Have You Seen The Guardian’s Climate Disaster? It Appears To Have Gone Missing!
By Paul Homewood
The more the push back against Net Zero grows, the more desperate the propaganda becomes:
The Earth is already becoming unlivable, they claim! Funny, perhaps somebody should tell the 7.9 billion people living on it.
It’s the usual mix of cherry picking heatwaves, floods, droughts, crop failures and wildfires, dressed up in fraudulent fancy graphics, and assisted by the hopelessly discredited Katherine Hayhoe.
So let’s look at some examples:
- Prolonged multi-decadal droughts in the Sahel
- The “Year of the Flood” in Catalonia
- Record droughts followed by catastrophic floods in India
- Major drought in Chile
- 500,000 deaths in Japan in just one winter, due to poor harvests
- Record floods year after year in parts of Europe, but record droughts in other parts
- 1000-Year drought in Aegean/Black Sea region
- Around the world, millions died from famine
- Crops regularly devastated around the world
Sounds bad? Yes it does, but this all happened in the mid 17thC. I could also have added:
- Record cold winters
- 1628 – The Year without a Summer
- 1675 – The Year without a Summer (yes, another)
- So cold in Egypt that they wore furs.
- Record cold springs
- Record wet summers
- Record cold summers
- Rapidly advancing glaciers
All of this is described in Geoffrey Parker’s excellent book, Global Crisis.
Similar catastrophic events occurred in the 19th, before the Little Ice Age gave up its grip.
The Guardian has clearly lost its grip as well! They’ll probably try to tell us next that we all died last year. After they cannot get much more ridiculous.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Does anyone pay attention the the schist the Guardian publishes?
And do they get it free or have to pay?
I quit paying for magazines that print obvious false things on a regular basis.
Yes, the BBC, and I think it is the house newspaper. 🙂
It regularly appears on the first page of google searches, so it is probably read by hundreds of millions via that route.
“…first page of google searches…”
Google is an important part of ‘their’ system.
I urge people to use ‘DuckDuckGo.’
Dave–I agree w/ you. I have used DuckDuckGo for a number of years.
Unlikely
“It regularly appears on the first page of google searches, so it is probably read by hundreds of millions via that route.”
Why do you assume that Google is honest?
Oh? Tell me, what magazines are you still able to buy then?
Well here in West Virginia, I have subscriptions to “Tea Time” (an American magazine of all things tea) and the NRA’s “Freedom”. Off the shelf, I buy “A Taste of the South” (excellent Southern recipes). My parents had given each of we children lifetime subscriptions to National Geographic. I wrote them and told them I no longer wanted their publication in my home and got it stopped. Oh, and “Castanea” the journal of The Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
“The Guardian has clearly lost its grip as well! ”
When did the Guardian ever have a grip on reality? They have a comment to make almost every time something bad happens to weather, or to theories about climate. There is no end to their “gloom and doom” journalism. They stand out from almost all the others when “global warming” is the topic. They lead the way with propaganda their weapon of choice.
Probably when it was the Manchester Guardian and funded by the slave trade.
The Guardian disaster is here!
When the Suez & Panama canals burst their banks, I may start to believe this codswallop.
In 2020 the guardian published this about itself:
“New data shows Guardian is the top quality and most trusted newspaper in the UK”
Yet oddly it only appears to have a circulation of about 110,000 and doesn’t even rank in the Top 10 of UK newspaper circulations which are dominated by The Sun, Daily Mail and then The Times and the DT in 9th and 10th. The Daily Mail and The Sun have circulations around a million and The Times and Telegraph are 3 – 4 times the circulation of the Guardian.
So the Guardian can spin anything and its belief in the preposterous appears to know no bounds – including about its own importance.
I suspect if the BBC stopped the Guardian as its in-house newspaper the circulation would drop even more drastically.
The Guardian’s first cousin in Ireland, The Irish Times, ran a similar entire magazine yesterday full of breathless hysteria penned by activists and luvvies.
Meanwhile the government has had to reopen a gas fired power plant in Dublin that had been mothballed and looks like it will have to reopen another one in Cork to avert power cuts during the winter.
People are beginning to ask serious questions about the net zero plans at last.
I wish you would inform your readers about my latest book – “THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS” available from amazon.co.uk
This one at https://www.amazon.co.uk/THERE-CLIMATE-CRISIS-David-Craig/dp/1872188176
Where a MR A THORPE gives it 5.0 out of 5 stars and says —
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Bad weather is highlighted as ‘climate change’.
Benign weather is simply ignored.
Thousands of records are set daily, as there’s an almost infinite range of locations and circumstances.
Continent, country, county, state, city, town, region, sea, river, lake, day, month, year, season, highs, lows, you name it, it’s all possible.
Due to global information we can all access any weather event anywhere on Earth in seconds.
Guardian simply select a bad weather event as it occurs to cite ‘extreme weather caused by man made climate change caused by burning fossil fuels’, as the cause’.
It’s a racketeers wet dream and they’ve been undeservedly successful!
No. There is no depth to which they will not sink in their lies alarmists even attributed benign weather to climate change a few weeks ago.
Where has the wind gone? ‘Global stilling’ is blamed as wind speeds drop across Europe cutting green energy production – threatening to drive up energy prices even FURTHER
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10075301/Global-stilling-blamed-wind-speeds-drop-Europe-threaten-drive-energy-prices.html
And the data says:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/09/weather/weather-record-cold-antarctica-climate-change/index.html
Experts aren’t “blaming ” anything in that quote. One expert is giving one possible explination.
It’s amazing that they can lie even within their own story that demonstrates the lie.
Indeed. They did that to invent an excuse to absolve renewables from blame for not providing electricity.
‘The problem wasn’t wind turbines not generating electricity, it was due to a lack of wind – due to climate change’.
Ah, righto. Whatever ya say.
The wind has obviously been slowed down by the wind farms.
Yes even as few as 10,000 locations globally with only 4 data points (min, max, average, rainfall) and taking only months, seasons and years gives 650,000 possible records each year. Even at 1% a year that’s 6,500 records to shout about. In a 50-150 year record, that’s almost bound to happen.
The climate disaster is here.
—and it’s called The Guardian.
The sad thing is that their readers believe all this nonsense without question..
I take the Daily Mail but would rarely use anything they print as facts given that I know a lot of it is bollocks but it does have the odd good article and scanning the headlines lets me know what topics are troubling the media children and our moron politicians. It doesn’t take long since with their tiny attention spans they can only cover a handful of things and then drown them with pages of ill-informed dross such as with the death of the MP. They missed his twice taking taxpayers for mugs over expenses, trying to get his son let off for lamping somebody with a champagne bottle despite the jury finding him guilty, but most key is his smoozing of the Qataris – they gave him 2 camels plus lots of free hospitality. Qatar is being allowed to meddle in the affairs of Somalia and his nemesis is Somalian.
Hayhoe, Hayhoe, it’s cherrypicking we go.
Hayhoe, Hayhoe
It’s all the work we know
We keep on fiddling all day long
Hayhoe, Hayhoe
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Excellent. Don’t apologise Graeme No.3, faced with an endless conveyor belt of tripe – the only sensible thing to do is wantonly rip the piss.
If two persons read each copy then it’s read by 0.32% of the population. How about we all ignore whatever it prints and let it continue its slide into miserable obscurity. Probably more people have been abducted by aliens than read this obscure polemical organ
The Guardian and Katherine Hayhoe — a match made in the lower reaches of Purgatory, well below what even Dante’s version in Purgatorio, could have envisaged.
Hubristic confidence tricksters wilfully piling on the alarm for personal fame and fortune from the naive and uninformed.
Sceptical blogs such as this one are great, but it is difficult to find all the latest information about specific topics, such as rainfall, sea-level, and the state of the Great Barrier Reef. The perception of “crisis” is enhanced by the barrage of exploitations of bad weather, which always returns to normal, with no mention of that in the alarmist media.
There is surely a gap in the market for websites (not blogs) that contain historical data and commentary that allows extreme weather events to be put into the longest possible historical context. One might expect that the UK Met Office and Australian BoM would do this, but of course they won’t.
Not quite what you describe, but this from The Heartland Institute has synopses on most climate related topics.
https://climateataglance.com/
Climanrecon (and fellow travellers here, if you’ve missed it) if you want a recent, and really excellent, summary from a historical perspective, of global drought, demonstrating how we are not in any kind of emergency, check out a recent article over at PA Pundits-International. Authored by the Aussie skeptic, Dr John Happs and entitled ‘Drought Alarmism- Ignorance or Deliberate Deception’, the article is full of charts, links and historical quotes that would sink any guardianista amidships should they try to argue that our current climate is ‘worse than evah!’ It’s a cracking read. http://www.papundits.wordpress.com
Tony Heller at realclimatescience.com publishes a great deal of historical data, albeit mainly about the USA. Well worth checking it out.
The Guardian & old Attenborough @ the B.B.C between them are so bad – every time the dried pine cones on my windowsill see and hear them – throw themselves onto the pavement below. Getting run over & trodden on (so they tell me) is infinitely preferable to ‘yet another’ lecture on irreversible climate change.
I’ve noticed that Attenborough DVDs are getting cheaper, often on special at the local DVD+ store. I notice that Judy Dench and Penelope Keith (and Peppa Pig) command higher prices.
Either the professional sellers are making a mistake or they’ve noticed a drop in demand.
This is getting serious now. For the first time, I’m genuinely worried.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/10/24/scotch-whisky-production-risks-drying-2080/
Apparently the wildebeest migration across the Masai Mara is in danger from climate change, by which they mean drought. Well I never. Drought in Africa, who would have thought?
https://news.sky.com/story/masai-maras-wildebeest-migration-under-threat-from-climate-change-12441269
Have you heard of Henrik Svensmark and his cosmic ray theory regards global warming? I remember hearing about him years ago but it seemed his research was debunked and it all disappeared. However, recently he and his team of colleges managed to get solid data to backup the theory and the work was recently published in Nature.
Background on his theory from 11 years ago:
Recent article and video by same author:
https://climatechangedispatch.com/new-study-confirms-sun-cosmic-ray-climate-connection/
His cosmic ray cloud seeding theory has never been debunked. After a long struggle the CLOUD project was set up at CERN and to their dismay their experiments proved him correct. The report was very low key and had no conclusions so they didn’t have to admit in writing that it was correct – they just presented the results that showed it to be so.
The next step is to show that global temperatures have moved with the changes in cosmic radiation which also happens to increase during periods of low solar activity. Cloudiness is more difficult to record than temperature.
The strange thing is looking out of the window the Warwickshire countryside looks much the same. The farmers go about their business using huge machines to harvest a bountiful crop.
People look healthy and well fed , the rivers and streams are flowing with clean water.
Historically the Feldon would have been cleared of woodlands but now hillsides are heavily wooded. Red kites soar across this man made rural landscape
All is well.
An interesting perspective on historical weather is gained from reading this.
https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/rain-sun-sun-rain
Yes, that book “Global Crisis” really is awe-inspiringly excellent.
To say Earth is already becoming “unliveable” is just utterly absurd. There’s not a single place on the planet where humans have routinely lived that is even close to unliveable. Floods are by definition extremely transient, droughts have happened throughout history and clearly follow cycles. The torrent of lies and false information is quite extraordinary.
As with the Covid crimes, the perpetrators are using most globalists news sources to spread their garbage to induce fear mongering & acceptance of their agenda. If you saw last nights C4 programme, “Joe Lycett vs the Oil Giant,” it’s opening statement was, “The world is at the precipice of irreversible climate change.” Keep spreading the truth !
On the same theme, written in 2010: Extreme Weather, Extreme Claims.
Click to access extreme_weather_extreme_claims.pdf
This is the site created by a former Met office weather man, now I think hosted at the British Library archives. Start at 4000 BC with the Climatic Optimum and work your way forward!
https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20150110001150/http://booty.org.uk/booty.weather/climate/4000_100BC.htm
“Climatic optimum”: peaked circa 4000 – 3500 BC (some references say 4000 – 2500 BC); markedly reduced glacier extent (all gone from British land mass). (var. refs); tree-lines in northern areas, particularly northern England & Scotland roughly 300m (or 1000ft) higher than they are now, with forests established at higher elevations than currently: this implies that wind-damage might not have been a major problem. This in turn translates into weaker, less frequent spells of significantly low pressure (i.e. major cyclogenesis spells). (see also previous date file .. this period started circa 6200 BC).
As to sea levels, Lamb tentatively suggests that they rose by ~100-150ft / ~30-45 cm between 8000 BC & 3000 BC.
Both globally & regionally, several references mention an anomaly of ~ + 2degC over those values relating to the latter third of the 20th century.”
Thank you very much dennisambler. I’ve been trying for months to find this. I remembered it, and had a copy on my old computer but lost it when said computer did a Titanic imitation in 2013.
Referring to Lamb – when I was last in London, I enquired at Foyles bookshop about a copy. They would have had to specially order, and the price, when converted into South African Rands, would have paid for my flights in BOTH directions. We at the Southern Tip are at the mercy of exchange rates, as well as being ruled by ANC!
Well, I have to rely on UK sites like this for the true McGuffin of climate information! So, thanks, Paul!
100-150 ft sea level rise: don’t let an alarmist copy that, it will be repeated everywhere!
Lovely graphs on this website illustrating deaths from droughts have decreased by 80% since the 1930s as the world’s population has increased by billions – https://ourworldindata.org/natural-disasters
It’s too late, we are already doomed as of last year. Cancel the COP now!
“Climate chaos predicted by CO2 study” World will have exceeded 2050 safe carbon emissions limit by 2020, scientists say. The Independent in 2011: https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/climate-chaos-predicted-by-co2-study-1676411.html
What’s the ‘safe’ ‘limit’?
Who decided what the ‘limit’ is?
On what basis?
Why would it be ‘unsafe’ after that?
Says who?
Based on what evidence?
Show your workings.
It’s too stupid for words, isn’t it?
Very unsafe to drop below 200 ppm. The planet dies. About 1000ppm CO2 looks optimal IMHO.
Didn’t you know that “showing your workings” is a symptom of “White Privilege”? At least according to some Seattle ‘educators’!
I don’t know about the rest of the claims but this one – 500,000 deaths in Japan in just one winter, due to poor harvests” – surely is wrong?
The writer must believe that Japan is still an agrarian society as it was in the 19th century.
There is no way on Earth that Japan would allow half a million people to die from hunger .
The Japs might not now Brian but Paul was referring to the mid 17th Century in the depths of the Little Ice Age when, you could say there was an actual, climate emergency unlike the rather benign stuff that has been thrown at us during the modern warming period.
Yes, the winter of 1642/3 to be precise
How do I delete a really silly post? I made it before I checked the whole article. Where’s the embarrassed emoji?
Sorry!!!
I did not want to make it look like the Little Ice Age at the start.
I’ll copy the whole page tomorrow, as the conditions across most of Asia were horrific back then
Did you read the rest?
“Sounds bad? Yes it does, but this all happened in the mid 17thC. I could also have added:”
8pm Monday a new 3 part series
A Summer of Fire and Flood https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010wq7
That is assertion not science
Every year since the dawn of time a whole lot of places have had
an unlucky weather episode.
To claim that this years cherry picked places would not have been unlucky without you using petrol ..is not science
I read your comments and Paul s articles plus climate realists etc but I don t see how the direction of all this changes . Are we doomed to whatever fate is planned for us by those who cooked up this climate scare natativr ?
I don’t think there has ever been a time when so many people in authority, energy businesses and the media tell so many lies, about everything.
Last Saturday, I was sitting in the car with the engine running as the wife just popped into Morrissons for one item. A woman came up to the car knocked on the window, which I opened. She told me to turn off my engine because I was polluting the air. I said I had a blue diesel engine which is one of the cleanest engines.Then I politely ask what pollutants did she mean. Carbon she replied, it is ruining the planet. I said, I presume you mean carbon dioxide the trace atmospheric gas that only has 0.04% of a dry atmosphere which has little or no effect on the climate. Turn you engine of she replied, Up until that point I was polite. I told her to mind her own business and if she wanted to help the planet to stop breathing out the 40,000 parts per million.that humans exhale. To cut a long story short I told her to FO. . .
All greens should stop breathing out. Especially the Karens.
The Guardian and the alleged experts it quotes from is truly pathetic. A brief glance today gave this article https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2021/oct/25/cop26-our-experts-answer-your-questions-about-crucial-climate-summit-live
When asked by “Mike Allen, 64, Altrincham, UK” about issues involving the use of hydrogen the reply from a Professor Mary Gagen came as
“Hydrogen molecules (H2) are in fact pretty similar in size to methane (CH4), which is the primary component of natural gas.”
Strewth, words fail me!
You can’t fix stupid. H2 is about 1/2 the size of CH4, unless I dropped a decimal place in which case it’s about 1/20th
She’s got a degree in Geology & Geography, so not good enough to actually do just one of them. She clearly know nothing about the size of molecules, but even somebody with no knowledge might wonder if two hydrogen atoms could be the same size as four plus a carbon atom.
I find it quite impossible to believe she could get a level 6 science qualification and not know her statement was total crap so I can only assume she is a lying XXXXX.
First, you have to define the edge of a molecule. My definition is the fairly standard one:
where the electron density equals that at a distance of 1 Bohr (0.529 Angstrom) from the nucleus of a singlet hydrogen atom.
The volume of a singlet hydrogen atom then is 0.62 cubic Angstrom.
[ 4/3 x 3.14 x (0.529)^3 ]
The shape of a hydrogen molecule can be easily calculated with a computer, using Molecular Orbital theory, and turns out to be a cylinder with length 2.11 Angstrom and cross-sectional area like that of a singlet hydrogen atom.
The volume of a hydrogen molecule then is 1.85 cubic Angstrom.
[ Pi x (0.529)^2 x 2.11 ]
The volume of the tetrahedral methane molecule, from a standard source, is 5.575 cubic Angstrom.
So, the volume of a hydrogen molecule is three times the volume of a hydrogen atom, and the volume of a methane molecule is three times the volume of a hydrogen molecule.
Whether this makes hydrogen molecules “pretty similar in size to methane” is hard to say, since the language in that phrase is disgustingly sloppy. In other words another ‘Professor’ who opens mouth without engaging brain. Nothing new there.
I think I was not hard ENOUGH on this stupid, stupid woman. It is not just the size difference of the molecules that matters. The thing about hydrogen and diffusion is that hydrogen tends to dissociate into atoms at the surface and then it gets worse – the nucleus and the electron can separate.. Now you have a bare proton, something really tiny, to wander through the metal lattice. None of this happens with methane which is held together with strong bonds.
Heard a brilliant one on BBC R4 of a woman talking about a “carbon free” diet – I wonder what she eats?
She probably avoids water, a bad greenhouse gas, as well.
COP26 Mascot put in an appearance
See replies to the announcement 🙂
https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1452594867914301446
I spy a mascot made from materials made from hydrocarbons.
The polar bears will be unhappy and probably go on strike. Oh sorry, that’s the bin men.
I’m surprised the mascot hasn’t unleashed the gender warriors and colourists….
Toe-curling hardly covers it…. anyway I hope somebody tries to get Joe Biden (Obama even) to pose for a photo-op.
More nonsense, this time from the UNFCCC itself (COP 26 is theirs):
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/climate-change/578276-top-official-predicts-world-conflict-and-chaos
Therefore:
https://www.cfact.org/2021/10/22/laughing-at-climate-hysteria/
Profile of your typical Guardianista. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/25/insulate-britain-targets-canary-wharf-roadblock-campaign-environmental-activists-london
“One of those blocking the road, Louise Lancaster, 56, from Cambridge, said: “We wouldn’t be here if the government was doing what they need to do to protect the people of this country. I don’t want to be sitting here blocking this man … [but] we can’t let this drop because it’s so urgent we protect people.”
Eventually the driver got out and, with the help of some passersby, was able to make enough space for his vehicle to get past by dragging Lancaster and her fellow protesters from the road.”
So who is Louise Lancaster? https://www.facebook.com/louise.lancaster.96
Want to block her drive and cause her discomfort? Well her home (6a, Burnt Close
Grantchester Cambridge CB3 9NJ) is valued on Zoopla at a range of between £849,000 to £1,040,000 so she is hardly down on her uppers. But hey she obviously reads the Guardian.
This sums her up.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159185099989186&id=100003727505938&m_entstream_source=timeline&anchor_composer=false
This may be unthreaded, sorry.
Like the person who cancelled a free chance to read National Geographic, I forbade my children to buy me a subscription to New Scientist, a magazine I’d read for over thirty years.
JF
A friend had a subscription to New Scientist and passed them to me in bulk, which enabled me to see the trend over time as it fell ever more in line with the groupthink of the day. Fortunately he cancelled his subscription! Another friend asked his son not to renew his gift. It’s a slow process but it will succeed.
“Among the intelligentsia, there have always been many who are ready to jump on virtually any bandwagon that will take them to the promised land, where the wise and noble few – like themselves – can take the rest of us poor dummies in hand and tell us how we had better change the way we live our lives.”
Thomas Sowell
Sounds like the kind of newspaper that would promote touring and sightseeing Germany by their green and efficient electric buses.
If it’s still printed on paper the best use for it is to light bonfires.