By Jo Nova

After four years of “public disruption” Extinction Rebellion (XR) has decided to stop being a public nuisance and develop “relationships instead”. This is a group that prances around in doomsday costumes, and tried gluing themselves to the top of commuter trains at peak hour in London. (Furious passengers dragged them off.)

Extinction Rebellion has decided to be rebellious by, wait for it… holding mass rallies instead.

In the end, they said after four years of protesting, XR admit their failure: “very little has changed. Emissions continue to rise and our planet is dying at an accelerated rate.”

So for some reason, despite four years of costumes, chanting, and naked protests, the global atmosphere did not change. Who could have seen that coming?

Just another ordinary worker trying to warn us about climate werewolves or something.

XR were losing the popularity race

The Guardian

Activists with XR, which launched in 2018, became known for civil disobedience, from planting trees on Parliament Square to superglueing themselves to the gates of Buckingham Palace. Some smashed windows at bank headquarters and at News UK, the publisher of the Sun and Times newspapers. But the group became disliked by more people than liked, according to polling by YouGov.

The YouGov poll shows a third of the UK disliked them, a third hadn’t heard of them, and just 21% felt warmly about them. Basically, half the people who knew they existed didn’t like them.

When included in a list of charities, and ranked by popularity, the rebels saving-the-world were in 127th place. They can’t be happy with that.

Even though XR say they are going to play nice, Just Stop Oil and “Insulate Britain” have popped up to say they are just as committed as ever to civil disobedience. So we won’t notice any difference in public nuisance protests, just the t-shirts have changed.

Doomsday cultists who like dressing up still have plenty of choices.

Posts on Extinction Rebellion:

Keep it coming XR: Just some average Aussie naked people trying to scare the kiddies

Extinction Rebellion are run by paid activists — the £200,000 “grassroots” movement

Red Brigade photo: Gazamp

Essay by Eric Worrall

“For forty years the rainbow will not be seen. For forty years it will be seen every day.”

A great war, economic ruin and climate catastrophe…16th century French astrologer Nostradamus’ gloomy predictions for 2023

By LAURENCE DOLLIMORE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 19:34 AEDT, 1 January 2023 | UPDATED: 00:52 AEDT, 2 January 2023

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Climate change to accelerate

‘For forty years the rainbow will not be seen. For forty years it will be seen every day.

‘The dry earth will grow more parched, and there will be great floods when it is seen.’

This particular prophecy appears quite apt given the current state of the climate.

Europe saw its worst drought in 500 years in 2022, while the Horn of Africa is currently experiencing the longest and most severe drought on record, threatening millions of people with starvation.

There were also catastrophic floods in Pakistan between June and October, killing more than 1,700 people and causing more than £14billion worth of damage.

If Nostradamus’s prediction is to be believed, next year could see even worse climate disasters – although one hopes nothing that will last for 40 years.

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Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11417737/A-great-war-economic-ruin-climate-catastrophe-Nostradamuss-depressing-outlook-2023.html

Nostradamus does share one important attribute with alarmist climate scientists and their computer models. No matter how many times they are wrong, no matter how wrong they are, people keep coming back for more.

If only Nostradamus had a computer, maybe his climate model predictions could have been included in the next IPCC report.