Lord Gavin Barwell was the Chief of Staff for Theresa May – in a field with numerous candidates, probably the worst British Prime Minister in living memory. Reacting to a recent Daily Sceptic article that laid out the science surrounding carbon dioxide, he pounced on an X repost by “Toby and his mate [yours truly]” and stated: “I suspect the next generation may pursue people like him who sought to delay action for damages.” Barwell’s comment is as silly as it is sinister, but it indicates considerable elite derangement as members observe their Net Zero fantasy falling in flames. Net Zero was only ever an elite luxury belief backed by 30 years of lies, fake science and constant climate scare forecasts that never happened. Removing all hydrocarbons from industrial societies will lead to economic and societal collapse. Removing hydrocarbons from the developing world is just plain wicked.
The pure snobbery behind Net Zero is plain for all to see. The latest carbon budget from the Climate Change Committee (CCC) suggested restrictions on meat and dairy, higher air fares, ripping out efficient gas boilers and replacing them with optimistically-named heat pumps and replacing most cars with battery buggies. The message might have gone down slightly better if it had not been delivered by the new CCC head Emma Pinchbeck, who rose through the mediocre ranks of the Green Blob following her degree in Classics and English at Oxford University. Does anyone outside the deluded, science-lite green community seriously believe that an entire population will fall in line with plans to cut the hard-won increases in living standards that have eased the lives of recent generations? In a future ‘Blackout Britain’, the only pursuing likely to occur is a chasing of the Net Zero rascals out of Parliament at the next available General Election.
Following Trump’s historic victory, the attack on Net Zero is now general across all fronts. The costs involved in Net Zero are astronomical and are a topic of independent commentary in the Daily Sceptic and a greatly increasing number of other concerned outlets. There simply isn’t enough money in highly-indebted states to fund a so-called renewable transition. There is no point in looking for the free market to chip in – nobody spending their own money would considering building a windmill unless their mouths were stuffed with taxpayer gold. The recent story in the Express that the UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband is set to be sacked as the British Government “shifts from ‘green’ policies to focusing on economic growth” is not without interest. Nevertheless, caution in believing such political stories is always advisable, although it appears that knives are being sharpened. Even if the Mad One is sacked, the Labour front and back benches are packed with one-track eco-zealots, and the CCC is always there to hold feet to the legal fire.
Dr Roy Spencer is a brilliant former NASA scientist and currently produces the monthly global satellite temperature record out of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). In a scientifically honest world, his UAH readings taken just above massive urban ground warming would be accepted as the gold standard. After all, satellite data is now used across all other climate study areas. But the readings since 1979 show less warming than the constantly fiddled surface datasets and he compounds this crime by holding sceptical independent views. “The science of human-caused climate change is much more uncertain that you have been led to believe,” he recently wrote. Spencer does not deny that humans have played a part in 1°C of warming over the last century, give or take a 30% range in different temperature datasets. He just notes, “We don’t really know.” And why don’t we know, he asks, and why can we therefore state that the invented ‘settled’ science backing Net Zero is a gigantic lie? Spencer explains that the global energy balance caused by increasing human-caused emissions is smaller than the accuracy with which we know natural energy flows in the climate system. “This means recent warming could be mostly natural and we would never know it,” he helpfully adds.
Most climate and weather fearmongering is based on computer models, with unquestioning messengers always at hand to pass on the junk findings to a wider audience. The climate models are adjusted (‘fudged’) so that increasing CO2 is the only cause of warming, says Spencer. “The models themselves do not have all of the necessary physics, mostly due to cloud process uncertainties,” he observes
Spencer also notes that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes does not claim that greenhouse gas emissions have caused changes in severe weather. This inconvenient finding has necessitated the invention of a particularly large whopper. Almost all bad weather is now routinely tied to human causation, and ‘attribution’ pseudoscience is both big business and bedrock copy for mainstream media. “But with public opinion of mainstream news outlets at an all-time low, fewer and fewer people take those news reports seriously,” suggests Spencer.
Gavin Barwell was May’s Chief of Staff at the end of her Premiership at a time when she was desperately seeking a legacy for her failed time in office. For some inexplicable reason, she suddenly committed the UK in 2019 to full Net Zero by 2050, without providing any realistic explanation as to how a modern industrial society can stop using hydrocarbons in all forms in 30 years. Perhaps Barwell could now be ‘pursued’ for an explanation as to why he was complicit in forcing the UK down such a potentially damaging, disastrous even, path.
Stop Press: The latest UAH global temperature reading shows a +0.5°C anomaly for February 2025. The figure is similar to January and recent recordings exhibit a large downward trend. Surface measurements do not appear to have picked up much of this fall and mainstream media still seem to be looking for another ‘hottest evah’ contribution to the science debate.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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Claim the effing exemption, you effing cowards and parents!
“Claim the effing exemption”
I would, you would – but yesterday saw the daily throng of faceless teenagers leaving the brainwashing academy near me – just like nothing had changed. Maybe they reach for their muzzles at the gates.
I bet half the parents are relieved and approve of the reversal lol.
Must be pretty obvious to most sane individuals by now that there is no way out of this mental prison created for us by the Govt & Media, outside of large scale revolt.
I’m 99.9999% certain the unvaccinated will be the Govt & Media’s release valve for the discontent they’re brewing. Large scale Stockholm Syndrome experiment ahead my fellow humans!
Spot on!
JESUS H CHRIST!!!!!!!
Just when you think people can’t possibly get any more more stupid!!!
Yes – surely there HAS TO BE a bottom below which it is impossible to go, but blest if I can see it!
Totally agree.
Given it clearly didn’t stop or slow down the spread last week, why do they believe it will this week?
It’s all begging the question.
Stop asking awkward, logical, questions and get with the narrative!
Our children are being weaponised as child soldiers in a propaganda war against us.
For context, here are the daily figures for hospital bed occupancy with covid-19. The usual caveat applies: this is “with” not “because of”.
Not just there https://tgs.starmat.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/CEO-Community-Letter-May-2021.docx-.pdf
There will eventually come a time when operators in the field of public health will live to regret this.
The credibility of this area of medicine has been effectively completely destroyed.
They may live to regret it, but hopefully not for long.
Amen to that!
All the behaviour that has led to this totalitarian nightmare remains unchanged:
Unless the fundamental, underlying behaviour changes, nothing will change. And it seems unlikely right now as these three elements reinforce each other in a perpetual cycle of doom.
Unless the basic rationale changes, nothing else of significance does.
… and that rationale – to induce unreasoning fear and compliance in the population – has not changed. Mental illness is the objective, not public health.
See Ivor Cummin’s circle of life explaining the cycle…
https://youtu.be/QsRCmhjtekE
Cue outbreaks of mask induced hate crimes as indigenous youngsters blame Indian (and ‘all the same “P*ki’ “) classmates for them still having to wear masks.
All part of the divide and rule strategy.
“It comes amid rising concern about a surge in the Indian variant of Covid, which early data suggests could be more transmissible than other variants.”
If a variant establishes itself then surely by definition it has to be more transmissible than the variant it is displacing. If it was not more transmissible it would not be able to establish itself. This is because the variant is almost identical to the original and that current immunity, whether natural or artificial, will prevent significant spread of both the original and new variant.
The important issue is whether it is less or more virulent. Is there evidence of increased hospitalisation in Bolton?
Basic viral theory seems to state that viruses will mutate to more transmissible forms in order to survive but that they will decrease in virulence as Transmisibility requires the host to be mobile and in contact with enough potential hosts to spread.
Note that for the Kent variant the mean CT levels needed to detect it INCREASED as compared to the original dominant strains. Higher CT means a lower viral load and hence less virulence.
No point in wittering about ‘variants’ on the head of a pin. We know it’s all fabrication.
Hey-up – a down-vote indicating a Daydream Variant Believer here!
I guess it takes all sorts …
In a prison, ‘open’ or otherwise, constraints can be imposed at will, rewards for good behaviour taken away at will. Lockdown as a term comes from prisons. We now live in a global prison with different cells. GlobCap and its faithful underlings will decide how we live in our prison.
We?
No.
They. The fools, the cowards, the zombies, the Covidian fiend-fodder.
‘We’ are unwilling prisoners, rather than the ones fully captured by the psyop. But we do exist physically on the same planet, so we too are in the prison, albeit with rebellious tendancies.
Look up the court judgement from a few weeks ago:
If mask wearing is NOT mandated by law then you CANNOT be coerced into wearing them.
End of.
Spread it around:
https://twitter.com/laworfiction/status/1389969458299604993
You don’t have to wear the filthy rag. Don’t wear it.
If your school tries to discriminate against you, sue them.
“ by Friday evening, deals had been struck with several local councils to extend the use of masks in the classroom”.
A deal?! That implies to me an exchange of something…so ministers permit these LAs to continue to try to make children wear masks, but in exchange for what?!
A deal? Emergency law, a new SI, guidance or can they just issue a proclamation.
In Wales, Drakeford has his sights on “vaccinating” school children so that the ongoing school mask mandate might be able to be eased:
“It may be that later this year even, we will be able to have a program in our secondary schools to offer those young people a vaccination which would make these schools even safer than they are.
And that might allow us to lift some of the other restrictions that we have.
“Wearing of masks in classrooms all the time for example, that makes the learning experience less comfortable than it would otherwise be.”
I cannot find the words to convey just how much I loath that man. What he’s done to the country is bad enough, but now he wants to further harm our children, all to perpetuate the lie that they pose any risk to the population. These people are simply evil.
https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/19310319.drakeford-discusses-vaccines-children-wales/
Disgusting. Child abuse. The darkest time of this country’s history, bar none.
I had to laugh when I saw this headline. Did the schools not get the memo that says masks don’t work? Honestly, that is all you can do is laugh, when we watch the same mistakes made day after day, month after month. So many people died, who if given early Tx available with repurposed drugs would have saved lives per Dr. Peter McCullough. Oh by the way, 60% of his pts,, he is now seeing with COVID , had both jabs. Oops, another fallacy regarding efficacy of the “jabs”.
If this is, after all, about ‘depopulation‘, It looks a though it’s bang on target!
The type of parents who can’t see through the nonsense who are unable to protect their own children from this farce, and are so stupid they are actively encouraging them to comply with damaging diktats, really shouldn’t be allowed
to breedresponsibility for any child.Follow The (Real!) Science, you authoritarian retards!! Kids are not going to ‘catch’ covid-19, not transmit it. They’ve all been tested twice a week for ages, with almost ZERO (false?) positive test results. How effin’ thick are the experts in charge!?
Very, very thick!