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Mar 17Liked by Tom Ed

Science should not advance via consensus, anyway. Those pushing the anti-CO2 campaign changed the paradigm from evidence-based science to group-think science, following the crowd science and being dishonest to have a career science. Now we are disempowered, and those wielding the propaganda baton are more powerful - till the 'climate' legislation is repealed. We have to demand the repeal of all 'climate' legislation.

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Mar 17Liked by Tom Ed

It really annoys me when someone, especially a politician, says "but Net Zero is written into the Law". Well simple; just bloody UNWRITE it, preferably before we all go over the cliff!

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I know. Who is going to prosecute an entire country, and if we refuse to pay up then was? They invade us and force us to destroy more countryside with wind farms at gunpoint..??!!

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Mar 18Liked by Tom Ed

Exactly! I'm currently involved in an email exchange with Buckinghamshire Council about their ridiculous Net Zero policy. They are trying to bat away my questions with points like:

"Regarding your second point around our own plans to reduce the council’s carbon emissions, our Climate Change and Air Quality Strategy is aligned with current UK legislation (Climate Change Act 2008), which legislates both a Net Zero carbon target (section 1) and the calculation and use of carbon budgets (section 4). "

I replied asking how the farmers in the county felt about there being no beef and lamb production after 2030 (according to the Cambridge FIRES report commissioned by the government asking how Net Zero was to be achieved). They promised me a reply, but they've now gone quiet. Think I'll send them this article with a chaser email.

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Well done Bettina, the problem with the faceless bureaucracies like Buckinghamshire Council is that they are just following orders. There's no independent thought. it's al trickle down as fact from above, opinion and views from below (us) are not considered valid. But keep it up!

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I know we all feel small and powerless but I remember thinking as I stood at 'Vote Leave' stalls in random High Streets receiving abuse from passers-by and trudging around leafletting for the same cause (and feeling great sympathy for postmen daily battling vicious and awkwardly placed letterboxes) that if we all throw a small stone into the lake of lies, eventually the water is displaced.

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Mar 18Liked by Tom Ed

Bettina, well done for taking the issue to the actual authority. Tell them about the absorption of CO2 issue:

https://www.brugesgroup.com/blog/more-carbon-dioxide-cannot-absorb-more-infrared-radiation

and that all 'climate' legislation should be repealed as it is based on nonsense and a (deliberately ?) harmful plan to de-industrialize, depopulate and rewild.

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Mar 18Liked by Tom Ed

Thanks for that - I've saved it to my 'ammunition' folder. I think we could all make a difference by challenging our local councils when they spout nonsense. It is pointless writing to our MPs - they are all party apparatchiks who simply do as they're told by their globalist leaders.

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Mar 18Liked by Tom Ed

All the best. Have you heard of the Together Declaration? They work at the local level and offer support. They are behind many of the anti-LEZ demonstrations.

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Mar 18Liked by Tom Ed

Yes, I have a monthly donation going to them and go to their events 👍🏻

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good call!

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Mar 18Liked by Tom Ed

Absolutely. So many of our politicians are cowards; used to being dicatated to (by the EU and their own civil servants.)

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it's a good point. They don't think for themselves.

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Rather brilliantly put. That's exactly it. Group think and if you challenge the paradigm then into the desert you are banished.

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Mar 18Liked by Tom Ed

Here here. Cattle farmers in Oz slaughtered large portions of their herd last year, because the weather bureau forecast a hot and dry summer - amplified by the media into a another dire climate catastrophe. Prices dropped to $650 a head, from $1300 in two weeks. Instead, Oz has had above average rainfall and a very wet summer. Farmers are mightily or rightfully pissed off. Even on the apple weather app, a 30 degree day is cast red with the notation "Extreme heat". More brain washing.

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It is becoming more blatant with the current difficulties Boeing are facing. Failures of quality are showing up with possible bad consequences and people are falling over the intricacies of processes looking for when certain steps weren’t followed.

But is anyone standing back and looking at the underlying premise that you can only do such inspections and tests because you have a robust quality process ethos? Even if you failed to follow it you know in principle how precise source measurements are and when modelling is used how tightly the uncertainties are kept.

But try that with climate data. The source temperatures have systematic errors of at least 1 degree C at best. The Met Office even state this in their papers. So they assume all errors are random and then push out a purely hypothetical temperature are real. For real world consequences.

Take a minute. Think about Boeing and what’s being asked of them as a minimum.

Now look at climate science again and see if they are the same picture.

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Mar 27Liked by Tom Ed

Climate emergency… Covid emergency… banking crisis: funny how it all ends up with the State assuming ever more control over every aspect of your life. Those crazy conspiracists might be forgiven for thinking they’re all part of the same playbook.

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Incredible. But clearly it's all coincidence. We're coincidence theorists really. Global problem requires global solution. Thanks fr dropping by and commenting Damien. Tom

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Many thanks for your post. I would have thought nowadays people would say the government is the prime cause of depression!

As regards 'follow the science' the phrase itself gives the clues as to the problems with it.

https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/follow-the-science

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I think there’s no question that government creates depression . It’s a good point . They want us weakened and on a low frequency. It makes it easier for them to step in with the ‘answers’. As if they have any!

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Great essay. Some more statistical questions: what % of MSM journalists are group thinkers? What % of scientists are group thinkers?.... and what % of humanity are group thinkers?

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Well that's a good point - the group doesn't think. Even therapists on a podcast I was listening to seem completely unaware that when they're talking about fascism, they are buying into the idea that the 'other' is bad, which is exactly what they are proposing should be addressed!

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A very nice piece of “climate change” mockery, especially in linking the climate change scam to the Covid-19 pandemic scam. The general public will surely soon awaken to realise that they are being horribly abused: https://metatron.substack.com/p/we-are-being-horribly-abused-by-lies.

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I'm not holding my breath, Douglas. Thank you for your comment and for reading. Best wishes, (I'll also check out your substack). Tom

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Mar 17Liked by Tom Ed

An excellent read - thankyou 👏🏻

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thank you Glenn, that's appreciated and thank you for taking the time to comment, best wishes, Tom

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Absolutely lovely stuff Tom.

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That's very kind of you. Thank you.

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Pre pandemonium I was totally sucked in to the 97% BS. I had even done a MOOC called Denial 101 on how to debunk "climate deniers". On that course I met a teaching assistant (BW) who put me onto Citizens' Climate Lobby Australia and for a few years I lobbied politicians. I should thank BW, because it was she who woke me up to the climate scam: during the "get-jabbed-for-the-greater-good" bombardment, I discovered her on FB talking about "inoculating" people against "misinformation" about the "vaccines" - sprung! And I discovered that the Denial 101 originator (one of the sources of the 97% meme) was now, amazingly! designing computer games to "pre-bunk" "misinformation" about all-and-sundry subjects. WOW! If they were professional PsyOppers on the shot Narrative...what else had they lied about? Well and truly turned this climate activist on her head!

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