Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The BBC has admitted their embarrassment at having to fly a reporter to see climate brat Greta Thunberg, because they didn’t have time to travel by boat or train.
BBC put presenter on a plane to interview Greta Thunberg
PA Media
Sun 29 Dec 2019 10.38 AEDTSarah Sands, editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, admits it ‘felt awkward’
Putting a presenter on a flight to Sweden to meet climate activist Greta Thunberg “felt awkward”, the editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme has admitted.
The 16-year-old campaigner, who was a guest editor on a special edition of the show, avoids air travel because of its environmental impact.
The BBC sent presenter Mishal Husain on a return flight to Stockholm to interview her.
Programme editor Sarah Sands told the Sunday Times: “We did discuss that among ourselves. It felt awkward but we did not have the time for trains or boats.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/28/bbc-put-presenter-on-a-plane-to-interview-greta-thunberg
I don’t understand why the BBC feels so uncomfortable. Extinction Rebellion tells us it is OK for celebrities to fly, because they are trapped by the system. And Greta flew at least four boat crew across the Atlantic to help sail her non-recyclable plastic boat, to avoid a single transatlantic flight for herself.
So plenty of climate hypocrisy all around. I doubt the BBC’s climate hypocrisy really stands out from everyone elses.
Ooooh !
The times they are a changing.
Twas only a few months ago I tell you of my anagram GREEN THUG BRAT and the analysis I made of Greta’s behaviours which suggests she is either mentally disturbed or a deliberate liar.
And several of you on here criticised me.
Now the hordes weigh in with calling her a brat, etc. No crticism too.
How very gratifying that so many of you are finally opening your eyes.
Can I call her the spawn of the devil and wish her to burn in hell for all eternity now or do I have to wait until April ?
Please send me the schedule on where WUWT Overton window is heading as it’s difficult to predict now.
Its just a back-handed way of drawing attention to the belief some have that carbon dioxide is bad and we humans shouldn’t be putting any into the air and if we have to we should feel guilty. They saying they’re feeling guilty to reinforce the message.
It’s actually good propaganda.
To paraphrase Bruno Kreisky,
I also believe that it’s time to begin the transcript of the History of the once Great Congregation of the Church of “Green Believers”.
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
Regarding
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/russland-wetterschaukel-bestimmt-waldbrand-risiko-in.676.de.html?dram:article_id=467493
I’d say:
Vorhersagen der Waldbrandgefahr werden möglich
Der deutsche Forscher hat schon vor fünfzehn Jahren vermutet, dass die arktische Wetterschaukel das Waldbrandrisiko in Sibirien beeinflusst. Nur war die Datenlage seinerzeit sehr dürftig:
„Es galt damals teilweise ein bisschen als esoterische Idee.“
Heute fühlt sich Balzter bestätigt. Genauso wie Jin-Soo Kim kann er den neuen Studienergebnissen auch etwas Gutes abgewinnen. Ab sofort könne man die Arktische Oszillation heranziehen, „um zu sehen, in welchen Jahren man besonders auf der Hut sein muss und vielleicht auch die Feuerbekämpfung und Feuerkontrolle intensivieren muss.“
Die ist sehr real und ergibt sich aus
2 x 11,3 [ Jahre ] Sonnenflecken-Periozidität / ( 6 + 1 ) [ Jahre ] El Niño, La Niña Abfolgen ~ 2+ [ Jahre ] quasi biennial oscillation.
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Forest fire risk predictions are possible
The German researcher assumed fifteen years ago that the Arctic weather swing affects the risk of forest fires in Siberia. Only the data situation was very poor at the time:
“Back then it was sometimes considered a bit of an esoteric idea.”
Today Balzter feels confirmed. Just like Jin-Soo Kim, he can also benefit from the new study results. From now on you can use the Arctic Oscillation “to see in which years you have to be particularly careful and maybe also to intensify fire fighting and fire control.”
It is very real and results from
2 x 11,3 [ years ] Sunspots-Periodicity / ( 6 + 1 ) [ years ] El Niño, La Niña Successions ~ 2+ [ years ] quasi biennial oscillation.
Research currently 09.01.2020
Russia
Weather Swing Determines Forest Fire Risk in Siberia
By Volker Mrasek
A helicopter fights the forest fire on Lake Baikal (picture alliance / dpa / Russian Emergency Ministry Press)
A helicopter fights the forest fire on Lake Baikal (picture alliance / dpa / Russian Emergency Ministry Press)
Southeastern Siberia is one of the regions in the world where forests are regularly on fire. Scottish researchers have now been able to show which climate phenomenon favors the emergence of fires. This makes it possible to predict the years in which the risk of forest fires will increase particularly sharply.
In the west there is Lake Baikal with the city of Irkutsk, in the east the island of Sakhalin off the Russian Pacific coast – and in between around 3,000 kilometers of predominantly mountainous landscape. This is how Southeast Siberia can be staked out. Taiga predominates in the region, i.e. boreal coniferous forest. Large parts of it go up in flames every year. South Korean atmospheric researcher Jin-Soo Kim:
“There are two major hot spots for fire activity in higher latitudes in the northern hemisphere. One is in Central Asia, where it is mostly arable land that catch fire. And the second hot spot is Southeast Siberia with its very dense taiga forest. ”
The forest fire season begins in spring
When the bush fires in Australia are finally over, it will be the southeast Siberian taiga that will catch fire next. Because there is not a fire in summer, as one might assume, but already in spring – hardly that the winter snow cover has disappeared:
“The region is under the influence of the East Asian monsoon. There is a lot of rain in summer and there are no strong fires. In spring, on the other hand, it is very dry, and as soon as the snow melts away, leaf litter appears that burns well. That’s why the risk of fire in spring is highest. ”
Kim does research at Edinburgh University in Scotland. Together with some of his colleagues, he is now presenting a new study on Southeast Siberia based on 20 years of satellite observations. There are always particularly fire-filled years when there is a certain weather pattern in the atmosphere – and not only in April or May, when it is burning, but a month or two earlier, at the end of winter.
Climatic chain reaction
If there is a stable high in the Arctic and a low in medium latitudes, warm air flows from the south to Siberia, says Kim. As a result, the snow melts in the area early on. What follows is a kind of chain reaction:
“The sooner the snow melts, the sooner it will reveal dark ground that is warmed by the sun. As a result, the snow melts even faster and has already disappeared in spring. ”
So the fire season in southeast Siberia starts earlier, and forest fires have enough time to spread dramatically before the monsoon rain extinguishes them in summer.
Weather swing between high and low
The high and low pressure areas in the far north are directed by the Arctic Oscillation. This natural weather swing fluctuates between a positive and a negative phase. The positive one with the high above South Siberia is the critical one for the taiga forests. It tends to occur more often, says Heiko Balzter, director of the Center for Landscape and Climate Research at the University of Leicester in England. Data from the past 60 years showed that:
“What you actually know by now is that the increasing extreme droughts and drought that we are seeing now can also lead to more forest fires and catastrophic forest fires. And that it is not said that the forests in Siberia will help us to stabilize the climate in the long term, but that climate change may cause the forests there to lose their climate protection function. ”
Forest fire risk predictions are possible
The German researcher assumed fifteen years ago that the Arctic weather swing affects the risk of forest fires in Siberia. Only the data situation was very poor at the time:
“Back then it was sometimes considered a bit of an esoteric idea.”
Today Balzter feels confirmed. Just like Jin-Soo Kim, he can also benefit from the new study results. From now on you can use the Arctic Oscillation “to see in which years you have to be particularly careful and maybe also to intensify fire fighting and fire control.”
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Regarding
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/russland-wetterschaukel-bestimmt-waldbrand-risiko-in.676.de.html?dram:article_id=467493
I’d say:
Vorhersagen der Waldbrandgefahr werden möglich
Der deutsche Forscher hat schon vor fünfzehn Jahren vermutet, dass die arktische Wetterschaukel das Waldbrandrisiko in Sibirien beeinflusst. Nur war die Datenlage seinerzeit sehr dürftig:
„Es galt damals teilweise ein bisschen als esoterische Idee.“
Heute fühlt sich Balzter bestätigt. Genauso wie Jin-Soo Kim kann er den neuen Studienergebnissen auch etwas Gutes abgewinnen. Ab sofort könne man die Arktische Oszillation heranziehen, „um zu sehen, in welchen Jahren man besonders auf der Hut sein muss und vielleicht auch die Feuerbekämpfung und Feuerkontrolle intensivieren muss.“
Die ist sehr real und ergibt sich aus
2 x 11,3 [ Jahre ] Sonnenflecken-Periozidität / ( 6 + 1 ) [ Jahre ] El Niño, La Niña Abfolgen ~ 2+ [ Jahre ] quasi biennial oscillation.
________________________________________________
Forest fire risk predictions are possible
The German researcher assumed fifteen years ago that the Arctic weather swing affects the risk of forest fires in Siberia. Only the data situation was very poor at the time:
“Back then it was sometimes considered a bit of an esoteric idea.”
Today Balzter feels confirmed. Just like Jin-Soo Kim, he can also benefit from the new study results. From now on you can use the Arctic Oscillation “to see in which years you have to be particularly careful and maybe also to intensify fire fighting and fire control.”
It is very real and results from
2 x 11,3 [ years ] Sunspots-Periodicity / ( 6 + 1 ) [ years ] El Niño, La Niña Successions ~ 2+ [ years ] quasi biennial oscillation.