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Figueres to Lead Lancet Commission

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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

h/t Dennis Ambler

This will be an objective report then!

From National Today:

Christiana Figueres, a former UN climate chief and key negotiator for the 2016 Paris agreement, has been appointed as the co-chair of a new Lancet Commission dedicated to investigating the intersection of sea-level rise, public health, and social inequality. The commission aims to analyze how the advancing waterline is altering daily life for hundreds of millions of people and the specific ways it creates escalating threats to wellbeing.

https://nationaltoday.com/us/la/new-orleans/news/2026/04/08/former-un-climate-chief-to-lead-lancet-commission-on-sea-level-rise-and-health

Could this be the same Figueres who “has linked these health crises to a global dependence on fossil fuels, which she claims is driving both geopolitical instability and the environmental changes causing sea-level rise. She has described the health impacts of climate change as the mother of all injustices and warned that countries are being held hostage by their reliance on these fuels.”

And what on earth does this hard left woman think will happen to all these poor people when the fossil fuel tap is switched off?

Sadly the Lancet lost all credibility for honest science when it sold its soul to the climate zealots many years ago.

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AGW is Not Science
April 9, 2026 6:12 am

So the same person I believe who already said the quiet part out loud, i.e. that all the “climate crisis” nonsense was never REALLY about climate but rather about “reworking the global economic model.” (Not in those words of course.)

WHY does ANYONE with a functioning brain LISTEN to a word these IDIOTS say?! Who the hell actually thinks they have a shred of credibility?!

Mind boggled.

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Joseph Zorzin
Reply to  AGW is Not Science
April 9, 2026 6:58 am

What annoys me is that here in Wokeachusetts, most well educated people seem to think they are also very open minded- but I find just the opposite. They are easily brainwashed- maybe because the climate emergency is often pitched as good science and sounds sciency when it isn’t. I find that less educated people are more likely to be open minded since they have more common sense.

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drednicolson
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
April 9, 2026 7:26 am

Open minds already made up. The worst sort. Those with closed minds are at least honest about their prejudices.

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Mark Whitney
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
April 9, 2026 7:55 am

It just proves that if one is too “open-minded”, one’s brains fall out.

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gyan1
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
April 9, 2026 8:14 am

People who think they are smart because they got good grades by repeating what their professors told them lack the critical thinking skills to ask the simple question “is this true?”. So called smart people can find more examples to rationalize their false beliefs so become more fixed in those beliefs. Their egos can’t admit they were duped so double down on ignorance.

Paul Simon said it best- “Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest”.

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Joseph Zorzin
Reply to  gyan1
April 9, 2026 8:23 am

I always loved challenging my profs. I had a forestry prof who said to the class, “your generation isn’t so great- you aren’t willing to fight in Viet Nam”. All the students looked intimidated by him. I stood up and said, “your generation is dropping napalm on rice paddies and burning down villages”. The old Irishman’s face turned purple with rage while the other students shrunk down into their desks.

When I took sociology, the prof gave us an assignment- for several days, wear clothes unlike what you normally wear and make note of the the reaction of people who know you. After a week, we were told to hand in our notes on this experiment. I wrote, “this was a very dumb experiment so I didn’t do it”. As you can imagine, that prof didn’t like me.

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gyan1
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
April 9, 2026 9:36 am

Contradicting woke professors today is not how you get good grades. I had many good professors who liked being challenged in the early 70’s. I don’t think there are many today. Orthodoxy dominates.

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George Thompson
Reply to  gyan1
April 9, 2026 11:12 am

I had a couple of Profs who, while not woke, were well on their way that I tangled with…they still, however, had maintained their ethics and intellectual honesty. Thank God for my educational goals at the time. One did not and blew my sorry ass out of a Ph.D program…thank God again…all 50 yrs. ago. Life was much better afterwards. Go figure.

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gyan1
Reply to  George Thompson
April 9, 2026 12:37 pm

A PhD nowadays is mostly a measurement of indoctrination. Anyone opposing the orthodoxy cannot get one. “equity” has infiltrated science departments.

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Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
April 9, 2026 9:39 am

You had the courage of your convictions. I did not.

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Mr.
Reply to  Sparta Nova 4
April 9, 2026 10:24 am

I dropped out of my 3-year BEcon course after 2 years, but not because I had any courage.

I just couldn’t stand the propaganda any more.

The prof running it was an unreconstructed Marxist, he blatantly maintained that capitalism was the worst evil ever to be perpetrated on humanity.

(of course it came out that he had never held a “hands-on” job , just 100% unionized public education roles:
high school > primary school teacher > secondary school teacher > tertiary lecturere > professor).

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Old Mike
Reply to  Mr.
April 9, 2026 5:53 pm

I was fortunate, Chem-Eng. degree, all my lecturers had to have a minimum 5 years of working in industry to be accepted to the school of engineeringe!!!

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Graemethecat
Reply to  Old Mike
April 10, 2026 1:59 am

Engineers are, by necessity, reality-based.

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Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
April 9, 2026 9:38 am

I was once told that “common sense” wasn’t common.
Wokeachusetts seems to prove that statement true.

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Jeff Alberts
Reply to  AGW is Not Science
April 9, 2026 7:31 am

Didn’t she also say, when talking about cherry-picked data, that (paraphrasing) “If you want to make cherry pie, you have to pick a few cherries.” I could be wrong on the attribution.

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Jeff Alberts
Reply to  Jeff Alberts
April 9, 2026 7:39 am

I was wrong, it was Rosanne D’Arrigo. But I have no doubt that Figueres would agree with the sentiment.

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gyan1
Reply to  AGW is Not Science
April 9, 2026 8:06 am

“Who the hell actually thinks they have a shred of credibility?!”

The left still has many who think humans are doomed due to the modest/beneficial warming we are experiencing. Psychotic delusion is what gives it credibility. It’s a mental illness.

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Phil R
Reply to  AGW is Not Science
April 9, 2026 9:53 am

Just because someone is EVIL doesn’t mean they don’t have a functioning brain. It just functions in a sociopathic way.

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bnice2000
Reply to  AGW is Not Science
April 9, 2026 1:20 pm

How does anyone as bat-shit crazy get into a position of any sort of importance. !!

Figueres
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Retired_Engineer_Jim
Reply to  bnice2000
April 9, 2026 3:52 pm

A requirement in the UN / UNFCC / IPCC world.

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huls
Reply to  bnice2000
April 12, 2026 11:37 am

Batsh!t bonkers commie who needs a padded cell and lots of “jabs”

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Old Mike
Reply to  AGW is Not Science
April 9, 2026 5:48 pm

They are legends in their own minds, it’s that simple

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Steve Case
April 9, 2026 6:14 am

“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves
the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic
development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the 
industrial revolution.” –
                                                                    Christiana Figueres,
                                                                    UN Climate Change Executive Secretary

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Oldseadog
Reply to  Steve Case
April 9, 2026 6:39 am

If she is the Executive Secretary of UN Climate Change, does that mean her organisation is in charge of and is responsible for all the changes in climate and she makes sure that it all happens?

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Steve Case
Reply to  Oldseadog
April 9, 2026 9:42 am

All the changes in climate? Or all the changes to climate data?

comment image

All the plots on that chart should fall on top of one another. They don’t.
Every time CU’s Sea Research Group (CSLRG) updated the chart, they
changed all the historical data.

Same story for global temperature NASA changes the data every month
often all the way back to January 1880 Source

comment image

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KevinM
Reply to  Steve Case
April 9, 2026 11:09 am

Thank goodness someone saves historical data.

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Scissor
Reply to  Steve Case
April 9, 2026 12:14 pm

It’s the University of Colorado, not Colorado University. Long story.

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bnice2000
Reply to  Steve Case
April 9, 2026 1:32 pm

Considering that most of the ocean wasn’t measured in any reasonably scientific way before 2005, and most of the land data comes from crap urban effected data.

And they “average” totally different types of MOSTLY FAKE junk measurements….

I don’t have any faith that GISS et al are any more than climate-religion-based propaganda fabrications.

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Tom Abbott
Reply to  bnice2000
April 10, 2026 3:56 am

I agree.

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Joseph Zorzin
Reply to  Steve Case
April 9, 2026 7:01 am

So it’s a “revolution from the top”- and they are always doomed when elites try to change everything. They think they have all the answers but they don’t so it will fail as it goes against the interests of “the common man”. (man in the traditional sense of mankind)

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Scissor
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
April 9, 2026 7:22 am

Gerry Noonan is high on my list of candidates.

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SxyxS
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
April 9, 2026 10:12 am

They are not doomed.

Actually, most ” revolutions ” have have 2 things in common.
They are not grassroots and they are successful .

But try to tell this to someone who is a child of the fake hippie revolution (that almost simultaneously and impossibly happened everywherein the “free world ” ) that was pushed by the same gay pedo beatnick Ginsberg in UK as swinging 60ies.

And even when such a revolution failes, as the “russian” in 1905 ( after Trotsky met Lenin in London),
then Kuhn & Loeb NY pays tons of money to Japan to wage war on Russia to weaken the country, so the 1917 revolution may succeed, after they sent Trotsky again from NY.

Those ” revolutions” have almost always roots in London and NY – just as the suffragettes/feminists.(Margaret Sanger, NY , then London groupie for Fabian Society /London , Victoria Woodhull – NY,1st female to run for president,1st female Wall Street broker ,1st to print Marx Manifesto in US, feminist & free love promoter, charlatan & Vanderbilt puppet )
Even the figureheads of simultaneous and therefore impossible arab springs(a rehash of European Springs 1850) got their training at NY youth events (later moved to oslo).

Even the trans & pedophilia( John Money, Robert Stoller, Richard Green) and gay revolutions(CSD) have their revolutions in NY.

And if , on rare occasions a real revolutions succeeds as in Cuba and Nicaragua and kicks out US proxies, or goes wrong(Iran, Egypt),
then there are instant Wall Street counter measures like sanctions,bay of pigs,
contras (the Sandinistas didn’t even had time to make enemies after the kicked of genocidal Somozas to USA),
wars(as Saddam was ordered to attack Iran, 300 -700K Iranians killed),
or even instant 2nd revolutions after Mursi turned away from Saudi and Israel towards Iran, there was an Instant replacement by Sisi whose uncle was a Knesset member.

Almost all revolutions are top down social engineering – even the mother of them all = Cromwell, who already talked like a Bolshevik.

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Phil R
Reply to  SxyxS
April 9, 2026 11:00 am

Those ” revolutions” have almost always roots in London and NY…

And Paris. Don’t forget Paris. Ho Chi Minh (and many other socialists and communists) passed through or “studied” in Paris.

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Tom Abbott
Reply to  SxyxS
April 10, 2026 4:05 am

The Hippie lifestyle was not a political revolution. Hippies did not expect to gain political power. They just wanted to experiment with different ways of looking at the world.

There is a lot of misreading of history nowadays. This is not surprising given the fact that the dominant media in the Western World have been distorting reality for many decades, especially during and after the Vietnam war.

That history you think you know may not be anywhere near the actual truth.

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Dave Andrews
Reply to  Steve Case
April 9, 2026 8:31 am

Add

“This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history”

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Retired_Engineer_Jim
Reply to  Dave Andrews
April 9, 2026 3:57 pm

Don’t trust anyone who splits infinitives.

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Jeff Alberts
Reply to  Retired_Engineer_Jim
April 9, 2026 6:19 pm

Splitter!

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mleskovarsocalrrcom
April 9, 2026 6:18 am

A conspiracy of useful idiots getting recycled.

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William Lewis
Reply to  mleskovarsocalrrcom
April 9, 2026 6:56 am

They have no other skillset. That’s the whole problem with this. They need their money to keep from finding a real job.

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Leon de Boer
April 9, 2026 6:32 am

Another mob of idiots for Trump to sanction and see how all the donors can pay them then 🙂

Then they can join the ICC judges in having a big cry
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/12/icc-judges-stoic-in-face-of-us-sanctions-over-israeli-war-crimes-cases

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Mr.
April 9, 2026 6:38 am

Have some sympathy please folks.

Christiana never wanted to do this in the first place.

She always wanted to be –
a lumberjack

(and go unshaven, dress up in muddy men’s overalls, wear Kevlar chaps, stink of bar oil lubricant and 2-stroke gasoline, wear a baseball cap backwards underneath a foresters helmet, and wear scrubby, muddy boots & gloves to UN Climate Catastrophist meetings.
Of course, her assistant would have to lug the 24″ Husky saw around for her)

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Joseph Zorzin
Reply to  Mr.
April 9, 2026 7:04 am

the image of that- sounds like a project for AI to illustrate 🙂

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Frank from NoVA
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
April 9, 2026 7:38 am

Or Monte Python.

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Joseph Zorzin
Reply to  Frank from NoVA
April 9, 2026 8:14 am

I wasn’t a lumber jack- but close, a consulting forester. All the many loggers I dealt with for 50 years were some of the nicest people I’ve ever known. And smart too- you have to be as you have to have expensive machines and dealing with mills, bureaucrats and foresters. And it’s dangerous work. Many that I knew got injured and some died on the job. The last timber project I managed- the one logger working alone- at the age of 77, died from an accident in the forest- though it was not on my project. A real gentleman too, more so than many of the over educated snobs that I know. (snobachusetts?)

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SxyxS
Reply to  Mr.
April 9, 2026 10:16 am

That’s not a Lumberjack- just your standard feminist.

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2hotel9
April 9, 2026 6:38 am

The Lancet? They threw their legitimacy in the toilet with all the covidiocy propaganda spewing.

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Derg
Reply to  2hotel9
April 9, 2026 11:40 am

This +1000

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bnice2000
Reply to  Derg
April 9, 2026 1:37 pm

By putting this demented crone in charge, its almost like they WANT to destroy their reputation utterly and completely.

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Joseph Zorzin
April 9, 2026 6:54 am

“investigating the intersection of sea-level rise, public health, and social inequality”

These topics are all complex. Trying to evaluate all of them at some supposed intersection is doomed to failure even if they were not far leftists.

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Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
April 9, 2026 9:43 am

The quest for the “control knob” aka a simple concept that can be fed to the masses.

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Retired_Engineer_Jim
Reply to  Sparta Nova 4
April 9, 2026 4:00 pm

It appears that rescinding the EPA CO2 Endangerment Finding has had no impact.

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Joseph Zorzin
Reply to  Retired_Engineer_Jim
April 9, 2026 4:30 pm

It will. Its at the foundation of the climate cult. Strange that MA pushed it along- and now that its rescinded, you’d think the honchos here would notice but they haven’t! They don’t want to mention it as it’s the basis for many state laws and policies.

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Joseph Zorzin
Reply to  Sparta Nova 4
April 9, 2026 4:28 pm

Right- like our furnace thermostat. A simple, very simple model for simple people. You don’t have to be a scientist to realize the climate can’t be that simple. There are countless variables- no master control knob. That’s so dumb.

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Phil R
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
April 9, 2026 10:03 am

Intersectionality allows the nexus of multiple logical fallacies, each of which becomes a distraction from their true, overarching goal as normal people attempt to debate each one.

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Fraizer
April 9, 2026 7:44 am

Why not?
The Lancet sacrificed the last vestige of its credibility years ago.
Right up there (down there) with JAMA.

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Mac
April 9, 2026 7:56 am

I was a coauthor on a paper submitted to Lancet many years ago. Back when it was a true medical journal. Unfortunately many journal have become woke. Don’t know if they can turn around.

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GeorgeInSanDiego
April 9, 2026 7:56 am

The Lancet lost all credibility when they published a fraudulent research paper that linked the MMR vaccine with autism.

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gyan1
April 9, 2026 8:02 am

The Lancet was captured long ago by globalist/corporate interests and should be regarded in the same vein as Legacy Media propaganda.

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Steve Case
Reply to  gyan1
April 9, 2026 8:32 am

At least, put “Legacy” in quotes.

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KevinM
Reply to  Steve Case
April 9, 2026 11:17 am

I wonder how long that word usage will last.

“A legacy is something handed down from the past, such as money/property in a will (bequest), a reputation, or outdated technology (legacy system).”

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Steve Case
Reply to  KevinM
April 9, 2026 11:39 am

The definition of the word is changing. Beholding a legacy induces a sense of awe and reverence such as a long standing well respected trustworthy institution might generate.

Indeed it’s respect that our corrupt media has lost. They think that if they can successfully dub themselves as a legacy institution they will regain their loss of respect.

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KevinM
Reply to  Steve Case
April 9, 2026 2:24 pm

Ah… well that isn’t gonna work.
They’re aware what happened to the music recording industry, right?

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ResourceGuy
April 9, 2026 8:03 am

At least she didn’t make it to UC Berkeley. Maybe they filled all their agenda political token slots already.

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Scissor
Reply to  ResourceGuy
April 9, 2026 9:25 am

Her education journey passed through Swarthmore, a leftist communist institution if there ever was one.

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ResourceGuy
Reply to  Scissor
April 9, 2026 9:36 am

Actually, I was referring to gifted faculty slots there.

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KevinM
Reply to  ResourceGuy
April 9, 2026 11:19 am

10 people in the photo makes percentages easy to calculate.

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worsethanfailure
April 9, 2026 8:04 am

intersection 

I stopped right there.

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Sparta Nova 4
April 9, 2026 9:37 am

Trans-Reality Zealots

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Peter Jennings
April 9, 2026 9:37 am

They have all the buzz words and NWO wrongspeak. It will a total disaster for the planet and the people on it. Those on the commission will be ok as they won’t have to live with their mistakes, mismanagement, and stupidity. They simply backslap each other into positions where they bed in like ticks and poison the whole system. These people are supposed to be intelligent so maybe it isn’t stupidity but rather duplicity. When the young people start to get older they will realise they have been royally screwed and those on committees like these are responsible.

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hdhoese
April 9, 2026 10:40 am

All they need to do is read Brownson Malsch. 1988. Indianola: The Mother of Western Texas. State House Press. Austin, Texas. Indianola, what’s left of it, is on the western shore of the near ENE-WSW long fetch of Matagorda Bay, Texas, which was wiped out by the hurricane in 1875, but rebuilt to suffer the worse one in 1886. Chapter XXIII, Postscript. The Lesson of Indianola, first sentence-“There is a natural human resistance to the learning of lessons especially taught in the school of experience.” Chapter XXII, And Then–The End! The (1886) storm also affected Louisiana, including New Orleans, and the states of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey. … .Appendix E, Hurricanes. Report of the Indianola Relief Association on the hurricane of 1875 “…..a storm [August 20, 1886, an especially hot year] washed away two and one-half miles of track near Indianola, damaging the banks badly and practically destroying the large and expensive wharf at that point…..” Need one say more about Chapter XXI, Death and Desolation and the many other continuing examples (Outer Banks, NC?). Also it needs the question how many times it takes governments and the public to completely learn a simple set of geographic and historical ‘sea-level’ facts in our period supposedly at its scientific ‘heights.’ The book was prescient about the warnings improving to save human lives but not the structures we continually build in harms way despite some improvements. 

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DMacKenzie
April 9, 2026 10:45 am

The Lancet seems to have way too many subscribers, way too many journals that have way too many universities subscribing…and is looking for ways to get more subscriptions that are taxpayer funded…it’s sad actually when bona fide research journals start looking for the checkout aisle publication market.

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KevinM
Reply to  DMacKenzie
April 9, 2026 11:23 am

Is the process of journal publication anachronistic in modern culture?
If so, what would replace it as a way of measuring research?

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DMacKenzie
Reply to  KevinM
April 9, 2026 2:43 pm

I think electronic journals have destroyed the old printed journal system entirely…and a much larger cyber cesspool exists for which second rate “researchers” can float their turds and significantly increase their “referenced by” count….

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Tom Abbott
Reply to  DMacKenzie
April 10, 2026 4:17 am

“Cyber cesspool”

Good, accurate description!

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KevinM
April 9, 2026 11:01 am

“the intersection of sea-level rise, public health, and social inequality”
Huh?
Maybe poverty correlates with waterfront property in New Orleans (doubt it in terms of ownership) but not in Nantucket.

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Phil R
Reply to  KevinM
April 9, 2026 11:34 am

The more they push the fear of sea level rise, the more expensive waterfront property becomes. The more expensive waterfront property becomes, the more only elitist limousine liberals and champagne socialists can afford it. Look at the Obamas and their Martha’s Vineyard waterfront mansion. Obviously not concerned with sea level rise. That’s only a concern for the little people.

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KevinM
Reply to  Phil R
April 9, 2026 11:44 am

“The more they push the fear of sea level rise, the more expensive waterfront property becomes.”
Both items match my understanding, but I don’t see a causal affect.

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Phil R
Reply to  KevinM
April 9, 2026 2:14 pm

Probably no causal effect, just something that popped into my head so I could bash liberals and Obama. 🙂

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Edward Katz
April 9, 2026 2:09 pm

I’m bracing myself for the BS that will come flying out in The Lancet’s findings. Realists will have to take it all with not just a grain of salt but the whole box.

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Bob
April 9, 2026 3:26 pm

No one is being held hostage to fossil fuels. Just stop using them. But when your standard of living goes down the toilet don’t look to the rest of us to bail you out and comfort you. Disconnect from the grid for work and home. No fossil fuel powered transportation that means electric also. Grow your own food using only manure for fertilizer. You better get used to animal skins and cotton or some other plant based cloth, no more synthetics. Consider how to heat your home and workplace remember you are off the grid. No you are not being held hostage you are merely showing how ungrateful you are for everything fossil fuels provide for you. I can see the funeral homes getting a bump in business shortly, good luck to you.
No one is being held hostage to fossil fuels. Just stop using them. But when your standard of living goes down the toilet don’t look to the rest of us to bail you out and comfort you. Disconnect from the grid for work and home. No fossil fuel powered transportation that means electric also. Grow your own food using only manure for fertilizer. You better get used to animal skins and cotton or some other plant based cloth, no more synthetics. Consider how to heat your home and workplace remember you are off the grid. No you are not being held hostage you are merely showing how ungrateful you are for everything fossil fuels provide for you. I can see the funeral homes getting a bump in business shortly, good luck to you. You are ungrateful cowards.

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Tom Abbott
Reply to  Bob
April 10, 2026 4:20 am

“No one is being held hostage to fossil fuels. Just stop using them.”

Yes, it’s as simple as that.

That leaves more for those of us who like to use fossil fuels.

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Ed Zuiderwijk
April 10, 2026 9:52 am

What on Earth has The Lancet to do with coastal defences? Why didn’t they bring in the Dutch?

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