{"id":332791,"date":"2024-06-14T07:26:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T05:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=332791"},"modified":"2024-06-14T07:26:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T05:26:05","slug":"bbc-hails-green-election-letter-from-408-climate-scientists-signed-by-psychologists-accountants-and-landscape-designers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=332791","title":{"rendered":"BBC Hails Green Election Letter From \u201c408 Climate Scientists\u201d Signed by Psychologists, Accountants and Landscape Designers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0CHRIS MORRISON<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An open letter<\/a> to all political leaders currently fighting a General Election in the U.K. calling for an \u201cambitious\u201d programme of green policies has been signed by 408 climate activists. The BBC refers to \u201cthe most distinguished of the country\u2019s<\/a>\u201d climate scientists; Bob Ward, who organised the petition through the billionaire-funded Grantham operation, tweeted<\/a>, \u201cbe ambitious on climate, scientists urge parties\u201d, while James \u2018the climate clock is ticking\u2019 Murray from Business Green<\/em> stepped up a gear by referring to \u201ctop scientists<\/a>\u201c. Scientists, you say? The first \u2018scientist\u2019 in the alphabetical list is an Associate Professor of Accounting, the second is a geographer specialising in \u201cdisaster risk reduction\u201d, while the third is an archaeologist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The green Grantham stunt is of course the latest in a long line of attempts to suggest that most \u2018scientists\u2019 believe humans control the climate. The letter refers to \u201cgrowing damage to lives and livelihoods\u201d in the U.K. caused by increases in the frequency and intensity of many extreme weather events. This evidence-lite but ubiquitous assertion is not even backed up by the UN\u2019s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which finds there has been no human involvement in most natural events such as floods, droughts, wildfires and cyclones to date. Nor is human involvement detected in forecasts stretching to 2100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are some academics who have signed the letter who can be fairly described as scientists, but the vast majority would struggle to justify such a title. The list is littered with lawyers, psychologists, philosophers, landscape designers, engineers and computer modellers. One interesting take from the letter is to note how many ways a university Geography Department can be renamed to capitalise on the climate zeitgeist.  A similar \u2018scientists\u2019 stunt was pulled last month by Damian Carrington in the Guardian<\/em>, who polled 400 so-called scientists and in an ocean of emotional guff<\/a> concluded the world is heading towards a \u201csemi dystopian\u201d future. Signed up for both agitprop operations is Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh, who is described as the Director for U.K. Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformation. A more enlightening CV might note that she is an \u201cenvironmental psychologist\u201d whose first degree was in theology and religious studies with French.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps Marco Silva, the BBC Verify climate \u2018disinformation\u2019 specialist, could cast a critical eye over the Ward letter when he returns at the end of the month from his six-month re-education sabbatical<\/a> at the billionaire-funded Oxford Climate Journalism Network (OCJN). One or two signing names might be familiar to him, including Saffron O\u2019Neill, described as a Professor of \u201cClimate and Society\u201d. She is a past speaker at the OCJN and is noted for speculating on the need for \u201cfines and imprisonment\u201d for expressing scepticism about \u201cwell supported\u201d science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would any scientist seriously sign up for such a policy knowing that it would destroy the ongoing scientific process? A process, it might be noted, that has served humanity so well, certainly since the time Pope Urban VIII played the \u2018well supported\u2019 argument and cut up rough with Galileo and his heretical view that the Earth orbited the Sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ward letter is a Grantham operation and is ultimately funded by the green billionaire investor Jeremy Grantham. Two Grantham Institutes are funded at the London School of Economics and Imperial, where a computer model \u2018attribution\u2019 operation is used to garner headlines with implausible claims<\/a> that humans have caused individual weather events. Investigate science journalist Ben Pile has tracked some of the major contributions<\/a> made by Grantham up to 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As well as significant sums paid to LSE and Imperial, there are major contributions dispersed to other green foundations that crop up all the time when there are global Net Zero collectivisation narratives to be spun in the media, politics and academia. Jeremy Grantham has a long track record of preaching about the coming apocalypse, asking a 2019 meeting in Copenhagen, \u201cwhat should I do, you say?\u201d He met his rhetorical question by advising:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You should lobby your Government officials \u2013 invest in an election and buy some politicians<\/a>. I am happy to say we do quite a bit of that at the Grantham Foundation\u2026 any candidate as long as they are green.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Ward is employed by Grantham at LSE to \u201ccommunicate\u201d climate science, notes journalist Matt Ridley<\/a>. For years he complained to the newspaper industry\u2019s self-regulator IPSO about climate articles that took a sceptical line. It was part of a campaign of \u201csustained and deliberate\u201d pressure put on editors to toe the alarmist line, states Ridley. Ward tied journalists down in a time-consuming process in the hope it deterred them and their editors from writing and commissioning work. It worked, observed Ridley, noting, \u201che has frightened away some journalists and editors from the vital topic of climate change, leaving the catastrophists with a clear field to scare children to their heart\u2019s content\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is the<\/em> Daily Sceptic\u2019s<\/em> Environment Editor.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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