From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
Even by the i’s standards, this really is a load of unbelievable twaddle:
So just what are these profound ways?
Mental Health
Apparently:
“Experiencing the effects of climate change first-hand, for example by a flooding event, directly raises the risk of experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression or low mood, and extreme distress.
“People with mental illness are also more vulnerable to impacts of the changing climate, such as high temperatures, which worsen their physical as well as mental health. Damage to infrastructure and supply chains arising from climate change impacts also risk disrupting the provision of mental healthcare.”
The only mental health issues are the direct result of climate scaremongering, fed to a gullible, mainly young public by the media.
Unintentional Injury and Accidents
The ONS have long stated that warm weather tends to increase these injuries, for the simple reason that people go outdoors more for leisure and sports activities, which is obviously a good thing.
Productivity
“Heat typically leads to a reduction in work intensity or an increase in breaks, according to a report prepared for the Climate Change Committee”
I suspect cold weather has a much greater effect on productivity, not least when people cannot get to work because of snowbound roads.
And if warm weather reduces productivity, then the north of England must be more productive than the south – something which is self evidently absurd.
Heat Deaths
“More than 4,500 people died in England in 2022 due to high temperatures, the largest figure on record, with the number of heat-related deaths increasing over recent years, the ONS said last month.”
On the contrary, 4500 people did not die due to high temperatures last summer; as the ONS has previously stated, these deaths were merely displaced, brought forward a few days.
Every year, mortalities in England are at their lowest in summer months.
Sleep
“overheating was found to reduce good sleep by one or two hours “
There is nothing new in warm sleepless nights; we’ve always suffered from them in summer. That’s why most now have fans and cheap water coolers.
Food
A report on food prices in 2022 by the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit research group found that extra costs relating to climate change added £170 a year to the average UK household food bill – representing 37 per cent of food inflation.
The cost of making a chicken tikka masala has rocketed by 17 per cent in a year – and it’s largely the fault of climate change, according to a separate new analysis, by ECIU for the climate change charity Round Our Way.
This finds that the cost to an average family of four of producing ‘the nation’s favourite dish’ has shot up by £3.67 in the past year as prices of key ingredients have jumped. Supermarket canned tomato prices has risen by 32 per cent over the period, while onions are up 26 per cent and cooking oil by 38 per cent.
Whatever is causing food price increases, it most certainly is not climate change, as year by year food output continues to hit new records.
They also claim:
A report from the government’s climate change advisor, Committee on Climate Change, finds that, according to UK businesses, “extreme weather is already a significant source of supply chain disruption”
The study gave UK wheat yields as an example.
Wheat yields in 2020 (9.7 million tonnes) were the lowest since 1981.
The CCC can’t even get its facts right, as wheat yields were lower in 2012, and several other years since 1981. Large swings from year to year are perfectly common, but much more important is the fact that the long term trend is up:
Football
There is not yet enough data to know how the number of football matches cancelled in the UK due to climate change-induced extreme weather has changed over time, but there is a growing body of anecdotal evidence that the situation is getting worse.
At the same time, there are many scientific studies saying that extreme weather is increasing – and that this is as a result of climate change.”
In other words, there’s no evidence, but we think it must be getting worse anyway!
Most football matches are cancelled because of ice and snow, not a spell of warm weather.
In fact, anybody born in the last thirty years would no even be aware of any “climate change”. Any changes have been so small as to be invisible against the background of daily variability:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/data/meantemp_daily_totals.txt
Do the i’s readers actually believe this gibberish?
“The evidence that shows climate change is already impacting our livesi canvassed leading researchers’ opinions….”
Their opinions???? And that passes for evidence???
Joe if you can describe an affliction to you doctor, then the witch doctors at the IPCC can connect it to “Global Warm…aahhh we really meant climate change all along.”
Ingrown toenail? Climate Change!
Further evidence that “IPCC” really means “Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Clowns“!
“You don’t need proof when you have instinct.” Joe Cabot, Reservoir Dogs.
Mr. Page: I can’t quote, but I recall the famed criminologist Inspector Clouseau had “instinct.”
I heard that there were numerous broken down EVs impeding traffic on the main mountain highways into and out of Denver this weekend as a result of the cold weather and the fact that EVs are not fit for the purpose of driving in the mountains under such conditions.
I hope somebody has it on video and shows it to the world. Of course the owners will inform social media, I hope.
If they do, the social media platforms will take down the videos, claiming them to be mis-information.
Probably disinformation from Putin!!
Mr. hiskorr: To identify russian disinformation, you must have proper credentials. Are you a democrat?
Slip of the tongue — they aren’t supposed to acknowledge this as opinion.
When it comes to climate science, opinion trumps facts.
Yep. Just ask Gavin Schmidt.
According to his opinion, it’s a fact that humans are the cause of most if not all of the modern ”warming”
And everyone cheers….
Repent! Failure to worship at the altar of the WEF will cause dread effects so dire one cannot deal with them, because they are invisible!!
“We choose truth over facts”. Or something……..whatever.
The post hoc, propter hoc fallacy strikes again…
But you can be sure Tom Bawden uses FF every single day, oh but that does not matter because it is the peasants who need to sacrifice, not the elites.
What is causing food prices to increase?
Collection costs…
Shipping costs…
Storage costs…
Merchant Overhead costs…
All of which are directly affected by … Energy costs
The more cheap renewable energy percentage in the mix the higher the cost of energy.
Raising energy cost directly effects the entire field to table cost of food…and everything else for that matter
And now, capital costs, since we have to pay for the printing party of the last many years.
I’m curious how universities will react to what you describe as the printing party. They were pushing the edge of the “pricing themselves out of market” envelope. Will they rush back to the new higher edge or will they let the rest of the world catch up? There’s an important decision to make that is “realer” than it might seem.
Simple, we’ll get even more pampered do nothings to whine that their barista jobs aren’t enough to pay back their college loans. So either the government will mandate that all jobs pay at least $100,000/year, even for part time, or the government will just forgive all loans and subsidize the coffee to boot.
You forgot Carbon Taxes, and the idiot micromanagement during the COVID outbreak.
To claim that inflation over the last 4 years is due to climate change is utter stupidity or utter lies, either case justifies firing said utter-er.
Strongly worded. $5 gas in AZ was a killer.
It’s $8 in LA
Democrats, and their delusional ideology, have ruined California.
It didn’t have to happen.
Holy ^%#$^$ its true.
Due to the money wasted on the anti-CO2 agenda….
…. it is the RESPONSE to the fantasy of “climate change™” which is helping to push inflation.
Fuel costs; it (‘they?’, fuel costs) affect everything, and perhaps disproportionately too (although I have not examined in detail this last aspect.)
So with their economy drowning under the weight of expensive energy, the Germans have put tolls on trucks. Yep, that’ll help. One of the smallest states, Saarland, is facing 21,000 direct jobs loses from the closure of steel and gearbox plants – who knows how many indirect jobs will go.
It looks like a downward spiral.
CO2-phobia is destoying the Western World.
“We had to ask professionals because you are too numb/blind/stupid to discern it for youselves.” (That’s what I’m getting.)
If it’s that subtle I can’t find a reason to care even if a pro tells me it’s so.
Isn’t it typical of the left.
When given a problem, they would rather ask an “expert” about what is happening to ordinary people, than ask, actual, ordinary people about what is happening to them.
First, according to the left, if you aren’t a government designated “expert”, you are too ignorant to have an opinion, or to even know what is happening around you.
Second, most of them wouldn’t be caught dead around an actual, ordinary person. Might get cooties or something.
It probably comes from the news media. They were apparently too stupid to figure it out for themselves. For example, say there was a building on fire. The reporter would have to seek out a fire official and ask him what was happening. “The building is on fire,” he would say. Then the reporter would say, “There you have it, the building is on fire.”
As an engineering student, we used to laugh at the term “expert.” Our definition of an “expert” was a former drip under pressure: ex-spurt.
The climate crusades ecosystem mainly consists of volume-based academic work, volume-based media effort on agendas, and marketing strategies centered on climate ad placement volume.
Not sure in your comment if “volume” means amount or mass produced or loudness, as in turn up the volume. Actually, I think your comment is perfectly valid using either definition.
re: “The climate crusades ecosystem mainly consists of volume-based academic work, volume-based media effort … ”
FIFY, to wit:
The climate crusades ecosystem mainly consists of volume-based academic make-work, volume-based media effort …
Google help for other acronym puzzlers:
FIFY = “Fixed It For You”
You know how stupid the average person is? Well, half of them are more stupid than that. But I’d guess the one thing even that group is realizing is that their costs are rising and they don’t think it’s climate change. More likely blaming wasted spending on windmills and politicians.
Paying a dollar to a politician is wasting a dollar. Spending a dollar on a windmill is wasting two dollars–windmills are subsidized.
Unintentional Injury and Accidents
The ONS have long stated that warm weather tends to increase these injuries, for the simple reason that people go outdoors more for leisure and sports activities, which is obviously a good thing.
According to ROSPA (The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) the home is the most common location for an accident to happen. More accidents happen in the lounge/living room than anywhere else in the home.
Getting outside might actuaally reduce the overall number of accidental deaths and injuries. A warmer climate will also reduce the number of injuries caused by falling on ice.
The study also ignored the huge amount of deaths related to cold – the link provided above shows 5700 related to heat in 2022, but an average of almost 200,000 due to cold, UK data – 50:1, the highest ratio I’ve yet seen quoted, and for a populace used to cold and not to hot weather.
This recent study shows that the cold weather we have every year causes about 4.6 million deaths a year globally mainly through increased strokes and heart attacks, compared with about 500,000 deaths a year from hot weather. We can’t easily protect our lungs from the cold air in the winter and that causes our blood vessels to constrict causing blood pressure to increase leading to heart attacks and strokes.
‘Global, regional and national burden of mortality associated with nonoptimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study’
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00081-4/fulltext
This study from 2015 says that cold weather kills 20 times as many people as hot weather and that moderately warm or cool weather kills far more people than extreme weather. Increased strokes and heart attacks from cool weather are the main cause of the deaths.
‘Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multi-country observational study’ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(14)62114-0/fulltext
I am struggling with this. More nearly average (i.e. “normal”) weather is more deadly?
Someone, somewhere is mistaken. (Can I be bothered to follow the link? It’s to the Lancet, which strays out of its lane at often terrible cost to its reputation, I find.)
It’s not impossible.
If the weather is only a little bit cool, a lot of people will go outside without adequate protection and expose themselves to weather that causes their body to lose temperature.
On the other hand, if it’s really cold, fewer people will go outside, and those that do will bundle up better.
The title of your first Lancet link is states that it reports results from a 3-stage a modeling study. Maybe not particularly useful.
Less than 40:1, actually.
You don’t expect a climate activist to actually show all of the facts, do you?
In Winter time there is a significant increase in broken hips (particularly the elderly) and (dinner fork deformity) broken wrists due to slipping on ice.
I would think pneumonia is more common in the winter- just guessing.
That’s usually more common when the house isn’t being heated properly for a prolonged period of time.
For some reason, it crossed my mind that not only does cold kill directly, a lot of people are injured, some fatally, due to slipping on ice. Not to mention ice related auto accidents, Surely, those are cold related fatalities. Rather to my surprise, the CDC doesn’t seem to reflect ice related falls/vehicle accidents in their weather related fatality analysis https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr076.pdf Their numbers for 2006-2010 are heat=620/yr, cold=1260/yr, floods/lightning/etc=120/yr
So, how many ice-related falls are fatal? I couldn’t find what seemed to me a reliable source, but here’s one that claims 1,000,000 significant injuries, 17000 fatal in the US. That seems rather a lot. Not sure I believe it, but for what it’s worth https://www.abc10.com/article/weather/accuweather/how-dangerous-is-winter-weather/507-e0a5f7d8-35f9-43c9-97d0-dcbe9f1f5f23
And fatal ice/snow related auto accidents? Here’s a source that says 1800 plus in the US. https://www.thezebra.com/resources/research/winter-driving-statistics/
It’s a big country, and for much of it, winter lasts for months.
For the elderly, falling and breaking a hip can end in death.
For others, falling and banging your head on the ice can result in serious injuries or death.
There’s slipping on the stairs when you hit ice.
There’s hitting black ice while driving.
The killer for the elderly isn’t the fall or the broken hip, what actually kills the elderly after a fall is the subsequent surgery and specifically the anesthesia. That is the health professionals dilemma. Old aunt Mary falls, breaks her hip and is in agonizing pain, To relieve the pain we can do surgery but the chances are that Mary will die after the surgery, however, if we do nothing Mary will live on but be in pain for the rest of her life. Most people elect for the surgery to relieve the pain and take their chances with death.
Amazing – most events happen where the people involved spend the mot time!
I heard more than 90% of foot injuries occur below the knee.
I saw a foot injury above the knee once. Of course the knee also required reconstructive surgery after the accident as well.
and here I thought that most home accidents occurred in the bedroom.
Climate enthusiast accidents certainly happened in their parents bedroom.
Oof.
A lot depends on what you are doing while outdoors.
If you are just going to stroll around the neighborhood, the chances of injury are low.
If you are going to join some friends in a pickup American football game, your chances are a bit higher.
If you are going to jump on a moped to speed around the park, your chances are a bit higher.
If you are going to jump on a moto-cross bike and try out the local trails, your chances get much higher.
If you are going to take a stroll down the trails in your local park, your chances of getting run over by that moron on a moped are pretty good.
It’s more likely around here that you’ll be run over by a mountain bike when out on the trials. I spent 22 years in search and rescue, my advice to newbies when out on the trails around here was that if you hear the sound of a small steam locomotive behind you, you’re Ok, that’s a mountain biker coming up hill. If however, you hear a high speed whirring, jump in the bushes, that’s a mountain biker ripping her down hill.
The i is fast becoming the left-wing eco-zealots paper du jour, at least among the young and young-at-heart London lefties. It appears to be overtaking the Guardian, possibly seen as the left-wing grandparents paper and not ‘kewl’ enough. Another race to the bottom, this time in journalistic standards.
I agree that Tom Bawden is not that good a reporter (he has in the past described the Arctic as a continent) but in Stuart Richie the i have one of the best Science correspondents around who regularly debunks studies including the gas scare health risk study last year which he described as a ‘scam’. They also have some good political and economic reporters and use reporters from across the political spectrum on a regular basis, Your description of it as a left wing eco zealots paper du jour only applies,sadly, to it regularly featuring James Dyke from Exeter University on climate change,
To be fair, I’ve never actually sat down and gone through an issue cover to cover. It’s just when an i story pops up, it always seems to be of the left-wing eco-zealot persuasion, which gives a decided bias to the conversation.
Good report. You can add in “extreme climate change ate my homework”.
This is reaching so hard they’re in danger of overbalancing their step ladder. And, oh by the way, please note *all* this is predicated on warming. The rebrand to “climate change” just doesn’t sell as well as “frying the planet” as I just heard some Aussie pol claim while justifying a alternative energy boondoggle.
What is a “climate event”? Is it possible to get these folks to define their terms?
It’s anything they care to mention.
One that can be made to fit their narrative, of course.
Weather.
“Mental Health”: My mother-in-law was an MD at a Vermont mental hospital during the 1927 flood. The flood water was into the first floor of many hospital buildings. She said during the flood most of the patients improved, acted like normal people and did what they could to help. In other words, the flood was good for their mental health.
“Unintentional Injury and Accidents” along with “Productivity” In addition to people getting out more in warm weather, much outdoor work is completely suspended or curtailed in the winter, including farming, road maintenance and construction, etc. Seems to me this results in zero productivity during some winter months and increased accidents/injuries when people are actually working in the warm months.
Money. The PTSD associated with floods, fires, earthquakes etc (assuming no loss of life to family or friends) is associated with loss of monetary value. If an insurance claim is disallowed the PTSD gets much worse and if the claim goes through it improves remarkably. The same can be said for other extreme weather-related causes!
What we have here is a group of people indulging in an orgy of Magical Thinking – they are brainwashing each themselves and each other. (propaganda)
The sorts of people who do this are always chronically chemically depressed.
i.e They are habitual users of drugs,
Those things are all = addictive drugs because they release Dopamine into their users heads = they make them ‘happy’
They are all depressants because the happiness is short lived (barely an hour or so) and following that is a ‘happiness crash’
i.e A dearth of happiness where the user feels like shit, doesn’t like feeling like shit and so will do or say anything to get back to the happy state ASAP
So they may sleep, be lazy, cut corners, pass the buck, make up stories, adjust the data, hide in broom cupboards, work from home and tell lies lies lies just so long as whatever it is gets them to their next appointment with ‘happiness’ with the least possible effort and shortest possible time.
From Epoch Times – as attached.
yet even then, the laziness and magical thinking abound – they talk exclusively about ‘added sugar‘ = refined sugar such as Sucrose, Dextrose, Fructose as in Fructose Syrup
The people writing that story are in denial of their own addiction (this is REALLY bad) because nobody wants to know that when we eat cooked starch, the instant it reaches our stomachs it perfectly disintegrates into Glucose = sugar
And Glucose is a real little monster – our bodies have totally no way of controlling it.
So it floods straight through our stomach walls, into the bloodstream and clear through the blood/brain barrier where-
It triggers Dopamine release
Eating pasta effects your brain almost as fast as sucking on a cigarette does – the effect is instant (or certainly inside 30 seconds)
What is monstrous about Glucose is that it is perfectly tasteless. This suits the addicts, deniers and liars perfectly – they say
“How can it be a sugar when you can’t taste anything, it’s not sweet”
Also: “haha stupid person, wheat, corn, rice and potatoes are Staple Foods – how can they be addictive? Us humans have been eating them since forever.
In their mental befuddlement, it never occurs that that is exactly why we’ve been eating them since forever.
Magical Thinkers will never recognise that that is also why they celebrate ever rising yields of those things.
So of course ‘things are never better‘ = I’ve got more sugar to munch on and sugar makes me happy. More sugar = more happiness, cheerfully (magically) forgetting about the happiness crash that always occurs afterwards.
here’s the article where the screenshot came from.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/how-sugar-may-lead-to-mental-disorders-5501674
Do visit it and see on the right-hand side of the page this:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/micronutrients-help-protect-against-alzheimers-parkinsons-lou-gehrigs-disease-5510918
You knew I’d get Soil Erosion into this somehow, not that it’s difficult.
Not as if I’m not consistent either, from my very first comments into here I’ve raved about soil erosion.
It is because and why these folks in the essay need to do magical thinking – they are brainwashing away the idea that soil erosion might be the root cause of their woes….
No, it’s because someone else eats refined sugar – I eat only Natural Sugar = a magically-conceived notion from the very start
sigh
I meant to cross out the ‘Over‘ word as well
iow; Eating sugar drives you mad
And sugar is a carbohydrate – very few people know that it seems. ‘Healthy’ foods, such as fruits, veg, pulses, grains all contain carbohydrates. ‘Healthy’ alternatives to ‘sugary snacks’, like fruit or carrots contain carbohydrates and some in the form of sugars – and few people seem to know the latter.
The body doesn’t distinguish from sugar from an ‘unhealthy’ sugary snack , or sugar/other carbohydrate from a ‘healthy’ snack. It all ends up as glucose.
That which is not used immediately is converted to glycogen and stored in muscle tissue, then the liver, then fatty tissue.
The reason why people have got on average fatter, is the ‘health’ ‘experts’ have for best part of 50 years steered people away from the meat-and-two-veg and dairy diet of our parents, grandparents, (meat: no carbohydrate, all tissue building protein) onto mostly meat free high carbohydrate alternatives – pasta, rice, pulses and highly processed plant-based concoctions – and harmful seed oils.
”and harmful seed oils.”
The Okinawans use Canola and sesame oil.
Food price increases – Government-caused supply problems and Government-caused monetary inflation because of Government idiocy shutting down the economy for two years and filling the economy with Mickey-Mouse money.
Football – traditionally is a sport for the Winter season: it and severe weather – rain, snow, ice, fog, cold – are no strangers.
“… climate change-induced extreme weather…”
Climate is a derivation of averaged weather data over time.
Climate change is a result of changes in weather patterns so cannot be their cause.
That these nitwits claim climate change is it own cause, explores idiocy at a new depth and takes gibberish to a new level.
John XB, although I gave you a +, because I like your thought process, I would like to argue that neither climate causes weather nor weather causes climate. Rather, both are the same set of parameters (temperature, humidity, precipitation, cloud cover, etc.) considered/described on different time scales. There are underlying causes of climate (Sun, continental plate tectonics, ocean currents, Milankovitch cycles, even chemical composition of atmosphere, etc.). Of course, as climate changes, the weather patterns will follow without implying any direct causation by climate. Just as much, there are some factors that may influence weather rather than climate, for example, inherent chaotic nature of atmospheric fluid dynamics. As far as climate is concerned, most things that influence weather will average out. While weather is mostly about variability of conditions, and climate is more about the average value, one could even ask a legitimate question whether the degree of variability could be in some way a function of the climate state. Is variability higher or lower for colder or hotter climate? To some degree there may be a connection… only I think they get it wrong, and it is a colder climate that is associated with more variable weather.
“”Experiencing the effects of climate change first-hand….””
It’s raining I’m so depressed…. where’s my therapist?
NSW farmer.. “Its RAINING .. YIPPPPEEeeeeee !” 🙂
I think the paleoclimatology evidence . . . hard scientific evidence that it is . . . clearly shows that climate during last glacial period on Earth severely impacted the lives of “modern” homo sapiens.
(Ref: https://australian.museum/learn/science/human-evolution/homo-sapiens-modern-humans/ )
Ho hum.
The MetOffice CET graph covering 2001 to 2023 looks to me like a row of fir trees in a forest with just enough randomness to give authenticity to the work.
What more proof do people need that climate change is just as random as it ever was and ever will be?
re: “The *cough* evidence *cough* that … ”
Did the acronym/term USCRN (and the data from same) show up once in this “evidence”?
“There is not yet enough data to know how the number of football matches cancelled in the UK due to climate change-induced extreme weather has changed over time, but there is a growing body of anecdotal evidence that the situation is getting worse.”
Wow.
Has the temperature gotten worse, or have the players just turned into wussies?
Hmm, let me see now. Have the overpaid, mincing prima donna’s masquerading poorly as professional footballers just turned into wussies? Hmm, no more than usual I expect.
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was evidence, maybe even objective, scientific evidence, that changing the concentration of CO2 (and CH4 and nitrogen products) in the atmosphere had any effect on the weather or the climate?
According to the alarmists, climate models are evidence, and since they are the only worldwide form of evidence we have, they are preferable to actual data.
story tip
https://electroverse.info/2023-a-year-of-record-cold-barrier-reef-is-still-great-cold-weather-deaths-surge/
Maybe i’s readers should read some truth