{"id":410750,"date":"2025-10-28T17:21:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=410750"},"modified":"2025-10-28T17:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:21:45","slug":"guardian-ramps-up-efforts-to-ban-all-climate-dissent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=410750","title":{"rendered":"Guardian Ramps Up Efforts to Ban All Climate Dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Chris Morrison<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No green activist operation makes clearer why they need to ban free speech and cancel scientific debate to achieve Net Zero hegemony than the Guardian<\/em> newspaper. Last Saturday, we learnt from its Environment Editor Damian Carrington that campaigners had said the UK\u2019s TV and radio regulator Ofcom was allowing GB News and others to \u2018flout\u201d accuracy rules and broadcast \u201cclimate change denial<\/a>\u201d, whatever that last phrase means. Carrington noted in response to frequent suggestions of inaccuracy in UN climate models going back to 1979, that, \u201cin fact, UN climate models have been remarkably accurate\u201d. How Carrington, one of three journalists of the year<\/a> in 2023 at the Green Blob-funded Covering Climate Now<\/em>, can write this with a straight face is anyone\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Net Zero is dead in the United States and there has been a welcome revival of the scientific process that has killed off the ridiculous notion that a science opinion can somehow be \u2018settled\u2019. The recent official climate report<\/a> from the US Department of Energy noted that climate models are the primary tool used to project future change in response to higher levels of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. \u201cOf great concern is the fact that after several decades of the climate modelling enterprise\u2026 the range of future warming they produce in response to a hypothetical doubling of CO2<\/sub> extends over a factor three.\u201d This range of disagreement has not decreased for decades, the five eminent science authors add.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tittle-tattling Reliable Media<\/em> is behind the GB News campaign and, egged on by Guardian <\/em>Central, the anti-science desperation is clear. One GB News contributor described climate change as \u201crubbish\u2019. Another described it as a \u201cscam\u201d, an opinion recently expressed at the United Nation\u2019s General Assembly by the elected President of the US Government. It might be thought that the scientific process can withstand a few harsh words, but Reliable Media<\/em> is outraged. It charges that Ofcom has \u201ceffectively suspended its accuracy rules on this life-and-death issue\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carrington finds room for reporting the fine of \u00a317,000 levied recently by the French equivalent state broadcast regulator Arcom on the centre-Right TV channel CNews. In this case a  contributor had dared to air<\/a> the opinion that climate change was \u201ca lie, a scam\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The French complaint was made by the activist Eva Morel from QuotaClimat<\/em>. She stated that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When the media blur the line between facts and opinions, it doesn\u2019t lead people to trust in alternative truths; it leads them to trust in nothing at all. Sowing doubt about climate science serves to obstruct climate action and it endangers lives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In an excellent article<\/a> in Watts Up With That?,<\/em> Eric Worrall pointed out that the problem with enforced agreement on the \u2018facts\u2019 is that in science, \u201cthere is no such thing as a fact which cannot be challenged\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ofcom rules specifically note that an example of an issue which it considers to be broadly settled is the \u201cscientific principles behind the theory of anthropogenic global warming\u201d. This is plainly anti-science. For a start, the scale of human-caused global warming is a scientific hypothesis (opinion), not a validated theory. Ofcom\u2019s claim is a political notion concocted by state bureaucrats who obviously have little understanding of the language of science and the way it actually works. In fact, Ofcom seems vaguely aware of the stupidity that lies behind its fashionable claim. Carrington reports that it has received 1,221 complaints related to the \u2018climate crisis\u2019 since January 2020 and none had resulted in a ruling that the broadcasting code had been breached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worrall is withering in his concluding assessment of the shenanigans of activists seeking to quash dissenting scientific voices in public spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My point is, to declare some facts are beyond challenges, especially \u2018facts\u2019 produced by artefacts as flimsy as climate models, is to strike at the foundations of freedom of expression and scientific inquiry. Forcing broadcasters to embrace a uniform, government-approved version of unassailable facts, then claiming they somehow have freedom of expression, is utter nonsense.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Reliable Media<\/em> is a grubby little hard-Left operation. Few details of its finances and funding are available since it was formed as a limited-by-guarantee company to take forward the \u2018Just Stop Hate\u2019 and \u2018Just Stop Heat\u2019 campaigns. It claims that it is making \u201cclimate change denial unprofitable<\/a>\u201d, and it does this by seeking to destroy the ability of free speech media operations such as the increasingly successful GB News to attract advertisers. If this is its aim, it presumably has good legal advice, although its latest filed accounts to June 2024 suggest money might be tight. A sum of \u00a3107,940 is said to be held as cash at bank, but an identical sum is set aside for creditors due within one year. Whatever its financial position, its activities resemble those of the class sneak, running off to teacher to blub about the bigger boys, those who are more confident and entrepreneurial, better at sports and more successful with the girls. As the brilliant comedy song writer Dominic Frisby sang<\/a>, maybe jokingly, in his composition about ways to stop freaks like Ed Miliband: \u201cWe need to bring back school bullying.\u201d Science, he adds, is only discovering the value of it now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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