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By Paul Homewood
I’m not even going to comment on this latest absurd report from The Mail. It shows just how far the MSM has descended into oublishing such puerile nonsense. It is little wonder that very few people now believe what the media tells them anymore.
But the very first paragraph is very revealing:
From the unprecedented heatwave in 2022 to the deadly Storm Eowyn just this month, climate change is already wreaking havoc on Britain’s weather.
The summer of 2022 was not even as hot as 1976, which rather destroys the narrative.
But where do they get the idea that Storm Eowyn was caused by climate change?
As a minute’s research would have told the pathetic journalist who wrote this drivel, Eowyn was a run of the mill storm, the sort which has happened many times in the past.
But it certainly proves the point of what I have been saying for years now – that the Met Office’s naming of storms and the use of recently introduced clifftop and hilltop sites to produce scary headlines has now created an atmosphere of hysteria, upon which the corrupt media feed.
Of course, I might be wrong.
But I have not seen anything from the Met Office so far that puts Eowyn into perspective, or acknowledges the fact that there is no trend towards more intense or frequent storms.
Indeed, they have just published a new post on their blog, “Is further stormy weather on the way?”, which would have offered the chance to put the record straight.
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This is the sort of shit article that we have come to expect from the appalling British media.
How rude! And while we are currently enduring light breeze Betty!
The Mail is full of crap, & the ‘churnalists’ wallow in it !!
I’m not even going to comment on this latest absurd report from The Mail. It shows just how far the MSM has descended into oublishing such puerile nonsense.
The Fail is not alone…
Could the UK actually get colder with global warming?
Beyond a “tipping point”, this loop could lead Amoc to runaway collapse.
“We really want to avoid a tipping point because then there’s nothing we can do about it,” warns David Thornalley, professor of ocean and climate science at University College London.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn938ze4yyeo
How many times does a crock of crap need to be debunked?
Look out for light breeze Brian…
Where’s the Monty Python crew when you really need them.
“But I have not seen anything from the Met Office so far that puts Eowyn into perspective.”
They/BBC have, main claim strongest storm for a decade.
Lots of minorish ( locality/short record period based) lowest low pressure/wind speed record claims. But nothing unprecedented overall.
It doesn’t sound like it deserves a name.
Tiree recorded about 942mb which makes it onto the notable extreme UK lows list, but obviously not a record.
… I would say zero evidence.
Well, actually, there is NO evidence that climate change is affecting storms.
There is no evidence CO2-driven climate change is real or that it affects anything.
“There is no evidence CO2-driven climate change is real or that it affects anything.”
What Tom said !!
The Mail often publishes silly sensational stories. But today it also has a largely factual one, about the ongoing war on cars and driving that the current UK Labour Government is conducting. Which was enthusiastically started by the previous Conservative Government and has the support of the Liberals, so this is not just Labour, its the entire UK political class.
The numbers are quite striking:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-14346519/car-tax-hikes-increase-april-drivers.html?ico=mol_desktop_home
The UK Net Zero project is really starting to bite. Prediction: whatever they do, its not going to make people buy EVs in the numbers that the policy requires. And they seem unable to form consistent plans. So what they are doing will make cars unaffordable either to buy or to run, but they will not have built any public transport alternative to replace them. Nor will they have enough electricity capacity to charge the ones they do get sold, or the heat pumps they are trying so hard to get people to buy. They are trying to move power generation to wind and solar without providing for intermittency. And so on, its a mess, its like they have sat down over a glass of wine, written down some ideas, and then enacted them without more thought, including whether they are all consistent with each other.
And what is coming towards the UK political class, which they don’t seem to have noticed, is Reform. Trump, with British characteristics!
What must happen, as Trump has done, is that the vast self-serving bureaucracy which basically ignores all elected representatives must be decimated. Only then will facts and reason prevail over ideology.
As things stand what must happen cannot happen with the UK system. Not even in 2029
I am not so sure.
I’ve seen a government shut down a whole ministry and start up a different one. We now have a secretary of state for energy security and net zero. . Just close it.
Same with all the diversity and wokery. Shut down the relevant political institutions and install something more fit for purpose.
It is actually easier than changing legislation.
Obviously the disastrous climate change act needs repealing and there will be shrieks of ‘sanctions’ from the EU. But so what?
Sir Humphrey and his ilk have changed, they now think being in the office two days a week is oppressive and wrong.
You were saying…
Sorry but all the quango’s, advisory bodies, courts etc are all in place to over rule the Elected MP’s who are just there to talk. It will take years for say Reform to turn around the Super Tanker. It was set in place starting with Blair and in their 14 years the Tories only added to it.
Net zero is now a proven nonsense – Just like the Paris Agreement
This is a good example of what I mean in my own comment, that the Daily Fail will publish any click bait it can, that it seems to have no particular ax to grind.
It wasn’t just one glass of wine!
UK documents on net zero run to 10,000 pages and they still keep on coming. So many glasses of wine have been consumed that no one can remember a thing about what they say except they think they had a good time.
When you welcome idiots and lunatics to get into your head it is almost impossible to get them out without help and our NHS is not healthy enough to cope. Britain’s idiots in chief at the moment – Starmer and Miliband are past recovery since they are not respected by the people who should have counted but didn’t – the vast majority of voters who didn’t vote for them.
Meanwhile the storms which have battered the British Isles throughout history continue to appear and our Woke just love another chance to virtue signal. One day a penny may drop and, hopefully for all our sakes,very soon.
Storms just as Napoleon found out.
The reason why they are likely trying to claim that the summer of 2022 was unprecedented was because of the mini heatwave during 18th-19th of July that year. Where the temp on the 19th was unprecedented here in the UK, as l have never experienced such heat in the UK before that event.
The summer of 2022 was certainly a good one but it certainly was not unprecedented. The summers of 1976 and 2018 are more likely contenders for that claim.
The claim that storm Eowyn had any link to CO2 climate warming is utter crap.
The cause of the powerful jet stream that powered up storm Eowyn was due to the outbreak of cold Arctic air down across North America and the Western North Atlantic. Which made for a large contrast in air temps over that region. There is zero evidence to link this weather pattern set up to any claimed CO2 climate warming.
There is zero evidence to link this weather pattern set up to any claimed CO2 climate warming.
They will of course claim that there is zero evidence that it isn’t.
This is what happens when propaganda meets philosophy.
Storm Eowyn was a powerful storm.
But in no way it was unprecedented, weather history plainly shows that.
I think its because a wind gust in Northern Ireland hit a record high of 114 mph is the reason their making such a big deal of it.
As someone recently commented to me, it wasn’t anything like as bad as the storm which hit Scotland in 1968.
20 people died from the storm, with 9 dead in Glasgow. 700 people were left homeless.
In Glasgow alone, over 300 houses were destroyed and 70,000 homes were damaged.
On Tiree, a wind speed of 118mph (190kmh) was recorded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Scotland_storm
Why don’t you guys do what I have done for Australian heatwaves and use official data to show if they are getting hotter, longer or more frequent -or not. More Australian data coming to WUWT shortly.
Geoff S
Even Eowyn couldn’t defeat the climate Nazgul.
Strange, I thought the DM was the last refuge of the ultra conservative who are old enough to have experienced far worse weather in their youth.
It’s clickbait at best…
I liked this comment in the Daily Mail article:
Speaking of astrologers: There’s this: The World Weather Attribution Con
Search engine definition:
“Is World Weather Attribution legit?
WWA’s rapid attribution studies follow established methods, which have been peer-reviewed and assessed as scientifically reliable. All WWA studies that have undergone peer-review have remained largely unchanged.”
Weather Attribution is a bad joke. These fools see CO2 in every thunder storm. They are paid to do so.
An even bigger problem is the Media quote these fools as being experts, and their lies about CO2 causing extreme weather, as being legitimate. I saw a quote from these fools just yesterday in an article.
Weather Attribution is the equivalent of an astrologer telling you your future based on your birth date.
Weather Attribution is pure speculation, assumptions and unsubstantiated assertions. It’s the last desperate hope of Climate Alarmists who can’t make their case about CO2, so they just make it up using weather attribution.
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Stay tuned.
If there are no “fireworks” with the traffic, then after a while, nobody will tune in.
Due CV diligence: Jonathan has a BA in history followed by some certificates in media, shorthand, etc.
The UK Chancellor ‘embellished’ her CV [lied].
The head of BBC Verify ‘embellished’ her CV [lied].
Both have subsequently been rumbled.
And both are still in the job.
As I said above, the UK system is beyond fixing.
A BA in History should have qualified the recipient with a pretty good ability to be able to analyse sources and detect bias. Obviously not the case any longer. But journalists will produce the kind of stories their paymasters prefer. Or else.
“oublishing”
Is that one of those words in the UK that we Americans don’t know? 🙂
There are a lot neologisms floating around in England that we have no clue about – thanks to cultural Marxism etc
Maybe it is a conjunction of outsourced publishing – oublished…
Looking at the current jet stream forecast l think the Met Office forecast of stormy weather is going to fall rather flat and will be largely confined to the NW of the UK.
The Daily Mail used to be a right-leaning tabloid rag, which was bad enough. Some time ago it changed ownership and the new overlords are of the ‘progressive’ inclination. Now the DM is a left-leaning tabloid rag, which is twice as bad.
One thing I have come to respect about the Daily Fail is that they take no sides. They publish shit from all political sides. I don’t think they have any official editorial position. If it’s click bait, they’ll publish it. I consider them a better news source than most all other general media sites precisely because they seem to have no agenda.
Somehow, I am reminded of lemmings. And of the most efficient way of hunting Bison without horses or firearms. Gotta work on this…
As one who was in central Edinburgh during storm Eowyn, I can confirm that this was no ordinary storm. The suddenness and intensity of the gusts was like nothing else I’ve ever experienced before. My wife was literally blown off her feet just outside our hotel and suffered a fractured arm; I struggled to keep my feet and was only saved by some passing railings as I was blown by. And that was early on when the general wind speeds were still fairly low.
Having said which, I agree that a single weather event, even one like this, does not constitute a trend and drawing conclusions of the sort loved by the meejah is guesswork, not science.
Like nothing else I’ve ever experienced before.
How old are you? Probably not old enough to remember the storm of 1968.
Hmm, no Banton to support his MET office buddies?
Ancient Greek philosopher: Panta Rhei, everything is in flux.
Daily Mail: Panta Diarhei, everything goes down the drain, itself first.
The only question to ask is “What isn’t an example of climate change?”. The same could go for things like racism, misogyny, transphobia etc. DEI is a beautiful thing, just ask the Department to Transportation.
You are wrong Paul. Denying the warming of the world is wrong
Denying that the plane is only a degree or so above the coldest period in 10,000 years, and far cooler than most of that period…
.. is also wrong.
Claiming that human CO2 has anything to do with that slight by highly beneficial warming, is a scientifically unsupportable conjecture
A grand total of nobody, is denying that the world is warming.
What we do deny, with good evidence, is that CO2 is causing it.
… and that humans are the primary cause of the increasing CO2.
It’s becoming more obvious that at least 3 British new outlets—the BBC, The Guardian, and the Daily Mail—are engaged in some sort of contest as to who can spread as much climate hysteria as possible. The suspicion is that the UK government and various environmental organizations are funding these outlets as long as they spread these distortions and outright. lies. So it’s wise to disregard most of their claims unless they can can be corroborated by more credible organizations.
The wicked witch in NZ did just that during her infamous reign of woke.
It gets really wet in the tropics too and Oz has tropics-
Queensland ‘copping a battering’ with up to a metre of intense rainfall
Summer in the temperate zone down south a bit different-
Victorians urged to leave home amid bushfire warnings, while storms hit large parts of state
It is a very large island continent after all.
Who takes the Daily Mail seriously with their column on the right full of articles about the latest celebrities with their boobs hanging out?