Guest essay by Eric Worrall
More frantic efforts by climate alarmists to leverage public concern about the Chinese Coronavirus.
Professor Sees Climate Mayhem Lurking Behind Covid-19 Outbreak
By Saijel Kishan 28 March 2020, 22:00 GMT+10
Jem Bendell doesn’t shy away from doom and gloom.
The lockdowns and social distancing caused by the coronavirus are giving humanity a taste of the disruptions to daily life that will be caused by climate change, he said.
“In modern industrial societies, the fallout from Covid-19 feels like a dress rehearsal for the kind of collapse that climate change threatens,” Bendell said in an interview. “This crisis reveals how fragile our current way of life has become.”
The University of Cumbria social-science professor is well-known among environmentalists for his theory of “deep adaption.” In a 2018 paper, Bendell said that time was up for gradual measures to combat global warming. Without an abrupt transformation of society, changes in the planet’s climate would bring starvation, destruction, migration, disease and war — the collapse of civilization — within a decade.
Now he’s focusing his scalding assessments on the parallels and links he sees between climate change and the pandemic.
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Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-28/professor-sees-climate-mayhem-lurking-behind-covid-19-outbreak
Professor Bendell has a problem. He seems young enough that he will still be around to face the music, when his alarmist predictions about the collapse of civilisation fail to manifest.
Most climate scientists play it safe, by making predictions about events which will not occur until long after they are dead, but Professor Bendell thinks all the climate collapse will happen in the next decade.
Having said that, perhaps Bendell’s target audience and employers won’t care.
Consider one of our old favourites, Cambridge Professor “Whacky” Wadhams; Despite the utter failure of Professor Wadhams absurd 2016 ice free Arctic prediction, he is still listed as head of the Cambridge Polar Ocean Physics Group.
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Professor of Sustainability Leadership
Oh, please, Lord help us……
Are his disciples called students, or apprentices?
Familiars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familiar
Apostles?
Groupies
Jemmers.
From the article: “In modern industrial societies, the fallout from Covid-19 feels like a dress rehearsal for the kind of collapse that climate change threatens,”
The only threat there is from human-caused climate change is implementation of something like the Green New Deal which *will* cause the collapse of our economies.
CO2 won’t cause humans a problem. What will cause a problem is if delusional humans who think CO2 is a problem, get themselves in charge of policy making.
The real danger is delusional alarmists implementing delusional CO2 policies, not the CO2 itself.
+10 🙂
“Professor Sees Climate Mayhem Lurking Behind Covid-19 Outbreak”
Professor Emeritus sees Ozone Mayhem lurking behind Climate Mayhem and the joy of selling climate with Covid lurking behind it all.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2018/08/07/history-of-the-ozone-depletion-scare/
Massachusetts General Hospital claims Ma virus issues caused by folks from…Maine
https://www.google.com/amp/s/boston.cbslocal.com/2020/03/28/mgh-surgeon-coronavirus-in-massachusetts-future/amp/
I can assure you even if it’s summer and the RedSox are playing at Fenway not a Mainer will be there…Oh and how credible is the good doctor?
http://www.tribune242.com/news/2019/feb/22/myron-rolle-denies-harassment-claims/
He has a PhD from Bristol University that doesn’t even read sciency
Further chapter titles:
Bananarama: Background to the Banana Trade and Civil Society in Costa Rica
What a Banana Palaver! Forcing Change in Business through an International Banana Campaign
Banana Drama: Promoting Change in Business through the Ethical Trading Initiative
Banana Nonstarter? Facilitating Change in Business through Social Accountability International
Banana Garter: Facilitating Change in Business through the Better Banana Project
Clearly so unemployable they had to give him the title of Professor of Sustainability Leadership
The guy is clearly bananas.
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that his middle name is Foster.
Even if the world was to warm up a degree or so (it isn’t) how exactly does that lead to a collapse of civilization?
Lack of testing of quarantined people puts their health at risk, because even the asymptomatic course of the disease can cause lung changes that can be seen when scanning.
On May 22, 1918, the front page of the Spanish newspaper ABC reported on a new illness, described as similar to the flu but with milder symptoms. That same month, Madrid held its annual San Isidro festivities, providing the perfect conditions for mass contagion. The new flu was lightheartedly christened Soldado de Npoles (Soldier of Naples) after a song in a popular operetta of the day which, like the new disease, was extremely catchy.
Similarly, there was little that doctors could do apart from helping the sick to survive, although the techniques were much more rudimentary. Several experimental vaccines were tested without success, and some doctors even tried bloodletting despite the fact that such a practice had been discredited for a century. The Spanish began to wonder if doctors and scientists had any clue about what was going on, writes Trilla.
https://english.elpais.com/society/2020-03-27/the-surprising-similarities-between-the-spanish-flu-and-the-coronavirus-pandemic.html
Note the date – May 22!
One more complete idiot spouting nonsense.
The lockdowns and social distancing caused by the coronavirus are giving humanity a taste of the disruptions to daily life that will be caused by the proposed “solutions” to purported climate change.
We need to watch ‘what’s up’ with all that money going out now.
This is John Titus’ latest…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FAbXuJ2tK90
Governors and Heads of Supervision announce deferral of Basel III implementation to increase operational capacity of banks and supervisors to respond to Covid-19
https://www.bis.org/press/p200327.htm
Climate mayhem? I thought ZERO manufacturing and ZERO people are the goal.
Officially, Chinese authorities have reported over 2,000 deaths in Wuhan, where the virus first emerged. However, experts and locals have long been skeptical of China’s official figures, in light of Beijing’s initial coverup of the outbreak; Wuhan’s overstretched health system, which meant that many people had been unable to receive testing and treatment; and several changes to the way infections were officially counted.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/thousands-of-ash-urns-at-wuhan-funeral-home-fuel-further-skepticism-of-chinas-virus-death-toll_3288573.html
Whilst the professor thinks this is an insight into how climate change looks he is partly right; this is how the world will be if climate change policies are implemented, but without a realisable and affordable electricity system. Imagine being stuck at home without electricity.
Amen, Zigmaster. However, this is what they want. Another way to shift power and property from the people to government by a few people.
I am glad Trump did not follow up on the possible quarantining of New Yorkers, etc… Though they were coming in droves to our state, Vermont, to escape from New York (Snake Plisken lives on), I would rather they escape the “plague” where they’d have a better chance of catching it than be kept locked in a “biological warzone” If the communist governments of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut had been serious about how bad it is and how they care about their subjects (ooops, I meant citizens), then they would have urged them to leave the confines of a metropolitan area festering with a rampant disease that was going to kill by the thousands. Let them escape to the country for fresh air and more space. Let them come to Vermont. We welcome them.
I will welcome them when I can again find TP in the stores here.
They are like a plague of locusts. Totally in it for themselves, very greedy and uncaring.
We don’t live like that here, we do do not respond well to finger snapping.
I do not want anyone around here who brings the plague with them, got that?
Who in their right mind would want that kind of situation, are you nutz?
Just asking.
Unfortunately for Professor Jem Bendell most people can easily spot the difference between a real problem like Covid-19 and a fake scare like Climate Alarmism. Unfortunately, however, some of the same alarmist responses are being applied to the Covid-19 outbreak causing the same economic damages as Climate Alarmism will.
In a 2004 study of the coronavirus that causes sars, a cousin of the one that causes covid-19, a team from Hong Kong found that a higher initial load of virus—measured in the nasopharynx, the cavity in the deep part of your throat above your palate—was correlated with a more severe respiratory illness. Nearly all the sars patients who came in initially with a low or undetectable level of virus in the nasopharynx were found at a two-month follow-up to be still alive. Those with the highest level had a twenty- to forty-per-cent mortality rate. This pattern held true regardless of a patient’s age, underlying conditions, and the like. Research into another acute viral illness, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, reached a similar conclusion: the more virus you had at the start, the more likely you were to die.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/how-does-the-coronavirus-behave-inside-a-patient#intcid=recommendations_the-new-yorker-right-rail-popular_76a391d4-37a2-4c91-930e-6ff215e3e29e_popular4-1
More fuel for the fire that increased ACE2 expression increases risk of severe respiratory illness. I wonder if anyone has done a study on ACE2 expression in the respiratory systems of people living in cities with heavy air pollution. The air in all 3 infection hotspots – Wuhan, China; Lombardy, Italy; Qom, Iran – is heavily polluted.
“The lockdowns and social distancing caused by the coronavirus are giving humanity a taste of the disruptions to daily life that will be caused by climate change,” he said.
More likely it is a taste of disruptions that will be caused by the Green new Deal: Shut down cars, trucks, airplanes, fossil fuel heating and cooking.
I remember professor turkey from the ship of fools expedition had a strange manner,
this guy also has a very strange grin
there is something not quite right about these people
The Chinese cheated from the beginning. The number of deaths in Wuhan certainly exceeds 40,000. If we take into account the decrease in the number of mobile subscribers in Wuhan, the number of deaths may be even several times higher.
Dress rehearsal?? That’s a lot better than what’s coming in the next few months. By the end of the year, there will be a Nature article that pits climate change as the basis for the COVID19. At the minimum, many papers will claim that climate change makes these outbreaks more severe and last longer.
Its time for those folks to go easy on the weed. Its the other way round than they project. The COVID quarantine gives people a taste of how miserable life will be when energy supply is not assured. People start to learn how essential systems and their functioning for their lives is. And they will understand much better that it’s better to not mess around with the basics of life. Energy is part of that.