Over half British adults claim to be ‘very concerned’ about climate change.
According to an Ipsos MORI poll conducted for the London Evening Standard, 85 percent are ‘concerned’ and 52 percent ‘very concerned’. And the figures are going up.
According to MSN:
The proportion of people who are “very concerned” about climate change has jumped to a record 52 percent, up from just 18 percent five years ago.
More than half of women, 55 percent, now express such deep alarm, compared with 48 percent of men.
Nearly three-quarters of Britons believe the country is already feeling the effects of climate change — up from 61 percent in 2017, 55 percent in 2014 and 41 percent in 2010.
What does this tell us about the stupidity of our age?
It tells us – if those figures can be trusted – that parts of the West are now in the grip of the kind of mass hysteria more usually associated with millennial doomsday cults.
Britain has been brainwashed by a weird and sinister green religion.
A nation of 63 million supposedly educated, rational people want to don hair shirts, flagellate themselves, despoil their landscape, sacrifice their elderly, reject prosperity, frighten their children and embrace austerity for no better reason than that they’ve been gulled by a handful of false prophets.
False Prophets
St. Greta of Thunberg, the visionary pigtailed Girl Child who can see “carbon” like the kid in The Sixth Sense can see dead people.
Sir David Attenborough, the whispery voiced, gorilla-hugging, walrus-murdering Malthusian.
and, most scarily, at the extreme wing of the movement,
Gaunt, wild-eyed, and utterly terrifying Roger Hallam – aka Climate Charles Manson – who co-founded Extinction Rebellion.
Hallam – and if you haven’t seen this you should for it gives you an idea what a menace we’re up against – can be seen here on the BBC, intoning with grim sincerity his doomsday guff:
“People are angry. People are in a rage. People don’t want their kids to die.”
No one wants their kids to die, I think we can all agree on that.
But it’s a very, very long stretch indeed to extrapolate from that point of common agreement that therefore we need to deindustrialize our economy, give kids a worse standard of living than their parents, ration travel, put key political decisions in the hands of citizens committees like the ones in the French revolutionary Terror, kill free speech, drive up the cost of energy, ruin the countryside with bird-chomping, bat-slicing eco-crucifixes and cede the global economy to countries that don’t give a damn about this fake-green-hysteria nonsense such as India and China and Brazil and, currently, thank heaven, Trump’s USA.
How, in heaven’s name, did a sensible, down-to-earth people like the British fall for this nonsense?
Signs and Wonders
Religions need evidence to ‘prove’ they are real. For Christians, this took the form of the miracles performed by Jesus or later worked by martyrs and saints.
For Greenies, it consists of vaguely plausible nonsense plucked from thin air, embellished and turd-polished by demagogues like the BBC’s house environmental activist Roger Harrabin and made real through constant repetition in the mainstream media.
The fact that more Britons than ever are “very concerned” about climate change represents the triumph of propaganda over evidence.
Nothing has happened in the last five years to strengthen the case for catastrophic anthropogenic warming theory.
On the contrary, more and more scientists are producing papers expressing skepticism in CAGW – with many of these arguing that solar activity, not the beneficial, planet-greening trace gas CO2, is the primary driver of climate change.
The public has been worn down not by “the science” or anything recognizable as a hard fact, but by the constant repetition of emotive imagery (emaciated polar bears; calving glaciers; floods; cracked, parched earth; etc) invariably presented wrapped in a false prospectus marked “climate change.”
Let’s just remind ourselves once more:
- There is no evidence — beyond repeatedly debunked and falsified computer models — to suggest that recent global warming is catastrophic, unprecedented or significantly man-made.
- Even if we could decide what the world’s ideal temperature is, there is no evidence that mankind has access to a knob that can control it — nor one that wouldn’t end up doing more harm than good.
- Not a cent of the $1.5 trillion (plus) per annum currently being spent funding the Climate Industrial Complex is having any measurable effect on combating climate change.
- Regardless of what we do in the West, India, and China are committed to increasing their carbon dioxide emissions rapidly in a way that will dwarf any puny decarbonization measures adopted unilaterally by Western economies. And those Western economies that do decarbonize won’t include Trump’s U.S. or Bolsonaro’s Brazil, which will make gestures like Britain’s net-zero carbon promise even more pointless and self-defeating.
Corrupt, credulous, cynical Establishment
Just like in the old days when the Church was at its most powerful, the Establishment attaches itself to the prevailing religion for a number of reasons, ranging from superstition, gullibility, and piety to greed to a desire to accommodate itself with the fashionable currents of the age.
We see this now with our politicians, our royalty and our Wankerati: none dares question the new religion – and many ostentatiously prostrate themselves before it.
History, I believe, is going to judge some members of our Establishment very harshly for endorsing this toxic, anti-scientific, economically catastrophic, environmentally damaging drivel when they could have done the responsible thing and spoken out against it.
No, Michael Gove, it was not big and clever for a Conservative minister in a Conservative government to appoint a hard-left activist from the furthermost fringes of green lunacy – Greenie Tony Juniper – in charge of the quango responsible for the English countryside.
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No, Prince Harry, it is absolutely not the job of a minor royal with a fairly low IQ to go round the world – barefoot or otherwise – lecturing people that they are killing the planet largely on the basis of some crap you picked up second hand from your silly old woman of a Dad.
Indulgences
Weird, isn’t it, that when we study Chaucer at school we’re encouraged to have a good old literary laugh at the corruption and credulousness that he was satirizing in the Medieval church?
For example, we learn that in the Middle Ages it was common for the rich to buy redemption from purgatory and bribe their way into heaven by paying con-men for “indulgences.”
But wait: isn’t this exactly what is happening with carbon offsets?
Sir Elton John – bless! – claims it’s really OK for Harry and Princess Meghan to have flown by private jet (their fourth such trip in 11 days) to his South of France palace because he paid for their carbon offsets.
This — as someone joked on Twitter — is like buying your wife a mink coat but then making a donation to PETA.
The Apocalypse
Meanwhile, in the real world, the Day of Reckoning approaches. But it’s not climate extinction that need trouble us – no evidence whatsoever for this; ain’t going to happen.
Rather, its the chaos and expense and misery which will inevitably be caused by the hideously counterproductive measures we are taking to ‘combat’ the non-existent problem of climate change.
The blackout that brought parts of Britain to a standstill one day earlier this month is but a taste of things to come.
Heretics
Why aren’t more people speaking out against this nonsense? Because the penalties for doing so are severe: mockery, ostracism, loss of career. There is even talk of making “climate denialism” a criminal offense.
In short, welcome to the new religion…
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What do you expect the BBC , ABC , CBC are all propaganda arms of their respective countries ? Bought and paid for or else .
10 ,000 fuel poverty deaths per year in the UK and the BBC is still the organ grinder . Conspiracy to commit mass genocide as a population control strategy .
Well done … well done .
These freaks won’t have to worry about the children. Gays and lesbians are incapable of breeding. Are these morons going to actually destroy the world? Yep, because we let them act like that. Lets give them what they want. A real showdown.
The current AGW agenda taken up by politicians and others is well summed up by Jung, who knew a thing or two about human nature: “Socio-political delusional systems”. Usually driven by the power complex. The BBC has actually issued instructions to its staff that the matter of AGW is now agreed, so no debate is now to be put forward. Thus betraying its own Charter. We have to pay for it, literally.
The thing that may save the USA is the bastions of Liberal ideologues are crumbling and the silent majority are starting to get angry and involved .
Places like San Francisco and LA are rapidly going down and people don’t want a similar train wreck coming to their place .
Some comparison to the rise of the Nazi movement in Germany is in order. The Nazi’s had two good points on their side. One, their army was still standing when the armistice was declared. Through the army was on the edge of collapse, this gave the impression that they were betrayed. Second, the Treaty of Versailles was so incredibly unfair that the American ambassador said that Germany had no choice but to raise again. Now we have Britain embracing an economy and lifestyle destroying course of action to solve a problem that has no real science to back it. The Britain’s are being stupider than the Germans were in the 1930’s.
So how soon will they start persicuting the Climate Skeptics and the so called Climate Crinimal’s I mean Robert Kennedy Jr who belongs to some Eco-Freak group THE WATER KEEPERS ALLIANCE who wants the so called Climate Crinimal’s treated like War Crinimal’s and who tried to take away a a Microphone of a Conservative Reporter
With the earth has a fever pounded into them since they were toddlers no wonder they are gift wrapped cannon fodder for the next cause rich rent seekers wish to dispose them in .
I do think there are way more who are not drinking the cool aid, so there is hope .
The problem with these polls is that most skeptics do not participate. We have jobs. We don’t answer calls from numbers we do not recognize, and we throw away junk mail. Who has the time?
Only zealots who “believe” the world is coming to an end because of our oilriginal sin would bother with this tripe. The fraudulent Doran Survey is a perfect example of this, roughly 70% of those surveyed (supposedly concerned scientists) simply ignored the questions and tossed the survey.
It’s easier to agree.
So i suppose “bird chomping crucifix” is worse than ground pollution, contaminated aquifers, and earthquakes? Goggle fracking and Lancashire Preston New Road. Moron.