RHS Beclown Themselves Again
February 23, 2018
By Paul Homewood
This appeared in Royal Horticultural Society’s “The Garden Magazine” last October:
The RHS Climate Scientist believes that UK summers are becoming drier.
Meanwhile, back in the real world:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/summaries/actualmonthly
Gardens seem to manage well enough the enormous year to year variability in English summer weather, which completely drowns out any long term trend anyway.
If RHS want to make some budget cuts, I suggest they start with Eleanor Webster. I sometimes think climate science is a form of mental illness.
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As a botanist with 3 degrees in some form of plant taxonomy and who once worked for the US National Herbarium of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, it just makes me so sad to see this crap.
I have always loved the history aspect of botany: Linnaeus, the plant explorers, Kew, the Royal Horticultural Society, The Smithsonian, etc. When at the Smithsonian, I checked the validity of “type specimens”–those designated as one used to define the species by the publishing author. I read the Latin descriptions, etc. from these venerable institutions trying to find any discrepancy between that account and what appeared on the specimen’s label. When in England for Magna Carta in 2015, I spent an afternoon at Kew Gardens.
How all of these institutions have collapsed themselves for a “mess of pottage.”
An organisation operating outwith its core knowledge. In a similar vein Oxfam is probably going to have to look at pruning staff numbers, As their core area is famine relief why should they employ Tracy Carty who “leads Oxfam GB’s international climate work, which includes representing Oxfam at the global UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) negotiations”. Why does the Charity regulator permit this form of mission creep beyond the charitable objective that most donors probably believe that they are contributing to?
“most donors” including the taxpayer.
I was a long term member of the RHS until they started producing “climate change” propaganda. I let my membership lapse and I told them that I didn’t want my money being wasted on this sort of nonsense.
It is based on the information HRH Prince Charles’s plants told him.
Sadly, it’s not just the RHS. All such organisations are at it. I am a member of the National Trust and the RSPB. Otherwise important and valuable bodies, they come out with equally vacuous twaddle on a regular basis. The RSPB in particular, when discussing the ever-changing populations of our birds simply cannot resist the “challenge posed by our changing climate” meme without ever, of course, presenting real evidence for such.
The RHS, the National Trust and the RSPB are all organisations of which I used to be a member and all of which I gave up because my membership money was going towards “climate change” propaganda.
‘I sometimes think climate science is a form of mental illness.’
Depends whether it’s taken seriously or not.
Belief in human-caused catastrophic climate change IS a mental illness.
Benefitting from the irrational fear of human-caused catastrophic climate change IS fraud.
Boils down to one goal. The elites want all of the worlds resources for themselves. Hence this absurdities and panic, as their predictions fails on topic after topic.