Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t fobdangerclose and ralfellis – Philippe Verdier, weather chief at France Télévisions, the country’s state broadcaster, has been suspended for publicly criticising Climate Alarmism.
According to The Telegraph;
Every night, France’s chief weatherman has told the nation how much wind, sun or rain they can expect the following day.
Now Philippe Verdier, a household name for his nightly forecasts on France 2, has been taken off air after a more controversial announcement – criticising the world’s top climate change experts.
Mr Verdier claims in the book Climat Investigation (Climate Investigation) that leading climatologists and political leaders have “taken the world hostage” with misleading data.
In a promotional video, Mr Verdier said: “Every night I address five million French people to talk to you about the wind, the clouds and the sun. And yet there is something important, very important that I haven’t been able to tell you, because it’s neither the time nor the place to do so.”
He added: “We are hostage to a planetary scandal over climate change – a war machine whose aim is to keep us in fear.”
Frankly I’m shocked. Just a few months ago, January this year, in the wake of a horrifying terrorist attack on their offices, France rallied to support Charlie Hebdo’s freedom of expression, their freedom to satirise and speak out on sensitive issues such as religion. France prides herself that no subject is taboo. But apparently offending the Climate Taliban is a step too far – that gets you suspended from your government job.
France’s motto, Liberté, égalité, fraternité – except when you want to talk about climate change.
According to L’Express magazine, unions at France Television called for Mr Verdier to be fired, but that Delphine Ernotte, the broadcaster’s chief executive, initially said he should be allowed to stay “in the name of freedom of expression”.
(Last sentence of the telegraph article…)
Do the French also have an agreement with their Russian friends to ship dissenters off to Siberia?
You can find France 2’s email form on their home site. You can translate your objection to French with Google-Translate, so they cannot pretend not to understand it. I hope a lot of people will avail themselves of this easy route to complaining to France 2 about this disgrace..
Mr. Verdier’s suspension proves once again that the so-called democracies of Western Europe aren’t.
“This is a direct extension of what I say in my book, namely that any contrary views must be eliminated.”
They’re making his point for him. The only way they could have made his point clearer would have been to shoot him in the head on live TV.
Let me again quote official IPCC spokesmen directly – so totally ignored to my surprise:
“Prof. Dr H. Stephen Schneider, lead author in Working Group II of the IPCC (said in 1989): ‘For these reasons we have to announce terrifying scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements with no mention of any doubts whatever which we might have. In order to attract attention, we need dramatic statements leaving no doubt about what is said. Every one of us researchers must decide how far he would want to be honest rather than effective.”
In an interview published in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on 14 November 2010, Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chair of IPCC Working Group III, said “The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War…. one must say clearly that de facto we redistribute the world’s wealth by climate policy…. One has to rid oneself of the illusion that international climate politics have anything to do with environmental concerns.”
….together with this quote from David Archibald’s TWILIGHT OF ABUNDANCE:
“Global warming did serve a couple of useful purposes. The issue has been a litmus test for our political class. Any politician who has stated a belief in global warming is either a cynical opportunist or an easily deluded fool. In neither case should that politician ever be taken seriously again. No excuses can be accepted. “ They will all shortly be on display in Paris.
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More will follow. Common sense will win, you don’t even need ‘science’. Not that scientific skepticism is unnecessary, quite the contrary. Proof is always a good fall back point.
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Reblogged this on 4timesayear's Blog and commented:
Yep, climate change is the sacred cow… “Just a few months ago, January this year, in the wake of a horrifying terrorist attack on their offices, France rallied to support Charlie Hebdo’s freedom of expression, their freedom to satirise and speak out on sensitive issues such as religion. France prides herself that no subject is taboo. But apparently offending the Climate Taliban is a step too far – that gets you suspended from your government job.”
“Je Suis Philippe Verdier
“Henri Guaino a été condamné ce jeudi en appel à 2 000 euros d’amende pour outrage à l’encontre du juge Jean-Michel Gentil”
Judge “of instruction” (= judge-cop, a strange French thing) Jean-Michel Gentil was on a crusade against former (failed) president Sarkozy. Gentil did very strange things, like intentionally confusing the names Bettencourt (Liliane, richest woman in France) and Betancourt (Ingrid, former hostage), claiming the later was a misspelling. His whole case seemed to rest on the memories of the trousers of Nicolas Sarkozy.
Jean-Michel Gentil was heavily criticised in France, but a politician cannot say what many people think.
Jean-Michel Gentil did the whole enquiry then (when the facts were established) decided to “mettre en examen” (examine for wrongdoings) then immediately after dropped the case! Can you imagine that?
In France the judges, with huge powers (not counterbalanced by serious judicial review) and esp. judges of instruction have powers but no responsibilities and can’t be criticized in public.
So much for freedom of speech.
So much for Justice.
It now looks as if he will be sacked
http://tvmag.lefigaro.fr/le-scan-tele/polemiques/2015/10/27/28003-20151027ARTFIG00108-philippe-verdier-monsieur-meteo-de-france-2-en-procedure-de-licenciement.php