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Guardian Ditches ‘Settled Science’ for ‘Climate Justice’ in Effort to Avoid Reality

by Charles Rotter
20 April 2025 5:00 PM

Oh Guardian, thou unerring oracle of elite anguish and latte-laced righteousness, what have you conjured this time? A new revelation from the high temple of emotional climatology: climate change is no longer about physics, but “a crisis of justice”. Yes, really. The headline of Friederike Otto’s latest opus in the Guardian shrieks like an undergraduate activist with a bullhorn: “Climate change is not just a problem of physics but a crisis of justice.” Because when your models don’t model reality, and your predictions flop harder than a tofu burger at a Texas BBQ, simply pivot the narrative – from science to sociology.

When in Doubt, Moralise

The opening line is a tour de force in climate sanctimony:

“My research as a climate scientist is in attribution science. Together with my team, I analyse extreme weather events and answer the questions of whether, and to what extent, human-induced climate change has altered their frequency, intensity and duration.

In other words, Otto is in the business of telling us that every flood, drought or oddly warm Tuesday is your SUV’s fault. Attribution science, for the uninitiated, is the art of retroactively blaming the atmosphere’s every sneeze on Western industry, by way of probabilistic hand-waving wrapped in opaque jargon. What used to be called weather is now “anthropogenic signal detection”.

From Equations to Emotions

The article quickly departs from any pretence of physics, diving into the deep end of social justice with a straight face. Otto writes that early scientists didn’t address these questions not because the models were junk (which they were), but because of a sinister silence born from… wait for it… “colonialism”. I kid you not.

Why grapple with the pesky uncertainties of nonlinear dynamics when you can just call the jet stream racist?

Magical Thinking in the Church of Climate

As always, the Guardian isn’t content to merely spread alarmism – it needs to moralise. The piece does not present testable hypotheses or falsifiable predictions. No, it sermonises. It’s less a scientific article and more a secular encyclical. Climate policy, per Otto, must now revolve around “inequality”, “justice”, and probably crystal chakras and composting feelings too.

Why stop there? Let’s redefine thermodynamics as a tool of oppression. After all, who’s to say entropy isn’t just a white cis-male construct?

And Speaking of the Guardian…

Ah yes, the Guardian, the newspaper that treats every bout of drizzle as a sign of impending planetary doom and every economic policy as a chance to redistribute guilt. This is the same outlet that warns of “climate collapse” while offering 30% off annual subscriptions in the same breath.

It’s the news equivalent of a street preacher shouting about the apocalypse, then handing you a coupon for organic lentils.

Their entire climate section reads like a steampunk Bible study group – high on drama, low on data. They’re obsessed with “justice” not in the classical sense (you know, crime, evidence, courts), but in the modern performative sense, where “justice” means whatever the loudest graduate student in the room says it does.

Virtue First, Questions Never

So here we are, folks. In 2025, climate science – at least as defined by the Guardian and Dr Otto – is no longer about testable claims or rigorous scepticism. It’s a morality play. A political campaign. A never-ending guilt-trip wrapped in a rainbow flag and printed on recycled hemp paper.

And the next time a cyclone hits Bangladesh, don’t ask about air pressure or ENSO oscillations. Just nod solemnly and chant the new gospel: It’s a crisis of justice.

Because in the Church of Climate Wokeness, science has left the building – and feelings now run the thermostat.

This article was first published on Watts Up With That?

Tags: Climate AlarmismGuardianSettled Science

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago

“Grant Shapps faces Tory mutiny over hydrogen levy plans”

Not put off by the billions wasted on badly thought out plans to counter the thing that isn’t happening, we’re going to double down, again..?

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
2 years ago

“Insolent, unproductive and dominated by HR, the Civil Service thinks it rules Britain”

‘Release them back to the private sector’.? They wouldn’t last a morning in the private sector.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

“They wouldn’t last a morning in the private sector.”

Absolutely correct. The senior civil servants I came across when I worked amongst them were thick, arrogant beyond belief, clueless job-wise and masters at ducking and diving. Of the scores I cam across only two would have stood a chance working in the private sector.

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JayBee
JayBee
2 years ago
Reply to  NeilParkin

It and the people are not much different in the large corporation part of the private sector anymore.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago

Igor has made an interesting discovery using UK data regarding a significant increase in hospitalizations 6 months post Covid booster;

”The most important fact we see is that for people over 50, the most dangerous period after vaccination is between 6 and 9 months after their last dose. Their risk of hospitalization is several times higher than before six months or after nine months. The increase in risk far outweighs a small reduction in the first six months.
So, people who take a Covid booster first go through a somewhat reduced hospitalization risk for the first six months, then go through a dramatically heightened risk of hospitalization, then hospitalization rates “return to normal,” with the normal being very high. Does that look like the vaccine provides any benefit? Not to me!”

https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/ukhsa-boosters-greatly-increase-covid

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Gefion
Gefion
2 years ago

Neil Oliver

Well said, that man. Much sense spoken.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

Just a thought on ULEZ:

Are these prisons being built in preparation for Billy’s next release?

“Catastrophic Contagion” is apparently going to be the big one. How much more effective and targeted would it be if people were closely confined in 15 minute cities?

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Excellent point Hux, ref the LTNs especially, something I’ve been ruminating on too.

I also wondered about the power supply required by all that additional surveillance: the local town is just finishing off it’s 2nd ‘smart junction’ and about to start a 3rd, the multiple cameras of which are all cabled. As are the many additional street cameras installed during the lockdowns – all while we’re being told to freeze to death in the dark at home. How’s that supposed to meet Net Zero then?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  WyrdWoman

“I also wondered about the power supply required by all that additional surveillance”

This is where the £37 billion on Track and Trace went, something I have mentioned numerous times – smart junctions, smart cameras. T and T was never just about a bloody app.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Hey don’t forget about ‘Outbreak 24’, the SARS-5 plandemic scheduled for next year.😃 They’re keeping us guessing obviously. Wow these pandemics really are like buses…🤭

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

I’ve not heard of ‘Outbreak 24’ Mogs. Can you post a link?

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

https://rumble.com/v28nqro-outbreak-24-simulazione-della-pandemia-2024-dove-il-virus-sars-cov-5-creer-.html

This simulation was in Italy in 2021. There’s probably plenty more that we’re not even aware of. Obsessive b’stards! 😮

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Many thanks Mogs.

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
2 years ago

“Fake trans applicants ‘could trick universities’” 

But but but aren’t straight A pupils – whatever their race, creed or colour – simply a result of white privilege? It’s only your pronouns that count these days…..

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
2 years ago
Reply to  WyrdWoman

…and this just in from down under:

https://rumble.com/v297guk-february-11-2023.html

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  WyrdWoman

😀 😀 😀

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Robert Liddell
Robert Liddell
2 years ago

I was appalled to learn that the Guardian loons had accused Neil Oliver of antisemitism. To accuse someone of antisematism because they talk about global elites and their out in the open conspiracies is disgusting.
Made me feel quite sick

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Robert Liddell

The Groan is a sickening travesty of a publication even by the sickening standards of the MSM.

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JayBee
JayBee
2 years ago

Interesting take by Craig Murray on the Sy Hersh story. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2023/02/sy-hersh-and-the-way-we-live-now/
“… But what most worries me about the entire story is the unanimous complicity of the mainstream media in ignoring the completely obvious.

The media line, parroted here relentlessly by the BBC and corporate media, was that the Russians had probably themselves blown up the pipeline on which they had expended such great resources and three decades of intense diplomatic activity, and which was to be the key to Russia’s single most valuable source of income for the next 40 years.

This was always quite literally incredible. You would have to be deranged to believe it.

It actually taught me not just that we truly are in the realm of totalitarianism and the Big Lie, but I learnt something very important about how the Big Lie works.

The secret is not that people genuinely believe an outrageous claim. The secret is that people do genuinely believe that they are in a battle of good against evil, and it is necessary to accept the narrative being promoted, in the interests of fighting evil.

Don’t question, just follow. If you do question, you are promoting evil.

I am sure that is how it works.

State and corporate stenographer journalists are actually intelligent individuals. If they thought about it, they would realise that the narrative that Russia blew up its own pipeline is obvious nonsense.

But they are convinced it is morally wrong to think about it…. ”

There is also the not to be overlooked issue of the No2Nato event on 25.2.in London having to go underground.
That development aloneis actually a confirmation of Peter Hitchens fear already having become reality.
He suggests attending it even if you disagree but are pro free speech.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago

https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/edible-insects-european-union#:~:text=In%20May%202021%2C%20the%20European,the%20house%20cricket%20in%20March

A load of crap about…crap.

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