Justin Rowlatt’s Big Lie Exposed
February 25, 2022
By Paul Homewood
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00117h1/panorama-wild-weather-our-world-under-threat
According to the BBC’s Climate Editor, Justin Rowlatt:
“The death toll is rising around the world” because of extreme weather brought about by climate change.
In fact the opposite is true:
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/tracking-positive-progress-on-the?utm_source=url
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Shock, horror – Rowlatt lies. Only when there’s a Y in the day surely?
He has obviously been trained and mentored by serial liar Harrabin.
Yep ….Rowlatt and the BBC lie up hill and down dale on climate change relentlessly …..Rowlatt would have been a perfect fit for the Information Research Department
In my eyes, the BBC is totally discredited as a reponsible broadcaster. Having sold its soul to the sinister ubermensch, it does not deserve any more support from ordinary people who wish to live without implied menace.
And we see the same going further back, essentially as the world gets wealthier we manage disasters better:
https://baffledbyscience.com/blog/2022/deaths-from-natural-disasters
Never mind the facts, here comes the low rat again with yet more worthless climate propaganda.
Rowlatt’s “death toll is rising around the world” is just another mantra, like “the arctic is melting”, “people are dying” – phrases intended to implant a desired narrative into the minds of the general public. I have never accepted the idea that extremes are increasing, so in a spare half hour this morning compiled a list of extreme events that I have experienced at one location over the past 60 years. The result was pretty hair-raising: blizzards, cloudbursts, gales, golf-ball sized hailstones ruining cars in July 2015 and even a tornado in January 1978. There was no longterm trend in the number of events, but interestingly the 1990s was the only decade when only heatwave and drought featured. The most extreme decade, if I may put it like that, was the 1960s. February 1962: a lee-wave gale which wreaked havoc; March 1962: snow and frost for most of the month; winter 1962-3 frost and snow for nearly 3 months; August 1967 five consecutive days and nights of frequent thunderstorms with thunder rumbling most of the day on the 8th (day of the Bowland Storm); and finally a good blizzard in March 1969. Of course all of this is based on local weather observations (slopes above the Aire Valley north of Keighley, West Yorkshire) but I am bold enough to suggest that my back of an envelope list is robust – or is my location strangely an exception to Planet Rowlatt’s world of wild weather?
The 1920’s [ the peak decade of climate related deaths in the University of Louvain database ] may have paralleled the 1960’s as a decade of extreme weather in the United Kingdom John ….Particularly the protracted heat and drought of 1921 that made such an impression on TS Eliot’s magisterial poem ‘The Wasteland’ composed at Margate during his convalescence
The opinion piece was rubbish in November when broadcast.
Looks much the same now.
Something that I remember as a kid was pea soup style fog. I can remember my dad having to drive the eight or so miles from grandma’s house at an absolute snail’s pace because of it. At one point he had to actually stop the car as he couldn’t see anything at all. I don’t recall there being fog that thick for decades now.
What is rising is hype and hysteria in the media, and the number of people feeding the beast with videos and pictures from their phones.
What we are seeing is a rapid fall in the intellectual quality of journalists and broadcasters such that they are incapable of writing or presenting properly. Everything is now people orientated and not about facts – especially at the BBC and Gates Guardian. Dr North can find little of substance in today’s press about Ukraine given their obsession with grannies with guns vs Putin, teacher survives missile attack and the guy in the car run over by a tank. And by extension try reading a match report on a top game tomorrow with a pen in hand and ring all the bits featuring personal comments and see how little is actually a factual report on the game.
Roger Pielke Jr has been interviewed by Mallen Baker for his You Tube channel.
” Dangerously Reasonable ” is a laughable misnomer ..Mallen Baker , the old Britain & Wales Greens Party spokesman , was deservedly ridiculed by Tony Heller for attributing the 1930’s Dust Bowl heatwaves and drought to…….. wait for it………..’farming practices ” ….Baker blamed American farmers
There is a very good book about this:
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, by Timothy Egan
Egan explains the farming practices and the National policies regarding wheat that contributed to the problems. The heat and lack of rain are natural, then and now. It is a sad story.
Farming practices did contribute to the loss of top soil. And they made the Plains much more vulnerable to drought
Stuart Hamish
Mallen does some very good in-depth videos on all manner of interesting subjects so I watch most of them but yep, when it comes to Big Green his bias does show through a little.
Phoenix 44 this is an excerpt of Mallen ‘ ‘Bait and Switch’ Baker’s narrated review of Tony Heller’s video :
” And if you took that spike out you would say its pretty much flat …….too short a period to make a trend …Its worth noting what that spike is ..the great dustbowl of the 1930’s ”
Baker deceptively replaced Tony Heller’s NCA Heat Wave Magnitude Index with an EPA chart . Tony’s NCA graph shows warm temperatures intermittently elevated over forty years starting in the 1910’s , peaking prodigiously in the 1930’s .-[ when atmospheric carbon dioxide was lower ] US station network warm temperature readings from 1910 to the 1950’s were not ” pretty much flat ”
Mallen Baker then continued : ” If you glance at the scientific literature , we still don’t conclusively understand all of the factors ..that blighted so many lives” yet he found time to shamefully apportion blame to poor farming methods……Farmers by extension ….Note Baker’s cunning insertion of the word ‘conclusively ” The Green snob nonetheless pointed the finger at American farmers when in fact the geographic range of the Dustbowl did not cover the enormous expanses of the United States in drought [ up to 80%] during the 1930’s and scientific research has determined that a convergence of anomalously warm North Atlantic [ the AMO ] and North East Pacific ocean waters triggered the extreme drought conditions, Drought is caused by rainfall and water storage deficits and the 1930’s droughts were pan -regional His arguments are nonsense [ See Tonys riposte ” Debunking the Debunker “] . Baker must have been familiar with this scientific research. So why was there no discussion of it ?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-015-2590-5
“We show that the unprecedented summer heat during the Dust Bowl years was likely exacerbated by land -surface feedbacks associated with springtime precipitation deficits …These deficits were associated with the coincidence of anomalously warm North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific surface waters and a shift in atmospheric pressure patterns leading to reduced flow of moist air into the central US ….hot drought , more severe than experienced during the most recent 2011 and 2012 heat waves is to be expected when ocean temperature anomalies like those observed in the 1930’s occur in a world that has seen significant warming “
Phoenix 44 have you watched Tony Heller’s ‘Debunking the Debunker ‘ riposte to Mallen Baker’s video ?. Why did Mallen switch Tony’s NCA Heat Wave Magnitude Index chart with the EPA graph in his ‘debunking’ presentation ? The NCA graph shows US station warm temperatures intermittently elevated from the 1910’s to the 1950s [ when atmospheric CO2 was lower ] peaking astronomically in the 1930’s. So the US
heatwave index is not ” pretty much flat ” if the 1930’s spike is removed
Furthermore the geographic range of the 30’s Dustbowl did not cover the huge territory of the United States in acute drought during the 1930’s and drought conditions were pan regional – not confined to North America . Mallen Baker implied in his segueing narration a connection between the 1930’s heatwave spike , American ‘farming practices ‘ and the Dustbowl .droughts . https://realclimatescience.com/2019/10/new-video-debunking-the-debunker-2/
How might American farmers have intensified 1930’s heatwaves ? Why did Baker find time to cast blame on farmers practices but not what scientific research has revealed to be the real cause of the 1930’s heatwaves and low rainfall drought conditions : a convergence of anomalously warm North Atlantic and North East Pacific ocean temperatures ?
“…. the unprecedented summer heat during the Dust Bowl years was likely exacerbated by land -surface feedbacks associated with springtime precipitation deficits …..These deficits were associated with the coincidence of anomalously warm North Atlantic and Northeast Pacific surface waters and a shift in atmospheric pressure patterns leading to reduced flow of moist air into the central US ….” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-015-2590-5
Who else loathes Green sneaky snobs ?
Mallen will engage
so that is different from the typical green who will run away from open fair debate.
He is not engaging here stewgreen
What do you mean ?
Just tweet him and he probably will engage.
I do not have a Twitter or active Facebook account .. Did Mallen Baker re-engage Tony Heller when Tony busted his bait & switch deception ? He probably hoped the controversy would wither away with the
” totschweigtaktik “
Meanwhile Justin’s buddies (sorry GB hating scumbag eco-whores) over at the Graun are printing yet more propaganda/outright lies.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/24/qa-could-putin-use-russian-gas-supplies-to-hurt-europe
Apparently now (according to their lie sheet) “Renewable energy generation has more than doubled since 2004, and reached 22% of final energy production in 2020.” So according to them “renewables ” represent 22% of this
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Energy_statistics_-_an_overview#Final_energy_consumption
And of course to satisfy their anti nuclear agenda they had to (un) subtly suggest that nuclear was much worse because it only produced “electricity” rather than their above misnamed “energy”
Then again it goes on to claim we don’t need fracking because that has only been around for 10 years seemingly unaware that is started way back in the 1970s and has been done literally hundreds of times both onshore and offshore. But “No” that well known authority on the Oil and Gas industry knows much more than the experts and we must believe her pure BS.
Has anyone ever held an investigation into who actually funds the Guardian? Nobody buys the print copy and there are no significant advertisers online so who is pulling the purse strings?
The Graun has a large “endowment”, and it may get income via Google and similar putting it No. 1 in search results. From Wikipedia:
“Guardian Media Group plc (GMG) is a British-based mass media company owning various media operations including The Guardian and The Observer. The group is wholly owned by the Scott Trust Limited, which exists to secure the financial and editorial independence of The Guardian in perpetuity.
The Group’s 2018 annual report (year ending 1 April 2018) indicated that the Scott Trust Endowment Fund was valued at £1.01 billion (2017: £1.03bn).[2] “
Is any of that really true though? Who are APAX partners? What really are their motives? https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Scott_Trust_Ltd
is the tip of an ice berg that is definitely going to weather the “global heating” scam.
The Guardian literally just says whatever it wants to on any issue.
Last week they ran an article about the EU’s Ghost Flights claiming they happened because aviation is “unregulated”. The obvious fact that airlines wouldn’t spend money flying empty planes didn’t cross their minds let alone suggest to them that they look up why its happening – which is of course EU regulation. They don’t want it to be regulation yhats the problem so its not.
Back in the 1960s the Grauniad was read by saddo students who couldn’t talk to ordinary people in case they heard a different perspective on the world; a.k.a. Reality.
Now they seem to have drained the Kool Aid barrel and live in a world where black is white and pink is another colour.
There is an internet meme that Pugwash was banned from the BBC for including characters named “Master Bates, Seaman Staines and Roger the cabin boy”. The reality was an example of just how sick in the head the Guardian (and by very close association the BBC) is
“In the Young Guardian of September 13 [1991] we stated that the Captain Pugwash cartoon series featured characters called Seaman Staines and Master Bates, and for that reason the series had never been repeated by the BBC. We accept that it is untrue that there ever were any such characters. Furthermore, the series continues to be shown on television and on video. We apologize to Mr. Ryan, the creator, writer and artist of the Captain Pugwash films and books. We have agreed to pay him damages and his legal costs.”
Another ‘class action’ type complaint to the BBC?
It might not be a lie he actually believes this nonsense!
A lie is a lie, whether you believe it or not. If you believe such an obvious lie then you are either exceedingly stupid or are willfully obstructive
As societies get richer they can protect themselves from natural disasters better.
It’s an utterly basic fact surely?
Yes as societies become wealthier and more technologically sophisticated they tend to be better insulated from natural disasters ..
On Dec 4th 1962 my brother drove me, my mother and other brother from Wolverhampton to Kenilworth in a pea-souper at night. At one point we followed the car ahead as we followed the kerb. Then the driver ahead stopped, got out of his car and came to ask what we were doing in his drive! From then on, for a mile or so my 2nd brother had to walk ahead with a torch!
Rowlatt lives on the fringes of posh Hampstead in NW London. It’s champagne socialist central.
Locals know all about one of his personal friends: a con artist who ripped people off by setting up a dysfunctional school and lying about its facilities and exam centre accreditation.
https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/education/hampstead-heathside-school-head-melissa-remus-legal-costs-8144892
Last week a typical IMPARTIAL Harrabin tweet from his BBC platform