Telegraph Scrape The Bottom With Latest Climate Scare
By Paul Homewood
h/t Paul Kolk
It is sad to see how far the Telegraph has declined since its days as a serious newspaper:
The media seem to be having a competition to see who can print the biggest pile of BS about climate change!
I won’t bother copying this latest rubbish from the Telegraph – it’s the usual claptrap about wildfires, droughts, floods and typhoons, as if none of these had ever happened in the past.
But almost to a man, the commenters have had a field day, tearing this drivel to pieces; for instance:
There are a couple of comments about Bill Gates and his Global Health Security outfit. Sure enough, at the bottom of the article is this:
Click on the link, and you get this:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/global-health-security-site/
In short, the Telegraph has prostituted itself to Bill Gates’ billions. Despite its protestations about full editorial control, there is no way the paper would have published such ill researched, manifestly fake news in the past, when it could rightly lay claim to being a serious newspaper.
And if you want proof of this, just look at the author of this article, Harriet Barber:
Ah! Human rights, violence against wimmin and the refugee crisis. That obviously makes her a qualified expert on climate!
Her co-author, Verity Bowman, is , as some surmised, still in her twenties, and like Barber has no real world experience in these or other matters:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/verity-bowman-aa9943124/?originalSubdomain=uk
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
All these pieces of Telegraph nonsenses are the result of the paper having a dreadful Editor and any letters contesting the statements with evidence are rejected by the letters editor. The paper doesn’t deserve its current profitable business.
You think that’s the ONLY one? but am I allowed to name others? …. Should see what an engineering Mag has to say about things.
There is a constant stream of lies being made up to try to promote the Global Warming fraud .https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/03/top-climate-scientists-rubbish-claims-july-was-the-hottest-month-ever-public-being-misinformed-on-a-massive-scale/
Lots of fake figures are being put out so that the media can follow orders and try to fool everybody .https://notrickszone.com/2023/09/14/have-sea-level-rise-data-been-faked-altimetry-corrects-non-trends-to-show-rapid-acceleration/
Another one is fake sea level rise .
But while Paul,s site here is doing a good job , we can only hope that less and less people believe their lies .
I left a comment (bit late now) to ask if they even know what a ‘global temperature’ is. Does anyone?
Aye for sure! so are you asking about a DAY-LIGHT or Night-time “Day”. My Crop and Garden Plants tell me it’s been the COLDEST Summer for years. There’s no pepsodent here, but if the N Hemi Ice has gone, where’s the Heat gone/ where’s the COLD come from?
As I’ve often said before, it is extremely hot in the Workshop around the metal working Bay ( Forge or Welding / Heating) but if I move to the other end, it’s about FINE, yet if I open the Door on the N Facing side ( road access here) it is Br. Monk. Cold. …. so tells me NOTHING other than there are HOT & COLD
Seems like some of us have to SPELL it out for those Leaders / Advisers / Consultants /ex-Spurts of the city who have NO IDEA. ..
Where does CO2 go at night?
Where does it go? 😉 it goes out like the Bats! Products of respiration from the plants. so the less sunshine to produce CHOs and produce Oxygen, the more time there is to consume CHOs and release CO2. .. in a wee nutshell.
This site ‘calculates the current global temperature of the Earth. It uses unadjusted surface temperatures. The current temperature is the 12M average mean surface temperature over the last 12 months compared against the 30 year mean. New observations are entered each minute and the site is updated accordingly. This site was created by professional meteorologists and climatologists with over 25 years experience in surface weather observations.’
https://temperature.global/
The current 12 month average is 0.21C above the 30 year average.
The ‘graph’ tab shows a not at all scarey bar chart with much bigger positive and negative variations from 2015 to 2019.
It lists annual averages from 2015 to 2022; -0.54C, -0.26C, -0.27C, -0.74C, -0.36C. 0.00C, -0.11C, -0.26C
UAH satellite data shows August 2023 as +0.69C on the 1991 to 2020 average, with the same value in 2016. The current running, centred, 13 month average is +0.28C, lower than 1998/99, 2016/17 and 2020.
And I’d place a very large bet that the 30 year average contains years when the temperature was above that average! I’m also willing to bet a large sum that substantial areas of the Earth have not just had their warmest ever 3 months – where I live in SW France was cooler than last year for example and I believe the UK and much of Northern Europe was too.
Am I the only one who realised that it is possible to alter what Roy Spencer sees, so that he thinks he sees warming?
SS: That’s a new idea to me, how would that be done and who would do it?
“Global Average Temperature is not a useful metric.” (James Hansen)
What more do we need?
No , indeed, but still useful to know that even that metric indicates no problem.
Harry asked: “…if they even know what a ‘global temperature’ is. Does anyone?”
Three questions should be asked:
1) What is the combined average temperature of Mount Everest and the Gobi Desert?
2) How is this calculated repeatably and precisely, free from observer bias?
3) Is it meaningful for any practical purpose?
If there is difficulty in answering any/all of these three questions, the same difficulty applies to Global Average Surface Temperature.
We are in a new dystopian age of Malthusian technocracy. Don’t think for yourself, just do as you’re told. And when the state says your time’s up, you’ll be dosed to the eyeballs with midazolam.
Ever seen “Logan’s Run”?
Time for a re-release, Ray??
Jenny Agutter (swoon!), my barber cuts hair for ‘Call The Midwife’ extras. Who can forget Fraulein Dollmann in ‘Riddle of the Sands’ sailing her little dinghy so expertly in her tweed skirt and tam o’ shanter? No wonder Davies was smitten.
“…hottest ever…. ”
For Planet Earth, ever = c4,500,000,000 years
I always ask them how they know? Were they there or was it in the DT or Grauniad for that year.
Ah yes, food scarcity. When we have just had record harvests again.
So a 2015 graduate in English Literature and a 2017 graduate in History and American Studies (2:1 she proudly boasts…wtf!) are the best authorities the DT can come up with. What arrogant insulting crap the DT has become. The race to the bottom of the sewer is neck and neck with the Graun.
It’s Delingpole’s Argumentum ad puellam pulchram.
(Argument from a Pretty Girl)
Ignoramus et ignorabimusis more James’s speed, witness his response to Royal Society President Sir Paul Nurse on teh BBC:
‘It’s not my job to sit down and read peer reviewed papers.
I’m an interpreter of interpretations.’
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6668567922800918096/4553966883637486036
‘an interpreter of interpretations’ ah ha! like taking the average of averages for a meaningful “interperetation”
Taken out of Context or a Freudian Slip … and I’ve just eaten a banana ..
TBF, they are journalists, not scientists, in the same way most football journalists have never played professional football and most political journalists have never been MPs. It’s not their degrees that make them gullible and unquestioning.
But political and football journalists generally know what they’re talking about. They report on the facts because they understand their subject. They don’t report on lies as facts, which is what these two girls are doing.
They report their opinions which, due to the crappy standards of what passes for a university education these days, has made them gullible and unquestioning
I used to subscribe to “The Telegraph”. I cancelled in 2020. Can I now claim to be ahead of the curve?
Only if the readership is down since you bailed.
It is.
I tell my MP to look at the comments on such articles to see how vehemently opposed people are to the politically driven climate scam. The groupthink gripping all MPs is an absolute scandal.
Today CO2 is 0.04% of the atmosphere. In 1990 it was…0.04%. What are MPs or anyone else bothered about?
They are not very good at sums, an assistant fills out the expenses claims. At least that’s the excuse when something embarrassing is spotted.
I suspect most of them don’t even know how much carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere and more importantly how little of it is man made.
Ignorance is not a contra-indication for a politician
In my copy of “Chemistry for schools”, reprinted in 1961, it quotes that “carbon dioxide only occurs to the extent of 1 volume in 2,500 volumes of air”, or……..0.04%!
oldbrew: “What are MPs or anyone else bothered about?”
The 0.002% is the straw that breaks, well, something.
The law of unintended consequences might ultimately have a bearing on what that something turns out to be.
That’s because the standard and general intelligence of MPs these days is abysmal. They are in it for the salary, and do not want to rock the boat, so will go with their leaders whatever their personal views. Just like so many of our ignorant town and county councilors, high salaries attract reducing standards. There is no point in approaching any of them these days because they all vote to save their jobs. In short, the higher the pay, the lower the standard of representation. The situation was made worse when the government banned MPs having second jobs or more which ruled out anyone of intelligence who is capable of holding down a second or more jobs from becoming an MP
A 2:1 in History & American studies. Just what’s needed to copy & paste!
I read that as twice as much history as USian studies
A terrible article but the Telegraph also regularly publishes sceptical pieces on climate alarm.
Balance is all very well on topics where there are no clear cut answers, but where measurable data, physics and chemistry are concerned, they have no business publishing fully paid up green shills knowingly lying for political ends.
GB News is the same: a presenter will go as far as they dare within the Ofcom rules (that hopefully Steyn’s case in the High Court will show are not even lawful) and then roll out one from a whole list of on-call gargoyles, from billionaire-funded institutes and Universities, to scold and rubbish them with tired old off-the-peg disinformation by rote, as though none of it had long ago not been debunked. And the presenters are obliged to meekly accept their nonsense to ‘prove’ they are not right-wing extremists.
As most of the physical temperature gauges are in the Northern Hemisphere mainly in the US, Canada and Europe, vast areas of the Southern Hemisphere not covered at all, it falls to satellite data to give us a picture of world temperature. The question then is how good is this data and is it dependent on human programming like climate models. Can we rely on it in other words?
It is reliable for some purposes, but not for all.
Readings were calibrated against physical measurements. So they are good approximations, but just approximations.
They only measure part of the atmosphere, not all of it. But using it as representative of general global temperatures is reasonable.
A Global Mean Temperature derived from satellite data is repeatable, which is useful.
Precision is limited. I think decimal points in GMT are an exaggeration. So when the climate witch doctors talk about limiting global warming to 1.5°C, we can’t even measure to that accuracy. And that is compared to temperatures 150 years ago. Of course, we have no (*&^ing clue what GMT was 150 years ago.
“Limiting global warming” is totally, completely, plastic banana fake.
NOAA calculates that as of 2021 the Northern hemisphere was 15.69°C. The Southern was cooler at 13.99°C. And the globe was the average of the two… 14.84°C. That’s a total amount of warming of +84°C. since 1880.
An existential crisis…global emergency?
To two decimal places?
They are lying. The goal of false precision fallacy is to trick people into believing that they have data to that resolution.
You can trust NOAA, cos they have temperature down to two decimal places.
Not.
It seems to be unusually cold at the moment …
Only when compared to all those extreme boiling heatwaves we keep having – or not… 😎
Perhaps secretly the DT has been purchased by the Grauaniad.
More likely they got them cheap from a failing Grauniad that has been loss making for years.
MPs and other responsible agencies are absolutely loving the fact that they have such a powerful get-out-of-jail card to call on. No matter how many cock-ups they make they can – and will – always blame it on climate change. And every new tax they can dream up is automatically covered by the need to ‘save the planet’s!
We have never, in all the years I have been able to vote been served (!) by such a useless bunch of time-servers and grifters as currently keeping their bums warm on green (and red) benches and their wallets full on the greatest fraud since the South Sea Bubble. And I include ALL MPs, regardless of stripe – and all newspaper editors – in my absolute disdain for their cowardice.
(Cor! That feels better….)
Note: Shakespeare said, “First, we kill all the lawyers”. I think he would have included MPs if they had existed in his day.
(Even better now…)
They have a better get-out-of-jail card. It’s called ” We listened to the scientists and experts” That’s all encompassing; CC, covid, monetary policy…….you name it.
If we only needed to have scientists and “experts, why would we need MPs?
Good point, MM.
I really must dig out my copy of the Asimov classic ‘Foundation’. In one chapter he has a poncey “haut envoy” holding forth about his expertise as (if I recall) an archæologist.
Turns out he had never been near a ‘dig’ in his life. His expertise was the result of reading all the available literature and drawing his conclusions from that.
Remind you of anything? Old Isaac would have had a field day with our computer jockeys. He sussed them at least half-a-century before their toys even existed!
Wot Shakespeare said, … I like that, Aren’t one Heck of a lot of MPs just not too successful Lawyers? I’m about to get started on Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-eater … I’ve always thought that so many of our “leaders” have been out at pasture for too long for their own good at some time in their lives.
No one has pointed out the irony that the Gates’ Global Health Security lists as a topic: “The growing threat of bio terrorism.”
I am assuming this is a seminar from the master on how to carry it out.
Given that the Left always names its Activist groups and initiatives the exact opposite of their true purpose(e.g. Hope Not Hate, Stop Funding Hate), I think we can guess the true purpose of Global Health Security.
Would this article have been printed had Christopher Booker still been alive and contributing?
It was reading his book ‘The Real Global Warming Disaster’ that first alerted me to this scandal.
“It is sad to see how far the Telegraph has declined since its days as a serious newspaper:”
Paul, quotes like this are God’s gift to the Pseud’s Corner section of Private Eye”
I have accordingly dispatched it the Eye’s All Rubbish Gratefully Received inbox, and if the expected tenner appears, I’ll stand you at drink at Fraunces.