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.
Perhaps the UN/WMO lifted this particular “brilliant” idea from Oreskes’ excursion into fantasyland as Tony Thomas from down-under recently reminded Quadrant readers:
‘Global warming is going to “wipe out” every Australian man, woman and child, according to Naomi Oreskes, the much-quoted Professor of the History of Science at Harvard.’
Surely she meant ‘wasted’ rather than ‘wipe(d) out’?
Quite possibly. But one thing I’ve noticed, during the 4.5+ years since I stepped onto this particular battlefield, is that precision in postulations has never (well, hardly ever) been a hallmark of Oreskes and others of her ilk/persuasion.
They do tend to have the mantra(s) of the day down pat; but when they stray beyond the simple messages of the party-line, their pontifications and perorations can leave one shaking one’s head and wondering on which planet they might reside. Alas, Oreskes in action is no exception!
moderation has changed at the Guardian — more dissent amongst the acolytes, one of the comments — (sorry about the language below but illustrates my comment):
“Scientists and leaders from business and government met in Canberra in May 2008 to discuss the need for action over climate change. Tim Flannery explains the urgency and suggests a radical solution”.
Tim Flannery: “Just imagine yourself in a world five years from now …”
…None of that happened but guess where he gets his info, yup that’s right, the UNIPCC. What a fucking joke.
I heard that the Guardian was being kept afloat by George Soros…or did I dream that?
As ever with the UN (and IPCC) it’s all about predictions that are set far enough into the future to be well beyond any policies that are rolled out on the back of them. Thus, the policy horse has already long-since bolted after the wrongly-predicted stable door slams shut.
In short, they’re scaring the populace using outright propaganda in order to enact their chosen political aims.
I don’t bother listening to the folks at the UN. Below are a few reasons.
A sure sign of panic. The more they fail the more confident they become. 😉
http://www.energyadvocate.com/gc1.jpg
con statements indeed.
IPCC confidence levels increase as global surface temperature projections diverge from observations.
http://www.energyadvocate.com/gc2.jpg
Given the current state of Baltic and ME politics and despair – a UN weather hell on earth my be a mercy compared to what the REAL future the UN may bring…
Ukraine is at the Black Sea, not at the Baltic Sea.
Americans basically fund the UN. When are they going to stop this anti-American Trojan Horse?
As soon as individual taxpayers get the balls to refuse to pay taxes and to stand up to IRS agents who would then come after them.
You know it’s fantasy when you have a Zambian forecaster reporting the death of a person in Arizona due to drought. Africa has bigger fish to fry.
I never tire of this one:
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is”. (Dr David Viner – Climastrologist).
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html
The “hell on earth” headline brought to mind the Hudson Ford song from the 1970s:
now i dont mean to be a stick in the dirt
the world is changing on the in reverse
and you cant live your life for wot its worth
cos its a hell on earth
the world today in which we all endear
as taken us about a thousand years
to ghost ball all the things we had a right to hear
cos its a hell on earth
burn baby burn when you going to learn
its time to put out the fire so
burn baby burn when you going to learn
the earth is getting dryer
the flames are going higher
my clothes are dirty and the sky is grey
and ive not anything to wash my hair
because all the detergents are on the river bed
and its a hell on earth
taking all your money so i’ll tell you the facts
you join everybody tryin to live with the tax
if you dont get down they try and call you back
because its a hell on earth
chorus
another child is not the thing to obtain
but can the planning get the work again
another mouth to feed is all in vain
because its hell on earth
This could be matched by fantasy lawsuits.
A series of presentations in timeline form, describing the arrest, trial and imprisonment of each of the main players in this sorry saga.
If the Guardian, IPCC, BBC and UN says it is true then I would think the opposite. I am always amused that when we have a spell of warm weather these people slither out from under their rocks and tell us the climate is changing, they never do when we have cold winters, which is why I like cold winters!
Incidentally the BBC were telling us yesterday about a study being done that said that due to intensive production of meat and dairy produce causing emission of greenhouse gases, we should all ration ourselves to 5 eggs and two pieces of red meat a week! You really couldn’t make this up!
Going back to talking about Slough (for our American friends, “Slough” rhymes with “Cow”), during the cold war the Russians calculated that a 100 kiloton atomic bomb dropped in the centre of Slough, would cause £5 worth of damage!
Pure emotional manipulation on their part, directed toward the low-IQ and uninformed. Their fantasy forecasts are based purely on fantasy “science”.
The hoax has always been aimed at the low IQ, and the uninformed, to then become the misinformed. Unfortunately that is the vast majority.
the funny things is, (in the uk at least) the believers tend to be of above average intelligence with decent educations. you ask the man in the street about global warming (the mere mention of climate change will elicit a hearty laugh followed by “that used to be called global warming mate” ) and they will tell you it is a load of rubbish in their opinion.
i have a feeling all these surveys that show between 30% and above belief in agw are carried out in universities and or various ngo/quango facilities,because you will never find that level of belief doing a normal high street survey in the uk .
Coming to a SyFy channel near you soon…..
What this clearly means is they have done the forecasts with the stubborn pause, growing polar ice extents and areas, a dud el Nino and have concluded that this turkey is going to need heavy duty propaganda. They are homing in on a dead certainty from merely highly likely. After that there are no more superlatives to exploit. The phrase “…if we don’t do what we’re told.” is one of those careless remarks by a stressed agenda-driven enterprise that blurts out the real nuts and bolts of their campaign. Remember after climategate and the rise of suppressed dissent the Gang Green at Greenpeace said, menacingly something like: “We know who you are. We know where you live…You be few and we be many.” This real picture of this type of institution came out of the same kind of stress and frustration from the crumbling foundation of their politico-eco plan. It is essentially losing your temper. Man, for all the PR help and courses in effective persuasion that these eroders have taken as a substitute for science and reality, they still have that “no more mister nice guy” style of winning hearts and souls. Thankfully, this is genetic failing of socialist organizations that we can count on and is a signal of the end of their times.
The real shocking part is the total lack of embarrassment on the part of managers and leadership to this low brow fabrication of future news headlines. It speaks to the hollowing out of organizations. Village idiots probably existed in all eras over the past 10,000 years but there was at least some sense of standards to blunt their effects on society in the past. Well, there have certainly been some weak points in societal checks and balance, such as Germany and Russia in the 1920s and 30s.
Snip. Please go away. You are persona non grata here. ~ mod.
There is some irony in the Guardian being described , as it usually is , as a left wing journal, because the actions being taken to avert the perceived threat from global warming would not be acceptable by any true Marxist , amounting as they do to an exploitation of the working classes by the ruling and land owning minority.
The case of the British premier is a case in point: His father- in- law is a owner of considerable land , reputed to earn £1000/day from the wind farms erected thereon. His daughter can expect to inherit a considerable fortune when he dies, to be shared with her husband if they are still together. The PM has enthusiastically encouraged the building of wind turbines everywhere , and dismissed ministers who did not wholly agree with his policy.
The wind turbines are effectively paid for by taxes or excessively high utility charges , and thereby reduce the amount of money that could be used in ways that did not enrich just a minority.
A classic example of exploitation of the majority by a minority that has the power to do so and I cannot understand why Marxists everywhere do not unite against it – if they are to be true to their philosophy
The ones that are true to the old-time philosophy are the communists at “Spiked!”
I cannot understand why green socialists who see all industry as evil exploiters are so readily fooled by the AGW capitalist plot. Truly, literally, morons.
The videos will be promoted on Twitter with the #weather2050 and #climate2014 hashtags.
So these should be the ones we use to promote stories on WUWT about the real current and future state of the climate, with our Twithead accounts, expecially the #climate2014.
Well if anyone here doesn’t have a Twithead account, here’s a good reason to get one. Tweet The Truth!
Is this part of an orchestrated campaign?
A truly pathetic ;Save the Polar Bear, add from the WWF has just begun appearing on Satellite TV here in Canada.
The usual suspects such as the weather channel and CBC are regurgitating same old nonsense, everything is “extreme weather” now.
Desperate times call for desperate measures?
When caught lying, double down and tell ever more blatant and obvious tales?
Perhaps another nation could be convinced to host the UN.
North Korea seems closest to their own idea of perfection.
Nothing says “the debate is settled” better than a propaganda effort. If the debate is NOT settled, then we should expect Al Gore to launch a forum-spamming group and call it “Truth Drop”, or maybe the GWPF could start a new propaganda wing.
Oh wait….
Does AG do fireside chats?
They have retreated to the future. No warming now, but in thirty-five years who knows? People very much want to believe they can trust the pronouncements of their government, the national news media and the UN. Questioning these sources will cause cognitive dissonance. Most people have neither the time nor inclination to deconstruct their world view and build a new one. Just this past Sunday, filling the entire local paper’s front page, was the alarmists’ story. How could it not be true? You say they are lying to us? Who are you? You are nobody.
Impressed with your new format. As I’ve said in the past, apart from the trendy socialists (teachers, BBC employees and left wing intellectuals), no one really buys the Grauniad. They give loads away to keep up a semblance of circulation, but it’s really just a chip wrapper, or fire starter.
My take on this foolishness appears here: The WMO’s Macabre Climate Fiction
Environmental activists – from Rachel Carson to David Suzuki to Maurice Strong – have long played the “let’s gaze into our eco-apocalypse crystal ball and scare the kiddies” game. That the World Meteorological Organization is stooping so low is distressing.
Love the awesome new site design, Anthony!
Love this bit
“She has heard that Mexico City was once a beautiful place to live. There was plenty of sun once…” Yes, back when the Aztecs used to feed human hearts to the Sun God. Since then humanity has gone down hill. 😉
Yes, but to be fair, Donna … The WMO’s head honcho, Michel Jarraud, did give us some warning of the organization’s impending descent into horror-flick fantasyland back in the spring, during the course of PR efforts surrounding the release of Working Group II’s contributions to AR5.
Both WGII Co-Chair, Chris Field and WMO’s Jarraud seemed quite determined to toss the pause-ball into the dustbin. Here’s Field:
And a few frames later, Jarraud chimed in with:
[See NEWSFLASH: “Climate change is not stopping”, says WMO chief for details of this and other Jarraudian messages of impending doom]