From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
OCTOBER 12, 2021
By Paul Homewood
Congratulations to Guido, who beat me to it!
Doom-mongering journalists at Sky News are reporting unsubstantiated graphic claims that London is on course to be flooded, illustrated with an image of Buckingham Palace in 3 metres of water. The only thing that is flooded is the report – flooded with misleading climate claims. Using graphics from hyperbolic campaign group, Climate Central, Sky News implies that famous world sites including Buckingham Palace, the Burj Khalifa and the Lincoln Memorial will be completely flooded by water due to fast rising sea levels if the UK fails to halve annual emissions by 2030. Hardly water tight journalism…
Full story here.
Where are Facebook’s fake factcheckers like Zeke Hausfather now?
Ah yes. When is Facebook and its sock puppet “fact checkers” going to label this bit of panic porn?
Mark Zuckerberg is investing in a genetic engineering program, so pigs really will be able to fly.
Facebook is not paying factcheckers to check facts that will destroy the tools billionaires have created to justify globalism.
Commie fact checks are as Commie science.
They serve a specific Mafia where poor liars are being paid by rich liars to protect their lies.
And even if Zuckerberg tried he would instantly get the trump treatment and his Epstein Island sex tapes would be leaked .
I dunno about the flying thing but they are trying to turn the sows ears onto silk purses
Lipstick on a pig is still a pig – watch the 2 new ‘whistleblowers’ .
I fear the war against alarmism is being lost with the propaganda in all the media, not just Facebook. The only war that can be won is through science. As with Galileo, sites like WUWT need to persist through this new inquisition, for that is what is happening, until sanity and reality prevails.
I saw the graphic on CNN this morning … just shook my head.
This crap will never end until the warmunists move on to some other excuse for their socialist revolution that the People don’t want and never will want. People want control over our own lives, and private property. It’s who we are as humans.
All this stuff was supposed to be flooded out like 30 years ago.
Shouldn’t have mattered as Ehrlich said about 90% of population would die off by 1990.
And those 90 % were killed in Manhattan and the Maledives that drowned in 2018 – according to Hansen who claimed last year that he wished his predictions would have been wrong.
Hansen’s predictions were actually lies…had to be. No scientist anywhere really believed (back in 1988) that by 2017, the Hudson River would rise over the West Side highways of Manhattan from Global Warming. That would have required prodigious impossible amounts of captured energy to melt off glaciers and warm the oceans enough to cause 30 feet of sea level rise in 30 years.
Any REAL organization would have tossed him aside to minimize the ridicule and embarrassment from such a ridiculous prediction….but no…Hansen is a “well respected” stalwart of the (LYING) Climate Crisis Community.
They are all a bunch of Globalist-financed… Fake MSM Press-promoted liars and frauds. Destroying the (already shaky) reputation of the once hallowed Instution of Science is now a “done deal”.
“This crap will never end until the warmunists move on to some other excuse for their socialist revolution”
They are knowingly or unknowingly using Ingroup-Outgroup morality to create a world government. They need essentially everyone to have a common enemy, be it climate change, space aliens, pandemics, or whatever they think is doable.
My personal favorite would be a very large asteroid that will hit the Earth in ten years and wipe out all life. You would have world government in two months.
You listen to CNN? Shame on you…
“Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer.” –
The Art Of War
No, that’s a line from “The Godfather, Part II” spoken by the character Michael Corleone.
“Keep your friends close and your enemies closer” is an ancient proverb. It goes back thousands of years to the philosopher Sun Zhu.
https://grammarhow.com › keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer
Know your enemy, know yourself.
If you only listen to people who agree with you, you will never know what the opposition is saying and doing. You can’t convince anyone of anything if you never leave your bubble.
Probably half or more of the posts linked to and discussed on this site are from the opposition. It’s what we do here at WUWT.
When truth is not alarming, create unnecessary and frightening false alarm. About every leftist lives by this mantra.
Yes, it is a favored tactic.
History shows that LBJ used a fake bullet and told Sen. Fulbright that it was from an American ship fired on in the Gulf of Tonkin in order to get Congressional support for war.
Exactly the extreme danger of US carriers and nuclear subs prowling the South China Sea. One such sub hit a submerged object with 11 injured last week – another Tonkin? Anyone remember the Kursk collision on 08/2000 in the Barents? Could have started WWIII, nuclear.
There would be no one to left to write the history….
Or rewrite history.
Huh?
The Kursk flooded and sank with all crew aboard because one of its torpedoes self detonated in the torpedo room.
Our sub struck something underwater in the SCS, not another vessel according to the Navy. Either the bottom, or some other floating or suspended object. No US sailors seriously injured, just a few cuts and bruises.
The Kursk hit a US sub, victims quietly moved to Bergen. The US agreed to pay damages, rather than start WWIII. Since when does the Navy and JCOC respect the Presidency? Just look at Milley…
handmade tales
The German weekly news magazine “Der Spiegel” on 8/10/1986
Dome of Cologne under water
Nothing changed…
When did they predict it would happen?
PS. Cologne Cathedral doesn’t have a dome. Maybe you meant Dom – German for cathedral.
Thought Dom = Dome in Engl. 😀 But yes I mean Dom
Well, given that Cologne sites at 54 M (177 ft) above sea level, at the current rate of sea level rise of 2 mm/year that will only take another 27,000 years, by which time of course we’ll likely be well into the next glaciation era where sea level is 100 m less than it is now.
Looks like that cathedral could use a good scrubbing.
Of course Spiegel failed to mention this would also be under water in Köln :
The lurch to the Climate Church follows no God, except Gaia.
If I were in charge, first thing I would do is put someone with a pressure washer to work.
If I were in charge i would lock down everybody except those essential to servicing my every need especially my favorite restaurants. Lock all the rest of those losers down!
Oh wait they already did that, testing the emergency lording system, sharpening their Climate Change carving knives on CCP Viruses funded with Fauci Dollars, i.e. U.S. Tax dollars laundered through the NIH.
As for Cathedrals, flood them all. The people in charge think they are gods, so all future services will be held in Government Buildings. The terms for taxes will change to tithes.
Sure, services to Gaia, well known with Mithra, the Roman military religion. Small problem, they demanded child sacrifice.
Which makes even less sense than Buckingham Palace. Cologne is a couple hundred feet above seas level, Buckingham Palace is only about 20 feet above the Thames at high tide. Even the a hard-core warmunist might have some issues with that one.
Never mind, Balmoral beckons. Queen Victoria had a vision there – the local apothecary order list of Laudanum – opium, is eye-watering…
Talk to the Dutch!
And the German Ahr Valley deadly floods recently? Not far from Cologne, and the reconstruction begins.
https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2021-10-12-after-the-flood-in-the-ahr-valley–a-dangerous-reconstruction.B1gIctTMrY.html
¨Flood-adapted restoration is only recommended. 15 billion euros for new houses¨
As with the Elbe flood disaster when chancellor Schroeder honestly said no funds were available, it looks the same here. Green-washing sure causes dementia.
How would we ever know when a prankster reporter went over the line with wild claims on climate change citing research? I mean where would we start in the current psych ward of claims and projections?
We might suspect it if the reporter’s name were something like: Sum Ting Wong or Chris Mooney or you take your pick.
We wouldn’t
sea level continues to rise at about 1 inch per decade as it has for 100 years according to tide gauges . what’s so complicated about that ?
It’s just inconvenient. When you realize that the sea level has been rising since the end of the last glaciation – It’s hard to accept that the doom claims of cities under a mile of water in your lifetime are fake. But I trust “the science” so those claims must be true.
“… 1 inch per decade as it has for 100 years…”
That’s 2.5 mm/year and 8 inches by 2100. Over the last 100 years it’s been about 1.7 mm/year Here’s a citation for that:
The variations in sea level trends seen here primarily reflect differences in rates and sources of vertical land motion. Areas experiencing little-to-no change in relative sea level are illustrated in green, including stations consistent with average global sea level rise rate of 1.7-1.8 mm/yr.
NOAA U.S. Sea Level Trend Map
The money quote in that paragraph is “… consistent with average global sea level rise rate of 1.7-1.8 mm/yr.”
Don’t like that it’s just for the U.S. tide gauges?
Here’s an illustration for seven long running tide gauges around the world:
That averages out to less than 7 inches by 2100
Yes, and sooner or later, SLR has to decline from the 1.7 mm/yr as temperate zone glaciers decline in size. At present we are seeing the melt from the Little Ice Age glacier buildup.
Fakebooks, farce-checkers?
Surely this is just humorous sarcasm. Isn’t Sky News skeptical about AGW?
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/so-much-for-all-those-global-warming-predictions/video/852044dd102aab2d0613b77ff2c24088
Sky News Australia – very much skeptical.
Sky News United Kingdom – Notorious climate liars.
We have the “Trusted News Initiative” to thank for the difference. UK news media are not allowed to query or promote anything other than than the AGW agenda. To do so may cost them their license to broadcast. Talk about propaganda and censorship.
The BBC is now forecasting hail showers in Glasgow on October 26th.
Thats racist
Yes hail stones are white and they hit people.
Proof, if any were needed, of unprecedented climate change.
I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.
Will former VP Gore be in Glasgow. If so, that forecast is probably a certainty.
But what about brimstone? What is that anyway-surely it’s on the CO2 causation list somewhere?
All hail the Great Green Davos Reset Leader?
Sky News (UK) really seems to be trying to outdo its competitors in the alarmism stakes. Take this laughable article…
“UK summer temperatures may hit 40C even if global warming is limited to 1.5C, scientists warn
The Royal Meteorological Society says such highs could become the new normal regardless of whether global temperatures are limited to a 1.5C (2.7F) rise above pre-industrial levels.
Wild weather has been a feature of this UK summer thus far, with scorching sunshine, pouring rain and powerful thunderstorms all making an appearance – and it comes after what was a record-setting year in 2020.”
UK summer temperatures may hit 40C even if global warming is limited to 1.5C, scientists warn | Climate News | Sky News
The truth about 2021 is it has been far cooler than 2020, it has been far wetter than 2020 and as for the scorching sunshine, that was the usual three hot days and a thunderstorm in July.
It hasn’t been wild, its been immensely disappointing – especially to the green fraternity, whose desire for a calamity has gone unrequited by that btch, nature.
UK summer temperatures may hit 40C even if global warming is limited to 1.5C, scientists warn | Climate News | Sky News
The reporting has nothing to do with real data or observable facts, it has to keep the narrative going.
And for a full on indoctrination session
“Sky News has launched the first daily prime time news show dedicated to climate change.”
It’s all about the Sovs for media outlets.
Climate porn is mostly free content for them, good for keeping journalism costs down.
Rupert has recently dug his ladle into this stuff as well.
Look at the business from his perspective –
free content for which ‘woke’ advertisers will pay to associate with.
Sweet!
Australia also had one of the coldest and longest winters for many years, in 2021. In fact we missed our summer completely. Good snowfalls across the alps and ski resorts. Knee deep snow where I live and had not seen that for at least 50 years. However our weather people, BOM and Weatherzone told us that it was the 4th warmest winter evva.
Just recycling the SOS!
03 Feb 1934 – “WORLD HEATING UP.” – Trove (nla.gov.au)
,,,,,,,,,,,; . All central London and : most of the
suburbs along the Thames Valley would,
be under: water. ……………..
Zuck is becoming a younger George Soros….he spent $500 million to pervert the election process …pure evil.
I just started reading Mollie Hemingway’s new book “Rigged” where she discusses how Zuckerberg helped Joe Biden’s election efforts with all that money.
The Elites in our country are trying to manipulate the public into giving them all the political power.
Republicans should read this book to see what you are up against in the next election. It’s time for reform.
No steadily increasing closures of the Thames Barrier – https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-thames-barrier
and London is sinking
“London’s sinking problem is largely a vestige of the last ice age”
Not so fast – just check what happened to Holland in 1953. A storm flood. Result Holland is the leading barrier country world wide.
Not to forget, the Dogger Banks off the Thames in the Storegga Tsunami catastrophe 8000BP. Today’s Holland is sediment from that. All can be blamed on climate, engineers actually act.
The main message that globalists are trying to avoid is that they can’t be trusted with energy security or economic conditions and family wellbeing.
Here’s a good example of that: Joe Biden just came out and said he has been working on the supply chain problem for months, and their solution is going to be to have the U.S. ports operate on a 24-hour basis.
What!
You mean to say that the ports have *not* been operating on a 24-hour basis for all this time? While more and more cargo backs up in the system?
Our leadership are a bunch of idiots.
Sure, cargo loading is fully 24h automated. Problem is transport from port inland. UK has a massive truck deficit, the US has no fast freight trains.
I’m not sure I would want a fast freight train. Slow and steady will get the job done.
I read where American railroads are increasing the length of their trains to try to help in moving the extra cargo.
Whatever the problems are at the ports, the Biden administration has done nothing to alleviate them.
There are ports in Florida that are now offering to unload cargo ships. Apparently they have excess capacity.
Nothing new as Oz media is full of climate crisis hyperbole at the moment with COP26 in the offing. The lefty propaganda machine is in full swing. Still the usual suspects will have to face the reality of another failed jet in knees-up after all their hype-
China plans to build new coal-fired plants after blackouts last week (msn.com)
They’ll have to work hard to spin that in their final communique drivel particularly if winter breaks early and hard in the Northern Hemisphere.
Australia’s Federal Treasurer has told us that Australia must collectively get on board with the rest of the world in building renewable energy. This is all so futile, when you look at what China’s plans are.
Seas up mother Earth?
When lies are all you have you screech them as loud as you can.
Here comes the flood of propaganda to accompany the COP26 shrimp-fest.
The climate cabal is well aware that hyper exaggerated CC stories are detrimental to their goals as the general public is not quite so gullible. This is actually a case of the absurd story line from their “useful idiots” getting away from them.
The Met Office is pretty sure the UK will be affected by sea level rise…
UK sea level projections to 2300 – Met Office
Luckily every inch of UK coast is covered by planning for and mitigation of sea level rise
Let’s see, Griff, you believe serious people are doing firm planning for speculated events out 80 years? Now, you expect serious people should do firm planning for an additional 200 years? The Soviets couldn’t even make Five Year Plans work.
Why don’t you just do your own planning and leave me to mine? Your and others’ urge to save the world leads to the severe distortions of centralized planning. Free market capitalism has given you the unprecedented standard of living you now enjoy; stick with it.
Two hundred years?
Just imagine how people from 1821 would think of the way we live now. Would they have predicted anything whatsoever accurately? In your mind, they would…
All pretentious hubris!
That’s equivalent to people in the 1720s predicting your current weather and climate. Besides using climate models that are, repetitiously, 100% wrong.
Alarmists can’t get their models correct out months away, predicting out to 2300 is completely irrational and so typical of alarmists..
Didn’t I read that Buckingham Palace (or rather, The Site Of) was under several meters of water in the first century at the time of the Roman conquest?
Much of the area around the Thames was swamp.
Now it is filled in swamp and after hundreds of year not likely to subside further.
There’ll be a picture added here that’ll give you brain-ache – it came from here
As far as I can see, the very far end of Buckingham Place Garden is, sort of, 9 metres above sea level and The House itself is maybe 16 or 17 metres AMSL
these people need help
Edit to : Orf wiv iz edd
I spelt place instead of palace
🙁
Chuck is already wet behind the ears so he probably wouldn’t notice
Who is really behind it all? Alarmist reports such as this are so extreme that I wonder if the real intent is to cast doubt on the alarmist movement itself.
Surely one doesn’t have to be a sceptic to question the credibility of those such claims are attributed to. What is the moral of the boy who cried wolf?
Money – just look at the Davos Great Reset, UN Climate Finance Mark Carney’s green notions. Alarmists shout, Big money whispers.
You can read the Financial Times article… it has been posted here:
Climate change could be behind Europe’s electricity generation from wind blowing off course
The trend threatens the U.K.’s pledge for electricity generation to be carbon neutral by 2035
The strength of the wind blowing across northern Europe has fallen by as much as 15 per cent on average in places this year, according to data compiled by Vortex, an independent weather modelling group.
https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/renewables/climate-change-could-be-behind-europes-electricity-generation-from-wind-blowing-off-course
Aren’t the wind speeds in the N Hemisphere dictated by the temperature differential between the Tropics and the Arctic? So if the Arctic really is heating up one would expect wind speeds to fall and if wind speeds fall what is the point of building ever more unreliable wind farms?
Affordable, available, preferable, subsidence, erosion and the climate change indemnity. It’s not just the Green blighters with vested interests.
Isn’t it curious – Venice has been known for decades to be sinking, even IBM modeled it. What has that to do with London, one may ask?
Well, the first Central Bank ever was founded in Amsterdam by Venetian Fondi, also a swamp, then moved to London City with the Glorious Revolution of William of Orange, also a swamp.
Why is it this ‘tradition’ favors swamps? Well, Venice thought it was un-assailable as a swamp until 3 national armies near obliterated it. Yet watery tradition still gurgles on :
https://poets.org/poem/city-sea
Here Edgar Poe, poet, pinpoints exactly the dilemma :
The City in the Sea
Lo! Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West,
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.
There shrines and palaces and towers
(Time-eaten towers and tremble not!)
Resemble nothing that is ours.
Around, by lifting winds forgot,
Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie.
Poets are the true legislators!
If it wasn’t my taxpayer money and my lifestyle I would actually find all these ‘reports’ very funny.
The Media seems to believe that if it is a ‘Report’ then it must be important. They skim the summary and rush off back to the newsroom to type “Worse Than We Thought” and “May Already Be Too Late” but I put to you that very very few ever bother to read beyond the front cover sheet.
For the giggles I actually down loaded and read a report about 4 years ago that bravely stated that Climate Change(tm) would destroy the internet.
What did I discover in the report?
This is – apparent – SCIENCE.
Burj Khalifa? All the way to the top? That would be some serious flooding.
Is there even enough water on the planet to cover the Burj Khalifa? Without major tectonic changes, I mean. The tower stays where it is.