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?
Before Climate change can be blamed for effects on the UK and its people, you have to separate out the damaging policies that have been imposed in the absence of any climate change or real effects, yet blaming climate change at the same time.
Inflation, energy cost and food cost increases among other things have all been due to government-imposed policies, yet they blame climate change. This is like spanking a child for no reason but then claiming it is all their fault.
Paul Homewood ==> The wheat chart is YIELD (gain per hectare planted). It is not production (total tons of wheat). The UK grows some wheat, but it both exports and imports wheat — imports are five times the exports. In other words, it is complicated.
It certainly isn’t due to climate change. Wheat production can be due to weather conditions in wheat growing regions. The best source is the FAO, but Statistica provides a graph showing continuing increases in wheat production worldwide here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/267268/production-of-wheat-worldwide-since-1990/
How much of that is due to a population that is both growing in size and aging?
Death and longevity… poor metrics for anything except deaths and longevity.
People used to die of “old age” before 50.
If a child dies at age 2 years and an adult dies at age 68 years, then the average age of death is 35 years. Yet no one died of old age under 50 years, and no one died at the age of 35 years. That’s the trouble with conflating average life span with actual time of death. In the past, if you survived childhood and didn’t die of accidents, sickness, or war, you could easily live past age 50 years.
Weather extremes (and fires, and earthquakes, and floods…) have always occurred through out recorded history.
Yet the gullible public and MSM let these charlatans point to the same extremes that occurred 10 years ago, 50 years ago, 100 years ago as evidence that the climate has changed!
How many times have we heard “just look out your window if you deny Climate Change”!
““just look out your window”
Looks like a normal gorgeous spring morning to me. !! 🙂
Blue sky, a few light fluffy clouds.
If this is “climate change™“…. where is the crisis !!
“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”
And the reply from those who are most likely pro euthanasia would be “do you want old people to die?”
Clutching at straws.
No one should be able to get away with saying they canvassed leading researchers for their opinion. Number one who decides who is a leading researcher? Number two give the names of those researchers so the rest of us can make up our own minds whether they are leading researchers or whether they are even researchers. Number three I don’t give a damn what their opinion is, their opinion is no better than mine or anyone else’s. Number four if your leading researchers don’t have hard evidence as a result of proper science using the scientific method I don’t give a damn what they have to say. Number five stop wasting my time with this slop.
The only impact ‘climate change’ has had in my life is inflation due to idiot climate policies. That and having to hear journalists and politicians regurgitate this nonsense ad nauseum.
Thankfully I get brief respite from the terrible effects of ‘climate change’ (idiocy everywhere) by visiting this site.
You know what’s impacting our lives? Certainly in Australia and it ain’t the fairy tale of CAGW……inflation.. Who is responsible for inflation? Governments.
Who is responsible for governments?
“Evidence”?
No, “Gibberish”.
It is hard to believe that anyone actually believes that rubbish… but to actually write it for publication suggests either monumental ignorance or a seriously depraved mind.
or just wants to get good grades.
Paul:
The UK wheat yields graph doesn’t align with the numbers used in the writing.
e.g., 1981 yields are far lower than any yield after 2000.
Or are they using other yield graph.
Do the i’s readers actually believe this gibberish?
Only the dumb ones
Do the i’s readers actually believe this gibberish?
Probably. That’s what makes them i readers.
“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.”
That same report from the ONS also said:
Also, notice that it says that 4,507 deaths were “associated” with the hottest days. It didn’t say anything about the cause of death. Since 2019, there has been a significant inbcrease in excess deaths every month of the year.
We live healthier, richer and longer lives, with more freedoms and protections and fewer natural and man-made threats to our wellbeing than we did 100-200 years ago when global temperatures were a degree or so colder. So yes “climate change” might be affecting our lives, but if it is to blame for our successes then what is the issue. Of course the propagandists intend that you believe climate change is all caused by human activity and all bad. They sell this lie by claiming every bad weather event is due to our flourishing and try to instill climate guilt in all those who lack critical thinking skills. They “studiously” ignore the fact that even their co-propagandists in the IPCC have admitted they can detect no important trends in those same bad weather events after the same 100-200 years of gentle warming.
Well, it isn’t climate change that’s impacting people, but the climate cult’s fear-mongering, the brainwashing of children and other scientifically illiterate people into fear and hysteria, and the assaults on our rights, freedoms and prosperity by evil actors in governments using it as an excuse to accumulate more centralized power and control.
Those people are so emotional. They feel it’s warmer, they feel it’s getting worse, and all those feelings are based probably on them wanting to have feelings that align with everyone else’s climate feelings.
Good grief.