By Robert Bradley Jr. — December 16, 2021
“If anything embodies and signals the end of the age of reason it is this climate cult, in the grip of which the west has gone through Alice’s looking-glass into a surreal post-science, post-truth world.
No wonder Russia and China didn’t even bother to turn up to COP26. Their contempt for the west must be bottomless as they look upon its accelerating economic and cultural green suicide — and rub their hands.”
I recently read a piece by Melanie Phillips that spoke volumes about the two-week snooze show hosted by the United Nations last month in Glasgow. “The Tragi-comic Climate Doomsday Cult” (November 2, 2021) begins:
What would happen if a doomsday cult were to take over the world? Science fiction? No. It’s happened. How else to explain the collective lunacy of the COP26 meeting in Glasgow, an absolute farce where world leaders made complete fools of themselves?
And continues:
There’s been much criticism of the hypocrisy of the event, with hundreds of private jets flying into Glasgow to hector the world about reducing carbon emissions. Far, far worse has been the total erasure of rationality in the hysterical chorus that this was the “last chance to save the planet” — and the fact that no-one in mainstream debate has challenged this as utter unscientific garbage.
Boris Johnson Theatrics
She turns to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s address:
“It’s one minute to midnight on that doomsday clock and we need to act now.” Pledging once again to make Britain the “Saudi Arabia of wind power,” he said people were “quilting the earth in an invisible and suffocating blanket of CO2, raising the temperature of the planet with a speed and an abruptness that is entirely man-made.
Was this the same Boris Johnson who in 2015 called the concern that global warming was causing rising temperatures a “primitive fear” which was “without foundation,” and who claimed in 2013 that wind turbines couldn’t “blow the skin off a rice pudding”? It was.
Phillips then asks an obvious question:
Speaker after speaker said COP 26 was the planet’s last chance to save itself from extinction through climate change. Do none of these people ever stop and wonder why this very same claim has been made over the years with just as much urgency —only to be made again when the climate apocalypse hasn’t happened or has been once more mysteriously postponed?
Prince Charles
At COP26 on Monday, we were told we had until 2050 to save the planet. We were “quite literally” in the “last chance saloon,” said Prince Charles.
Addressing the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, Prince Charles had told delegates “our planet has reached a point of crisis and we have only seven years before we lose the levers of control”. Which set the last chance saloon in 2016.
In 2018, climate scientists said there were 12 years to save the planet. Which took the last chance saloon to 2030.
BBC
In July 2019, the BBC’s environment correspondent Matt McGrath wrote there were now 18 months to save the planet since “the decisive, political steps to enable the cuts in carbon to take place will have to happen before the end of next year.”
McGrath reported:
“The climate math is brutally clear: While the world can’t be healed within the next few years, it may be fatally wounded by negligence until 2020,” said Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, founder and now director emeritus of the Potsdam Climate Institute.
The sense that the end of next year is the last chance saloon for climate change is becoming clearer all the time.
“I am firmly of the view that the next 18 months will decide our ability to keep climate change to survivable levels and to restore nature to the equilibrium we need for our survival,” said Prince Charles, speaking at a reception for Commonwealth foreign ministers recently.
Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury
Evidence of how this issue is frying people’s brains (if not the world) was provided by the mess that Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, got himself into when he compared climate change to the Holocaust. The Mail reported him saying:
“People will speak of them (current world leaders) in far stronger terms than we speak today of the politicians of the 30s, of the politicians who ignored what was happening in Nazi Germany because this will kill people all around the world for generations, and we will have no means of averting it”.
Asked whether that meant failure to act on climate change would be worse than people allowing genocide to happen, he replied: “It will allow a genocide on an infinitely greater scale.
“I’m not sure there’s grades of genocide, but there’s width of genocide, and this will be genocide indirectly, by negligence, recklessness, that will in the end come back to us or to our children and grandchildren”.
Oh dear. Realising virtually immediately that he had made a grievously inappropriate comparison and diminished the genocide of the Jews, the archbishop quickly apologised and retracted his words. But the fact that he had said them shows the extent to which “climate change” has simply unbalanced people and erased all sense of proportion and reason.
The Queen
Shockingly, even the Queen has endorsed this mania. Praising the commitment of the late Prince Philip, Prince Charles and Prince William in “encouraging people to protect our fragile planet.”
She said:
“It is the hope of many that the legacy of this summit — written in history books yet to be printed — will describe you as the leaders who did not pass up the opportunity; and that you answered the call of those future generations. That you left this conference as a community of nations with a determination, a desire, and a plan, to address the impact of climate change; and to recognise that the time for words has now moved to the time for action.”
The Queen was representing the government’s position — the role she is supposed to play. However, she seemed to be personally endorsing “net zero”. It’s bad enough that Prince Charles bangs on about this. The Queen, however, is supposed to be above politics, and we must never know what she thinks — a role she has played to absolute perfection throughout her long reign. Until now.
But then, a key part of this lunacy is the belief that “climate change” is above not just politics but all normal discussion— that there can be no argument against it. The issue is beyond debate because the science is said to be “settled”.
But science is never settled. The climate change cult is akin rather to religious faith — more than that, to the type of religious faith that brooks no dissent.
The Queen was representing the government’s position — the role she is supposed to play. However, she seemed to be personally endorsing “net zero”. It’s bad enough that Prince Charles bangs on about this. The Queen, however, is supposed to be above politics, and we must never know what she thinks — a role she has played to absolute perfection throughout her long reign. Until now.
For another look at COP26’s failure, see here.
I guess the voters still get a word in edgewise on occasion.
Pressure on PM Johnson after UK Tories suffer election upset – ABC News (go.com)
Yup – they had their say; rejected a party that supports net zero and voted in a minor opposition party that supports net zero, that’s democracy in action.
December 2021 and off the East Coast of Australia, Queensland and New South Wales near coal loader ports there are bulk carriers anchored at sea awaiting a berth to load export shipments of coal.
You need to get Biden in there to talk those coal loaders into working 24 hours per day, like he did with the Los Angeles port cargo backup. We need to get that coal moving! Joe Biden to the rescue!
From the article: “But then, a key part of this lunacy is the belief that “climate change” is above not just politics but all normal discussion— that there can be no argument against it. The issue is beyond debate because the science is said to be “settled”.
But science is never settled. The climate change cult is akin rather to religious faith — more than that, to the type of religious faith that brooks no dissent. ”
Not only is Human-caused Climate Change Science not settled, it has never been shown to represent the real world. it’s never been detected, yet the alarmists claim it is settled. How can they claim it is settled when they can’t even find it?
This is the biggest science scam in human history. Led by Michael Mann the Flim Flam Man. Mann has some snakeoil to sell everyone.
The climate cultists are like Squatch and UFO hunters. They see evidence where there is none, and proclaim success.
If only we could harness the wind from these blowhard politicians…
The main reason for my disaster skepticism is that I am an old codger who went through the “we’re all gonna freeze” forthcoming ice-age climate disaster of the 1960s -70s. There were even demands for more carbon-dioxide.
Yes, the Human-caused Global Cooling meme was what got me skeptical about climate science. The Global Cooling supporters kept claiming they had evidence, but they never provided any evidence, just assumptions and assertions, just like the Human-caused Global Warming advocates do today. And they don’t have any evidence either, just speculation, assumptions and assertions. This is not science, it’s advocacy.
There is no evidence for either Human-caused Global Cooling or Human-caused Global Warming. In this context meaning humans are altering the Earth’s weather. There is no evidence humans are altering the Earth’s weather.
Yesterday a high pressure system dominated the weather over Europe, with little wind from southern Norway to Morocco. Night fog in the UK lifted during the day into low stratocumulus.
Low wind, blanketing cloud. The wind turbines at lunchtime were producing 0.77GW from an installed capacity of 24GW. Solar ‘parks’ w wet re producing about 1.2GW from 14GW.
For years now HMG has been closing coal-fired power stations and knocking them down. There must be a couple left. Yesterday they were producing just under 2GW, fractionally more than wind and solar combined.
The National Grid engineers have been working miracles keeping the lights on. We can’t go on like this.
JF
“Yesterday a high pressure system dominated the weather over Europe, with little wind from southern Norway to Morocco. Night fog in the UK lifted during the day into low stratocumulus.
Low wind, blanketing cloud. The wind turbines at lunchtime were producing 0.77GW from an installed capacity of 24GW.”
That’s one of the main problems with windmills: They don’t work when the wind doesn’t blow. And we have idiots in authority that think it is a good idea to use windmills for all our electric power needs. Here’s a clue to these idiots: It doesn’t matter how many windmills you build, if the wind doesn’t blow, none of the windmills will work. And as you can see from the link below, a high-pressure system can cover, and becalm winds, over a large area.
The UK is still at the center of the high-pressure system today, although it looks like the pattern is changing a little. Until then, the windmills are not going to be producing much electricity.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/500hPa/orthographic=-4.45,40.27,264/loc=-1.855,54.072
Windmills are just SO stupid!
WindmillsPoliticians are just SO stupid!Apparently the Uk has become the Pinocchio of truth, the Spanish Inquisition of Science and the Enron of wise investing.
People who believe in eternal lakes of fire etc., are probably not good sources for climate trend advice.
The Queen
Unfortunately she’s just another vastly over-rated ratbag.