Over the weekend, I took another look at the Tortoise database of “climate misinformation” that I wrote about last week. As I explained at the time, I thought the offering from Tortoise, its funder Octopus and the academic social and computer scientists at the University of Exeter was pretty dire. But what I then found in the database after the article had been published really took my breath away. The devil is in the detail, as they say.
I encourage you to read Tortoise’s explanation of its methodology. It’s a big boast of the combined expertise of researchers, artificial intelligence and civil society organisations, all brought together by an unimpeachable news media organisation. It describes the use of well-crafted data and tools as though explaining the discovery of hitherto unknown cosmological phenomena.
But it is all flim-flam.
What is that statement? Is it ‘denial’? How dare some mere climate change denier, with no background in science, challenge scientists and researchers at Exeter and beyond? How dare he question the civil society organisations that use such science as the basis for their mission? And how dare he dispute the news organisation’s commitment to objectivity?
Simple… I looked at the data.
All the waffle about this database produced by Hot Air’s creators is completely undermined by the existence in their data of just one entity. “We identified almost 300 individual actors who regularly post online about climate change,” says Tortoise. But one of those “individual actors" is a meteorologist
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“A few rich men”. Maybe he should name who he has in mind.
The trouble with AI is that it is only as good as its training allows. It is like schools in UK where all the teachers are teaching woke ideology and you end up with woke kids and who are ill-equipped for critical thinking.
The trouble with AI is how to sell it despite it doesn’t work, has never worked and will never work.
There are currently quite a few people in prison because they’ve been labelled as spreading racial hatred for more or less clumsily expressed criticism¹ of the government policy with regards to illegal immigration. Hence, that anyone can be accused of anything and held on remand until he pleads guilty to anything to shorten his executive-ordered incarceration isn’t exactly news.
¹ To the university-educated chattering classes, the very fact the people who never had any kind of higher education will express themselves in rather not-so-sophisticated ways is apparently already sufficient for presumption of guilt of anything, especially of hate-anything because of the more emotive use of language which is typical for people with little formal education.
I’m from the time when we were taught to teach ourselves and how. I don’t need a university degree to apply intelligent thought, reason, logic, critical analysis and recognise bovine fæces, manipulation, disingenuousness, deceit and lies. And science – chemistry, physics, biology was on the curriculum in those days in secondary education studied by most at least to age 16.
The “experts” and “scientists” and The Science™️ have brought us the greatest Man-made calamity to date – the CoVid scamdemic and mass medication with a dangerous medical product. The death toll is in millions and injury toll in tens of millions with an enormous economic impact.
There is no climate crisis. There is a long-term… 12 000 years to date, transition out of the last Ice Age, with slow, incremental, irregular warming and unnoticeable shift towards ropical climate condition which will happen on a timescale and in a manner that our “good” Earth “decides” – and there’s nothing puny Man can or can’t do to change that.
How typical of a Tory PM to appoint a Labour Party activist with extreme views on social control to manage a study. No freedom loving non-socialists were available I suppose.
Why do Ministers always want a study by green fanatical lefties. Why can’t they make up their own minds.
Even better, look at their last manifesto at least once a week and start to work through the list. Instead they proceed with the leftist control policies they likely always intended.
The real conspiracy theorists, deniers and denialists…
“…The Science is settled”
“…We’re Following The Science”
“…Experts say”
“…97% of scientists say”
“…We own The Science”
Which all demonstrate that the “Climate Emergency” is a social-control project and not an environmental-protection project.
A game which U.N. economist Edenhofer gave away 15 years ago, speaking ahead of COP-16…
”…One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.”
U$1 Trillion p.a. in money, budgets, funding….. just like the Rona plandemic. Follow the cash to find the nexus of the Fascism being promoted as salvific and liberating.
I used to assume that Edenhofer meant wealth redistribution flowing downwards to the most vulnerable and poorest in society. But guess who are the ones most adversely impacted by net zero now. So after all it seems Edenhofer meant wealth flowing up towards the already ultra wealthy.