Climate change: Voices from global south muted by climate science
October 7, 2021
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
The absurd Matt McGrath is at it again!
Climate change academics from some of the regions worst hit by warming are struggling to be published, according to a new analysis.
The study looked at 100 of the most highly cited climate research papers over the past five years.
Fewer than 1% of the authors were based in Africa, while only 12 of the papers had a female lead researcher.
The lack of diverse voices means key perspectives are being ignored, says the study’s author.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58808509
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Does it not occur to the cluless McGrath that third world countries have got better things to do with their money than waste billions on junk climate research?
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The giveaway word here is “perspectives”. Science doesn’t involve perspectives.
The original analysis (which I wish I hadn’t looked at) describes the need to “decolonise” climate science. The absurd thing is that they seem to think describing your experience of climate change in Vietnam is somehow “science”. The whole thing is absolutely horrific.
Not being cited doesn’t prove anything about the gender or origin of the author(s).
Hear! Hear!
I had a plumber in today to replace a radiator. He was very good but I realise now I should have binned him and sought out a female plumber – just to be on the safe side.
If that sounds stupid, then McGrath can learn from it and drop his patronising ways.
A female friend of mine opted to give a female plumber some work but then found out choosing a competent plumber is the best idea.
That’s rich coming from the male-dominated BBC having zero sense of irony.
All 4 BBC correspondents mentioned in “Top 10 U.K. Journalists in Energy & Environment” lack a cervix.
2. Jonathan Amos
@BBCAmos
Bio: BBC Science Correspondent.
Location: Cambridge, UK
3. David Shukman
@davidshukmanbbc
Bio: I’m the BBC’s Science Editor
Location: UK
5. Roger Harrabin
@RHarrabin
Bio: BBC Environment and Energy Analyst. Also interested in transport, cities, risk, sustainability.
6. Matt McGrath
@MattMcGrathBBC
Bio:Environment correspondent for BBC News – covering all the green issues, interested in scicomm but also rugby, GAA, Munster & Ireland
Location: London, England
https://www.agilitypr.com/resources/top-journalists/top-10-u-k-journalists-energy-environment/
Don’t forget Justin Rowlatt. Where is he?
Outside the “Top 10 U.K. Journalists in Energy & Environment”. 🤣
But yes, another cervix-less Beeboid.
Joe Public – maybe they are cervixes (though there is a shorter Anglo-Saxon term for that).
Don’t forget the BBC is about to plumb new depths of dishonesty. One to avoid if you have high blood pressure I suspect.
“The Trick will be shown on BBC1 on Monday Oct. 18 at 8.30pm.”
https://www.whattowatch.com/watching-guides/the-trick-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-climategate-scandal-drama
I am sure the ABC will run it in Australia, but as I don’t watch the ABC it doesn’t matter to me.
Incidentally, there has been several departures from their ABC recently following several “exposés” costing them money. Should be more.
This can also help to make the listening more entertaining. https://www.cfact.org/2021/10/04/the-crafty-language-of-climate-alarmism/?fbclid=IwAR1Xarhn2WH0JKrN8ozZ5eH9AGs9sQ6U4XxSiJnLESg5MbQrKD1979Qav54
This is easy copy for McGrath. Look up Carbon Brief and its funding to get the full picture.
Congratulations on 15 million hits.
The award winning journalists at the BBC don’t research these things for themselves.
They invariably use 3rd party environmental campaign journalists and news outlets who are paid by the BBC to provide “news” stories.
Lots of people’s livelihoods depend on producing this utterly pointless rubbish.
This is the main problem with the climate fraud because so many people now owe their livelihoods to it. How many people will stand up and say my job is worthless. Science has been totally corrupted as the latest exposure of computer generated papers passing computer based peer reviewing demonstrates. Being corrupt is a very difficult fulltime job if done correctly. What is constantly revealed is the shear laziness of the promoters of the scam because there are no consequences for them when they are outed for what they are.
Gosh!
The BBC has most unfortunately forgotten the huge input from Sub-Saharan Africa into Climate Science at its finest!
COP 25 IN Katowice, Poland saw contingents of around 400 top scientists (each) from Equatorial Guinea and from The Democratic Republic of Congo, participating.
Who knows how many more from Zimbabwe, Malawi, Comoros Islands, Liberia etc.
The BBC isn’t diminishing this massive contribution to cutting edge Science, surely?
Well said Martin. And I nearly fell off of my chair laughing at the quote from Carbon Brief when they complained about ‘systemic bias’ in climate science. Ha ha. Self awareness is not a strong trait in the climatology cult is it?
Yes. As one might say, “the lack of self-awareness is strong in this one”!
I regularly follow your posts and congratulate you on them.
As we approach the international Glasgow event in November, could you please, in advance, publish or refer me to a brief up-to-date non-technical summary of currently held views on the risks of a global warming crisis and its likely consequences, and comments on current UK national global warming mitigation policies? I should like to have a short, reasoned and reliable list from which to quote.
Simon Chalton
Here is a brief summary.
There is NO global warming crisis.
Its more likely we are going into global cooling for the next 3 decades as part of the natural climate change cycles (solar minimum).
What will be funny is watching all the eco-loons at Copout26 wading through snow in Glasgow. My long range forecasting predicts snow in England in the last week of October so a cold conference is likely for the alarm lunatics.
What about the all important Trans authors Mr McGrath? You offend them them by not mentioning their presence or absence! As for the female lead researcher do you not mean a lead person with a cervix? You need to go back to the woke school of correction McGrath for re-education.
Have you not considered Mr “I’ never had an original thought in my life” McGrath that this could be because the origin of this fraud, the activism around it and the means to pay for worthless pontificating in universities are overwhelmingly in English speaking Western countries?
So the most important thing here is not science according to the asinine McGrath but the people making the science and his complaint is that there needs magically to be a completely balanced mix of races and genders regardless contemplating the fluff in their belly buttons.
With every word the BBC and its 12 year old (mental age) pretend journalists shows their profound ignorance of and contempt for the scientific method.
With every twist and turn the fraud reveals it’s self more.
Welcome to climate science. https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/the-climate-debate-is-not-settled/
I regularly visit Spiked and listened to that last night. Well worth it.
Steven Koonin raises many good points and Brendan O’Neil asks a lot of questions the BBC boys refuse to ask.
Very hard for the other side to criticise a former Obama science advisor!
If there’s no research, how does he know “key perspectives” are being ignored?
I have to say, occasionally I wonder if I am wrong to be sceptical, then I look at the calibre of the scientists and their cheerleaders and am pretty sure I’m in the right!
And their cheerlessness Phoenix. They are all so bloody depressing. Imagine attending a party hosted by the misery incarnate, Greta Thunberg, with Michael ‘watch your back’ Mann on meet and greet, Gavin ‘dull as dishwater’ Schmidt running the bar, David ‘humans are a plague’ Attenborough telling everyone off for living and Al ‘show me the money’ Gore doing the ‘climate’ charity whip round with the entertainment provided by Insulate Britain supergluing themselves to the tofu canapés. Jeez the urge to don a suicide vest would be almost irresistible in that company.
To be accurate in our remarks. Cervix is a Latin word . It means NECK. Women and men and other mammals and birds have necks. A dictionary definition of the word also mentions cervix is the back of the neck. Talking out of the back of the neck is therefore possible for women and men . Let us not be sexist!
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