Sceptic of human-caused climate disturbance theories painted as a right-wing pantomime villain by ‘how dare they’ activist type. Seeking as usual to avoid true debate, e.g. on the repeated failure of alarmist predictions, by resorting to irrelevant caricatures. The fact Sky News invited a sceptic at all suggests awareness that ignoring them has not worked, and the public is by no means all on board with media propaganda.
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SKY News has been criticised for arguing “both sides” on climate change after the Met Office said 2023 had been the second warmest year for the UK since records began in 1884, reports The National (Scotland).
In a segment on the news, presenter Kay Burley spoke to writer James Woudhuysen and activist Zoe Cohen from Just Stop Oil about the issue.
Cohen used her time on air to rip into bosses at Sky for platforming Woudhuysen, who questioned whether the statistics from the Met Office were accurate, claiming they were “very difficult to believe”.
He told Burley: “How can one be sure that what is touted as the hottest period since God knows when really is that?
“It’s very difficult to believe the statistics deduced about global temperatures so long ago are really credible.”
Woudhuysen regularly writes for right-wing publication Spiked and has appeared on GB News and TalkTV.
Cohen said in response: “Kay, what I have to say to you and your audience and the people upstairs that are in your ear, the people in power in Sky, is I cannot believe you are platforming this gentleman.
“He makes his living for working for TalkTV, GB News and writing for a publication called Spiked. All of these channels are funded by oil interests.
“What I’m seeing here is Sky, that claims to actively be one of the leaders in talking about the climate reality, is actually platforming someone who makes their living out of writing for these platforms that are fundamentally funded by climate denial and oil interests.”
Full report here.
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Zoe Cohen: “We’ve known it for 150 years. We know that the people in power know full well that what they are doing will drive mass death”.
Dear Zoe, when will this ‘mass death’ happen? I see no signs of it. You should know, after all, you claim that crossing the 1.5C line will be disastrous, and you seem to project when that will be. So, when we do cross the line and no mass deaths happen, will you finally SHUT UP, or will you continue to bellyache, claiming you were just given the wrong date, that it’ll be in another 10 years time, and you’re definitely right this time?
An English councillor complains sceptics are ‘without a hypothesis’, but the null hypothesis i.e. natural climate variation is the standard. Opponents have to show why humans have overthrown it, if that’s what they think.
Pointing to severe weather events may keep them busy, but doesn’t prove anything as history is littered with them.
sorry correct link
The first tweet in Sky’s thread says
“What makes you so confident that you’re right about the world being hotter now?” – author @jameswoudhuysen
“I’m not even going to dignify that with an actual response.” – Just Stop Oil spokesperson @ZoeatShine
https://trib.al/Rx0iR33
She did respond, but didn’t answer the question
her tweet tagging in all her gang, prompted them to pile in saying “Oh he has no climate qualifications he shouldn’t be allowed on TV”
As he said on the prog, he does have a degree in Physics.
It’s interesting ploy trying to deplatform people using the Fallacy of Argument from Authority.
TV activist Jim Dale and his mates are so fond of doing it and sneering.
Now of course we know expertise can come from experience rather than academic qualifications.
But Dale himself has little formal qualifications. He didn’t go to university, but rather went into the navy, but never mentions what rank he left with. His only known qualification is a certificate in Meteorological Observation which was probably a six month course after he’d served a few years as a rating.
Jim Dale was on with them Paul Burgess on the Nana Akua show not very long ago. Dale asserted that storms we were receiving were caused by the warm seas are operating which of course at this latitude is garbage this only happens in tropical regions. Storms at UK latitude are extratropical storms which get their energy from differing layers of air so it she understands nothing of technical substance as regards the weather, and certainly has no understanding or even a mental concept of what the long-term global average is. Faced with a data from authoritative sources he simply turns to ad hom abuse and denial. A total tosser. As bad as Doughnut McCarthy but thicker. Doesn’t have a clue who Richard Feynman was, etc. A walking catalogue of extreme events du jour, no idea of their significance in a global context. He even tells others to join the dots when that is exactly, and obviously, what he cannot do. Hard or irony? Thick as brick. Definitely hard of any science. Good with a rope and bucket?
It’s possible that DDZ Dale, Donut and Zoe are not free operators, but puppets for PR operations like CarbonBrief
Stanley Johnson is sometimes brought on … he always seems to find the Chinese government are doing the right thing
From Tom Nelson’s ‘Notes for climate skeptics’…
Big picture stuff: Climate scam believers typically embrace several key assumptions:
1. The Earth is currently too hot.
2. We are experiencing a “climate crisis”.
3. The weather is getting worse.
4. CO2 is the climate control knob.
5. Climate science is “basic physics”.
6. Almost all “experts” believe in items 1-5 above.
Every one of those assumptions is wrong. The average person is perfectly capable of becoming a well-informed climate skeptic; there is absolutely no need to defer to the alleged judgment of “experts”.
https://tomn.substack.com/p/notes-for-climate-skeptics