Hilarious video of Extinction Rebellion’s Zion Lights struggling to answer basic questions about the science behind ER’s claims.
Andrew Neil rips apart Extinction Rebellion claim that ‘billions of children will die’
ANDREW NEIL dismantled the argument made by an Extinction Rebellion member that “billions of children will die in the next 10 to 20 years” because of climate change.
By NAOMI ADEDOKUN
PUBLISHED: 22:29, Wed, Oct 9, 2019 | UPDATED: 22:34, Wed, Oct 9, 2019Zion Lights, a spokeswoman for Extinction Rebellion, appeared on Andrew Neil’s BBC show to defend her organisation’s actions. The climate action group have shut down parts of central London as part of a planned two-week protest. Many have criticised the demonstrations for their disruption and “alarmist language”.
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Read more: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1188717/extinction-rebellion-andrew-neil-climate-change-protest-london-emergency-bbc
Facebook video of the exchange (click the link above to see the video, if you can’t see the Facebook video);
It’s refreshing to see a BBC presenter challenging climate claims, because it doesn’t happen very often these days. But Extinction Rebellion’s outrageous claim that a few feet of sea level rise will lead to billions of deaths deserves ridicule, even from people who think climate change is a problem.
Miss Light is so deluded she can’t distinguish between light and darkness.
Andrew Neil is the last holdout at the BBC, this single interview is completely a-typical of BBC output and was completely undone by Question Time given over to XR ‘unchallenged’ shortly afterwards.
Neil is actually very well informed on the science and politics of CC but he has to constantly pull his punches, far from shredding the XR talking head, he has to walk a fine line in order to stay on the air and not be sent on a BBC CC re-education course!
In the days when I watched The Daily Politics on the BBC it was very noticeable that Neil was not involved in any story about “Climate Change”, either he was forbidden by the management, or he excused himself. That is the problem with “right-wing” people … too much integrity, they play fair, unlike lefties, who are incapable of hiding their own views.
Never underestimate the power of serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. I’m certain this blithering idiot obsessively looks at her iPhone every 20 seconds, going from Twitter to Facebook to Instagram and back, over and over, like a lab rat in a Skinner box, pushing a lever to deliver a tiny jolt to the pleasure center of its tiny rat brain. This is her Big Moment. She got all dressed up. She’s on TV. All the lights, cameras, and attention are focused on her. It’s all she ever wanted and dreamed about. Maybe now she will be happy. But no, it’s over. The lights are off. Cameras, too. Alone now in her apartment, again. Planning, planning for that next jolt of serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine.
As a Brit I can’t recommend Andrew Neil too much as an interviewer.
The 3 questions I would like to be asked to any ER member are
1. What caused the 130 metre rise in sea level after the last ice age
2. Did they know of this rise.
3. Could Modern Man have been able to stop any of the rise.
alankwelch,
Andrew Neil is a skilled interviewer as he demonstrated in this interview.
Neil did not discredit Ms Zion Lite. He invited her to discredit herself on the BBC, and she did.
This was clever because the BBC has a policy of promoting the global warming scare and Neil’s interview of Zion Lite successfully exposed Extinction Rebellion (XR) without opposing XR.
Richard
Andrew Neil based his argument with Zion Lights around the contents of IPCC reports. It does not mean the IPCC reports are correct or that he agreed with them. But if you want to beat a zealot at her own game then use her bible against her whether you believe in its contents or not.
James Delingpole at Breitbart, who is no slouch, admittted recently that he had been taken to the cleaners by Andrew Neil in an interview because he had gone into the interview ill-prepared.
Every time I see an interview by a presenter on the subject of climate change I am appalled how little research the presenter has carried out on the subject. Each presenter comes across as lazy and disinterested. Andrew Neil is not one of them.
7 to 9 inches of sea level rise (SLR) per century is not half a meter if my calculations are correct.
That’s the average rate of SLR over the last century, and the SLR is not accelerating according to the DATA that I have seen….
9 inches is more like 0.23 meters. And 7 inches is more like 0.18 meters !!!
That’s no where near half a meter !
Just sayin…
– JPP
Saw this comment beneath the YouTube video :
“Sea levels in Sweden and the west of the UK are falling, the Maldives are doing fine, this sort of demagoguery is truly disgraceful, fear mongering at its worst. As Dr Patrick Moore, Green Peace founder, has said we need more CO2 not less, it’s greening the planet. 24% of the northern hemisphere is permafrost, the world is too cold.”
20 inches of SLR in the next 80 years is way off the mark (average)…
I’m sure she doesn’t know of Dr Patrick Moore or ever seen any of his videos. She has not looked at the actual observed data obviously, and if she did she wouldn’t understand it – (the data), just judging from her comments. – JPP
She quotes Hansen and Mann which is laughable- Mann particularly since he has been exposed as a total fraud, which makes her at best an idiot. Then she talks about putting a man on the moon which- A) used lots and lots of evil fossil fuels, and B) uses science which ER seem to think is ‘false solutions’, so she even contradicts herself. Still, at least the ER troglodytes in our village can teach us how to make our own cleaning products, so all’s well really…..
I can’t get over the picture. This is what purports to have the moral gravitas and the answers for running the world. The flea wagging the tail wagging the dog.
Funny how the deniers used to be called anti-science. Now the deniers are saying “look at the IPCC!” to the activists. The tables are turning.
How is the 99% consensus even still a thing?
UN to run out of money by end of month, secretary general warns.
The shortage of cash has meant vital staff vacancies have been left empty, travel limited to all but essential journeys and meetings deferred amid attempts to shore up the dwindling reserves. Staff have been warned there may be a default on salaries in November.
I don’t expect they will cancel the UN Climate Action Summit for 2019.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/un-running-out-money-finance-guterres-secretary-general-united-nations-a9148601.html
Perhaps not coincidentally, Extinction Rebellion went after the BBC today.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/extinction-rebellion-protesters-call-on-bbc-to-tell-climate-truth
Eat it up with a spoon gents !
What I suspect we’re seeing with Greta, and the XR idiots, is a rather subtle way of putting the brakes on Climate Hysteria. And whilst the child prophet and Ms Lights probably see the hordes of middle class followers they attract as being ‘Useful Idiots’ its entirely likely that they themselves are the ones playing the part.
I’d suggest that its entirely apparent to governments the world over that the so called climate emergency is turning out to be something of a Turnip Ghost, but the taxes raised on its back over the last 2 decades or so would be sorely missed. So the whole shebang needs to be deflated slowly pending the arrival of the next ‘Emergency’. Remember the the old chestnut from the world of economics, that recovery from collapse takes the same amount of time that the cause of collapse took to form. Following that logic would give governments 30 years to wind down the climate bus, whilst having another ready in the garage to roll out in say 20 years.
The direction of travel with the way the XR malarkey is being handled probably means that they will be lured into revealing that their plans are just a softer version of the vision held by Pol Pot, at which point it suddenly implodes 🙂
I have been watching and remain an admirer of Neil’s take-no-prisoners methodoloy of political interviewing over the last twenty five years. However, as far as what Neil referred as the “climate change problem” at the beginning of the interview with the ER guest is concerned, Neil has changed considerably – from not believing the notion of human-induced global warming twenty five – to now believing the climate catastrophism that is relentless across British and Irish media. This has been apparent over the last two or three years. Even a paragon of objectivity like Neil seems oblivious that the emergence of St Greta and totalitarian anti-capitalist outfits like Extinction Rabble is moving the goalposts away from questioning the so-called science of climate to chasing unicorns concerning how much or little time we have left to solve “climate change problem”.
Not to mention simple charts….
Someone needs to make a futuristic movie where alarmists really do manage to get elected, disarm the public, and then proceed to kill billions of people. While it gets colder.
No movie, but Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Michael Flynn wrote a book called “Fallen Angels” It has the fun stuff we complain about here, ‘watermelons’ who manage to create a dictatorship, complicit and outright stupid media. The kindle is available at Amazon for $5.99, while you can get it DRM free (meaning you can share it with whomever you wish) from Baen.com for $6.99
The BBC still both justify and refuse to stop referring to those who question man made climate change as deniers knowing full well it is readily provable that the only other use is in the context of hard line Nazi extremists who refuse to accept the holocaust was real. in other word an extreme example of can’t fault the case so hit the speaker.
What makes me laugh most about these left wing nutters is that when it comes to climate change they scream, ‘Listen to the science!’, yet on almost every subject- such as gender identity- they completely ignore scientific fact…..