Reposted from NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian PRSY
Look who has just crawled out of the woodwork!
Several of the world’s leading scientists plan to launch an independent expert group this week to advise, warn and criticise global policymakers about the climate and nature crises.
The new body has been inspired by Independent Sage – the cluster of British scientists who have held UK ministers and civil servants to account for their lack of transparency and mishandling of the Covid pandemic.
The Climate Crisis Advisory Group, comprising 14 experts from 10 nations and every continent, aims to have more of an international reach and provide the global public with regular analysis about efforts to tackle the global heating and biodiversity crises.
Headed by the former UK chief scientific adviser Sir David King, the new group will issue monthly updates about the state of the global environment at meetings that will be open to the media and the public. These online gatherings will be chaired by the BBC presenter Ade Adepitan.
“We are hoping that by putting expertise directly into the public domain we are reaching into policymakers’ decision processes, and into the financial sector and how they invest in our future,” King told the Observer. “We are not just going to say ‘this is the state of the global climate’, but also what should the global response be from governments and companies … What we do in the next five years will determine the future of humanity for the next millennium.”
The experts – who include Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency and Johan Rockström, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research – also plan to issue statements and respond to journalists’ inquiries on breaking news, such as declarations by the G7, reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, new targets set by national governments, actions taken by major corporations, and geoengineering proposals, such as refreezing the Arctic.
Contrary to the Guardian’s false assertion, the Independent Sage was nothing more than a joke, which nobody other than the Guardian took seriously (though some news outlets confused their utterings for the real thing, which was doubtless the real objective of King.) As Guido revealed at the time, Independent Sage was made up entirely of actual communists, Labour Party donors, activists, Corbynistas, “anti-Zionists”, Brexit conspiracy theorists and even a former Greek socialist MP. Susan Michie , for example was a member of the British Communist party for 40 yrs, a Corbyn donor, wife of Corbyn SpAd Andrew Murray, and mother of Labour’s Head of Complaints Laura Murray). Their sole intention was to publish anti-government propaganda.
King himself has been actively involved in campaigning against the government and Brexit.
He was also , of course, the clown who led us to believe that we would all have to live in Antarctica by the end of the century because of global warming.
At the same Environmental Select Committee in 2004, he also made some other equally ridiculous claims:
- Ice at the South Pole is now 40% as thick as it used to be.
- The Gulf Stream could turn off, leading Europe into a mini ice age
- Hydrogen powered cars would see massive penetration in the market within 10 and 15 years
And in front of another Select Committee in 2014, he made the incredible claim that Hurricane Sandy was the first hurricane to hit so far north in America, a schoolboy error which a 2-minute google would have told him was absurd. And it was King, you may recall, who advised Tony Blair to promote diesel cars.
Christopher Booker revealed in his book. “The Real Global Warming Disaster”, how King attended a 2004 climate seminar in Moscow, and promptly attempted to get half of the speakers banned as they did not share his alarmist stance. When that failed, he tried to disrupt their speeches. Finally when challenged by one scientist, the malaria expert Paul Reiter, on one particular topic, King , seemingly unable to answer, simply left the room with his delegation.
This is the man who now thinks he has the right to advise us on climate change!
One last point- why the hell is a BBC presenter getting involved in this overtly political programme?
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[CR comment. Let’s not forget this fantastic post about David King from Climate Audit. https://climateaudit.org/2008/07/22/david-king-hot-girls-and-cold-continents/]
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Lead-in sentence of the above article: “Several of the world’s leading scientists plan to launch an independent expert group this week to advise, warn and criticise global policymakers about the climate and nature crises.”
We have been forewarned about such:
““Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools” — Bible, Romans 1:22, King James Version (KJV)
As I write it is 19-34 on 21st June – the longest day. Today and yesterday I have struggled to get warm in my home. It is currently 18.6deg. C. in my front room. Outside it’s 12 dropping to 9 degrees C overnight, with a forecast of same again for tomorrow. I’m thinking of turning my central heating on, but it feels wrong to do so at this time of the year. I wonder what has happened to the “Global heating” that is proclaimed each day on the pages of the Guardian and other propaganda sheets and TV programs, or indeed the “global warming” that David King and others have repeatedly promised since the 1980’s. When will reality gain the attention of nutters like him?
Carbon dioxide is measured regularly at Mauna Loa Hawaii. Most of the planet is within about ± 2% of the reported values. Measurements at several places and times all follow the same trend.
The graph displayed here shows that reduction in humanity’s production of CO2, as occurred during the covid shutdown, had no detectable effect on the global average trend. This demonstrates that, even if CO2 had an effect on climate (it doesn’t), constraint of CO2 by humanity, such as the green-new-deal, will have no significant effect on climate.
King was the U.K.’s chief scientific adviser from 2000 to 2007.
In that capacity he persuaded the government to promote the uptake of diesel vehicles.
This article from GWPF reports exactly how that backfired…_
https://www.thegwpf.com/ex-chief-scientist-our-advice-to-govt-on-preventing-global-warming-was-wrong/
“The Climate Crisis Advisory Group, comprising 14 experts from 10 nations and every continent”. I presume the scientist from the continent of Antarctica is David King.