Climate change was a major factor behind the recent Los Angeles wildfires, reported Matt McGrath of the BBC last January. According to a ‘scientific study’ instantly produced by World Weather Attribution (WWA), the prevailing weather conditions were made about 35% more likely due to humans using hydrocarbons. The WWA study, according to the trusting McGrath, is said to confirm this somewhat precise attribution of blame. Possibly the BBC and most of the mainstream that also parroted the WWA line might consider some corrective copy in the light of a devasting critique of the claims from the theoretical physicist, science writer and prominent youtuber Dr Sabine Hossenfelder. In a YouTube video broadcast here that has gone viral on social media, she elicited an astonishing admission from one of the report’s authors that, “as you can see from the numbers, the changes in intensity and likelihood are unsurprisingly not statistically significant”.
Not statistically significant is exactly what Hossenfelder found since she noted that the figures supplied by the WWA were within a 95% statistical probability level. Her broadcast goes into detail about the numbers falling within the 95% level meaning that an alternative explanation is that climate change had no part to play in the LA fires. In fact Hossenfelder was so appalled by the work that she was inclined to be harsh in her conclusions. “It is so bad that I have sincere doubts that even the authors read it”, she says, adding it was so bad that “it is actually quite funny”. Wondering why other scientists don’t complain, she notes: “Whenever there is some crap going around the media, they look away and keep their mouths shut”.
But the laughter has a touch of gallows humour since Hossenfelder is concerned about matters of public policy arising from such widespread fearmongering. Wildfires affect the lives of millions of people and the claims of the WWA broadcast worldwide by unquestioning activists are policy relevant numbers, she observes. People in LA need to consider their response to the recent tragedy and judge whether it will happen more frequently in the future, she says, observing: “This research matters for people’s lives.” Of course similar observations can be made about all the other mainstream pseudoscience babble designed to deliberately induce mass climate psychosis and promote the collectivist Net Zero fantasy.
Lost in all the mainstream narrative-driven madness was any report about the recent sensational scientific finding that wildfires across the United States and Canada were occurring at a rate of only 23% of that expected from a review of the tree ring fire scar record going back to the 17th century. The findings published in Nature Communications effectively blew the politicised wildfire climate change scam out of the water. It was noted that a current ”widespread fire deficit” persisted across a range of forest types, and the areas burned in the recent past “are not unprecedented”.
Such was the alarm created by these inconvenient findings that one pre-publication reviewer noted: “I see this paper as potentially being used by deniers of climate change impacts.” Advice was given to rephrase “to put even more emphasis on impact rather than burned area”. In other words, concentrate on emotion rather than facts to help produce the Ultra Processed Message that is slowly but surely destroying faith in both climate science and the useful idiot media.
Regular readers will of course be familiar with the activities of World Weather Attribution. Part founded by Green Blob-funded Climate Central, which specialises in publication-ready catastrophic climate copy, it is run out of Imperial College in London where it is part of the green billionaire-funded Grantham Institute. It is run by the frequent BBC broadcaster Dr Friederike Otto and has a number of international partners including the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and the Red Cross Crescent Climate Centre. It aims to make a near-instant assessment as to whether an extreme weather event is made worse by humans burning hydrocarbons. It does this by using computer models to compare the results of two imaginary climates operating with different levels of carbon dioxide. Such an approach, using models to pick out individual events in a chaotic atmosphere full of little understood influences, has its critics. The distinguished science writer Roger Pielke Jr. calls it weather attribution alchemy. He argues that the extreme position of attributing individual bad weather events is “roughly aligned” with the far Left. For her part, Otto states that event attribution was originally suggested with the courts in mind. The main function of these studies is to support lawfare against hydrocarbon companies, and she explains this strategy in some detail in the interview ‘From Extreme Event Attribution to Climate Litigation’.
The BBC is clearly a fan. Former Radio 4 editor Sarah Sands wrote the foreword to a WWA guide for journalists claiming the attribution studies have given us “significant insight into the horsemen of the climate apocalypse”. Pielke is less gushing, noting 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”.
Timed to make next day headlines, WWA weather attributions are not peer-reviewed. However the studies follow established methods which it is claimed have been “peer-reviewed and assessed as scientifically reliable”. How comforting to discover that the peer-review claim links to a paper written by none other than Dr Otto along with numerous authors from the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and the Red Cross Crescent Climate Centre.
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It’s incredibly sad and telling that even in health care, people are mislead about health and diet!
If this poor lady was advised to follow a low carbohydrate or zero carbohydrate lifestyle for even 4 weeks, she would have lost a considerable amount of fat and have many ailments cured too… Instead, she was no doubt advised to use this snake oil.
Is it really that sad? Was she really so misinformed? She didn’t know that a good diet and exercise gets you to a healthy weight?
To me it seemed as if she just couldn’t do it the long hard way and resorted to a pharmaceutical short cut.
And I don’t judge her for it. I really don’t have a problem with people using drugs to try to lose weight. It’s their responsibility to find out the risks, weigh them up against the possible benefits and make their own decision.
The nanny state doesn’t need to get involved beyond making sure the pharmaceutical companies and regulatory agencies are completely open and transparent with the information they provide.
Hey, she gambled and lost. It happens. Not a tragedy in my books.
Sure, but did she know the risks? Was the information correct, or was it a COVID ‘vaccine’ job all over again? Did the pharmacy advise her that the injection could kill her, or did they just hand it over?
My view is that by the time one reaxhes adulthood one should understand that anything you ingest has pros and cons, and especially pharmaceutical drugs. This is not a hard lesson to expect people to learn before they become grown ups.
That includes nuances such as, if so.ethi g is very new, be wary. If someone is making money from telling you it works and it sounds it sounds too good to be true, be wary.
These are basic common sense notions that used to be widely held not so long ago, when people were more self reliant.
I generally agree. I would favour emphasising a more “natural” solution but that is not always easy – this vid is interesting, from someone who knows all about health and fitness and diet, is the opposite of lazy or inactive, but has an eating disorder that is hard to control, who is currently taking small doses of this stuff, with success: I Tried The “Miracle” Fat Jab | Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro – Drugs For The Lazy?
So you agree with the resident victim-blaming sociopath that this woman’s death is neither sad nor tragic? Well there’s a surprise!
Sorry, far be it from me to interrupt this longterm bromance. Please continue…
Death is always sad. Whether she’s a “victim” – I am not sure. It depends on what information has been released about this drug, whether information has been withheld deliberately. Most drugs have side effects. I object to being forced to take medical treatments, I object to medicine regulators being enablers using our money, I object to Big Pharma lying about their products, I am deeply sceptical about most “miracle drugs”, I object to my tax money being spent on dangerous or useless products, but I also believe in freedom of choice and caveat emptor.
I didn’t say it wasn’t sad. I said it wasn’t a tragedy.
Two very different things.
What I think you’re missing is the fundamental point.
The article is clearly being manipulative trying to present this woman as a victim of a bad information and pharma gone rogue again.
I just don’t agree with that. That’s my point. And I don’t like the “every death is a tragedy” “poor person tragically misled by the evil or corrupt or broken system” arguments. They’re manipulative.
I think my post may have been misunderstood.
I genuinely don’t judge people who for example take weight loss medication. I am only too aware of human frailty and so totally respect people’s decision on how they live their lives.
Strange as it may seem to somebody such as yourself, yes it is sad that a person died through their own naivity and wishing for a shortcut to losing weight, just like I think it’s sad people died due to believing government propaganda and took a toxic jab they never ever needed. Needless deaths are sad. This is the general sympathetic feeling of people who are not callous or psychopathic by nature, and I’m sure her family would disagree with your cold-hearted, dismissive opinion and absolutely view her death as a tragedy. Do you even hear yourself?
I suppose it boils down to how one defines the word tragedy.
If a woman who dies in a medical intervention of her choice is a tragedy, which word do you keep in reserve for hundreds who die drowned and buried alive in a flood? Or dozens of people who burn to death in a raging tower fire?
I don’t see this lady’s death as anything different to say a mountain climber dying on an attempt on K2, for example.
And just because I don’t engage in virtue signalling calling any death a tragedy does it mean I’m callous or psychopathic as you imply. I’m just not a virtue signaller.
I suspect about 90% of obesity problems are due to bad diet, especially processed food. So I’m very sceptical of these “jabbing” solutions.
When I was young, obesity among young people was virtually unheard of. Now apparently about a third of schoolchildren are overweight. What are they going look like in 30 years’ time?
Well, you can say there is a certain consistency in eating a lot of processed food and then turning to even more processed pharma products to correct the problem.
Yeah, as they say: “medical science has made massive progress in the last 50 years – there are hardly any healthy people left!”.
There are reportedly 23 deaths so far linked to Mounjaro in the UK.
For those worried about their.weight they could try eating less & exercising more.
It’s always worth remembering that the drug merely suppresses appetite.
And they still allow it? Mind you they allow another jab that kills and injures tens of thousands….. Incredible that some country stopped a canine jab after just 10 deaths.
The problem I’m finding with my weight loss journey is that while i eat less, as I’m exercising more, the old adage of ‘muscle is heavier than fat’ kicks in and my weight stays the same.
The problem for any dieter though is finding a diet that’s suitable for the long term, so all these short cut fixes, whether its some miracle wonder drug or a slimming company like slimmers world or weightwatchers don’t work in the long term as they don’t change habits.
https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-great-ozempic-scam-and-safer
Very similar, and similarly dangerous weight loss drugs it would seem.
Incidentally being obese is not normally a cause of diabetes. It’s the other way round – diabetes causes obesity.
It’s that pesky immune system degrading proper insulin production..
And said degradation is caused by….
Vaccines
mmRNA gene therapies.
A glorious opportunity for the MHRA to demonstrate that OF COURSE IT TRACKS THE SAFETY OF DRUGS VERY VERY CAREFULLY.
Whilst sad about what has happened to this lady, that’s what jumped out with klaxons and flashing lights to me: MHRA tracking yellow cards!!!! Couldn’t manage it during the biggest experiment on humanity?
Except the Lady appears to have obtained her drug online. So the regulation goes out the window, even for prescription drugs, if you can find someone outside of the UK to send it to you.
You wanna lose weight fast?
OK. Think about it.
There were no fatties in Auschwitz when the Russians arrived. Think about why that was. It’s really simple: NO FOOD. Exercise had almost nothing to do with it (neither too much nor too little).
I am not proposing that fatties be put into labour camps. Certainly not! I merely propose that fatties be honest with themselves about the reason they are fatties: it is because they EAT TOO MUCH.
When they have openly admitted this, they can then go on to address the precise reasons behind their overeating. There are many and often very complex reasons why each fatty eats too much. And they can be very difficult for each fatty to overcome.
But without first admitting that they are fatties for the simple reason that they eat too much, they will never overcome the problems causing them to eat too much.
You are right, but I think there is a bit more to it: it’s not just the quantity of food but the quality of it.
Processed food is very poor in nutrients. Because it’s full of crap, it doesn’t fill you up and, as I result, you will be hungry again soon afterwards, which will make you want to eat more, but again, you will just eat more crap. And the cycle continues.
Effectively you eat a lot (so you’ll get fat) but your body gets very little out of it.
I can testify this experience: mostly we avoid processed food (my wife, PBUH, cooks every day) but occasionally when we resorted to buying processed food (e.g, cooker broken) the contrast was astonishing.
You’re right, but I think the underlying problem is many people eat the wrong kind of food.
Far too much carbohydrate, sugar, low fat alternative, lactose free, gluten free, vegan, plant based, most processed vegetable oils , it’s all rubbish.
Eat dairy, meat, freshly cooked vegetables, fresh eggs. Set aside the time to cook from fresh ingredients. Avoid ready meals like the plague.
And get exercise.
Spot on.
These people eat a lot but in actual fact their bodies are starving.
And yep, get some exercise.
Yes they eat too much. But they also eat the wrong things and quite often at the wrong time.
To be fair to nurses, police etc it is harder for people working shifts to regulate their body clock to eat at the right times.
I recall an Hibernian frioend used to say that it is not your genes its what goes in your gob that makes you overweight. Cruel but mostly true.
I accept there are genetic or body reasons why different people react to food differently, as they do to alcohol and tobacco.
Genuine question – so is this stuff more or less deadly than mrna covid quackcine?
Because for many people ay least it brings some benefits. Unlike the mrna covid jabs.
I wouldn’t say the mRNA Covid jabs didn’t bring anybody any benefits. I’m sure Pfizer’s senior management benefited very handsomely.
A very good question.
Another question might be as to when she had last received her Mrna mix and whether this might have played a part in her demise.
Probably not I have not seen elsewhere reports of the covid jabs leading to wholesale organ failure, just pericarditis myocarditis turbo cancer impaired immune system, and reproductive disfunction.
Oh yes,and an increased risk of catching a cold.
The takeaway here. Steer clear of this drug, it injures and possibly kills.
Very sad, but she could have lost weight by eating a low-carb, high protein and natural/animal fat diet.
I think the picture shows that some people’s idea of “a wee bit of extra weight” is a bit off kilter.
It was Mike Adams of Natural News who tried to warn people that these new weight loss drugs like Ozempic, Mounjaro and others are derived from LIZARD VENOM, in particular that of a venomous reptile called the “Gila monster”, native to southwest of the US and the north of Mexico.
In an article from last year, which I can’t locate now, he described how the venom works by PARALYZING THE STOMACH MUSCLES to prevent the stomach from being emptied, leaving a false feeling of fullness in the patient, thereby decreasing the desire for food. He also pointed out the horrific side-effects of the Gila monster venom, including continuous vomiting because your stomach muscles continue to be paralyzed even after stopping the injections, sometimes for YEARS.
The article below from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Queensland describes the connection with lizard venom:
The rise of Ozempic: how surprise discoveries and lizard venom led to a new class of weight-loss drugs – Faculty of Medicine – University of Queensland
A Gila monster (Latin name “Heloderma suspectum”).
People are injecting themselves with POISON from this reptile.
” …Unlike snakes, the Gila monster and beaded lizards lack the musculature to inject venom immediately. They have to chew the venom into the flesh of a victim. Heloderma venom is used only in defence.”
Colorado man was killed by venom from his pet Gila monster, autopsy finds
But he lost a lot of weight before dying.
It is true about the snake peptides. It sounds crazy and outlandish and superstitious but not really if you look at what they are trying to bring into being. It fits perfectly when you understand the rest of it.