he is being allowed to, which means he has sold his soul further to the globalists devils. And will rob US of more of our money to send to Zelensky, to be siphoned off to the cabal volts as Boris is hoping he will get his cut one day. Watch out for more green screen vogue photo shoots of the ‘love in’ that is Boris and Zelensky, que the earnest acting faces.
To conclude my biggest tip is for true conservative MPs to fight your corner like you have never done before. Or be cowards.
Things that make you go hmmm…
This weeked in Paris a 41-year old singer suffered cardiac arrest during his performance and died.
This weeked in Madrid a 46-year old magician suffered a heart attack during his performance and died later in hospital.
Looks like we’ve moved on from sportspeople to entertainment. Sure it could be coincidence, but it is a little bizarre, to say the least.
This week’s fun fact: The weekly death figures are published by the Dutch ONS, Statistics Netherlands, on Fridays. They should appear on the government corona dashboard the same day, but often don’t, usually when the number is trending high (hence the figure’s been posted late pretty much most of the summer).
Deaths have been elevated/excess since March (4th vaxx for over 60s started end of Feb 2022).
The number finally hit the ‘expected’ deaths in the week of 12 – 18 September (imo with some fiddling – public attention on excess deaths was quite high at that time, very convenient). In any event, in the subsequent 3 weeks deaths have been excess (not just elevated) again. Only a swivel-eyed, loony-tune, anti-vax conspiracy nut-job would point out that the newest jabathon started on Monday 19 September.
But yeah, sure, another coinky-dinky.
All I’d take from that is that media outlets have been told to stop reporting sportspeople having heart attacks, which leaves reports of other people such as entertainers.
Josephine Melville actor RIP
The narrative has collapsed faster than formerly healthy young athletes on the field after being jabbed.
It’s good that he’s apparently making progress with it all. Evidently, he’s focusing on his speciality – which is understandable, but is it not likely that there is a much broader spectrum of damages caused by the novel “vaccine”?
Delving into the links suggested, it appeared that this one is better than the Twitter one: https://rumble.com/v1ojedq-freeman-interviews-dr-aseem-malhotra.html
Thanks. That’s the full video of the conversation that came out during today I think.
Good luck to Dr Malhotra. Isn’t it odd to find so few medical folk sticking their heads above the parapet? Not really. They’ve been bag carriers/ yes men for the pharmafia for so long that suddenly objecting to the latest horrific tightening of the ratchet would expose their prior laxity and total lack of principles over decades.
I remember working in telesales in the 80s trying to get GPs to book a meeting with a drugs Pharma rep. A voucher for M&S was offered as an incentive. A significant % would always ask ‘How much is the voucher for?’ They weren’t interested in anything else. (It wasn’t a paltry amount)
Imagine what it’s like now and how many Doctors have literally sold their souls, voucher by voucher, conference trip by conference trip, bung by bung and other not so subtle bribes. They’re in too deep to say a word.
Pharmafia, I may have to use that one myself.
The brilliant Dr Peter McCullogh agrees…
Dr Peter McCullough: “Before the Covid jabs, 4 in a million Myocarditis cases, afterwards, 25,000 in a million….Myocarditis at this point in time is due to the Covid jabs until proven otherwise.”
..and if it’s good enough for him…….
Well done to Aseem Malhotra; a brave and decent man. If only there were more like him.
If the first goal is to stop these shots as fast as possible, this is a great development. Now it will take many more doctors who previously endorsed the jabs to say things like this, but every new convert willing to speak publicly helps the effort. When one comes forward, it might embolden others to come forward. Then again, once these people are attacked and have their licenses revoked, maybe we get the opposite effect? Still, we need a lot more whistleblowers to come forward. The right one – with the “right stuff” – could make all the difference.
Fat chance.
They have won and won’t forego their profits or face any liability.
They just achieved what they were always after and what was the sole reason for the poisoning of children. https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/acip-committee-will-likely-add-the
Does the same apply in other countries?
I know I shouldn’t but I still watch Match of the Day (I fast forward through Lineker & any kneeling). Last season during the Autumn there was invariably an ‘incident in the crowd’ at virtually every match. Trevor Sinclair got sacked for questioning in on Sky. This season I’ve not heard of a single incident.
Does anyone know if anyone has logged this information.
A lovely fellow dog walker friend of ours died of a sudden massive heart attack this week leaving a loving wife, daughter and dog. He’d had all his Covid jabs. My best friend’s best friend died out of the blue two weeks ago leaving 3 kids and a wife. He was a fit and healthy ‘boosted’ 51 year old. The list is becoming endless. People need to hang for this.
Just sent letter to my MP via email. Presume I’ll receive the usual brick wall reply if any. But at least I’ve made a nuisance of myself!
There is no point in my contacting my MP as she’s SNP, a brain tumour survivor and committed NHS lover. We have no idea what she does, where or when she does it and how often she attends Westminster. She got her seat by 145 votes but isn’t active in trying to keep it – at least not round where we live.
In my case, no family history of heart problems, triple vaxd in 2021, life saving pacemaker installed last Monday. Immuno suppressed and high risk? Yes, but I’m only 53 and my heart was ticking along quite happily until…
Sorry to hear your troubles in health since as you say. Best wishes.