In an article I wrote for the Daily Sceptic on June 20th 2024 I predicted:
As we all shiver in the autumnal weather during what is meant to be summer and some of us have even turned our central heating back on or continued using our winter duvets, there is one certainty – in a few weeks time, the good folk at Met Office and the BBC will tell us that we’ve just had the “warmest June on record”. After all, the Met Office and the BBC made the same claim about appalling April and miserable May.
In the article I proposed three possible tricks which the Met Office and the BBC could use to justify their claim of June being “the hottest ever”:
- Will they have the gall to say that June in the U.K. was the warmest on record even though everybody else knows it wasn’t?
- Or will the Met Office and the BBC choose somewhere which had a bit of decent weather – perhaps Greece or Spain or India – to justify their climate catastrophism?
- Or will they instead try to fob us off by claiming that, although June in the U.K. was a disaster weatherwise, global temperatures (if such a thing can even be measured) were at record levels?
Well, just as I predicted, we’ve been told that June was the hottest on record: From the Mail: ‘Last month was officially the hottest June on record‘.
To justify this claim, the ‘experts’ used the third trick: “claiming that, although June in the U.K. was a disaster weatherwise, global temperatures (if such a thing can even be measured) were at record levels.”
The key words are “on record”. What the ‘scientists’ used as the start of records this time is the year 1980 – a few years after satellites began to be used to measure the Earth’s temperature. Before the late 1970s, there was no way of measuring the Earth’s temperature as temperatures were not recorded in many places.
But let’s remind ourselves of what happened to the Earth’s climate in the 1960s and 1970s. Temperatures were so low that even the climate-catastrophist Guardian newspaper predicted a new Ice Age:
Crop failures and mass starvation were expected:
The CIA was commissioned to write a report for the U.S. President about the consequences of the coming Ice Age:
And the experts worried that the global cooling would never stop:
Of course, the predicted Ice Age never happened and, quite naturally, the cooling 1960s and 1970s have been followed by a period of warming. The climate catastrophists have never got around to explaining to us how global temperatures could have cooled for around 20 years in the 1960s and 1970s while levels of atmospheric CO2 were increasing. I guess that’s a question we’re not supposed to ask, otherwise we might conclude that the climate king has no clothes.
Moreover, there are strong indications that the scorching hot 1920s and 1930s, the years of the U.S. “Dustbowl” featured in John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath, were much hotter than today’s supposedly “record” temperatures:
It was predicted that sea levels would rise 40 feet and half of England would disappear beneath the waves:
Because the glaciers and ice caps would melt:
Just to conclude, there’s one more of many charts which suggest that the 1920s and 1930s, when atmospheric CO2 levels were the lowest they’ve been in the last 100 or so years, were much hotter than today’s supposedly “record” temperatures. That’s the chart of the acreage of forest fires in the U.S.:
Was June 2024 really the hottest since records began as our rulers claim? I’ll leave that up to you to decide.
David Craig is the author of There is No Climate Crisis, available as an e-book or paperback from Amazon.
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Brown shirts and jack boots come to mind.
Except that this time, they’re coming to you via that friendly little device in your pocket.
You cannot change the national characteristics of a nation …… unless you change the people who make up that nation.
The UK’s national characteristics have been changed by 7 decades of immigration, particularly the mass immigration of the last 30 years.
Merkel only opened the borders to the invaders 7 years ago, so Germany is 6+ decades behind us. They are basically still the same nation they were in the 1930s.
PayPal is not remotely unsure about where it stands on misinformation. It’s part of the US deep state beelzeblob. It just got the timing wrong.
Is Hunt’s former nanny Dianne Brady still alive do you think and did she look like Billy Whitelaw?
“PayPal is not remotely unsure about where it stands on misinformation.”
I tend to agree. stewart has this theory that these woke global companies are just acting under pressure from governments and all they want to do really is be left in peace to make money. I beg to differ, though I respect stewart’s view and always find his posts interesting. We may never know which of us is closer to the truth.
Resist these people, if necessary with any and all force at your disposal. They do not deserve mercy.
The authoritarian left in the USA has the First Amendment to contend with, which prevents censorship (or at least should). The EU/Germans are just doing their dirty work for them.
It’s no good just moaning, resist the fascists. Join The Global Walkout https://globalwalkout.com/about-the-global-walkout/
Paypal and its owners need to publicly fight laws introduced to control free speech if it effects them. If they don’t, they are dead. The same goes for all companies such as Facebook and Twitter. Why can’t they use the power they have gained for good. Or are they all aiming to control what people can say or think and destroy it if it doesn’t agree with the controlled standard opinion which is often wrong as it was on Covid and will be proved to be on Climate.
The DSA was initially set up to control the very large ” gatekeepers”, those companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft that stifle competition. The goal was to prevent these companies to be monopolies. Sounds like a noble undertaking. How did it morph into an online censorship and control bureaucracy that operates above the control of any elected officials? More Deep State controls by unaccountable bureaucrats. Just what is needed, all driven by more Germans! Maybe they could get Klaus Schwab involved for some seasoned tyrannical tips.
It’s a shame the Yanks are no longer interested in freedom of speech. In past times they’d just tell the EU to do one and withdraw their services.