Eric Worrall writes:
The UN has launched a climate propaganda campaign, consisting of two weeks of “weather forecasts from the future”, intended to give people a taste of what our children will endure, if we don’t do what we’re told.
According to The Guardian, a major green newspaper in Britain, highlights from the fantasy forecasts include “Miami South Beach is under water,”, and a Zambian forecaster reporting that “The mega-drought in Arizona has claimed another casualty.”
A video produced with these “forecasts” looks like a hollywood disaster movie, minus a decent special effects budget:
A full schedule of the fantasy weather forecasts is available here – http://www.wmo.int/media/climatechangeimpact.html
All I can say is – what a colossal waste of money and effort. Since it is the UN which has organised this international climate propaganda stunt, and the UN is pretty much above the law when it comes to freedom of information and other official transparency measures, we will probably never know how much money they spent, and how many jet airline flying hours were logged, while arranging this ridiculous waste of taxpayer’s money.
Anthony adds:
From my perspective, this a new low, and shows desperation. Plus, it is so badly done, it is painful to watch.
The YouTube Channel for the upcoming videos is here: https://www.youtube.com/user/wmovideomaster
The videos will be promoted on Twitter with the #weather2050 and #climate2014 hashtags. Be sure to look for them so you can respond with factual rebuttals.
The guardian should know better. Sir John Betjeman established in 1937 that hell on earth is in fact Slough high street.
Indeed, when I was there in 1978 it was still the Slough of despond, & I believe its worse now (they know how to maintain standards).
Still pretty grotty in 2007, when I was fortunate enough to leave the Former UK for ever.
The Slough of Despond is actually at Henlow Camp in Befordshire. It used to be an Officer Cadet Training Unit, which explains a lot.
Sough now boasts one of the mega Tesco stores which means the rest of the towns shopping areas are all but dead. It is now mainly a place to pass through not stop for any length of time.
Slough
Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!
It isn’t fit for humans now,
There isn’t grass to graze a cow.
Swarm over, Death!
Come, bombs and blow to smithereens
Those air -conditioned, bright canteens,
Tinned fruit, tinned meat, tinned milk, tinned beans,
Tinned minds, tinned breath.
Mess up the mess they call a town-
A house for ninety-seven down
And once a week a half a crown
For twenty years.
And get that man with double chin
Who’ll always cheat and always win,
Who washes his repulsive skin
In women’s tears:
And smash his desk of polished oak
And smash his hands so used to stroke
And stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell.
But spare the bald young clerks who add
The profits of the stinking cad;
It’s not their fault that they are mad,
They’ve tasted Hell.
It’s not their fault they do not know
The birdsong from the radio,
It’s not their fault they often go
To Maidenhead
And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars
And daren’t look up and see the stars
But belch instead.
In labour-saving homes, with care
Their wives frizz out peroxide hair
And dry it in synthetic air
And paint their nails.
Come, friendly bombs and fall on Slough
To get it ready for the plough.
The cabbages are coming now;
The earth exhales.
John Betjeman (1906 – 1984)
Some of this could be applied to the UN particularly the fourth verse.
James Bull
I never read poetry in the comments, except for that!
Thanks!
The Guardian was actually founded in Manchester 1821 by John Edward Taylor. It was called the Manchester Guardian and replaced the radical Liberal Manchester Observer.
It has always been a politically motivated paper rather than a simple news device. It happily identifies itself with Liberal Socialism. ( which are words that don’t mean the same in the UK political arena as they would mean in the US )
“It has always been a politically motivated paper rather than a simple news device.”
The fact is that MOST ‘newspapers’ were politically motivated in the past. The only thing that changed is that they used to advertise what they were. Now, they CLAIM to be ‘objective’.
“Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough……..”
Sorry James, should have scrolled further and spotted you’d already done that one.
I thought it was Milton Keynes with all those roundabouts. Or Goole, the Humber being the a–ehole of the world and Goole halfway up it.
Someone with time on their hands once examined every on-land 2km Ordnace Survey map grid square, and the nearest thing to a blank square was near Goole – from memory (this was 15-odd years ago) the only feature worth mapping in 4 square kms was a power line which just clipped a corner. It wasn’t a good advert for the attractions of Goole…
And George Orwell found it at the BBC..
“the UN has launched a climate propaganda campaign..”
I believe that news is few decades old…
However, no one could have planned it better if they tried. Without provocation, all the most useless people on the planet decided as one to stake their permanent reputations on a provably false pseudo-scientific hypothesis. The WMO, UNEP, IPCC, (in fact the entire UN), and every activist, journalist and politician of the Left is now permanently discredited. Forever. It’s beyond delicious…we didn’t even need to build a “B” ark 😉
Great insight but unfortunately they’re still here, employed and not on the ark. They also have memory…issues when it comes to recalling their own fkups.
Is this the UN’s version of “Voicemails from the Future”? We all remember that lovely waste of our money don’t we…
http://www.wired.com/2014/02/futurecoast-climate-change/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/05/26/5-7-million-nsf-grant-to-columbia-university-for-climate-voice-mails-from-the-future/
Serve the picture right back as a summer snowfall instead of the CGI water…
This may open the eyes of even more of the public to the Great Climate Change Scam and may prove to be the final straw which breaks the IPCC’s back.
In the UK there is ever-growing opposition to the unelected and unaccountable EU which dictates our laws and now holds sovereignty over us. There is a huge backlash to that and I believe that people are beginning to realise that the UN IPCC is acting in the same unelected, unaccountable and anti-democratic way in furtherance of its own political agenda. This advertising, sorry I meant Propaganda, campaign is likely to increase public awareness of that.
Possibly. The trouble is though that our current Dear Leader (David “the greenest government ever” Cameron) and our Dear Leader in waiting (Ed “Climate Change Act” Milliband) are constantly falling over themselves in a bid to outdo each other to demonstrate their fanatical support for the CAGW scam. Things are going to get much worse before they get any better.
Is it still true that UN employees pay no income taxes?
It appears that UN staff need to pay US taxes and are then reimbursed for that by the UN: http://www.un.org/depts/oppba/accounts/tax/index.htm
The UN has been predicting “hell on earth” for a long, long time now. The only talisman to prevent this “hell on earth” is complete obedience to them. Imagine that.
All indications are that the climate is fluctuating within its historic, natural boundaries but the UN wants power, control, and your money. I read the “Chicken Little” story as a very young boy decades ago. Little has changed. They truly think that CO2 is making the sky fall.
Is The Guardian is a “major newspaper” any more? To be a newspaper you have to print news and to be a major one you have to have a large circulation. I’m not sure The Guardian fits either of these criteria nowadays.
Better?
“A public sector job sheet that fills the empty spaces with deluded nonsense”?
Better still?
It certainly cannot spell, good old Grauniad.
Hence the garbled website address, which is:
http://www.grauniad.co.uk
Ralph
The Guardian’s circulation is in a death spiral. It manages to survive due to public sector ads and purchases from local left wing councils and the BBC. 😉
Actually, looking at that link, they’re all in a “death spiral”, apart from the handful of big-circulation popular papers (which don’t worry much about news anyhow). Perhaps we should reflect on that before complaining too loudly about the quality of modern “journalism” – there’s nowhere left for ’em to practice.these days except in public.
Hmm, but the UN has forecast the population of the world will be 9 billion by 2050 so they must be expecting benign weather for the world to be feeding that many.
Maybe they’re expecting the weather to get so much worse that people will have a lot more time on their hands …
The UN makes 3 forecasts (spreadsheets), High, Medium and Low Fertility. Only the latter has ever been close. It projects 8.5 bn by 2045, declining to under 7 bn by 2100. Unless you count the androids needed to do all the scut work.
BTW, even the UN predicts Bangladesh will have a tech and quality of life level equivalent to present-day UK by then.
Konrad,
I always enjoy your take on things, whether I agree or not. In this case I agree completely:
Without provocation, all the most useless people on the planet decided as one to stake their permanent reputations on a provably false pseudo-scientific hypothesis.
They did it for a temporary advantage, like grant money, or getting their names on a pal reviewed paper, or to be invited on a holiday jaunt to Bali.
But the internet never forgets, and when the hoax collapses, they will always be remembered for perpetuating what can only be labeled a scam on the taxpaying public.
2050 – the day global alarmism collapsed. Now that is a dead cert prediction.
I doubt we’ll have to wait that long. I’ll be surprised if it hasn’t been largely deflated by the end of this decade.
They are working very hard to get the Internet to forget.
Regrettably, the US has ceded control of the ICANN to the ITU, a branch of the UN, effective next year. Guess how many inconvenient websites (such as WUWT) will suddenly no longer be listed on any DNS.
Surely we will have ceased to use television presenters by 2050.
The UN are above any ‘Truth in advertising’ standards as well.
We’ve lost our fear of hellfire, but put climate change in its place
By Boris Johnson
12:01AM GMT 02 Feb 2006
“Billions will die,” says Lovelock, who tells us that he is not normally a gloomy type. Human civilisation will be reduced to a “broken rabble ruled by brutal warlords”, and the plague-ridden remainder of the species will flee the cracked and broken earth to the Arctic, the last temperate spot, where a few breeding couples will survive
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3622794/Weve-lost-our-fear-of-hellfire-but-put-climate-change-in-its-place.html
I’ll look forward to the pictures of the sunny beaches in Antarctica :: ))
Where the progeny of a few “breeding pairs” of Scientism-ists may survive 🙂 /sarc
http://judithcurry.com/2014/06/01/global-warming-versus-climate-change/#comment-580680
But it sure made some great “Mad Max” SciFi movies didn’t it?
Lovelock at least admitted he was wrong – http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/04/23/breaking-james-lovelock-back-down-on-climate-alarm/
@Eric Worrall
Lovelock is an astute propagandist and CYA artist. In so called admitting he was wrong he coopts a “we were wrong”. This itself is wrong because there were plenty of stalwarts who were never fooled by his BS in the first place.
The most dangerous characters are not the low level twits like the sKs crowd for example. But the astute politico-religious operators, who actively mislead the multitudes, but somehow manage to step aside from the front of the fan when you know what is going to hit.
According to Wikipedia “In March 2013, its average daily circulation had fallen to 193,586” and falling fast.
This is understandable since it no longer has any credible reporting, Given that the Beano comic has a circulation of 128,417, perhaps we should refer to the Guardian as a minor Green comic.
The Beano is a very good and respected publication which has unfortunately had to adapt to the new PC world, Dennis the Menace is not allowed to get the slipper or the cane for his misdeeds nor is he allowed to get up to as much as he used to, no catapults, no stink bombs and many other things.
A friend of ours gave us the copy published on our wedding day as part of his gift to us, we still have it!
James Bull
It appears as well as being a joke as a peace keeper the UN is failing in all it’s other endeavors.
This organisation has outlived any sense of usefulness -whata crock
The U.N. is a rest home for ex-politicians.It worked for Julia Gillard and Tony Blair.
Even using IPCC’s own estimates, by 2050 the temperature would be only 0.5C warmer than today. That is the same difference as we experienced since 1980. I can’t tell any difference in weather conditions since then at all, except that winter snow conditions in the Alps seem to have got better !
Clive
I think we need a joint expedition to the Alps to scientifically test the snow conditions during the coming skiing season. Perhaps we ought to include North America just to ensure we do a thorough job?
Can you arrange the finance for this serious piece of vital research?
tonyb
Interesting how Bulgaria’s record High of 113 degF is still shown as in 1916 . By ‘Still’ I mean it has not been ‘normalised’, ‘adjusted’ or ‘homogenised’ by scientivists to a far lower temperature …..
Since the PDO already entered its 30-yr cool cycle in 2005 and the AMO starts its 30-yr cool cycle around 2020~24, we can expect falling global temps for at least the next 20~30 years.
Moreover, the Sun seems to be entering a less active cycle with a growing probability of a possible Grand Solar Minimum cycle occurring. If a GSM does occur, global temp trends could possibly fall for the next 80 years.
Once the PDO renters its 30-yr warming period around 2035 and the AMO restarts its warm cycle around 2050~54, I think people will gladly welcome warmer temperatures in 2050….
What’s funny is that IPCC’s AR5 report released last year openly admitted that global severe weather trends have remained unchanged for the past 50~100 years (hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, tornadoes, droughts, floods, etc.) and yet this UN propaganda ad shows these weather phenomenon getting worse and worse….. Hmmmm…
Anthony is right. This UN propaganda just shows increased desperation. The CAGW hypothesis is collapsing with each passing year and this is their final attempt to keep the myth alive prior to the 2015 Paris Climate summit…
Samurai,
May I further add that the folks at the IPCC, CRU etc are fully aware of PDO, AMO etc. and know what this means. This is why they keep saying “WE MUST ACT NOW!” Of course.
If the following correct?
The IPCC was established in 1988.
The Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO) was identified in 1994.
The Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO) was identified in 1997.
Correction
“IS the following correct?”
Those dates are substantially correct. The dates for the papers you cite are of course right. Informally the oscillations were known a year or two before the formal publication dates.
But Hansen’s alarmism predates those papers by a decade or more.
Any chance this U.N. broadside is being made in support of the Obama administration’s stated, goofy strategy of trying to make “climate change” a major issue in the November U.S. elections? That political strategy is being promoted by one of California’s Big-Buck-Air-Heads and supported with $50 million in matching funds from his very deep pockets. The boy is “just plain eat up with the AGW gospel”!
I cannot remember which Scifi author wrote it but I read a story years ago of how the UN was in a flying city from which it sent it’s orders to the lesser beings below.
The main character had come to realise that it was now so corrupt and self serving that it had to go but there were no armies to do the job but the UN’s own. The city had grown bigger and bigger as more departments were added but the lift engines had not been increased. Our hero charged with organising a big celebration for the city arranged for the UN army’s flying solders to carry banners and all land on the city at one time.
The effect of this added weight was to overload the lift engines and bring the whole lot down thus freeing the people of earth to live free.
Sounds like a good idea to me, bringing down the UN.
Ideas anyone?
James Bull
it will soon collapse under the weight of it’s own hubris
James, it’s the only idea. The whole superstructure is UNnecessary.
That would be “Shag Guido G” by Isaac Asimov. The whole story was written for a punchline. The city name was “Atlantis” and the flying service were the “Waves”. Punchline – Once again Atlantis was sunk under the waves. When critics said – “You just wrote a ‘shaggy dog’ story” he replied, well yes, just look at the title – Shag gui Dog.
That should alctually be “Shah Guido G”
Interesting play on words. Swift’s Laputa Episode was probably nothing more than a shaggy dog, but perhaps more relevant: a satirical floating island with a funny name, populated by pseudoscientists mocking the Royal Society with their heads up their… er, in the clouds, burdened by their heavy thoughts and fears that their sun would soon go out, as proven in their astrological predictions; men who take their measure of nearby objects with sextants and quadrants and hence live in badly-designed houses, wearing ill-fitting clothing, who console themselves listening to the music of the spheres. The whole construct is reminiscent of the IPCC and its assembled pack of dog-sha**ers.
I, for one, welcome our new UN overlords… not.
Anyhow, these guys are amateurs. If I must “Act NOW!” then I expect a bonus set of Ginsu knives at the barest minimum.
I notice from the list of countries where the propaganda will be broadcast that the UK and Australia are omitted. Australia – obviously – since we have for the most part got beyond accepting this rubbish, and perhaps it was too much for the BBC to stomach. The ITA would not permit such guff.
The “Guardian” when it was the “Manchester Guardian” was a very reputable and Liberal (in the true sense of the word) newspaper. After it moved to London, and dropped “Manchester” it went left and has now nearly fallen off the planet. So it has a greater circulation than the “Beano”. What about the “Dandy”, “Wizard”, “Rover”? I believe the “Eagle” fell some years ago. Ah, times past when such were eagerly exchaged at school, one for one, or one a penny if you didn’t have a swop! Perhaps the “Guardian” now sells for a penny?
James Bull, thank you for Sir John Betjeman’s poem – a nearly forgotten poet, but vastly better than those ‘persons’ who turn out non-rhyming, non-scanning, non-sensical tosh today. [Don’t forget the honorific!]
Fine. But why not 2016, or 2018, or 2020, you know, something like the previous predictions of doom here and now. The year 2050 doesn’t do it for me. If far future is the only option, I would very much prefer weather predictions for the year 3000 (this millennium is already a drag).
I couldn’t do it. Tried to watch an episode of the documentary ‘Frozen Planet’ and after 30 minutes of listening to David Attenborough pump out a pure load of warmist horse crap I changed the channel. I was about to start yelling at the Television.
The same happened last Sunday whilst my wife and I sat down to watch BBC’s ‘Food and Drink’ programme. When it came to the weekly wine recommendation slot, Kate Goodman said “England has never been able to produce red wines, but now with the impact of climate change, we could be producing excellent red wine in future years to come, who knows we could have vineyards as far north as Newcastle”. We switched channels immediately.
I completely understand why you would do that, but I’d point out that whether it was her intention or not, she’s actually talking about (and seems to be framing it as) one of the many beneficial effects of a warming planet.
Regime needs NYT / Guardian / Spiegel ; their propaganda axis. Circulation does not matter. They will be kept on life support. They are QUANGOs.
I see a lot of removed comments below the article on their web site and only very few comments from people that disagree….Can there be a connection?
Snap. I was just going to comment about the HEAVY DELETIONS of comments (especially top of each new inline thread). From my experience there such deleted comment usually got a LOT of votes and pour scorn on their fantasies.
The Grauniad is famous for deleting any comments which do not agree with editorial policy. Editorial policy is in favour of freedom of speech, of course.