By Paul Homewood
A few months after the BBC’s The Weather Machine, US TV put out their version:
As well as the extreme weather experienced during the cooling, the programme highlights just how much the world’s climate has changed in the last few thousand years.
Meanwhile YouTube are forced to put the mandatory health warning, which is totally contradicted by the documentary!
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March 25, 2024 at 03:39PM
By Paul Homewood
CENSORSHIP ALERT!
It seems as if Martin Durkin’s new film has been taken down by Vimeo. You now get this message:
We even get the same message on the movie’s own website.
Fortunately it is still available on YouTube, but for how long, we will have to see:
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March 25, 2024 at 03:39PM
By Paul Homewood
Fifty years ago, the BBC broadcast The Weather Machine, part of its World About Us series:
Unfortunately only have this clip:
But we do have the programme summary:
1974 has been a bad year for weather, with disastrous floods and droughts, a failed monsoon in India, unprecedented tornadoes in America, a dismal summer and unseasonable gales in Europe.
The machine that makes the world’s weather is changing gear – and the shift is downward, against mankind. The smallest change means loss of life in flood or drought, and the wholesale destruction of crops. For us, the price of food goes up; for millions more, it brings hunger or starvation. In the background looms the threat of ice, and the obliteration of northern lands – including Britain. The next ice-age is already overdue.
The trends are revealed in cores drilled from deep beneath the Greenland ice-cap; by instruments high on a volcano in Hawaii, acting as a breathalyser for our planet; by ships that probe the depths of the sea for clues to the weather of 18,000 years ago; and by satellites that look down from space to encompass the storms of half a world. In the Pacific and Atlantic oceans we see the beginnings of a concerted global assault on the problems of our ever-changing climate. Perhaps just in time, the nations are uniting in the war against bad weather.
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/0271db1075b544c2996ebb81b38b9096
There has been much debate about this ice age scare, but what is clear is that extreme weather had grown much worse during this period of cooling. This has long been confirmed by many climate scientists of the time, including HH Lamb.
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March 25, 2024 at 03:39PM
By Paul Homewood
h/t Russell Hicks
MP Brandon Lewis is ecstatic about the latest taxpayer bung for EVs:
https://twitter.com/BrandonLewis/status/1771137340276195506
Quite why taxpayer should pay for EV chargers is beyond me.
But what will the citizens of Great Yarmouth actually get for these millions?
Just 32 chargers, according to the local council:
https://www.great-yarmouth.gov.uk/evchargingpoints
And they are only 22 Kw chargers, so will take hours to charge up:
Yarmouth has 100,000 inhabitants, so I somehow don’t see 32 chargers being quite enough.
And for that poor guy who cannot charge at home, does Mr Lewis expect him to sit in a carpark for hours on end on the way home from work.
And heaven knows what will happen when there are a dozen cars in the queue ahead of him.
His frankly contemptuous comment about such drivers shows just how badly our politicians are detached from reality. I have little doubt that Lewis has a nice large house, with ample room for cars. And I also suspect he has a proper car to use, when he is not virtue signalling.
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