COP26 latest: '10,000' in major Glasgow protest but Downing St criticises children who've skipped school to attend - as Prince Charles turns down invite
Latest COP26 updates as the fifth day of the UN climate summit in Glasgow discusses youth and public empowerment; Greta Thunberg is among thousands of protesters on a march; Prince Charles turns down invite to climate march as he reveals family motivation to his campaigning.
This is not about the climate, but about drawing young people into an artificial world. A world divorced from the real world presented to them by their senses and their own observations. The only climate changes they have ever seen are represented by night, day, spring, summer, autumn and winter.
Yet they are protesting in favour of political abstractions. An artificial media world they barely understand, not a world of wind and rain, snow, sunshine and changing seasons. It is not the climate they should fear but the attack on their future going on under the noses of their parents.
Zuckerberg's metaverse seems likely to take it much, much further.
Zuckerberg's metaverse seems likely to take it much, much further.
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Get Zuckers to dial the temperature down a bit in his metaverse and we can all live happily ever after.
On a broader level, AKH, have you seen this?
http://figures-of-speech.com/2021/11/three.htm
I thought it was admirably clear, and - precisely because I'm often bamboozled by science - would appreciate your thoughts if you have time.
Sam - that's a very useful link. Many people interested in the science will have seen it all before, but it is useful to have it in one link. In my view it is entirely sound, although naturally the climate faithful would dispute its validity.
The section beginning "Q: What caused the Minoan Warm Period?" is key and the point has been many times. We don't know what caused these warm periods nor why they came to an end. We don't know. Nobody knows.
It's why my perspective shifted from mainly scientific to mainly political. The science is fundamentally uncertain. Far too uncertain to sustain the official climate narrative and the uncertainties are so embarrassingly obvious. It isn't science it's politics. In fact I'd go further - I don't think it ever was about the science.
Many thanks for taking the time. Like you, I believe it is about the politics. I was trained in Political Science and Political Theory, and the signs are unmistakable; but I wondered whether there was some scientific certainty (or near-certainty) which I was missing. But it looks like uncertainty all the way down, and - as so often - people have constructed their certainties over that abyss. And the irony is that one might dedicate one's entire life to combatting warming, and one would still achieve absolutely nothing, given the scale of the "problem".
Thanks again. Much appreciated.
As AK says, with a physics degree and having followed the subject for twelve years, this accords with my views and is contrary to those of many of my friends and former work colleagues.
As they say we just have to 'grit our teeth' through all the ignorance and hype, cheered by the knowledge that nature cannot be gainsayed.
Oh - and my little act of defiance, buying a ton and a half of old fashioned house coal with which to mitigate the Government caused energy crisis.
SV: What that link's content proves to me is that COP26's profiteering hypocrites lie, fabricate and invent to their own advantage. Oh, hang on, most of the scum are politicians - no change there, then.
Sam - no problem - I've bookmarked it because it is a good summary. It is uncertainty all the way down, uncertainty which is big enough to accommodate significant global cooling.
Tammly - these days I don't often see the coal lorry delivering round here. Saw it quite frequently some years ago but maybe more people have wood burners installed. Both are a reassuring back up in case we have a really bad winter.
Jannie - what puzzles me slightly is how obvious it is that the whole game is politically driven. Have people suddenly decided that politicians are to be trusted?
My coal is not coming by lorry it's coming by canal barge - I've got my own wharf.
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