- “Free Covid tests will not be coming back, No.10 insists” – The move to axe tests for everyone other than health and social care workers, the elderly and the most vulnerable in England – which critics claim has come two years too late – came into effect on Friday, reports the Mail.
- “The number of women waiting longer is 380 times higher” – Mail report that more than 570,000 women in the U.K. are suffering from extreme pain, heavy bleeding and poor mental health as waiting lists for treatment hit record levels, according to a new report.
- “More than eight million people reject offer of COVID-19 booster despite record infections” – There are still 8.6 million people who had a second vaccine at least three months ago but have not yet come forward for a third dose, reports the i.
- “Covid: Nine new symptoms added to official list” – Sore throats, headaches and loss of appetite are now all officially recognised as signs of infection, reports BBC News. ‘Feeling under the weather’ didn’t quite make the cut this time.
- “Swamped NHS mental health services turning away children, say GPs” – A survey lays bare the extent of help denied by CAMHS to under-18s who are struggling mentally, reports the Guardian. Maybe all those lockdowns and school closures weren’t such a good idea after all, eh?
- “The end of the COVID-19 pandemic” – Public health officials need to declare the end of the pandemic – mid- and long-term consequences of adopted measures on health, society, economy, civilisation and democracy may perpetuate a pandemic legacy long after the pandemic itself has ended, argues Professor John Ioannidis in a peer-reviewed paper for the European Journal of Clinical Investigation.
- “Whoops! The TOGETHER Trial actually showed that ivermectin worked.” – Steve Kirsch says that even the author admitted it, while the media and medical establishment did not read the study carefully, seizing on anything that supports the narrative and failing to look at the study critically.
- “Fauci’s United Front Is Collapsing” – Why did Fauci, who in early February 2020 was downplaying the seriousness of the virus, flip to the other side, asks Jeffrey A. Tucker at the Brownstone Institute.
- “Epilogue: I got Covid” – “After writing this blog about Covid and the counter-productive measures taken to ‘fight’ it for nearly two years I appear to have finally got the bug,” writes Russell David. “Has it changed my mind on anything I have previously written? Read on.”
- “Terms of Reference for the COVID-19 Public Inquiry” – Read HART’s response to the consultation and submit your own by April 7th.
- “Australia Planning to Vaccinate Children Newborn to Age Four While Heavily Vaxxed Population Faces Largest COVID-19 Case, Death and Hospitalisation Surges” – Australia’s vaccine injury compensation claims scheme expanded recently to children under four years of age, as health agencies Down Under prepare for COVID-19 mass vaccination of babies, reports TrialSite News.
- “FDA: Where is Novavax? Why Haven’t You Authorised? Who are You Protecting?” – What do Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the World Health Organisation have in common? They have all authorised or approved the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine while the U.S. FDA continues strangely to sit on a submission by the American company, says TrialSite News.
- “Covid in Scotland: Wedding and funeral mask rules end” – The legal requirement to wear face coverings in places of worship has also been removed, BBC News reports.
- “Scotland’s Covid pandemic response must be held to account” – Without any modelling of the scale of the collateral lives that could be lost no balance was given to the damage repeated restrictions were creating, says Brian Monteith in the Scotsman.
- “Nicola Sturgeon is addicted to Covid powers” – 90% of organisations responding to a consultation on whether Scottish Government ministers should have the power to amend primary legislation by decree during an emergency opposed the move, but it is likely to happen anyway, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Vaccine Myocarditis: Mystery Solved?” – A Brazilian investigator may have identified the mechanism driving mRNA vaccine myocarditis, says the Swiss Doctor. Meanwhile, the U.S. CDC finally acknowledges the strongly increased risk in young males.
- “Twenty-four Countries Ask China Not to Separate Children From Parents Over Covid” – Western diplomats have voiced alarm about the Chinese regime separating children from their parents for Covid quarantine, as around 25 million people in Shanghai, China’s largest city and financial centre, remain locked down, reports the Epoch Times.
- “My electric car journey from hell shows buyers must beware” – Iain Dale in the Telegraph says if you only do relatively short journeys, then buying an electric car is a good decision, but if you regularly travel more than 150 miles, it isn’t – and the car manufacturers appear to lie about the expected range.
- “IPCC climate report: Slash emissions now and world can avoid worst effects” – Times report that world leaders and businesses are telling lies when they promise to tackle climate change and there will be catastrophic consequences without immediate and deep cuts in emissions, according to a new UN warning.
- “Boris Johnson plans seven new nuclear reactors as he drops wind plans” – The Mail reports that the Prime Minister is said to have rejected ambitious targets presented by Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng to double the U.K.’s onshore output to 30GW by 2030.
- “We must take back control of our strategic industries from China” – The short-sighted sales of critical manufacturing infrastructure will leave us completely dependent on Beijing, writes Iain Duncan Smith in the Telegraph.
- “Big Business and Conservatives Are Headed for Divorce” – The new conservatism is hostile to globalisation, immigration, big tech, media companies, and the idea that market forces should determine the common good, argues Adrian Wooldridge in Bloomberg.
- “Disney vs democracy” – Woke capitalism is a pox on the democratic process, writes Brendan O’Neill in Spiked.
- “Is it really a crime to stare?” – Emily Hill in the Spectator offers a defence of staring: “Ask a single Millennial female what her problem is and she won’t tell you it’s the wrong kind of man staring at her on tube trains; it’s the kind of man she could stare at all day not staring at her, ever.”
- “Becoming transgender a sacred journey of becoming whole, says ex-Archbishop of Canterbury” – Rowan Williams wades into the conversion therapy debate on the anti-science side as No.10’s stance sparks boycott of its LGBT conference, the Telegraph reports.
- “No, Britain’s education system is not racist” – Ethnic-minority pupils are happier, more confident and more successful than their white peers, writes Rakib Ehsan in Spiked.
- “Trans women can be excluded from female-only changing rooms and toilets” – Telegraph report that the privacy and dignity of users can be used as a reason to exclude transgender people from single-sex services, the EHRC has said in a report.
- “Not only is science under attack, but free speech is under attack, truth is under attack” – Watch former Tory councillor Caroline Ffiske speak to Andrew Doyle on GB News about Women Uniting, a cross-party group developed to “stand up for females”.
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The notion that earth’s climate is dictated by 0.04% of it’s atmosphere which is co2, of which human emissions are a tiny fraction of the 0.04% has to be the most preposterous idea even inflicted. Marxists like Monbiot use the fear mongering to further push their hard left agenda, supposedly conservative governments then do their bidding banning cars and abolishing choice in the energy market. We need to get back burning coal ASAP!
Spot on!
To paraphrase Prof Ian Plumber (a geologist), in order to blame climate change on the 3 percent of CO2 emissions caused by human activity, we also need to explain why the 97 percent CO2 release from natural processes are not responsible.
Do you mean the Australian geology professor Ian Plimer? Autocorrecting keyboard?!!
There is at least 400 years of coal reserves beneath our feet. Add in the shale gas, natural gas, North Sea oil, top up with nuclear and we become exporters.
And yet we are expected to destroy ourselves by leaving all this in the ground.
And now that other trace gas methane is being demonised to ban agriculture.
Yes. The “Great Moonbat” (as the late, great Christopher Booker called him) featured on Mark Steyn’s GB News show (yesterday?) saying that meat and dairy farming needs to stop. I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised about the acceptance by many of the preposterous CO2 notion, after all, a surprising amount of people believe in homeopathy.
Just to put it into perspective, does anyone know the details of the extent of the current UK restrictions and taxes on coal production at the moment – and the value of goods we nonetheless import from the coal dependent PRC? Utter madness.
“…a surprising amount of people believe in homeopathy.”
The pharmacological era only really took off about about 100 years ago and was pushed, and pushed by surprise, surprise, the Rockefellers. Within about twenty years from 1900 or so they managed to wipe out, certainly in the USA, the folk medicine developed over thousands of years. And now they have turned medicine against the people.
Homeopathy belongs, it is accumulated wisdom. Look where the test tube concoctions have brought us – Bioweapons.
Can we use Monbiot as a firelighter?
This guy works through just what it would take to make the switch from current energy sources to renewables. While listening it becomes obvious that no one has bothered to do the calculations before. The scale of mining required to source copper, nickel, lithium etc is mind blowing (796) Assoc Prof Simon Michaux – The quantity of metals required to manufacture just one generation of… – YouTube
It must be infuriating for real scientists to watch the sponges lap up the words of the Climate Schoolgirl, a magnificent advertising Coup. Those who have spent a lifetime of indulgence are now insisting we must deliberately trash our own lives, trash all the advantages of the modern age which has actually saved billions from starvation. Net zero and returning us to the era of our ancestors is not the way to go.
As with most things, their demands that we renounce everything would hold more water if they lead the way…
That’s for the peasants not for the kings.
Net zero is just Marxism in brides clothing, same result.
..you might enjoy this..
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/andrew-bolt/obsessed-with-doom-greta-thunberg-has-gone-bust/video/126e6eb2bb418caa34bbfbf861cd7007
Sky News host Andrew Bolt says the Greta Thunberg cult has “gone bust”.
“A mere child, full of rage, obsessed with doom, totally devoid of any practical solutions – but here she was lecturing the world on how to fuel their 21st century economies,” Mr Bolt said.
“Thunberg is now a victim of her own success in scaring people into doing very, very stupid things that we’re now paying for.”
Will never forget UK politicians gaping in wonder when she stood berating them….
It amazed me when she made her “how dare you mortgage our future” speech last year that nobody in the audience responded along the lines of “Yes, how dare we increase life expectancy, reduce childhood mortality and raise the living standards of billions of people”
If George Monbiot were dried out, seasoned and stored properly, he could keep a family warm for a good week.
Yes but the fumes would be unendurable.
Monbiot is a particularly vile element of the climate cultists. A useful idiot with typical extreme Marxist viewpoints garnered from his middle class roots in student activism; caviar Marxist.
Much like Tony Blair, he’s a weather vane on policies. If he supports it, you know it will be terrible.
Unfortunately, Guardianites think he’s amazing, kind of like those odd people who worship that toad James O’Brian on LBC.
The parallels with the Covid debate are amazing. Opposition to the globalist narratives will be shouted down by the moron Woke brigade, policies will be fatal to society especially those on the lower end, enrich the lizard people at the top, be supported by the MSM, secondary effects will be blamed on some other reason.
The end result, more crisis, more totalitarianism.
Spot on.
I’m not too sure how Monbiot manages to find time to work in between his appointments with his psychiatrist.
If friends query it…for example a friend (with young son at university) stated in a message to me that coral bleaching is a phenomenon of climate change. Instead of just ignoring this sort of thing, I now send back a polite email attaching a link to the recent Australian report here: https://www.aims.gov.au/monitoring-great-barrier-reef/gbr-condition-summary-2021-22 referencing the massive regrowth of corals on the Great Barrier Reef in recent years.
Here is some of what I say: “There are plenty of other factors, weather events such as El Nino for example, that have contributed to coral bleaching. It has even been shown that rat populations on islands (Chagos) can have a huge impact on the quality of coral reefs and their fish populations. Yet we have the hubris to think that we can control these things.
I reckon the corals will be around long after the human race has disappeared off the face of this planet. Look at Bikini Atoll for example. Bombed to hell in the 40s/50s and yet now has a thriving coral reef that really amazed scientists. https://www.livescience.com/2438-bikini-atoll-corals-recovering-atomic-blast.html ” (End quote)
This is the only way to get to these people. Facts in the face of religion. Thanks Toby for providing the facts to help us non-believers (climate deniers – what a rubbish term) fight back against these sadly misled folk. Monbiot is a side show and is more of a danger to himself than the rest of us but heaven help us if he ever gets into a position of power.
I agree with you, but I get very tired of the little sighs, the averted eyes and the change of subject that often ensues – it’s like being treated as a child or someone with limited capacity.
I think climate change ideology is in a particularly febrile state because the pushers of the ideology have realised they can take advantage of the same drone-like idiots that served as the useful idiots of the corona virus panic.
They are the collectivists in our society, driven by a compulsion to tell others how they must live their lives, a compulsion they mask with claims that they only want what is best for everyone and that it can only be achieved if everyone pulls together.
The drones are like a machine that has been fired up and is running on a high gear, fueled by covid fear. And with the covid fuel dying out the climate fanatics are only too happy to take over the machine and feed it with climate catastrophe fear.
Carbon DIOXIDE (not that dirty black stuff ‘carbon’ as the Greenies would have it) is plant food. The more CO2 in our atmosphere, the more abundantly our planet’s flora will grow.
The poly-tunnels in Spain are pumped full of the stuff to increase yields of the tomatoes we import.
The basis for Net Zero is entirely Malthusian with the simple goal to to reduce the human population so that the elite predator class can enjoy the planet to themselves. AI and robotics have replaced manual labour so rapidly that the vast majority of humanity will no longer have a purposeful existence. Our fate will be that of the equine population when car and train usage became widespread, we are to be put out to pasture and discouraged from breeding.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/08/22/europes-population-halve-surging-house-prices-force-couples/
Climies can’t speak in whole molecules.
The opinion that the world is overpopulated and would be better off with fewer people is extremely common. Anyone can see it from their own conversations.
It would be delusional to think that amongst all those that believe that there are too many of us, there aren’t plenty who would act on the idea if they could.
And it would be wishful thinking to expect that amongst those that would act on it there aren’t any that actually can.
In short, it’s not only possible but extremely likely that there are those that are actively working towards depopulating the planet. The extent to which they can succeed or not is a different matter.
Not conspiracy theory, just plain logical deduction.
From there looking at how they would go about it is a small step. The “climate crisis”? Definitely a candidate.
An excellent article.
Monobot? Not worth mentioning even in passing. Complete Nutter.
Were Lysenko alive today, he wouldn’t dismiss statistics and the scientific method as tools of his enemies – he would take a social sciences course at some third-rate university where he would be coached in how to cherry pick data that supported his ideas; which statistical processing algorithms to use regardless of their validity, to give the appearance of credibility without any of the substance. Besides this, the parallels between the destruction and politicisation of science in Lysenkoism and the rise of the climate cult are so striking as to rightly be considered more as a repeat of history.
Political ideologues have always needed to spin their own ‘truth’ in the form of a narrative, in order to protect their fragile, simplistic answers from the sobering complexity of reality. The Soviet elites didn’t even need – or probably want – to understand Lysenko’s nonsense theory. All that mattered was that he told them what they wanted to hear – that human nature can be quickly and easily reshaped; that mankind has the power to command nature on a whim (a great way to stem incompetence-caused famine).
Of course, the climate cult haven’t yet been able to report academics who fail into line for execution or a trip to the gulag, though in the USSR, totalitarianism was already in full swing, whereas today it remains a firm goal for our eager Lysenkoists. It isn’t hard to imagine Extinction Rebellion activists in increasingly scuzzy (thanks to them) parts of Oxford and Bristol as the next boneheaded little pampered commissars following the Great Reset, enthusiastically denouncing traitors and dissenters. The purging of dissent in scientific journals and academia through bullying, insult, smear, gaslighting, insinuation leading to the loss of career for anyone unretired or without tenure who dares speak out or ask questions is just the same though. Even in the the case of tenure, who wants to be an honest professor if it means being labelled a pariah and branded ‘far right’ in a leftist world?
It’s heartening to see some stand up for the truth and for integrity as reported here. No doubt there are thousands more academics and scientists silently waiting in the wings who are starting to feel ‘climate science’ is nothing more than an ugly, hastily sewn together corpse of the scientific method, twitching on strings held by activists and billionaires (or a ‘cargo cult’ as Richard Feynman better put it). I hope it helps gives them the courage to investigate claims for themselves rather than rely on the groupthink of ‘consensus’ for safety, and allows them to sleep better at night knowing there is some integrity left in their field. Hopefully before the most successful civilisation in history is extinguished under the shadow of regressive totalitarianism, they might have the courage to stand up as heroes themselves.
Well said
The Great Barrier Reef Declaration…sounds familiar
The climate zealots have refused ever to debate publicly anyone who challenges their assertions. Their first line is to discount anyone who isn’t a scientist or if a scientist not a climate scientist.
When confronted with a dissenting climate scientist, their excuse is that to debate them would give them and their opposing argument credibility and create doubt in the absolute certainty of ‘climate change’ being ‘real’.
So they are frightened of debate because they know they have no evidence to support their claims, and on the contrary, evidence refutes it.
But when Western Governments, international bodies, business interests and rich and powerful are backing them, they can get away with it. Just like the whole CoVid Fakedemic and vaccine menace.
This avoiding serious challenging debate thing seems to be a pattern among certain types, especially the fanatics whose eyes burn with righteous zeal and who will shout you down again and again rather than sit quietly and talk about it. Sadly, I have a very good friend who just doesn’t want to even talk about the possibility that climate change might not be real. I’ve broached the subject a few times and he immediately gets all defensive. Not going there. Taboo subject etc. Greta Thunberg is a saint in his eyes with her ‘how dare you’ and ‘you have stolen my childhood’ rants at the UN among her highlights.
There was a meme I saw recently with all these very young children working in what were meant to be lithium mines. There were nine panels in total with a picture of child in eight of them, each armed with a shovel or a pickaxe, – they might have been mining lithium or maybe not, the point being that the ninth panel had Greta Thunberg sailing on a yacht and the caption read ‘Which of these children had their childhoods stolen?’ A powerful image especially if it was lithium, the raw material for the electric batteries that her crowd seem to be clamouring for.
“Climate Scientist” – someone who is not a scientist and who doesn’t understand climate. Someone who can spot a grant providing opportunity at 1,000 paces
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PLEASE download and read this incredibly concise analysis of how the climate works by a lifetime gas turbine designer, aeronautical engineer. These are the people who can actually work this stuff out because it’s fundamentally a thermodynamics problem – not a geology / oceanography / meterology problem.
Link:
https://gvigurs.wordpress.com/2019/04/28/the-emperors-new-climate/
With that in mind, thermodynamics problems are essentially expressed in terms of gas properties. So we first have to (“should”) as “what is this magical gas property that allows a gas to pass heat in one direction and not another and that defines a gas as a “greenhouse gas” ? It turns out to be “emissivity”.
But refer to Page 14 of that document (“Planetary Atmospheres”). If you read nothing else, just read page 14. It shows that, at thermal equilibrium, emissivity has no ZIP impact on the equilibrium temperture. This is why the climate is NOT warming because of Co2. Emissivity make make a small difference to the RATE at which the gas reaches that equilibrium temperature but its determines by the influx of solar radiation and the atmospheric density. Nothing to do with “greenhouse gases”.
See PAGE 14.
“climate science, the whore of politics.” about sums it up.
With science being completely and utterly trashed over the last 2.5 years by globalists shills and greed, it’s encouraging to hear real scientists starting to shout from the roof tops about this climate hoax. Hopefully, a win for common sense here, they will be able to restore the reputation of real scientists.
“In the U.K., the spike in international gas prices, and an increasing reliance on unreliable renewables, means the consumer energy price cap could be raised to £6,000”
We should not let our feelings/beliefs about climate change interfere with rational judgement.
Solar and wind are cheaper than gas, currently vastly cheaper, so the more solar and wind we have, the less expensive gas we use. The less gas we use the more stable energy costs become.
Of course we still need gas as a backup to unreliable solar and wind, and we desperately need much larger gas storage facilities to even out price fluctuations and ensure continuity of supply.
Un-reliables are not cheaper if the subsidies are subtracted.
Real life example – I paid £7000 for my solar panels in 2014, there was no subsidy on the purchase price.
My panels generate 4,500 kWh/year. If they last 20 years, which is conservative given that there has been no drop in output so far, their lifetime generation will be 90,000 kWh.
£7,000 / 90,000 kWh = 7.8p per kWh.
Solar panels, inverters etc are now cheaper than they were eight years ago.
Mine is a 4kWp domestic system, obviously it would be cheaper per kWp to install a much larger system (economies of scale) on the ground (no scaffolding).