The Lifeboat News
[ Message Archive | The Lifeboat News ]

    #climatescam trending Archived Message

    Posted by Ian M on July 24, 2023, 2:06 pm

    Apparently the latest gotcha was the European Space Agency forecasting heatwave temperatures based on ground level temps rather than the usual measurement of air temps 2m above the ground:

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/19/europes-48c-horror-that-never-wasesa-media-sharply-criticized-for-manipulative-reporting/

    Had a look around to see if there had been a rebuttal, but none that I could find so maybe it's true. However that doesn't invalidate the rest of the 40+ degree measurements that have been recorded across southern Europe over the last week or so, which are hotter than expected, eg:


    https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/science-blog/2023/european-heatwave-july-2023

    (nb: that is the 2m air temp)

    Still, there seems to have been an uptick in denial on t'interwebs and generally, with lots of narrative links to the 'plandemic' etc, as you might expect. Dore has picked up on it, though for the moment his emphasis is on distrust of how govts are using the issue to further their control rather than outright denial:





    ML said that 'Probably 70% of responses to our last alert on climate change were from deniers.' - https://nitter.moomoo.me/medialens/status/1681247473438695424#m And look at all the ignorant invective under Monbiot's tweet about it: https://nitter.moomoo.me/i/status/1680933171091628037 (not that I'll be a shedding a tear for him of course).

    Graun had an article at the start of the year blaming Musk's opposition to censorship and saying that climate scientists were leaving twitter for mastodon because of the 'surge in climate misinformation, spam and even threats' (no examples provided of the latter) - https://web.archive.org/web/20230112182102/https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/02/climate-change-denialism-flooding-twitter-scientists

    Part of the rise might be due to bots and troll farms, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's also representative of a groundswell of opposition to climate science and govts who pay lip service to it but never actually do anything to reign in the fossil fuel industry that is the primary cause. Some of the criticism is justified, eg: the use of fear to enact regressive or authoritarian policies, as happened during covid and, well, every time govts have tried to push through unpopular things since the dawn of civilisation. But the tide of irrationalism pushing outright rejection of decades of scientific research, and now even the evidence of peoples' own senses, is ... pretty troubling (says the master of understatement).

    I

    Message Thread: