Role In Children’s Climate Crusade Chris White | Energy Reporter One of the parents of a child suing the government over climate change is a radical activist who’s been arrested several times attempting to delay multi-billion dollar energy projects. Media reports discussing a nearly three-year-old children’s climate lawsuit have largely shied away from highlighting the…
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March 18, 2019 at 12:02PM
Following my complaint to the BBC about its news report claiming that African penguin populations were declining because of climate change, the BBC has now formally upheld the complaint, and logged it on the Complaints website:
This is the eighth climate-related complaint I have been involved with which has been upheld against the BBC in the last two years. There may of course be others that I am not aware of.
In March 2017, the World at One made the ridiculous claim that sea levels at Miami were rising at ten times the global mean. The BBC were subsequently forced to admit that sea levels there showed ‘little divergence from the global mean’.
In October 2017, the BBC broadcast an episode of Russia with Simon Reeve which linked the deaths of ‘tens of thousands of reindeer’ to climate change. After a complaint was submitted, the BBC accepted that reindeer populations were in fact stable or increasing.
In December 2017, a supposedly factual article appeared on BBC News online, headlined ‘Is climate change making hurricanes worse?’
Written by Chris Fawkes, the BBC meteorologist, it categorically stated: ‘A warmer world is bringing us a greater number of hurricanes and a greater risk of a hurricane becoming the most powerful category 5.’ The actual data shows this is simply not true, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) themselves have made perfectly clear. Eventually, the BBC printed a correction that their claim was based on ‘modelling and not historical data’.
In May 2018, Roger Harrabin wrote an article on the report of the Environmental Audit Committee which criticised the government’s clean energy policies. Harrabin claimed that investment in clean energy had slumped following a fusillade of policy changes, including a ‘ban on new onshore wind farms’. There has been no such ban, only the removal of subsidies. The BBC Executive Complaints Unit accepted that the article was materially misleading, and that there had been a serious lapse of editorial standards.
In June 2018, John Humphrys interviewed Lord Deben, the former John Selwyn Gummer, allowing him to get away unchallenged with wildly inaccurate claims about wind power. In particular, Deben stated that ‘even where a community wants to have an onshore wind farm, it can’t have it’. In fact there is no such ban, and the Government has actually devolved the decision to approve onshore wind turbines to local councils. As a result, the BBC Executive Complaints Unit found that Deben should have been challenged on this point to ensure listeners were not left with a materially misleading impression.
December 2018 saw an episode of the BBC Weather World programme, which was little more than a free puff for onshore wind farms. At one stage, the presenter casually commented that ‘already about 30 per cent of the UK’s power is produced by wind energy’. The actual figure is 15 per cent. Following a complaint, the BBC accepted their claim was wrong, and have now withdrawn that segment of the programme from their website.
In February 2019, Roger Harrabin covered the newly published report from the Institute for Public Policy Research, ‘Facing up to the age of environmental breakdown’. Central to the IPPR’s case was this statement: ‘Since 2005, the number of floods across the world has increased by 15 times, extreme temperature events by 20 times, and wildfires seven-fold.’ [‘Since 2005’ was subsequently amended to ‘since 1950’.] Harrabin made absolutely no attempt to challenge or query this statement, or some of the other contentious claims in the IPPR report, despite the fact that it was patently absurd. Instead his article was effectively just a cheerleading exercise.
The IPPR claim is in reality totally fake, as they misinterpreted the International Disasters Database used for their analysis. As the organisation which maintains the database makes totally clear, many disasters occurred in past decades but were never officially recorded in the database, purely because of better methods of reporting nowadays.
After considerable controversy, the IPPR made substantial changes to that section of their report, accepting that the original claims were false. The BBC then withdrew the fake claims and issued a correction.
The post On Climate Change The BBC Is Once, Twice, Eight Times A Liar appeared first on The Global Warming Policy Forum (GWPF).
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March 18, 2019 at 11:56AM
March 18 has been a bad day for tornadoes. An 1899 storm wiped out several towns in the south.
19 Mar 1899, 1 – The Anaconda Standard at Newspapers.com
The worst tornado in US history occurred on this date in 1925.
19 Mar 1925, Page 1 – Palladium-Item at Newspapers.com
Two years later, another very bad tornado hit Arkansas on this date.
19 Mar 1927 – 8 KILLED; 20 INJURED. – Trove
It was over 100 degrees in Sydney that day, about 30 degrees warmer than today.
19 Mar 1927 – OVER THE CENTURY. – Trove
The March 18, 1927 tornado was one of five major tornado outbreaks that year, which killed hundreds of people.
06 Jan 1928, Page 4 – The Marthasville Record at Newspapers.com
The Red Cross described 1927 as the worst year in history, with 111 disasters – including 29 tornadoes, 24 floods, 9 hurricanes and 23 fires.
25 Nov 1927, Page 7 – The News-Review at Newspapers.com
St. Louis was largely destroyed in the September 1927 tornado.
The Pittsburgh Press – Google News Archive Search
Progressives believe that lowering CO2 levels will prevent bad weather, but this belief is based in ignorance and superstition. Just like essentially everything else progressives believe.
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March 18, 2019 at 10:32AM
Tired of being harangued by insistent climate doomsters with their wildly over-hyped scaremongering and dubious ‘science’? Read on for some well-earned light relief.
Gavin Schmidt tweeted that he liked a #ClimateStrike poster that read “Soon even moving to Canada isn’t going to solve our problems.”
That reminded us that we had a parody submission on the Canadian government’s tiered climate refugee program, that would at least be worth a laugh, if not serious consideration for some!!
See what you think, say Friends of Science Calgary.
Introduction to the Climate Refugee Plans
If you are reading this, you are no doubt deeply concerned by the most recent report of the Intergovernmental Prognosticators of Climate Catastrophes (the “IPCC”), which confirms what the members of that panel have known since before their research began: humans have put just too darn much carbon dioxide into the air.
Now, if the developed world spends trillions and trillions of dollars very quickly to completely destroy and then rebuild its energy infrastructure so as not to use any of those nasty fossil fuels, sends hundreds of billions of dollars in climate reparations to third-world dictators, and gives unelected officials sweeping powers to control our lives and redistribute wealth, the world just might be able to avert hotter (or perhaps colder) temperatures, more (or possibly less) snow, more (or possibly less) wind, more (or possibly fewer) hurricanes, too much rain or too little rain, stronger and more frequent (or maybe not) tornadoes, fewer dog-walking opportunities, reduced male fertility, and a whole bunch of unprecedented weather events just too nasty to think about.
But what if our best efforts fail? What happens if spending a hundred trillion dollars or more does not limit the temperature increase to an arbitrary 1.5°C (which used to be an arbitrary 2°C) above the arbitrary baseline at an arbitrarily chosen level of CO₂ at a randomly selected point in Earth’s 4-billion-year history?
What if the gas you breathe out—the gas that plants turn into oxygen and that makes up a tiny fraction of all the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere—is not the control knob for Earth’s temperature after all?
What then?
Well, we have good news for you! Canada’s Climate Refugee Plans
are here. Canada has come up with the following climate refugee plans that will save most of peoplekind from the ravages of there being just too much plant food in the air, causing plants to grow bigger and stronger and to inhabit areas where they just wouldn’t grow before.
You can choose the plan that best matches your status in the world: the Climate Scientist Plan, the Global Warming Journalist Plan, the Tropical Islander’s Plan, or the Everyone Else. Well, almost everyone else: for the truly elite among you, we also have the Movie Star Plan!
Old stock Canucks need not despair, though, because Canada needs you, too: after all, who else could we get to pay for all of this?
Continued here.
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March 18, 2019 at 09:23AM
Iowa Climate Science Education 