By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Cunningham
Not sure if this poll is behind the paywall, but if you get the chance, go and vote:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/environment/2025/05/09/poll-of-the-week-should-net-zero-be-scrapped/
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May 9, 2025 at 01:13PM
Essay by Eric Worrall
The climate movement once again delivering us from the hope that the world has reached peak insanity.
Could a new wave of urgent theatre hold the key to tackling climate change?
Kate Wyver Thu 8 May 2025 17.00 AEST
From a New Forest giant inspiring an asthmatic teen to a herd of animal puppets walking to the Arctic Circle, theatre far and wide is taking action – but with energy and optimism, rather than doom-laden tales
Climate stories are typically defined by despair. The future we are told of is such a tragic, barren dystopia, it’s hard to look at head-on. But a flood of theatre-makers are writing their way past fear into something more useful, inspiring action through love, music, puppetry and folklore. “The ones who profit most from the idea that we’re doomed are the oil companies and the people massively polluting our planet,” reasons playwright Flora Wilson Brown. “If we allow ourselves to think there’s nothing we can do, we won’t do anything. There’s still time to act.”
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These plays seek to take what often feels invisible and lay it out for an audience to see more clearly. Abroad, a stampede of animals are confronting this challenge on even larger stages. In 2021, a 12ft-tall puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian girl, called Little Amal, walked 8,000km (5,000 miles) from Turkey to the UK to raise awareness of the urgent plight of refugees. This summer, the same team began a 20,000km (12,400 mile) journey, shepherding The Herds, a group of lifesize animal puppets, from the Congo basin to the Arctic Circle. “The people who depend on the forest are feeling the climate crisis now,” says David Lan, one of the core team and former artistic director of the Young Vic. “Animals are already moving from their ancient habitat because the Earth is too hot. We wanted to dramatise this to express the way life is already being strongly affected by what’s happening to the climate.”
The project leapfrogs people’s resistance to admit that the climate emergency is already making our home uninhabitable by placing it in front of them, in public spaces. …
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I don’t know about you guys, but I’m thinking a society which can afford to support a group of committed artists walking a giant herd of puppets on a 5000 mile journey probably isn’t down to its last rice cracker.
Real crisis involve food riots and people dropping dead in the streets. Fake crisis apparently require herds of puppets.
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May 9, 2025 at 01:04PM
A new paper by Dr. Judith Curry, one of the world’s most prominent scientists skeptical of a looming human-caused climate catastrophe, and economist Harry DeAngelo cautions investors and the public that “the apocalyptic climate narrative is a seriously flawed guide for public policy.” Why? “Because it radically overstates the risks to humanity from continued global warming.” Wide-scale suppression of fossil fuel use will not measurably change future temperatures, but “a sharp decline in quality of life would surely ensue.”
We are proud to welcome Dr. Curry back to the show to dig deeper into her paper. We will also cover the Crazy Climate News of the Week, including a “die-in” at NOAA, how the polar ice crisis narrative is melting, Bernie Sanders wanting to ban gasoline cars but still flying private jets, and why climate change is not causing kids to miss more school days.
Join Heartland’s Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, H. Sterling Burnett, Jim Lakely, and Dr. Judith Curry LIVE at 1 p.m. ET for Episode #156 of The Climate Realism Show. Leave your questions in the live YouTube or Rumble chat to have them addressed in the Q&A segment at the end of the show.
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May 9, 2025 at 11:31AM
I personally earned £17 million last year. Well actually I didn’t, I just made that up to sound impressive. Of course it would not be too bright an idea to make that claim in case His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs heard and wondered why I paid such a relatively small amount of tax. Obviously even if I had made that much, the amount of tax due would be subject to an audit calculation. ALL numbers have to be backed up with facts. If you cannot, or will not, produce your workings out then nobody is going to believe you….unless of course you are the UK Meteorological Office who feel they are above such bothersome detail. Welcome to a world where record keeping is optional.
As ever I would like to declare the information below is for my own non commercial research and I am sharing the images on my personal laptop screen with anyone interested in viewing.
One of my earlier reports related to Dungeness – and The 103 Missing Met Stations Mystery. I questioned what were then described as “Climate Averages” stations and discovered that 103 do not even exist. The Met office duly explained a detailed “internationally accepted” and “peer reviewed” process for using data from stations after they closed down. {N.B. what about data used for periods before these stations opened?} Lots of “science” in there that must seemingly be believed. However, when I enquired which actual stations were used in the compilation of data for the two specific locations of Folkestone and Dover the Met Office were unable to offer any details as such data had “not been retained.” Really? Is the general public simply just supposed to “believe” the Met Office without any workings out evident. To me, and every single scientist who has ever lived, it is imperative to show the data used – ANYTHING LESS IS NOT VALID. No Verifiable Data Source = No Credibility = no better than Fiction.
Having reviewed Scole weather Station and its apparent mystical afterlife I decided to enquire of the Met Office which stations had been used to create the sixty year rolling averages for a weather station that had only ever existed for under 9 years. No need to paraphrase anything because here is their response including my simple questions verbatim.
So yes, you read that correctly “Regulation 12(4)(a) – “request for information that is not held”.
The UK Met Office that archives literally billions of numbers and data items DID NOT KEEP A RECORD OF ITS WORKINGS OUT
So they have no proof whatsoever of how their Climate Averages were compiled. A total “Peer Review” failure.
Okay let’s move on to another Met Office ZOMBIE that refuses to die at Manby. A reality or figment of the imagination had to be checked out – again the verbatim response.
So here we have it again, the Met office is publishing “authoritative” data for which it simply cannot supply any evidence whatsoever to substantiate. Let’s not worry about that shall we because the Met Office are more than happy to talk to “Science Feedback” to ineptly try to debunk me BUT neither the Met Office nor their Meta sponsored censorship unit were willing to talk directly to me. Odd that really.
But it does not stop there, there appears to be an FOI game that government agencies play, thus when enquiring you have to be very specific and not allow any “get out” clauses. I asked more very simple questions only requiring simple factual answers. Such simple specifics can be such demanding questions that they cannot be answered in twenty working days. I asked about Bodiam, Waddington and Aberdaron. More verbatim questions:-
Has it really come to such a sorry pass that a Government agency entrusted with £billions of Tax Payer funding cannot even retain its workings out? Cannot answer basic, simple questions without enquirers having to resort to Freedom on Information requests? Cannot even seem to pass accurate data to their own archives? This may seem difficult to believe but there are even more simplistic questions than these “tricky” ones that they cannot/will not or simply don’t know. The following one frankly beggars belief.
The Met Office does not know whether or not it has any “Aspirated Screens” or at least it is not telling eh?
Surely this was not a difficult question to answer – do they not read their own literature? Or are they unwilling to admit that their systems might just not be as accurate as the WMO is suggesting they should be. After all the Heathrow Airport authority uses artificially aspirated instruments but the Met Office site there does not.
“and aspirated only by natural ventilation through the side louvers” is fairly straightforward. {Talkshop comment – shouldn’t the UK Met Office be using English – as in “louvres”}
If all this seems a bit overwhelming I would like to add there are another five FOI requests on varying different topics in hand and reaching the critical answer by dates. Despite all this not only does the Met Office refuse to open into discussion with me about these issues, the Minister of State responsible (Peter Kyle MP) nor any of his representatives have still not made any response to my letter of July last year even though my own MP has confirmed twice forwarding reminders.
We are regularly told in the main stream media, particularly the BBC, that we are entering an existential “Climate Emergency” so how is it nobody wants to discuss the obviously fictional data that is being manipulated to support this “argument”.
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May 9, 2025 at 10:48AM
Iowa Climate Science Education 