From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
The BBC has published a supposed reality check on what “climate deniers” say.
Unsurprisingly it is full of strawmen, omissions, half truths and disinformation:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-59251912
CLAIM 1:
As they admit themselves, the sun does have an impact on the climate, and may be one of the reasons for recent global warming.
However they conveniently bypass the real argument of sceptical scientists, of whom there are many.
Nobody has yet put together a cogent explanation for what caused the Little Ice Age, and until we do we cannot fully explain subsequent warming. It is widely accepted that at least some of the warming since the 19th is a natural recovery from the Little Ice Age, and this is a crucial factor in projecting future temperature rise.
We also know that climate models have consistently run far too hot. The real debate therefore is climate sensitivity, and whether temperature rise will be so small as to be inconsequential, as many scientists argue.
CLAIM 2:
It is a fact that cold kills many more times as many as heat does. Meanwhile as countries become more prosperous its inhabitants can be shielded from the worst effects of heat, with for instance mechanisation, air conditioning and so on.
On the other hand, the abandonment of fossil fuels could have a disastrous effect on the health of people in colder weather.
The claims about extreme rainfall are simply absurd and not backed up by any hard data. And as we know crop yields have been rocketing in recent years, and not falling.
Finally, economists tend to agree that the world will actually be better off with a small amount of further warming, maybe as much as 1C.
CLAIM 3:
If renewable energy really is cheaper, and actually works, it will automatically gradually take over, just as societies have improved in all sorts of ways in the past.
But, of course, there is no evidence that they can replace fossil fuels, or that they are cheaper when all of the indirect costs are added in.
Climate sceptics are fully entitled to highlight the immense risk that are being taken with our energy security, and therefore our economies as a whole, in the name of climate change. The BBC fail to address this at all.
Instead they can only quote some junk studies that say the global economy could shrink by 18%. Even this is untrue, because they merely say it will be 18% smaller than it would have been otherwise. In reality nobody has a clue what the global economy will look like in 30 years time.
But given there is no evidence at all, merely GIGO computer models, that weather will become more extreme, there whole argument is bogus anyway.
CLAIM 4:
This is the classic “Watch the Pea” con!
The facts of the Texas blackout are indisputable. Wind power went over the edge of the cliff, when large parts were shutdown by the winter storm. It was ONLY the availability of back up gas power that avoided a catastrophic blackout. More wind and solar farms would not be able to help, because you cannot switch them on and off.
But even then, because of the closure of a lot of dispatchable gas and coal power capacity in recent years to make room for renewables, grid capacity in Texas was still tight. The stress that this caused the grid led to the rolling blackouts which followed.
ISD Global, by the way, are a far left think tank. Why the BBC even think they can offer objective advice about renewable energy is a mystery.
The argument about Venezuela is simply absurd, and thrown in as a red herring.
Why not ask the sceptics?
We know that climate sceptics are no longer allowed on the BBC, but if they want to know what sceptics think, why did not the BBC actually ask some of them to contribute and have a proper debate with them, instead of fabricating the BBC version of denialism?
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There are 2 sides to every story but not on the BBC .
And many other so called national broadcasters worldwide , a lot like Chinese news .
It’s so much easier to tear down strawmen than to actually engage with real people with real positions.
The history the Marxist BBC, or any Marxist co-opted media, naturally conspired to not direct your attention to:
“Trust but VERIFY” – President Ronald Reagan’s watch phrase when dealing with the USSR…
In 1975 the CIA’s CounterIntelligence Staff (CI) chief, James Angleton, was fired along with the purge of 80% of his CI Staff, cementing the Marxist control of the CIA, explaining how in 1980 Marxist John Brennan was accepted into the agency, even though he told his polygraph examiner that he voted for CPUSA candidate, Gus Hall, for change.
Hence why…
(1) The West conspired to not VERIFY the ‘collapse’ of the USSR, even though the survival of the West depended on verification should the ‘collapse’ be a ruse, which proves (1) there was no ‘collapse’ of the USSR, because if there had been a ‘collapse’ the West would have immediately VERIFIED the ‘collapse’; and (2) the West’s institutions were co-opted by Marxists, explaining the West’s enabling of the fake ‘collapse’ of the USSR…quod erat demonstrandum.
Hence how…
(2) “On the initiative of the KGB, an army of Soviet vigilantes five million strong, the so-called ‘druzhiny’, was recruited from among the Komsomol activists. Their units were led by retired Chekists. They have been patrolling and policing the streets of all the Soviet cities. Their primary task has been to prepare the Soviet people to ‘behave’ during the forthcoming ‘liberalisation’.” – KGB defector Major Anatoliy Golitsyn, ‘The Perestroika Deception‘, March 1989, pp. 14-15.
https://archive.org/stream/AnatoliyGolitsyn/Golitsyn-ThePerestroikaDeception-TheWorldsSlideTowardsTheSecondOctoberRevolution1995_djvu.txt
Hence why…
(3) Leningrad Oblast (Province) is still named Leningrad Oblast! Engels City is still named Engels City! Engels Air Force Base is still named Engels Air Force Base! Russian military personnel still refer to each other as “Comrade”! Kaliningrad Oblast is still named Kaliningrad Oblast! The State Emblem of the Soviet Union is atop the Duma building, and illuminated at night for clear viewing! Soviet Red Stars are still attached to the bows of Russian naval ships! The Hammer & Sickle logo is still on Aeroflot commercial aircraft! Not one statue to Lenin has been destroyed in Russia, where out of the 3,000 still standing throughout Russia, only a handful have been carefully taken down (in locations where tourists frequent) and hidden away in parks and museums, the remainder of these monstrosities to Russian nationalism/Russian Orthodox Church rubbing historical salt into still open wounds of Russian nationalists! The Russian ‘electorate’ are only ‘electing’ for president Soviet era communist party member Quislings, who persecuted the 85% of the religious population held captive by the Communist Party during the ‘Soviet era’!
…and…
(4) When the USSR officially ‘collapsed’ on December 26, 1991, thereby liberating the 91% of the population that were held captive for 74 years by the 9% of the atheist, religion suppressing, civil rights suppressing, population that were Marxists, there were ZERO celebrations throughout Soviet Russia, when thousands of celebrations were supposed to have taken place.
…and…
(5) When the USSR ‘collapsed’ in late 1991, the KGB controlled Russian Orthodox Church was never purged of its KGB clergy, once again identifying the (a) fake ‘collapse’ of the USSR; and (b) Marxist co-option of the West’s institutions that conspired to not VERIFY the ‘collapse’, even though the West witnessed the KGB-led vigilantes patrolling the streets of Soviet cities, ensuring that the Soviet population “‘behave’ during the forthcoming ‘liberalisation'”.
The Historical Backstory
(6) The World War I Allies conspired to not immediately send a naval expedition to Petrograd to easily topple the Bolshevik coup of November 7, 1917 when the Bolsheviks were weak – bereft of a professional military force that wouldn’t be created until January 28 the next year – thereby promptly returning Russia to the war, Russia’s involvement in the war being a critical variable for the Allies’ victory strategy against the Central Powers, proving (a) that the Allies knew they were going to win the war; (b) that the war was set up to (i) weaken the West’s influence in the world; (ii) weaken the West’s people’s confidence in their institutions and what those institutions stood for; and (c) one objective of the war was to settle into power the first above board Marxist state, with more to follow. In fact, there already was an anti-Marxist force in Russia at the time that if ordered would have conquered all of Bolshevik Russia during this period when the Bolsheviks were very weak. The unit was the 60,000 strong Czechoslovak Legion (soon to be 100,000 strong) but instead of sending the legion 700 miles north to Petrograd, the Allies sent it on a 6,000 mile odyssey across Russia to Vladivostok for evacuation to Europe(!), once again proving the Allies knew they were going to win the war…that the war was a Marxist operation.
(7) Even more telling is neutral Denmark’s laying mines off its coastal waters in international waterways in August, 1914 [thereby violating the 1857 treaty opening the Danish Straits to all shipping, where, “No ship of any kind may, under any pretext whatsoever, be subjected to detention or obstruction at the passage of the Sound or the Belts”] at the prompting of Germany (Germany too lays mines in the Danish Straits) and Great Britain does nothing! Not a word from the Allies (and the usual deafening silence from the Marxist co-opted press), in fact, even though access to the Baltic Sea is critical for the Allies to roll up Germany quickly by (a) closing the Baltic Sea to all German surface/subsurface vessels; (b) denying German access to trade with Sweden; (c) bringing the Royal Navy and the Imperial Russian Navy together; (d) forcing Germany to relocate critically needed infantry divisions and heavy armaments away from the Western Front for the new Baltic Front; (e) allowing British and Russian troop landings across the Baltic coasts, preventing German forces from moving eastwards towards Russia; thereby (f) knocking Germany out of the war before one shot is fired.
(8) France and Britain follow slavishly the German trenches from the French-Switzerland border to the North Sea Coast, rather than immediately win the war by pivoting and rolling up the German lines, while also outflanking the German lines. Needless to say, the Marxist co-opted media is silent on this ‘oversight’.