Saturday, 2 December 2023

Channel Four: the Great Climate Fight

Channel four is up to its old tricks.
V0.1 03dec23 
https://poelposition.blogspot.com/2023/12/channel-four-great-climate-fight.html

The Great Climate Fight currently on C4 is a "mockumentary" dramatization of the opinions of a number of C4 eco-icons including Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall and Kevin McLeod. Pus some new kid on the block called "Oobah Butler". Of course he is....

C4 has form when it comes to campaigning social engineering and the promotion of selected sanctimonious viewpoints by passionate program makers who have long since been encouraged to subscribe to the view that the end justifies the means.

The main thrust of the show was to promote onshore wind farms and criticized the government for preventing their adoption. Since the program went into production, the revelation that there is no commercial interest in the economics of our current wind farm strategy, and of course there is a cold snap (Dec 23) at the moment in which there is negligible contribution to the energy requirement because there is, inconveniently, no wind...

Climateers are not generally party people, they tend to be dour doomsters. So let's have a cheery reminder of Martin Durkin's 2007 landmark C4 Dispatches program about the great global warming swindle. Of course, Channel 4 has tried to disown this - and the doomsters set about a detailed analysis and gleefully found a couple of minor errors - so now judge for yourself ...


The best part of the saga following the reaction to his 2007 C4 Dispatches programme, which questioned the anthropogenic "carbon" climate mantra, is when producer Martin Durkin explores the broader agenda of cultural Fascism in a follow-up 2022 discussion.  
Durkin also discusses how cancel activism is connected and coordinated via a "cultural Fascism" network that is desperate to avoid debating the possibility there is more to climate than carbon. 

Be prepared to rethink a lot of the nonsense you have been fed in recent times. 


More usefully, a Jim Steele tweet makes a solid case for detailed consideration of the role of jet streams in climate. These topics are barely considered by most carbon cultists., but a jet stream is the nearest thing that we have to real-time climate intervention by nature, and are worthy of much closer study and appreciation.


Once again, Channel 4 has produced an excellent piece of propaganda without properly questioning the assumptions and assertions made in favour of its arguments - and relies on dismissive criticism of an unpopular government to whip the audience along with indignation.

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