The relentless catastrophising of bad weather is becoming almost a daily occurrence at the BBC, as the Corporation seeks to shore up the elitist command-and-control Net Zero project. As we have seen at the Daily Sceptic, global warming went off the boil almost two decades ago, while it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep a straight face when promoting the farcical forecasts from climate models.
“Heatwaves, deadly floods and wildfires all mean people are experiencing the link between extreme weather [BBC-speak for bad weather] and climate change,” states Matt Taylor of BBC Weather. What link might that be, one might reasonably ask. Certainly nothing that has yet been established by scientific proof. Individual events, however biblical in their incantation, cannot be provably linked to long term changes in the climate – to do so is mere conjecture.
And not very good conjecture at that, if the latest BBC example is anything to go by. Taylor starts by presenting the graph below.
Heatwaves are said to become more frequent and extreme as the bell curve moves. No mention is made that cold claims far more lives than heat. According to a paper published last year in the Lancet, a 20 year global study found that over five million people died of “non-optimal” temperatures every year. Cold was found to have killed over eight times more people than heat. Earlier this year, the U.K.’s Office for National Statistics found that recent milder winters saved nearly 30,000 lives a year.
Taylor goes on to report that last year North America was hit by a long lasting heatwave. A particular heatwave in western Canada “would have been virtually impossible without climate change, according to the World Weather Attribution network”.
However, the data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t help the doomsday narrative. Heatwaves are currently trending towards the lower end of the 125 year scale. They were much worse in the 1930s.
Wildfires are always popular in the BBC house of climate horrors. Extreme and long-lasting heat caused by climate change is said by Taylor to provide conditions for fires “which can spread at incredible speed”. In fact, records show that acres burned by wildfires in the United States are barely a fifth of those reported in the 1930s. Over the last 25 years there has been little change in lost acreage. On a global scale, NASA shows (below) a pattern of recent falls in burned areas.
Taylor goes on to note that the northern hemisphere wildfire season has begun “unusually early” in some areas this year. “Unusually” early fires have been reported in the U.K. Let us look at recent record for Wales, a largely rural country, that might be thought particularly susceptible to vegetation going up in smoke.
Happily, Welsh Government statistics report that fires are less than half what they were at the turn of the century and they have been dropping for years.
Rainfall – too little, too much – is of course a regular win, win for the Net Zero propogandist. Taylor quotes a “water specialist” from the U.S., Peter Gleick from the National Academy of Sciences, who explains: “When areas of drought grow, like in Siberia and western U.S., that water falls elsewhere, in a smaller area, worsening flooding.” In Brisbane, Taylor notes that earlier this year 80% of the city’s rainfall fell in just six days. In fact about 1,000mm of rain has fallen in Brisbane in the first three months, well short of the record for January to March set in 1974.
Amounts of 800mm are not uncommon in the record, notably a number of years in the 1950s. The estimable climate writer Paul Homewood noted that none of the daily rainfall totals in Brisbane was remotely unprecedented. The most that fell this year was on February 28th with 344.8mm.
Homewood then supplied the above table, noting that the daily record for February was an astonishing 907mm set in 1893 in a town only 46 miles from Brisbane.
Bad, sorry, extreme weather is increasingly becoming the main battlefield for the waging of green activist warfare. Michael Shellenberger notes in his recent book Apocalypse Never that “leading media companies have been exaggerating climate change at least since the 1980s”. The United Nations IPCC summaries, press releases and authors’ statements, “betray ideological motivations, a tendency towards exaggeration, and an absence of important context”.
As I noted in my last article, Shellenberger spent 30 years promoting green activism, but wrote his book “after getting fed up with the exaggeration, alarmism and extremism that are the enemy of a positive, humanistic, and rational environmentalism”.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor
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Here’s an idea. What if people feeling really ill just stayed at home until they felt better? Just like we do with the flu. No need for anyone to isolate, test or trace. This thing is endemic now.
After all if we are going to have to live with COVID then treat it as if was the flu.
Back to normal after a 2 minute announcement
You are sane, Paul M.
A rare thing these days.
And totally unheard-of in government.
LS reported on that study a few months ago which showed that about 50% of symptomatic people didn’t bother to isolate. This is the reason the virus is spreading, obviously. Not asymptomatic children…
Ah if only it were so simple. Many people out there don’t take sick leave even when they need it because they just can’t afford to lose out on 2+ weeks’ wages. These are the folks who have been manning the checkout desks and driving delivery vans in order to enable the govt’s agenda.
Yes…. You are so right ——- but they are already talking about the booster — I do feels hard to imagine things will ever be normal again – Big Pharma and Big tech funding have got the governments to do whatever they decide they want done and the Jab is worth Billions to them —
Like the teacher at our daughter’s school who came into work feeling unwell, gave a positive lateral flow test and the class have been told to self isolate. Don’t let anyone tell you teachers have common sense.
Or any consideration for the parents of pupils who maybe don’t have public sector jobs so need to work to pay the bills.
Ah, there we go. You don’t have to go home, you just have to submit to an invasive medical procedure every single day in order to prove your innocence.
Get used to it, kid, this is the New Normal.
Replacing one load of bollocks with another, almost as bad, as bad, worse, but bollocks nonetheless.
I know time is limited but would like to see more context and comment from the writers ATL, destroying the nonsense, for the benefit of casual readers or newbies or to hone arguments.
We’ve seen many “good news” articles that are not really good news at all. Just seems like the site is cheerleading for the govt’s weasel attempts to pretend we are coming out of coronamadness when we are doing no such thing
COVID WAS NOT AN EXCEPTIONAL EVENT REQUIRING OR JUSTIFYING EXCEPTIONAL MEASURES
Yes – I was disappointed to see Ioannides succumbing to the snake oil myths (see Round Up)
They will just replace this with a more pushy testing and tracing policy for kids.
These guys are merciless.
Another idea that was brainless in the first place. The idiot cabinet is the only entity needing a bubble – to shut them away from us.
FFS – We are being governed by people who don’t understand basic terminology like ‘infection’, ‘case’, ‘Covid’, and who still can’t grasp the basic uselessness of blanket testing or are able to read standard pandemic planning documents.
I expect the bubbles will be scrapped but replaced by something worse, like compulsory vaccination and/or testing.
*searches internet for books about home schooling*
Me and my wife are on standby to start homeschooling or boys if shit happens
Me too! Many other parents are planning the same – new community schools being planned across the country.
Parents needs to stand up to this madness, and simply refuse to send their kids to school. It will take everyone to do it, but that would solve it pretty quickly I would imagine
My daughters year have all been told to school from home for the next 2 weeks. Absolute joke.
Please a) stop advising we read ‘in full’ when the summary is enough to have us reaching for the sick bag and b) apply a bit of editorial judgement rather than simply relaying govt toss without scrutiny. We have the BBC for that, remember.
HEAR HEAR.
Toby used to take a robustly critical stance, which has now been replaced by wet lettuce.
To be fair, TY is extremely busy and commenting on every article is asking a lot.
Ideally he would have a much bigger team, with a budget to go with it
Scrap the school bubbles.
End of school year.
yeah.
As always, more excuses to prolong the agony from this Branch Covidian government.
They cannot give the experimental vaccine if they give up their emergency powers -that is what it is all about …..
Exactly! I don’t understand why more isn’t made of this point!
“Could be”
Pigs could fly if they had wings.
“Let’s just look at new models with dodgy rules to pile on the agony…because we can…and we know lots will not hesitate to comply. Isn’t this fun?” is what Williamson meant.
Gavin Williamson makes Matt Hancock look competent. Perhaps The Sun have some video of him.
This is really easy.
STOP TESTING CHILDREN UNDER 18.
Stop testing everyone
He wouldn’t even know where her arse was. Probably get it confused with her elbow.
200 lines for The Secretary of State for Education. Decline the following sentence.
I am a cretin.
You, Matt Hancock, are a cretin.
He, Boris Johnson, is a cretin.
We the Government are cretins.
You, SAGE, are cretins.
They, the Main Stream Media, are cretins.
This is one of the best comments I’ve read
love it 
They were all cretinous.
Love it
The depravity, the sheer, utter, merciless evil of these people is to me, beyond belief.
There are no excuses for what these SICK bastards are doing to children.
NONE.
NONE — it is EVIL
Prove first that all this testing isn’t harmful! Parents should refuse to allow these invasive repetitive tests until it can be proven not to harm the children’s mucous membranes, cilia etc. We know it harms their psyches.
They should, but they don’t. I’m a teacher and have to give the damn things out to my form every week. No one in my own household has ever been tested once; people don’t seem to understand that none of it is mandatory and are incapable of doing even the most basic research. I despair.
You say it’s not mandatory, yet you “have to” give the damned things out. So that part is ‘mandatory’.
They “could” be scrapped immediately if anyone in government had any integrity.
They do NOT know the meaning of the word.
Why cant Williamson pronounce Bubbles properly have you listened? its really odd
Is it because he’s a Fucking Cunt?
So, end the ridiculous bubbles 4 days before the summer holidays start? What a cunning plan from the Baldrick of British politics.
Some areas break up before the 19th. But this date has been pushed by the opposition i.e. the minority who are apparently on our side in the tory party.
The reason of course Boris/Stanley/Carrie/Klaus love the chaos in schools e.g. whole classes and year groups sent home for one (false) positive test is because they want to vaccinate kids. If they keep sending them home they think parents will more readily offer up their dim witted progeny for ‘vaccination’. Same with travel.
This morning, I should be caring for my youngest granddaughter while her sister, my other granddaughter, goes to school. I am not doing this however because someone in her class has “tested positive” so she has to stay at home until next Thursday.
Instead, I will come here to leave this comment from Christian Drosten (boo, hiss) who provided the first “PCR test” for the WHO to use last year and which was held up as the gold standard. The results of this test are used by governments to legitimise massive restrictions and take away our human rights.
As early as 2014, Drosten said about this PCR test method “The method is so sensitive that it can detect even a single molecule of the virus genome. If such a pathogen has, for example, spent one day on the nasal mucosa of a nurse, without her getting sick or noticing anything, she suddenly becomes a case of MERS. Where previously there were reports of people who were ‘sick to death’ (my inverted commas) the statistics now contain mildly ill people and people who are in fact perfectly healthy. This is how the explosion in the number of cases in Saudi Arabia could be explained. In addition, the media on the spot have inflated the matter incredibly. “
Exactly what has happened with the Corona virus.
This idiot Williamson seriously thinks that schoolchildren should be subjected to daily testing? What planet is he on? He should be sectioned for his and everyone else’s safety.
Especially after concerns have been raised over ethylene oxide – exposing children to it 5 days a week is simply a risk not worth taking, especially as children (who don’t have compromised immune systems) have a vanishingly small chance of dying from the virus (1-in-2.5 million or thereabouts, I believe) and are not vectors of the virus.
This is simply to make life so unpleasant that parents will agree to letting their children be jabbed – does anyone with critical thinking skills still believe this is about curtailing a virus?
When life becomes so unpleasant, why take it out on your children instead of those causing the misery?
Indeed – but the propaganda machine will urge parents on.
God, they’re so obsessed with their bloody virus – and selling tests and jabs.
Bubbles are utterly pointless – anyone with half a brain would know that – as many, many kids have siblings that span bubbles.
I asked my 11 year old grandson how many in his class of 32 have siblings in other bubbles. He estimated at least eight! Even he realises these ridiculous bubbles are pointless. Just “experts” pretending they are “doing something”.