PR FLACK RE-ENLISTS IN THE 100 YEARS CLIMATE WAR

HAS CUNNING PLAN TO EARN TURNIP BY SELLING 

SOUL TO RUPERT MURDOCH 

Apologies to Martin Kimber, Sky technology  27 November 2022 

Veteran dogsbody Commentator  Sir Tony Richardson  Baldric Worrall-Watts wants the message of climate change to be less about doom and gloom; and more about export boosting things that can earn Coal Coast Content Providers Christmas bonuses reckoned in the tens of turnips.

In contrast, Sir Tony Richardson recently spoke to mark the launch of video game Floodland, a survival title set after a climate-induced apocalypse.

The city-builder forces players to contend with environmental challenges as humanity attempts to survive after a catastrophic flood wipes out most of the population.

'We can't be paralysed into inactivity'

Sir Tony said.

arguing that games are a way of reaching a generation that has become prone to climate anxiety, and showing them there is still hope for the future of the planet.

“I’ve been frustrated for quite some time about the way we talk about climate change,” he said.

“It’s like there’s nothing but doom and gloom.

“We might as well just suck our thumbs, sit in the corner and wait to die.”

THIS PROVOKED A SPIN DOCTORING ATTEMPT BY  BLACKADDER WANNABE ERIC WORRAL OF VVUVVT:

AT WHAT'S UP WITH THAT

 

SNOWBIRDS FLEE FRIGID POLAR TIK TOK VORTEX

 

THE THIN BLUE LINE

IS THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE,  CAPTURED FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE IN A FIRST LIGHT EARTHRISE FRAME FROM THE LUNAR RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER'S CONTINUOUS DATA STREAM.

THIS ONe WAS RENDERED AS  A 4K VIDEO BY ERNIE WRIGHT OF THE UNIVERSITY SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION. 

UNLIKE THE HAND-HELD HASSELBLAD THAT FIRST PUT THE WHOLE EARTH ON KODACHROME SIX DECADES AGO, THE LRO IS EFFECTIVELY AN IMAX CAMERA RUNNING 24-7, THAT CAN RESOLVE THE PLANETARY LIMB INTO SLIVERS SO EXQUISITELY NARROW THAT THE ATMOSPHERE IS ONLY  FEW PIXELS THICK, 

WITH A LITTLE  GAMMA CORRECTION, YOU CAN SEE A LOT JUST BY OBSERVING.

THE GREAT HOCKEY STICK OF CHINA

  BEGAN AS A BLIP IN COAL PRODUCTION TO FUEL THE BACKYARD BLAST FURNACES OF CHAIRMAN MAO'S RETROMINGENT GREAT LEAP FORWARD:

IT WAS DWARFED BY US, EU & USSR PRODUCTION UNTIL CHAIRMAN XI ADDED A ZERO

THE REST IS HISTORY:

CLIMATE, DIVERSITY, INCLUSIVITY AND NATIONAL DOG FARTING AWARENESS DAY COLLIDE IN NOTED JOURNAL

Hence Scientific American's continuing coverage of the struggle to clear the air and secure climate justice by ending the racist & elitist repression of pit bulls: 

Things to Know on Dog Farting Awareness Day

By Julie Hecht  April 8, 2017

What are dog farts made of? And can they be less stinky?

 Walter the Farting Dog delivers on fiction—it is Walter’s flatulence that thwarts robbers—recent studies provide actual data on dog farts... In 2001, researchers at the Waltham Center for Pet Nutrition in the UK published a study detailing a noninvasive technique to investigate dog flatulence in real-time. A special doggie jumpsuit with a tail-hole. A dog fart suit.
 

Dog fart science

But what makes dog farts stink? The researchers took their cue from human flatus, which contains “the atmospheric gases nitrogen and oxygen plus the non-atmospheric gases carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and methane, also referred to as fermentation gases.” Sulfur gases, particularly hydrogen sulfide, are behind our visceral response.

To investigate whether a combination of charcoal, Yucca schidigera, and zinc acetate would decrease the stink in dog farts, dogs got back in the fart suit.  Then the dogs consumed treats containing the three ingredients.** The fart suit captured and measured hydrogen sulfide concentrations, while the Odor Judge rated the farts.

The treats with the three ingredients did the trick! While the number of farting episodes did not decrease, the stench of the emissions was less aversive…

Fart Facts

• Hydrogen sulfide is behind the stink in stinky dog farts.
• Dogs eating treats containing charcoal, Yucca schidigera, and zinc acetate will continue to fart but will produce less-stinky farts.

Make every day Dog Farting Awareness Day! 

Today is also National Dog Fighting Awareness Day. 

While illegal in every state, thousands of dogs are still forced to train, fight, and suffer every year. Let's end dog fighting.

As the editors noted this November: 

Critics sometimes tell us that Scientific American has strayed from what might be called “classical science content” and is wading into subject areas where we don’t belong.

This claim bubbles up most often when we publish stories related to social justice or human rights—on the research supporting health care for transgender people, for instance, or abortion as basic medical care. 

A Twitter user replied to an opinion piece against forcing trans girls to play on boys’ sports teams by writing, “You should probably move everything back to science, facts and stats and leave the ‘wokness’ [SIC], narrative skewing and agenda setting behind. It’s not good for your credibility.”

And in response to a recent job listing that described our commitment to diversity and inclusion, someone else tweeted: “Advancing DEI & Social Justice is not something any truth-seeking institution or organization should prioritize.”

These detractors are telling us to “stay in our lane,” that scientific inquiry is a pure, clean, completely objective enterprise, and that what we publish should be devoid of politics or the perspectives of people who are affected by the culture of scientific research. 

But the truth is that science is relevant to every element of society, including policy and politics.

MISS HECHT'S ESSAY CONTINUES  SCIENTIFIC AMERICA'S DECADE LONG COMMITMENT TO COVERING CANINE CLIMATE CHANGE 

References

Collins et al. 2001. Development of a technique for the in vivo assessment of flatulence in dogs. Am J Vet Res. 62, 1014-1019.

Danzi, D. F. 1992. Flatology. J Emerg Med. 10, 79-88.

Giffard et al. 2001. Administration of charcoal, charcoal, Yucca schidigera and zinc acetate to reduce malodorous flatulence in dogs. JAVMA. 218, 892-896.

Suarez et al. 1998. Identification of gases responsible for the odour of human flatus and evaluation of a device purported to reduce this odour. Gut. 43, 100-104.

CLIMATE ENVOY'S COP-27 TRIUMPH COULD RESURRECT HIS POLITICAL CAREER

SINAI DEEP ECOLOGY CAUCUS INVITES KERRY TO FOUND EGYPTIAN PRESIDENTIAL DYNASTY 

CITING LACK OF LIBERAL CANDIDATES FOR PHARAOH  
RED SEA DEEP GREENS FEEL PUT FORMER SENATOR
GROUP HOPES OFFER WILL INSPIRE PRESIDENT TRUMP
TO SEEK OFFSHORE OFFICE AS WELL

LET THEM EAT CAKE AND DRINK ORGANIC EARTH JUICE

33,000 COP27 DELEGATES & HACKS

 NEED NOT THIRST OR HUNGER WITH

JUST $ 990,000 BUYS A HAPPY HOUR FOR ALL

OR TRY OUR BOTTOMLESS

TO ECONOMISE, TRY OUR $30 TOFU TOAST

IN THE LONG RUN, WE ARE ALL ROTARIANS

          Selling "longtermism": 

How PR and marketing drive a controversial new movement

For SALON

 In a recent podcast interview with Griftonomics about the increasingly influential ideology known as "longtermism," I was asked at the end "So, what's the grift?" The difficulty in answering this is not what to say but where to start.

Longtermism emerged from a movement called "Effective Altruism" (EA), a male-dominated community of "super-hardcore do-gooders" (as they once called themselves tongue-in-cheek) based mostly in Oxford and the San Francisco Bay Area. 

Their initial focus was on alleviating global poverty, but over time a growing number of the movement's members have shifted their research and activism toward ensuring that humanity, or our posthuman descendants, survive for millions, billions and even trillions of years into the future.

Although the longtermists do not, so far as I know, describe what they're doing this way, we might identify two phases of spreading their ideology: 

Phase One involved infiltrating governments, encouraging people to pursue high-paying jobs to donate more for the cause and wooing billionaires like Elon Musk — and this has been wildly successful. Musk himself has described longtermism as "a close match for my philosophy." Sam Bankman-Fried has made billions from cryptocurrencies to fund longtermist efforts. And longtermism is, according to a UN Dispatch article, "increasingly gaining traction around the United Nations and in foreign policy circles.

Phase Two is what we're seeing right now with the recent media blitz promoting longtermism, with articles written by or about William MacAskill, longtermism's poster boy, in outlets like The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, BBC and TIME.

 Having spread their influence behind the scenes over the many years, members and supporters are now working overtime to sell longtermism to the broader public in hopes of building their movement, as "movement building" is one of the central aims of the community...

But buyer beware: The EA community, including its longtermist offshoot, places a huge emphasis on marketing, public relations and "brand-management," and hence one should be very cautious about how MacAskill and his longtermist colleagues present their views to the public.

As MacAskill notes in an article posted on the EA Forum, it was around 2011 that early members of the community began "to realize the importance of good marketing, and therefore [were] willing to put more time into things like choice of name." The name they chose was of course "Effective Altruism," which they picked by vote over alternatives like "Effective Utilitarian Community" and "Big Visions Network." Without a catchy name, "the brand of effective altruism," as MacAskill puts it, could struggle to attract customers and funding.

STONE COLD ISLAND HOSTS GREATEST THAW ON EARTH

A rather cold character

Studying  fairly comprehensive data about the climate of western Svalbard, climate researchers long ago concluded that concomitant with Longyearbyen being Earth's most northerly town, it was the fastest-warming as well.

At its present rate, some five times the global average, it could be 8˚C (14˚F) warmer by 2100.

But new data from glacial and unpopulated eastern Svalbard suggests Longyearbyen's days as the hottest nightspot in the high Arctic may be numbered. 

Collaborating with Russian colleagues who provided research from their side of the Barents Sea, Norwegian  climatologist Ragnar Braekkan's  team spent four years analyzing local weather-station-on- a-pole  files…

Crunching the numbers they found a tiny outlier, Karl XII Island, northeast of Svalbard, that appears to be warming  by ~2.7˚C/decade, a rate an order of magnitude faster than the global average of 0.2˚C (0.36˚F). 

The largest component of this is  accelerated change late in the year, when, absent reforming ice, upwelling sea water can raise Karl XII-øya's October warming rate to an incredible 4˚C per decade,  

making the 2km long  slash of rock jutting from the Barents Sea at 80 degrees North Latitude far and away the fastest-warming place on the planet. 

It is incidentally one  barren of the distractions on which climate skeptics customarily depend when complaining about surface temperature records - no airports, parking lots, idling engines , asphalt paving , underwater volcanoes, hot springs or , above all, air conditioning.

It does however offer contrarians one consolation: a healthy population of polar bears that enjoy munching on visiting climatologists:

COP-27 SINAI EXPECTED TO CLOSE ON UPLIFTING NOTE

PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE AS HARD COPY, I-PAD OR TABLET OF THE LAW

FEDERALIST SOCIETY ASKS SCOTUS TO REVIEW SO-CALLED CONSERVATION OF MASS LAW

AMICUS BRIEF CITES  JOURNALS MOST RESPECTED BY 
PRESIDENT TRUMP'S BRAIN TRUST

                                                THE

Examines alternative models presented in Moe v. Wade:

When Moe's expert witnesses began dancing their PhD's the Bench pleaded nolo judicare 

 AND THE LEARNED COMMENTARY OF  JONATHAN MOSELEY:

Carbon Dioxide Known Only Since 1930

By Jonathon Moseley

Thousands of children skipped school last week to march in the streets and demand government action about the hypothetical threat that human industrial activity will change the Earth's climate…

Scientists working under government grants tell us that we have to take action.

We do not know how much carbon dioxide was in Earth's atmosphere prior to the 1930s… 

The existence of CO2 was not confirmed until 1777.

Guy Stewart Callendar -- who dreamed up the global warming scare [1958] -- rejected nearly all CO2 measurements before 1870 because of “relatively crude instrumentation” and recognized only twelve suitable data sets in the 20th century.

We cannot measure carbon dioxide content of the Earth's past from air pockets in ice core samples.  

First, gases can diffuse through solid walls.   Buy a helium balloon.  A week later the balloon will no longer be floating but on the ground.  The helium gas diffuses out through the walls.  

We know that gas does not stay unchanged even in a closed container.

MOSELY IS ALSO FAMED FOR THIS  MASTHEAD BLURB HAILING WATTS UP WITH THAT  

“…changed the world and is one of the most influential resources on global warming."

HIS AMERICAN THINKER ARTICLES INCLUDE :

• Is Climate Change 'Science'?
• New York Prosecutors are Screaming at the Sky
• The Ocean Ate Global Warming
• Can New York Arrest Donald Trump?
• Do We Know Earth’s Global Temperature?
• A Proud Boy Challenges the Jan.6 Committee

IF YOU RUN OUT OF SOUP, YOU CAN ALWAYS MAKE YOUR POINT USING GLUE

 

The Spectator

GIVEN A DOG AND A KLEE IN A BURNING KOREAN MUSEUM DO YOU THROW THE SOUP AT THE PAINTING OR THE DOG?

REAL CLIMATE

                        Unforced variations thread Nov 2022

Anyone read Greta Thunberg’s book? or have an opinion about soup?

Be substantive, be polite, be talking about climate

Silvia Leahu-Aluas says

7 NOV 2022 AT 9:20 AM

I do have an opinion about the soup: 

‘The Van Gogh [soup throwing] protest has caught our attention and kickstarted a conversation about what really matters.’ Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian

I fully support their action.

It reminded me of one of the famous ethical dilemmas: a museum is on fire, inside there is a dog and a unique painting, you can save only one, which one would you choose? 

I hope the protesters had that in mind too, as they tried one more time to point out our trivial preoccupations with and fetishization of our artifacts as opposed to life and the biosphere.

Given how many people were offended that they dared attack a unique painting (like any painting it can have zero value or absurd money-laundering level value, but as de gustibus et coloribus non disputandum, I will not select a value), I am afraid those people are choosing the wrong answer with deadly consequences.

I hope the debate started by the two courageous, biophilic and rational young women and their group will go further and question the huge investment in and ecological footprint of all art and other museums, while there are millions of unhoused people, the energy required to operate them could be used by people in need, the land occupied by the museums could have a myriad of truly valuable uses, the list of opportunity costs is long. 

Plus our brain capacity could have much better uses, how to solve the climate emergency is a critical one, than obsessing about any piece of art that nobody would care about if it weren’t marketed by the one percenters, the bourgeoisie and the art “experts” who cannot not find a more useful line of work. 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/22/just-stop-oil-van-gogh-national-gallery-aileen-getty

DENIAL TURNS INTO RIVER IN AFRICA AS CLIMATE HUSTLE PRODUCERS FLOOD EGYPTIAN MUSEUM BASEMENT

EGYPTIAN MUSEUM GUARDS APPREHENDED   MARC MORANO & CRAIG RUCKER ANOINTING THE CARBON FOOTPRINT OF NARMER WITH CRAZY GLUE WHILE CHANTING SPELLS  FROM THE SCROLL OF TUCK. CLIMATE DEPOT REPORTS:

The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow 

team arrived in Egypt on the eve of the annual United Nations 27th climate change conference (“COP27”), a mass gabfest to be held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt...

on their way to the climate conference, CFACT president, Craig Rucker, and Communications Director, Marc Morano of Climate Depot, stopped in Cairo to pay their respects to the Egyptian Kings during the centuries B.C., housed in mummified preservation in the lower level of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization Rucker and Morano symbolically “glued” themselves to a display in the main hall of ancient Egyptian artifacts, and chanted in unison, “No net zero!  No green energy mandates!” .

on their way to the climate conference, CFACT president, Craig Rucker, and Communications Director, Marc Morano of Climate Depot, stopped in Cairo to pay their respects to the Egyptian Kings during the centuries B.C., housed in mummified preservation in the lower level of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.

Among the dignitaries is Queen Hatshepsut who, prior to assuming the throne, purportedly recovered the baby Moses in a basket floating down the Nile River; and Pharoah Thutmose III, with whom Moses evidently grew up as an adopted child of Hatshepsut. Around the corner from them in the museum crypt lies Amenhotep II, who eventually relented to 80-year-old Moses’ demand to “let my people go,” that is, the Pharoah who presided over the exodus of the Israelites during the latter 1400s B.C. That became a 40-year journey from Egypt to Israel that crossed the Red Sea, which took a southern detour near the area of the COP27 conference.

 IF CONVICTED OF BEING A PUBLIC NUISANCE, THEY COULD FACE  A FIVE TALENT FINE AND 90 DAYS IN THE CAIRO COUNTY HOUSE OF MUMMIFICATION  

MAJOR RED SEA PARTING MALFUNCTION WIPES OUT CLIMATE CONTRARIAN CHILDREN'S CRUSADE

 THE CONTRARIAN EFFORT TO CROSS SINAI TO VEX THE  62,00O  DELEGATE  EVENT RECALLS MONCTON'S 2014  DOHA EXPEDITION, WHICH ARRIVED UN-INVITED BY FOLLOWING IN THE CARBON FOOTPRINTS OF CHARLTON HESTON:

ARE WILLIE AND APOCALYPSE SOON RELATED ?

The scientific consensus suggests our current and projected levels of global meat production are not just unsustainable but apocalyptic. 

the modern meat supply chain is at the center of a cluster of global risks, increasing the likelihood of zoonotic pandemics, driving deforestation that destroys our last remaining carbon sinks, and weakening the power of our antibiotics.

Powerful and enforced regulation and supply management can close down slaughterhouses; new products can’t…

Alt-protein boosterism is, fundamentally, a capital- and capitalism-friendly approach—

Meat has cultural value in many societies; people don’t only love it because they love sin or violence or blood or patriarchy. 

We have to start shutting down factory farms like they’re coal plants and crude oil pipelines, and ultimately ration production. We should justify these rations on the grounds of humanity’s survival.

The Environmental Protection Agency, the Agriculture Department, the White House, Congress—all can begin to limit livestock production today…

To stop consuming world-ending quantities of meat, we have to limit its production... rather than capitulate to suicidal optimism.

Charlie Hope-D’Anieri is an independent reporter based in Baltimore.

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MONCKTON: NET ZERO MAY COST FIFTY TRILLION SHIRTS

 NOW FOR A WORD FROM 

THE FORMER CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER'S SHIRTMAKER:

Quietly, for several years, a leading geometallurgist at a national geological survey somewhere in the West has been working out how much of each techno-metal would be needed to attain net-zero emissions.

I must not say who he or she is, for the blanket of the dark is descending, and those who are quietly doing serious work that questions the official narrative the climate question are persecuted beyond endurance if they put their heads above the parapet. 

Indeed, a leading conference on climate change from a skeptical perspective has just written to tell me that its next session will be held in secret because the Government in question would otherwise be likely to ban it.

The geometallurgist has produced a 1000-page paper setting out, with detailed calculations, just how many megatonnes of techno-metals will be needed to attain net zero. Based on those calculations, I have looked up the prices of just seven of the techno-metals in question – lithium, copper, nickel, cobalt, vanadium, graphite and germanium:

Monckton of Brenchley

Reply to Carlo, Monte

 WUWT November 3, 2022 9:32 pm

Monte Carlo’s interesting comment mentions the IEEE paper costing global net zero at $250 trillion. That estimate is well below McKinseys’, which is $275 trillion in capex alone. 

Allowing for opex too, make that more like $800 trillion. 

As the head posting shows, just seven of the techno-metals required to attain global net zero would cost $160 trillion – and that is at today’s prices.

 Given that we need up to 30 times as much of these metals as the entire proven global reserves just to supply a single 10-year generation of windmills, solar panels static batteries to back up the unreliables and locomotive batteries to drive the astronomically costly electric buggies that the Blob will require us to drive instead of real cars, and given the unrepealability of the law of supply and demand, it is likely that the cost of techno-metals alone, for a single 10-year generation of these fragile and useless gadgets, would comfortably exceed $1 quadrillion.

Though  Christopher Monckton has contributed nothing to science, held no office of state, and been denied a seat in the House of Lords, he remains a worthy liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Broderers, and his powers of embroidery are as evident in his shirts as his mightily padded padded resume'. 

In 1996,  I did not realize that Monckton of Brenchley was the one on my shirt collars, but their endurance proves climate balderdashery's gain has been haberdashery's loss.
Let us wish him a swift return to his true calling as a Liveryman of the Honorable Company of Broderers.