Only the other day this site reported on the news that some scientists are being provided with taxpayer funds to bankroll a project to suck carbon out of the sea in a bizarre BBC story that confused carbon and carbon dioxide.
It seems that’s not the only such initiative to enjoy the benefits of taxpayer funds. The Telegraph has a story about the imminent announcement by the Government to give the go ahead for experiments to blot out the Sun. The £50 million provided makes the £3 million for the sea carbon project look like pocket money:
Outdoor field trials which could include injecting aerosols into the atmosphere, or brightening clouds to reflect sunshine, are being considered by scientists as a way to prevent runaway climate change.
Aria, the Government’s advanced research and invention funding agency, has set aside £50 million for projects, which will be announced in the coming weeks.
Prof Mark Symes, the Programme Director for Aria (Advanced Research and Invention Agency), said there would be “small controlled outdoor experiments on particular approaches”.
Of course, the danger is side effects, but such concerns are apparently brushed aside in the race to collapse carbon dioxide levels:
Geoengineering projects which seek to artificially alter the climate have proven controversial, with critics arguing they could bring damaging knock-on effects, as well as being an unhelpful distraction from lowering emissions.
However, scientists are increasingly concerned that carbon dioxide levels are not falling fast enough and that further action may be needed to prevent catastrophic warming.
One major area of research is Sunlight Reflection Methods (SRM), which includes Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) whereby tiny particles are released into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight.
Another potential solution is Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) in which ships would spray sea-salt particles into the sky to enhance the reflectivity of low-lying clouds.
Believe it or not, scientists have been ironically inspired by pollution from shipping fumes which in the past caused cooling, but now their sulphur dioxide emissions have been controlled, global warming has increased. Undaunted by the evidence that meddling with such matters might make things worse, the next plan is to start deliberately inserting reflective particles into cloud:
Prof Jim Haywood, of Atmospheric Science, at the University of Exeter, said: “If you inject small particles into clouds, you can brighten them hence reflecting more sunlight back out to space.
“How do we know this could work? Well there are a couple of very strong pieces of evidence.
“Ship emissions from the smoke stack into the marine environment lead to bright lines in clouds over the ocean.
“Then there was a volcanic eruption in Iceland in 2014 which spilled out a lot of sulphur dioxide. What this does is it brightens clouds and cools the planet. What we need to do is some form of field experiments.”
Cirrus clouds and aviation are on the radar:
Other ideas for geoengineering include seeding cirrus clouds to allow more heat to escape into space. Currently, the wispy high-altitude clouds act as a blanket, trapping in heat.
Dr Sebastian Eastham, a senior lecturer in Sustainable Aviation at Imperial College London, said: “Every time you fly, sulphur, which is naturally present in jet fuel, is emitted into the lower most stratosphere causing a small cooling effect.
“Similarly, aircraft contrails cause accidental cirrus cloud modification but in this case accidentally causing, rather than preventing or thinning, cirrus clouds.
“This points to the fact that it’s theoretically possible (to cool the planet) with current day technology but there are many practical questions that would need to be answered before they could be done at scale.”
Let’s hope he reads Snowpiercer first, the plot of which is summarised on Wikipedia here:
In 2014, an attempt to stop climate change via stratospheric aerosol injection catastrophically backfires, creating a new ice age that destroys much of life on Earth. For 17 years, the remnants of humanity shelter in a state-of-the-art self-sustaining circumnavigational train, the Snowpiercer, run by reclusive transportation magnate Wilford. The passengers on the train are segregated, with the elite in the extravagant front cars and the poor crammed into squalid tail compartments overseen by armed guards.
Another story worth reading is Arthur C. Clarke’s History Lesson (1949) when the Earth enters a final ice age and the human race is wiped out. One of the strange things about science fiction is that it so often turns out to be true.
The Telegraph’s story is worth reading in full.
Stop Press: BBC Radio 4’s World at One today featured Dr Sebastian Eastham (see above). Presenter Sarah Montague challenged him on unintended side effects. You can listen to the interview here. Spin through to 35:15 in.
Stop Press 2: Were the scientists inspired by the Simpsons and Monty Burns’s Sun Blocker?
The Sun Blocker was a device developed by Charles Montgomery Burns. As the name suggests, it was created to blot out the sun outside, in order to ensure Mr Burns’s electricity was sold in a monopoly, covering Springfield in perpetual darkness otherwise.
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Would the author of the article have mentioned the religion of the security guard if he had been Christian?
How can they be sure he is?
A truly excellent point. They obviously asked him. Why? If a white man had intervened in the same way, would they have asked him what his religious beliefs were?
Dull boy.
His name? Abdullah = Servant of God in Arabic.
It is why we were immediately told his name, rather than just ‘a security guard’.
Had it been Anglo-Saxon would we have been told – Fred or Dave or Jim tackled the alleged knife man?
We have constantly to be reminded of the benefits of diversity, multiculturalism, etc.
Probably not.
Mr Eldred is the only one who can answer that.
It may be that he is making the point that the Islamic faith, just like any other faith, should not be entirely written off on account of the criminal behaviour of some of its members. The vast majority of Moslems in this country are law abiding citizens and good neighbours.
Let us recall that barbaric mass murder throughout the Caucasus is currently being perpetrated mainly by Christians, well over a million dead in two years.
A good few are being killed in Sudan.
“It may be that he is making the point that the Islamic faith, just like any other faith, should not be entirely written off on account of the criminal behaviour of some of its members.”
I’m not sure many people are “entirely writing it off”, just saying we don’t want too much of it here. Anyway, while you’d hope “religious” people would be more likely to do what this bloke supposedly did, it’s really about character.
“The vast majority of Moslems in this country are law abiding citizens and good neighbours.” Another straw man statement. If the % of non-law abiding and/or antisocial Group X is say 10% and the % for Group Y is 0.1%, let’s have fewer of Group X please. Furthermore, it’s partly about “law abiding” and “good neighbours” and partly about wanting to preserve our culture and race, and preserve England as a white European nation. But it’s too late and only a tiny number of crackpot racists like me want to do this, so we’re done for.
“preserve our culture and race, and preserve England as a white European nation.”
As I share these views completely I dare say I am a ‘Faaar Right’ racist too.
Clearly we are not done for; nor will we be.
Nevertheless it would be a big help if the government would call a halt on all unnecessary immigration for the time being and encourage assimilation through education.
Pigs might fly.
It might also be helpful if the use of the word ‘muzzie’ was eschewed, particularly on this site. It seems to have, for whatever reason, taken on a pejorative connotation.
White Britons will be a minority by 2070 – official (so you can bet it will happen sooner as they pretend not to know how many foreigners are). I don’t use the term “muzzie” but I would not want to live in a majority Muslim country.
Demographics are ultimately everything – Whites have been really good at everything except reproducing and defending their borders against non-Whites.
In the US on 9/11 just 17 Muslims hijacked four passenger planes, crashing two of them into the WTC, one into the Pentagon, one into a field resukting in large scale loss of life, injury and destruction.
As someone remarked, that the vast majority of Muslims in the USA were peaceful was irrelevant.
Indeed though to be fair McVeigh was presumably nominally a Christian
You know what’s going to happen now, don’t you? The attacker’s going to be labelled ‘far right’. Well especially if the victims were ‘people of colour’. I know, I know, I speculate, but it’s very convenient the rescuer was Muslim and the attacker’s white, unless he’s some sort of radicalized convert or something. Anyway, I check my bias at the door and await further details. It pays to remember scumbags come in various ‘flavours’.
This is all very strange indeed… Yet another False flag event..
If the victims were ‘people of colour’ can we expect “demonstrations,” not riots obviously, from adherents of the religion of peace?
Hmm.
A good news story here at least though;
”A YOB who falsely claimed he was being chased by racist thugs during a riot in a TikTok livestream has been jailed.
Asylum seeker Dimitrie Stoica posted the livestream to 700 people as protesters swooped on Derbyshire.
The 25-year-old claimed he was being chased by “extreme right-wing rioters” and that he was in fear for his life.
He added: “I am running bro because they are running after me.
“They’re coming. Everyone get back.”
Stoica has now been banged up for three months after he admitted sending a false communication with intent to cause harm.
Nottingham Magistrates’ Court heard the Romanian national was stopped by police shortly after livestreaming the fake chase.
He later claimed his comments were just a “joke” and that he was hoping to get more followers.
But the court heard it was a deliberate attempt to “stir up racial hatred”.
Assistant Chief Constable Michelle Shooter said: “As has been made clear by forces across the country any criminal actions relating to the disorder, whether they be in person or online, will be dealt with quickly and robustly.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/29829967/riot-yob-jail-tiktok-fake-video/
Michelle Shooter.
“A quick-thinking Christian security guard tackled a knifeman after he stabbed an 11 year-old girl and her 34 year-old mother in Leicester Square.”
Nah. This doesn’t have quite the same oomph. It seems sort of contrived. Next thing we know it will be…
“A quick-thinking Christian security guard, who goes to Church every Sunday, tackled a knifeman after he stabbed an 11 year-old girl and her 34 year-old mother in Leicester Square.”
Nah, it will never happen.
Funny…but not beyond the realms of possibility in the new Orwellian Great Britain, sadly, especially if there’s a whiff of patriotism amongst them;
https://x.com/TiceRichard/status/1823044226969407586
That’s good.
Especially “a quick thinking” one
No. He would have been ‘a member of the public’.
Good that the attacker was apprehended, but if the man that pushed him to the floor was Catholic would his religion have been mentioned? Is this supposed to be some brownie points for Muslims?
I think the point is to remind us in difficult times that not all Muslims are unspeakable.
Good man. It would seem.
Don’t forget how the ruling class works they’re happy enough to stir up hatred between ordinary people. It keeps our mind off our loathing of the despised, corrupt ruling class.
Rubbish. Don’t be a Dhimmi.
“Not all Muslims are unspeakable” ??? Does that mean you are saying most of them are? Better watch out, Starmers Hate Police might be having a word in your ear. ———-Why should this security guard not be a “good man”?
“I think the point is to remind us in difficult times that not all Muslims are unspeakable.”
Indeed.
It was reported that in the 1930s/40s not all NASDAP members were unspeakable, some even helped save Jews.
This is the guy who did it, apparently. Not what most were expecting, presumably;
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1823036928041615535
My guess would be that this (the Mail article) is a sexed-up report about attempted street robbery by a junkie which is making headlines because the people configuration is mighty convenient for our cherished political leaders at the moment.
. <– pointless point so that I can fix the Mail misspelling.
It was entirely staged.
The video appears to have been deleted. Maybe this one will stay up longer. Just bear in mind this account is fake, not the real Abdullah;
https://x.com/AbdullahfromUk/status/1822999848766906405
The anti-Asian sentiment existed in England throughout the 1970s until the 1990s. But it was never particularly concerned with Islam. Some people attribute this change to 911 but I think this is wrong. This was a movement that gained momentum in the late 1990s in Paris and London, with a bit of encouragement from a certtain state. It was a directive from the cabal to channel all anti-immigration sentiment into anti-Muslim sentiment. And of course the plebs dutifully obliged. There is plenty to dislike about Islam but what we see in the West is entirely confected I mean to the nth level.
He could be anything.
As I said on the News Round-Up earlier, before I saw this article…
“What do you bet that the latest stabbing of a girl, 11, and her mother, 34, in London’s Leicester Square turns out to be a deliberate reverse of the Southport Mass Stabbing, with the London victims turning out to be Ethnic African, and the stabber an Ethnic European?
The media and police have already lauded an Islamic “hero” staff member of a nearby shop who intervened and helped capture the stabber, and has already been photo-featured describing his heroic actions.”
What a remarkable turn of events, eh? Perfect timing as well. Gosh, what a coincidence.
False flag…
Absolutely. You are wide awake.
My vote would be on everyday (drug-related) crime which usually goes unreported.
Oh please. You are far too intelligent to be so easily taken in.
Nah.. The timing, the way it’s been reported, I can understand how one would find it hard to believe we are played to this sort of level…. But we are..
I absolutely don’t find this hard to believe, I just don’t think the powers who laugh about us need to stage such an event. They can just catapult something into the headlines which would usually end up being a minor news item. Eg, according to the police, the mother suffered minor injuries and the child “serious but not life-threatening injuries”. If this was small child (very likely, yes), there’s no way to stab it in earnest without causing a life-threatening injury. Ergo: The attacker didn’t mean to, he was just putting on a show. Mogwai has posted a link to a short video about the arrest above. The guy us extraordinarily thin => very likely an addict.
And I suppose you still think that Hamas, on Oct 7th last, miraculously breeched the most high tech and secure border fence on the planet in 19 separate places, while the IDF were, cough, of course caught with their pants down relaxing by the pool, thus failed to respond for 6 hrs..
While the most revered and accomplished secret service, Mossad, who, as we have recently witnessed, can assassinate enemies in distant countries using satellite nav and high tech drones, of course knew absolutely nothing of the impending attack, cough again, even though Egypt warned them several times..
I use this example for a good reason…
Because it’s the same people.
Stabber was an immigrant? Do we know? His name suggest so.
The Left have done a good job conflating race with culture so any complaint or discourse about multiculturalism can be labelled “racist” and shut down and Hate Speech legislation applied.
Culture is not determined by race – a quick look round the World shows that. Those who promote culture being due to race, are de facto racist.
Members of monocultures form distinct societies shaped by their shared culture and because of this those societies tend to be stable, peaceful, prosperous.
Multiple cultures = multiple societies = tribalism = disunity, disharmony, tensions, conflict, warfare. History of the World.
Multicultural society therefore is oxymoronic.
According to news reporter Charlie Peters outside court today the attacker is a Romanian national.
You should just try to take people as you find them. I have associated with Muslims for decades and unless I am very obtuse they don’t want to kill white children or any children, The might dislike the bent of the British agenda since 2003 but there is no anti-western agenda. If you are persuing this line of thought then you are either retarded or deluded. Muslim rape gangs do exist but that is because they work on a more predatory basis. You can’t just treat your daughters like shit and provide them with no backbone and then just throw them into the world as if they wouldn’t get raped. Of course they will. The Muslims are no threat if you have a bit of spunk left in your scrotum. If you as an Aryan father stood up to a Musklm predator, believe me they would be quaking in their boots.
I agree.. The people of Rotherham have taken people as they find them too…. 1400 young girls drugged and gang raped..
The biggest child protection scandel in British history.
Oh and to make matters worse… There have still been no prosecutions, all swept under the carpet.. Can’t upset that Pakistani “community” can we now
Sure but they aren’t all child rapists. I agree that they will attack teenage girls if they are left unguarded but some of these people I mean I don’t have any young children but if I did I would look after them.But yes they are hungry for teenage girls like a dog on heat looking for a bitch in season.. You want to protect your teenage girls anyway because every animal and psycho is going to want to go after them. If I had a daughter in England right now I wouldn’t let her leave the house before the age of twenty and I would make sure that I turned her into the most badass opponent possible. I would also encourage her to leave the country rapidly because it isn’t going to get any better.
“Sure but they aren’t all child rapists”.. He says as Iran consider to legally reduce the age in which women (girls) can marry to 9
Have you read the history of Europe 1914 to 1945?
Honestly if you as a white Englishman are scared about a Muslim then you are being paranoid. I know Muslims and a I know very well white English men and I know who in charge. Trust me you won’t be dacing a broadside attack from Islam. Islam in the West knows its place and it doesn’t take much to knock it back into shape. I am a Christian and it is nothing to me to knock them back into shape.
You’re going have a serious awakening if you live long enough to see Sharia Law in the UK…
In the 1930s why would a German Jew be scared of a German Christian?
Another one in Dublin today, allegedly. Maybe someone in Ireland has more info, as opposed to just a post on Twitter;
”ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER FRENZIED STABBING IN DUBLIN CITY – EYE WITNESS REPORTS SAY IT WAS A FOREIGN MAN WHO KNIFED ANOTHER FOREIGNER ABOUT 20 TIMES
Extremely dark times ahead for our people until true patriots replace treasonous politicians.”
https://x.com/FergusPower1/status/1823007143680741578
Not entirely sure if this is related or it’s just a coincidence that this guy with a knife was apprehended. Maybe the attacker? Bit scarce on actual facts at the moment, but the surroundings appear to be the same as in the above clip. Any input on this incident appreciated;
https://x.com/TezTruth81/status/1823036261612875886
When immigrants rape and kill our children and bomb arenas we’re ordered we must not notice race or religion. When immigrants do something honourable we’re ordered we must notice race and religion. Funny that isn’t it?
Now here’s a bit of cheerful news at last:
Rapper who posted video about Tommy Robinson denies sharing ‘false information’ (msn.com)
“A rapper who posted a video online accusing Tommy Robinson of calling on people to attack mosques has appeared in court.
[Somalian-origin] Omar Abdirizak, 30, is charged with conveying information which was known to be false, intending at the time of sending to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience.
In it, he alleges that Mr Robinson has been “running his mouth, saying ‘we’re going to attack the mosques’”.
District Judge David Wain bailed Abdirizak to appear at the magistrates’ court again on Friday, ordering him not to mention Mr Robinson or the EDL on social media without prior agreement of the court.”
Justice at last for Tommy, and for the British People, by the police and that excellent Judge David Wain.
O/T. This “far-right thuggery” baffles me. The “riot mayhem” in Southport has resulted in convictions for defendants who:
1. stole PC’s baton;
2. fly-kicked a police vehicle;
3. wielded a piece of wood.
I think we’re being gamed: the media and government are “bigging” this up so that behaviour which might elsewhere be dismissed as sour grapes by football supporters after a losing match is classified as either revolution, “far-right thuggery”. Any pensioner who is present at an incident or “likes” a comment or video of it will be sent to The Tower. It’s all aimed at smoothing the way to introduce laws suppressing dissent. Next we’ll be risking arrest for wearing a loud shirt.
The police yet again failed to provide any information about the attacker and also gave vague information about whether the incident was terror related.
Well done to the Daily Mail for filling in an obvious blank which the police could and should have filled in – why it was not terror related.
They did however say the attacker was not known to the victims according to other news reports I have seen.
If that is correct why would anyone do that?
Are there questions about mental health care which need to be addressed before more attacks of this kind occur.
Will Wes Streeting be called upon to ensure a review is undertaken urgently to identify all potentially violent mental health patients not previously flagged up and considered for sectioning under the Mental Health Act?
My immediate reaction to this event was “how convenient for the Authorities.”
A child attacked; a white attacker (no info about his origins); and a brown, Muslim hero.
It could almost have been staged.
As was mine. OTOH, actual circumstances, insofar they can be gathered from reading between the lines, don’t really lend itself to that: The so-called attacker was a weak and relatively small guy who was brandishing a knife, but didn’t mean to do any real damage as he would otherwise certainly have accomplished that. He got tackled from behind by two physically superior guys and that was essentially it. That’s a testimony to the inability (or unwillingness) of the Met to maintain public order in the streets of London the local population has long since grown accustomed to and there are very probably several such occurences per week, every week. We just don’t hear about them because it’s not usually politically convenient to let them turn into national stories.
Immediately we knew the name and by implication racial/religious identity of the hero – even a live interview.
The alleged stabber – we still know little. White male.
According to news reporter Charlie Peters outside court today the attacker is a Romanian national.
The BBC claims he’s a homeless Romanian.