One of the many things that those inside the global warming GroupThink cult are unable to explain is why we should believe 30-50 year forecasts about climate change when the ones made 20 years ago have already been proved to be utterly wrong. It is as if we based our response to covid on the work of Professor Ferguson whose forecasts of hundreds of thousands of deaths from avian bird flu, swine fever, etc had proved so completely bogus. Oh, we did because“experts” inside the GroupThink are always right… but back to global warming.
As Montana sees the lowest temperatures ever recorded and snows not seen for decades sweep across America far too many people are dying because public policy has been to divert resources from dealing with cold to trying to stop global warming. Similarly many parts of Britain snarled up during the December snows in a way that it did not during the much worse snows of 1979. Folks in Britain are paying the highest fuel prices in Europe as they pay green levies to produce green power so as to stop global warming.
Poor people will choose between heat and food this winter and their blood is on the hands of Greta Thunberg, the Doom Goblin, the media and political classes and all those inside the GroupThink bubble. I suggest that if you are a fellow cultist you consider, as you contemplate your shame, two quotes from the year 2000.
Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia said that within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”. “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”
David Parker, at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in Berkshire warned “British children could have only virtual experience of snow. Via the internet, they might wonder at polar scenes – or eventually “feel” virtual cold. Heavy snow will return occasionally, We’re really going to get caught out. The chances are certainly now stacked against the sort of heavy snowfall in cities that inspired Impressionist painters, such as Sisley, and the 19th century poet laureate Robert Bridges, who wrote in “London Snow” of it, “stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying.”
Of course the media classes reported this as FACT ( i.e. something that has happened) not as just other predictions. After all UEA was one of the world’s leading climate change centres and its forecasts – on which Viner based his outrageous claim – were taken as gospel. But the climate models of UEA and of Hadley have been completely wrong over 20 years. Which would make anyone not inside the GroupThink wonder why we are penalising our poor with the highest fuel bills in the West in order to fund initiatives to combat the forecasts for the next 20-80 years?
As for the snow, I remember so many happy games of snowballs with Olaf, a girl born a year after Viner’s quote. For the vast majority of her life, without leaving London and South Wales she has seen snow every year. My son Joshua turned six this year. A photo on the wall shows him playing snowballs with Uncle Johnny, his godfather, in Bristol aged two with the snow deep and crisp and even. He has now seen snow every year of his life.
Viner and Parker’s quotes now look laughable and are there for open ridicule yet they are based on the computer models of climate (global warming as it was called back then) upon which our whole, ruinous, energy policy is now based. Yet, this being 2022, if you point this out you are ridiculed as a “denier” for whatever the facts ( i.e. what has happened 2000-2022) may say this is deemed by our masters to be “settled science.”
Hat tip, Uncle Chris Booker (Christopher to the world) who predicted this all and was berated and demonised by the liberal establishment for doing so.