The relentless catastrophising of bad weather is becoming almost a daily occurrence at the BBC, as the Corporation seeks to shore up the elitist command-and-control Net Zero project. As we have seen at the Daily Sceptic, global warming went off the boil almost two decades ago, while it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep a straight face when promoting the farcical forecasts from climate models.
“Heatwaves, deadly floods and wildfires all mean people are experiencing the link between extreme weather [BBC-speak for bad weather] and climate change,” states Matt Taylor of BBC Weather. What link might that be, one might reasonably ask. Certainly nothing that has yet been established by scientific proof. Individual events, however biblical in their incantation, cannot be provably linked to long term changes in the climate – to do so is mere conjecture.
And not very good conjecture at that, if the latest BBC example is anything to go by. Taylor starts by presenting the graph below.
Heatwaves are said to become more frequent and extreme as the bell curve moves. No mention is made that cold claims far more lives than heat. According to a paper published last year in the Lancet, a 20 year global study found that over five million people died of “non-optimal” temperatures every year. Cold was found to have killed over eight times more people than heat. Earlier this year, the U.K.’s Office for National Statistics found that recent milder winters saved nearly 30,000 lives a year.
Taylor goes on to report that last year North America was hit by a long lasting heatwave. A particular heatwave in western Canada “would have been virtually impossible without climate change, according to the World Weather Attribution network”.
However, the data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t help the doomsday narrative. Heatwaves are currently trending towards the lower end of the 125 year scale. They were much worse in the 1930s.
Wildfires are always popular in the BBC house of climate horrors. Extreme and long-lasting heat caused by climate change is said by Taylor to provide conditions for fires “which can spread at incredible speed”. In fact, records show that acres burned by wildfires in the United States are barely a fifth of those reported in the 1930s. Over the last 25 years there has been little change in lost acreage. On a global scale, NASA shows (below) a pattern of recent falls in burned areas.
Taylor goes on to note that the northern hemisphere wildfire season has begun “unusually early” in some areas this year. “Unusually” early fires have been reported in the U.K. Let us look at recent record for Wales, a largely rural country, that might be thought particularly susceptible to vegetation going up in smoke.
Happily, Welsh Government statistics report that fires are less than half what they were at the turn of the century and they have been dropping for years.
Rainfall – too little, too much – is of course a regular win, win for the Net Zero propogandist. Taylor quotes a “water specialist” from the U.S., Peter Gleick from the National Academy of Sciences, who explains: “When areas of drought grow, like in Siberia and western U.S., that water falls elsewhere, in a smaller area, worsening flooding.” In Brisbane, Taylor notes that earlier this year 80% of the city’s rainfall fell in just six days. In fact about 1,000mm of rain has fallen in Brisbane in the first three months, well short of the record for January to March set in 1974.
Amounts of 800mm are not uncommon in the record, notably a number of years in the 1950s. The estimable climate writer Paul Homewood noted that none of the daily rainfall totals in Brisbane was remotely unprecedented. The most that fell this year was on February 28th with 344.8mm.
Homewood then supplied the above table, noting that the daily record for February was an astonishing 907mm set in 1893 in a town only 46 miles from Brisbane.
Bad, sorry, extreme weather is increasingly becoming the main battlefield for the waging of green activist warfare. Michael Shellenberger notes in his recent book Apocalypse Never that “leading media companies have been exaggerating climate change at least since the 1980s”. The United Nations IPCC summaries, press releases and authors’ statements, “betray ideological motivations, a tendency towards exaggeration, and an absence of important context”.
As I noted in my last article, Shellenberger spent 30 years promoting green activism, but wrote his book “after getting fed up with the exaggeration, alarmism and extremism that are the enemy of a positive, humanistic, and rational environmentalism”.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor
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It was obvious from the start to anyone paying attention that it would never be “over”.
Of course not. That just as with the Spanish flu, ‘evidence’ of which this currently being retrofitted into Wikipedia articles about the battles 1918. These guys will keep calling for mask mandates and social distancing for years to come.
Everything this man says undermines any faith I have in the WHO.
Masks don’t work, they are nebulising the water and virus so that it goes lower into the vulnerable lung area.
I knew a young fit teacher 30 who ended up in ICU with C19 wore a mask 24 hours a day. He is okay but the mask did not work. His family were blaming children and people who did not wear masks! Tedros is ramping up the fear again with pseudo science.
I had to wear a visa in a school as I would not wear a mask. Recently some staff are wearing masks again which is unforgivable knowing the damage they do to children’s development. My manager suggested I could start wearing my visa again and I said I will never wear my visa ever again and never a mask.
I will not comply.
Well done Maria. Respect
Thank you it has been a nightmare it has been like working in the twilight Zone. Or the invasion of the body snatchers .
An apt description.
Amen to that, Maria!
We have a WHO chief who thinks cloth masks can work against an airborne virus, central bank chiefs who think money printing won’t lead to sticky inflation, generals who wish for woke LGBTQ+ non-white soldiers only and are keen on a nuclear war and PMs and CEOs who cow constantly to brainwashed teenagers tantrums.
In sofar, Tedros’ absurd opinion is at least coherent with other leaders and institutions ones and our times in general.
The WHO’s position as a group of non-elected busy bodies should be irrelevant to a so-called functioning democracy.
The WHO’s position in pushing rags on faces shows that they have no understanding of their efficacy and given the worldwide problems the organisation has dumped on the world these last two years confirms that it is nothing but an outlet for voodoo nonsense led by a piss poor Shaman.
Given the incompetence of the WHO these last 2.5 years anybody with a smattering of common sense must realise that their pronouncements are best avoided for the sake of personal safety.
I will be ignoring everything coming from the WHO.
Ultimatively, that’s because a Chinese guy called Wu firmly believed only his cloth mask had protected him from succumbing to the Manchurian plague of 1911. This puts him exactly on the same square as medieval plague doctors hoping for the same and is a nice illustration about how culturally backward China really is.
Of course everything this con artist says is BS, but I am mystified by his line about ‘tried and tested measures’ – he mentions ‘test and treat’ which is news to me, as from day 1 people were told if they suspected/knew they had the lurgy they were to go home and sick it out and only dare burden the health system when they were on the verge of kicking the bucket, whereupon they would be put on a ventilator until they did, in fact, kick the bucket.
I know some treatment protocols have been developed, but by and large the protocol is still very much one of ‘piss off home and leave us alone’. No treatment, no nothing. Even now their garbage vaxx doesn’t work, they refuse to use the safe and most likely effective HCQ and ivermectin.
Why are they pushing this carp now? Are they really worried that the 3/4x poked are going to be getting very ill come the inevitable autumn wave? Or is it just more of the same power play?
Here in NL there is a rather strange phenomenon – the public health authorities have stated fairly calmly that we are about at the peak of the summer wave and that’s it, the hospitals can cope. At the same time the ministry of health (under the control of an ardent Brussels yes-man) has got a commercial on telly going again with all the warnings for corona, to stay home to stop the spread and all the other garbage. The cabinet lost its majority in the upper chamber of parliament and the temporary corona act was repealed, that is probably the only reason why we have a commercial giving advice rather than any rules. There are about 1000 people in hospital now ‘with’ corona, maybe half of whom are there primarily due to corona (and high age). In a country of 17.5 million people, why would 500 elderly people in hospital with what is now in essence a flu be a reason to issue warnings and shut down the country if they could?
They have had 2 1/2 years worth of 2 weeks to get the hospitals ready. They can’t cope because governments have been spending billions upon billions on plastic landfill in the form of masks and test kits, in lining big pharma’s pockets for toxic, useless vaxxes and ‘therapeutics’ and propaganda. Had they spent one tenth of that amount of the health care system there would be no problem. This point needs to be driven home a million times over.
Yes
even the one who asked me to wear a mask and when I said I don’t wear one, he left me alone.
I had an operation last week so I saw first hand the queues for operations.
This was a university hospital, where one of the wards was not available!? So we all had to share and move to a smaller facility, as we arrived at said daycare surgery.
It was like a scene from a refugee centre, the stairwell corridor and entrance was packed sardines to brimming, with people with bags, all waiting to be let in one door as online tests were checked, at snail pace. There were some very ill frail people who were weak and there was not any seats as the three were taken and one was unbelievably still taped up. Tragic Comedy Central.
The staff were lovely but very stretched at this point, I heard a few give each other pep talks ‘we can do this.’ And then at the end ‘we did this’
The facility was grim, tired and as I looked around I could not help think that the 400 billion spent on covid restrictions and the money going to migrant crossings and the money going to that awful man Zelensky and the money going to all the other useless things could have been spent on fixing the situation that these Uk citizens found themselves in at this University hospital with too many patients all at once, brown stained falling down tiles, just one of many concerning visuals and a genuine apology from the doctor for the broom cupboard changing room to put on our operation gowns.
There was also not an anaesthetic room available which is the normal procedure I was told, perhaps just too overwhelmed so you will have to just go straight into the operating theatre, which I coped with as I looked around at the instruments ha ha but back in the ward some told me it had frightened them too much.
I must emphasise and praise the staff who were kind and lovely
It’s falling apart at the seams. So many overlapping big agendas all being rushed through at once by discredited executors who are utterly incapable of selling them to the public (the political class) on behalf of technocrats completely detached from reality using academic theories and models they’ve paid for that can’t be applied to an unpredictable mass of people with so many confounding variables and conflicting interests. All set to a backdrop of economic collapse. What a mess.
The only ‘test and treat’ program I’ve heard of was in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, where a kit was handed out that included a test and medicine, not a vaccine. If you tested positive, you took he medicine which AFAIK included Ivermectin. The state declared themselves virus-free shortly after this program was instigated. What’s notable about it was there was no threat of any sanction or restriction if you tested positive. The state also had a very low vaccination rate. This tells us a lot about the WHO and our govts – they are not to be trusted.
As I see it: Disarray at the top.
Economy now in free-fall and Digital IDs and CBDCs need to happen fast.
Covid fraud > universal ‘vaccination’ > ‘vaccine’ passport is not yielding desired results and public trust is diminishing fast. Very, very few parents getting their 0-5 year olds jabbed in the US. So the plan, as set out by the WEF (see diagram) to have ‘vaccination’ at the heart of digital transition is in disarray. War criminal Tedros still pushing, and it looks to me like they’re going to push the idea that the continuation of the ‘pandemic’ is due to the unvaccinated. Will this work?; I doubt it. I think there’s trouble ahead.
Mandates were, and still are, one of the dumbest things they could have done because it turned a lot of people into being against everything where they otherwise may have been open to sensible suggestions.
Now they feel they need to mandate more because people have become resistant to mandates…
Yep they will double down. It will have come as a surprise to them, given the number of behavioural psychologists they used, that the public was not more compliant. They’ve played their hand with the phoney plandemic though, the fact they’re still pushing it points to desperation I think. They still have ‘Russian Cyber Attack’™️ up their sleeve to force the digital IDs; maybe they’ll have to abandon health tyranny in favour of this?
Slave masters fighting over the right to rule the plantation.
Bit early, they said 2030 for their plans
The Agenda is intended to be in place by 2030 as I understand it.
Never mind the ongoing nonsense about the effectiveness of anything other than highest-grade medical masks against viral infections, I have just done a Google search on ‘WHO health impact of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical Interventions’ and (as expected) found zero relevant results.
In other words the China-backed WHO has absolutely no genuine interest in public health, and the ‘H’ should be replaced with a ‘C’ (for control) or ‘S’ (for sabotage).
Masks “Tried and trusted”? Tried maybe, but definitely not trusted in any conceivable way whatsoever.
They can combine sex and travel, thank you very much.
Your eloquence and brevity does you much credit.
Appreciated!
In the context of this, it’s also worth reminding people that they must not eat fried bacon lest they’ll get cancer and die. That’s another tried and trusted, safe and effetive piece of Public Health Advice[tm] by the infallible experts of the WHO. Also, one shouldn’t be fooled into believing that this guy would expose his head to a hostile atmosphere. He’s an extraterrestial repitlian and literally wearing a face mask to hide his breathing apparatus.
While I am utterly tempted to respond to this pronouncement with a resounding (yawn), and indeed most same people would, alas we still need to keep our guard up. Against tyranny, that is.
This man needs to be replaced by Anders Tegnell. Someone who understands what a true pandemic is.
None of the NPI’s have worked and yet here is Tedrous calling for more of the same.
Unbloody believeable.
Which part of the expression “Get stuffed” doesn’t he understand?
And re-impositions of masks will make absolutely no difference.
Sounds like Tedros and his fellow public health bureaucrats are concerned that their control is weakening.
That these masks don’t do anything positive against respiratory viruses has now been well established scientifically for far more than a year. The point I am missing in this article are the extremely negative consequences of masking for the human respiratory system and our overall health. These consequences have also been well documented and not just in the alternative media. Furthermore, a lot of these masks contain graphene nanoparticles (allegedly to make them stronger) which are inhaled by those wearing them. For Tedros to propagate a return to masking (knowing that only the West will comply) is tantamount to yet another anti-Western/anti-Whitey attack from a third World ideologue. It’s time to realize that from the beginning the UN and all its affiliated institutions have been infiltrated by resentful, petty, West-hating loons who want nothing more than to depopulate and take over the West (including Israel, in view of the rampant antisemitism for which the UNhas been known for half a century), by whatever means necessary. I say: let’s out-Trump Trump and not only defund the WHO, but tear up all agreements and Treaties with them, withdraw all staff secondments to them, terminate all office leases with them, cancel the citizenship of any national working for or contracting with them and then….let them rot in Hell.
Surely a man with a degree in philosophy is exactly who I would take my medical advice from. Step down now sir, you are not fit for purpose.
Rona, the gift that keeps giving to power crazy, vernal bureaucrats and pond life dwellers, i.e. politicians