Dawning of a New Dark Age
Posted 25 September 2008
I wonder how long the following paragraph will last near the bottom of the page on the BBC News site:
Some researchers have attempted to link the intensity of cosmic rays at Earth to cloudiness and climate change. Current conditions may be a good opportunity to test these ideas further.
It is a feature of our weather over the last two years that has not been mentioned much, viz. we have had a lot of cloud (even when it is not raining). It has been especially noticeably poorly predicted on weather forecasts.
Clearly an unscientific observation but it is explained by Svensmark's 'attempts to link' this to cosmic radiation, quite convincingly. The green/tax-fest/anthropogenic global warming conspiracy freaks have done their utmost to divert our attention from this phenomenon but the truth is out there.
BBC/Greenpeace marriage of inconvenience
Posted 19 September 2008
I never voted for any of Greenpeace's allies. I have never given them money and I never sanctioned any part of my BBC licence tax to be used for political ends. Why then are the BBC so obviously inseparable from this particularly insidious and loathsome political movement?
Today they are being quoted as though they are the final arbiters on the subject of climate. Greenpeace have declared coal to be bad, man-kind to be evil and big business to be the devil himself and the BBC must consult the green Godhead whenever the subject of (anthropogenic) global warming is sicked up.
Greenpeace have not received a penny from the vast majority of this nations' voters. It quotes seriously flawed 'science' every time its spin machine opens its sinister mouth. The BBC are misusing the licence tax and I want my money back, before the banks fritter it away!
It is time for us ingrates to stand up and be counted. Write to your political representatives and make them fear you more than they fear the media manufactured Gordon Brown effect. There is no point writing to the BBC unless you represent the opinion of a tiny minority of over-sensitive issue whores who spotted a nipple or two on your TV.
Yipeeee, La Nina rescues mankind shock!
Posted 4 April 2008
Here's a welcome report from the BBC, acknowledging the possibility that global warming is not real. Get me a glass of water, somebody please (if the 'environment' can spare it), I'm feeling more than a little light-headed.
It turns out that there are natural forces at work, which may just be influencing the weather and climate. I remain to be convinced but I am willing to wait and see what scientific research might conclude after some extensive and expensive research, or mathematical modelling hocus-pocus.
addendum (BBC booted back on message - you can sleep soundly):
OK, you will wonder what I'm warbling on about if you click the link above because the BBC wimps have been bullied into changing their tune. The Register has all the details. We're truely fucked when a whimpering coward can so easily shout down attempts to acurately report a story, which so badly needs reporting!
This is worse than the BBC's mis-reporting of the alledged Royal tantrum that never was.
A nifty now you see it, now you don't comparison between the BBC versions is now available on the American Digest site.
Who are the puppet masters?
Posted 10 August 2007
The climate warming myth mongers are getting truly desperate. I posted a rant about the BBC’s reporting of a shoddy looking claim debunking the superb work of Svensmark on solar interaction with cosmic rays and their affect on global temperature. I was angered by the fact that the BBC had concluded that this new paper by Lockwood et al had finally settled the matter and thus we are doomed.
Now you can read a full response to this astonishing claim, which exposes the slipping standards in the Royal Society’s review process and, yet again, emphasises the importance of the Svensmark discovery.
I no longer have the slightest doubt that the green, scientific and political alliance of GAWD (Global Anthropogenic Warming Doom-mongers) are cynically manipulating the media for their own ends. I suspect the scientists are desperate to maintain funding to keep their research groups and University departments afloat. The politicians are keen to introduce new taxes and the green movement want to increase their political influence thus pushing forward the whole of their human progress hating agenda.
We, the easily manipulated, citizens of the world will be their victims as the full economic cost of saving the planet stifles development and destroys habitat as we try to generate power from ‘alternative’ energy, and as we try to feed the world without ‘polluting’ it with chemicals.
That the Royal Society should rush out such a poorly reviewed paper, so easily torn to shreds and that the BBC should so dramatically promote its absurd conclusions (and not report the response), is evidence enough that mainstream media and the public face of science is being used and is happy to be used to promote a ‘Green’ sponsored agenda.
So who is pulling the strings, and why? Is is politicians trying to raise tax revenues? Is it macro-economic manipulation to maintain a power balance status quo? Is it part of the war of fear being waged on the citizens of the world to keep us divided? Is it a religious plot to drive us whimpering back to the pews on a Sunday?
Post your suggestions here, please!
update (feb 08):
Read this this article about financial motivation all the way through (the juicy stuff about Greenpeace is near the bottom) and start joining up the dots.
James May’s 20th Century
Posted 25 July 2007
Last night I watched James May’s 20th Century on BBC2. Presumably scripted by the Open University’s History/Sociology Departments, he tried to argue that the Teenager as a phenomenon emerged as a result of changes in technology.
Don’t get me wrong, I like James May but this was hogwash. Yes, we have had a massive change in fashion off the back of man-made fibres; and culture changes brought about by portable transistor radios, with programming directed at teenagers; and the cheap moped made them more mobile etc.
But these products successfully marketed to teenagers are a result of the pre-existence of that market. The market existed because of sociological changes pre and post second world war. Compulsory education to a much later age and increased affluence have combined to created a sociological group that did not exist beforehand. The 12 to 16 yearolds who no longer had to work on the farm, the mill or the factory or for the family trade, but did have to go to school, now had time on their hands. Their parents had enough money to keep them without forcing them to work so they could also afford the new inventions their teenage situation allowed, not the other way around.
The programme briefly referred to the games console/graffiti artist/skateboarding generation of today, still arguing that the associated inventions created the teenager. They did not make any comment at all on the nature of the teenager throughout the decades. They did not attempt to measure the wider cultural implications of the teenager separated from his/her family community and the associated crime.
The programme was undoubtedly entertaining and informative but it missed the point and avoided some harsh modern realities. It also made no comment on the economic after-effects of decades of training young minds to desire gadgets and to seek extra-community entertainment to the total exclusion of family/community sources.
Now that the first teenagers are great-grandparents I think we can see the consequences. The family and the community was killed off by the marketing industry’s zombification of the teenager and his parents and grandparents. Politicians have jumped on the zombie bandwagon, taking full advantage of the easy manipulation of the youth and their parents. They protect the economic forces behind this massive change in order to preserve their easily maintained power base.
I see a very different 20th century from that portrayed last night by the OU and James May.
Addendum.
So what about the teenagers. Of course they cannot wait to follow the example of their peers and their rebellion and endearing youthful self-confidence ensures they can’t help themselves. But, for millenia they developed into fully functioning adults while still remaining under adult guidance throughout those crucial years.
What we as a society are witnessing in the extremes of teenage behaviour is a desperate cry for help, guidance and supervision in a secure environment. We are denying them that by pandering to the idea that they can choose or make up their own minds, or that we should let them find their own way. We have created an insecure nightmare, which they make more insecure in their inexperienced desperation to find answers.
the establishment rallies, hurrah! Sound the charge, Tally Ho!
Posted 11 July 2007
Take the startling revelations on the BBC today with a massive shovel of salt. You only have to notice that, unusually, the article has no links to the source of the research (thus avoiding too much scrutiny of its conclusions), and heavily biased editorial style. It is riddled with insulting platitudes when referencing alternative climate theories and is clearly motivated by a need to firmly anchor its own agenda in the mind set of the masses.
No, great citizens of the globe, do not be so easily swayed. Wait for clear thinkers with true scientific agendas and real climatologists to react and read what they have to say and then bombard the BBC with your protest. Here are links to keep an eye on while waiting for the dust of this malicious attempt to manipulate the truth to settle:
spiked, global warming hoax, sitewave, antigreen, number watch, icecap, friends of science news, previous post on this site
This is a desperate attempt by the British establishment to put their campaign firmly back on the rails after the recent revelation that Britons still have some common sense after all and just don’t believe the hype.
Edit: They must be reading my blog! They have now added the links but have not edited the sensationalist and ridiculous conclusion that the matter is now settled.
Edit (again): Story has now vanished off the Beeb front page, hedging their bets methinks. Some reaction beginning to appear on the web.
See above links. Specific link to an initial level-headed scientific response.
Nigel Calder (co-author of The chilling Stars… referred to below) responds to this report on the London Book Review.
desperate cowards
Posted 2 July 2007
There is a massive cultural gap between the Al Qaeda/Islamist/Middle Eastern ‘terrorist’ and us, here in the UK post 20th century wars/IRA.
The real terrorists are the state security machine and the media who revel in opportunities to tell us how scared we should be. The massive publicity they give to the cowards’ cause is mind-blowing. Have a read of this: from the Register. Why is this not being emphasized by the wall to wall newspaper coverage and TV news? You already know the answer!
And, the police, government and security agencies need us to believe that it was potentialy as bad or worse than before so that we will keep being good dogies. As explained in the linked article, it was not, and with incompetent and desperate cowards like these running the show, we have little to fear. Don’t forget that these are people who want to be sexually pampered for all eternity, for pity’s sake.
STOP GIVING THEM THE OXYGEN OF PUBLICITY by continuing to believe that we have a ‘right to know’ every detail about everything. The same goes for the BBC campaign to release Alan Jonnston. Stop mentioning him and the desparate cowards who have him will let him go. [edit: the let him go the day after I published this to the enormous relief of his family but I stand by the point]
The problem is that the media cause them to believe that we are scared of them. I am not! Bring it on Osama, you have already lost. That’s why we are the global ecomomic super powers and you are not and while you remain tied to the currency of medieval tribal score settling, that’s how it will remain. Islam clearly demonstrates all over the world that this need not be the case. Give up this barbaric ancient struggle and join the rest of us in the 21st century, now! That goes for Israel too! Oh, and American right wing Christian evangelists, while we are at it!
