by Phil Shannon
Preamble
The contemporary left’s support for an economically devastating, authoritarian lockdown, which doesn’t even achieve its limited public health aims, is one of the more remarkable developments in current politics. With its support for extreme ‘social distancing’, the left has reached a new nadir in the ‘political distancing’ between it and its traditional working class constituency, a relationship that has been fraying badly since the democratic, national, working class populist upsurge of recent years as symbolised by the Brexit referendum, the thumping Get-Brexit-Done electoral victory of Boris Johnson, and the surprising Trump miracle.
The left’s lockdown betrayal of the working class further accelerates its decline into political irrelevance. This is not a cause for celebration, especially for someone like myself, a four-decade Australian veteran of working class socialism including as a trade union activist, and member of the Communist Party of Australia and more Trotskyist grouplets than you could shake a Program of the Fourth International at, who still cooks on the left burner (see author’s page here).
What follows is an attempt to understand how and why the left has got into such a pickle over lockdown and how it can begin to resurrect its political integrity.
Why the left (and not just the left) should oppose lockdown
Science
- The virus is not the virus to end all viruses. The herd immunity threshold is apparently much lower than expected because of cross-immunity due to the common cold and other coronaviruses. Most people (other than the aged with specific comorbidities) who contract it are either asymptomatic or have only mild symptoms. Panicked by one spectacularly bonkers epidemiological model, however, health authorities and politicians across the planet have done their most flamboyant ‘Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!’ impressions, and massively overstated the virulence and lethality of the virus to justify the lockdown lunacy they rushed to institute in order to be seen to be doing something. The virus did not herald the End Times, there never was a curve to be flattened, it never gave cause for draconian lockdown measures.
Public Health
- Lockdown simply doesn’t work on its own terms. Regardless of if, or when, lockdown was implemented, or how draconian its scope, within and between different countries, the trajectory of the virus, as of other viral pathogens, has followed a natural bell curve of exponential rise, plateau and rapid decline (over just a month or two for the current one) as it hits the limits of natural or acquired herd immunity (Farr’s Law – still going strong since William Farr formulated it in 1840!).
- Lockdown will kill many times more people (from health conditions left undiagnosed and untreated, and from the so-called ‘diseases of despair’ that accompany economic distress) than the virus could ever manage.
The Economy
- Quarantining the healthy is economically catastrophic, with Depression-era levels of unemployment, business closures, and mind-numbing long-term government debts and deficits. A demographically-targeted, strategic approach of protecting the vulnerable would have had far better financial (as well as health) outcomes both for the vulnerable and for the whole population.
Liberty and Freedom
With precious little opposition, lockdown has ushered in:
- ‘Police-state’ powers conferred by emergency decree
- Suspension of democratic accountability – both parliamentary democracy, and the democracy of the streets (unless it’s for an approved, i.e. woke, cause such as #BLM – that’s allowed!)
- Fettering the rights to free speech
- State surveillance (there’s an app for that!)
- Tech giant censorship
- Nauseous government propaganda, and
- Simplistic, in-your-face agit-prop from the establishment media, both private and state
What the left could uniquely contribute to opposition to lockdown
An economic, working class perspective
The left should be emphasising the economic aspect of lockdown because it is the working class who are the principal victims of lockdown. The political right, by contrast, are more authentic when representing the profit-making owners of capital rather than the proletarians they employ, the latter having to content themselves with, at best, an amalgam of conservative economic nostrums such as ‘trickle-down theory’ and ‘a rising sea floats all boats’.
Including retired workers and the young who are destined for a wage/salary-earning future, the working class, those who have to sell their labour to an employer, are the vast bulk of the population. The left thus has the biggest constituency, by far, affected by the economic devastation of lockdown.
A view from the global poor
The rural and other subsistence poor in developing nations are also big losers – from their own countries’ lockdowns and from the contraction of economic demand in the lockdowned richer countries. Three-quarters of new coronavirus cases now detected occur in developing countries and are forecast to increase the prevalence of global ‘extreme poverty’ (living on less than US$1.90 per day) by some 400 million, increasing global ‘extreme’ poverty from one in ten of the global population to around one in seven, and total poverty (living on less than $US5.50 a day) to one in two of the world’s people. This economic hit to the global poor is a result partly of the direct health-related costs of the virus itself but is likely to arise mostly from a population-wide lockdown impacting on the productive, working age population in developing countries because the aged, the most at-risk for the virus, are a much smaller proportion of the total population in poorer countries than they are in the West.
How the left has failed on the virus/lockdown
So, it should be a lay-down-misere for the left to oppose the lockdown on the left’s bread-and-butter economic issues affecting the working class (and the global poor).
It should also be entry-level politics for the left to oppose lockdown on those non-economic issues where lockdown policy dilutes civil liberties and free speech, and strengthens political authoritarianism, censorship, media power, etc.
In the past, the left would have gone off like a firecracker on all the above issues, not least because, historically, it has been the working class which has been the left’s core political stomping ground, and it has been the left which has been the target for repression, censorship and denial of free speech by the capitalist state.
The ideological failings of the lockdown left
What the left has delivered re lockdown, however, are stunning volte-faces on fundamental questions of working class material living standards and on the issues of political and ideological power, such as:
- The economic hit to the working class: The left has displayed either mute unconcern over the economic cost of lockdown to the working class, or passive acceptance of the ‘necessary evil’ of lockdown in a bizarre twist of the old Vietnam War saying that ‘to save the village [from communists/COVID] we had to destroy the village [the people/the economy]’.
- The global poor: Finding the developed world’s (white) working class insufficiently reverential of the ‘Other’ (the West’s BAME people – Black and Minority Ethnic – are the sum total of the left’s attention nowadays), the left has increasingly switched its focus to the world’s poor (BAME writ large), who are now, however, to be thrown under the lockdown bus by the left as lockdown drastically ramps up global poverty.
- Science: The left has rightly demanded that science should prevail over ideology (on climate change, for example) when determining public policy, yet ‘The [Selective] Science’ invoked by politicians, and uncritically embraced by the left, to justify lockdown is either bogus, not proven or still up-for-grabs, and now serves the role of self-justification for promoters of an (ineffective) lockdown.
- Obedience to authority: ‘Question authority!’ used to be the operating principle of the old left. Now, however, on lockdown, the stance of the left appears to be ‘bow down and obey’ as it welcomes policy dictation from above, including the various placebo-like, theatrical ‘social distancing’ rituals (facemasks and tracing apps and social spacing) that dramatically hype the limited threat of the virus. For the lockdown left, the punchline to the old joke set-up of ‘How can you tell when a politician is lying?’ (answer – ‘When their lips move’) has stolen away in the pandemic panic night.
- The media: ‘Always believe the opposite of what the media say’ was once the default setting of the left which was clear-eyed about the establishment media’s role as the propaganda arm of the wealthy ruling class. Now, however, the lockdown left has proven itself to be disappointingly susceptible to a media-confected atmosphere of dread and hysteria foregrounded against the omnipresent graphic of a scary virus, or a harried doctor in full PPE, or a nurse in scrubs, that forms the visual backdrop to every emotionally manipulative virus news item, all invoking a sense of Crisis! Crisis! Crisis! and demanding severe lockdown in response. The left’s political compliance with government lockdown guidance, rules, regulations and laws has been surprisingly cheaply acquired.
- Hypocrisy: Cognitive dissonance is the order of the day for the lockdown left. The imperative to elevate woke pieties above class priorities has, for example, highlighted the woke left’s support for the #BLM protests-cum-riots which flouted the very ‘social distancing’ norms that the left had been, up to then, enthusiastically pushing. Of course, the same leftist priests of social-distancing pronounce anathema on anti-lockdown protests or a Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. For the woke/lockdown left, we’re not ‘all in this together’ – hypocritical political exemptions apply.
The behavioural failings of the lockdown left
The ideological failings of the left on lockdown are accompanied by a pronounced tendency to behave in politically-revealing stylistic ways, including:
- Belligerence: Converse with most lockdown leftists and you will be struck by their hostility to sceptical views and their lack of respect for the holders of those views. Calm discussion of evidentiary and political differences on lockdown has been replaced by the left’s need to beat down lockdown apostates in heated argument, not with better ideas but with belligerence. In politics, as in fashion, ‘the style is the man’ and the lockdown/woke left’s antagonistic and intimidating behaviour reflects poorly on a political grouping that claims to value liberalism, tolerance and ‘diversity’.
- Straw Men: Say that lockdown doesn’t work and is worse than the disease and the sceptic will swiftly be accused of being a callous granny-killer, a moral monster who places ‘money’ ahead of ‘lives’, and profit over people (cf. the facile “No life is worth losing to add one more point to the Dow” of Joe Biden, or the rhetorical doing whatever it takes to “save just one life” homily of New York governor, Andrew Cuomo). Setting up straw men (lockdown sceptic = murderer) to knock down is so much easier than respectfully contesting an exchange of ideas or exploring strategies such as demographically-targeting the vulnerable for protection from the virus.
- Smear by association: Oppose the lockdown? Why, says the lockdown leftist, you must be one of those kooky 5G conspiracists or whatever. Case dismissed. Yes, it is true that some strange political life-forms attach themselves to the fringes of lockdown scepticism. But neither is the left free from a history of its own unwanted and unattractive political relatives, particularly the wild and fundamentally anti-democratic anarchists, up to and including the Antifa goons and Extinction Rebellion loons. Guilt-by-association is a tawdry debating gambit whether used by left or right. Neither the left nor the right can enforce an ideological purity test to control who marches under their banner. There is not much either can do about the loose threads in the great tapestry of political life.
- Virtue-signalling: Left lockdown lovers portray themselves, overtly or by implication, as a better class of person who is superior to the lockdown sceptic – intellectually superior to those they misrepresent as ‘Deniers’ of ‘The Science’ and morally superior to those whom they caricature as being more concerned with ‘the economy’ over health. We, say the left, may have lost a democratic national referendum or an election but we are still better than the nativists, the xenophobes, the gap-toothed, knuckle-dragging deplorables and, now, the heartless lockdown sceptics who are prepared to cruelly cull society of its old geezers.
Why has the left got it so wrong on lockdown?
Given the sign-off in the US and UK on national lockdown guidelines by both Donald Trump and Boris ‘Get-Brexit-Done’ Johnson, there was a glimmer of hope that the left could come out swinging against a lockdown endorsed by their intensely-hated bêtes noires. Opposition to lockdown could have chimed with the left’s noisy imprecations about evil Tories and wicked Republicans responsible for a lockdown which has savaged the working class. This never materialised, however. Why?
The defeat of the trade unions: Neo-liberalism, Thatcher-Reagan and the rise of Woke
The left’s abandonment of the working class for woke politics is the sour fruit resulting from the defeat of the western labour movement in the 1980s when capital, hit by a severe oil crisis, sought to restore capitalist profitability by making the working class pay. At the forefront of this resurgent neo-liberalism was the neutering of the then-powerful trade union movement, an assault led by the dozy Reagan and the flinty Thatcher, who proved to be more aggressive class brawlers than the defensive organs of labour. In industrial battles of Iwo Jima prominence (Reagan vs the air traffic controllers, and Thatcher vs the coal miners), the neo-liberal victory over militant trade unions demoralised the whole labour movement, sent trade union membership into freefall (aided by structural changes in the economy) and juiced up a “globalisation” which imported cheap foreign labour through ‘open borders’ and off-shored domestic industry to cheap labour countries.
Bereft of its crucial labour support base, a left that once defined itself by the principle of ‘class struggle’ now reaches out to a coalition of the social fringes, what Hillary Clinton extolled as a “rainbow of discontents” who primarily define themselves by race, ethnicity, sex and other identity classification rather than class.
In this break-up between the left and the working class, the left did a reverse ‘it’s not you, it’s me’ routine and blamed the working class for the moral and political failings (‘White privilege,’ ‘toxic masculinity’ and other woke analytical concepts) of the relationship, woke concerns which now preoccupy most of the left.
Derangement Syndromes afflicting the left
Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) and Brexit/Boris Derangement Syndrome (BDS)
In response to being jilted by their long-term working class partners, most of the left has succumbed to what the right duly, and accurately, mock as political Derangement Syndromes. The democratic, populist, assertive working class revolts manifested in the Brexit/Boris and Trump electoral outcomes has seemingly traumatised the woke left which reflexively dismisses such political phenomena as racist, xenophobic and reactionary nationalist eruptions instigated by ‘far-right’ demagogues. The Trump and Brexit/Boris phenomena were wrong, ill-informed and morally bad choices, says the woke left, wilful choices made by a working class inadequately enamoured of the economic wonders of globalisation, particularly mass Third World immigration and outsourcing, and its attendant woke politics.
Implicit in every woke leftwinger’s spittle-flecked rave about how Trump, for example, is either Bozo the Clown or ‘literally Hitler’, is a distaste not just for the unlikely populist figurehead but for their voters and supporters, who are largely industrial and blue-collar working class (and still largely, and unforgivably to the woke left, white). Both the US and UK versions of Derangement Syndrome are marked by political ferocity towards all populist policies as the work of the political devil, and which are often accompanied by behavioural paroxysms of rage and resentment, incredulity and incomprehension, and intolerance and illiberalism, not to mention frequent verbal profanity. The various Derangement Syndromes allow a rejected woke left to salve the political wounds inflicted on it by its old working class base, to re-occupy the moral political heights by presenting itself as politically and morally virtuous, despite its democratic rebuffs.
From TDS and BDS to Virus Derangement Syndrome (VDS)
The seamless transition of most of the left from TDS and BDS to VDS (Virus Derangement Syndrome) is not surprising. Just as TDS and BDS allowed the left to rage against the political virus of right-wing populism, VDS licenses the left to proclaim that it is us, the left, who still deserve to be in charge of those who either suffer from ignorance (and need to be enlightened by the left-wing holders of truth on the virus/lockdown), or are stupid (congenitally incapably of grasping ‘The Science’ of social distancing) or who are simply Bad People who choose to be immoral, elder-killing delinquents for the sake of their own convenience and pay packets, and who thus deserve to be shamed and demonised for wrongthink on the virus/lockdown.
The cavalier dismissal of the disastrous economic fallout for the working class (and for the global poor) arising from lockdown is the seedy terminus for a left which has swapped class struggle in favour of woke culture wars and identity politics. As millions of workers join the dole queue and lose their freedoms and civil liberties under lockdown, the left is consumed by statuary, ostentatious BLM histrionics, ‘cancel culture’, transgenderism, ‘believe all women’ and the other woke fads of identity politics.
For the left to drop what should have been easy home games (on favourable economic grounds of lockdown-caused recession, unemployment, etc.) against a third-tier virus opponent, is an existential political crisis for the left if ever there was one.
Prognosis for the left after lockdown
Can the left learn from its self-made political disaster of embracing the damaging lunacy of lockdown?
Signs unhopeful
It will be hard to admit error for a left (as with so much of the scientific, political, media and cultural elite) which is so heavily invested in the myth of an apocalyptic virus necessitating draconian lockdown. Political humility is a rare commodity across the left-right spectrum, and the lockdown left is in the same cognitive-psychological space as were those who were strong supporters of invading Iraq because of (mythical) WMDs and who still believe that WMDs were indeed found after the invasion. So, too, does the left have so much political capital tied to the ‘war’ on the virus that the mythology that lockdown actually saved lives will forever inform the dominant narrative of lockdown as a triumphant vindication of the lockdown left’s ‘lives ahead of money’ strategy. Any self-reflection by the lockdown left will be drowned out by the racket of self-congratulation for supporting lockdown and, indeed, for being more hard-line on lockdown than reluctant and half-hearted lockdown conservatives.
Signs hopeful
There are some leftist heartbeats being detected amongst the lockdown rubble, however. Lockdown Sceptics, for example, has flushed out a heartening number of dissident leftists who oppose the deadly nonsense of lockdown (and who, if they’re anything like me, get a little buzz of political dopamine from each issue). New life for the left could yet emerge from the political crisis of lockdown.
Although it is far easier for the left to never agree with the right on anything, it is possible for the left and the right to agree to be all grown-up and adult on what divides us whilst working productively on opposing, and learning from, the disaster of lockdown. Breaking bread with your traditional enemies does carry political risk (to which the ex-leftists which litter the political landscape testify) but any fear of lockdown scepticism being a conservative Trojan Horse is overblown. Strange lockdown times make for strange political bedfellows but if the greatest political blunder and economic own goal in living political memory doesn’t throw up some novel and much needed political couplings, then what will? And who knows what new political charms and pleasures we may discover in each other’s arms?
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Allison Pearson is bang on the money.
The Government’s Bullsh!t and Bullying Unit has gone into overdrive to try and scare the bejesus out of the gullible and increasingly Net-Zero-sceptic public about the “climate crisis” which only exists in flawed and easily manipulated computer models.
The comments below-the-line are wonderful to read.
Good article & good comment , it’s school holiday time so it’s more train & plane strikes which are now coupled with these “Scorchio” weather forescasts ! Temporary measures from the Weffers until the CBDC,s etc kick in
As well as flawed and easily manipulated minds.
Brain dead, anti-science, anti-reality, model-based cults of Rona and Klimat.
This is the coldest July in the UK in the past 10 years? Yet it is proof of ‘warming’ and ‘changing’ from the trace chemical plant food which makes oxygen….5% of which is from human ’emissions’. Remember last July – the hottest evah! So what happened with this July, surely the temps should be 50C this month.
The Dumb Ages. Authoritarianism. NWO. Transhumanism. $cientism.
Follow the cash to get to the model’s fake code.
The daftest comment I read (via WUWT) was somebody’s admission that 1936 was 5 degrees warmer across US states, but that it doesn’t count because that was due to the dust bowl, but this is due to climate change.
So “record temperatures” are the slam dunk evidence of climate change, but we can only tell they’re records because we already know they’re due to climate change.
Hot weather is proof of climate change.
Cold weather is also proof of climate change because “extreme” temperatures are a hallmark of climate change.
You can’t win.
The public is being hypnotised once again this time into experiencing, you know, weather, and believing it’s man made climate change.
Yes, Stewart.
Climate has always changed. And cold is also part of climate.
But, as almost everyone on here knows well, Climate is, in effect, weather over a period of at least 30 years. Zero point zero to do with 60 seconds near Coningsby runway using dodgy temperature probes rather than traditional thermometers.
Most also realise that, even in India, eight times more people die from cold than from heat.
And how many people have read in the MSM about the Dzud events in Central Asia over the last 30 years or more?
They’ve been at this corruption a long time, that’s for sure. Here’s the DM back in 2013 exposing a major cover-up. Hide the truth, quick!!
”Scientists working on the most authoritative study on climate change were urged to cover up the fact that the world’s temperature hasn’t risen for the last 15 years, it is claimed.
A leaked copy of a United Nations report, compiled by hundreds of scientists, shows politicians in Belgium, Germany, Hungary and the United States raised concerns about the final draft.
Published next week, it is expected to address the fact that 1998 was the hottest year on record and world temperatures have not yet exceeded it, which scientists have so far struggled to explain.
The report is the result of six years’ work by UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is seen as the world authority on the extent of climate change and what is causing it – on which governments including Britain’s base their green policies.
But leaked documents seen by the Associated Press, yesterday revealed deep concerns among politicians about a lack of global warming over the past few years.
Germany called for the references to the slowdown in warming to be deleted, saying looking at a time span of just 10 or 15 years was ‘misleading’ and they should focus on decades or centuries.
Hungary worried the report would provide ammunition for deniers of man-made climate change.
Belgium objected to using 1998 as a starting year for statistics, as it was exceptionally warm and makes the graph look flat – and suggested using 1999 or 2000 instead to give a more upward-pointing curve.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2425775/Climate-scientists-told-cover-fact-Earths-temperature-risen-15-years.html
26 years of by far the highest immigration in our history, with the vast majority of those immigrants coming from countries with lower, often very much lower emissions per capita, tell us that the governments in place since Satan’s Little Helper Blair got elected don’t believe that there is a man-made climate problem.
And the rich, powerful and influential can’t even be arsed to pretend that they’re changing their own behaviour.
We said climate lockdowns next, didn’t we. Not with quite the same immediacy as the BS COVID lockdowns, though. This one will be a very slow burner (if you pardon the pun).
The one silver lining of the plandemic was that now, when they try to do the climate lockdowns, we can always point to the absolute utter failure of the covid lockdowns to do anything even remotely good at all, and in fact did far more harm than good. Like The Who (the band, NOT to be confused with the WHO!) famously sang, “we won’t get fooled again!”
I remember going to the South of France as a teenager. It was a long hot summer and there were forest fires all over the place. I walked to a little ridge just outside our village and watched a fire spread from hill to hill burning houses as it went. It was probably the most dramatic thing I have ever seen. These things happen on the Med from time to time. Events that have happened before are not proof of climate change.
Agreed, I have been going to Greece for over 40 years, I do not remember a summer where forest fires haven’t raged during the summer months.
Caused by human activity! Not spontaneous combustion
You’re having a totally wrong perspective on this. On their own, wildfires are completely uninteresting and have happened every years since god-only-knows-when. But now, they’re happening because man-made climate change causes wildfires to occur which, in turn, demonstrates that man-made climate change is real, as per the usual, ciruclar logic of these people:
1) We assume that A must be true and hence, must cause B.
2) We go looking for B and find it somewhere.
3) B => A. Rejoice!
They’re really always doing this in the same way, just as they’re also always using guilt by association smears and appeals to ignorance.
Same here. I was some distance from the fires, but remember lying on the beach watching planes scoop up water from the Mediterranean.
One of the BBC weather presenters went a bit rogue the other day and showed the record temperatures across the Mediterranean and when they occurred. The record for Greece was measured in 1977. I expect he has been called in for re-education.
With all this extreme heat, life expectancy must be really low in Greece. But what’s this? Betthany Hughes visiting Ikaria, which has the highest proportion of 90 year olds in Europe, low cancer rates and low rates of heart disease.
“Beelzebub Satan Lucifer Cerberus Hades” heatwaves are good for life expectancy then?
I saw those same yellow planes. It’s obvious that when countries maintain fleets of firefighting aircraft they must be expecting heat waves, droughts and fires. I hope that people can see all through the relentless hype and propaganda.
‘A report by the BIT in collaboration with Sky TV called ‘The Power of TV: Nudging Viewers to Decarbonise their Lifestyles’ says that “behavioural change on climate can be driven by TV…‘
How about decarbonising by not watching TV then?!
Indeed, as more and more people ditch the Licence Fee and cancel their Sky subscriptions, the legacy media will continue to scream into an echo chamber. I’ve been heartened recently by a number of people I know that bought into Remain/Covid and Net Zero BS who are tuning out altogether. For many, it’s a force of habit to pay the Licence Fee to watch live tv. Once they realise if they change that habit they are out of one arm of the control mechanism that the BBC and Sky have, it’s very liberating.
This touches on something curious. As people’s energy bills “necessarily skyrocket” (Barack Obama), the first thing to be cut from their budgets will be luxury / entertainment items – the chief amongst these being media subscriptions like Sky TV and mainstream publications.
This yet again raises the question of whether corporate complicity is down to brainwashing and idiocy in the upper echelons and management layers, or something more insidious and globally directed.
The former could be seen as likely now the senior executives of major corporations have managed to vote themselves piratical salary increases over the last three decades, arguably isolating themselves in such a tight economic bubble from the rest of society that they now inhabit their own reality, utterly out of touch with that of ordinary people.
The latter is evidenced by the sort of corporate media sponsorship from governments and philanthropist organisations we saw during the pandemic, as well as the hectoring, supercilious, often openly contemptuous tone of the media (Hollywood and the ad industries in particular) towards the public. Alongside this, the apparent lack of concern about the consequences of allowing media content to be censored and centrally dictated by unelected but establishment-approved officials.
In this case, it is perhaps a sign that these organisations no longer see their financial future in selling services to the public, but instead in their revenue being derived sideways through subsidies, either directly from public funds collected by government, or indirectly via the same laundered through other organisations.
Either way, there doesn’t seem to be much room for middle ground between the two possibilities.
I saw on the 6 o’clock news yesterday that the BBC’s chief climate hysteria reporter was reporting from, I think, Spain. Now how did he get there? I don’t think he really gets this “reduce carbon emissions” thing.
So glad to see the sceptics countering this weather propaganda. The whole madness and wondering why I don’t get what everyone else is saying and doing is so reminiscent of covid. Thank you DS for your sanity.
Good grief, it’s a wonder the engines on the plane didn’t melt! The heat has now gone beyond luminous red..to black!! We’re all doomed!
They’re on high alert to jet off to whichever part of the world is experiencing hot weather to report it as climate change.
It’s a big world so it’s not hard to find somewhere where the weather is hot.
Or in winter, they’ll go to somewhere it’s not as cold anymore and hang a lantern on that!
Old Trafford weather forecast:
Today rainy 68F
Thursday cloudy 66F
Friday rainy 63F
Saturday rainy 63F
Sunday rainy 68F
Pluviation ca change…..
‘In conclusion, on the basis of observational data, the climate crisis that, according to many sources, we are experiencing today, is not evident yet.’
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-02243-9
“We are not aware of any reliable science that supports the National Climate Assessment’s or others’ theory that fossil fuels and CO2 will cause catastrophic global warming,” said the paper’s authors, “We have written extensively on this issue for decades.”
https://co2coalition.org/publications/challenging-net-zero-with-science/
The tyranny of virtue.
There is no virtue in fear. I agree with Alison, we have been here before, 3 plus years of it in fact, the overgrown school bully’s are at it again. Well they didn’t fool me the first time, I see you.
Tyrants who want us to expect and accept less from life, such that they can have it all for themselves.
Here’s more poor people boiling in their own sweat
!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/18/phoenix-arizona-temperature-record-heat-weather
Can’t wait for heatwave Satan! Bring it on!
“Weather maps these days ,in shocking luminous red and now black, resemble more like an over cooked pizza than reality”
Neil Oliver
Dark red and black. A few years ago, the same temperatures or higher, but all green with a sprinkling of yellow smiling suns.
Reality check
Co 2 is equal across the atmosphere of this planet, even eco zealots admit that! So, why isnt everywhere boiling?
COVID-style reporting: Keep jetting around the globe to places where stuff which fits into the narrative happens to happen. Remain silent about everything else. For a while, India used to by COVID catastrophe central. Then, even attempts to pretend to implement COVID measures were abandoned there and nothing particularly noteworthy happened. Hence, the COVID ship sailed to other distant shores and never came back.
Well, they do need to move the narrative away from Ukraine’s imminent victory.
Ukraine? Where’s that?
as per the official narrative, good old democratic and peaceful Ukraine blew up the Nordstream pipeline, releasing enormous amounts of green house gases into the atmosphere. will we hear the outrage and condemnation from the BBC and the likes, I wonder?
Don’t forget, 6pm tonight, on your front doorstep please to clap the Met Office.
Mandated and observed by your Chinese made doorbell camera.
Your ESG score will be downgraded for non compliance.
And wear a mask
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When the only solution to the global ‘climate crisis’ is the surrendering of individual liberty in exchange for centralised (global) authority, you know you’re on the slippery slope to totalitarianism.
There are a large quantity of academic papers from the ‘social sciences’ quarter of the climate blob slavering at the prospect. Their more sanitised output appears in the public WEF literature. They’re genuinely disturbing in their tone.
now that we can successfully control inflation, energy prices, immigration, virus spread, etc., etc., bring on the climate!
To be fair, Alison Person was half decent during the Corronie rubbish. She was of course constrained by the compromised BMGF funded DT but she did attempt to push some perspective into the controlled, sinister, propaganda so kudos to her for this piece.
The Fat Controllers of this world were always going to run with climate fear after the Corronie scam. It’s been deep rooted with compromised institutions, media, authorities throughout the west and a I fear there is no escape other than the complete enslavement of western populations who will walk themselves into their own prisons all on the basis of a lie.
Small side story, on a recent boat trip the chap came around families for payment. Out of about 30 payments, 2 were cash, 2 were card and 26 were done with a phone tap. CBDC and a cashless society is a globalists wet dream and we already have on foot in a cage without bars, imprisoned by our own minds, media, convenience, climate, health, safety and to ‘Save Lives’…
Wot a scam..
We were warned – remember a year ago when Project Veritas recorded a CNN guy saying “So our next thing is going to be for climate change awareness”?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/undercover-project-veritas-video-resurfaces-suggesting-cnn-is-going-to-focus-on-climate-now-covid-is-over/ar-AAZQB0L
In Clown World it is looking harder and harder to find something that *isn’t* racist. Yes, climate change is racist;
”This summer’s extreme weather has shown how climate change can affect anyone across the world. But we can’t ignore the fact that those who have been on the frontline of climate-related disasters for a while now have been people of colour.
Statistically speaking, people of colour are far more likely to experience the catastrophic effects of climate breakdown: flooding, heat waves, drought, wildfires, and rising sea levels. This has been the case for some time and will only get worse as the crisis intensifies.”
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/watch-is-climate-change-racist/
I remember the boiling hades cauldron of hell and beelzebub 1976..or,..summer as we called it back then! It was fantastic!
But that’s more than 30 years ago so it doesn’t count!
I remember a summer in the early 1990s where it didn’t rain in Cornwall for 19 weeks in a row. Should this happen today, judging from last years 5 weeks of sunshine, we’ll all end up being banned from using water for anything and will only be allowed to drink it at government-licensed recycling facilities in exactly equal quantities to a urine deposit made prior to getting acces to drinking water (net zero water usage). This will obviously cause people to die of thirst and the MSM will then refer to them as victims of climate change. And there will be surprisingly refreshed-looking activists pushing for net -50% water usage, ie, halving the water rations one gets in return for pee and – of course – equally surprisingly refreshed looking university professors demanding absolute zero water usage for the benefit of future generations. Etc.
Mediterranean heatwave an annual event
Hot weather’s no excuse for Communism
Stand in the Park Sundays 10.30am
Elms Field
near play area
Wokingham RG40 2FE
Print this leaflet
I am hoping that a critical mass has already been far too red-pilled from the plandemic to fall for any sort of climate lockdowns and related follies this time, God willing.
Nobody is taking a blind bit of notice. Talk to the hand BBC. Who still haven’t apologised to Nigel Farage for their false allegations. The day Dumbird visits China is the day I’ll sit up.
I’m in Barcelona & the earth is NOT burning ! It’s just summer like it has been for the past dozen years that I’ve been coming ( except the lockdown & restrictions year 2020 & 2021 as I’m not vaccinated) . It has always been mid thirties C . It’s Just Summer & that’s why we come . Nothing is on fire Greta/BBC !
Save the planet, turn off your TV!
Here is a link to a scientific article published yesterday:
Willis Eschenbach and the Law of Conservation of Energy | Principia Scientific Intl. (principia-scientific.com)
It is written by Joseph Postma who has been making the point about the heating potential of the sun for years and there is more information on his website. The lies about this are how the fake science of global warming was created and this article explains how it was done. The warmists claim that the sun cannot heat the earth’s surface to the claimed average temperature of 15C and so the missing heat must come from the atmosphere. The atmosphere is of course incapable of generating heat itself which shows how stupid people are to believe this nonsense. It is also possible to see this by looking at the temperatures on the moon with no atmosphere. They reach about 106C but the moon rotates slower than the earth and had no water and that has to be taken into account. Postma in this article says the sun has a potential to reach a temperature of 80-90C on earth, enough to burn us to a crisp. The atmosphere keeps us cool.
Doomsday climate predictions is good for ratings.
Keeps people scared, anxious and worried and therefore more easily controlled, manipulated and taxed.
The climate change industry is very lucrative, and comes with a lot of power and iunfluence, so expect all their reports will say that anthropogenic climate change is a major problem.
It’s about their job retention.
And keep the money flowing to them.
Actually, first it was the weather. Then along came covid to shove weather over the finishing line.