From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ray Sanders
It is hard to describe just how low the BBC has sunk.
Climate change deniers have found a new champion in Kenyan farmer Jusper Machogu. On social media, he has become known as a flagbearer for fossil fuels in Africa, but there is more to his campaign than meets the eye.
At first glance, the 29-year-old Mr Machogu is just a young farmer with a knack for social media.
On X, formerly Twitter, he regularly posts videos of himself weeding his land, planting garlic, or picking avocados – offering viewers a window into life in rural Kisii, south-west Kenya.
While farming content may get him clicks, likes, and retweets, it is Mr Machogu’s denial of man-made climate change that has helped supercharge his online profile.
Since he began posting debunked theories about climate change, he has received thousands of dollars in donations – some of which came from individuals in Western countries linked to fossil-fuel interests.
Mr Machogu insists this has not influenced his views, saying they are genuinely held.
Scientists have proven that the Earth is heating up because of greenhouse gases that are emitted into the atmosphere when we burn fossil fuels – like oil, gas, or coal.
But Mr Machogu disagrees.
“Climate change is mostly natural. A warmer climate is good for life,” Mr Machogu wrongly claimed in a tweet posted in February, along with the hashtag #ClimateScam (which he has used hundreds of times).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c133r4gyx1no
The BBC’s disinformation expert then goes on to write an extremely long “hit-piece”, itself full of BBC disinformation. I would not even bother reading it – it’s the sort of juvenile rubbish a Sixth Former would write. In particular it investigates the tiny amount of money Mr Machogu has managed to raise.
The whole point of the article is of course to condemn any Africans who have the temerity to want to use fossil fuels.
Machogu has responded forcefully with a series of Twitter posts:
https://twitter.com/JusperMachogu
But what I find most sickening is why the BBC should even want to take this man down. Is he such a threat to their world view?
The BBC’s attitude is one of eco-colonialism – Africa must do what we tell them to, whether they want to or not.
So here are three charts which back up pretty much everything Machogu is campaigning for, and which show just how disgusting the BBC article is:
Quite why Africans should be denied just a few of the benefits we in the West do is something only the BBC can answer.
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Convincing the western world that warmer weather constitutes a “Climate Crisis” is a text book example of “The Big Lie”
I like how at every opportunity, Marco Silva would (without evidence) declare by fiat that Machogu was “wrong”, “debunked”, “scientists have proven [otherwise]”.
The racist Silva even talks over Machogu in the simple “A warmer climate is good for life” where Silva claims by lying about Machogu that a warmer climate is not good for life. How can anyone look at a map of cold climates (e.g. Canada, Russia) and somehow miss seeing how much energy is consumed just to keep warm?
(notice how annoying reading the text is when I do to Silva what he did to Machogu)
Silva is a Senior Climate Change Disinformation Reporter, from what I gather, just about everything he says is disinformation, cheap fake. He clearly does not understand how science should operate.
Warming zealots killed millions of Sri Lankans and bankrupt the country when a compliant head of state banned fertilizers to reduce climate change! Their main income was a multi-billion dollar tea crop and crops for the country’s food supply.
Evil people from the warming cult wrote articles to paper-over this crime against humanity by saying the calamity was because of government corruption! To dispel this lie, here is the speech by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at COP 26:
http://www.stockholm.embassy.gov.lk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/President-Speech-02.11.2021.pdf
Contrast the few thousand dollars this Kenyan has received with the millions (billions?) that have been received from British taxpayers. I tried to find the amount in a Google search but they seem to have hidden this.
I was intrigued, Google is the worst after all.
“the UK has long been involved in Africa, and began providing aid to Africa in 1929”.
https://odi.org/en/publications/uk-aid-to-africa-a-report-for-the-ufj-institute/
This data goes back to the 1970s
https://www.oecd.org/dac/financing-sustainable-development/development-finance-data/africa-Development-Aid-at-a-Glance-2018.pdf
Sorry but I was ambiguous. I should have said how much the BBC has received from the taxpayer.
As far as UK aid to Africa is concerned, it is worth reading Dead Aid by the Zambian, Dambisa Moyo. Corruption, incompetence, fraud, waste mean that the money cannot achieve what the UK government claims it is achieving. Take Nigeria with huge oil reserves but the UK is paying to have the children vaccinated. They would serve the Nigerian public better if they were to send a few top accountants and top police officers to help them address the internal corruption and crime.
“”It is hard to describe just how low the BBC has sunk.””
I think it quite easy with 2 simple examples. Forget politics, climate etc, compare and contrast…
Dr Who: Tom Baker (~1974-1980)
Dr Who: as a woman and then a gay man (and yes, he’s already had his first gay kiss) 2022-2024
Similarly the showrunners
“Terry Nation was a Welsh screenwriter and novelist. Especially known for his work in British television science fiction, he created the Daleks and Davros for Doctor Who, as well as the series Survivors and Blake’s 7 .”
“Russell T Davies is a Welsh screenwriter and television producer, best known for reviving Doctor Who and creating Queer as Folk. “
That’s what they’ve done to the best sci-fi prog of all time.
Next week, students make protest camps… the Daleks shall be free….
Rowan Atkinson was the best Doctor 🙂
I don’t normally do beeb charitythons – where flagging careers attempt resuscitation; even if it is Mr Blackadder. But if parody is your thing, then the best has to be…
The laugh track doesn’t help.
Take it up with the… BBC
Laghtrack….. As in canned laughter. MASH was an excellent series until…… Canned laughter. To me, if a joke/comment is funny, you do NOT need canned laughter. The series, A BIt of A Do was hilarious. But….. No canned laughter…..
Outstanding!
The same is being done to the Star Wars franchise.
All of the recent Disney remakes have been ruined by rampant political correctness.
I loved Doctor Who.
Here in the US it was on PBS. Tom Baker’s was the first I saw (I think).
My daughter, young at the time, got a kick kick out the of the Daleks looking like upside trash cans with toilet plungers and egg beaters as their weapons. (Probably the budget at the time.)
After I retired, the BBC had a one week free thing an I binge watched the “classic Dr. Who” episodes. Fun. (Got a bit side tracked by a special done for the 50th anniversary about 3 of the “classic” actors trying to sneak into the episode. Really fun.)
I bought a DVD collection of all the “new” Doctor Whos up until Dr. Who went Trans.
Never watched another one since.
PS I learned that David Tennant married the daughter of one of the “classic” Dr. Who’s. She was the actress who played the part of “The Doctor’s Daughter” in one of David Tennant’s episodes!
(As far as I could find, both are good people in real life.)
Doctor Who has become Doctor WTF !!!!
As we have known for years, and raised but to fall on the BBC and their ilk’s deaf ears (blind eyes, and stone cold hearts), is that indoor combustion of wood, dung & kerosene is the biggest killer from air pollution, i.e. from carbon particulates, CO2 is irrelevant, that hydrocarbon powered, centralised electricity production/distribution and gas distribution would massively reduce. Similarly, the bitumen from oil for road building would (i) massively reduce air pollution from dust, and (ii) stimulate their economies, developing vital services, e.g. clean water, medicine and education.
There are some good-quality roads in Africa – often paid for by Chinese money…
Britain and its Empire vastly improved the lives of indigenous peoples. Those who denigrate that Empire are the same people who want to stop the progress of indigenous peoples.
They are what they accuse us of being.
They ignore the price that Britain paid in suppressing the slave trade. And it was considerable.
The West Africa squadron was formed by the Royal Navy and tasked with suppressing the slave trade by patrolling the West African coastline in search of illicit traders; effectively a police out at sea. The squadron is credited with having rescued between 150,000 and 200,000 Africans, many of whom settled in Sierra Leone close to the base of operations in Freetown.
Then there were the Anglo-Ashanti wars…. A series of five conflicts that took place between 1824 and 1900. The Ashanti empire was the root of the slave trade and has anybody ever mentioned Ghana as complicit? Modern day Ghana is the residual of the Ashanti empire…
Britain, certainly in the US, will never be remembered for that.
I seem to recall Thomas Sewell suggesting it may have been as much as 5% of our GDP
Either way, it’s entirely ignored
And we only finished paying the loan the government took out to buy the slaves their freedom in 2015.
I’ve read the figure of 20,000 matelots died in the West African Squadron over its 50 years of patrolling. And please don’t forget the part played by the USN and US Marines in combating the white slave trade of the Barbary pirates – from the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, and all that.
Then it’s worth repeating
Britain and its Empire vastly improved the lives of indigenous peoples….
The push for all this was the Quakers in England.
“…Quakers who had pioneered the movement in 1783, when the first petition against the slave trade was presented to Parliament.”
The heroics of all those mentioned need to be acknowledged as does the people who believed.
True.
How many nations that were once British colonies are worse off now than their neighbors?
And, sadly, in the UK because too many people don’t read their history
I admit, as a US citizen, I didn’t know about that.
But I do know an ex-slave trader wrote “Amazing Grace” after he was saved.
(PS Blacks weren’t the only people throughout history that were held as slaves. Something else that is forgotten.)
You mean like Slavic people? Jews? Uighurs?
check out the Barbary Wars fought by the US Navy and Marines as well
3.2 million deaths in developing nations every year from respiratory problems related to burning wood and dung indoors to heat and cook with.
Most of the deaths are women and children.
This could be alleviated with cheap, reliable electricity but the climate obsessed west refuses to help fund it.
The savagery of the climate cult knows no bounds. Throwing 80+ million lives (larger than the population of the UK) over the next 26 years to 2050 at their religious convictions that a few wealthy westerners might perish in their air conditioned or gas heated homes from climate change.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/household-air-pollution-and-health
Paul, if you are going to use per capita emissions, you really should also include total emissions as well. Per capita emissions make small (population-wise) industrialized countries, like Australia and New Zealand, look bad, when they actually contribute almost nothing to total emissions. Total emissions makes it obvious who is actually putting the most CO2 into the atmosphere, that is the countries with the biggest populations for the most part.
Not that I believe increased CO2 is a problem, being the basis for all life on this planet as it is.
It was a disgusting personal attack by the smug, self important BBC, on somebody with an alternative viewpoint.
But it hasn’t stopped there….this week, the BBC are ramping up the ‘extreme heat’ in parts of europe and just today, they have homed in on the extreme temps expected in Los Angeles. This has spread, once again, to UK weather forecasts, with weather presenters getting very excited about warmer weather coming here. It’s just more BBC bollocks.
And it’s still only 17C here.
It must drive them mad.
I didn’t even give that BBC article the benefit of a click. I only had to read the headline to make the decision.
Meanwhile it has been eighteen days of June without sight of any ‘global warming’. The BBC admitted this themselves on the 10th of June.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/c044x1xz42go
Like the UK tourists going to Spain and Greece, the BBC often has to go abroad for sunshine.
I’m sitting here some 40 miles from the center of LA, and today’s predicted high temperature is 75F. Extreme temps???
(I’m enjoying a holiday, so I won’t take the time to convert to SI units.)
I have always said that environmentalism is the last socially acceptable form of racism. This post is further proof, as if any more were needed.
Socialists are still getting upset anytime a minority expresses a conservative opinion. Comments about the person being a race traitor are still common.
I’d like to see Maro Silva and Juster Machogu trade places.
The background here is Colonialist powers base their colonialism on taking much, as cheaply as possible, and returning little. As their “clients” become independent of European control, they still strive to keep the African nations impoverished. In the background is the fact that if consumption in Nigeria or Uganda approach European levels, they think Global Warming will spike.
The actual fact is poverty IS the problem. With no or little social network, family size is increased in the hope that someone will live long enough to take care of Mom. As incomes increase, family size naturally decreases, see for example the birth rates in conventional “Western” populations.
OCP, in Morocco has begun the process of educating farmers, even emulating the Western idea of Extension Services to improve usage of fertilizers. See https://www.ocpgroup.ma/#section4
They have spawned GPI, Global Phosphorus Institute through Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, which hopefully will be seen by BBC as a positive force for education and agricultural improvement.Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
Third world peasants are what The Green Blob wants most people to be.
Story tip. Moron edition
Just Stop Oil spray Stonehenge with orange paint as passer-by steps in to try to drag them away
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13546769/Just-Stop-Oil-spray-Stonehenge-orange-paint-members-public-try-drag-away.html
the incident, which happened at around 12pm today, the day before the summer solstice is celebrated at Stonehenge
BBC: “Living in the heart of London, we know better than some ignorant Kenyan savage about how to live one’s life and survive in Kenya than he does.”
The BBC’s attitude is one of eco-colonialism
Good observation. They haven’t changed their attitude (about colonialism), only their methods.
Article says:”…why the BBC should even want to take this man down.”
Because if an uneducated but intelligent man like him can figure it out anybody can if they stop and think about it. Once that happens all is lost for them.
He’s self described as an agricultural engineer. It’s a tad condescending to assume the guy is uneducated. I believe the mud hut educational system in many places in Africa could put western educations systems to shame.
i meant uneducated in the “he’s not a climate scientist” idea. Just like they constantly hit others with. How many times have we seen that pointed out by folks here.
At first glance, the 29-year-old Mr Machogu is just a young farmer with a knack for social media.
GULP!
Tim! Tim! What are we going to do about Machogu?
Get all the women and pronouns into the boardroom quickly barricade the doors commence a group healing and await my further instructions.
PS: Oh and paleo pear and banana bread all round-
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They are very quick to accuse ‘deniers’ of being funded by fossil fuel interests but say nothing about Just Stop Oil being funded by wind farm interests in the shape of Dale Vince who appears to have made a fortune of £100m out of his wind farm projects presumably assisted by tax payers through subsidies. Total hypocrits the lot of them.
JSO also funded from the “Climate Emergency Fund”
Started by a Big Oil heiress.
Norwegian I presume?
Aileen Getty ….. American.
Inherited her father’s fortune made from oil production.
Major funder of the Climate Emergency Fund.. same people that probably funded Mickey Mann’s court case.
I no longer watch either the BBC which is available here in Canada, or the CBC our local national news broadcaster, which is nothing more than a mouthpiece for the woke, and for the current P.M. Justin Trudeau, a.k.a. “the Spud” as the son of the last P.M. (Pierre Trudeau) who destroyed the Cdn economy in the 70’s – 80’s with socialism. I feel badly for the U.K. with an election coming up with only a left wing party (Conservatives) and a far left party (Labour) to vote for. Ugg! The CBC has become famous here as having more employee’s than viewers, but it’s soon to be defunded. Oh happy days.
We do have other voting options in the UK, and I am likely going to use one.
Is my vote going to break the duopoly of parties? Probably not this time. But, in aggregate, both parties will take note of general displeasure.
Whatever party governs, it is not good that they become accustomed to being in power indefinitely. It is probably time for a change by any metric.
>> “Climate change is mostly natural. A warmer climate is good for life,” Mr Machogu wrongly claimed
This gets so confusing.. do they talk about the local climate in Kenya changing or use this strange IPCC definition that climate change is the global warming over the last 30 years or so (which I first heard about 3 weeks ago and it still first makes me giggle and then be stuck in awe how someone could publish something so obviously incorrect.. the area, the timescale, the parameters everything is different.. how can some temperature numbers be identical to complex patterns sometimes changing over billions of years?)
For the local climate Machogo has a point as even BBC might have to concede that there is a strong influence of the pacific ocean cycles… or they just need to ask a local farmer.. oh wait..
Globally, the warming hypothesis has been harder to prove that the existence of god, it just seems a matter of believe.
If BBC insists on their truth, all reader should realize that modeling after a hypothesis has nothing whatsoever to do with a scientific truth.
Just think about what happened when the CMIP6 ensemble found an about 25% different CO2-feedback sensitivity after improving the cloud parameters:
All older models and in particular the more alarming ones with all their catastrophic predictions (in quality of course!) and fearmongering became instantaneously wrong!
Kenyan Farmer Mr Machogu has hit the nail on the head when he says that:“A warmer climate is good for life,”. Mr Machogu had good common sense and life experience unlike the BBC. You only have to look at Canada, Siberia and Antarctica to grasp this fundamental fact of life in Climate.
Because EVERYONE uses fossil fuels, then we are all “…linked to fossil fuel interests.” somehow, right? We all use them and are willing to pay for them, even those at the BBC.
The BBC reporter is just toeing the official line, not based on any knowledge, but because even the Royal Society has become a bastion of Climate Crisis Cultists. Their official stance is that humans are responsible for increased temperatures of the past 100 years and it is official and unequivocal, and any claim to the contrary is just bunk.
The Royal Society’s motto used to be “Nullius In Verba” [take nobody’s word for it]. Their new motto appears to be “Nullius In Verba. Nisi Nostrum. Accipite Verba” [take nobody’s word for it. except ours. take our word for it]
The whole point of science it to keep testing and challenging claims.
The BBC is a menace. George Monbiot’s “How Wolves Change Rivers” is a perfect example of the fast and loose “reporting”. A recent paper written by researchers at Colorado State University has made it clear that things are not as simple as the BBC would like to have use believe. The long and short of it, the slick wolf/river production was used by wolf-fetish types, who want them running about, used it to push a ballot initiative in Colorado to artificially release wolves in the state. Now we have a serious social rift that does not look like it will end well. Wolves didn’t do that much for Yellowstone, and they are bloody hell on mixed use landscapes. Thanks loads, BBC.
Another example of urbanites, who’s only experience with anything approaching wilderness, is flying over it, declaring that they know best how to manage and live in wilderness areas.
Perhaps if we were to release a breeding pair of wolves into central park?
Sorry, Paul Homewood, but it looks like you inadvertently cut short your headline for the above article. This appears to cover your article more completely:
“BBC Worried About Kenyan Farmer’s Climate Scepticism When They Should Worry More About Their Credibility“