Only the other day this site reported on the news that some scientists are being provided with taxpayer funds to bankroll a project to suck carbon out of the sea in a bizarre BBC story that confused carbon and carbon dioxide.
It seems that’s not the only such initiative to enjoy the benefits of taxpayer funds. The Telegraph has a story about the imminent announcement by the Government to give the go ahead for experiments to blot out the Sun. The £50 million provided makes the £3 million for the sea carbon project look like pocket money:
Outdoor field trials which could include injecting aerosols into the atmosphere, or brightening clouds to reflect sunshine, are being considered by scientists as a way to prevent runaway climate change.
Aria, the Government’s advanced research and invention funding agency, has set aside £50 million for projects, which will be announced in the coming weeks.
Prof Mark Symes, the Programme Director for Aria (Advanced Research and Invention Agency), said there would be “small controlled outdoor experiments on particular approaches”.
Of course, the danger is side effects, but such concerns are apparently brushed aside in the race to collapse carbon dioxide levels:
Geoengineering projects which seek to artificially alter the climate have proven controversial, with critics arguing they could bring damaging knock-on effects, as well as being an unhelpful distraction from lowering emissions.
However, scientists are increasingly concerned that carbon dioxide levels are not falling fast enough and that further action may be needed to prevent catastrophic warming.
One major area of research is Sunlight Reflection Methods (SRM), which includes Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) whereby tiny particles are released into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight.
Another potential solution is Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) in which ships would spray sea-salt particles into the sky to enhance the reflectivity of low-lying clouds.
Believe it or not, scientists have been ironically inspired by pollution from shipping fumes which in the past caused cooling, but now their sulphur dioxide emissions have been controlled, global warming has increased. Undaunted by the evidence that meddling with such matters might make things worse, the next plan is to start deliberately inserting reflective particles into cloud:
Prof Jim Haywood, of Atmospheric Science, at the University of Exeter, said: “If you inject small particles into clouds, you can brighten them hence reflecting more sunlight back out to space.
“How do we know this could work? Well there are a couple of very strong pieces of evidence.
“Ship emissions from the smoke stack into the marine environment lead to bright lines in clouds over the ocean.
“Then there was a volcanic eruption in Iceland in 2014 which spilled out a lot of sulphur dioxide. What this does is it brightens clouds and cools the planet. What we need to do is some form of field experiments.”
Cirrus clouds and aviation are on the radar:
Other ideas for geoengineering include seeding cirrus clouds to allow more heat to escape into space. Currently, the wispy high-altitude clouds act as a blanket, trapping in heat.
Dr Sebastian Eastham, a senior lecturer in Sustainable Aviation at Imperial College London, said: “Every time you fly, sulphur, which is naturally present in jet fuel, is emitted into the lower most stratosphere causing a small cooling effect.
“Similarly, aircraft contrails cause accidental cirrus cloud modification but in this case accidentally causing, rather than preventing or thinning, cirrus clouds.
“This points to the fact that it’s theoretically possible (to cool the planet) with current day technology but there are many practical questions that would need to be answered before they could be done at scale.”
Let’s hope he reads Snowpiercer first, the plot of which is summarised on Wikipedia here:
In 2014, an attempt to stop climate change via stratospheric aerosol injection catastrophically backfires, creating a new ice age that destroys much of life on Earth. For 17 years, the remnants of humanity shelter in a state-of-the-art self-sustaining circumnavigational train, the Snowpiercer, run by reclusive transportation magnate Wilford. The passengers on the train are segregated, with the elite in the extravagant front cars and the poor crammed into squalid tail compartments overseen by armed guards.
Another story worth reading is Arthur C. Clarke’s History Lesson (1949) when the Earth enters a final ice age and the human race is wiped out. One of the strange things about science fiction is that it so often turns out to be true.
The Telegraph’s story is worth reading in full.
Stop Press: BBC Radio 4’s World at One today featured Dr Sebastian Eastham (see above). Presenter Sarah Montague challenged him on unintended side effects. You can listen to the interview here. Spin through to 35:15 in.
Stop Press 2: Were the scientists inspired by the Simpsons and Monty Burns’s Sun Blocker?
The Sun Blocker was a device developed by Charles Montgomery Burns. As the name suggests, it was created to blot out the sun outside, in order to ensure Mr Burns’s electricity was sold in a monopoly, covering Springfield in perpetual darkness otherwise.
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Meanwhile, also in Germany, if you were confronted by someone with a machete who wanted to kill you would your first instinct be to sing? Are they basing this on evidence that singing has proven more effective at scaring off a would-be attacker than merely screaming ”help!”? Bizarro;
”As knife crime becomes more of an “everyday” part of life in Germany, more and more people are concerned about how they should respond if they are attacked or threatened with a knife. The Berlin police’s tip to “sing loudly” has now been dropped from their website after being widely mocked on X.
“A screenshot of our homepage has been circulating for a few days, according to which we recommend that in the event of an attack, you irritate the perpetrator through unexpected behavior, such as singing,” write Berlin’s police. However, they then go on to write that they have removed this advice from their website.
“This is recommended by the professional associations for psychiatry, among others. However, this advice does not correspond to our police experience and has therefore no longer been part of our recommendations since 2023. The flyer was already updated, now our website is too.”
However, the “tip” also sparked broad coverage in the German media, with Berliner Zeitung writing in response to the advice, “What sounds like a bad joke is actually meant seriously. The police give Berliners tips on how to deal with violent situations on their website and write that ‘statistically speaking, many will never get into” such a situation. On the other hand, 48,200 physical assaults were recorded last year, the highest number in 10 years, which reduces many people’s sense of security.”
https://rmx.news/crime/germany-after-being-widely-mocked-berlin-police-drop-recommendation-to-sing-if-you-face-a-knife-attacker/
For everyone who is concerned about migration or being attacked by a knife wielding follower of the Qu’ran who wants to part your head from your shoulders, there is some light relief.
You are of course one of Starmfuhrer’s ‘Far Right’. Although it seems it is his national socialist party which is in fact antisemitic racist and fascist with the Far Left rent-a-mob supporters calling for the murder of all Israelis and Jewish people ‘from the river to the sea’.
You can now advertise your new found ‘Far Right’ status and concerns with a range of ‘Far Right’ T-shirts and personal accessories like ‘Far Right’ shopping bags.
Found here:
https://loveteesfreedom.teemill.com/collection/new/
Far Right about Everything
far-right extremist (organic double-sided bag)
“Far Right about everything’
far-right extremist (organic men’s T-shirt)
“Far Right about everything’
And yes, Black people are just as scared as the rest of us and are By Far White in Spirit even if not in skin colour – I know from discussions – same fears as the rest of us.
Of course, not all muslims want to cut our heads off and they are scared too of being thought they agree with that.
But it is in Qu’ran. Just dandy for extremists who want to claim God’s blessing.
“Far Right about everything’
far-right extremist (organic double-sided shopper bag)
far-right extremist (organic bag)
far-right extremist (organic women’s scoop T-shirt)
And many other options.
The WEF version of the ‘Far Right’ in the UK is – its the Russians and Chinese spreading misinformation on the internet – as described in the article extracted below and republished by the WEF.
The problem is this appears to be WEF and Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) misinformation. As we learned on 7th August from the BBC:
Unfortunately, the BBC piece is by Marianna Spring who is an expert in misinformation in rather more ways than one according to an accusation concerning the contents of her CV.
However, I can only go by news reports of that and cannot say if the accusation is true or not.
However it was reported in Spiked, The Telegraph and very many other legacy media newspapers and those reports remain online as this example and online search show:
The misinformation of Marianna Spring – spiked
marianna spring cv misinformation
So who knows what the truth is?
But RUSI provides no hard evidence to back up its claims.
It could after all be our own government or those connected with the WEF or the US government – who knows what the truth is.
The question is – who benefits.
Follow who benefits is the same as follow the money.
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How Did Foreign Actors Exploit the Recent Riots in the UK? Joe Morley-Davies
28 August 2024 8 Minute Read
The amplification of far-right narratives by foreign threat actors during the recent UK riots demonstrates the need for greater attribution and understanding of influence campaigns in an increasingly populated world of disinformation.
Another difficult result for proportional representation where you end up with the team the least people voted for just like our results.
I wonder what a second round of just the top three – CDU, AfD and BSW – would bring? It could go either way for AfD.
Probably the same as France – idiotic white people vote for their own destruction
You summed it all up perfectly:
“Idiotic white people vote for their own destruction”.
They baffle me and make me more angry than the immigrants – at least some of the legal ones.
Of course most are just useful idiots manipulated by evil people for evil ends.
The “Far Right” label is a very deliberate mechanism for rendering all those votes ineffective.
It makes the the party so toxic that any coalitions are impossible. After all who wants to associate themselves with “far right extremists”.
That’s what they’ve done in Germany. That’s what they’ve done in France with Le Pen. That’s what they’ve done in the Spain with Vox. That is what they are trying to do in the UK with Reform.
In a system where coalitions matter the “Far Right” label is in effect the deliberate disenfranchisement of anyone who votes for any of those parties. If they can’t stop them, the next best thing is to isolate them.
That’s what the Spectator (no less) is doing in England now, with a cover displaying three arms of people wearing brownshirts raised in a Nazi salute and with Alt Reich written on it, presumbly, a play on alt-right and asking “Is the German far right about to go mainstream?”
Politically, the AfD is really just what the CDU was before Merkel turned it into the Alt-SPD. But the people with the Nazi stickers don’t really care for that. You’re either in favour of all their political cause, from climate policies and limitless mass immigration to the transexualisation of mankind. Or, one of these stickers gets applied to you.
The people running the Spectator ought to be thoroughly ashamed of themselves, not the least because they’re violently pro-Israel and the AfD, like all German mainstream parties, obviously supports this as well.
The Liberal Progressive coalition of handwringing UN/WEF parasites are determined that any right of centre thought is to be illegitimate and even criminalised.
It’s probably more correct to write right of left instead of right of centre because the AfD is absolutely centre-right. It’s just that this is nowadays really far to the right of all other larger German parties. Even CDU top-candidates (Friedrich Merz) will drop soundbits re: How they abhor the concept of German Nation. That’s not how they handled this topic in 1990.
The BSW will reach a deal with the other parties and form a coalition against the AfD – that’s my bet. They will make some concessions to the BSW, and the BSW will scale back their demands – it’s win-win for both of them.
Haha, it’s The Times, so of course the article resembles a desperate attempt at a smear campaign;
”Alternative for Germany (AfD) is widely regarded as the first hard-right nationalist party to win a regional state election since Nazi rule after seismic election results on Sunday.
Saxony and Thuringia have long been AfD strongholds and the party is most popular among Germans in the former Democratic Republic (East Germany). It has thrived in areas where issues of economic and political integration persist after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The party has been characterised by its anti-establishment, populist views.
The AfD was founded in 2013 in the aftermath of the financial crisis. The party protested Germany’s efforts to bail out poorer countries in the European Union. It was originally envisioned by economists as an anti-Euro party.
It soon morphed into a movement focusing on the issue of migration after the 2015 refugee crisis when then-chancellor Angela Merkel opened the door to more than a million refugees from war-torn countries such as Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
“Islam does not belong to Germany,” read the party’s 2016 manifesto. An AfD tagline from 2017 read: “Burkas? We’re more into bikinis”. “Unser Land zuerst,” which translates to “Our country first!” was written on AFD campaign banners in 2022.
As real wages dipped to below 10 per cent below their pre-crisis trends last year, many seemed willing to blame immigration.
The AfD’s immigration platform marks a major departure from the status quo. Policy ideas include doing away with individual asylum hearings and setting up holding camps abroad that prevent people from entering Germany.
The party has said it wants to cap immigration, which would aim to reduce migration down to net zero.”
https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/what-is-afd-hard-right-germany-politics-saxony-thuringia-pnkrmx5p0
Reminded me of this quote from LOTR:
“Authority is not given to you to, steward, to deny the return of the king.”
It’s one thing to form coalitions “naturally” but another to do it specifically to deny the will of the people.
How long can this situation across all of Europe hold – where the peoples wishes for democratic representation are thwarted by our out-of-touch Elites?
How is 30odd % of those who voted “the will of the people”? Were I German, I would have viewed this election as a referendum on immigration. The majority voted to have more of it (or I guess like some here were deluded into think the sabre-rattling from the nominally “right wing” party would turn into action).
That’s a gross misinterpretation because people vote tribal, ie, they vote for other people they believe to know and happen to trust, not neccessarily for what’s in the manifestos of the various parties before the election and absolutely not for what members of the government do or want to do afterwards which wasn’t in any party manifestos (like Starmer’s internet persecution of the faa rite or his Finally end smoking! initatives).
It’s usually telling to interpret the outcome of PR elections in the reverse, based on the assumption that people voted for the party they wanted to govern. For Thüringen (let’s Kviy this a little and extend the courtesy to use the proper names to Germans), the outcome was thus
67.2% opposed to the AfD
76.4% opposed to the CDU
84.2% opposed to BSW
86.9% opposed to Die Linke (SED)
93.9% opposed to the SPD
96.8% opposed to Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen
All of these parties a strong to overwhelming majority of the people doesn’t want to govern minus the Greens will get seats in parliament based on this vote of extreme popular disapproval. Shome democracy, for shure!
Lastly, there’s the theory behind PR voting systems which claims that the party which got the largest vote share is the one which won the election and which is thus entitled to govern. That’s based on the assumption that all parties are created equal and all democratically legitmated parties, which the AfD obviously is, must principally be willing to cooperate with all other demcratically legitimated parties, details to be threshed out in coalition negotations. This means the AfD wouldn’t stand a chance to implement any faa rite policies unless its coalition partners would agree to that which they obviously wouldn’t. But this doesn’t matter here. It was decreed that the AfD represents the wrong kinds of German who really ought to be disenfranchied to “save democracy” and as this would look kind-of bad when done formally (stripping about ⅓ of the people of their right to vote) it can perfectly well be achieved informally which has the exact same effect, just without anyone having to admit that. Sixtuples all around!
It’s time people started reading manifestos, though those often contain lies. IMO if you’re voting for any of the Uniparty parties in whatever country you live, you’re not paying attention and deserve what you get.
That’s like saying people who opted into getting covaxxed deserve sudden deaths and other serious health problems and I don’t think so. The responsibilty for misselling something rests with those who did it and not with those who fell prey to it.
I certainly don’t wish anyone dead.
Democracy only works if people pay attention.
An observation like that marks you as enemy of the ‘democracy’ which only works because people don’t pay attention.
Indeed. I wonder what things would look like if people really did pay attention? Part of the problem I think is that our expectations are always increasing, and expecting forever better government is unrealistic.
Sadly one might as well say it is time people started believing what the BBC publish and broadcast.
Here is a main take-away of the recent elections and of the Conservative Party leadership contest.
1) who is spelling out exactly what the problems are that need to be fixed?
2) who is spelling out exactly how they are going to fix them?
Remember Starmer’s ‘smash the gangs’?
A meaningless soundbite which he kept repeating without being explicit about how that would be done.
Now he is going to put the blame on Germany and France for his continuing failure to ‘smash’ any gangs.
He met Shultz and Macron supposedly to get their help.
To date – zero gangs smashed.
And that will hardly change at all.
Both countries have failed and judging by the recent German elections the ruling elites want to continue with unfettered illegal immigration across Europe despite the concerns of large number of voters.
Indeed.
And look at how weak governments become with PR.
Nothing can be done.
A transferable vote system might be better which sees only the two or three parties gaining the most votes with seats in Parliaments and forming governments.
It is not ideal but better to have a government which can act than one which cannot.
I’m generally extremely opposed to try to make anything work by making it more complicated. But I’m convinced that attempts to fix the system of self-governing parliaments are a fool’s errand, anyway. The original purpose of a parliament was to represent the people in dealing with a king in two areas: Trials of serious crimes and taxation. Starting from the middle of the 19th century, parliaments have instead ursurped the position of the king, thus leaving the people without representation. Parliamentary government is really a contradictio in adiecto: An entity which governs cannot ever be a parliament.
Your thriving ‘democracy’ hard at work. ‘Your vote counts’. ‘Saving our democracy’, ‘saving our rights’, ‘our freedoms’, ‘our free speech’, ‘our values’…..
All horseshit.
Statism. You get one choice: Elite Statism – which will implement whatever the hell they want to.
As Europe sees swings away from Liberal Progressive tyranny, we in the UK are swimming against the tide and have just elected a mass immigration, phony planet saving, pensioner murdering bunch of UN hand wringing parasites for the next 5 years.
How many votes did Kevin Phillips-Bong (Slightly Silly) get?
Precisely the same thing happened in the Netherlands with Geert Wilders.
But how strange is this!
German Jews feel ‘sucker punched’ after first election of far-Right since Nazis (msn.com)
Really? German Jews don’t complain about the Islamic Horde invading Germany, but as soon as German Patriots vote to oppose the Islamic Horde invading Germany, the German Jews shriek about “Nazis”??? Whose side are they on???
That’s especially idiotic because the AfD is adamantly committed to everything German parties are supposed to be committed to be considered mainstream which obviously includes being pro-Israel and pro masssive state support for Jews living in Germany “because of historical responsibility” etc. It’s just that these “representatives” and their far left political allies really don’t care. You’re either one of them. Or you’re a Nazi!!1. What opinions you actually happen to hold on any particular topic really doesn’t matter for that.
Thanks for that clear explanation. Here is a confirmation of that:
American activist Barbara Lerner Spectre calls for destruction of European ethnic societies – YouTube
Jewish American activist Barbara Lerner Spectre said in Sweden,
“I think there’s a resurgence of Anti-Semitism, because at this point in time, Europe has not yet learned how to be multicultural.
And I think we’re going to be part of the throes of that transformation, which MUST take place.”
“Europe is not going to be the monolithic societies they once were in the last century”, she said with a patronising smile.
“Jews are going to be at the centre of that. It’s a HUGE transformation for Europe to make.
They are now going into a multicultural mode, and Jews will be resented because of OUR LEADING ROLE.
But without that leading role, without that transformation, Europe will not survive.”
Perhaps she should turn to the apartheid state of Israel and sort that out first!