THE BBC has a Local weather Disinformation Unit. Maybe it ought to deal with a few of the BBC’s personal output!
Final month BBC Information grandly declared that it has been the driest begin to the 12 months in England since 1976, based mostly on figures to the top of June. The figures, they are saying, got here from the Met Workplace.
A fast verify of the Met Workplace’s knowledge, nevertheless, reveals the declare is faux; each 1996 and 2010 had drier begins to the 12 months:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/analysis/local weather/maps-and-data/uk-and-regional-series
Just a few days earlier, BBC Information printed a report on the agricultural disaster in Sri Lanka, titled ‘Sri Lanka’s tea farmers struggling to outlive’. As this column reported final month, harvests of tea and different crops have been devastated because the banning of imported chemical fertiliser final 12 months.
In keeping with the BBC: ‘Tea is the island’s greatest export, usually bringing in additional than $1bn a 12 months, however the trade is being exhausting hit by the unprecedented financial disaster.
‘Most of Sri Lanka’s tea is grown by smaller farmers, like Rohan Tilak Gurusinghe, who owns two acres of land near the village of Kadugunnawa. However he’s nonetheless reeling from the affect of a sudden, poorly thought-out authorities choice to ban chemical fertiliser final 12 months. “I’m dropping cash,” he tells the BBC despondently. “With out fertiliser or gas, I can’t even take into consideration the way forward for my enterprise.”
‘The ban, ordered to attempt to shield the nation’s dwindling overseas reserves, was one in all plenty of disastrous coverage selections carried out by the now-ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, with agricultural output falling considerably. ‘
The ban had nothing in any respect to do with ‘defending dwindling overseas reserves’, a nonsensical declare on condition that lack of tea exports has price the nation many billions extra in misplaced export earnings. It was a deliberate coverage choice by the President, as a part of his local weather change agenda. This was what he needed to say at COP26:
‘Nitrogen is an considerable aspect that’s important to the sustenance of all dwelling issues. Nevertheless, reactive nitrogen generated by human exercise and launched into ecosystems worsens local weather change. The overuse of chemical fertilisers has contributed considerably to this downside. It’s on this context that my Authorities took agency steps to scale back imports of chemical fertiliser, and strongly encourage natural agriculture.’
Clearly the truth that actions taken to struggle local weather change may be very expensive and damaging is one thing the BBC dares not point out, because it goes in opposition to its faith.
Just a few days later, the BBC printed one other article, written by one in all its Local weather Disinformation Unit, moaning that climate forecasters confronted ‘unprecedented trolling’ through the two days of maximum warmth final month. Listed below are some examples:
Let me be clear – any form of private trolling shouldn’t be acceptable. However the examples given by the BBC usually are not private criticism. Licence payers are totally entitled to provide their opinions on BBC programmes, and lots of will surely agree with the feelings, not least as a result of the BBC climate forecasters now always blame local weather change for each little bit of unhealthy climate. A few years in the past, the BBC’s senior administration took the choice to construct local weather change indoctrination into common programming, together with climate forecasts. It’s unsurprising that viewers are actually reacting.
The Kentucky floods weren’t brought on by local weather change, no matter they let you know
Proper on cue, the Local weather Institution has been out claiming that final week’s catastrophic floods in Kentucky had been linked to international warming.
For instance the Guardian, below the headline ‘Heatwaves are getting “extra harmful and lethal” from local weather change as catastrophic flash flooding leaves at the very least 28 folks useless’ reported: ‘Because the flash floods in Kentucky declare lives and proceed to depart behind a path of devastation, residents and officers within the state are more and more grappling with the expensive impacts of the local weather disaster. Earlier this week, the state noticed eight to 10 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour interval, marking what consultants are calling a 1-in-1,000 12 months rain occasion.’
Joe Biden visited the scene to advertise his new local weather laws.
As ever, the claims are garbage and fraudulent. The file 24-hour rainfall in Kentucky stands at greater than ten inches in 1997 so the 1-in-1,000 12 months declare is nonsense.
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/entry/monitoring/scec/information/all/maxp
Developments in excessive rainfall usually are not on the rise in Kentucky:
https://statesummaries.ncics.org/chapter/ky/
And heatwaves there are a lot much less excessive than they was once:
https://statesummaries.ncics.org/chapter/ky/
As is normally the case, the media interviews the locals, who understandably say ‘that is the worst now we have ever seen’. After all it’s, as a result of these are localised occasions, and folks’s expertise normally solely dates again a few a long time or so.
There are actually 1000’s of places within the US alone the place occasions like these can happen, so there will probably be some yearly on common.
The tough actuality, nevertheless, is that floods like these occur, and have at all times occurred, someplace or different yearly. They don’t have anything to do with local weather change.
Vitality use – the information that make nonsense of Internet Zero
EVERY 12 months, BP publish an in depth evaluation of worldwide vitality manufacturing and emissions. It’s broadly considered the world’s gold normal, and many of the knowledge comes from official sources.
Their newest evaluation reveals that vitality consumption has not but returned to pre-pandemic ranges, besides in China.
It appears a very long time in the past now, however within the UK we had been nonetheless in semi-lockdown till the summer time. Most of Europe and the US had been slower nonetheless in restoration. Unsurprisingly, CO2 emissions present an analogous sample, up by 5.6 per cent on 2020, however nonetheless barely beneath 2019:
In China, fossil gas consumption has elevated by 7.9 per cent since 2019, with coal, oil and gasoline utilization hitting new highs once more final 12 months, and with no signal of abating within the foreseeable future.
Fossil fuels now account for 82.7 per cent of China’s vitality, in contrast with a tiny 5.9 per cent from wind and solar energy.
Globally it’s a related image:
World Vitality Consumption
The concept that we are able to begin making important cuts in fossil gas consumption any time quickly shouldn’t be solely frankly absurd, however harmful nonsense too.
