Announcing: The First WUWT Climate Change Essay Contest

That’s right, we are having an essay contest, and there will be cash prizes for the winners. But I’ll need your help.  As many of you know, over the past two years Google has slowly squeezed out most of our ad revenue.  So, before we officially announce our essay contest, we need to first raise the funds so we can offer meaningful cash prizes.  That means folks like you need to help.  Please go to our donation page and contribute as much as you can.

Despite the frequent accusations from climate alarmists and journalists, we never receive a dime from the fossil fuel industry, and Google has made certain that our ad revenue fails to cover the cost of publishing WUWT.  In fact, now they have doubled down, and announced they are going to cut off any website that publishes any doubt about catastrophic man-made global warming. See this story: Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on climate denial content

We believe the upcoming essay contest will help to engage a younger set of climate realists and gain more coverage for a rational view of climate change.  So, let me thank you in advance for your help.  Please donate now.

Here is the contest in a nutshell, which we plan to officially announce November 1st.

Topic: Is there really a climate crisis?

Write the best arguments against the theory of man-made catastrophic global warming that would convince your neighbors that there is no climate crisis.

Entry categories:

  • General Public: Any reader who does not fall into the two categories below
  • Professionals: Scientists, engineers, graduate students, doctoral candidates
  • Students: College undergrads, high school students, and below

Cash Prizes:

  • First prize for each of the above categories:  To be determined once we have concluded our fundraising, but hopefully over $1000
  • Second prize/runner up for each of the above categories: To be determined once we have concluded our fundraising.

Contest Rules Summary:

  • Open to everyone, see categories.
  • Essays must question the validity of the theory of man-made catastrophic global warming.
  • All entries must be submitted electronically.
  • 1500 words or less, not including citations.
  • Graphics and tables are welcome.
  • Citations are encouraged.
  • Winners can remain anonymous, but must be verified by WUWT staff.
  • Winning essays will be announced and published January 10th, 2022

All winning essays, judged by a panel of climate experts and journalists, will be published here, some non-winning essays may also be published.

A nationwide press-release will also be made to media outlets announcing the winning essays and their authors, if they choose not to be anonymous. I expect these essays and the winners will be picked up by many media outlets.

We will officially open the contest to entries on Monday, November 1st by announcing the contest page. At that time, the final official rules and format requirements will be published.

In the meantime, we encourage all WUWT readers to pitch in with funding for the cash prizes. 

Just click on the big “Donate” button on the right sidebar.  Or, this link.  It is critical that we help the world to understand that the sky is not falling.

It is critical that we help the world to understand that an in-depth understanding of climate science fails to support the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming aka the “climate crisis”.

Thanks for your help, it is vitally important.

Anthony Watts

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October 8, 2021 6:02 am

Sounds like fun.
Will donate when at a safer internet place.

Reply to  M Courtney
October 8, 2021 6:05 am

Rule clarification please:

  • Professionals: Scientists, engineers, graduate students, doctoral candidates

What if you are one of those but in a field entirely unrelated to climatology? I assume one would be in this category. But does that mean one has to reveal more of one’s personal data?

Or would you take it on faith that someone is Professional or General?

Ian Magness
Reply to  M Courtney
October 8, 2021 6:49 am

I second this enquiry MC. I’m an Earth Sciences graduate but quickly went into finance, gaining relevant post-grad/professional qualifications on the way. Which category should someone like me be in?

Editor
Reply to  Ian Magness
October 8, 2021 9:20 am

I think it would be helpful if the winning articles were peer reviewed before publication. Warmists would love to ridicule WUWT articles and if they contain inaccuracies they would be easy targets.

tonyb

Reply to  tonyb
October 8, 2021 11:44 am

peer review is an editorial process of correction and revision. The writer should simply have someone(s) they trust and know has a good understanding of the topics read the m/s and give them critical comments before submission to WUWT.
IMO, the submission made to this contest must be in final form, including spell checked, grammar checked etc.

Reply to  M Courtney
October 10, 2021 1:17 pm

Just a guess here, if one wrote an essay using their field of expertise to critique one of the CAGW claims (IE The M&M’s critique of Mann’s Hockey Stick from a statistical angle), then, yes, they are “Professionals”.

Reply to  M Courtney
October 10, 2021 1:25 pm

Great idea – I’m in!

Reply to  Allan MacRae
October 10, 2021 1:33 pm

I’ll be adapting my slides from this interview into a paper .

The MARTINZ Critical Review – Ep#91 – A measure of scientific Competence; The ability to accurately predict – with Allan MacRae, M.Eng.
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-martinz-critical-review-ep-91-a-measure/id1522735821?i=1000537898327

Following is the introduction from my interview – apologies for the slow presentation – it is long and I was running without much sleep. I didn’t pull any punches – we are dealing with the greatest frauds of our modern age – Climate, Covid and the Great Reset.

SCIENTIFIC COMPETENCE – THE ABILITY TO CORRECTLY PREDICT
By Allan M.R. MacRae, October 7, 2021
 
The ability to correctly predict is the best objective measure of scientific and technical competence. Following are the correct predictions of Allan MacRae on two important subjects:
– GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISM
– COVID-19 LOCKDOWNS AND ”VACCINES”
Allan MacRae’s scientific predictions on both these subjects are infinitely more accurate than the mainstream narratives, which have been 100% false and baselessly alarmist to date.

Selected Papers
 
CLIMATE CHANGE, COVID-19, AND THE GREAT RESET
A Climate, Energy and Covid Primer for Politicians and Media
By Allan M.R. MacRae, Published March 21, 2021, Update 1e published May 8, 2021
https://thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/climate-change-covid-19-and-the-great-reset-update-1e-readonly.docx
 
THE CATASTROPHIC ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING (CAGW) AND THE HUMANMADE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISES ARE PROVED FALSE
By Allan M.R. MacRae, B.A.Sc.(Eng.), M.Eng., January 10, 2020
https://thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/the-catastrophic-anthropogenic-global-warming-cagw-and-the-humanmade-climate-change-crises-are-proved-false.pdf
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Reply to  Allan MacRae
October 11, 2021 3:49 am

It is now obvious that the summer case spike and hundreds of thousands of deaths in North America attributed to the Covid-19 virus were actually caused by the Covid-19 “vaccines”.

The Covid-19 “vaccines” are kill shots and the “vaccine mandates” are a death sentence.

I first published this hypothesis in June 2021 or earlier
.
It is especially egregious for governments and institutions to be pushing the Covid-19 injections on school children and young adults, teachers, health care workers, etc. Children and healthy adults are at very low risk of severe harm from the Covid-19 virus, but the “vaccines” are dangerous..

Vaccine-caused injuries and deaths can be crudely categorized as follows:

Short Term: Immediate severe adverse reactions including deaths from the injections occur with hours or days of the injections and harm more than one in 1000. Myocarditis and pericarditis are already happening, particularly to teenage boys. Heart muscle does not heal.

Medium-Term: It is hypothesized that more prevalent adverse reactions to the “vaccines” due to Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (ADE) will occur during this winter flu season.

Long-Term: It is hypothesized that much more prevalent adverse reactions to the “vaccines” due to damage to the circulatory system, leading to loss of circulatory blockages, heart attacks etc. The D-dimer test of the vaccinated will provide an early warming of future harm.

“78% of the deaths in the U.K. are among the ‘double-vaccinated.”
– Canadian Physician Dr. Mark Trozzi

“If we vaccinate our children the deaths we’ve seen in adults so far we will now see in children.”
– Canadian Epidemiologist Dr. Paul Alexander

“I think we’ve completely suppressed any form of treatment or help to people in order to promote the vaccine. Now the vaccine doesn’t work completely and it’s, frankly, dangerous. We’re down to almost one message: Take the jab or else … It’s the scariest time to be an American, and thank goodness half of Americans didn’t take it.
We’re going to have to see what this is going to look like. I think the next month or so is going to be incredibly interesting and it’s going to be ominous.”
– American Cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough

“In the end, i predict that we’re going to see mass illnesses and deaths among people who normally would have wonderful lives ahead of them.”
– German Microbiologist Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi  

“Hope to be wrong, rarely am.”
Regards to all, Allan MacRae, B.A.Sc.(Eng.), M.Eng.
Calgary

Simon
Reply to  Allan MacRae
October 11, 2021 10:19 pm

“78% of the deaths in the U.K. are among the ‘double-vaccinated.”
– Canadian Physician Dr. Mark Trozzi”
Complete and utter garbage. You will find no reliable data for this shameless lie. And why you would peddle such misinformation when people may well die who believe you is beyond me. Shame on you.

Reply to  Simon
October 12, 2021 4:16 am
Simon
Reply to  Allan MacRae
October 12, 2021 11:28 am

Ok let’s start and finish with your references. Bitchute is a known far right conspiracy website. It has absolutely no credibility in any sense in the medical world. If you are feeding from that trough, then you are poisoning your mind. Lord knows why you would think anything out of that site could be truth.
Think about it for a second. Add some common sense. If the death rate was as your quote, families would be loosing loved ones, friends would be loosing friends, colleagues would be loosing colleagues. And these people would be screaming to the press, who would love to run stories like these. Mate, it’s just not happening. All the stories you hear are from the ” I know someone” brigade. It’s never from direct sources. And if it is they are “always” anti vaxers who are clearly lying.

Reply to  Simon
October 12, 2021 5:22 pm

Simon, you are spouting nonsense..

These are videos of world-class expert physicians and researchers.

Your ignorant rhetoric does you a great disservice.

No one should believe you about anything.,

Simon
Reply to  Allan MacRae
October 12, 2021 8:56 pm

Nonsense They are world class nobodies. Google them and read their backgrounds. Please don’t tell you you also believe that crazy conspiracy stuff too?
So if all these people are dying from the vaccines where are they? I know literally hundreds who have had it including all my family and friends and not one has suffered anything more than a mild flu type thing which is entirely expected.

SxyxS
Reply to  Simon
October 13, 2021 4:54 am

Listen moron.

1) Bitchute is not a website but a video hostng service

2) It does not matter at all wether bitchute is a far right or YouTube a far left site,it’s about the quality of the content
(hard to ex plain this to a moron who can not rell the message from the messanger)

3) even then it has nothing to do with bitchute or YouTube as the content is made from a content creator and not bitchute / YouTubes fault / achievement

4)bitchute has far less censorship than YouTube.At YouTube i can’t even comment on topics like slavery in islam,though i was born as a muslim.It gets autodeleted.
If you are fine with fascist youtube
bitchute should be no problem for you

5) if you belong to the progressive AGW cult you are the last person on earth to complain about bitchutes standards,
as you spit in the face of integrity and truth,
by going along with failed predictions,name calling,cancel culture,intimidation,mob culture etc.
Then you have no rights to complain.

Simon
Reply to  SxyxS
October 13, 2021 11:13 am

“Listen moron….”
Stopped reading there. Respond like an adult, or don’t bother responding.

Reply to  Allan MacRae
October 13, 2021 5:40 am

As an unvaxxed person, maybe it’s OK that I cannot fly commercial airlines. (sarc/off)

VAXXED DELTA PILOT DIES IN-FLIGHT; SOUTHWEST FLIGHTS HAVE MASS CANCELLATIONS
October 12, 2021
Vaxxed Delta Pilot Dies In-Flight; Southwest Flights Have Mass Cancellations (mercola.com)
Reports of hundreds of canceled Southwest flights have been met with all kinds of excuses, and Stew Peters says somebody’s lying.
It’s not bad weather, like Southwest claims, he says. And, it’s not FAA problems either, because they say there haven’t been any air traffic control problems that would cause massive flight cancellations, despite reports that air traffic control agents walked off the job in Jacksonville, Florida, in protest of vaccine mandates. So what is it? Other airlines didn’t have mass cancellations.
Peters says it’s probably the vaccine mandates that Southwest just laid down for all personnel — and, he says, “there are reports that pilots are joining the resistance as well” even though the pilots’ union denies it.
Adding to the scandal are reports of a Delta pilot who died in-flight within the last 10 days. The co-pilot said he just suddenly died. The co-pilot also shared that the pilot said he’d just gotten his second COVID shot a few days earlier.
“It’s much bigger than people think,” the co-pilot allegedly said. Not only that flights are being diverted due to pilots with chest pains. A passenger with chest pains forced an emergency landing, too. A Seattle-based pilot was found dead on his floor from an embolism; flight attendants are not returning to active duty in “droves” following their shots; two were found dead after their shots. Plus, seven Atlanta-based flight attendants have already had breakthrough infections.
A vaccinated pilot got a breakthrough infection and died of kidney failure. And the reports just keep coming in, with the airlines keeping their communications sealed. So what’s happening here? “A pilot is dead and the media completely whitewashes the whole thing,” Peters says. 
SOURCE: Stew Peters Show October 11, 2021
_______________________________________________________

I published in June 2021 that the vaccines are causing the summer case spike, not the virus. I’d rather be wrong. Told you so.

WHY ARE MORE PEOPLE DYING FROM HEART DISEASE?
October 11, 2021
Why Are More People Dying From Heart Disease? (mercola.com)

Using data from the U.K.’s Government Statistical Service, diagnostic pathologist Clare Craig has found that excess deaths in the U.K. for the week ending September 10, 2021, are showing an alarming increase in heart disease mortality. Specifically, there were:24% more heart failure deaths than baseline
19% ischaemic heart disease
16% cerebrovascular disease (strokes)
18% other circulatory diseases
Why is this happening? she asks. Blogger and political analyst Mike Whitney provides some disturbing answers. “The vaccines are an attack on the body’s critical infrastructure, the vascular system, and particularly the thin tapestry of cells that line the walls of the blood vessels,” Whitney says. “The vaccines trigger bleeding, blood clots and autoimmune disease.”
And, just in case someone counters with the idea that most people aren’t suffering with heart problems after their shots, Whitney shoots back, “the impact is likely to be just as devastating in the long-run …when antibodies attach to spike-producing endothelial cells on vessel walls following vaccine administration, activated complement proteins can be expected attach to the endothelial cells, and perforate their cell membranes … [and will create] a catastrophic microvascular injury syndrome mediated by activation of complement.”
Summarizing, he says this means “the vaccine creates a situation where your body viciously attacks your own circulatory system generating blood clots and leaky blood vessels. Do you think you can live with a damaged vascular system? Do you think you will enjoy a long and happy life with an immune system that is programed to attack and kill healthy cells that now produce the pathogenic “spike protein”? If so, then for how long; how long do you think you can survive that type of internal warfare? 2 years? 5 years? 10 years?”
In other words, those who have taken the shots and not reported any adverse events yet have only to wait a matter of time and then it will hit them, too.

SOURCES:
Mike Whitney October 9, 2021

Claire Craig Twitter September 23, 2021

Simon
Reply to  Allan MacRae
October 13, 2021 11:15 am

In other words, those who have taken the shots and not reported any adverse events yet have only to wait a matter of time and then it will hit them, too.”
I would say the same for those who have not taken the shots. This is now a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

Reply to  Simon
October 13, 2021 11:45 am

More falsehoods from Simon.
 
Israel is earlier that every other country in the Covid-19 injection timeline. What happens in Israel will happen to us next.
 
The Covid-19 “vaccines” are the primary cause of the recent illnesses and deaths – not the virus. Told you so June 2021.
 
ARE THE COVID SHOTS WORKING?
October 13, 2021
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/10/13/are-the-covid-shots-working.aspx
 
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
·     A recent report details a SARS-CoV-2 Delta outbreak in an Israeli hospital where 238 out of 248 (96%) of the exposed patients and staff had been fully vaccinated with Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine
·     Of the 238 fully vaccinated individuals, 39 (16%) were infected, as were three of the 10 unvaccinated individuals who got exposed
·     While all of the sickened staff recovered, five infected patients died and nine turned into severe or critical cases. All of the dead and severe/critical cases were fully vaccinated. Two unvaccinated patients that got infected only had mild illness
·     This outbreak tells us that the COVID shots cannot create herd immunity. It also suggests vaccinated people may be more prone to serious and lethal infection than the unvaccinated
·     Of 41,552 hospitalized patients in the U.S., 73% of the unvaccinated, 71% of the partially vaccinated and 72% of the fully vaccinated received a diagnosis of COVID-like illness (CLI) between January 1, 2021, and June 22, 2021

Simon
Reply to  Allan MacRae
October 13, 2021 2:58 pm

 
The Covid-19 “vaccines” are the primary cause of the recent illnesses and deaths – not the virus. Told you so June 2021.”
Not true… more BS.

Simon
Reply to  Allan MacRae
October 13, 2021 3:03 pm

·     This outbreak tells us that the COVID shots cannot create herd immunity. It also suggests vaccinated people may be more prone to serious and lethal infection than the unvaccinated”
No it doesn’t.

·     While all of the sickened staff recovered, five infected patients died and nine turned into severe or critical cases. All of the dead and severe/critical cases were fully vaccinated. Two unvaccinated patients that got infected only had mild illness”
Untrue.

Truth. If you are vaccinated you can still get covid.
Truth. If you are vaccinated your chances of ending up in hospital are (in NZ anyway) 130 times less than if you are unvaccinated.
The vaccines could potentially save your life. Being unvaccinated puts you are far greater risk. It really is simple maths.

Reply to  Simon
October 14, 2021 7:15 pm

Simon – you are even more convincing when you stamp your foot and scream. Keep up the good work.
(sarc/right off)

Reply to  Allan MacRae
October 15, 2021 8:16 pm

Although some of the technical material in this treatise is above my pay grade, I can fully agree with the Summary (below).
 
Everything our health authorities have done has made Covid-19 worse – from the economy-destroying lockdowns, masking and distancing, to harmful “stay at home until you’re dying” protocols, to the ignoring of simple, effective treatments such as Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Melatonin, Quercetin and Zinc and the suppression of Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin and Herd Immunity, to the obsessive drug-pushing of toxic-and-ineffective experimental vaccines, all point to a sinister motive.
 
As I’ve published before about the false climate-and-energy crisis, “No rational person or group could be this obtuse for this long – they know they are lying; they’ve been lying since the very beginning.”
 
Regards, Allan

https://americasfrontlinedoctors.org/2/frontlinenews/damn-you-to-hell-you-will-not-destroy-america-and-the-free-world-and-you-will-not-have-your-new-world-order-anonymous-covid-letter-goes-viral/
Summary:

  • COVID-19 is a blood and blood vessel disease. SARS-CoV-2 infects the lining of human blood vessels, causing them to leak into the lungs.
  • Current treatment protocols (e.g. invasive ventilation) are actively harmful to patients, accelerating oxidative stress and causing severe VILI (ventilator-induced lung injuries). The continued use of ventilators in the absence of any proven medical benefit constitutes mass murder.
  • Existing countermeasures are inadequate to slow the spread of what is an aerosolized and potentially wastewater-borne virus, and constitute a form of medical theater.
  • Various non-vaccine interventions have been suppressed by both the media and the medical establishment in favor of vaccines and expensive patented drugs.
  • The authorities have denied the usefulness of natural immunity against COVID-19, despite the fact that natural immunity confers protection against all of the virus’s proteins, and not just one.
  • Vaccines will do more harm than good. The antigen that these vaccines are based on, SARS-CoV- 2 Spike, is a toxic protein. SARS-CoV-2 may have ADE, or antibody-dependent enhancement; current antibodies may not neutralize future strains, but instead help them infect immune cells. Also, vaccinating during a pandemic with a leaky vaccine removes the evolutionary pressure for a virus to become less lethal.
  • There is a vast and appalling criminal conspiracy that directly links both Anthony Fauci and Moderna to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
  • COVID-19 vaccine researchers are directly linked to scientists involved in brain-computer interface (“neural lace”) tech, one of whom was indicted for taking grant money from China.
  • Independent researchers have discovered mysterious nanoparticles inside the vaccines that are not supposed to be present.
  • The entire pandemic is being used as an excuse for a vast political and economic transformation of Western society that will enrich the already rich and turn the rest of us into serfs and untouchables.
Reply to  Allan MacRae
October 11, 2021 12:28 pm

RECORD OCTOBER COLD TO HIT WESTERN U.S. AND EUROPE, BRITS BANNED FROM DRIVING IN THE SNOW, + ‘HALO CME’ IMPACT EXPECTED TODAY
October 11, 2021 Cap Allon
 
Approximately 100 winter storm warnings have been issued across 4 U.S. states, where snow totals will be measured in the feet. Plus, this could be the first head-on CME strike of young Solar Cycle 25.
________________________________________________

And I warned these delusional warmist politicians in 2013 (and 2002):

AN OPEN LETTER TO BARONESS VERMA, BRITISH UNDERSECRETARY FOR ENERGY
By Allan MacRae, October 31, 2013
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/10/31/blind-faith-in-climate-models/#comment-1130954
[excerpt]
So here is my real concern:

IF the Sun does indeed drive temperature, as I suspect, Baroness Verma, then you and your colleagues on both sides of the House may have brewed the perfect storm.

You are claiming that global cooling will NOT happen, AND you have crippled your energy systems with excessive reliance on ineffective grid-connected “green energy” schemes.

I suggest that global cooling probably WILL happen within the next decade or sooner, and Britain will get colder.

I also suggest that the IPCC and the Met Office have NO track record of successful prediction (or “projection”) of global temperature and thus have no scientific credibility.

I suggest that winter deaths will increase in the UK as cooling progresses.

I suggest that Excess Winter Mortality, the British rate of which is about double the rate in the Scandinavian countries, should provide an estimate of this unfolding tragedy.
___________________________________________________

[excerpt from Electorverse.net today 11Oct2021]
 
…AND EUROPE
Pervasive cold has been gripping much of the European continent, too, compounding the ongoing energy crisis.

According to the Slovenský hydrometeorologický ústav (SHMÚ) on Facebook, record cold has swept Slovakia.
Lows of -5.5C were registered in the mountain valleys, but unprecedented October cold was also noted in the East Slovak lowland. The Walnut Station, for example, logged -1.1C, while at many other stations, records have been broken, concludes the FB post.
 
And as with the Western U.S., the mercury is forecast to plunge even further this week.
Looking at the latest GFS runs, departures will sink some 16C below the seasonal average for many.
Here’s the picture for Italy and the Balkans on Monday, October 11:

file:///C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.jpgGFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Mon, Oct 11 [tropicaltidbits.com].
 
Zooming out, the continent as whole can expect further intrusions of Arctic air as the month progresses — the longer-range outlook is currently showing a truly frigid close to the month (excluding far southern regions):

file:///C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image002.gif

GFS 2m Temperature Anomalies (C) Oct 23 – Oct 27 [tropicaltidbits.com].

file:///C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image003.png

In line with the descending cold, record snowfall threatens the higher elevations, particularly across the Alps, Scandinavia, and the northern UK:

file:///C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image004.png

GFS Total Snowfall (inches) Oct 11 – Oct 27 [tropicaltidbits.com].
 
Stay tuned for updates.
 

Reply to  Allan MacRae
October 17, 2021 12:52 am

THE COMING REAL PANDEMIC OF THE VACCINATED
 
Drs. Trozzi and Alexander explain ADE and other dangers of the ‘vaccines’, and warn of the coming wave of deaths among those who have received these experimental gene therapies.
 
Dr. Mark Trozzi is an ER doctor with 25 years experience. He took a leave of absence early this year to fight Covid tyranny full time. His website is drtrozzi.com.
Dr. Paul Alexander is a world-class clinical epidemiologist who was trained at McMaster University, Canada’s top university for epidemiological research. Dr. Alexander was fired from his position at the university for speaking the truth about the harms being caused by the Covid ‘vaccines’.

“78% of the deaths in the U.K. are among the ‘double-vaccinated.”
–         Dr. Mark Trozzi

“If we vaccinate our children the deaths we’ve seen in adults so far we will now see in children.”
–         Dr. Paul Alexander

Watch and share this very important interview. The next fear-mongering tactic coming down the pipe is a ‘wave of pediatric cases’, but in actual fact children are in no danger from Covid whatsoever. Sadly, many are likely to die as a result of the bioweapons being falsely represented as ‘vaccines’.

Watch Now
 
https://endcanadalockdown.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=06d55a2731f28971fd05a0f03&id=83a72d4650&e=b9e7bb3234
 

Reply to  Allan MacRae
October 17, 2021 11:01 am

The deliberate suppression of Ivermectin as an effective cure for Covid-19 is essentially murder. Ivermectin works far better than the so-called “vaccines” or other medical treatments, yet was disallowed in the USA, Canada, Britain, etc. Why? Follow the money.

DR. PIERRE KORY EXPOSES WHY THE GOVERNMENT REFUSE TO USE IVERMECTIN AS A TREATMENT FOR C19
Published September 9, 2021 
Dr. Pierre Kory Exposes Why The Government Refuse to Use Ivermectin As A Treatment For C19 (rumble.com)
 

Derek Wood
October 8, 2021 6:08 am

Migrate to another site? Many have, I understand. I’m sure most of your subscribers will follow you. I would.

Thomas
Reply to  Derek Wood
October 8, 2021 2:19 pm

Sure, but Guugle is everywhere.

Reply to  Derek Wood
October 8, 2021 7:39 pm

AW simply needs to open a Patreon account and ask WUWT followers to fund it to defray his cost and time (as well as CtM and the mods) for running and moderating it. Patreon is how many Conservatives with YouTube channels with hundreds of thousands to millions of followers and are still getting paid for content (via a Patreon subscriptions) as YouTube pulls their ad monetization because they don’t like the message.

Mark ingraham
Reply to  Joel O'Bryan
October 9, 2021 3:21 am

You realize that would trash Seo.

Mike
Reply to  Joel O'Bryan
October 10, 2021 6:36 am

Those youtube beggars are too lazy to get a real job.Hardly comparable to what this side does.

Vuk
October 8, 2021 6:30 am

Good News for once from Climate change people:

Well researched report from EMBER

  • Burning wood is the electricity sector’s second largest CO2 emitter after fossil gas.
  • Drax is the UK’s largest single source of CO2 emissions.
  • Drax is the EU’s third largest CO2 emitter among coal plants when biomass emissions are included.
  • These emissions are not counted in the UK’s emissions inventory – burning wood is treated as ‘carbon neutral’, despite evidence to the contrary.
  • Burning wood is a larger emitter than coal in the UK
  • Biomass industry claims burning wood is carbon-neutral, however the science disagrees
  • Drax is a top 5 CO2 emitter in Europe
  • Drax is one of Europe’s top 5 emitters of PM10 air pollution
  • Biomass generators are looking for new subsidies through BECCS – but will it deliver the negative emissions they promise?

https://ember-climate.org/commentary/2021/10/08/uk-biomass-emits-more-co2-than-coal/

Ban wood chip burning !

fretslider
Reply to  Vuk
October 8, 2021 6:53 am

For the sake of American forests.

Make Drax coal again.

griff
Reply to  fretslider
October 8, 2021 7:26 am

Or natural gas!

Derg
Reply to  griff
October 8, 2021 8:55 am

I can’t wait for your essay…you may need to ask Ghalfrunt, Simon, Lyodo, Nick…for some help to get it over a page.

I can already imagine your first sentence…we are facing an existential crisis and the world is not happy unless you pay…oops typo pray to us.

Graham
Reply to  griff
October 8, 2021 1:26 pm

Well griffy you must be learning some facts here at WUWT.
Natural gas combustion does release a lot less CO2 as the USA have proven with their switch from coal to gas power generation .
Stick around and you might come to realize that the climate emergency is an over hyped scam .
Graham

griff
Reply to  Vuk
October 8, 2021 7:26 am

All UK green organisations are behind the campaign to stop Drax burning imported woodchips – good to see this taken up by a wider public.

Reply to  griff
October 8, 2021 8:03 am

Wood burnig is air poisoning, a bad fact left behind in the 70th. But had a rebirth with the Green Movement as declared as “Carbon Neutral”

Reply to  griff
October 8, 2021 8:16 am

Griff, mate,

Where were the greens, including yourself, when people like us were saying to was a crazy idea, sure to cause more CO2 emissions (not that CO2 is a pollutant), was a terrible idea?

fretslider
Reply to  griff
October 8, 2021 9:08 am

All UK green organisations are 97% bonkers

Make Drax coal again

Coeur de Lion
Reply to  fretslider
October 8, 2021 12:35 pm

Must see Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans. The bit about biomass will make you weep. And that silly old man McKibben comes across very badly indeed, at one point all for wood chips, in the street being challenged , not so much.

fretslider
Reply to  Coeur de Lion
October 8, 2021 1:43 pm

Seen it

I liked the solar powered gig with a diesel generator round the back

Reply to  griff
October 8, 2021 9:44 am

The UK Green Organisations are behind the curve on this

Fred Middleton
Reply to  Ben Vorlich
October 12, 2021 7:21 pm

20 donkeys in a row. All nodding in the affirmative

Keith Rowe
October 8, 2021 6:30 am

Make a subscription for ad-free. $5 a month. I’m sure there are many that would support you and the efforts of climate realism.

Sam Capricci
Reply to  Keith Rowe
October 8, 2021 10:14 am

I’d be on board with that! 🙂

fretslider
October 8, 2021 6:41 am

We believe the upcoming essay contest will help to engage a younger set of climate realists

There’s that word belief again. Younger sceptics may be out there but I don’t give much for the chances of them standing up in the neo-mediaeval 21st century with all its crazy [woke] ideologies from race and sex to climate change and calling the alarmists out.

Heretics are burned at the stake in public on Twitter etc. They are cast out as unpersons to all but fellow sceptics. Who is unaware of that?

I really do hope you’re right and it does indeed galvanise younger people. But having seen XR and IB etc I do have my doubts.

All the best with it.

John Tillman
Reply to  fretslider
October 8, 2021 8:06 am

Banned by YouTube in April:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Seibt

fretslider
Reply to  John Tillman
October 8, 2021 9:02 am

Exactly my point

Mike McMillan
Reply to  John Tillman
October 8, 2021 9:36 am

Lack of self-awareness. I went to the wikipedia page and was greeted with plea for money, to keep wikipedia “independent,” followed by a hard left hit piece on Naomi. I’m an editor over there, but I’ll never give them a dime.

Clyde Spencer
Reply to  Mike McMillan
October 8, 2021 10:06 am

Having previously donated to Wikipedia, I have recently received direct solicitations. However, I’m not going to donate again unless they clean up their act and remove the bias from their entries that are politically influenced.

OK S.
Reply to  Mike McMillan
October 8, 2021 10:14 am

You might try adding this to the top of wikipedia pages and see if you get banned too:

 ”’Unreliable”’ {{Cross}} [[Wikipedia:Reliable sources#User-generated content|Wikipedia]] is among the wide range of blogs, internet bulletin boards, discussion groups, etc., written and maintained by users who may range from third-graders to political hacks.

Ed Fox
Reply to  fretslider
October 8, 2021 9:51 am

But having seen XR and IB etc I do have my doubts.
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Agreed. Anonymous submissions should be anonymous. That includes WUWT. A pen name should be sufficient.

October 8, 2021 7:00 am

LOL

I will not participate, but anyone who wants to get a head start and learn way more he ever could by reading WUWT, is invited to learn about the physics on my site. I will NOT charge anyone for quoting my content 😉

https://greenhousedefect.com/

October 8, 2021 7:45 am

Google and Youtube are NOT unbiased benevolent truth-seekers. Screen output simply goes to those who result in the most profit to them. Allowing them to determine the “What-is-truth?” answer is a serious error of judgement.

Artiem2112
October 8, 2021 7:52 am

Great idea!
I donated – its not much, but it’s what I could afford for now.

For what it’s worth, I’d gladly support a $5 per month subscription fee if it helped counter the d-bags at Google…

SxyxS
October 8, 2021 8:18 am

My Essay is short and just a quote of Bidens last 4 speeches.

” Mmmhghjjhff fgliumuli brefffffim cornpop dereewwwadd”

Derg
Reply to  SxyxS
October 8, 2021 8:57 am

FJB

Derg
Reply to  Derg
October 8, 2021 9:18 am

Oops I mean Let’s go Brandon

SxyxS
Reply to  Derg
October 9, 2021 2:05 am

Let’s go Brandon is to FJB
what AGW us to climate.

But i still have to figure out why all famous US presidents have 3 names (just like gunmen)
FDR,JFK , Barack Insane Obama, Donald J Trump
and now FJB.

Reply to  SxyxS
October 9, 2021 3:59 am

And Harry S Truman – the nuclear bomber….

SxyxS
Reply to  bonbon
October 9, 2021 6:17 am

I didn’t knew that Harry was that great.
But you have a point.
Considering that Harry S. used Japan as atom bomb guinea pig Trueman show,
though the USA and Japan had already been negotiating about Japans surrender for weaks (using Vatican as intermediary )
makes him for sure one of the greatest,on the same level as F J Biden.
And as Trueman was a democrat his chronicle innocence makes it mandatory thing to place him among the greatest.

Rich Davis
Reply to  Derg
October 9, 2021 6:32 pm

Let’s Go Brandon!

October 8, 2021 8:18 am

Surely by preventing anyone who doubts CO2 is the cause of dangerous global warming from using their websites, Google is acting as a publisher and it therefore subject to the same rules and laws as any other publisher?

Vuk
October 8, 2021 8:37 am

The UK’s Ehergy omni-shambles are getting worse
“Omni Energy switched unprofitable customers without express consent
With wholesale prices at record highs, customers are paying less for gas than suppliers can buy it, meaning households that use a lot of energy are costing suppliers such as Omni large amounts of money. Since the beginning of August, a total of 10 suppliers have fallen into insolvency, and Omni is hoping to avoid the same fate.
Ofgem, the energy regulator, does not permit suppliers to switch customers without their consent, except as part of a takeover of all or part of a business.”
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2021/oct/08/omni-energy-switched-unprofitable-customers-without-express-consent

Only three months ago ‘households that use a lot of energy’ were Omny Energy’s most profitable customers. So much for loyalty to the good customers !

Tom Foley
October 8, 2021 8:55 am

Perhaps you could set it up as a formal debate. Potential essayists apply and you allocate them to make either the pro or con case for global warming. The allocations should be blind, applicants treated anonymously. It’s a pity such debates are out of fashion. There’s nothing that quite makes you refine your own argument than to make the case against it. Of course, there’s always the risk that you’ll change your mind. However it would be really good to have some global warmists present the case against this view.

AGW is Not Science
Reply to  Tom Foley
October 11, 2021 8:43 am

Warmists simply won’t show up, as usual. They are interested only in stamping out any dissent from their incorrect view.

Coach Springer
October 8, 2021 9:05 am

I check in here most every day, yet know nothing specific of your troubles with the internet censors. But your circumstances sound like a flagship legal case for the larger issue of censorship. Essay or not, this will have to be addressed if you are to “help the world to understand that the sky is not falling.” Maybe the ACLU will take up the freedom of speech angle for you. (Just kidding – but they did represent Nazis back in the 60s.)

I’ll donate a bit. I actually wrote an applicable essay 15 years or so ago, triggered by Sam Donaldson stating for a fact that the world had never been hotter and was only getting worse fast. It persuaded the few who read it, but I’ve seen better over the years. But I have not seen anything to defeat people’s susceptibility to this combination:

  1. the precautionary principle that keeps leading them back to “it might be unsafe and you cannot prove that it cannot be unsafe.”
  2. The nature of the possibilities requires drastic measures.
  3. Who am I to argue with the steady downpour of experts and politicians?
  4. Saving the world is the only right thing to do. Now, what can I do that makes me feel like that?
Tom Abbott
Reply to  Coach Springer
October 8, 2021 10:03 am

“I check in here most every day, yet know nothing specific of your troubles with the internet censors.”

Me, too. I would like to hear more about how Google is trying to screw WUWT. I had no idea Google was cutting into your revenue.

Rory Forbes
Reply to  Tom Abbott
October 8, 2021 10:39 am

Me as well. Considering the number of readers and the amount of ads on this site, I thought revenue wouldn’t have been a problem. It would be good to know more about the censorship problem spreading like wildfire in the “free” world.

Ed Fox
Reply to  Coach Springer
October 8, 2021 11:16 am

But your circumstances sound like a flagship legal case for the larger issue of censorship.
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Mark Steyn can likely provide some insight into the US court system.

First dig a large hole. Fill it with money. Light it on fire. Repeat until your money is gone.

Whoever runs out of money first loses.

October 8, 2021 9:40 am

Anthony, the last time I tried to donate, a phone number was REQUIRED, and thus, no donation. Is that still the case? If so, please remove or make it optional. Thanks.

Reply to  BobM
October 9, 2021 5:08 am

OK, fake phone number works. Benjamin’s on the way for a good cause.

Reply to  BobM
October 10, 2021 10:53 am

I have never been asked for a phone number and always use PayPal.

Ed Fox
October 8, 2021 9:44 am

Winners can remain anonymous, but must be verified by WUWT staff.
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WHAT?? A secret told to one other person is no longer a secret.

WUWT is cutting its own throat. Having seen its own revenue fall to near zero it fails to consider the chilling impact on would be authors.

Try and submit an anonymous article to WUWT. You cant. It isnt permitted. So why bother? Why risk it? Why risk the same fate as WUWT?

If WUWT truly wants wide ranging submissions then allow fully anonymous article submissions.

Zig Zag Wanderer
Reply to  Ed Fox
October 8, 2021 1:30 pm

Only winners need to be identified by WUWT. I imagine that it’s quite difficult to give a cash prize to someone if you don’t know who they are.

Ed Fox
Reply to  Zig Zag Wanderer
October 8, 2021 5:44 pm

Bitcoin among many provides anonymous payments. ​

WUWT has no special legal protection against accident, data breach, or legal action revealing peoples names.

We are talking people’s careers with a huge legal liability is someone’s name is revealed without their permission.

I expect Anthony carries commercial liability insurance against such a mishap.

However if someone does suffer a loss they would be forced to sue Anthony’s insurance provider, which can be awful difficult if you just lost you job and live in a different jurisdiction.

So why require people to submit their real names if they want to publish anonymously?

In any case it is rather straight forward to mask your true identity, email and phone with free tools on the internet. And the virtual identity so created will fully pass captcha and 2 part verification.

So whatever the purpose might be for collecting identities there is no way WUWT can actually be sure that the author is a real or virtual person.

Rich Davis
Reply to  Ed Fox
October 9, 2021 6:45 pm


Into your life it will creep
It starts when you’re always afraid

Step out of line, the men come and take you away

We better stop
Hey, what’s that sound?
Everybody look, what’s going down?

October 8, 2021 11:30 am

“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask… for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than 5 minutes.”
-Albert Einstein

brings tears don’t it

Mr.
October 8, 2021 11:31 am

My entry as follows –

On Climate Change
by Mr.

Summer > Autumn > Winter > Spring.

That is all.
The End.

Reply to  Mr.
October 8, 2021 3:09 pm

As 1500 words are requested, you have some repetitions to add 😀

Zig Zag Wanderer
Reply to  Krishna Gans
October 8, 2021 4:49 pm

1500 or less…

Reply to  Zig Zag Wanderer
October 10, 2021 10:54 am

1500 or fewer?

Reply to  Krishna Gans
October 9, 2021 3:54 am

Gaia repeated that 4.5 billion times already. Seems repetition falls on deaf ears.

October 8, 2021 3:30 pm

My global warming file of Proverbs, analogies, factoids, quotes, smart remarks, …is way over ten thousand words, so I’ll have to pare it down a bit to meet the 1500 word limit.

Gary Pearse
October 8, 2021 5:07 pm

I’m convinced that we have been well marginalized by the troughers in academe, gov and associated establishments in terms of presenting the science. We’re even in Wiki as anti-science deniers/shills.

I’ve recently used arguments from history and from artifacts of earlier climates (a 5000 yr old white spruce stump in situe at Tuktayuktuk) in the barren lands on the NW Arctic shore of Canada. Several hundred km south is the treeline (also white spruce) and another couple of hundred km south of that, their are white spruce of the size of the Tuk tree that grow in an area that’s10C warmer.

The meaning is obvious to a 12yr old whom I explained it to. I explained polar T enhancement and estimated that the world averaged ~5°C warmer 5,000 yrs ago, 3 times the 1.5°C that the Lysenkoist consensus is scaring the world about for their global socialist governance bosses.

There are numerous indisputable examples of this kind. I’m looking forward to the usual “woke talking points’ sociologists who frequent here to argue this example.

CD in Wisconsin
October 8, 2021 5:22 pm

Just donated. Keep up the great work. If I was wealthy like Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos, you would not have any financial issues.

Loydo
October 8, 2021 11:05 pm

“we never receive a dime from the fossil fuel industry,”

Unlikely. The source of the loot that pours into the Donors Capital Fund that distributes it to the Heartland Institue that puts coin your pocket remain furtively anonymous. We may never know for sure, but the “ fossil fuel industry” would be implausibly remiss if it wasn’t chipping in. So pull the other one.

Reply to  Loydo
October 9, 2021 10:19 am

fossil fuel industry” would be implausibly remiss if it wasn’t chipping in.

That’s your delusional worldview speaking. It can’t possibly not be so since we’ve incanted this litany so many thousands of times. But most fossil industry research funding of course goes to mainstream alarmists like you. You stand among us as the one who truly is funded by the fossil fuel industry. The hypocrisy is therefore total. Look at the sponsors of any of the climate conferences that you attend. Does your self-deceiving brain filter out the logos of all those oil companies funding right-on academic climate research?

Loydo
Reply to  Hatter Eggburn
October 9, 2021 1:56 pm

If Heartland’s “sponsors” logos were out on display and not hidden behind veils of smokescreen you might have a point.

AGW is Not Science
Reply to  Loydo
October 11, 2021 9:17 am

What’s your point?! If it’s the “money corrupts” idea, ‘your’ side of the issue is an order of magnitude more corrupt.

Gary Pearse
Reply to  Loydo
October 11, 2021 4:29 pm

Wokies believe that the crimes, lies and sins they commit are what everybody else also does. This well-known psychological transference isn’t because wokies are without imagination. Rather it is part of the designer-brained education that most receive.

Sceptics are the 3% or so that transcend this diabolical mind washing. Odd and very revealing that the obedient minions, all armed with the same official talking points into same order, think one has to receive a paycheck from some group to disagree with foolishness. Thinking for yourself is not a concept acceptable to their handlers.

Mark ingraham
October 9, 2021 12:37 am

Isn’t it literally the opposite

October 9, 2021 12:58 am
  • Professionals: Scientists, engineers, graduate students, doctoral candidates
Mark Pawelek
October 9, 2021 2:02 am

How do we submit our essays?

I wrote an article. I want to submit it to WUWT but I can’t find your email address anywhere.

Here is my article.

The article notes: 1) massive funding climate science got since Obama; 2) No attempts made with this money to validate a “greenhouse gas effect”. 3) one particular article (Keating, 2007), in a peer-reviewed journal, confuses heat capacity with a ‘greenhouse gas effect’.

It would be much easier if we could submit our essays as html.

leitmotif
Reply to  Mark Pawelek
October 9, 2021 4:15 am

Lukewarmists take note.

Reply to  Mark Pawelek
October 10, 2021 10:56 am

Look at the top of the page where you will see a box “Submit story”.

leitmotif
October 9, 2021 4:00 am

Back Radiation Is Bollocks by Willis Eschenbach.

Reply to  leitmotif
October 9, 2021 9:40 am

To be fair, “back radiation” was not invented by Willis. There are lots of far more prominent “climate scientists” and institutions spreading that nonsense. Understanding how “back radiation” (which of exists!) can not heat anything, is like a little IQ test. And as with any IQ test, it is hard to imagine how anyone could possibly fail on such simple questions. But people do..

leitmotif
Reply to  E. Schaffer
October 9, 2021 1:22 pm

To be fair, “back radiation” was not invented by Willis. “

I know that but he is the one who continually pushes this back radiation bullshit without a shred of evidence that it has any effect whatsoever.

If you criticise him he gives you abuse or deletes your post and lots of WUWT posters rally to his defence and you end up with a downvote that looks like griff’s.

If WUWT is a truly sceptical website it should be challenging the lack of evidence supporting the GHE not arguing how effective the GHE is in raising the temperature of the planet surface or what the ECS should be. That is simply a discussion between climate change alarmists and lukewarmists.

It’s time to quash sophistry.

Reply to  leitmotif
October 9, 2021 6:51 pm

Anyone willing to leave their comfort zone? Be true to yourself! We are all playing the same game, the difference is just the tools we have. Yes, Willis is an asshole, so am I. The point is Willis is an incompetent asshole, which marks the difference.

It is all about competence. We would need to sort this out in a kind of survival of the fittest, which science should be all about. Who would doubt I will be the lone survivor? 😉

Reply to  E. Schaffer
October 11, 2021 11:33 am

The spectrum of a-holes from the very top DAVOS, to the woke, has an untraviolet catastrophe ( you know the UV thing before Planck ).

Planck solved that with ‘help’ the famous constant h. The world was never the same again.
Today H-yperinflation, a catastrophe for the woke, will be solved with a HELP!
Then starts some actual thinking!
What helps? Well, crash economic programs, in quanta, never mind gradual ‘recovery’ or ‘tapering’ by the FED.

Rich Davis
Reply to  E. Schaffer
October 9, 2021 7:01 pm

Yes, both you and leitmotif fail that IQ test and serve as useful idiots to discredit other skeptics.

How hard is it to understand that anything that delays cooling retains heat?

Instead of noting that the effect is harmless, and indeed beneficial, you persist in spouting discrediting nonsense.

leitmotif
Reply to  Rich Davis
October 10, 2021 4:05 am

I think you are the idiot, Rich Davis. Only an idiot would confuse “cooling slower” with “increasing temperature”.

You accept the GHE without ever asking whether anyone has tried to measure the effect of the GHE.

You are a useful idiot to the lukewarmists on this blog.

Reply to  Rich Davis
October 10, 2021 7:09 am

But “back radiation” does not delay cooling, or retain heat. It does nothing at all! It is just an entropic process where every molecule emits and absorbs radiation according to its temperature. It even happens in your body. It is never a source of energy. It will only even out differences in temperature.

For instance the “GHE” partially does even turn negative with an inversion, as the air is warmer than the surface and emits more radiation. That has led some to argue CO2 would rather cool the antarctic, which would explain why there is no warming. It is not true either. However what you should ask yourself is, how a GHE can turn negative despite the atmosphere providing “back radiation”, and actually plenty of relative to surface temperature. How is that possible?

leitmotif
Reply to  E. Schaffer
October 10, 2021 12:58 pm

The irony of the WUWT stance is that it rejects the claim that the CAGW effect of the GHE is settled science and then endorses the lesser GHE hypothesis and claims that that science is settled.

If you do not agree with the lukewarmists you are a Sky Dragon Slayer.

Isn’t Tim Ball one of those? Hmmmm?

leitmotif
Reply to  leitmotif
October 11, 2021 1:36 pm

I’m loving my downvotes. It proves my point.

Lukewarmists are warmists who haven’t come out of the closet yet.

October 9, 2021 4:16 am

I had to install AdGuard since FF and Edge were killing my 6-cpu PC. I can leave sites through, but WOW, WSJ and all MSM have a real hissy fit when they detect. I don’t even get to the Paywall!

Even works on android, no idea what FaceBook would do..

And to think of the $89 TRILLION that Davos and Mark Carney want to flush through the worlds’ central banks!
There are some clowns who still see BlackRock as a fossil fuel hedge fund, and miss that $89 TRILLION gorilla under the carpet.

What is derailing this insane green lurch to Climate Church is the hyperinflation hitting true believer’s (who dismiss science) right now. Davos does not have much time – the Great Reset looks like the Great Whimper!

In times like this profound questions begin to grip former believers, and Davos et al, fear that most of all. Then profound answers, such as massive development crash programs become the only game in town….

Mervyn
October 9, 2021 5:57 am

What is the closing date to submit the essays?

leitmotif
Reply to  Mervyn
October 9, 2021 1:23 pm

The week before extinction.

October 9, 2021 6:27 am

Web advertisers are no doubt already noticing that the value of their ads is withering since their audience on Google censor-approved sites is shrinking by the day.

Ed Fox
October 9, 2021 8:16 am

“…fails to support the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming aka the “climate crisis””.
≠===========
Anthony, only 25% of the population respond to analytical arguments such as you have outlined. The other 75% respond to emotional arguments. That is why the polar bear is so successful as an icon for climate change.

Climate crisis is an emotional trigger, not an analytical argument. The climate discussion has moved on.

It matters not one wit that the theory doesn’t support AGW. What matters is the reaction driven by what people believe.

Mr.
Reply to  Ed Fox
October 9, 2021 3:22 pm

Spot on!

Thinking rationally is far, far more taxing than just rolling with how you “feel” about something.

Marketers have known this for centuries.

“Free” is one of the most emotive strings that pull acceptance / buying actions.

Smarter buyers investigate how anything can be offered for free by an organization that has fixed costs.

(Like solar panels providers)

Reply to  Ed Fox
October 9, 2021 3:39 pm

Isn’t that the basis of an essay. You could argue the question is no longer meaningful. I think it is close to fact. The next phase will be to see how it unravels as the weather gets colder and random energy extraction is recognised as a humungous waste of resources. Look at the Afghan war. It was being won for two decades then lost in two weeks! People dying of cold across the northern continents in a few months could change a lot of minds about fossil fuels.

Many years ago I was in a school debate for the affirmative on the proposition –
The USA is dying!

The negative side argued the USA was dead. The strategy was something we had not contemplated and our argument had to change midstream from dying to something like – being still alive but on life support.

Reply to  Ed Fox
October 11, 2021 11:26 am

Watch as the Woke respond to their portmonae, their wallet, which is all they actually believe in.
Hyperinflation hits the wallet, hard.

Time for profound questions about nature and economy, as the wallet empties….

prevent blackouts
October 9, 2021 9:11 am

First things first: As serious blackouts rise, a governmental committee in London (that boris doesn’t listen yet) says for many months: Only with PERMANENT INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION will the electricity networks operate without local and global blackouts. https://nationalpreparednesscommission.uk/2021/07/national-resilience-preparing-for-future-challenges/ 

AGW is Not Science
Reply to  prevent blackouts
October 11, 2021 9:26 am

While you can “cooperate” as much as you like, if your ultimate source of power is sunshine and breezes, you’re basically screwed.

Tab Numlock
October 9, 2021 5:56 pm
Sara
October 10, 2021 4:21 am

Prepare ye the Way of the Cold!!!

Okay, I did see “Godspell” too many times at the theater (much more fun than a movie), but if you were there….. 🙂

Can I do something with my photos that shows how important WARMTH is to plants and insects, especially since we depend on both organisms to do things that provide us with food?

October 10, 2021 6:48 am

Great initiative!

High Treason
October 10, 2021 3:02 pm

The critical thing is to test essays out on some brainwashed zombies. The key will be to induce these slaves to emotion to ask questions. People have to wake themselves up by asking questions. It is our Duty to lead the sheeple to ask the questions that will set them free from their brainwashing.

The ability to question makes us human. The right to question makes us free. This shall be my opening line. As it is directed to scientifically ignorant people, I will try to tap in to emotions (bit of a challenge since I am a bit of a hard nosed non emotional, non conformist type) and induce the readers to come to their own conclusions. Enlightenment can ONLY come from within.

Remember, we are writing to convince those who think differently to ourselves. The target audience is emotional and not logical.

Lit
October 11, 2021 12:15 am

Still no mention of the nobel prize in physics on WUWT? A nobel prize for climate models that have been 100% wrong in their predictions. It deserves a comment I think.

October 11, 2021 6:08 am

The increase in type 2 diabetes is the ultimate argument. If we had a climate crisis we would have a crop crisis. We dont, obviously.

leitmotif
Reply to  Matthew Sykes
October 11, 2021 1:06 pm

If we had a climate crisis we would have a crop crisis.”

True. In fact it is the opposite. Record crops year upon year.

Lukewarmists give alarmists the credibility they don’t deserve.

WUWT seems to have more than its (dave) fair share of lukewarmists.

When are lukewarmists going to challenge the claimed catastrophic effects of the GHE or the ridiculous ECS claims which are based on groupthink and cargo cult science by the media and alarmist websites and publications instead of agreeing with them to a point?

Meanwhile, BBC One will screen a film drama, The Trick, on October 18, based on Climategate 2009 where Phil Jones et al at the CRU UEA are shown to be hacked by climate change deniers to discredit the settled science of AGW.

With time running out against an unseen enemy, The Trick looks at the potentially devastating consequences to humanity from climate change denial; how a media storm undermined public confidence in the science and how the concept of ‘truth’ took a back seat causing us to lose a decade of action. The film also charts the unjustified persecution of Phil Jones, his wife Ruth’s fierce support of her husband and the fight for the ultimate exoneration of himself and the science.”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2021/the-trick

I seem to remember it differently.

Don’t know about you but I would be very wary about supporting the roll of the GHE in the settled science when the only difference between warmists and lukewarmists is “How Much?”.

Maybe WUWT needs a new direction?

leitmotif
Reply to  leitmotif
October 12, 2021 5:13 pm

I made WUWT aware of the screening of The Trick a few days ago but no response so far from them even though I supplied my email address. Maybe WUWT considers making heroes out of the CRU UEA crooks an OK thing or maybe I made too many complaints about Willis and his back radiation bullshit

We are going to get about 90 minutes of how Phil Jones and his wife et al were persecuted and destroyed by climate deniers hacking their emails intent on discrediting the science of man-made climate change.

And all on the National Broadcaster of the United Kingdom, BBC One, for 67M people and 150M worldwide in English and 27 other languages worldwide.

Just before COP26, too.

leitmotif
Reply to  leitmotif
October 13, 2021 5:44 pm

Oh, well, I tried.

WUWT should be hammering down on this sort of rubbish if it is seriously opposed to disinformation on AGW.

Obviously it’s not.

MJB
October 12, 2021 11:00 am

Sent in my small part. Best of luck.

leitmotif
Reply to  MJB
October 12, 2021 5:14 pm

Did you pack it in ice?

John Bell
October 15, 2021 4:09 pm

I would like to donate, can I send a check? address? I am in Michigan, I donated before.