Euan Mearns On Babet
November 8, 2023
By Paul Homewood
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“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert”. – J Robert Oppenheimer.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
I’d say that Dr Mearns should be encouraged to write regularly in his local paper on subjects of his choice. They are good to read and saves the publisher time and expense. He deserves to be part of the lobby that is eroding the self-satisfied authority of the BBC on subjects of our concern.
PS the BBC were at it again this morning when I woke up. Usual alarmism about CO2 as a ‘warm-up’ for COPxx. BBC should be included among the named sponsors. Others may tell me below what I was supposed to be listening to.
bbc, yep, I used to quite enjoy M Portillo’s railway journeys around the UK, however, its now purely a vehicle to talk about ‘climate change’ interspersed with some nice views. Pure propaganda.
Wy on earth do you listen to, watch or read the BBC? We stopped years back, except for sport, and occasionally R3, which is sadly being horribly dumbed down in line with BBC policy.
As for R3 the BBC have been spooked by Classic FM and dumbed down accordingly in the belief that they have to remain ‘relevant’ and attract the numbers. For weirdness try R3 around midnight when noise is mistaken for music — programming from the kindergarten.
BBC also unhappy about GB News and with Sky like to swipe GB News, even on panel/comedy programs.
About the only BBC programme I can watch is This Farming Life. Other than films and sport, an alarm bell goes off for anything they produce reminding me that it will be full of left-wing propaganda or wokeness, or both.
True as to the mitigation of risk. But assessing risk is the business of the insurance industry hence ‘loaded’ premiums for fabric insurance on buildings in flood plains. Hence some relief for the cost to those insuring buildings located away from flood plains or so the industry would have us believe.
We can always trust the insurance industry to do what is right for policy holders?
The insurance industry is a complete mystery as to premiums. How can you have a multicar policy – which they tell you is cheaper – but then get cheaper insurance for each car, with the SAME company??? I have been lucky with my renewals this month as one came in £5 cheaper, one 67p more expensive and then the one that added a ridiculous 60% got a 100% reduction as I went elsewhere and got a reduction of £30. Two vehicles did have an extra year of NCB.
I trust bookies far more than insurance companies. And they are in the same business, of course.
“The Repair Shop” is tolerable.
Oddly, we know the ex of the guy who regularly appears in it, fixing musical instruments!
We don’t have a YV (junked 20 years or so back) so have never seen it.
It is available on the Internet.
https://www.youtube.com/c/therepairshop
Cheers!
see gezza1298 10.04 am Nov 9th above.
The Broads were quite severely flooded particularly around Potter Heigham and Wroxham yesterday. Thought to be caused by heavy precipitation throughout the catchments of the rivers Waveney, Yare and Bure and a series of high tides (three days after the full moon) at Gt.Yarmouth which has been frustrating the outflow of the ebbing tides..
The early BBC weather slots were at it again this morning, predicting 2023 will be the warmest on record thanks to a warm October. They attributed it to el Nino and CO2. I won’t bother pointing out what contributors here already know.
Longest weather record is our CET. C350 years. A small and totally insignificant percentage of the Holocene. Odd that this “record whatever” is never qualified with this, eh?
Excellent comment by Dr Mearns about pissing away taxpayers money on the futile carbon capture and storage when it could be spent on flood management.
Aye the P&J – maybe was a LOCAL Heavyweight, but in London? “There is a pressing need for greater UK energy security and a rapidly increasing demand for greener fuels, such as biomethane, for the transition to net-zero.” yet from https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/business/5093311/biogas-firm-to-hold-consultation-on-50-million-anaerobic-digestion-plants-in-moray-creating-30-jobs/ I find today that the LOCAL result is NOT so helpful…. all about that RARE local event Lightning https://www.northern-times.co.uk/news/fireball-fears-over-30m-easter-ross-biogas-proposal-after-o-328794/ so the HRC Rejected the proposal. … But but but we are going Oh-so-green.
He is completely right about the meteorological causes of so-called extreme weather. As I’ve said on here many times, virtually all, if not all, extremes have obvious, clear causes that re typical weather phenomena. Heatwaves are not just normal days but much hotter, but hot days caused by blocking highs and hot air from the south for example. These phenomena have always happened and no-one has been able to show that they are happening more frequently or more intensely because of increased CO2. Instead we have vague attribution studies that misuse statistics and data to a shameful degree. The simple fact is that extremes have multiple variables and there is no reason to think that every place has had all possible combinations of those variables in the past. There is therefore no reason to suppose that we shouldn’t have record heat, rain, whatever quite regularly.
‘The only course of action that can be taken to prevent this is massive investment in flood defenses.’
Bogus use of ‘investment.’ Government SPENDS.
‘Many of these new dwellings have been built on flood plains.’
People CHOSE to build there. It is not government’s job to mitigate their risk.
Perhaps more important than flood defences is the maintenance of the watercourses. Here we have a lefty Government agency that sees rewilding and non-management as a priority as opposed to doing its job. Lucky areas might have a drainage board that get on with….managing drainage. But sadly the one I pay is talking about the same sort of thing.
Ahh . . . yes. And when it goes tits up, they will say it is caused by ‘climate change!’
If they can’t blame ‘climate change’ they can always blame ‘covid’ or ‘Brexit’. Any excuse will do for not doing their jobs
And if all that fails there is always Israel to blame.
Fair enough, it’s not the Government’s place to mitigate bad choices about where to build. Why would it be different for Government maintaining watercourses? If lefty rewiliding is an obstacle to spending by a publicly funded Drainage Board, isn’t this in keeping with the view that Government shouldn’t underwrite bad private decisions?
Witness the flooding of the Somerset Levels a few years back, caused by the EA stopping dredging of the River Parrott (Agenda 21 initiated). Indeed, had they gone full Agenda 21, the Levels would have been left flooded.
Historical fact. The Levels were dredged and made inhabitable as a result of King Charles I getting in Dutch water engineers to do the work. This has worked for 350 years plus till the idiots at the EA muscled in.
And contrast the Somerset Levels with another wet area – the Norfolk Broads. Heard of any flooding there? Back when the Levels flooded, or in the recent rain? The Broads are managed by a drainage board.
The main media are beginning to panic over the proliferation of alternative news sources which are starting to marginalise them. And that is why a Media Bill is being introduced with the intention of reining in the alternatives through regulations to be overseen by Ofcom. Of course, alternative sources can produce all sorts of misinformation and disinformation which would be defined by the tyrannical unelected Ofcom!
The Babylon Bee is doomed!
(Cirrusly, a few years ago, the NYT “fact-checked” some of their posts.)
Yes, the fascists at Ofcom – strange how we didn’t need it until Sir Tony the Liar came along – are on the case of GB News so in the name of balance – a word unknown at the BBC – we have to endure some lefty retard talking drivel. And often, as is the way with self-important lefties, they insist on talking over anyone else and won’t shut the fuck up. Of course the BBC get away with everything although they have been caught with a blatantly partial Newsnight broadcast against GB News.
Where’s the industrial quantity of energy to achieve so-called ‘carbon’ capture and storage supposed to come from? It seems to involve various items of machinery, plus pipelines and/or transport to take it to large holes in the ground somewhere isolated or offshore to bury it.
Isn’t it strange how many radio and TV presenters, journalists, politicians and celebrities are so anxious about “named” storms?
How does an unchallenged star’s opinion provide conclusive proof that anthropogenic climate change is leading inexorably to the imminent demise of planet earth? Why do so many of these named storms turn out to be as over-hyped as their proponents?
An answer can be found in the blatant corruption of a system invented in 1805 to allow mariners to assess wind speed without the need for an anemometer. Initially, the Beaufort scale was based on characteristics such as wave height and the presence of crests, foam or spray. It was subsequently extended for use by pilots and others by including land-based observations.
We know that the so-called “metropolitan elites” will stop at nothing to secure public compliance with their precious agenda. Despite mounting concerns over the behavioural psychology techniques deployed during the Covid pandemic, Project Fear is clearly back in business. Few of us are willing to challenge those self-appointed experts who claim to have a higher level of knowledge or understanding of a specialist subject. Most just accept the official risk-averse view, often known as groupthink.
Beaufort must be turning in his grave. For those interested in how this corruption has been concealed, here’s the list of the wind speed numbers, their descriptions, average wind speeds and typical effects on land:
Force 0 = Calm (less than 1 mph) where smoke rises vertically.
Force 1 = Light air (1-3 mph) where smoke indicates wind direction, often variable.
Force 2 = Light Breeze (4-7 mph) where leaves rustle and wind can be felt on exposed skin.
Force 3 = Gentle Breeze (8-12 mph) where leaves move and light flags are extended.
Force 4 = Moderate Breeze (13-18 mph) where small branches begin to move.
Force 5 = Fresh Breeze (19-24 mph) where small trees in leaf begin to move.
Force 6 = Strong Breeze (25-31 mph) large branches in motion; umbrella use difficult.
Force 7 = High Wind (32-38 mph) whole trees in motion; walking against the wind requires effort.
Force 8 = Gale (39-46 mph) twigs are broken from trees; walking outdoors is seriously impeded.
Force 9 = Severe Gale (47-54 mph) branches may be broken and temporary signs blown over.
Force 10 = Storm (55-63 mph) trees can be uprooted; some structural damage possible.
Force 11 = Violent Storm (64-72 mph) widespread structural damage is likely.
Force 12 = Hurricane (over 73 mph) unsecured objects are displaced.
Hurricanes generally form over tropical waters but are downgraded as they lose energy over the cooler north Atlantic. The Great Storm of 1987 was Force 11 in southern coastal areas and Force 10 further inland. It wasn’t until 2014 that the Met Office copied the Americans and “started naming big storms to make people MORE aware of them and how dangerous they can be.”
So, who decides what constitutes a “BIG storm”? Is that a Force 11, or a Force 10 reported by Donald Trump? How might climate apocalypse supporters use named storms to advance their agenda? It’s remarkably easy. Just replace AVERAGE wind speed (measured over ten minutes) with PEAK GUST speeds, which are typically 40% to 50% higher. Peak gusts during gales and severe gales could reach 60 mph and 75 mph respectively. If these were “re-interpreted” as average wind speeds, the events would be classified as storms and violent storms. How can we establish whether and how often misrepresentation has happened so far?
Over time, as more people associate “named storms” with nothing worse than broken twigs or branches, warnings are bound to lose credibility. Eventually and inevitably, “horror forecasts” will be ignored. That means a real storm would create even more carnage and mayhem. By devaluing the Beaufort scale and triggering the Law of Unintended Consequences, the Met Office merely ensures that people will be LESS aware of the danger of real storms. How can those responsible be held accountable?
There’s also the question of insurance. If insurers had to compensate for deaths and injuries sustained when the public had been lulled into a state of complacency, what would happen to premiums? When a narrative no longer works, it needs to change. From the flat earth to the tooth fairy, once a scam is properly exposed, its days are numbered.
Can the Freedom of Information Act be used to discover how this deliberate systemic disinformation has become embedded – and how it can be unembedded? The same applies to the installation of a weather station next to the runway at an RAF base, where squadrons of Typhoons depart with full afterburner! Wasn’t that where the UK’s “hottest ever” temperature was recorded earlier this year?