Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach [note update at the end]
According to the UN’s MyWorld poll of seven million people in 194 countries, out of the sixteen possibilities climate action came out … wait for it … dead last.
In general, the only people who thought it was important were the perpetually offended white wokerati with pronouns …
Why is it that rational folks around the planet put the priority of climate action so low? Well, first off, there are serious issues out there that affect us today—affordable food, jobs, healthcare, reliable energy for farmers and householders, real stuff, not a bunch of climate blowhards screaming that the sky is falling.
And the second reason is, folks know in their heart of hearts that science is all about making falsifiable predictions … and in that regard, climate science is a dumpster fire.
So I thought I’d take a look at what climate scientists, and those who believe climate scientists, and governments, and the UN, have predicted about the future. We’ll start with this classic:
Yeah, right, that hasn’t aged well … here’s another classic from the UN. They predicted 50 million climate refugees by 2010 … and when the real number was, well, zero, they tried to cover it up.
So to cut to the chase, here without comment and in no particular order are predictions from various climatastrophists:
Shot from Al Gore, 2006:
Chaser from Al Gore, 2018:
And finally, my personal favorite because it’s so much more precise than the others … 7 years, 98 days, 15 hours to save the planet.
Given that, only someone with pronouns could continue to think that these folks are serious. So why do the scientists involved continue to flog this dead horse?
The answer was given by Upton Sinclair, who said:
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!
Yep. The answer is money. And it’s not just the scientists, the UN, and the media who have been seduced by it. The cartoonist Josh has looked at the end series of UN “COP” get-togethers, with the upcoming one being COP26 … I figure COP stands for “Corrupt Oligarchs’ Party”, but hey, that’s just me. In any case, Josh has seen to the heart of the matter.
And those, dear friends, are among the many reasons that the world, or at least the sane portion thereof, puts climate action at the very bottom of their priority list.
My best to all, I’m gonna go outdoors and enjoy the climate on a lovely autumn day,
w.
PS—Please don’t bother pointing out that these are not all scientists. If influential lay people make colossal bogus scientific misstatements, it’s up to the scientists to not stay quiet. Silence in that case is not golden. It is support for scientific malfeasance.
UPDATE—A Looney Old Lady (her screen name) on Twitter pointed this out to me, too good to leave out:
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Ignorance and stupidity know no bounds!
Peter,
Much of it is just plain lying for monetary gain!
It would appear that the great Klimate Katastrophe will come to pass when utility scale functioning cold fusion is finally created.
Both are always 10 years away
I disagree entirely, cold fusion is always 20 years away.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/10/04/uah-global-temperature-update-for-september-2021/#comment-3361290
THE GREENS’ PREDICTIVE CLIMATE AND ENERGY RECORD IS THE WORST
The ability to predict is the best objective measure of scientific and technical competence.
Climate doomsters have a perfect NEGATIVE predictive track record – every very-scary climate prediction, of the ~80 they have made since 1970, has FAILED TO HAPPEN.
“Rode and Fischbeck, professor of Social & Decision Sciences and Engineering & Public Policy, collected 79 predictions of climate-caused apocalypse going back to the first Earth Day in 1970. With the passage of time, many of these forecasts have since expired; the dates have come and gone uneventfully. In fact, 48 (61%) of the predictions have already expired as of the end of 2020.”
To end 2020, the climate doomsters were proved wrong in their scary climate predictions 48 times – at 50:50 odds for each prediction, that’s like flipping a coin 48 times and losing every time! The probability of that being mere random stupidity is 1 in 281 trillion! It’s not just global warming scientists being stupid.
These climate doomsters were not telling the truth – they displayed a dishonest bias in their analyses that caused these extremely improbable falsehoods, these frauds.
There is a powerful logic that says no rational person or group could be this wrong for this long – they followed a corrupt agenda – in fact, they knew they were lying.
The global warming alarmists have a NO predictive track record – they have been 100% wrong about every scary climate prediction – nobody should believe them.
The radical greens have NO credibility, make that NEGATIVE credibility – their core competence is propaganda, the fabrication of false alarm.
It’s like watching one of those bobblehead toys: as with the impending doom of an out of control train flying down the tracks, you can’t take your eyes off it, but you really don’t want to look. So you do… and then you wish you hadn’t… and then you look again… and you fall down laughing until your stomach hurts… because the train was really made of cookie dough and frosting and you still get to have one with your hot cocoa…..
Why haven’t these Mavens of Doom done any forecasting on the Atlantic ridge zone and the Icelandic and Las Palmas volcanoes having their fun? I mean, that activity alone indicates that the Atlantic basin is (OBVIOUSLY!!!!!) going to crack wide open and the devastation from that alone will End Everything As We Know It!!!!…. or something like that.
Now, that didn’t cost anyone any cash, did it?
If I have to put /sarc on that stuff, I will be SO disappointed….. I may have to send my giant dragonflies to chide you….
Have a nice weekend.
Well, if the subduction zone did crack open that would put an end to the rising sea level scare:-)
The last time I looked, the UN poll had been taken down.
thatd be right
cant have the actual peoples views or needs being visible if they dont agree with the agenda
And how many of the vocal alarmists actually have solar panels/wind turbines on their roofs/properties? DANG FEW!
Just take a look at Hollywood.
How many of those willing Weinstein rape victi….celebreties have solar panels on their roofs and ” refugees” inside their homes?
But every single one of them owns a front beach property that was flooded according to Hansen,Mann ,UN already years ago.
There is reality and then there is the Marxist script.
Actors,scientists,politicians know the Marxist script and they know they’ll lose their privileged jobs if they don’t follow the script and tell the opposite = truth..
Officially they are all pro feminists,mee too supporters etc in the real world they all looked away for decades when Weinstein raped,
and they still do in terms of eg. James Toback.
Officially they believe in global warming,in the real world they buy front beach properties and drive fancy fossil cars – except Di Caprio.
His electric super car has the biggest carbon footprint in Hollywood as it is kind of custom prototype made in Japan to carbon shame people
and the feudal 300 feet Super Yacht Di Caprio used during the football world champion ship in brazil wasted during those 3 weeks more fuel than average joe in 10 lifetimes
and is owned by a Saudi Arab Sheikh.
And we all know what a dictatorship Saudi Arabia is, how women are treated there (almost as bad as in Weinsteins Hollywood )
that there is death penalty for gays,
and that blacks are usually called abeed,which means ni…_.!
Everyone knows that one has to be rich to afford living in communism which is now sold as postmodernism.
Only the most equal of animals will be allowed to continue their current lifestyle,
therefore noone wants to lose his privileged place of moral,intellectual and financial supremacy and become part of the 99.9 %.
Y’know, I’m almost beginning to feel bad about being a Western ‘white’ person.
Honestly, how do we manage to come up with so many climate pricks?
Frankfurt School, critical theory,polymorphic perversion.
Not enough gainful employment. Or at least it is not being pursued as it should be.
Why should they when they can make a decent living on government handouts ‘researching’ a non-existent problem and writing a completely wrong and inflammatory paper every couple of years. Defund the scammers for a few years and maybe they’ll start to realise they’ve gone way too far.
Not enough missed meals. That tends to sharpen your sense of what’s really important.
In the uk we have a Royal Abundance; led by the gobsh1te Charles!
This should be a permanent page up somewhere, and just before each image have some code write “x years ago” so as time goes by we can keep laughing at the failed predictions
https://extinctionclock.org/
Thanks Shark, been looking for something like that for ages.
Thanks!
Brilliant!! What a great reality check. Thanks for the link.
Unless of course it just just left the successful predictions out. Unless of course you think there can’t have been any.
There are no successful predictions for once you are correct.
Name one.
If they exist, now would be the time to break them out … but please, don’t claim that after 300 years of warming since the Little Ice Age, that a prediction of continued warming means anything. That’s just simple meaningless extrapolation.
Or as Mark Twain said:
w.
I see that YOU didn’t post any “successful” predictions, that would have been easy for even YOU to post them….. but you didn’t post a dam thing!
LOL
What a great resource !!! Thanks for posting!
Now we need a Warming Clock for all the temperature set data adjustments, with the number of degrees added to the global temperature after each adjustment… it would be real proof of “manmade” global warming, with nothing to do with carbon. (lol)
saved to favourites.
#Let’s go Brandon!
Imagine the amount spent on reducing CO2 emissions having instead been spent on cleaning up real pollution and creating first class recycling systems.
The atmospheric CO2 level only increased 1/100th of one percent in the sixty years from 1960 until 2020. CO2 level is not a significant factor regarding global warming or climate change.
The crude estimate I have seen is that US, state, local, and federal governments spend $9T a year, 40% of GDP. If half of that is wasted misdirection of free markets, GDP growth would be 20% higher without it. No matter how crude and simplistic that is, it sounds plausibly in the ballpark, especially when you consider how much private spending is wasted getting around government, such as the estimated 6 billion hours people spend figuring out personal income taxes every year.
Free Markets do not impair production in America. Production directly contributes to GDP, from farming and mining right up to sophisticated programs and electronic components production is easily net positive.
As every faux democracy free market set up by communist states have learned, free markets are distinct GDP financial generating engines.
Monopolies, group agreements, socialist efforts, nationalism, government involvement in businesses and government backed inventions, etc. are all huge negatives to GDP as Biden just proved.
Government monitoring, regulation and enforcement produce zero GDP.
EPA? A 100% money sink that frequently destroys entire industries. DOE? Another sink.
IRS is perhaps the worst GDP sink of all; just ask anyone that IRS investigated or prosecuted recently. No matter how right you may have been, the agency has the power of government behind every summons they send. people and businesses accept IRS findings, negotiate a settlement and pay. It’s cheaper than a decade of court cases and endless hearings
Justice department is rapidly following the IRS model..
Nor do you state what $9T a year is spent on, not even at a macro level.
or growing quality timbers for fine furniture.
Or building and staffing, in perpetuity, hospitals, so that we didnt have to lockdown for fear of overwhelming them – if that was ever a probability
“ PS—Please don’t bother pointing out that these are not all scientists. If influential lay people make colossal bogus scientific misstatements, it’s up to the scientists to not stay quiet. Silence in that case is not golden. It is support for scientific malfeasance.”
To me that is the entire purpose of Steve Koonin’s book, to refute journalists, activists and government malfeasance of what science there is.
It is comedy to watch the “fact checkers” point out that many of the various points Koonin refutes are false to start with, which to me shows the joke.
These are all lies told by alarmists that the “climate scientists” stay quiet about.
So Willis nailed it
Yes, the politicians like AOC and Kerry keep suspiciously promoting the year 2030 as being the point of no return, but without scientific support for that specific year.
Coincidentally, 2030 is the year that Dr. Landscheidt predicts the upcoming mini ice age will be fully engaged. It makes one suspicious this explains their frantic urgency, for that is when their fraud will be fully exposed.
There is a market for scary stories, with the precise content varying.
Whether it is evangelical Christians following predictions of the Second Coming, or greens and whatever dread threat is about to destroy the environment, the psychological impulse is much the same. Something of a suspension of disbelief, cheering the prophet, and not really changing all that much.
Tom,
Some evangelical Christians have weird ideals about the Second Coming which does not accord with the plain sense of the New Testament. However, the teaching about the second coming is not about a global catastrophe but something more sober and far worse: It is about accountability. It is about a day when all people will be held accountable for all the bad things they have done and for all their failures to do good things. I do not find an emphasis on individual responsibility and accountability coming from the climate alarmists. Prof Jordan Peterson was spot on. If young people do not keep their rooms tidy (also their immediate environment) their protests about everyone else cleaning up the world is worthless.
Um, the second coming of Christ is the antithesis of a scary story, for Christians . . The “psychological impulse” is to look forward to the end of the sort of “fear porn” under discussion here, among many other inhumane and deceitful things “the rulers of this world” engage in.
Also, there is no date attached. It could happen NOW, so be ready at any time. (Some scholars also think Revelations is more likely the result of a bad batch of rye bread; in their view, there will be no such warnings.)
Oh, and there is no such thing as “sin credits” for Christians. That got the Roman Catholic Church into deep trouble a few centuries ago. (Sadly, there are indications that they are reviving that idea these days.)
If there will be no such warnings, why would Jesus say (in Matthew);
“Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.” ?
And (in Mark);
“Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.”
And (in Luke);
“Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.”
It seems to me “some scholars” are going to be caught off-guard, so to speak, if they persist in thinking there is going to be nothing one does well to watch for. Not knowing the day or hour, is not the same as not realizing that the time is getting close, as I read the Book.
(And I be watching ; )
On average, Christ ‘comes’ for every individual around “3-score and 10 years” of age; and for those with more strength, it might be “4-score years.” Psalms 90:10.
PS, I read Revelations as a mixture of metaphorical language with “signs” the “Biblically literate” can grasp the general nature of. Some becoming clearer as the Story unfolds (if one is watching things unfold ; ) and others basically providing some comfort/hope, in the face of what seems truly wrong with the world.
There was no “spell it out clearly” option available, it seems kinda obvious to me, without spilling beans He doesn’t want spilt too soon, so to speak. As someone with a poetic bent, I find the book fascinating, and indicative of just how seriously He takes the situation He has/is putting us in.
(I don’t even “get” why “some scholars” think it is out of place in the Scriptures overall. This ain’t no party (as the song goes) this ain’t no foolin’ around ; )
I had a friend in grade school (circa 1966) who was a Jehovah’s Witness, who told me that the Second Coming was to be 1975. That church has violated the principle that predictions should not be too specific.
Tom, the JW predictions actually had several dates: 1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, 1975, 1997. I think they finally stopped predicting. Harold Camping took over after that
read Renan’s Antichrist. The Revelations may be about Nero’s persecution of the Christians. President Brandon (it/they) may be ushering in a repeat era.
Not if the preacher is a hard shell Calvinist who presumes that most
people are damned, which was the type preaching to my friends parents when I was a kid. Of course, that is not what Calvinists who know what they are doing preach, but yahoos are all too common.
It seems kinda self evident, to me, that Christians in general believe Christ is their savior. Someone faking it for whatever reason might see the second coming as a scary story, but they are not Christians.
I don’t care what religious fundamentalists teach their children: flat earth, creationism, makes no difference. It literally does not affect me, and the farther from reality, the sooner the children will question it.
Alarmunists do affect me: regulations, taxes, distorted markets. They do real harm. They intend real harm.
Most have not realised this but the Second Coming has already occurred. We are living in Hell. It is just a case of which circle you are in. President Brandon (it/they), Hollyweird (they them), these are in fact the devils (she/him). I urge you, when you wake up tomorrow morning, open your eyes and say to yourself, we are in Hell. Gives one (he/him/she/her/it/them) a new perspective on life, let me tell you…
I love all those “we have x years/months/days to solve the climate emergency” headlines. 🙂 Reading them gave me the best belly-laugh I’ve had in weeks.
Check out even more at https://extinctionclock.org
Bring out your dead, no wait bring out your wealth. We want your wealth for our list of programs and redistribution efforts. Do it now. The holders (involuntary donors) of the wealth don’t have a choice.
That’s the problem with a wealth redistribution: You do it once, and there is nothing left to redistribute.
Curious G,
If Bernie Sanders and AOC could take ALL the wealth from every American billionaire, it wouldn’t be enough to meet the federal budget for ONE year! And then thousands of workers would lose their jobs as well!
Aaack! I better stop giving them ideas!
And also, those who promote it plan to keep theirs.
The last chapter of “Animal Farm” all over again.
James Lovelock has come around to being more skeptical of the doomsayers. He thinks that XR is clearly bonkers and nuclear power is the only viable and scalable alternative to displace a significant amount of fossil fuels.
At 102 years old, it would be hard not to be set in one’s ways, but he has changed his outlook.
And how much damage has he caused along the way?
Difficult to quantify one way or the other. Overall he’s made notable scientific contributions.
His research before and during WWII helped the war effort immensely. His invention of the electron capture detector was a great advancement for analytical chemistry.
His Gaia hypothesis represents an interesting philosophical way of seeing the world. His support of global warming is regrettable, I’ll give you that.
he hates wind turbines
That’s true too, another plus.
Now in 2021 he is backing up the CO2 Apocalypse hypothesis in a BBC interview “Hard talk”.
That’s saddening. It’s easy enough for the media to twist and edit one’s words to fit their narrative. I don’t know what he said but it would be even easier for them to manipulate a 102 year old.
If you can share a link of the interview, I would be obliged.
This seems to be it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA1R64bBjHg
You are right. I was wrong about the BBC twisting his words, he obviously believes the message that was portrayed on AGW. I agree with him mostly, notwithstanding his views on greenhouse gases, but certainly on the role that nuclear energy could play.
I was fortunate to be able to attend one of his 100th birthday parties. It appears that he’s doing great (the interview was when he was 101).
There is a reason people consider “honest government” as several times more important than “climate action.” The two have become inversely correlated.
Failed prediction ridicule is very effective. And there is much more than what WE listed.
Arctic ice free by 2014 (Wadhams).
Children won’t know snow (Viner).
East River Parkway under water by 2010 (Hansen).
Wind as cheap as CCGT by 2015 (EIA).
There must be one at the top of the list from AOC added as well. didnt she say something like 17 months ?
It really isn’t about the climate…
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/un-climate-change-conference-reportedly-using-diesel-generators-charge-teslas-being-used
Don’t blame the scientists for not speaking up. We’re in the dark ages when it comes to truth that doesn’t conform with the narrative. The so called “Progressives” ( Marxists ) have fine tuned their propaganda machine and control of courts/government to effectively silence all opposition with intimidation, ostracizing, and fear. Peter Ridd anyone? It’s going to take a lot more than scientific truth to turn this ship around.
“It’s going to take a lot more than scientific truth to turn this ship around.”
It’s going to take an extended period of cold weather.
‘This is a story that needs to be told’: BBC film tackles Climategate scandal | Climate science denial | The Guardian BBC commissioned Vox Pictures to rewrite history by overturning the reality of ClimateGate.“Twelve years ago, Professor Philip Jones was subject to a barrage of hate mail and death threats that pushed him close to suicide. Emails, hacked from his laboratory, proved climate change research was a fraud, it was claimed.
Now Jones faces a repeat of that grim onslaught when the BBC One film, The Trick, is screened on 18 October. It will tell the story, sympathetically, of his tribulations at the hands of climate change deniers.
“At the time, the mail was awful. Everyone was attacking me and I couldn’t deal with it. I got Christmas cards filled with obscenities and, to this day – on the November anniversary of the hacking – I still get a couple of offensive messages,” Jones told the Observer last week.
“After The Trick is screened I expect there will be a new wave of abuse. However, I accept the risk because this is a story that needs to be told.”
Jones was head of the Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia University in Norwich in 2009 when hackers stole thousands of documents and emails from its computers. Their contents were then carefully selected and used by climate change deniers to promote the idea that scientists were falsely alleging fossil fuel emissions were warming the planet. Subsequent inquiries rejected all these allegations.
“It was a manufactured controversy,” said Owen Sheers, screenwriter of The Trick. “There was a definite strategy at work and a massive disinformation campaign. Yet, when I talk to those who remember any of it now, most still think a scientist really did get caught tweaking the figures.”
The twisted disturbed grotesquely delusional mentality of the BBC has no boundaries, they are determined by any means possible to defy logic rationality science observations fact and history to impose the belief at whatever cost to the people who pay their wages the absolute unadulterated lunacy of living at the whim of Alice in Wonderland fantasists in the belief that there really is a solution to a problem which does not exist which will allow these boneheaded freaks to exist in isolated luxury and comfort whilst everyone else dies in the process of just trying to survive on dead rats and grass.
Shell Energy tried to hike my direct debit from £87/month to £155/month based upon a fantasy prediction that in the remaining two weeks of my current contract I would consume another £527-00 in energy which they did presumably to justify me paying £155 a month when my contract does in fact not end until November 30th.
Imagine Shell is so desperate to preserve its own lunacy of entering the retail energy market based upon lurid accusations from its shareholders that it was not green enough now seeks street corner drug dealer mentality to coerce its customers to cough up huge dollops of cash because most like me have refused to contemplate spending £150,000 to fit heat pumps electric boilers solar panels tesla battery packs and smart meters fronted by Katie O’dwyer who expects to be praised to high heaven because she persuaded her own parents to spend countless thousands to climate proof their own house in order to save the planet. Some lunatic at Shell really did expect to use low pricing to get customers for electricity and gas and then abuse them 24/7 with hectoring phone calls and demented emails about the climate demolition in the expectation that they would joyfully spend money they don’t to make Shells entrance in retail energy a profitable enterprise.
I worked in London for a tanker brokerage 53 years ago and I used to repeatedly ask what happens to you guys if the oil runs out and they reply was always “well we will just have to do something else” not a single one then as now appears to recognise that without oil there is nothing else. Once we lose the portability of oil there is no other finite stuff to exploit, no fusion no fission no lithium no medical apparatus no catheters no blood tests no NHS in fact but the morons cannot think any further than the end of their now it is deplorable. That mental deficient dwarfs like Tim Davie at the BBC gets a £75,000 rise on top of his original £500k salary when the programs they produce are beyond childish boring fanciful gibberish and like the Guardian without the climate change paranoid they would both die. Morally and ethically repugnant, what happen to common sense and sanity??
The Guardian’s Andrew Simms 100 months “Countdown to Save the Planet” started in August 2008; we are now 157 months later so the Glasgow COP26 is useless.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/aug/01/climatechange.carbonemissions
It did save the Guardian financially though…
In 194 countries, climate change is not a top concern. In one country, Joe Biden is President.
Would you buy a used car from any of these people? Simply, do you believe them?
As social animals we have to have good bullshit sensors, or we could not trade.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
‘This is a story that needs to be told’: BBC film tackles Climategate scandal | Climate science denial | The Guardian BBC commissioned Vox Pictures to rewrite history by overturning the reality of ClimateGate.“Twelve years ago, Professor Philip Jones was subject to a barrage of hate mail and death threats that pushed him close to suicide. Emails, hacked from his laboratory, proved climate change research was a fraud, it was claimed.
Now Jones faces a repeat of that grim onslaught when the BBC One film, The Trick, is screened on 18 October. It will tell the story, sympathetically, of his tribulations at the hands of climate change deniers.
“At the time, the mail was awful. Everyone was attacking me and I couldn’t deal with it. I got Christmas cards filled with obscenities and, to this day – on the November anniversary of the hacking – I still get a couple of offensive messages,” Jones told the Observer last week.
“After The Trick is screened I expect there will be a new wave of abuse. However, I accept the risk because this is a story that needs to be told.”
Jones was head of the Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia University in Norwich in 2009 when hackers stole thousands of documents and emails from its computers. Their contents were then carefully selected and used by climate change deniers to promote the idea that scientists were falsely alleging fossil fuel emissions were warming the planet. Subsequent inquiries rejected all these allegations.
“It was a manufactured controversy,” said Owen Sheers, screenwriter of The Trick. “There was a definite strategy at work and a massive disinformation campaign. Yet, when I talk to those who remember any of it now, most still think a scientist really did get caught tweaking the figures.”
The twisted disturbed grotesquely delusional mentality of the BBC has no boundaries, they are determined by any means possible to defy logic rationality science observations fact and history to impose the belief at whatever cost to the people who pay their wages the absolute unadulterated lunacy of living at the whim of Alice in Wonderland fantasists in the belief that there really is a solution to a problem which does not exist which will allow these boneheaded freaks to exist in isolated luxury and comfort whilst everyone else dies in the process of just trying to survive on dead rats and grass.
Shell Energy tried to hike my direct debit from £87/month to £155/month based upon a fantasy prediction that in the remaining two weeks of my current contract I would consume another £527-00 in energy which they did presumably to justify me paying £155 a month when my contract does in fact not end until November 30th.
Imagine Shell is so desperate to preserve its own lunacy of entering the retail energy market based upon lurid accusations from its shareholders that it was not green enough now seeks street corner drug dealer mentality to coerce its customers to cough up huge dollops of cash because most like me have refused to contemplate spending £150,000 to fit heat pumps electric boilers solar panels tesla battery packs and smart meters fronted by Katie O’dwyer who expects to be praised to high heaven because she persuaded her own parents to spend countless thousands to climate proof their own house in order to save the planet. Some lunatic at Shell really did expect to use low pricing to get customers for electricity and gas and then abuse them 24/7 with hectoring phone calls and demented emails about the climate demolition in the expectation that they would joyfully spend money they don’t to make Shells entrance in retail energy a profitable enterprise.
I worked in London for a tanker brokerage 53 years ago and I used to repeatedly ask what happens to you guys if the oil runs out and they reply was always “well we will just have to do something else” not a single one then as now appears to recognise that without oil there is nothing else. Once we lose the portability of oil there is no other finite stuff to exploit, no fusion no fission no lithium no medical apparatus no catheters no blood tests no NHS in fact but the morons cannot think any further than the end of their now it is deplorable. That mental deficient dwarfs like Tim Davie at the BBC gets a £75,000 rise on top of his original £500k salary when the programs they produce are beyond childish boring fanciful gibberish and like the Guardian without the climate change paranoid they would both die.
Bernie Retires As His Vision Of Making The U.S. Just Like Venezuela Has Finally Been Realized | The Babylon Bee Lunacy has no bounds. “BURLINGTON, VT—Bernie Sanders has retired as a U.S. Senator as his lifelong vision of making sure that America becomes just like Venezuela and other socialist countries has finally been achieved amid Biden’s supply chain crisis.
“It’s just refreshing to see these empty shelves—reminds me of simpler times visiting Cuba and the Soviet Union back in my heyday,” he said to himself as he took a stroll through his local grocery store. He stopped by the deodorant aisle and smiled. “Not a single stick of deodorant to choose from. My work here is done.”
“I’m glad I can finally turn in my Senator’s badge and gun, resting easy in the knowledge that the United States is in good hands. We’ll be eating dogs before you know it.”
Sanders says he now takes a refreshing morning walk through the grocery store every morning, taking deep breaths as he admires the empty bread shelves, reminding him of the halcyon days. “We’ve gotta keep Biden in office so it can be like this all the time.”
There must be laws which the BBC and the media are in breach of. Tesco were fined £30,000 for misrepresenting the price of a punnet of strawberries so how come it is possible for the Guardian and the BBC to lie cheat and deceive 24/7 but be beyond the law. If I could find out what laws they are in breach of then I would put my hand in pocket and sue but I am sure I don’t have enough. These idiots are beyond reality. No fossil fuels no NHS. Having served time in the oil business I know for a fact you cannot pick and choose which products you like from heavy oil tarmacadam to highly refined products for catheters and blood tests.
Sheer unadulterated lunacy what exactly do their teach at Eton? Bullshit baffles brains.
The British Government, several years ago, gave an instruction to all managers and employees of the BBC that the science was settled and on pain of dismissal they were not to allow anything contradicting CAGW to be broadcast, and, since the Goverment funds the BBC, they have complied.
So it is the Government’s fault, not the BBC’s.
Trying to charge the British Government with a crime requires pockets that are very very deep.
Is it really the Government’s fault that the BBC caved in to their demands? Is the BBC a part of the Government?
Yes. It is funded by the Government and the Chair, CEO etc. are vetted by the Government.
When these predictions of pending doom became an every day event, I had an idea for a killer app –
a chocolate wheel that anyone could spin to get a predicted year in which the planet was going to spontaneously combust.
It would have been just as ‘scientific’ as those from the usual suspects.
I wish now that I’d hit up some billionaire wokesters for development $$$$s 🙁
There’s also another poll. The monthly Gallup “Most Important Problem” poll has been running for a long time. Currently, “Environment/Pollution/Climate change” is running at 4%. ie. 4% of people think the environment is the nation’s most important problem. It’s not nothing, but five times that many think fixing the government is the greatest problem. That’s the bunch I’m with for sure. I heard David Legates’ talk this morning. He said that calling Washington a swamp is seriously wrong and an insult to swamps everywhere. Yep. There many many stories with the same theme. As the Gallup poll points out, people notice that kind of thing.
Due to our “selected” representatives “pissing down our backs and telling us it’s raining” for decades now, the DC swamp has become a gigantic open air sewer! Trump merely hinted at cleaning up the corruption; and every branch of government including the fourth branch, the intelligence agencies, shifted into high gear to take him out!
The Russia hoax wasn’t getting the job done, but, lo, a small wizened saint came forth to slay the mean, orange dragon; and turn the US economy in the PC direction! All hail St. Fauxi!
It is all about stealing money, just that simple. None of these a$$wipes has ever had a real job, boy, they have told an awful lot of lies.
Of course. And humans will willingly change their lifestyles back to the 1850’s when the world was pristine and clean too. All it takes is money.
I had once read that the impetus for importing house sparrows was for them to help clean up the horse manure in the streets of NY. While that may be another Urban Legend, the story does suggest that 1850 was less than “pristine and clean.”
https://timeline.com/sparrows-invasive-species-america-9546e6a9e57e
I been to Colonial Williamsburg, ain’t nobody gonna willing go back to that, even with money involved. 😉