The recent brief heatwave in the U.K. and parts of Europe provides a textbook case of how the weather is being catastrophised to serve the interests of the command-and-control Net Zero agenda. The U.K. heatwave was exceptionally hot, but according to Professor Cliff Mass, this “extraordinary extreme event” is a sign that ”global warming played a very small role in this event”.
According to Mass, the golden rule of climate extremes is: “The more extreme a climate or weather record is, the greater the contribution of natural variability and the smaller the contribution of human-caused global warming.”
Mass is Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington. He does not rule out the involvement of human-caused global warming, but is dismissive of much of the ludicrous scaremongering that dominates the media. “The truth and overwhelming evidence provide a different story: the recent European heatwave is mainly the result of natural processes, but was enhanced modestly by human-caused global warming,” he writes.
Of course the term “modestly” is being fiercely debated by many scientists. To date, there is no credible science paper that has conclusively linked single weather events to long-term changes in the climate. But, of course, this doesn’t stop the BBC’s green activist-in-residence Justin Rowlatt quoting the opinion from the Met Office that the recent extreme heat was made “ten times” more likely because of climate change. Far from questioning this statement, Rowlatt added: “We are being warned that it can pose a life-threatening risk to even normally healthy people and just look at the impact it is having in our hospitals, schools and transport systems.”
Rowlatt saw no need to provide a detailed meteorological explanation for the high temperatures. According to Professor Mass it was caused by a large ridge of high pressure, which produced warming by sinking and moving air northwards on its western flanks. Meanwhile, a trough of lower pressure on the southwest side in Europe enhanced the southerly flow, and acted as a supercharger for the warmth.
Ironically, notes Mass, such a pattern, as shown above, produces enhanced cooling to the east and west. Needless to say, this was rarely, if ever, mentioned in the relentless media concentration on the localised heat. But Mass is clear about the ridge: “There is no evidence that the ridge in question resulted from global warming.”
Similar climate agitprop was evident last year in North America when it was struck by a heatwave in the northeast. Again, talk of Thermogeddon ‘heat domes’ was common across the media. Now, says Mass, “a shocker”. Below is the same kind of chart for this heatwave.
“OMG! Very similar, including the low to the southwest,” notes Mass.
The U.S. meteorologist Anthony Watts is another person to bring some scientific sanity to discussion of the recent heatwave. “Each of these stories trying to link climate change to the heatwave does so without any proof whatsoever. They are nothing more than speculative fearmongering,” he said. Fearmongering he might have had in mind would include Piers Morgan who told TalkTV that we could be “heading for an apocalypse”, and BBC weatherman Ben Rich, who was of the opinion that “it feels like a tipping point”.
Publishing the BBC photo featured at the top of this article, he noted that TV stations were using colour “to make it seem like a crisis”. He also drew attention to the dramatic temperature differences across the UK and Europe as a “sure sign of this being a weather pattern, and not global scale climate change, aka global warming as the media would have you believe”. The same, he added, applied to last year’s northeast heatwave in the United States. Indeed, he went on to note that in recent decades, heatwaves in the US had been far less frequent and severe than they were in the 1930s.
Watts has researched and written extensively on the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect for many years. In 2017 he wrote that the majority of weather measuring centres used by NOAA in the U.S. had been compromised by UHI. “The result is an inflated temperature that needs to be corrected,” he said. Estimates of the UHI effect in cities vary, but often reach a number of degrees centigrade. “If this were forensic science, such polluted and corrupted data would be tossed out as being unsuitable for the purpose of making a legal decision. Yet entire economies and national policies are being modified based on trends seen in the data, as well as the future projections. When science refuses to own up to bad data, it is no longer science”, he charged.
As the Daily Sceptic recently reported, about half of all land surface temperature measurements used to promote the fading global warming scare are now taken near or adjacent to airport runways. Adjustments are made to the raw data, but – some might say mysteriously – the recent temperatures are all continually adjusted upwards, and historic recordings moved downwards. As a result, the three main datasets run by NASA, the Met Office and the NOAA now show an obvious disconnect with accurate satellite and meteorological balloon recordings.
The atmospheric scientists Professors William Happer and Richard Lindzen didn’t pull any punches over the changes when they recently told the U.S. Government that over the last several decades, “NASA and NOAA have been fabricating temperature data to argue that raising CO2 levels have led to the hottest year on record”. The large adjustments meant they were “totally inconsistent” with other temperature data. What was claimed to be false and manipulated data, was said to be an “egregious violation of the scientific method”.
Watts concluded his recent thoughts on the U.K.’s heatwave by noting that it is well known that UHI can contribute to warmer temperatures. He noted that the population of the U.K. had increased by 11 million people since the hot summer of 1976, and it is not in the least bit surprising that UHI increased as infrastructure was built to support the rise. The BBC is said to have reported that the record recent high U.K. temperature was recorded at Coningsby in Lincolnshire [some reports said it was the village of Coningsby] but what it didn’t tell you was that the record was set at RAF Coningsby, “next to the heat absorbing sea of runway asphalt and tarmac”.
As the Daily Sceptic noted, in joint second place for the temperature record was Heathrow, one of the world’s busiest airports. Also in second place was Kew Gardens in London, which prompted numerous social media critics to inquire if there was a runway in the park. There is not, but the Met Office co-ordinates do place the measuring device about 150m from the Palm House. This is an ornate, tropical greenhouse with 16,000 panes of glass, measuring 62 feet high and 362 feet long. It does not seem the most obvious structure to have next to a temperature measurer.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Still banging on about lockdowns ( yawn ), so I’ll keep on mentioning ‘Sweden’ ( yawn ), who called it from the start and basically debunk all and any cobblers that LDs did diddly squat.
But what I would like to share is this paper, because I don’t know if it got any coverage on here in August. I don’t get bogged down in the whole minutia of viruses and their evolution, because I don’t profess to understand much of it. However, is it beyond the realms of possibility that all of the scariants ( including subscariants ) have and are being deliberately released from GoF labs, as opposed to naturally evolving like others not borne from a lab? It would certainly explain how they’re all so confident we’re going to be hit with scamdemic after scamdemic and we’re to just accept and get used to this as the new normal.
”As a result, we concluded that the formations of a part of Omicron isolates BA.1, BA.1.1, and BA.2 were not the products of genome evolution as is commonly observed in nature, such as the accumulation of mutations and homologous recombinations. Furthermore, the study of 35 recombinant isolates of Omicron variants BA.1 and BA.2, confirmed that Omicron variants were already present in 2020. The analysis we have shown here is that the Omicron variants are formed by an entirely new mechanism that cannot be explained by previous biology, and knowing the way how the SARS-CoV-2 variants were formed prompts a reconsideration of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.”
https://zenodo.org/record/8216373
I’ve thought that for ages, that they are man made, off the shelf formulations, released at convenient intervals. it’s just a money making machine for big pharma. I have also noticed that ANY cold like bug going around is now automatically labelled covid by the ‘permanently scared’ (and spoken about in hushed voices!). No one just gets a cold anymore, seemingly.
Yes you’re absolutely right. People, such as Igor Chudov, have been talking about Omicron being lab-made since 2021, but I think we’re on Omicron Episode 22 now, with multiple sequels and spin-offs ( I don’t keep up with all of these new daft names and letters they’re giving to a damn lurgy virus. It’s farcical. ). I’ve never understood how a lab-made virus is expected to evolve ‘naturally’, like the hundreds of other viruses we’ve managed to coexist with for aeons and never became extinct as a species as a result. Natural immunity, eh? What a ‘conspiracy theory’! So whenever they bring another one out I’m now just assuming it’s been deliberately released from multiple labs around the world.
My worry is that as long as there’s these stupid, fraudulent tests in existence ( as well as masks. When were masks ever sold widely to the public in all shops? ), and the predictable fear porn that gears up every year in the MSM, the paranoid, hypochondriacs of the world will buy into it and keep the whole narrative going. How can it ever end as long as these things are in place?
I’ve always thought Omicron was released to cover up how shit the jabs are. So they could turn around and say ‘Ooh look at our miracle cure’. Del called it at the time and lab release variants were covered on the Highwire last week.
Sounds crazy, but worth exploring given the depth and breadth of experience that can be accessed here.
Who is releasing them? When, where and how? Who, with what skills and agency, would need to be involved?
Are governments and security agencies complicit?
Or would it be a unilateral operation by big pharma to develop a subscription model for income. After all, no-one buys cough medicine for a couple of quid more than once a year, and you don’t even do that if it doesn’t do any good. But INJECTIONS, ooh, for many it’s like a ritual, go to the witchdoctor in his ceremonial white coat, pass the gatekeepers at reception etc etc, it’s like someone cares about you and you are important.
If UKHSA thinks NPI’s aren’t the solution, be concerned they push pharma options as the only solution.
The problem is UKHSA are still saying lockdown and other NPIs and big pharma vaccines are the solutions but that they need to invent more evidence to support them.
Cost/benefit analysis of proposed measures is an integral part of the precautionary principle used to justify lockdowns in the first place.
If the HSA was at all competent, a cost/benefit analysis would be front and centre of this report.
If the MHRA was at all competent, it would look into why it is not……
If the permanent secretary at the department of health was at all competent, he would ask that question of the MHRA………
If the health minister was at all competent, he would ask that question of his permanent secretary………
If the house of commons was at all competent…….
If the speaker…..
All complicit, so they will not……..
Any cost calculation has to involve a notional price on liberty and normal life, which will immediately outweigh any possible benefits in all but the most extreme cases. There’s no need to quantify secondary costs, IMO. But this is now an extremist position, rather than what it used to be which was orthodoxy, part of the social contract – people “get” colds and people mix and those colds “spread”, there’s nothing we can do about it and nothing we want to do about it, move on, accept life’s ups and downs. This is where I think we have suffered a huge defeat in that NPIs and “pandemic planning” have been normalised, and this is why I think we should be wary of arguing about whether lockdowns “work” or not.
It may be that we will have to wait for an entire new generation of non complicit functionaries and politicians to come through before history can be set straight, but it must be set straight.
Fortunately ‘revisionism’ is always attractive to the ambitious…..and historians….
For the benefit of anyone new: I don’t care whether lockdowns and other “covid” restrictions “work” (whatever that could possibly mean) or not. All they can possibly do is delay the inevitable (if there’s some new “virus”, everyone will be exposed, many time). They are simply wrong, and the price is too high – depriving people of normal life and liberty for even a day can only be justified in the most extreme of circumstances, not for a mild respiratory condition of the type we’ve lived with since forever.
Precisely. All this for a common cold coronavirus whose treatment: alleviate the symptoms and let the immune system do the rest, was set out by David Tyrrell of the Common Cold Unit over thirty years ago…….
Exactly and the only ‘expert’ they needed on SAGE was a bookie to analyse the risk and cost of keeping people locked up for a virus that 98% survive!
To my mind, the possibility that lockdowns work at the time but only delay the inevitable is actually part of them not working. So they might “work” for the people who shut themselves away at home for the duration, but those people get it anyway when (if) they re-emerge, so it therefore hasn’t worked, at least not in the way we were promised (the curve would be magically flattened within the space of 3 weeks and then somehow stay magically flattened when we all came back out to play). So even though they “work”, they don’t actually work, and they cause immense damage into the bargain.
The only possible justification would be perhaps for 3 weeks or so to ready the systems and bump up hospital capacity etc, exactly as we were promised (actually bump it up I mean, not build performative, enormous and ruinously expensive new warehouses that could never be staffed), but it was obvious even from before we actually locked down that once we did, we would be stuck in it for months/years because every time it was released or they even thought about releasing it, cases would be too high or might get too high at some point in the future. “We can’t throw away all our hard work” etc etc.
Yes indeed the very concept of them “working” is largely nonsense. The other plausible reasoning would be to limit “cases” until a “vaccine” was ready. I suppose you could justify such a policy if the disease were serious enough and there was a realistic possibility of developing an effective vaccine that didn’t do more harm than good – but if you had such a severe disease then you wouldn’t need ads on the telly to tell people to stay away from one another.
But how long do you give it before you admit that a vaccine isn’t going to happen? Do you stay in lockdown for 6 months, a year, 5 years? When do you give up? Unfortunately, since they did come up with something they called a vaccine for covid, next time this will probably be wheeled out as justification to lock down again because we got a vaccine last time.
Exactly- the only likely outcome is that something is rushed out disregarding established protocols, in desperation.
And that’s the unrealistically charitable view where tptb have good intentions.
However, we must not lose sight of WHY the ridiculous NPI’s were imposed.
Indeed – difficult to argue that those imposing them actually believed in them or that they didn’t realise the damage that would be done.
‘Proof that LDs, stopped transmission of Rona was weak’….they have no idea how anything is transmitted and that is a fact.
LDs had 0 to do with a flu. It was a pilot project. UK HSA was involved in its implementation. Unlikely that the criminals are going to condemn their criminal actions. And as the article says, the dead, injured, psychologically afflicted, the lost businesses, the outright terror propaganda against children and all us, the destruction of the economy, inflation….none of it is mentioned.
I am not sure what is happening here. But they could implement a climate lockdown. Or more likely we will be priced out of driving round. No need to have an explicit lockdown- too much restistance to that now I think. I could be wrong, but with a centralised parking app, and tracking of people etc, and no doubt a massive increase in costs of driving around, less people driving around. Hence, less wear and tear on the roads (Ok electric ars are heavier), less car accidents and hence strain on an under-resourced emergency services, and less congestion. What is there not to like (for the Goverments)?
This is what it was all about, the next stage in the game, the ‘vaccines’. Compliance was key. And yet Sweden never locked down but the citizens were somehow convinced that they needed a jab in 2021 despite surviving 2020 where they lived like normal people ( conveniently proving to the rest of the world that lockdowns and masks were unnecessary ) compared to the rest of the insane countries. Go figure! I won’t revisit that particular rant…The ”why” will have to be shelved along with ”why do cats purr?” I think. Let it go Mogs, let it go;
”SAFE AND EFFECTIVE LIES: 17,000 Scientists and Physicians confirm that Governments around the world along with Corporations willfully and deliberately lied to humanity about the Covid vaccines. They must be charged with fraud, wrongful advertising and mass negligent homicide.
The data now shows that the Covid vaccinated are more likely to become infected or have disease or even death if they have been Vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated people. The Covid Vaccines damage your heart, brain, reproductive tissue, lungs, increase cancer and permanently damage your immune system.
17,000 Physicians and Scientists demand that Pfizer, Moderna, BioNTech, Janssen, AstraZeneca and their enablers be immediately indicted for fraud for willfully withholding and omitting Covid Vaccine safety information from patients and physicians which led to toxic death and injury to thousands of innocent people around the world.
This was not a mistake, this was a deliberate orchestrated plan to deceive you and manipulate you into taking a toxic experimental injection that was never given to humans before. Millions are injured and millions are dead. This is a global crime that must not go unpunished. Justice must be met, no matter what.”
https://twitter.com/SpartaJustice/status/1707472141480812925
“Let it go Mogs, let it go;”
There are just two things you can control – your emotions and your expenses.
Lead the sheep through example. For it is the sheep who unwittingly drive the most powerful force, that of convention. They’re always up for grabs, easily distracted and prone to group panic (very dangerous, that) but they’re generally lethargic and rather dim-witted.
Blar blar, still, not really news is it?
No
I stand corrected. Perhaps they would introduce lockdowns again, after watching this with Dr John Campbell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UScNk39xUTk. Must be a multiple pronged attack on the people.
Thanks. 107662 at 10:26. The Gov response is typical: “We support targeted IHR amendments to ensure a suitable global framework to respond to international spread of disease. Parliament may scrutinise legislation relating to amendments accepted by the UK.” “Will” would be better than “may”!
However, it did present a lot of evidence about how vulnerable society is to crass over reaction by groups of zealots, bureaucrats, and incompetent politicos. The frequently used animal farming analogy is appropriate about the behaviour of the majority. To continue with that, we need more well trained dogs, like Border Collies, German Shepherds and so on to sort them out and manage them!
This myopic definition of “effectiveness”
When assessing a medical intervention “effectiveness” has always meant ability to reduce the disease. We do not take into account the social and economic consequences of a vaccine or drug when reporting its effectiveness, we just look at whether it reduces the disease. This is not to say that the social and economic consequences are not important or should not be studied – but both the UKHSA report and the Royal Society report were not looking at that.
The Royal Society report was global in scope and found evidence that some NPIs were effective. The UKHSA report was limited to the UK and found there was a lack of well designed studies. This could be reported as No Good Evidence Lockdown Workedor equally No Good Evidence Lockdown Failed
What’s the point of evidence when you can cobble together a computer model based on crappy code and fed wild assumptions?
Here’s looking at you Pantsdown Ferguson.
Wot …. didn’t work! Not even the Scotch Eggs? Well knock me down with a feather.