tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83365888010403204122024-03-21T10:14:03.397-07:00Global Political ShenanigansPete Ridleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08258973141061114628noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336588801040320412.post-4918793179457463822019-10-30T09:32:00.001-07:002020-09-02T10:26:50.418-07:00Appendices to SpotlightON: - Extinction Rebellion/RisingUP?/CompassionateRevolutionLtd<div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html">Main Article</a></span></b></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Ap</b><b>pendix A1 - XR and "</b></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large;"><b>Heading for Extinction"</b></span></div>
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"Heading for Extinction (and what to do about it)" is a presentation on behalf of ExtinctionRebellion/RisingUP/CompassionateRevolutionLtd organisation by medical doctors Emily Spry (sub-section 3.1.42) and Kate Jeffery.(3.1.43).</div>
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This presentation of the organisations propaganda about the CACC hypothesis and anthropogenic ecological damage has been made to numerous audiences around the UK,<br />
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- 11th June 2019 the Chiltern Chamber of Commerce hosted it in the Chesham Town Hall,<br />
- 7th September an audience of about 18 individuals in the St Albans Quaker meeting house heard Dr. Jeffery's rendering for XR's St Albans, Herts. branch (XRStAlbans or SAXR),<br />
- 9th September it was the turn of some of our MPs to be indoctrinated (<a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KYR_yBvF8UY#fauxfullscreen" target="_blank">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KYR_yBvF8UY#fauxfullscreen</a>)..</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The video is rather poor quality so here's what happened at the XR St Albans presentation. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After introductions by SAXR coordinator Vinnie ????, </span>Dr. Jeffery opened the XR propaganda presentation with a warning to the audience that they might find its content very upsetting and advised anyone needing it to seek counselling (scary stuff, eh;- just what Schneider ordered - see </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Appendix A6.1</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She advised that her role was to keep up with the science (see Footnote 1 of this sub-section) and develop th</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is presentation of the TRUTH about and proposed ACTION against environmental changes that we are causing. She correctly acknowledged that despite being a scientist, she was not a climate scientist, but that her understanding from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports was that things were becoming worse and worse. This was in two areas, deteriorating global </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">climatic</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ecologic</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> conditions, with the world heading for " .. the sixth mass extinction .. " as a result of our use of fossil fuels and damage to the natural environment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The XR propaganda presentation's opening "slide" was simply "OUR HOME IS DYING", followed by a couple of "Greenhouse Gases are Sky-rocketing" graphs claiming to depict the atmospheric CO2 content during the past 2000 years and the causes, with an emphasis on fossil fuels, land use and those damned cows pumping out methane. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr. Jeffery said that it was these graphs which had made her realise how drastic the climate situation is. That's understandable - she's NOT a climate scientist.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She went on to claim that the global climate has been stable for 4000 years!! - that may well be the case in XR's version of the TRUTH but honest scientists acknowledge the FACT that there were warmer periods 2000 and 1000 years ago (Roman and Medieval) and a cooler period than now 300 years ago which came to an end aboutv 150 years ago (the Little Ice Age).</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She claimed that humans discovered fossil fuels about 150 years ago and implied that that was the cause of the warming since then, due to the carbon that we push into the atmosphere. The FACT is that any carbon (and other particulates) that we emit into the atmosphere have the opposite "dimming" effect, cooling the planet. This is what made ecologists like Stephen Schneider and other scientist believe was causing the natural cooling that occurred from 1940 to the late 1970s, raising the scare that we were heading into another ice age. The FACT is that developed country use of fossil fuels mainly pushes those essential, life-supporting substances CARBON DIOXIDE and WATER VAPOR into the atmosphere, not carbon (or fossil fuels, as Roger Hallam is prone to claim when he presents XR TRUTH). </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr Jeffery also talked a bit about global environments are being destroyed by our "throw-away" societies' unsustainable use of natural resources - at last some real TRUTH!</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr. Jeffery commented that a 2018 IPCC report gave us only 12 years to avert a climate catastrophe, requiring a fundamental transformation of society and an end to our use of fossil fuels. She failed to include in XR's TRUTH the FACT that the IPCC's claim in 2009 was that we only had until 2016 to avert that disaster, with the goalposts pushed further down the line because Nature was refusing to comply with the IPCC's imperfect computer model projections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Despite XR's demonisation of the UK's CO2 emissions, at no point in Dr. Jeffery's presentation was any mention made of the burgeoning construction of coal-fired power stations in two of the world's largest and growing economies' China and India. Neither did she mention the FACTS that:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- the Earth's biosphere is getting greener and greener - thanks to all of that lovely fertiliser, atmospheric CO2,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That scary opening warning about the upsetting content of the XR propaganda and those scary opening "slides" were followed by those time-worn heart-wrenching pictures of:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In true environmentalist scaremongering fashion, there was no mention in XR's TRUTH of the FACT that the skinny polar bear was not a victim of hunger due to global warming making its food inaccessible, but simply an animal that was sick from other causes having nothing to do with our use of fossil fuels. There was no mention either in that XR TRUTH the FACT that those catastrophic flooding and wild fires around the globe are nothing new, were weather events similar to what was happening long before industrialisation and the invention of the motor car or aeroplane and have no correlation with our use of fossil fuels, never mind being caused by it. Neither did she mention in XR's TRUTH the FACT that one reason for more fires and destroyed houses is that there are more houses and more fuel available due to the preventative cutting back of undergrowth being curtailed as a result of environmental activism to protect wild-life rather than humans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No mention was made in that XR TRUTH of the FACT that polar bear numbers are increasing significantly due to bans on culling them (much to the annoyance of farmers and other residents whose lives are made a misery by these dangerous scavengers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Neither did that XR TRUTH make any mention of the FACT that climate change produces winners as well as losers. For example, a 2014 scientific report showed that in the Ross Sea area of Antarctica a breeding colony of Adelie penguins (by far the predominant Antarctic specie) grew by 84% between 1983 and 2010, as a direct result of a glacier shrinking and uncovering new nesting sites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As for those suffering insects, dear old environmental evangelist Rachel Carson was predicting doom and gloom for them and us in her environmentalist propaganda booklet "Silent Spring". Over 50 years later the human population is still thriving, with more food being produced (and unnecessarily wasted) than ever before (thanks to human agricultural ingenuity) and more than enough wasps, ants and other pests interfering with our enjoyment of life - including those that intrude into our homes at night when we leave on lights and open doors which Dr Jeffery seems to miss so much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One picture that Dr. Jeffery showed on several occasions to impress the audience with was of the claimed change in atmospheric CO2 during the past 2000 thousand years " .. Greenhouse gases are rocketing .. " she proclaims, to wards a point where the Earth will become uninhabbitable. This graph suggests that the concentration was consistently around the figure of 300ppm until the start of the industrial revolution, since when it has increased exponentially until its present level on 410ppm (and still rising).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What she did not point out in that XR TRUTH was the FACT that the graph is a clever splicing of two methods used to try to determine this. The pre-industrial period of thousands of years when the level is claimed to be 300ppm is derived from air allegedly "trapped" unchanged in ice sheets. Spliced onto the end are actual measurement of the real atmosphere at a few locations around the globe since 1958, mainly on a Hawaiian volcano, Mauna Loa.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No mention was made in that XR TRUTH of the FACT that the claim that atmospheric air captured by snow falling through the atmosphere to the surface before being eventually compressed to "solid" ice remains trapped unchanged in composition for millennia is highly questionable. Much more on this can be found at <a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2010/12/smogbound-on-molecular-fractionation-in.html" target="_blank">http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2010/12/smogbound-on-molecular-fractionation-in.html</a> .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Neither did she mention in that XR TRUTH the FACT that the potential impact of CO2 on global temperatures is a logarithmic function, with predictions by the models used by climate scientists of catastrophic future increases being based upon a fictitious positive feedback factor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Again no mention was made in that XR TRUTH of the FACT that two different measures were spliced together, this time for temperature, the period before the industrial revolution being the result of proxy measurements from air recovered from ice sheet cores. This was the "trick" used by Professor Michael Mann of Pen State University, referred to in the infamous "Climategate" E-mails released in 2009</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When talking about her participation in XR's disruptive actions and inciting others to join in, New Zealander Dr. Jeffery commented that she had opted to be what XR refer to as "non-arrestable". This is someone who,participates in XR's general disruptive action without doing anything that breaks UK law, such as gluing oneself to an underground train. She expressed concern that if she was arrested it could impact on her application for UK citizenship!! (see Footnote 3 of this sub-section).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1) L<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ike other significant XR members, Dr. Jeffery appears to lack the relevant education, experience or expertise in the scientific disciplines required for any hope of understanding the highly complex processes and drivers of the different global climates, Despite that, these dedicated CACC evangelists are happy to pontificate on the perils of the emissions of CO2 from our use of fossil fuels to power our economies and increase our prosperity. Decarbonising our economies is an unwarranted.retrograde step that will creste unnecessary depravation for millions. A word of caution to the gullible (including many of our politicians) - Dr. Jeffery's presentation offers a plethora of misleading statements, which will be discussed if/when she agrees to supplying a copy of the entire presentation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2) In March 2017 XR founding member Gail Bradbrook acknowledged the risk that she was taking concerning her law-breaking counselling/conspiring with others to commit criminal acts (<a href="http://stroudcommunity.tv/rising-up/" target="_blank">http://stroudcommunity.tv/rising-up/</a> at 38mins 10secs +).</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Law-abiding UK citizens are entitled to object strongly to the granting of the privilege of UK citizenship to anyone who has broken or is likely to break UK laws in order to destabilise our well-established political and economic systems. The requirements for granting UK citizenship include include:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Have been living within the laws of the UK during the entirety of this 3 year period (possibly breached due to her conspiring to incite others to join and participate in the activities of an organisation which depends upon criminal acts to achieve its objectives - see Footnote 2 of this section).</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4) Probably XR scaremongers will be adding to their TRUTH about flooding that the current flooding in the Valentia region of Spain is all a result of CACC and ignore the FACT that the River Turia has a history of severe flooding going back centuries before the motor car, aeroplanes and coal or gas electrical power stations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the catastrophic floods in 1957 Franco agreed to the diversion of the river away from it natural route through the city centre (</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turia_(river)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turia_(river)</a> ). It appears that the embankments enforcing that unnatural routing were not capable of retaining the Turia under naturally-occurring periods of intense rainfall previously experienced, so they failed and the river returned to its long-established natural route. That's why the centre of Valencia was so badly effected recently - nothing to do with our burgeoning use of fossil fuels!!<br />
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<b>"A <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sebastian_Golz/publication/309390490/figure/fig2/AS:425714395684865@1478509629158/Valencia-with-the-1957-flood-plain-and-the-study-area-Ensanche.png">picture</a> paints a thousand words"!!</b><br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">Ap</b><b style="font-size: x-large;">pendix A2 - The Treebytree Charity</b></h3>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tree by tree is a project set up by Tino Rawnsley and his partner Catherine Selby. A woodworker and woodsman all his life, Tino has always been passionate about trees. Ever since childhood playing in the woods and coppices of the north downs of Kent. '</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After a life spent working with wood and trees, I am acutely aware of the degradation of the environment and recognise the feeling of powerlessness many have in the face of the constant assaults upon the natural world. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In time we have come to realise that planting a tree is one of the most simple yet powerfully positive acts we can do and have found that many people share this feeling but have nowhere to plant them .. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When a friend offered a two acre field to plant to kick-start the project, the Tree by Tree project was born. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The idea is simple. When someone purchases a tree from Treebytree they are also buying the land where the tree will live. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When the trees are planted there is a party a “Treefest” where all that wish to plant trees are able to do so. Where we can come together and celebrate the new wood. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By having people sponsor and purchase trees we raise funds to get the next site. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the planting there will be a fundraising party and so on, a rolling initiative to create new woodlands and perpetual reserves and sanctuaries for wildlife and people. a network of natural environments available for all. To enjoy forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The "Tree by Tree" organisation is " .. an environmental and social charity whose aim is to plant trees and celebrate, creating diverse and lasting habitats for wildlife and humans .. " </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><a href="https://www.goldengiving.com/charity/search?searchCriteria=treebytree" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.goldengiving.com/charity/search?searchCriteria=treebytree</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was founded in 2017 by Plymouth woodworker/woodsman David (Tino) Rawnsley (see sub-section 3.1.22) and Catherine Selby, his business partner and project manager at their woodworking business (</span><a href="https://www.woodlands.co.uk/blog/woodland-activities/treebytree-a-social-movement-to-plant-trees-create-woodlands-and-celebrate/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.woodlands.co.uk/blog/woodland-activities/treebytree-a-social-movement-to-plant-trees-create-woodlands-and-celebrate/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“ .. The idea and principle of Tree by Tree is simple. To empower people to plant trees on land they have available. Through a series of fundraising events, they also plan to raise enough money to buy a small plot of land, and plant it with woodland that has open access for everyone, forever .. A woodworker and woodsman all this life, Tino has been passionate about trees ever since his childhood .. .. <span style="color: #212721; letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">For anyone who has a piece of land, big or small, Tree by Tree are offering you the means to plant trees. Through the fundraising efforts, Tree by Tree are able to supply you with the trees and know how to plant them .. </span>” (<a href="https://yallahcoffee.co.uk/blogs/news/tree-by-tree-carbon-offset">https://yallahcoffee.co.uk/blogs/news/tree-by-tree-carbon-offset</a>).</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although it claims to be a charity, "Tree by Tree" is not registered with the Charities Commission. The legal requirements for an organisation to be a charity in England and Wales are defined in the Charities Act (2011). " .. Charities are subject to a strict regime of regulation by .. the Charity Commission For England and Wales .. If a charity's annual income is under £5000, it is defined as a 'small unregistered charity' - not registered with the Commission, but still subject to its regulatory powers .. " (</span><a href="https://www.communitycompanies.co.uk/charitable-companies-limited-by-guarantee" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.communitycompanies.co.uk/charitable-companies-limited-by-guarantee</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of Treebytree's fund-raising activities is “crowdfunding” appeals for charitable donations via websites. Tino’s 2017 apeal on the justgiving site said " .. My longstanding wish to plant a Forest of Hope, a legacy for everyone, has become an imperative. When a friend offered me a two acre field to kick-start the project, the Tree by Tree movement was born .. When we raise enough money to buy a small plot of land we will plant it with woodland that has open access for everyone, forever. And we will celebrate .. having a festival at which we start raising money to purchase a plot of land to plant more trees on .. " (</span><a href="https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/treebytree" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/treebytree</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That appeal has to date (19th Aug 2019) raised £2003 towards its target of £50000 (<a href="https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/treebytree">https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/treebytree</a>). That was followed by £5000 raised at their April 2017 Treefest festival (<a href="https://treebytree.eventcube.io/events/6350/treebytree-fest/">https://treebytree.eventcube.io/events/6350/treebytree-fest/</a>). " .. we have about £7k. not much money to buy a piece of land but it IS plenty to get alot of trees and have a planting party, and that is what we are going to do. Over the summer we are actively looking for the next plots to plant, then we will come together to plant and celebrate .. ".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Despite that deficiency he enthusiastically promotes the CACC propaganda at every opportunity</span><span style="color: #010101;">, such as his </span></span><span style="color: #010101; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">scaremongering pronouncements in</span><span style="color: #010101; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">- April 2019 and May on the UK's CACC "Propaganda Bureau" the BBC with his "Climate Change - the Facts" (</span></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00049b1/climate-change-the-facts&source=gmail&ust=1594400793851000&usg=AFQjCNF2p83VMhI5cR5E5fcXqNRYK_WqLQ" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00049b1/climate-change-the-facts" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>iplayer/episode/m00049b1/<wbr></wbr>climate-change-the-facts</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">!!! Perhaps more correctly the title should have been "Climate - Change the facts" or "Climate Change - the Fantasies" </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #010101;">.. the show became notorious for heart-wrenching footage of walruses falling to their deaths from cliffs in Siberia. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #010101;">Attenborough’s claim that this was due to global warming became highly controversial when it was revealed that the footage had been recorded during an incident when polar bears were known to have driven walruses over the cliffs.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #010101;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #010101;">Now, archive video confirms that Attenborough misled his audience. US Fish and Wildlife Service footage, recorded at Cape Pierce in Alaska in 1994, shows that more than 100 walruses had fallen from cliffs there on a number of occasions. The explanation given by scientists at the time was overcrowding on the beaches.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Right now we are facing our greatest threat in thousands of years – climate change”“What we’re doing right now is we’re so rapidly changing the climate, for the first time in the world’s history people can see the impact of climate change”“Greater storms, greater floods, greater heatwaves, extreme sea level rise”“All of this is happening far faster than many of us thought possible”.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Atte<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #141310;">nborough shows this graph of global temperature trends, (though omitting satellite temperature measurements which show no increase since 1998). But he fails to explain why temperatures rose sharply in the early 20thC, long before CO2 emissions began to rise significantly.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nowhere either does he tell us that the 19thC marked the end of the Little Ice Age, probably the coldest period since the end of the Ice Age .. </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">UNQUOTE </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">(</span><a href="https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/04/19/attenboroughs-climate-change-the-facts/" style="font-family: inherit;">https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/04/19/attenboroughs-climate-change-the-facts/</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">- <b>QUOTE</b>:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman";"> .. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px;">Climate deniers are about to be smited by Saint Attenborough @ the BBC. It will be the </span><em style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #262626; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">coup de grace</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px;"> after being pummeled almost into submission by </span><a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/netflix-defends-planets-brutal-walrus-14276279" rel="noopener" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #195f7f; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">heart-breaking footage of walruses</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px;"> tumbling to their deaths shown recently by Attenborough @ Netflix. He gets around does our nonagenarian much loved wildlife presenter turned climate change prophet of doom. But even that’s not enough for the energetic 92 year old. He’s vowed to </span><a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sir-david-attenborough-vows-convince-14180122" rel="noopener" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #195f7f; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">take on the Beast Himself</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px;">, The Donald, the biblical Arch Climate Change Denier whose coming was foretold by such enlightened souls as Oreskes, Conway, Klein, Cook, Mann etc. in their various Books of Climate Revelations .. <b>UNQUOTE</b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman";"> </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman";">(</span><a href="https://cliscep.com/2019/04/14/climate-change-the-facts-saint-attenborough-will-reveal-all-on-april-18th-and-deniers-shall-repent/" style="font-family: "times new roman";">https://cliscep.com/2019/04/14/climate-change-the-facts-saint-attenborough-will-reveal-all-on-april-18th-and-deniers-shall-repent/</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman";">).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Goodness knows where Roger Hallam dreamed up his fantasy that the Arctic IS going to melt by 2023 or earlier. A 2015 article “Is Arctic rush worth it” says that “ .. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2007 estimated that the Arctic will have an ice-free summer by the end of this century. A few recent studies predict that this may happen as early as 2030-2040. But no one can say for sure. What everyone is sure about is summer now comes early and stays longer. .. ” (<a href="https://www.cfc.forces.gc.ca/259/290/402/305/palmer.pdfthe">https://www.downtoearth.org.in/coverage/climate-change/is-arctic-rush-worth-it--38173 </a>). NOTE that "no one can say for sure" - except Roger Hallam, of course!</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The article “Terrifying predictions about the melting North Pole!“ puts all this scaremongering into perspective (<a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/04/30/terrifying-predictions-about-the-melting-north-pole/">https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/04/30/terrifying-predictions-about-the-melting-north-pole/</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He may have based his scaremongering fantasy about oxygen running out if temperature increased by 6 degrees on a 2015 paper by mathematicians at the University of Leicester. The University press bulletin included " .. A study .. has shown that an increase in the water temperature of the world’s oceans of around six degrees Celsius – which some scientists predict could occur as soon as 2100 - could stop oxygen production by phytoplankton by disrupting the process of photosynthesis .. About two-thirds of the planet’s total atmospheric oxygen is produced by ocean phytoplankton – and therefore cessation would result in the depletion of atmospheric oxygen on a global scale .. The team developed a new model of oxygen production in the ocean that takes into account basic interactions in the plankton community .. (<a href="https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/press-releases/2015/december/global-warming-disaster-could-suffocate-life-on-planet-earth-research-shows">https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/press-releases/2015/december/global-warming-disaster-could-suffocate-life-on-planet-earth-research-shows</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Projections of up to a 6 degree increase in global mean atmospheric temperature have been made by unvalidated computer models using extreme atmospheric CO2 concentration scenarios and a speculative positive feedback effect. Such projections have failed to match reality, with a global mean temperature hiatus during this century, compared with projections of steadily escalating temperatures. Even if Ocean surface temperatures rose to that extent, the phytoplankton have a tendency to wander over to more comfortable waters and carry on with their lives. It's called adaptation, something that humans have had to do since they appeared on this Earth.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Roger can be seen presenting his scientific fantasies in his 1.5 hour "The time is now" propaganda presentation on the 27th July 2019 to an audience of about 150 in the Humphry Davy School, Penzance (<a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s2sQ3XDxq2I">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s2sQ3XDxq2I</a> or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_g3zoL8TFU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_g3zoL8TFU</a>). He wisely begins by pointing out that he is giving his own opinion, not on behalf of XR.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first half consisted of nonsense about the impact of all of that carbon and fossil fuels that we are pumping into the atmosphere causing a climate crisis - global warming, global cooling, ice-free Arctic by 2022, global food scarcity, social upheaval, death of our children, etc. etc. etc. Stephen Schneider (Appendix A6.1) would have been very proud of Roger's scaremongering.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then there was a period with Roger bemoaning the failure of Organics to Go, the 10-acre vegetable growing venture which he started in 1999 at Werndolau, Golden Grove, Llandeilo, West Wales (<a href="https://westwalesnewsreview.wordpress.com/2016/09/24/new-co-op-seeks-public-support-to-buy-organic-veg-business/">https://westwalesnewsreview.wordpress.com/2016/09/24/new-co-op-seeks-public-support-to-buy-organic-veg-business/</a>). The vagaries of the UK's weather, flooding his vegetable plots in two consecutive years, cost him £100,000. Of course West Wales has never experienced such weather events before the current "climate crisis", had it???!!! - ooops, fantasy!!! There are records of such going back centuries, to the "Largest flood in living memory" of 1767 and "One of the largest floods in half a century (Carmarthen)" in 1831 (see <a href="http://www.dyfedarchaeology.org.uk/tywi/floodingreport.pdf">http://www.dyfedarchaeology.org.uk/tywi/floodingreport.pdf</a> pages 23/24 - see also Appendix A1, Footnote 4).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As that West Wales News Review report said " .. Vegetable production comes with no guarantees, and organic production has higher labour demand and thus wage costs .. ". Had Roger done a business-like due-diligence check before investing in his organic vegetables he'd have understood the risks that he was taking and perhaps avoided having to go cap-in-hand in 2015 to the Golden Organics co-op for a bail-out.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It appears that in 2014 his business had funds of £33,422, then in 2015 £31364. If he invested that £100,000 in 1999 the he would have lost £66,600 over 5 years - a clear and early warning of the enormous business risk that he was taking!</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Roger spent part of the final half hour of his presentation giving a good impression of inciting the audience to join in XR's illegal disruptive actions and make the sacrifice of trying to get arrested - next event planned for mid-September in London. He boasted about the " .. criminal damage worth £7,000 .. " (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/09/extinction-rebellion-founder-cleared-over-kings-college-protest">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/09/extinction-rebellion-founder-cleared-over-kings-college-protest</a>) with which he was associated in 2017 and claimed had forced Kings College, London to divest from fossil fuels. Getting arrested is not a bad experience, he advised his audience. All that happens is you get picked up and bundled into a police van, taken to a police station, logged in then released to go home, or back to the demonstration to get re-arrested.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's all about sacrifice .. " Roger kept repeating. Of course he made no mention of the enforced and unwarranted sacrifice made by members of the police force, businesses or law-abiding members of the general public trying to go about their legal day-to-day activities.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was at it again on the 12th September 2019. While he and co-conspirator Mike Lynche White were being interviewed by a reporter ahead of their planned drone flying in the vicinity of Heathrow airport they were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a public nuisance (<a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/heathrow-airport-drone-protest-five-people-arrested-ahead-of-planned-extinction-rebellion-action-a4235396.html">https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/heathrow-airport-drone-protest-five-people-arrested-ahead-of-planned-extinction-rebellion-action-a4235396.html</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let’s hope that they are not released so that they can quickly rejoin the XR rabble to cause more unwarranted disruption. Let's also hope that they and their fellow XR conspirators get a hefty fine to help compensate for the enormous cost to the country of their actions.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.. Extinction Rebellion co-founder .. Roger Hallam .. was arrested on Saturday .. entered the dock at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court on Monday .. faces one charge of conspiring to cause a public nuisance between 1 August and 14 September.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The charge relates to a plan to fly drones near Heathrow airport 'in order to cause widespread disruption' .. Activists are accused of planning to fly drones within the exclusion zone at Heathrow Airport</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The action was part of ongoing protest activity by environmental campaign group Extinction Rebellion (XR). A splinter group of XR, called Heathrow Pause, had threatened to interrupt flights by flying drones within the 5km exclusion zone around the airport.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was remanded in custody to appear at Isleworth Crown Court on 14 October .. " (<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-49716251" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-49716251</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's reassuring to see that these extremists are now being subjected to appropriate action by the police and the courts, but much more needs to be done to deter the main conspirators within XRUK and their followers from indulging in their unwarranted illegal and disruptive activity. Perhaps they are not as keen </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as Roger Hallam </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to make that "sacrifice" so, anticipating much tougher action by the police/courts regarding conspiracy and incitement, have decided to dissociated themselves from Roger Hallam's involvement with Heathrow Pause.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Hi, I wanted to find out a bit about tree-by-tree and the treefeste but was unable to get onto the page (server unauthorised). How can I get some inf? Best regards, Pete<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Hi Pete.<span class="apple-converted-space0"> </span><br />
Our website was comprehensively destroyed by hackers this spring and we have had to rebuild it from scratch. We are currently nearly there with the new site. In the meantime I can let you know about it. what is your particular interest?<span class="apple-converted-space0"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I came across your organisation and the Treefest as a result of researching the Extinction Rebellion organisation. I was at one time able to get into your website (only a few days ago) and was impressed by what you were doing so decided to go back to the site to find out where abouts you had done some planting, what plans you had for further work and how you were funding what seems to me to be a costly business. I expected that you would have been registered as a charity but couldn't find one under that name (although there are numerous charities with "tree" in their title.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Best regards, Pete</span></div>
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<span class="gd"><span style="font-family: "arial"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">from tino.rawnsley@……<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Hi Pete<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Thanks for your enquiry. intrigued that you accessed the site only a few days ago as it went down before March ?!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Anyways Please find attached some info about Treebytree and the Treefests we have had.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We raise funds through donation and through ticket, food, and drink sales at our events, we have discount arrangements through the Woodland Trust for the supply of trees and also with nurseries local to us in the SW We are continuing to look for people with land to plant <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We are not currently registered as a charity as our income is less than £5k per year and in order to economise on the nessesary bureaucracy this would entail we review this at every trustee meeting. and have all the paperwork in place to register should we need to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Attached also is a description of our first Treefest, since then we have had another treefest in March 2018 planting a further 1500 trees with equal success and fun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Hopefully the site will be up very soon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Please let me know if you need further information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hi again Tino,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I've just rediscovered how it was that I found that I couldn't get into your "tree-by-tree" web-site. It was via the link at your appeal last year for charitable donations on goldengiving (<a href="https://www.goldengiving.com/wall/tree-by-tree" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.goldengiving.com/wall/tree-by-tree</span></a>), which has so far raised £1150 (thanks to a generous £1000 from Edwin Seman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I see that a couple of years ago you made an appeal on justgiving, with a target of £50,000 which raised only £2,000 and said " .. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #262626; font-family: "arial";">including the amazing £5000 we raised at our Treefest event we have about £7k. That's not much money to buy a piece of land but it IS plenty to get alot of trees and have a planting party, and that is what we are going to do. Over the summer we are actively looking for the next plots to plant, then we will come together to plant and celebrate .. " </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">(<a href="https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/treebytree" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/treebytree</span></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The total from those two appeals and your first treefest is about £8200 - as you said, not much for buying a piece of land but will fund a lot of plants. I see that you had your second treefest at Lowton Farm, Bondkeigh, Devon during this past Easter. Was that land donated or planted on behalf of the owner (farmer)? as is suggested by Mark Simon's comment (<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://m.facebook.com/treebytreeproject/posts_to_page/#!/story.php?story_fbid=2123457281203050&id=1857109801171134" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://m.facebook.com/treebytreeproject/posts_to_page/#!/story.php?story_fbid=2123457281203050&id=1857109801171134</span></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I understand that there are Government grants to encourage farmers to restore woodland/forests, so do you manage to get a share of any grant if you plant for the farmer?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Have you managed to find/fund another plot? If so, where is it and when do you intend to have another "treefest" planting, which I'd be interested in joining. I could combine the treefest gig with a holiday in the West Country or S-Wales.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Hi again Tino, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Sorry to bombard your E-mail account but I was just cleaning up my browser and spotted this article about an award-winning animation "The boy who plants trees" from 2 years ago. Its co-creator Cecily Bedner credited treebytree as its inspiration and mentioned that her classmate and co-producer Rose is a close friend of yours (<a href="https://www.intofilm.org/news-and-views/articles/animation-challenge-winners" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.intofilm.org/news-and-views/articles/animation-challenge-winners</span></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It was through Cecily's involvement with Extinction Rebellion and her mentioning attending/supporting your treefest (guitar-playing and selling vegan delicacies) that I became aware of treebytree.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="gd"><span style="font-family: "arial"; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">from Pete Ridley</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space0"><span style="font-family: "arial"; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I have a puzzlement regarding tree planting. My wife and I regularly go for long walks in a </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "helvetica";">320 hectare park of trees and grassland, a lake and all that goes with them. Apart from the occasional bits of rubbish left by lazy visitors, the park is beautiful. We have noticed that quite a lit of trees have recently been planted there but are puzzled about why the protective tubes surrounding the plants nd their supports are apparently made of plastic. I've attached a couple of photos.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "helvetica";">Are there alternatives to plastic that you know of?</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I'd also appreciate if you could make the time to respond to my E-mail of 4th July (appended).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">from Tino <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; letter-spacing: 0.133333px;">Rawnsley</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">There are some biodegradable/cardboard tree guards becoming available. I do not have any experience of using them. Young saplings do need protection in order to have the best possible chance of survival. Our projects to date have be undertaken with both trees and guards supplied by the Woodland Trust.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Our finances are fully transparent and we do not receive a share of any grant funding that farmers that we work with may have benefited from. All our income is the result of genuine fund raising activities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">We are in the process of trying to arrange an event for this winter which we will anounce in due course on our new website and facebook page.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Hi Tino, thanks for that inf. about the tree guards. Are those provided by The Woodland Trust made of cardboard or other bio-degradable material? If so and you can provide me with a Woodland Trust contact I'll pass it on to the local park authorities and ask why they use plastic ones.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Our Charitable status is discussed by the trustees at every meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">As I mentioned in a previous E-mail I am interested in contributing time and money to your charity, however, before I make decision I'd appreciate sight of its governance. Can you let me see the details of its trustees and a copy of the most recent accounts?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Thanks, Pete <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="g3"><span style="font-family: "arial"; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">Aug 13, 2019, 9:12 PM<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Do you still plan a treefest later this year? If so then I'd appreciate knowing when and where so that I can see if I can do some volunteering with your treebytree charity. It may also provide an opportunity for me to have a chat with you and your trustees.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I hate the cutting down of beautiful trees and fully support the planting of more where land is available, so am eager to volunteer my time if possible, however, I have for several years been very wary of donating to charities about which I know little. This follows a careful investigation of who is really behind those plastic bags that many of us get pestered with asking for our good quality unwanted belongings. There's a scam and a half!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">That is the reason why I have asked you for sight of the latest treebytree accounts (which you say " .. are fully transparent .. ") and who are its trustees (which you say meet regularly). You have not yet replied to my E-mail of 19th July so do I have to assume that you do not intend to provide the information about treebytree's that I requested, or have you just not had time to get the information together? Treebytree's board of trustees should have that information readily available.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The Charities Commission have recently advised of treebytree that " .. Although not registered they would have to follow charity law and the Charities Act 2011 .. if they are calling themselves a charity we do have some jurisdiction. We note that you have requested information from them .. They should be willing to make these available and if they are not, especially when it is the purpose for informing a potential donation you would have to contact us explaining what it is you want and what reasons they have provided for not cooperating with you .. ".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="g3"><span style="font-family: "arial"; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">Aug 17, 2019, 6:44 PM<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On several occasions recently I have tried unsuccessfully to get information from you about treebytree via your treebytree email. Please see the appended Emails.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">If I still get no response by 24th August then I shall have to try through the Charities Commission.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">After signing up to XR Chesham I have been onto its website but can find nothing worthwhile about its governance. Please can you advise where i can find such information<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Dear Mr Ridley, I would suggest going to the XR UK website rebellion.earth for further information about the self-organising system that the organisation uses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On Wednesday, September 4, 2019 10:41 AM, Yelder Retep wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Hi, thanks for the speedy response. I have already found out a lot about the primary XR organisation but am looking to get involved with a local branch. Chesham is not too far away but I'd like to know how that branch is organising itself. There must be some kind of structure/governance otherwise I cannot see how it would achieve anything worthwhile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">All that I know about it so far is that it is based in Chesham and has at least one member, retired doctor Lyn Jenkins. There is surely more information available than that!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On Tue, 10 Sep 2019 at 07:01, cheshamxr wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Dear Peter, We work in the same structure as the national XR in that we have a number of groups, focusing on a different area. Each group has two co-ordinators, once which co-ordinates inside the group and the other who co-ordinates with other groups via an 'anchor circle'. The co-ordinators volunteer for a time and then someone else takes on the role, this helps to share the workload and ensures we don't create a hierarchy which is important in XR.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Anything a group plans to do must be in line with the XR principles and values (these can be found on the website) and have support from a number of members of the group. We are still a fairly new group and so we are still establishing ourselves. This video helps illustrate what I have described above. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG1jVkK9i9Y&t=109s" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG1jVkK9i9Y&t=109s</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 10 Sep 2019 at 13:08 Yelder Retep wrote To: cheshamxr:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Hi again, Having looking very closely at publicly available information about XR I'm still little wiser about how XR's branch groups can make a worthwhile contribution to achieving the prime objectives set by directors of the parent organisation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">My experience within the St Albans branch and brief exchanges with the Chesham branch suggest that there is indeed a sort of hierarchical structure, albeit somewhat secretive. On the other hand the parent organisation has a relatively clearly defined hierarchy, at the top of which is Compassionate Revolution Ltd. (firmed in 2016) with directors Gail, George and Stuart. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Next is RisingUP? (also 2016) which is the source of funds for the third member of the hierarchy, Extinction Rebellion (2018).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The top of XR's sub-hierarchy is "Chairperson" Gail. supported by "Managing Director" Roger, "Campaign and Morality Directors" George and Stuart and "Compliance Director" Farhana, with medical Drs. Emily Spry and Kate Jefferey functioning as "Directors of Education".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">At a lower level are people like Simon ("general duties", Jojo (ecocide specialist), campaign organiser and spokesperson Robin, etc. etc. etc. (for more see<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html</span></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">As XR Chesham works in the same structure as national XR then please advise who are the equivalent individuals at branch level. What are the groups, who are the co-ordinators and what are their job specifications? Who wrote the job specs and who gave authority for them to do so? What is the process for someone to apply to be a co-ordinator? Who adjudicates whether or not they satisfy the job spec? Who makes the choice between several candidates. These are all fundamental requirements in any organisation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £7000 from Oct 2018-Apr 2019 to Liam Geary Baulch (3.1.36)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £6900 in Dec 2018-May 2019 to <b>Roger Hallam</b> (3.1.2)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £6150 to Raphael/Rapharl Coleman (??)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- £5700 in Jan-May 2019 to Jamie Lowe (??)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- £3199 in Dec 2018-May 2019 to Roman Paluch/Paulch Mauhnick (??)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- £4710 in Nov/Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr/May to <b>Gail Bradbrook</b> (3.1.1)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- £4600 in Dec 2018-May 2019 to <b>George Barda</b> (3.1.3)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- £4240 in Nov 2018 - May 2019 to Tasmin Osmond (??)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- £3600 in Feb-May 2019 to Jasmine Salter (??)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- £3440 in Nov/Dec 2018/Jan/Mar 2019 to Annie Randall (see 3.1.2!!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- £3311 in Apr/May/Jun 2019 to Laura Reeves (??)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- £3060 in March/April/May 2019 to Adam Mitchell (??),<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="g3"><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">On 11 Sep 2019, 13:11 </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Yelder Retep wrote </span><span class="hb"><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">to</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"> </span></span><span class="g2"><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">Rebel@XRChesham.co.uk</span></span><span class="hb"><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;"> </span></span><span class="g2"><span style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica"; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">cheshamxr</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";">:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">First, I tried the two links given in the latest XRChesham bulletin for the XR presentations on "TRUTH" (<a href="https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/</span></a>)<br />
and ACTION (<a href="https://rebellion.earth/act-now/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://rebellion.earth/act-now/</span></a>) by posting into two browsers but clicking on the link given at those web pages did not access anything. I have seen a very poor quality recording of Kate Jeffery's presentation to MPs on 9th but would like to see decent quality videos if they are available.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Also, my earlier requests for information about XR's Chesham branch have yielded little of value. Please would someone with a sound understanding of the structure of XR Chesham remove the shroud of secrecy that it appears to be hiding under.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="g3"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">On 17 Sep 2019, 07:01 CheshamXR wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.5pt;">We are sorry you are not getting the information you require from the links and responses we have sent. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.5pt;">If you are writing an article perhaps you could elaborate more and we could see if any of our group would like to talk to you further? We are a new group, establishing ourselves. Our groups and activities are co-ordinated by different people depending on who has the time and experience to take on tasks, so we have no leadership structure. There is no intentional 'shroud of secrecy' but understandably some people are reluctant to share details about themselves with people they don't know.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.5pt;">Regarding access to talks and climate information, the IPCC and IPBES reports can be accessed on line. The World Resources Institute have provided FAQ's to simplify information around the IPCC report. This too can be found online. These are clear that we need to halt biodiversity loss and drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions within 10 years, and we need to start immediately. The reports are also clear this will involve transformative change within our current leadership systems in order for us to survive as a species . <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.5pt;">To support the governments decision making process around this XR are promoting deliberative democracy through citizens assemblies (<a href="https://rebellion.earth/act-now/resources/citizens-assembly/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">https://rebellion.earth/act-now/resources/citizens-assembly/</span></a>). You may have already researched these and seen that within this process participants have equal power, it avoids decisions being influenced by the need to gain votes and allows a long term view of the situation. Citizens assemblies are an existing way of the government tackling difficult problems e.g. in Ireland about abortion laws and in England regarding social care. This method is tried and tested and recognised as legitimate and so we are unclear why this recommendation by XR is being labelled as anarchistic by some. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; mso-bidi-font-size: 6.5pt;">If you want more information about Central XR then I suggest you continue to pursue the central contacts from the main XR website. We are a local group with local volunteers who are acting out of concern for our future and future generations. We adhere to the XR principle of being a peaceful movement. If you would like to find out more you are welcome to attend a meeting. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Thanks for that well-considered response - of waffle. XR Chesham's shroud of secrecy remains firmly in place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">My article "SpotlightON Extinction Rebellion ... " (<a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html</span></a>) includes in sub-section 6.1 (appended) as much as I have been able to drag out from under that shroud. Any missing information or corrections that XR Chesham two members (Mistry and Jenkins) are prepared to expose to the spotlight would be appreciated. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Despite his lack of expertise in the hard sciences required for any kind of understanding of the processes and drivers of the different global climates, Dr. Jenkins is happy to pontificate on the CACC issue. In response to an irate Chesham resident's complaint about XR disruption he offered typical XR nonsense, a fictional analogy - an asteroid predicted to hit the Earth in 50 years time, wiping out 90% of life, with only 10 years to do anything about it. " .. I suspect the world would take necessary steps to avert disaster. We are in a similar situation with the climate crisis .. "(<a href="http://www.xrchesham.co.uk/letters.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #999999;">http://www.xrchesham.co.uk/letters.html</span></a>) due to our use of fossil fuels and disregard for the environment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Closing his response, he said " .. We are not a political party and do not want to take over the decision-making process .. ". Maybe he is unaware of the prime objective set by XR's leading lights, to replace the well-developed (albeit imperfect) political and economic systems (through which he is able to enjoy his retirement) with anarchy. Dr. Jenkins should have a read of this article.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;" /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">Hi Andrew,</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;" /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">I'm contacting you as a result of your invitation on a couple of your </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">blogs. I </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">became aware of you through my interest in your son Stuart, </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">co-founder of Extinction Rebellion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">I've been actively debating the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Clmate </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">Change (CACC) issue since being scared out of my whits by a 15th </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">March 2007 article in the Sunday Times Magazibe which summarised the </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">scaremongering booklet "Six Degrees: Our future on a warmer planet" </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">by environmental activst Mark Lynas.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #313131; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; word-spacing: 1px;">My position on the CACC hypothesis is that it is driven by politics, </span><span style="color: #313131; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; word-spacing: 1px;">not science and that actions such as those taken by Extinction </span><span style="color: #313131; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; word-spacing: 1px;">Rebellion supporters to disrupt the lives of innocent Londoners are </span><span style="color: #313131; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; word-spacing: 1px;">totally unwarranted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">From what you have written and your participation in that action shows </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">that we are on opposite sides of that debate (as we are about </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">religion - I have some interesting exchanges with frequently-visiting </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">Jehovah's Witnesses, trying to convert them to </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">agnosticism-bordering-on-<wbr></wbr>athe</span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">ism).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">We do have some things in common. I studied electronics, specialising </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">in computer engineering (analogue and digital) and have now retired </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">after a long and successful career as a systems designer </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">(Telecommunications/<wbr></wbr>Computer/C</span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">ontrol).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">My main reason for getting in touch is that I have published on my </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">Global Political Shenanigans blog an article "SpotlightON - </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">Extinction Rebellion" (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html&source=gmail&ust=1595848184228000&usg=AFQjCNFprNwD0JRuuRq2Sw28uFeZ9NzW0w" href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html" rel="noreferrer" style="word-spacing: 1px;" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>globalpoliticalshenanigans.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/2019/04/<wbr></wbr>spotlighton-extinction-<wbr></wbr>rebellion.html</a><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">). </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">The objective is to encourage readers to do their own due diligence </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">research into the CACC issue and its supporters rather than simply </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">accepting on face value what they are told (e,g by the BBC, or David </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">Attenborough, or Brian Cox, etc. or read about.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">I have included in my article what I consider to be pertinent details </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">about significant members/supporters of XR and you are covered in </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">sub-section 3.1.23. That is not just because of your participation in </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">and support of XR but also because of the influence that you must </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">have had on Stuart's mindset. If you are so inclined and can make </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">some time to review it I'd appreciate any feedback. I'd also </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">appreciate sone feedback on sub-section 3.1.4 on Stuart, if you would </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">be kind enough to let him know about it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">As you may have gleaned from the above, once I get started on the </span><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">vexed issue of CACC I find it hard to stop ( friends and family </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #313131; word-spacing: 1px;">frequently scream "enough already". Sorry if I've bored you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hi Peter, Thank you for writing to me. I'm sorry it has taken me so long to reply; I had not realised that (email address) was active and had not looked at it since before you wrote a year ago. You asked me to comment on your article. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Your article about XR is useful; please would you send me a copy that I can read offline. Many thanks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. Sometimes however it is misleading and in some places wrong. Insofar as your page is intended to inform and help put things right, it is a valuable document for those who are wise. However if, as I suspect, your intention is to attack XR, it is less useful because it then becomes just yet another 'anti'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. I am aware of problems in XR (some of which you do not cite, while some of those you do cite are probably not so problematic. I have some things with which I disagree, but many things with which I agree. I see XR as a vehicle not as an end in itself, one vehicle among many, with a particular role. So, instead of merely attacking </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">XR over the things I disagree with I would rather act to change or ameliorate. As they say, better to light a candle than to complain of the darkness? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. You say that your intention is to help readers to explore the CACC issue themselves. XR is perhaps not the best vehicle for doing that. However, insofar as it has achieved something in the debate, it is worth your consideration. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. You say "The objective is to encourage readers to do their own due diligence research into the CACC issue and its supporters rather than simply accepting on face value what they are told (e,g by the BBC, or David Attenborough, or Brian Cox, etc. or read about." However, your article is one-sided. For example, do not readers need encouragement to avoid taking at face value what they are told by Fox News, or the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cornwall Alliance, and other anti-green sources? Your article would do a bigger service if critically questioned also those who question CACC, as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. Your section on me has some correct things about me as far as it goes, and you have dug up some interesting pieces on me that I had not seen before. However, much is missing. Prabook is an unhelpful source because it is erroneous (e.g. it misses my 6 years work on databases in the health records sector) and is two decades out of date. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. However, I have pressing engagements and deadlines that prevent me from suggesting or requesting changes at the moment. So, if you would send me a copy of the article to read offline, maybe I can come back at a later stage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. I have yet to read the section on Stuart, but thank you for pointing it out. I will endeavour to read it soon. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All the best,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Andrew Basden</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">16 July 2020</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">24th July 2020</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hi Andrew,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks very much for responding to my E-mail and for the civil tone. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I do not have hard copy of my article and am puzzled as to why you would want it in that format. I find it very useful to have electronic copy as searching for specific information is so easy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I would very much appreciate if, despite your pressing schedule, you could find time to advise on anything in the article which is incorrect, as I have no desire to mislead anyone. I mainly wish to encourage others to think for themselves, do their own research and form opinions from a basis of fact, rather than ignorance.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My interest in XR arose entirely from my rejection of the CACC hypothesis, following years of personal research and debate involving highly regarded scientists from the two (some would say three) sides of the issue. As for my "intention to attack XR", my objective is to expose any flaws that I believe exist in claims made in the name of the CACC hypothesis. XR founding members and their supporters fall into that category.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You say "better to light a candle than complain of the darkness" but not all light is beneficial, as many a mariner discovered when mistaking a wreckers lamp for the beacon from a lighthouse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You say that XR is perhaps not the best vehicle to help readers to explore the CACC </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">issue themselves. In my opinion XR is one of the very worst sources of guidance about the CACC hypothesis because of a dearth of relevant expertise. I recognise this precisely because I have given its membership very close scrutiny and consideration. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For example, you claim " .. we should take immediate, and sacrificial, action to immediately cease climate change emissions .. ". On the other hand. you appear to have no education, training or experience in relevant hard sciences necessary for any hope of understanding what impact any of our emissions have on the different global climates. Am I mistaken?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't recall anywhere in my article having encouraged readers to unquestioningly accept the word of Fox News, the Cornwall Alliance, anti-green or any other sources. I have seen no evidence that any of my sources fall into any of those categories. If you have spotted me doing so then please advise so that I can review the item(s) and make appropriate changes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the contrary, I have tried to do my best to encourage readers to think for themselves and do their own research. For example, I say in sub- sections:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- " .. 3.1.17 Dr. Alison Green .. What children should be taught is real science and the value of scepticism and critical thinking, not the politicised science that appears in the IPCC's Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) .. ",</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- " .. 3.1.20 Harley Sample .. Harley appears to accept on face value all of the scaremongering propaganda from the usual UK sources. It is worthwhile having a critical look at her unsubstantiated beliefs/predictions and recognising the biased nature of her sources .. ",</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- " .. 3.1.46 Elizabeth Bella Kitchiner Haughton .. Here's another significant XR member with no apparent relevant education, training or experience in the hard scientific disciplines .. pushing CACC propaganda with impunity. Our Universities appear to be complicit in this nonsense instead of encouraging their students to think for themselves and form opinions based upon fact, not fantasy .. ".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you have any suggestions as to how I can encourage more of this then please advise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you have made no suggestion that you regard our exchanges as private and confidential then I'll assume that I am at liberty to quote from and comment on them in my article. I'll wait for a few days before doing so in case you have reservations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a (grammatically improved) copy of my most recent comment as re-submitted to Margaret's blog </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><a href="http://theclimatepsychologist.com/about-the-author/#comment-15722">http://theclimatepsychologist.com/about-the-author/#comment-15722</a><span style="color: black;">)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and presently in moderation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is a re-submission of my comment that you have so far declined to post. I’m referring to it in my latest update to sub-section 3.1.30 of my blog article “SpotlightON: Extinction Rebellion … ” (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html&source=gmail&ust=1597077864253000&usg=AFQjCNGhjq1G624f8B5sHw_i_KmwfUinLg" href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>globalpoliticalshenanigans.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/2019/04/<wbr></wbr>spotlighton-extinction-<wbr></wbr>rebellion.html</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You ask ” .. Are you increasingly depressed about the future? Terrified? Enraged? Helpless? .. ”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yes, I am – because of the politicised nonsense about imminent anthropogenic climate change catastrophe/chaos/emergency/<wbr></wbr>disaster/etc.etc.etc. due to our burgeoning use of that wonderful resource – fossil fuels,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks to their relatively recent discovery and global application, millions of us have enjoyed far greater prosperity than ever before, a prime example being the Chinese population, whose use of coal-fired electricity generation is ramping up as we speak, bringing the living standards of many more of its population closer to what you and I have enjoyed for decades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also am very depressed by the unwarranted waste of valuable resources by politicians because of their futile attempt to stop climate change by trying to deprive us of the fossil fuel resource instead of improving our resilience to whatever climate changes Mother Nature decides to throw at us. Of course, I don’t expect you to have any desire to help me dispel my anxiety – or even post my comment on your blog, so I’ll post it on mine instead. You know where it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From: Pete Ridley ...</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To: Margaret Salamon</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cc: Yelder Retep, Matt Renner, Malik Russell, Ezra Silk</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Date: Aug 10, 2020, 5:48 PM</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Subject: Climate Apocalypse/ Armageddon/ Catastrophe/ Chaos/ Crisis/ Emergency</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">/ etc.etc.etc</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I'm disappointed (but not really surprised) that you appear to have declined to publish any of my recent comments on your blog article "Self Help for the Climate Emergency: Announcing my Book" (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://theclimatepsychologist.com/self-help-for-the-climate-emergency-announcing-my-book&source=gmail&ust=1597168193936000&usg=AFQjCNFhuVWpcrd9C9v9MnoSgclHtDhIlg" href="http://theclimatepsychologist.com/self-help-for-the-climate-emergency-announcing-my-book" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>theclimatepsychologist.com/<wbr></wbr>self-help-for-the-climate-<wbr></wbr>emergency-announcing-my-book</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I advised in those comments, I've made several updates to sub-section "3.1.30 Margaret Klein Salamon" of my blog article "SpotlightON: Extinction Rebellion .. " (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html&source=gmail&ust=1597168193936000&usg=AFQjCNEb-BkrSViEE3QzYlHxFcNGf5WQ8w" href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>globalpoliticalshenanigans.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/2019/04/<wbr></wbr>spotlighton-extinction-<wbr></wbr>rebellion.html</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). You have as yet made no comment about these and I am happy to take your null response as indicating that you do not regard what I say about you in that subsection as likely to mislead anyone.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t appears to me that the same lack of relevant expertise applies to other significant members of your group (Ccd) and for your associates at the Climate Emergency Fund..If I am mistaken then please let me know who possesses such expertise, so that I can review my article and consider whether or not any changes or apologies are warranted</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As the "Basics" heading to my article says " .. Fear feeds on ignorance .. ". This is something of which any qualified psychologist should be well aware (</span><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2771546?seq=1" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.jstor.org/stable/2771546?seq=1</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">), From what you said in your presentation "Facing the climate emergency" (see </span><a href="https://ynotfreakinrecyclable.com/episode-2-facing-the-climate-emergency-with-margaret-klein-salamon/" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://ynotfreakinrecyclable.com/episode-2-facing-the-climate-emergency-with-margaret-klein-salamon/</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> you certainly appear fully appreciate this,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That web site invites viewers of your presentation to " .. Tune in for an inspiring episode about facing climate truths, welcoming fear, grief and other painful feelings, re-imagining your life story, understanding and entering emergency mode, and living as a climate warrior </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.. ". I spotted not one "climate truth" so wonder to what they were referring. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As I have pointed out in previous comments sent to your blog, I have no wish to mislead others. My sole intention is to encourage others to apply critical thinking when forming their own opinions rather than simply accepting what others tell them. From what I have read in your scaremongering propaganda piece "Self Help for the Climate Emergency", nothing therein should be taken on face value, but perhaps I'm being too harsh. Let me know where, if anywhere, you think that I have misrepresented or misunderstood what you have said and I'll review.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If I have used an obsolete e-mail address for Margaret then would someone please forward to her and let me know her current E-mail address.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Best regards, Pete</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From: Margaret Klein Salamon <br />Date: Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 5:52 PM</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Founding Director, the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theclimatemobilization.org/&source=gmail&ust=1597168193949000&usg=AFQjCNHjIVO9FI93MeRqeWI605XjLxgRDg" href="https://www.theclimatemobilization.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Climate Mobilization Project</a>.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">My book </span><i style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth </i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">is a radical self-help guide for our time.</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://facingtheclimateemergency.com/&source=gmail&ust=1597168193949000&usg=AFQjCNE2aOGJbbgEUSKxhs3B2B4Hj8_i3w" href="https://facingtheclimateemergency.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" target="_blank">Read a free chapter or order now</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; word-spacing: 1px;">Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 at 21:28</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's a pleasure to meet you. Thank you for your courage in facing the climate emergency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you have ever experienced fear, grief, anxiety, loneliness, or despair connected to the unfolding climate emergency and mass extinction event, I wrote this book for you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a clinical psychologist and executive director of Climate Mobilization Project, I want to help. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's not going to be easy. It's going to be the opposite of easy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But going “all in for life” will give you a mission and purpose beyond anything you have experienced before. It will allow you to, at long last, heal your pain and feel genuinely good about yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most importantly, it will help give humanity a better chance of protecting ourselves, our loved ones, and the living world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ordering <em><strong>Facing the Climate Emergency</strong></em> (paperback, e-book, or audiobook) is inexpensive, and <u>all proceeds go to our 501c(3) non-profit</u>. You can order at:</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- <a href="https://newsociety.com/books/f/facing-the-climate-emergency">New Society Publishers</a> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://bookshop.org/books/facing-the-climate-emergency-how-to-transform-yourself-with-climate-truth/9780865719415">Bookshop</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Facing-Climate-Emergency-Transform-Yourself/dp/0865719411">Amazon</a> or <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Facing-Climate-Emergency-Transform-Yourself/dp/B087D65HDK">Audible</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- At your local bookstore</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please enjoy the book preview. I look forward to mobilizing with you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Onward!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD</span><br />
<em><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Clinical Psychologist & Executive Director, Climate Mobilization Project</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Find me on Twitter <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/climatepsych&source=gmail&ust=1597332628518000&usg=AFQjCNGCWGUM7MYP0NldMOgvJrMs1Ej3sQ" href="https://twitter.com/climatepsych" target="_blank">@ClimatePsych</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><strong>P.S. I love hearing from readers!</strong> My work is all about helping people reckon with the climate emergency and fight for humanity. I need to hear from you to know if it's working. Over the next few days, I look forward to getting to know you, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDwT8nrjzUO6-GdJaz_uS5EaJ5hIjAx8EYxWerYsZdAiXykA/viewform?fbzx%3D616767356686617442&source=gmail&ust=1597332628518000&usg=AFQjCNE0jOxh6VRYufaN7HHQ6ONqNjoRTg" href="http://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDwT8nrjzUO6-GdJaz_uS5EaJ5hIjAx8EYxWerYsZdAiXykA/viewform?fbzx=616767356686617442" target="_blank">hearing your feedback</a>, and sharing some practical tools and resources to help you grapple with the climate emergency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From: Pete Ridley</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To: Anya Grenier</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif" /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Subject: "SpotlightON: Extinction Rebellion ... " and The Climate Mobilization</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Date: 26th Aug. 2020 at 21:4</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">I am responding to your invitation in the Yale Daily News about " .. starting conversations and creating pockets of sanity and open discussion .. "</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">(</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/09/27/leaving-the-climate-bubble/&source=gmail&ust=1598561277690000&usg=AFQjCNGZoZGDHred1zzTktMT8z26c7Uh-g" href="https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/09/27/leaving-the-climate-bubble/" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank">https://yaledailynews.com/<wbr></wbr>blog/2016/09/27/leaving-the-<wbr></wbr>climate-bubble/</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">) about the fantacised climate change apocalypse. I have initiated the conversation by posting a response to your Yale Daily News article and to your appearance with Margaret and Ezra in the presentation to the 2017 "Nearly Carbon-Neutral Conference" organised by UC Santa Barbara (UCSB). You can find it in subsection 3.2.4 "THE CLIMATE MOBILIZATION ORGANISATION" of the article "SpotlightON: Extinction Rebellion ... " (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html&source=gmail&ust=1598561277690000&usg=AFQjCNGtVktiR0KVYXxct0uMGCkrgnwq2A" href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>globalpoliticalshenanigans.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/2019/04/<wbr></wbr>spotlighton-extinction-<wbr></wbr>rebellion.html</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hopefully you will be more forthcoming than your associates at TCM whom I contacted several days ago (see Appendix A5.4 of my article) by reading what I say and challenging anything that you believe is misleading.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(I haven't been able to find an E-mail address for Rebecca so please would you pass this on to her also.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As TCM's "Organising Director" and "Head of Media" she and you may spot something in what I say about TCM and its leading lights that you consider misleading. As I pointed out during earlier exchanges with TCM, I do not wish to mislead anyone, only encourage others to use critical thinking when forming their own opinions rather than accepting on face value what others have to say, especially about the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate change (CACC) hypothesis. I hope that you agree that we should all be doing this!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Best regards, Pete</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Subject: </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">News from The Climate Mobilization and the Climate Emergency Movement</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Date: Wed. Aug. 26th 2020 @ 10:32PMM</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Date: Thur. 27th Aug. 2020 @ 11:46</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">TCM's advert says " .,<span style="word-spacing: 1px;"> t-shirts, mugs and stickers will start conversations .. ". That may well be, but E-mails and comments to TCM can fail miserably if someone dares to challenge CACC scaremongering. I've tried repeatedly to get a conversation going with the "braibs" behibd TCM but without any success whatsoever. On the contrary, the founder of TCM wants no contact. For more see subsections 3.1.30 and 3.2.4 and Appendix A5.4 of "SpotlightON: Extinction Rebellion .... " (</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html&source=gmail&ust=1598612859873000&usg=AFQjCNEnDpn0f2aFNU8QkfZGbgPGoC6p-Q" href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">http://<wbr></wbr>globalpoliticalshenanigans.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/2019/04/<wbr></wbr>spotlighton-extinction-<wbr></wbr>rebellion.html</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html&source=gmail&ust=1598612859873000&usg=AFQjCNHmSSUo6SKyQk7QUOaN1PSEZuq0rg" href="https://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html" target="_blank">https://<wbr></wbr>globalpoliticalshenanigans.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/2019/10/<wbr></wbr>appendices-to-spotlighton-<wbr></wbr>extinction.html</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Best regards and hopes for intelligent, open-minded conversations,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pete Ridley, CACC denier</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">************************ </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Comment posted to Margaret Salamon's blog</b> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (</span><a href="http://theclimatepsychologist.com/about-the-author/#comment-15722">http://theclimatepsychologist.com/about-the-author/#comment-15722</a>)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pete Ridley </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">says: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://theclimatepsychologist.com/about-the-author/#comment-21924">August 27, 2020 at 12:52 P</a>M</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Your comment is awaiting moderation. This is a preview, your comment will be visible after it has been approved.</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hi Geoffrey,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wonder what your definition of “good people” is. Do you class as “bad people” those, like me, who reject the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change (CACC) hypothesis ? If so what would you have “good people” do about them?</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For more on those “good people?” at TCM see subsections 3.1.30, 3.2.4 and Appendix A5.4 of “SpotlightON: Extinction Rebellion … ” (<a href="https://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html">https://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html</a> and <a href="https://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html">https://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Best Regards, Pete</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(see Footnote 1 for more on this comment and the cause of it).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>FOOTNOTES</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CACC evangelist Dr Geoffrey Chia, </span>MBBS, MRCP, FRACP, is a <span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-right;">Cardiologist ba</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-right;">sed at the </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Wesley Medical Centre </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-right;">in </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">Auchenflower, QLD 4066</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-right;">, Au</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-right;">stralia (convener of the “Doctors and Scientists for Sustainability and Social Justice” group from 2006 to 2013). </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 4th May 2020 he<span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-right;"> posted</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-right;"> a comment on Margaret Klein Salamon's blog, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">commenting on what Margaret had said in a radio interview, part of which was that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">“The corona virus is a tiny fraction of what we are in for with the climate emergency …. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">We are on a collision course with the collapse of civilisation .. I personally do not expect to die of natural causes .. (but) .. from the chaos and breakdown that the climate emergency is sowing .. it is not a reality we can afford to forget even when we are facing another crisis .. ”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His comment included " .. <span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Dear Dr Salamon, </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">These painful but truthful words from you .. struck a chord with me: .. </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Horrible premature death is certainly likely for those who continue to pursue a grid-dependent city or suburban lifestyle, but is not necessarily applicable to those who establish an off-grid lifestyle in a remote climate resilient location where you can grow your own food .. that is the only thing worth doing now .. the neoliberal, neoclassical, neocolonial, neoconartist economic system .. is the major driver of climate catastrophe .. </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Good people need to save themselves and help save as many other good people as they can .. ".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He included links to </span><a href="http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/blog/2019/11/24/the-economic-oil-nexus-eon-part-1-why-have-low-oil-prices-and-various-economic-stimuli-over-the-past-several-years-failed-to-restore-global-economic-growth/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/blog/</a> where his "tiny house" lifestyle notions are frequently presented. These can also be found on the Resilience.org blog <a href="https://www.resilience.org/resilience-author/geoffrey-chia/">https://www.resilience.org/resilience-author/geoffrey-chia/</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It appears that Geoffrey's notion of "good people" is those who live sustainably in a "tiny house" similar to his own, burning wood instead of fossil fuels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2019 Geoffrey offered his "expert" opinion and advice to Extinction Rebellion " .. <span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">There is absolutely nothing you can do about the looming general die-off. You can however take steps to reduce the likelihood that you and your family and friends will die horribly in the next few decade. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #384553; text-align: left;">Please note that </span><span style="color: #384553; text-align: left;"><u>nobody's</u></span><span style="color: #384553; text-align: left;"> survival is guaranteed. All anyone can do is increase the </span><span style="color: #384553; text-align: left;"><u>probability</u></span><span style="color: #384553; text-align: left;"> of their survival</span><span style="text-align: start;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">.. " (</span></span><a href="http://econintersect.com/pages/opinion/opinion.php?post=201906300247">http://econintersect.com/pages/opinion/opinion.php?post=201906300247</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">His advice to XR members on their options included " .. </span></span><strong style="font-family: arial;">What should you do?</strong><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">.. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">If you have .. no intention or ability to change your lifestyle .. You may make a personal choice to go down with the Titanic and nobody can criticise you for that. However telling others to "abandon hopium" ,, </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">so that they too will be dragged down and die alongside you, is completely unacceptable. Only a malicious turd, a "Kool Aid" Jim Jones type homicidal psychopath, would do such a thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; text-align: start;">If you have assets, liquidate them to purchase remote land in a climate resilient location with sufficient fresh water to grow food .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; text-align: start;">Set up several tiny dwellings on your land, each powered by standalone off-grid solar electricity systems. You will need help establishing your permaculture homestead from young energetic Sapients who may be found among existing Extinction Rebellion and School Strike for Climate members. They can reside in the tiny dwellings and engage in an exchange economy without involving money. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; text-align: start;">If you are forced to continue working in a city to fund your remote homestead, ensure you have the means to bug out at short notice to travel to your “bolt hole". Travelling by road post collapse may be difficult due to blockades, fuel constraints and rampaging zombie hordes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; text-align: start;">If your remote homestead is coastal, a sailboat may be the best way out, a literal lifeboat for you. .. Cities will be the killing fields of the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; text-align: start;">If you have no assets .. make yourselves known to those setting up homesteads and develop skills so you can help grow food or provide useful services for your prospective off-grid community ..</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You will need to use fossil fuels to set up your homesteads. Do not agonise over that, just do it .. ".</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Geoffrey complains that " .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">I have written open letters to various parties in the past, with little to no results .. ". <b>I wonder why??!!!?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Any who feel they can stomach more of Dr. Geoffrey Chia's "open letter" medicine for saving the world can get more doses at <a href="http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/blog/2019/06/29/open-letter-to-extinction-rebellion/">http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/blog/2019/06/29/open-letter-to-extinction-rebellion/</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sneaked among his long rant of nonsense he does include a few tiny snippets of sound advice under " .. </span><strong style="font-family: arial; text-align: start;">What should you </strong><strong style="font-family: arial; text-align: start;">not believe?/</strong><strong style="font-family: arial; text-align: start;">believe?</strong><span style="font-family: "arial"; text-align: start;"> .. " such as " .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; text-align: start;">Do NOT believe in the misleading pronouncements spouted by Politicians, Corporations, the mainstream Media .. Economists and even the IPCC (which is more a political than scientific body). Be extremely critical of information coming from even Academia as they too may be subject to delivering corrupt, distorted messages .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; text-align: start;">You must believe in reality. REALITY BEATS ANY RUBBISH .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; text-align: start;">You must listen to those scientists with a track record of getting things right .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; text-align: start;">". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His conclusion says " .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; text-align: start;">It is possible, perhaps even highly probable, that humanity may go extinct by the end of this century but it is by no means a certainty. Massive population die-off however is an absolute certainty, there is no credible scenario in which it can be avoided .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; text-align: start;">it is in</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">evitable that humanity will try to emigrate to a thawing Antarctica which may be the last liveable location on the planet .. That will be the next great challenge .. ". </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We can only hope that he enjoys being a hermit there in his "Tiny House", growing his own food and producing his renewable energy. Long may it last.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; text-align: start;">One thing for sure, like the various parties to whom he has written, ignore what Dr. Geoffrey Chia has to say about climate change and how to tackle it. Instead, </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">apply your own critical thinking then form your own opinions based on knowledge, not ignorance.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">Here's a piece of advice for Dr. Geoffrey - </span><span style="background-color: white;">Cardiology is irrelevant as far as understanding the processes and drivers of the different global climates so </span><span style="text-align: start;">stick to your area of expertise</span><span style="text-align: start;">, such as</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">coronary angiograms, transoesophageal echoes and permanent pacemaker implantations (</span><a href="https://wesley.com.au/doctors/Geoffrey-Chia">https://wesley.com.au/doctors/Geoffrey-Chia</a>). </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">L</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eave climate change to scientists who are educated, trained and experienced in relevant hard scientific disciplines such as </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Maths. Physics, Chemistry, Meteorology, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Spectometry, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Geology, Physical Geography, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">Palaeontology, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">etc</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Several attempts have been made to contact Dr. Chia in order to try to have a meaningful conversation with him on the CACC issue, about which he has extreme opinions, but, as with no response yet. Maybe he has already set off for Antarctica, with a boat-load of materials for his new "Tiny House" etc. He'll not be worried about having to use all of that carbon-producing fossil fuel to get there and get set up in his new home. He recognises that it's too late (for him). </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">One thing that cardiologist Dr. Geoffrey Chai, </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">MBBS, MRCP, FRACP</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> may overlook when </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">setting up his solar-powered electricity generation system in his new home in Antarctica - the coldest time there is when little or no sun is shining on those solar panels. Also, those batteries won't last forever, so he's doomed like the rest of life on Earth. If he packs a tanker-full of fuel and a diesel generator then he may survive a little longer, but he's doomed anyway - </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Shame!!!!</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hi Philip and David, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I write in response to the invitation in the Darebin "Strategy" document for " .. contributions from people and organisations in the Darebin municipality .. and elsewhere .. " (<a href="https://www.voteplanet.net/uploads/1/2/7/5/12758111/darebin-climate-emergency-plan-v4.pdf">https://www.voteplanet.net/uploads/1/2/7/5/12758111/darebin-climate-emergency-plan-v4.pdf</a>). </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a result of my interest since March 15th 2007 in the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change (CACC) Hypothesis I was attracted to the antics of Extinction Rebellion founding members and significant supporters. That led me to Ezra Silk, co-founder of the Climate Mobilization organisation, who claims to have learnt all that he knows about climate change from your Philip. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I note that for decades you both have extensively written on and advised about a "climate emergency". That raises the question of how much you know about the subject. I have searched and searched the Internet for anything about your education, training and experience in the hard sciences essential to having any hope of understanding the processes and drivers of th different global climates but have drawn a blank - although I recall a mention of you Philip being qualified in Physical Geography, a discipline which has some relevance. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Please would you both be kind enough to provide me with details of your relevant education, training and experience so that I can add them to my blog article "SpotlightON: Extinction Rebellion". I give you both a mention in subsection 3.2.4 THE CLIMATE MOBILIZATION ORGANISATION. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If either of you have any comments about or objections to what I say then please advise so that I can review and make any changes or apologies that I consider to be warranted. I do not wish to mislead anyone, only to encourage others to use critical thinking rather than simply accepting on face value what others say/write. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I hope that you both reply to this E-mail but am happy to accept a null response as indicating no objections to what I have written about you in my article and no relevant education, training or experience in those hard sciences Maths. Physics, Chemistry, Meteorology, Spectometry, Geology, Physical Geography, Palaeontology, etc. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Best regards, Pete </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aug. 18, 2020, 4:30 PM</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hi Philip and David,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I forgot to give you the URL for my article SpotlightON: Extinction Rebellion ... " ( <a href="https://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html">https://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have made recent updates to subsections 3.1.30 and 3.2.4 which you may wish to comment on. If I do not hear from you then I'll accept that as indicating that there is nothing therein that you find contentious.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aug. 18, 2020, 10:33 PM</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Subject: Re: Education/Training/Experience</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Peter,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> You should not assume that not hearing from me indicates anything, especially that I do or do not find anything contentious in something that I may or may not have read that was sent to me unsolicited. I have a backlog of hundreds of emails.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">David Spratt</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">*************************************</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aug 19, 2020 at 5:09 AM</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To: Peter Ridley</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cc: David Spratt, Philip Sutton</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Subject: Re: Education/Training/Experience</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hi Pete,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">David Spratt forwarded your email.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. I hope that you both reply to this E-mail but am happy to accept a null response as indicating no objections to what I have written about you in my article and no relevant education, training or experience in those hard sciences Maths. Physics, Chemistry, Meteorology, Spectometry, Geology, Physical Geography, Palaeontology, etc. .. "</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I specifically do not give you permission to assume anyhing about my attitude to anythiing you write or say about me, at any time, including about my education/ training/ experience, and I reserve the right to object at any time to anything you say about me.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your proposal to take a null response from me as indicating no objections is unprofessional and untenable, and I absolutely do not accept it.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For your information, I have never at any stage had any involvement in or affiliation with Extinction Rebellion.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Regards,Philip Sutton.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have never denied your " .. right to object at any time to anything you say about me .. ", On the contrary, in my first E-mail I invited you so to do. I'll be delighted to hear from you if you feel like doing so in order that I can review and improve my article if warranted - be my guest!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Regarding " .. For your information, I have never at any stage had any involvement in or affiliation with Extinction Rebellion .. " I have made note of that in my article. I have also pointed out that Extinction Rebellion is significantly influenced by and has similar motives and strategies to those of other organisations that support the CACC hypothesis, therefore some such other organisations are covered in the article. The Climate Mobilization organisation, which preceded XR by several years, is one such organisation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After reading through Christopher West's very interesting runner-up submission to the CiS 2020 essay competition (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.cis.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2nd-2019-C-West-CiS-Essay-2.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1598797861219000&usg=AFQjCNFdgkBu1S9otHr7pBAmmnXt-oKvqw" href="https://www.cis.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2nd-2019-C-West-CiS-Essay-2.pdf" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://www.cis.org.uk/wp-<wbr></wbr>content/uploads/2019/11/2nd-<wbr></wbr>2019-C-West-CiS-Essay-2.pdf</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">) I came across an American evangelical Roman Catholic with the same name (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://corproject.com/about-christopher-west/&source=gmail&ust=1598797861219000&usg=AFQjCNHzKZTydhMjP3E_hEbSchl63lgHsQ" href="http://corproject.com/about-christopher-west/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">http://corproject.com/about-<wbr></wbr>christopher-west/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). From the information provided wrt the CiS submission it is not clear whether the two are one and the same Christopher West. Both have a very strong commitment to Christianity so It seems too much of a coincidence not to be so, but are you able to resolve this for me. If not then would you be able to provide contact details for the Christopher West who won that runner-up award?</span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From: </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pete Ridley</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Subject: </b>Christopher West amnd Christopher West</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="text-align: start;"><b>6 Aug 2020 at 12:29</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hi Diana,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />I'm following up on Steph's request for your assistance on whether or not the 2020 CiS essay runner-up Chris is also the evangellist Chris (see appended email of 30 July). If you can't help on this then would you be able to contact the runner-up Chris and ask him if he'd get in touch with me? I'm keen to clarify this point in the CiS sub-section of my article on Extinction Rebellion. Also, depending upon the outcome it may have relevance for my work-in-progress article "SpotlightON: Christians in Science and Technology".</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">....</span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Best regards, Pete</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>To:</b> Pete Ridley</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Subject:</b> Re. David West and David West</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Date:</b> Fri, 28 Aug 2020 at 07:56</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dear Pete,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Apologies for the delay replying.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Christopher West who submitted the article to the essay competition is a Masters student in Theological Studies at Trinity College Dublin.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you would like to be in touch with him I can certainly contact him on your behalf and ask if he is happy for me to pass on his contact details.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Best wishes,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Diana</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>To:</b> Dianna Briggs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Subject:</b> Re. Christopher West and Christopher West</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Date:</b> <span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">28 Aug 2020, 16:49</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hi Diana,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks very much for your efforts. It certainly does look as though the two Christopher Wests could be one and the same. I am happy for you to pass on this thread of E-mails to Christopher in the hopes that he will confirm or otherwise and in any case be open to having exchanges on that vexed subject of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Best regards, Pete</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">***********************************</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #222222;">Date: </span></span></b><span style="text-align: start;">28 Aug 2020, 18:22</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">Dear Pete,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="text-align: start;" /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">I hope and trust this finds you safe and well, especially under the current circumstances.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="text-align: start;" /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">Dr Diana Briggs, the General Secretary for Christians in Science, kindly passed on your correspondence about my contribution for last year’s essay competition. It was encouraging to read about your interest in my essay, and – on a much more significant note – your interest in how we might respond to the ecological crisis. If you are interested in reading about Christian perspective on the associated issues, might I suggest the Earth Bible Commentary series? Margaret Daly-Denton’s work on John’s Gospel is especially worth reading.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="text-align: start;" /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">The other Christopher West you mention in your emails is a university lecturer and quite a prolific writer, whereas I am a postgraduate student. We also operate within different theological traditions, different parts of the Christian family – he is a theologian from the Roman Catholic tradition, whereas I am a deacon in the Anglican tradition. Interestingly enough, our areas of interest are almost identical: he has produced extensive treatments of the theology of the body; my own research concerns embodiment in relation to eucharistic theology (I have just completed a Master’s thesis on the subject).</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br style="text-align: start;" /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">All good wishes, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">Christopher.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span data-hovercard-id="diana.briggs@gmail.com" data-hovercard-owner-id="148" email="diana.briggs@gmail.com" style="text-align: start;"><b>From:</b> Pete Ridley</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span data-hovercard-id="diana.briggs@gmail.com" data-hovercard-owner-id="148" email="diana.briggs@gmail.com" style="text-align: start;"><b>To:</b> Christopher West</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span data-hovercard-id="diana.briggs@gmail.com" data-hovercard-owner-id="148" email="diana.briggs@gmail.com" style="text-align: start;"><b>Cc:</b> Diana Briggs, </span><span style="text-align: left;">Stephanie </span><span style="text-align: left;">Bevan</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks very much for making the time to chat with me. Yes, I'm one of the lucky ones, very fortunate (at 83) to be in excellent health and as safe, comfortable and happy as any of us can be in this dangerous but wonderful world.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks also for clearing up my puzzlement about the other Christopher West. I can now update subsection 3.2.2 "Christians in Science" of my article "SpotlightON: Extinction Rebellion ... " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html&source=gmail&ust=1598786174309000&usg=AFQjCNHTM9m6I6YX9WANQqZEuDYXjC6FmQ" href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>globalpoliticalshenanigans.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/2019/04/<wbr></wbr>spotlighton-extinction-<wbr></wbr>rebellion.html</a> on that, otherwise my comments about you appear to be correct. If not then please advise. Discussions on my article in general are also welcome from anyone so inclined, although try as I might, members of XR and other organisations mentioned therein (CiS, The Climate Mobilization, The Open Philanthropy Project) have so far declined my invitation. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Reference is often made by others to "climate truth" when promoting the CACC hypothesis but when pushed for evidence substantiating their version of truth they fall silent. I wonder why!! Perhaps it has something to do with the quote from that renowned environmentalist Dr. James Lovelock FRS that I present at the head of my XR article - "Fear feeds on ignorance".</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My interest in your essay on XR arose through my research into XR's founding members. One such leading light is theologian Stuart Basden, leading me to his devout father Andrew, thence to <span style="text-align: justify;">The Climate Change and Global Economics Group and John Lockwood (</span>who is a member of CiS) thence to you. It's a never-ending thread of intrigue which keeps me well out of mischief.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You make reference to my apparent interest in an ecological crisis. My primary areas of interest at present are not in any perceived ecological crisis but in the hypothesised imminent climate apocalypse arising from our burgeoning use of fossil fuels and the:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- mindless actions of gullible individuals who are driven by fear of the unknown,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- the real and varied objectives of those individuals and cliques who are goading the gullible,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- potentially catastrophic consequences of implimenting misguided climate change mitigation policies,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- waste on a fantasy of valuable resources that would be better expended aiding actual deprived global millions of humans,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- ever-present dishonesty in the political fraternity.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My XR article makes clear my position on much of this.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I would be surprised if you had bothered to read all of that long thread of E-mail exchanges that Dianna sent you so I'll repeat my 29 July comment to CiS's Steph Bevan about how I first became involved in the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change (CACC) issue back in the "naughties" (remember the hype leading up to the IPCC's 2009 CoP15 "Copenhagen Catastrophe" and those expensive, fossil-fuelled shindigs the 1000's of politicians, environmentalist and journalist have every four years - hopefully this year's in Glasgow will be reduced to a "virtual" shindig due to that genuine global crisis, Covid19)..</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b style="word-spacing: 0px;"><u><br /></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My interest in CACC was sparked by a 15th March 2007 Sunday Times Magazine article (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.adishakti.org/_/to_the_end_of_the_earth_six_degrees.htm&source=gmail&ust=1598786174309000&usg=AFQjCNGMmtsBwUm7v1oANRffkXrzAJ8CHw" href="http://www.adishakti.org/_/to_the_end_of_the_earth_six_degrees.htm" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">http://www.adishakti.<wbr></wbr>org/_/to_the_end_of_the_earth_<wbr></wbr>six_degrees.htm</a>) reviewing the booklet "Six Degrees: Our future on a hotter planet" by environmental activist Mark Lynas. (If you want a scary piece of science fiction to read in bed, that fits the bill). Maybe one of the CiS presenters at your southern conference on the environment would be interested in reviewing that booklet and debating the flaws and misleading claims made by Lynas. I challenged him over about 12 that I found in just the first few chapters but he declined to respond</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When XR started its disruptive gatherings in Spring 2019 the misleading impression given in the media was that it was a CACC campaining organisation so I joined the St. Albans chapter. At the one and only meeting that I attended I was astounded to hear one of XR's "educators" (a Kiwi who tours the country spreading the XR message to the various chapters and anyone else who'll listen) say that she opted to be a "non-arrestable" when demonstrating because she didn't want to impact her application for UK citizenship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Applicants have to SWEAR an OATH that they will abide by UK law, yet she is a leading member of an organisation with the declared tactic of committing criminal actions. I sincerely hope that her application failed.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This blatant dishonesty by a leading member of XR inspired me to investigate the movements leaders, revealing that they appear to be simply using the CACC issue to attract support for its disruptive actions, the real objective being to replace global economic and political systems with ANARCHY. That's not something that I could ever give my support to. Unfortunately it appears that few of XR's supporters have bothered to do any of their own due diligence</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is all discussed in my work-in-progress article "SpotlightON: ExtinctionRebellion/RisingUP?/<wbr></wbr>CompassionateRevolution!".</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you may by now appreciate, once I get started on this I find it hard to stop. If I am boring you then please shout HALT. .. </span><u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></u><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;"><u><b><br /></b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;"><u><b> .. UNQUOTE</b></u></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I close my rant making the point that my real objective in all of this is to try to persuade others to use critical thinking when forming opinions, rather than simply accepting what others tell them, be it about the:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- causes of the different global climates and any changes thereto, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- difference between weather events and climates,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- real objectives of the likes of politicians/advertisers/<wbr></wbr>promoters/publicists/etc;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- origins of different religious beliefs and what motivates their ideologues.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ppphhheeeww - coffe time!!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Best regards, Pete</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sadly deceased leading environmentalist campaigner and CACC propagandist Dr. Stephen Henry Schneider (d2010) infamously declared in 1989 " .. On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but .. On the other hand .. we’d like to see the world a better place .. To do that <b>we need to .. capture the public’s imagination</b> .. <b>So</b> <b>we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have</b> .. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest .. " (bold added).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This revealing statement has been discussed ad-nauseam in the blogoshere, e.g. see:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- <a href="http://www.john-daly.com/schneidr.htm">http://www.john-daly.com/schneidr.htm</a> ,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/04/11/the-person-who-set-the-stage-for-entire-deception-of-human-caused-global-warming-agw-stephen-schneider/">https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/04/11/the-person-who-set-the-stage-for-entire-deception-of-human-caused-global-warming-agw-stephen-schneider/</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In that third article one-time University of Calgary Professor of Geography Dr. Tim Ball quotes from Schneider's scaremongering 1976 book reflecting scientific and media opinion about the predicted coming ice age </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. There is little food stored to cushion the shock of the kinds of weather problems that so suddenly and unexpectedly damaged crops in 1972, 1974 and 1975, and there is growing evidence that such damaging weather may occur more frequently in the next decade than in the last one. The most imminent and far reaching [danger] is the possibility of a food‐climate crisis that would burden the well to do countries with unprecedented hikes in food prices, but could mean famine and political instability for many parts of the nonindustrialized (sic) world .. ”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That sounds very like the pseudo-scientific scaremongering propaganda of the Extinction Rebellion organisation, the BBC, David Attenborough</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, Greta Thunborg (see Appendix A3), etc.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Schneider can be seen pushing his CACC propaganda to Australian sceptics <a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/Schneider%20responding%20to%20Australian%20sceptics%20(see%20https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6hCRafyV0zI&ebc=ANyPxKoSZcGkMjEYzgn37ebOTXH-pN8QqEk3bhfmfEckKrp9jJSiTCOxvCinnfcotb8k5iDwqEV9vYqt2Em2mGeVGeUyqazATg%20).">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back in the 1970s he was doing the same thing, but then it was all about global cooling and "The Coming Ice Age" (https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/schneider-went-from-cooling-alarmist-to-warming-alarmist-in-just-four-years/). He can be seen pushing both scares <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b2_g4ww6es">here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Competitive Enterprise Institute and PopTeck blogs provide numerous examples of Schneider-style scaremongering (see </span><a href="https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.populartechnology.net/2013/02/the-1970s-global-cooling-alarmism.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">http://www.populartechnology.net/2013/02/the-1970s-global-cooling-alarmism.html</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). Several are presented here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1967 " .. in the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death .. " (<a href="http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/858441468739780840/pdf/multi-page.pdf" target="_blank">http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/858441468739780840/pdf/multi-page.pdf</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1970 " .. the oceans will be as dead as Lake Erie in less than a decade .. " (Redlands Daily Facts, Tuesday 6th October - see <a href="https://realclimatescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image375_shadow.png" target="_blank">https://realclimatescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Image375_shadow.png</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On 23rd September 2019 a Sedish schoolgirl, 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, made a well-rehearsed, emotion-filled presentation of the CACC drama "You have stolen my dream, my childhood" to the UN in New York (</span><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TMrtLsQbaok&feature=youtu.be" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TMrtLsQbaok&feature=youtu.be</a><span style="font-family: "arial";">). </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She should be nominated for an Emmy "outstanding young actress" award.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The Thunbergs appear to have been little known outside Sweden until April 2019. That is when Greta gave a presentation to the rabble in London during their illegal disruptive action orchestrated by the Extinction Rebellion organisation. Since then Greta has become a darling of the global CACC movement, even being nominated for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize (see Footnote 3 of this sub-section). The whole Thunberg family is now basking in Greta's notoriety, which saw her winning </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #121212; font-family: "arial";">Sweden’s annual "Rights Livelihood" award for “inspiring and amplifying political demands for urgent climate action reflecting scientific facts”, worth a healthy £83,000 (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/sep/25/greta-thunberg-wins-alternative-nobel-environmental-work-guo-jianmei-right-livelihood-awards" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/sep/25/greta-thunberg-wins-alternative-nobel-environmental-work-guo-jianmei-right-livelihood-awards</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">That award, lucrative as it is, may well have turned out to be a great disappointment for the family. It could be why she failed to be awarded the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize (<a href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-nobel-prize-peace/a-nobel-for-swedens-greta-thunberg-a-tough-decision-for-prize-committee-idUKKBN1WA18W" target="_blank">https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-nobel-prize-peace/a-nobel-for-swedens-greta-thunberg-a-tough-decision-for-prize-committee-idUKKBN1WA18W</a>), worth ten times as much as the Rights Livelihood one. Fortunately, common sense prevailed and the 2019 prize went to a worthy winner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Greta said on Twitter that " .. I have Asperger’s, which means that my brain works in a slightly different way. I see things in black and white, with logic .. I’m the kind of person who does not like it when someone says one thing and does another, and that’s the case with climate change .. " (<a href="https://bluevisionbraskem.com/en/human-development/who-is-greta-thunberg-16-year-old-activist-nobel-prize-nominee/" target="_blank">https://bluevisionbraskem.com/en/human-development/who-is-greta-thunberg-16-year-old-activist-nobel-prize-nominee/</a>). </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A major flaw in her "logic" is that her conclusion is based upon her BELIEF that our CO2 emissions are an existential threat. There is no convincing evidence that this is a FACT. It is pure speculation. Even her very distant relative Svante Arrhenius saw the potential benefits of a warmer world (</span><a href="https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/GlobalWarmingABalanceSheet.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/GlobalWarmingABalanceSheet.html</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Although there may be no grey areas when it comes to survival, </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">when it comes to a scientific understanding of the processes and drivers of the different global climates </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">there are enormous areas of different shades of grey and even more concerning human impact upon them. Damaging weather events around the globe are used by CACC supporters as evidence of a fantasised climate catastrophe resulting from our use of fossil fuels but isolated weather events are NOT climate change. Also, climate change has been a natural "existential threat" since life first appeared on Earth, long before humans started using fossil fuels. Life has never and does not "just carry on as before". Instead it ADAPTS to whatever Mother Nature decides to throw at it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Like so many other </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">CACC hypothesis </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">supporters, Greta and her parents appear to have inadequate education, training or experience of the essential hard sciences required, such as Maths, Physics, Chemistry, <span style="font-size: 16px;">Spectrometry </span>and Meteorology. Her parents should be encouraging her to study these (and it takes years of hard study for even the most brilliant students) rather than encouraging her to skip school in order to promote the CACC propaganda from a position of ignorance. Of course, not everyone has the intellectual capacity for those hard sciences, being more inclined towards the arts (see Footnote 4 to this sub-section). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Right-thinking adults should fully appreciate this fact but Greta's parents and others who are supporting/using her scaremongering activities (and those of other children who follow her lead) have chosen to close their minds to it. They appear more interested in promoting the fantasised "Climate Crisis" on the world stage, for whatever reasons of vested interests that drive them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 19.5px;">- In September 2019 "</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 1.1;">Breaking the Glamour of Greta Thunberg </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 1.1;">(</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thezenpagan/2019/09/breaking-the-glamour-of-greta-thunberg/">https://www.patheos.com/blogs/thezenpagan/2019/09/breaking-the-glamour-of-greta-thunberg/</a>),</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- in March 2019 </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">"Climate Change Student Strikes: An Aspergers Kid Believed Climate Change Claims" (</span><a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/11/climate-change-student-strikes-an-aspergers-kid-believed-climate-change-claims/" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/11/climate-change-student-strikes-an-aspergers-kid-believed-climate-change-claims/</a><span style="font-family: "arial";">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">1) Greta's mother will no doubt have had a significant influence on her daughter's mind-set. Malena Erman Thunberg'<span style="font-family: "arial";">s environmental activism preceded that of her daughter Greta by several years.</span> For her efforts she shared an award from that scaremongering environmental organisation the WWF (see Footnote 4 of sub-section 3.1.7). </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">On 11th October 2017</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">" .. King Carl Gustaf .. delivered the Environmental Hero of the Year Awards to opera singer Malena Ernman for her commitment to the climate issue .. " (</span><a href="http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/f241/king-carl-xvi-gustaf-and-queen-silvia-current-events-part-10-feb-2016-july-2018-a-40254-18.html" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank">http://www.theroyalforums.com/forums/f241/king-carl-xvi-gustaf-and-queen-silvia-current-events-part-10-feb-2016-july-2018-a-40254-18.html</a><span style="font-family: "arial";">).</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Malena said of her 2017 WWF award " .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">- It is a tremenduous honor to be named the Environmental Hero of the Year. My small role in the environmental movement is as a public person trying to lend my voice to those who are not heard in the media noise. No other issue is more important or more difficult to spread. Communicating the climate issue is a bit like running right into a rock wall every day. For each day, we are getting more and more close up. And every day, the rock wall starts to fall .. " (<a href="https://www.wwf.se/pressmeddelande/artisten-malena-ernman-och-biologen-rebecka-le-moine-utsedda-till-arets-miljohjaltar-av-wwf-2689982/" target="_blank">https://www.wwf.se/pressmeddelande/artisten-malena-ernman-och-biologen-rebecka-le-moine-utsedda-till-arets-miljohjaltar-av-wwf-2689982/</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Six months earlier, when interviewed following he</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">r and Greta's participation in a climate change demonstration, Malena had sagely declared " .. We have to change our habits and leave the fossil behind us. We are facing a climate disaster if we do not act now .. unfortunately, there are no magic inventions that will solve the problems for us. We must change to a completely renewable and sustainable society .. " (<a href="https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/Pb08J/malena-ernmans-protest-rovhattar" target="_blank">https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/Pb08J/malena-ernmans-protest-rovhattar</a>). Not bad for someone completely devoid of relevant education, training or experience in any relevant science!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2) In that Scientists Warning talk the presenter made reference to Svante Arrhenius's prediction of global warming due to our CO2 emissions, then claimed that Arrhenius had predicted a climate catastrophe. Arrhenius predicted just the opposite, anticipating significant benefits for life on Earth. The Scientists Warning presenter followed that with comments about the relationship of the Thunbergs with Arrhenius and threw in the possibility of "destiny" being a factor in Greta's activities. Destiny has nothing to do with Greta Thunberg's current high profile with CACC supporters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Recall that Allison Green (3.1.27) is the UK "Director" of the Scientists Warning blog, which may account for how this presentation came about.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">3) </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Greta's nomination for a Nobel Prize for Peace is as big a joke as the 2007 award to the IPCC and Al Gore</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">The UK's High Court found Al Gore guilty of spreading a highly misleading CACC message with his dramatic pseudo-scientific production "An Inconvenient Truth",used by teachers in an attempt to indoctrinate UK schoolchildren with CACC propaganda. The court found 9 significant misleading errors among numerous others, ruling that " ..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">(<a href="https://climatesanity.wordpress.com/criticisms-or-al-gores-an-inconvenient-truth/)" target="_blank">https://climatesanity.wordpress.com/criticisms-or-al-gores-an-inconvenient-truth/)</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">4) Both of Greta's parents have achieved success in the arts, Malena as a singer and Svante as an actor/producer/writer but neither demonstrate any competence in any science. Svante's father, actor Olof Thunberg, is descended from <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Carolina Thunberg, the wife of renowned physicist Svante Arrhenius's father (</span><a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/science-and-technology/chemistry-biographies/svante-august-arrhenius" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/science-and-technology/chemistry-biographies/svante-august-arrhenius</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span> That brilliant physical chemist </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">was awarded the 1903 Nobel Prize for Chemistry and. " .. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial";">was the first to use basic principles of physical chemistry to estimate the extent to which increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide are responsible for the Earth's increasing surface temperature .. " (</span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius</a><span style="font-family: "arial";">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It has been claimed that Greta Thunberg's father was named after Svante Arrhenius, which may be correct because tof that distant family relationship. Some have gone so far as to claim that he (hence Greta) is even a descendent of Arrhenius. That is incorrect if the relationship is simply through Arrhenius's mother.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5) Of course, rather than Greta having been simply raised inappropriately for someone with her particular attributes, the whole escapade that brought her to stardom might have been been very carefully orchestrated! Could that possibly be the case, rather than just a natural emotional reaction to the pleas of a disturbed youngster? With people like Ingmar Rentzhog and Al Gore (see Footnote 3 above) involved from very early on one has to wonder!!!!! - see "The Greta deception" ((<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iamawake.co/greta-thunberg-deception-we-dont-have-time-global-warming/&source=gmail&ust=1570097272200000&usg=AFQjCNHo_mY1j-NdJqJMnsYOSFpVyjHvBQ" href="http://www.iamawake.co/greta-thunberg-deception-we-dont-have-time-global-warming/" target="_blank">http://www.iamawake.co/<wbr></wbr>greta-thunberg-deception-we-<wbr></wbr>dont-have-time-global-warming/</a><wbr></wbr>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rentzhog is one of those </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Climate Reality Leaders" trained by Gore to spread the CACC propaganda around the world. He claims that " .. climate change is an on-going catastrophe ..we need to act now .. " (https://www.finance-monthly.com/2018/07/climate-change-we-dont-have-time/). </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He also believes that " .. The political and economic elites are clearly not taking climate change and the threat against our ecosystems seriously enough .. real change will only come if a movement of ordinary citizens from all over the world demands change .. " - just the mindset that the founding members of ExtinctionRebellion/RisingUP?/CompassionateRevoluitionLtd are looking for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Francis Bacon (1561-1626)</b> " .. These idols are built up in the field of theology, philosophy, and science, and because they are defended by learned groups are accepted without question by the masses. When false philosophies have .. attained a wide sphere of dominion in the world .. they are no longer questioned. False superstructures are raised on false foundations, and in the end systems barren of merit parade their grandeur on the stage of the world .. They say it is observed in the Low Countries (I know not in what part), that every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of years and weathers comes about again; as great frosts, great wet, great droughts, warm winters, summers with little heat, and the like .. ".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More can be found at </span><a href="http://www.historyscoper.com/climatescope.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">http://www.historyscoper.com/climatescope.html</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the "acknowledgements" for his July 2018 IFLAS article on the concept he commented " .. I had to block out time to review climate science for the first time since I was at Cambridge University in 1994 .. ". It appears from Jem's list of references (pages 27-34 of his article) that his "review" was simply of scare-mongering propaganda about the fantasised catastrophic impact of our use of fossil fuels on the different global climates (much of which has originated from Cambridge University, a globally renowned hot-bed of CACC propaganda).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jem claims that " .. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to provide readers with an opportunity to reassess their work and life in the face of <b>an inevitable near- term social collapse due to climate change</b> .. with <b>serious ramifications for the lives of readers</b> .. it is premised on the view that <b>social collapse is now inevitable</b> .. The author believes this is one of the first papers in the sustainability management field to conclude that <b>climate-induced societal collapse is now inevitable in the near term</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> .. I outline a “Deep Adaptation Agenda” to help guide discussions on what we might do once we recognise <b>climate change is an unfolding tragedy</b> .. the <b>information on our climate predicament is so negative</b> .. (NB: the CACC propaganda used as the foundation for Jem's "deep adaptation agenda" is NOT information - i.e. facts provided or learned about. Wild speculation is not fact) .. impacts will be far more rapid and severe than predictions based on linear projections .. <b>the changes no longer correlate with the rate of anthropogenic carbon emissions </b>(NB: not a mention from Jem of the FACT that even CACC-supporting scientists recognise that there has been virtually no change in mean global temperature throughout this century - the hiatus - despite the steady increase in atmospheric CO2) .. In other words - ‘<b>runaway climate change</b>.’ .. " (bold added).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jem’s beliefs in inevitable near-term societal collapse </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">induced</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> by a fantasised unfolding climate tragedy arising from our burgeoning use of fossil fuels </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">are fundamental to the CACC hypothesis. Fortunately there is no convincing scientific evidence to support them - only that there is indeed a potential (but insignificant) warming effect arising from the increasing atmospheric "greenhouse" gasses like carbon dioxide (not carbon, as Jem and other CACC scaremongers prefer to call it). This FACT is not disputed by relevantly qualified and experienced CACC-sceptical scientists such as those listed in sub-section 3.1.50, Footnote 3.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As Ronald Bailey said in March 2019 " .. I must conclude, that .. Bendell is engaging in "<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2017/07/13/apocalypse-abuse-and-climate-doomism">apocalypse abuse</a>." Like <a href="https://reason.com/blog/2018/03/22/civilization-doomed-says-stanford-biolog">earlier practitioners</a> of that suspect craft, Bendell operates chiefly by extrapolating only the most horrendous trends, while systematically ignoring any ameliorating or optimistic ones, offering worst-case scenarios in the guise of balanced presentations .. " (<a href="https://reason.com/2019/03/29/good-news-no-need-to-have-a-mental-break/">https://reason.com/2019/03/29/good-news-no-need-to-have-a-mental-break/</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The notion of imminent climate catastrophe/chaos/crisis/tragedy/etc.etc.etc. (CACC) links Extinction Rebellion and the notions of Sustainability and Global Citizenship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Speculation about looming Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change (CACC) arising from our use of fossil fuels has been promoted by politicians, environmentalists and the media for decades. In the 1970s the scaremongering was about global cooling towards a new ice-age It became global warming in the 1980's and more recently global climate change (near-surface based global measurements suggest a small mean global temperature increase of less than 1C during the last century, while they and more recent satellite measurements suggest no increase this century, even possible cooling). More on this is presented in Appendix A6.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The introduction of Development Education Centres in the UK (and globally) stems from the UN's" Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005/14" (<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Decade_of_Education_for_Sustainable_Development" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Decade_of_Education_for_Sustainable_Development</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Consortium of Development Education Centres (CoDEC - <a href="https://www.codec.org.uk/" target="_blank">https://www.codec.org.uk/</a>) comprises members from nearly 80 UK local authorities. It is a private company, limited by guarantee (#07198365), registered in 2010 by Eleanor Knowles (nee Thorpe).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CoDEC member (or is it alter ego?) CDEC (a charity, unlike CoDEC) has close links with Katie Carr, the partner of Jem Bendell (Main article, Sub-section 3.1.50). Katie was a Director of CDEC and is now an associate trainer (<a href="https://www.cdec.org.uk/about-us/meet-the-team/" target="_blank">https://www.cdec.org.uk/about-us/meet-the-team/</a>) with the Cumbria Development Education Centre, (a charity, #1156649). " .. we have strong links with .. the University of Cumbria, where we have ongoing links with the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability .. CDEC’s existing object as a charity in playing a leading role in the development of global citizenship as central to educational thinking in Cumbria .. " (pages 10 and 11 of <a href="http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends49/0001156649_AC_20190331_E_C.pdf" target="_blank">http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends49/0001156649_AC_20190331_E_C.pdf</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">UCL's " .. Douglas Bourn is the Director of the Development Education Research Centre, Institute of Education, University College London and editor of the International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning .. " (<a href="https://www.developmenteducationreview.com/issue/issue-20/development-education-global-learning-changing-agendas-and-priorities" target="_blank">https://www.developmenteducationreview.com/issue/issue-20/development-education-global-learning-changing-agendas-and-priorities</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SEVER is one of the largest and oldest Czech non-governmental organizations in the field of environmental and development education (sustainability education).. In our work, we pursue sustainable life on Earth. Through practical environmental education and awareness-raising ..We organize educational projects .. for primary and secondary schools .. offering courses, seminars, consultations, conferences, internships, teaching aids and literature for educators and pedagogy students. We also educate other groups of adults .. ".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">SOSNA was founded in 1992 by environmentalist Dr. Stefan Szabo, who says " .. I focus on issues of local sustainability and self-sufficiency, as well as environmental education and training of different age groups. Together with Silvia we also design natural gardens (<a href="http://festival.permakultura.sk/ucinkujuci/ing-stefan-szabo-phd/" target="_blank">festival.permakultura.sk/ucinkujuci/ing-stefan-szabo-phd/</a>). " .. from the beginning focused on environmental education. SOSNA has built its Eco-Center with the Natural Garden, which is a unique and inspiring example of an independent education center in Slovakia .. " (<a href="http://www.sosna.sk/node/23" target="_blank">http://www.sosna.sk/node/23</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The radical environmental movement of eco-saboteurs known as Deep Green Resistance (<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Green_Resistance</a><span style="color: #222222;">)</span> originated in North America. It claims to have "chapters" elsewhere, although these appear to be one-person operations or simply web-sites set up by the USA headquarters. Its "bible" is the 2011 book "Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet" by rabble-rousers Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Aric McBay (see Footnote 1 of this sub-section) .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> “ .. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">The book identifies civilization, patriarchy, and capitalism as the brutal arrangements of power that need to be dismantled if there is any chance of a liveable planet in the future. DGR argues for a concerted, focused, and serious resistance movement that can stop the murder of the planet before it‘s too late </span>.. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Those in DGR believe that the problems we face are systemic and reformist solutions will not work while industrial civilisation/capitalism still exists .. “</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(<a href="https://deepgreenresistance.uk/about-dgr-uk/" target="_blank">https://deepgreenresistance.uk/about-dgr-uk/</a>).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tied as these systems are to our burgeoning use of fossil fuels, Norris runs the "StopFossilFuels" blog as part of his campaign for "crashing the system as soon as possible". On his blog Norris says " .. Our first assumption will be that dangerous climate change involving a temperature rise of at least 4°C by 2100 is now inevitable .. " (<a href="https://stopfossilfuels.org/climate-disruption/catastrophic-without-direct-action/" target="_blank">https://stopfossilfuels.org/climate-disruption/catastrophic-without-direct-action/</a>). He provides not a scrap of scientific evidence to support that wild assumption and makes no mention of the evidence that there has been virtually no increase in mean global temperature during this century, despite a continuing steady increase in atmospheric CO2.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Referring to the book "Deep Green Resistance", Norris said in 2013 that " .. They lay out a strategy of simultaneously dismantling industrial civilization (primarily through underground activists sabotaging and disrupting critical industrial infrastructure), while networking aboveground activists to rebuild local alternative systems to take over as the global systems collapse (which will occur, sooner or later, whether or not an underground accelerates that collapse.) .. " (<a href="https://www.opednews.com/articles/From-Subsistence-to-Resist-by-Norris-Thomlinson-Anti-civilization_Permaculture_Resistance-131121-359.html" target="_blank">https://www.opednews.com/articles/From-Subsistence-to-Resist-by-Norris-Thomlinson-Anti-civilization_Permaculture_Resistance-131121-359.html</a>).</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unlike its parent organisation “ .. Deep Green Resistance UK is an above-ground group .. we will not have any involvement in violent direct action, or promotion of specific criminal actions, but we will engage in non-violent direct action, as well as advocating for an active underground .. “ (<a href="https://deepgreenresistance.uk/about-dgr-uk/">https://deepgreenresistance.uk/about-dgr-uk/</a>). The DGRUK web-site says nothing about its structure or membership.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sue's first response was little more than an invitation to join DGR as a “Guardian”. In her second response she simply made reference to a 30th November 2019 DGR gathering in Conway Hall, London. That was a " .. panel discussion followed by audience Q-and-A ..The panelists:</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- <b>Lierre Keith</b> .. writer, small farmer, and radical feminist activist .. coauthor, with Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay, of Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet ..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- <b>Simon Be</b> (see Footnote 4 of this sub-section). .. a gravedigger, celebrant, pagan and a holy troublemaker .. co-founded both Rising Up! and Extinction Rebellion and has been active with Earth First and other organisations.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- <b>Shahidah Janjua</b> .. a feminist activist, writer and campaigner .. campaigning against pornography, prostitution, violence against women and trafficking in women and children .. a founding member of the Women Into Politics project in the North of Ireland and a Refuge for Asian Women (Ashiana) in Sheffield .. her latest book of poetry, ‘Dimensions’, was published in Ireland in 2015 ..</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- <b>Nikki Clarke</b> .. anti-nuclear activist .. co-founder of South West Against Nuclear, a direct-action based campaign that has had a specific focus on Hinkley .. arrested for non-violent protests on numerous occasions and has had several court cases for her actions against nuclear weapons, nuclear power and fracking in the UK .. "</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Julian Langer, a Barnstable, North Devon folk musician and writer, was once DGRUK’s leading (if not sole) member, posting several articles on the DGRUK web-site (see Footnote 5 of this appendix). He sees himself as an anti-civilization eco-radical/anarchist, guerrilla ontologist and philosopher " .. a lover of woods, deer, badgers and other wild beings .. and a grassroots activist .. julianlanger1@yahoo.co.uk .. " (<a href="https://ecorevoltblog.wordpress.com/about/">https://ecorevoltblog.wordpress.com/about/</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Julian left DGR several years ago for various reasons, " .. most of which can be reduced to my general disagreements with the Left, but mostly because of the organisations stifling rigidity, because of its apparent anti-pluralism (which is very much an unconscious aspect of the group), the coinciding dogma that comes from that, and because I have little desire to be tied in any way to Jensen and Keith’s words regarding trans and queer folk and on anarchists .. " (<a href="https://ecorevoltblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/12/jensen-vs-the-anarchists/comment-page-1/">https://ecorevoltblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/12/jensen-vs-the-anarchists/comment-page-1/</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Those appear to be similar to the reasons why DGR co-author/founder Aric McBay withdrew his involvement with the organisation (see Footnote 1, Para. 4 of this sub=section).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Julian advised recently (23rd December 2019) that " .. the organisation has done a lot to damage relationships between environmentalists, feminists, anti-patriarchs, anti-colonialists and other tendencies - damaged more than they’ve healed! .. " (see also Footnote 1 of this sub-section).</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the 6th January 2020 Julian repeated his earlier request (ignored by DGR) that all of his writings be removed from its web pages (https://dgrnewsservice.org/activists/deep-green-resistance/julian-langer/). DGR founding member Lierre Keith has assured him that this will be attended to, however, copies remain available on the WayBackMachine Internet archive. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Julian appears to be equally unimpressed by Extinction Rebellion, but for totally different reasons (<a href="https://ecorevoltblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/30/who-is-extinction-rebellion-an-open-question/comment-page-1/#comment-474">https://ecorevoltblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/30/who-is-extinction-rebellion-an-open-question/comment-page-1/#comment-474</a>). Where DGR is fully supportive of physically sabotaging the tools and acts of our industrial civilisation, XR espouses and incites only passive unlawful disruption in order to destroy our economic and political systems.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CACC evangelist Max Wilbert, of the DGR chapter in Eugene, Seattle, USA, is a long-serving DGR member (<a href="https://dgrnewsservice.org/activists/deep-green-resistance/max-wilbert/">https://dgrnewsservice.org/activists/deep-green-resistance/max-wilbert/</a>). He appears to function as a global coordinator for DGR, advising recently that the DGRUK contact is Sue Breen (see sub-section 3.1.53). It is very puzzling why someone from the IRISH REPUBLIC should represent DGR in the UNITED KINGDOM. This cannot be because there is no appetite in the UK for DGR’s anti-civilisation shenanigans. After all, Extinction Rebellion, which originated in the UK, appears to have very similar destructive objectives to those of DGR and enjoys a ridiculous degree of support from the “sheeople” in the UK and several other countries. Maybe it has something to do with UK citizens being rather more averse to violent rebellion than some, therefore the non-violent action promoted by XR is more appealing.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2) Norris Thomlinson previously lived in Portland, Oregon with his partner Theressa (aka Tulsey) Latoski " .. Theressa and I moved into the Portland Permaculture Institute at the end of October .. " (see <a href="https://farmerscrub.blogspot.com/2006/03/">https://farmerscrub.blogspot.com/2006/03/</a> and <a href="https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-24135-the-big-apple.html">https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-24135-the-big-apple.html</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They provided details of their permaculture experiment in Portland (<a href="https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bes/article/428406">https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bes/article/428406</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He and Tulsey split up in February 2012 and in August he moved to Hawaii with new girlfriend Jasmine Vandenheuvel??? (see <a href="https://farmerscrub.blogspot.com/2012/08/">https://farmerscrub.blogspot.com/2012/08/</a> and <a href="https://farmerscrub.blogspot.com/2012/09/">https://farmerscrub.blogspot.com/2012/09/</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3) Norris feigns disdain for our industrial civilisation " .. I engaged with the larger community, trying to .. inspire others to disconnect, in part or whole, from the destructive systems of industrial civilization .. " (<a href="https://guymcpherson.com/2013/07/from-subsistence-to-resistance/">https://guymcpherson.com/2013/07/from-subsistence-to-resistance/</a>). Despite that, Norris still appears to enjoy many of the benefits that it has brought, such as telephones, fridges, solar panels, chargers, computers, the Internet, movies, books, etc. (e.g. see his blog <a href="http://farmerscrub.blogspot.com/">http://farmerscrub.blogspot.com/</a> and comments at <a href="https://guymcpherson.com/2013/07/from-subsistence-to-resistance/">https://guymcpherson.com/2013/07/from-subsistence-to-resistance/</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A quick look at his You-tube presentations shows him enjoying the use of a laptop (I-mac), a fine pair of spectacles and other benefits of modern civilisation,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2013 he tried to justify his dependence on the products of our industrial civilization with " .. , the use of compromising technologies and conveniences in the present would allow me to move ahead with my higher priority goals .. " (<a href="https://guymcpherson.com/2013/07/from-subsistence-to-resistance/">https://guymcpherson.com/2013/07/from-subsistence-to-resistance/</a>).</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The word "hypocrisy" springs to mind!</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4) "Simon Be" is identified as being RisingUp/CompassionateRevolution/XR founding member Simon Bramwell. This was confirmed by the panel chairwomen when introducing him at the Conway Hall gathering (see <a href="https://dgrnewsservice.org/resistance/by-any-means-necessary/">https://dgrnewsservice.org/resistance/by-any-means-necessary/</a> at 1min. 9secs see also Page 14 of The Policy Exchange report (see <a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/04/spotlighton-extinction-rebellion.html">Main Article</a> Section 1.0, Footnote 1).</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5) In one of his articles for DGR UK Julian Langer bemoaned the loss of " .. Devon’s dominant natural features .. grasses, broken up by hedges to mark differing areas of farmland .. " (<a href="https://deepgreenresistance.uk/civilization/ecocide/habitat-loss/situation-british-countryside/">https://deepgreenresistance.uk/civilization/ecocide/habitat-loss/situation-british-countryside/</a>). Those particular "dominant natural features" that Julian Langer expresses concerned about arose because of the development of civilization through agriculture, followed by industrialisation, things that DGR wants to destroy.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Extinction Rebellion isn’t about the climate .. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">never say we’re a climate movement</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> .. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">we’re not, </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We’re a Rebellion .. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">mass political action </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">that breaks the law. It's the most effective way .. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">to actually create </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">a</span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">crisis in society</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> .. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">to create </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">a</span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">new global regime</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> ..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> a separate, true, fundamental democracy .. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Extinction Rebellion is .. just about democracy .. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">" ..<b> in the political extrem</b></span></span><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;">ism of anarchism .. Extinction Rebellion’s campaign .. seeks to break down the established civil order and liberal democracy in the UK. Many followers .. are completely unaware .. Extinction Rebellion is an extremist organisation</b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> .. "</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">For more on CACC see </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.5px;">'Politicization of Climate Change and CO2" (</span><a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/p/sundry-papers.html" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.5px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/p/sundry-papers.html</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.5px;">)</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.5px;"> and "</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;">Fractionation of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Carbon Dioxide from Air "trapped" in Ice - Another Hockey Stick Illusi</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="text-align: justify;">on?" (</span></span><a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2010/12/smogbound-on-molecular-fractionation-in.html">http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2010/12/smogbound-on-molecular-fractionation-in.html</a>).</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">The parent organisations responsible for establishing Extinction Rebellion are RisingUP? </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">and Compassionate Revolution Ltd. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">Both of these have the same objective " .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">to bring about:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">- A functioning democracy based on informed consent. We do not believe we have a functioning democracy in the UK. It has been captured by corporate and private interests and the media is owned by wealthy billionaires who use their power to systematically undermine informed public debate.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">- Transformation of the political system, society and economy to ones which maximise well-being and minimizes harm. The existing political and economic system is set to destroy civilisation and much if not all life on earth if allowed to continue. This is most apparent in our society's inability to cut the carbon emissions which are creating catastrophic climate change, and through its reckless destruction of bio-diversity.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">- A society of genuine equality without poverty and privilege. At present UK is becomes ever more grossly unequal due economic arrangements which vastly favour the wealthy elites.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Extinction Rebellion leaders</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> are using the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.5px;">CACC</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 19.5px;"> hypothesis as</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">a convenient</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> mob motivator</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.5px;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">It is important to recognise that fighting climate change by rebelling against our use of fossil fuels is of secondary importance to XR's leaders. The real objective is to " .. e</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">n</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">able people power, in the face of the corruption of our democracy by vested interests .. it's just about democracy .. " (see sub-sections 3.0, 3.1, 3.1.1 and 3.1.5). They aim to .. bring about " .. a fundamental change of the political and economic system .. We believe .. that confrontation through mass civil disobedience is necessary .. " (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://risingup.org.uk/about&source=gmail&ust=1556376718053000&usg=AFQjCNEEwHt0Q8GExXYrq8KWdtd9C8kIIw" href="https://risingup.org.uk/about" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;" target="_blank">https://risingup.org.uk/about</a><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">).</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">In other words, Extinction Rebellion is another of those extremist organisation that want to force change to our political and economic system by participating (and inciting others to indulge) in criminal acts rather than the preferred democratic route - the ballot box. Fortunately our security services have plenty experience in dealing with such organisations (see Footnote 1 of this section).</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">XR's anarchistic objectives are substantiated by statements on the blog of one of RisingUp's major sources of funds (£20-40k in 2018), the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Berlin based Guerrilla Foundation </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">(</span><a href="https://guerrillafoundation.org/grantee/extinction-rebellion/" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://guerrillafoundation.org/grantee/extinction-rebellion/</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">). </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">(See also </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">(</span><a href="https://guerrillafoundation.org/about/mission-values/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://guerrillafoundation.org/about/mission-values/</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unsurprisingly, Labour has supported this rabble-rousing organisation, illustrated by the April 2019 Guardian article "Labour endorses Extinction Rebellion activists after week of protest" (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At a 30th April 2019 meeting with Labour's John Macdonald Extinction Rebellion was represented by Sarah Lunnon (3.1.32), Skeena Rathor (3.1.33) and Savannah Lovelock (3.1.34) -see </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1) On 16th July 2019 the centre-right think tank the Policy Exchange (Footnote 2 of this section) published an excellent 76-</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">page report </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">which complements this article. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">"Extremism Rebellion A review of ideology and tactics .. " (see Footnote 3 of this section for authors) does an excellent job of exposing this extremist organisation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">It says in the Preface that " .. the leaders of Extinction Rebellion seek a more subversive agenda .. rooted in the political extremism of anarchism, eco-socialism and radical anti-capitalist environmentalism .. mass protest accompanied by law-breaking —leading eventually to the breakdown of democracy and the state. Obscured from public view, these objectives mark Extinction Rebellion’s campaign out as an extremist one that seeks to break down the established civil order and liberal democracy in the UK.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Many followers of Extinction Rebellion are completely unaware of this secondary objective .. Celebrities, politicians and members of the public have been seduced into believing that Extinction Rebellion’s methods and tactics are honourable and justifed, when clearly they are not .. Extinction Rebellion is an extremist organisation whose methods need to be confronted and challenged rather than supported and condoned. If we fail to confront those who incite and encourage mass law-breaking, we fail in our duty to confront extremism.This new form of extremism needs to be tackled by Ministers and politicians, the Commission for Countering Extremism, police and the general public .. " (</span><a href="https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Extremism-Rebellion.pdf" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Extremism-Rebellion.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">As is to be expected from these skilled rabble-rousers, the reaction from Extinction Rebellion was evasive, misleading and emotional, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">with no attempt to challenge the report with anything resembling facts.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"> " .. A retired policeman .. assumes there must be some hidden violent agenda .. but completely fails to realise that his grandchildren have no future .. " (</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Anyone reading that report </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">carefully</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">will see that of the 30 references it makes to "violence" they are to XR's commitment to NON-VIOLENCE, to the possibility of fringe elements resorting to violence, or to quotes from Roger Hallam about the use of violence.</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Of the 23 references to "violent" all are about NON-VIOLENT.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">The article "2 transforming podcasts: Gail Bradbrook of Extinction Rebellion, and eco-rights laywer Polly Higgins" says that " .. Gail describes movements as actions of the heart, not the intellect. Despite having a scientific background herself, ER is not driven by facts and predictions. 'It’s more like, your kids are going to die' .. " (</span><a href="https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2018/12/15/two-inspiring-podcasts-bradbrook-higgins" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2018/12/15/two-inspiring-podcasts-bradbrook-higgins</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">). That explains why XR's response to the Policy Exchanges report was devoid of facts but gushing with emotion </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">(just like its propaganda)</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">Gail Bradbrook's preference for appealing to the emotions rather than focussing on facts might explain why she failed to apply her qualifications in biological physics but instead chose to earn a living from the charity industry (see sub-section 3.1.1).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">They were assisted </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">by </span><span class="name" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; line-height: 25.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alexander Gray, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 1em;">Research Fellow, Security and Extremism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 1em;">4)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 1em;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Guerrilla Foundation says </span></span>” .. Extinction Rebellion is a campaign by the Rising Up network, that promotes a fundamental change of the UK’s political and economic system .. ". The Guerrilla Foundation ” .. supports activists .. working towards .. major systemic change across Europe in line with the Great Transition .. redirecting the .. planetary civilization .. ".</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Great Transition website declares that it “ .. aims to deepen understanding of values and cultural dimensions of global change, along with social, economic, political, and scientific aspects of a Great Transition .. toward a vision and praxis for a decent planetary civilization .. "<span style="background-color: white;">(</span><a href="https://guerrillafoundation.org/about/mission-values/" style="background-color: white;">https://guerrillafoundation.org/about/mission-values/</a> and <a href="https://greattransition.org/about/aims-and-background" style="background-color: white;">https://greattransition.org/about/aims-and-background</a><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">James </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">lovelock</span></b><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">commented</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">i</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">n "<a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xW_T4jV9mFAC&pg=PA161&lpg=PA161&dq=%22fear+feeds+on+ignorance%22+%22lovelock%22&source=bl&ots=aAPXMO8hBz&sig=ACfU3U3f52Cq1AbHWzSbMkYQEXPb-Sq2FA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwij78zpp83rAhXPSxUIHddjCKgQ6AEwD3oECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22fear%20feeds%20on%20ignorance%22%20%22lovelock%22&f=false">The Ages of Gaia</a>" under the section on " A Dose of Nuclear Radiation" (</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">page 161)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">" .. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">fear feeds on ignorance ..</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> ",</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>the RisingUp? blog</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">these actions are motivated by spiritual beliefs as Pagans, Quakers, Buddhists, Jews and so on. We are called to act in service of a higher authority, a higher purpose or on behalf of the Mother Earth .. " </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">(</span><a href="https://risingup.org.uk/about" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: center;" target="_blank">https://risingup.org.uk/<wbr></wbr>about</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- <b>Stuart</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> Basden</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">" </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(see subsection 3.1.5) " </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">.. Extinction Rebellion isn’t about the climate .. never say we’re a climate movement .. we’re not. We’re a Rebellion .. " (</span><a href="https://medium.com/@plaosmos/extinction-rebellion-isnt-about-the-climate-42a0a73d9d49" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://medium.com/@plaosmos/extinction-rebellion-isnt-about-the-climate-42a0a73d9d49</a>),<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- <b>Roger Hallam </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(see subsection 3.1.2) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. we're coming together through .. mass political action that breaks the law. It's the most effective way .. to actually create a crisis in society .. " (</span><a href="http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=267234" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=26723</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">) and "</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> .. Through mass civil </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">resistance, we’re going to create a new global regime .. " (</span><a href="https://newint.org/features/2018/11/01/climate-breakdown" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://newint.org/features/2018/11/01/climate-breakdown</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">),</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- <b>XR's Tiana Jacout </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(see subsection 3.1.28) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. we are creating a separate, true, fundamental democracy .. " (</span><a href="https://campfireconvention.uk/bugle/spotlight/tianas-extinction-rebellion-challenge-glastonbury" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://campfireconvention.uk/bugle/spotlight/tianas-extinction-rebellion-challenge-glastonbury</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> - at 1min 19+ secs),</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">the RisingUp? blog</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> " .. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.5px;">we are calling for a fundamental change of the political and economic system .. We believe .. that confrontation through mass civil disobedience is necessary .. "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"> (</span><a href="https://risingup.org.uk/about" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: center;" target="_blank">https://risingup.org.uk/<wbr></wbr>about</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>- Gail Bradbrook </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(see subsection 3.1.1) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. I don't think Extinction Rebellion is really about the environment, it's about democ</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">racy .. " (</span><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BcQ7pld_2to" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BcQ7pld_2to</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> - at 3 mins +) and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“ .. Hands up, I run a charity and it's mostly about securing your own salary .. " </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2X-rfydhwY0" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2X-rfydhwY0</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> - at 9m 30s +).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6) Any plans that the XR leadership had for further massive disruptive campaigning during 2020 were forced on hold by a </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">genuine global catastrophe, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the Covid19 pandemic. That is in stark </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">contrast with the fantasised imminent global </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">climate </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Apocalypse/Armageddon/Breakdown/</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Catastrophe/Chaos/Crisis/Disaster/Disruption</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">/</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Emergency/Inferno/Tragedy/etc.etc.etc.</span> claimed to be </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">caused by our burgeoning use of fossil fuels (CACC). Unsurprisingly, XR leadership appears to see the CoVid19 pandemic as a propaganda tool, to be used like CACC (see Section 8.0 "XR and Pestilence")</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Supporters of the XR organisation appear to indulge in some serious illegal acts, including incitement, conspiracy, criminal damage, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">aggravated trespass and obstruction of the highway</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, yet most go unpunished or get away with little more than a slapped hand</span><i><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">XR member Paolo Enoch (see sub-section 3.1.27) said at a March press conference in XR's temporary Euston HQ that “ .. The idea is to find that sweet spot where the police are obliged to arrest you, but it’s totally non-violent and peaceful. The people who’ve committed criminal damage will sit on the ground and wait to be arrested .. ” (</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The actions of XR supporters may well be " .. totally non-violent and peaceful .. " but they are still illegal and the perpetrators deserve to suffer the full power of the law.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That XR article said early on " .. XR co-founder Gail Bradbrook was fresh from an appearance at Westminster </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Magistrates Court. She and five others had been charged with criminal damage .. and all had pleaded not guilty. It had been an emotional day, not least because the judge was, coincidentally, sending them for trial on the 16th of April, a day after XR begin their full-scale international rebellion with coordinated actions on the 15th. At times, Bradbrook appeared upset as she delivered an abridged version of XR’s frank and profound talk on the appalling state of the climate .. ".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gail Bradbrook may have been upset but she had only herself to blame for her criminal actions. It is likely that the innocent Londoners who suffered from the disruption to which her organisation had subjected them were far more upset than she.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Guardian reported on “ .. 9 Mar 2019 - Extinction Rebellion activists have thrown buckets of “blood” outside Downing Street to call for greater action on climate change. About 400 demonstrators, including families with children, spilled more than 200 litres of red paint ” (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">XR’s 27th March 2019 Rebellion Earth article “Two Extinction Rebellion protestors on trial for criminal damage in Parliament Square” made mention of XR activist Paolo Enoch (see sub-section 3.1.27) “ .. Charged with criminal damage .. Paolo Enoch .. will stand trial today at Hendon Magistrates Court .. arrested for attempting to dig a grave on Parliament Square during a funeral service themed protest by Extinction Rebellion last November .. more than a 1000 people, dressed in black, gathered in Parliament Square to mourn the loss of life the planet has and will experience .. to bury a coffin in the middle of the conservation area, but were prevented from doing so by police .. Both defendants have pleaded not guilty .. relying on the Mission LifeForce “conscientious protector” approach .. While Freedom of Conscience is not a defence to a criminal charge, it can encourage the court to consider the reasons for criminal action and to minimise the sentence handed down following any conviction .. “</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These Extinction Rebellion anarchists deliberately encourage others (including children) to or did themselves carry out acts of criminal damage and obstruction of the highway in the Nation's capital and elsewhere. Do not they (and their supporters - financial or otherwise) commit serious criminal offences such as conspiracy, incitement, criminal damage and aggravated trespass?!</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.5px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.5px;">- but see </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Asking as a law-abiding citizen of the UK, do not all of the XR founders, activists and supporters deserve to be subjected to the FULL power of the Law, with no more consideration given in their sentencing than they gave to those who suffered from their criminal actions? (see Footnote 1 of this section)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">XR members frequently talk about wanting justice. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">Would not justice be better served if all parts of the Extinction Rebellion organisation, its members, supporters and the 1100 anarchists who were arrested were made to pay the cost of their actions. These were a totally unnecessary and unjustified drain on the Met's funds, which are provided by mainly hard working and law-abiding tax-payers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In March 2017, at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) - University of London, Gail Bradbrook gave another of her many rants, this one about "Rising Up! How Things Change: The Duty to Disobey". She acknowledged the risk that she was taking concerning her law-breaking counselling/conspiring with others to commit criminal acts (<a href="http://stroudcommunity.tv/rising-up/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://stroudcommunity.tv/<wbr></wbr>rising-up/</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space0"> </span>at 38mins 10secs + - see also Footnote 2 </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to this sub-section).</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She ended her talk suggesting that we should all bring down the financial system by borrowing as much as we can and refusing to pay it back. With such little regard for the financial system she and her fellows should have no objection to paying the full cost of their actions.</span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1)</b> An excellent report </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Extremism Rebellion A review of ideology and tactics" (</span><a href="https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Extremism-Rebellion.pdf">https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Extremism-Rebellion.pdf</a>)<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the Policy Exchange made the following worthwhile recommendations:</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">• The police response to law-breaking by demonstrators must be far more proactive in enforcing laws that relate to public protest, preventing Extinction Rebellion and other political activists from embarking on illegal tactics that cause mass disruption and significant economic damage. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">• Legislation relating to public protest needs to be urgently reformed in order to strengthen the ability of the police to place restrictions on planned protest and deal more effectively with mass lawbreaking tactics (including incitement and conspiracy offences) such as road and bridge blocking, aggravated trespass and criminal damage.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">• The Crown Prosecution Service should prosecute all those engaged in law-breaking relating to public protest in order to uphold the rule of law, support the ‘public interest’ and deter others from illegal protest. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">• Politicians and public figures should avoid endorsing, legitimising, or meeting with Extinction Rebellion, in particular whilst its leadership continues to encourage and incite law-breaking in furtherance of their political aims. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">• The Commission for Countering Extremism should ensure that far left, anarchist and environmentalist extremism are sufficiently recognised and challenged within a wider national strategy on extremism. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">• The Home Office should audit the financial cost of the unlawful protest activity that is being undertaken by Extinction Rebellion, including the cost of policing and the financial and social impact on businesses and the public.</span></span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>2)</b> That first reference to Stroud, in Gloucestershire is interesting because a surprising number of the founding members and major supporters originate from or have moved there or nearby. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">The article "2 transforming podcasts: Gail Bradbrook of Extinction Rebellion, and eco-rights laywer Polly Higgins" advises " .. Both Polly and Gail .. from Stroud .. describe it as a natural incubator for ecological movements coming out of Transition Stroud and holistic spiritual practices .. " (</span><a href="https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2018/12/15/two-inspiring-podcasts-bradbrook-higgins" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2018/12/15/two-inspiring-podcasts-bradbrook-higgins</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">). Maybe there is something in the west-country air, water or ground that affects the brain more than elsewhere in the country (e.g see 3.1.11, 3.1.12, 3.1.21, 3.1.23 and 3.1.28. It can't all be down to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">Iboga trips in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">Costa Rica or similar </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">psychedelic experiences at Glastonbury festivals</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">.</span></div>
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It is worthwhile taking a very close look at the questionable characters behind the Extinction Rebellion organisation, <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">launched in October 2018 by Gail Bradbrook (see sub-section 3.1.1), Roger Hallam (3.1.2), </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">George</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Barda</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">(3.1.3), </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Simon Bramwell (3.1.4), Stuart Basden (3.1.5) and several other veteran environmental/ecological activists (see </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theweek.co.uk/100811/what-is-extinction-rebellion&source=gmail&ust=1556376718053000&usg=AFQjCNFuG7wBnev2Sgv-mG1qF2J_5UJrnw" href="https://www.theweek.co.uk/100811/what-is-extinction-rebellion" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.theweek.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>100811/what-is-extinction-<wbr></wbr>rebellion</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). </span></div>
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Where better to start than the Extinction Rebellion blog. The Welcome Page tells us that " .. Extinction Rebellion/XR is an international movement, using mass non-violent civil disobedience to pressure governments to enter WWII-level* mobilisation mode in response to climate breakdown and ecological crisis. We began on 31/10/18. Extinction Rebellion is guided by the principles and values of Rising Up! the parent organisation .. Visit the Rising Up! website for more details on our history including previous campaigns .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://xrblog.org/crux/&source=gmail&ust=1556035908645000&usg=AFQjCNEXS5BX57f12UMg61wqWY3BkPui8w" href="https://xrblog.org/crux/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://xrblog.org/crux/</a>).<br />
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Another of its blogs tells us that " .. We are facing an unprecedented global emergency. Life on Earth is in crisis .. we have entered a period of abrupt climate breakdown, and we are in the midst of a mass extinction of our own making .. Extinction Rebellion is an international apolitical network .. that uses non-violent civil disobedience to achieve radical change in order to minimise the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse" (<span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank">https://rebellion.earth/the-<wbr></wbr>truth/</a></span>).<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">It goes on to regurgitate much of the CACC propaganda spewed by the UN, its IPCC</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px;">, Natural History presenter David Attenborough</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">, Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg (see <a href="https://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html">Appendix</a> A6.3) </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">environmental activist Mark Lynas</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> and other supporters of the CACC fantasy (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/the-emergency/&source=gmail&ust=1557842277299000&usg=AFQjCNH7xkSbGV6pKN6hMCSbVxUub7Fz7A" href="https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/the-emergency/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://rebellion.earth/the-</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">).</span><br />
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<o:p></o:p> - XR inspirational political/social scientist Roger Hallam has said " .. the struggle of our time .. climate change .. it’s beyond your imagination bad .. the Arctic is going to melt in the next three to five years .. If temperature increases by 5 degrees that’s it. Six billion deaths. Maybe a billion can survive on the north and south poles waiting for the oxygen to run out, which happens at six degrees .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://londonstudent.coop/revolution-is-imminent-says-kings-college-london-student-and-climate-activist-roger-hallam/&source=gmail&ust=1557689507088000&usg=AFQjCNFcLV_UpPcEhUJ1N2gxoDCGaAg4Cg" href="http://londonstudent.coop/revolution-is-imminent-says-kings-college-london-student-and-climate-activist-roger-hallam/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://londonstudent.coop/</span></a>), <o:p></o:p>This is all scientific gobbledegook from an irrelevant (political/social) scientist (see Footnotes 2 and 3 to this sub-section).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- builder/farmer Simon Bramwell has said of the proposal to expand Heathrow airport and when challenging Greenpeace over its approach to climate change “ .. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial";">a third runway is a disastrous option that will lead to climate chaos</span> .. <span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial";">This is an emergency. We are facing extinction and have little time to rise up to make our governments take the hard decisions needed to save us .. " </span>(<a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/770037/traffic-chaos-Heathrow-airport-protest-group-chain-blockage-terminal-runway">https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/770037/traffic-chaos-Heathrow-airport-protest-group-chain-blockage-terminal-runway</a> and <span style="color: #252525; font-family: "arial";">(</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/occupiers-tell-greenpeace-%25E2%2580%2598-its-game%25E2%2580%2599&source=gmail&ust=1558002159823000&usg=AFQjCNE_2I7eSnJF-V7NQgESKUzDrBdmmg" href="https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/occupiers-tell-greenpeace-%E2%80%98-its-game%E2%80%99" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://morningstaronline.co</span></a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These environmental activists, who are </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">inappropriately qualified</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> by education, training or experience (see Footnote 2 of this section),</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> express absolute certainty about the impact on global climates of our emissions of carbon dioxide. (In contrast XR crusader Tiana Jacout - see sub-section 3.1.28 - has her own theory about the cause of the fantasised global climate</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Apocalypse/Armageddon/Breakdown/</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Catastrophe/Chaos/Crisis/Disaster/Disruption</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">/</span><wbr style="font-family: arial;"></wbr><span style="font-family: "arial";">Emergency/Inferno/Tragedy/etc.etc.etc.</span> - the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">unfair treatment of women world-wide</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.) </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stephen Schneider would have been proud of their </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">scaremongering efforts</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(see </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html">Appendix</a> A6.1).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #070707; line-height: 21.994px;">- the blog of Physical Chemist Dr Jack Barrett and botanist Professor David Bellamy (<a href="http://www.barrettbellamyclimate.com/page2.htm">http://www.barrettbellamyclimate.com/page2.htm</a>).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- "The New Green Threat: Extinction Rebellion" (<a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2">https://wattsupwiththat.com/2</a></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">- "Globalist Fake Revolution – Extin</span><a href="https://windowsontheworld.net/video_type/globalist-fake-revolution/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">https://windowsontheworld.net/video_type/globalist-fake-revolution/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">) and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">- "The faces behind the climate change chaos: From the 'neo-pagan' mother who became an act</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ivist after taking psychedelic drugs, to failed organic farmer and a baronet's granddaughter" (</span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6927195/The-faces-Extinction-Rebellion-climate-change-chaos.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6927195/The-faces-Extinction-Rebellion-climate-change-chaos.html</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>2) </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Maths. Physics, Chemistry, Meteorology, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Spectometry, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Geology, Physical Geography, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Palaeontology, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">etc</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. The Extinction Rebellion leading members (and many of its CACC supporters) appear to have no such education, training or experience, with at best an understanding of the social sciences.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Apocalypse/Armageddon/Breakdown/</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Catastrophe/Chaos/Crisis/Disaster/Disruption</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">/</span><wbr style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;"></wbr><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Emergency/Inferno/Tragedy/etc.etc.etc.</span> epitomize "The Arrogance of Ignorance" (</span><a href="https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/24/2/423/2018453">https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/24/2/423/2018453</a>)<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> discussed by zoologist Dr. William V Mayer, Professor Emeritus of Biology</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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That section of Booker's report also makes reference to the BBC's star environmental program presenter, Richard Attenborough (see Appendices <a href="https://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html">A3</a> and <a href="https://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html">A6</a>) and his lack of understanding of the science underpinning the processes and drivers of changes to the different global climates.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">XR's parent organisation " .. Rising Up! was formed by activists who have also been part of Compassionate Revolution, Earth First! Occupy, Plane Stupid, Radical Think Tank and Reclaim the Power. Rising Up! is linked to Compassionate Revolution which was birthed in the Occupy movement .. " (</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In her interview with the CommonWealNonViolence blog Gail Bradbrook commented " .. RisingUp was established in 2016 after a dialogue between activists from Earth First!, Occupy, Plane Stupid and Reclaim the Power. We launched with an action to partially close down Heathrow Airport in November 2016. (</span><a href="http://www.commonwealnonviolence.org/blog/hope-dies-action-begins-an-interview-with-risingups-gail-bradbrook" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.commonwealnonviolence.org/blog/hope-dies-action-begins-an-interview-with-risingups-gail-bradbrook</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. Technically Compassionate Revolution Limited is a company limited by shares .. As 'directors', it is our duty to uphold the mission of the Compassionate Revolution company to enable people power, in the face of the corruption of our democracy by vested interests. We understand that people may be willing to undertake acts of defiance, some of which could be illegal) in the pursuit of social and environmental justice and they may wish to share their actions with others. Our site and processes are designed to support such sharing .. " (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.compassionate-revolution.net/about-us.html&source=gmail&ust=1599145467776000&usg=AFQjCNFecTwvQcjyos0MvjnpyLeJb8t-8Q" href="https://www.compassionate-revolution.net/about-us.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">https://www.compassionate-<wbr></wbr>revolution.net/about-us.html</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://risingup.org.uk/about-us" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://risingup.org.uk/about-us</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). See Footnote 2 of this subsection.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although the blog talks about the company's directors it does not make it easy for the reader to identify who are all of the controlling members </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(see Footnote 1 of this section)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> or provide helpful profiles. It does give some information about two of them:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- " .. Gail Bradbrook is an economic justice campaigner and compassionate revolutionary. She runs a charity focussed on universal access to the Internet .. and has a PhD in Molecular Biophysics .. ",</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- " .. George Barda is a Climate change and Occupy Activist and a compassionate revolutionary. He works for an environmental NGO, is a Dad and has a Masters in Environmental Politics and Globalisation .. For more information Contact Us For press and publicity contact George on 07535184071 .. ".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The following extracts of what founders Gail Bradbrook and George Barda say on that RisingUP blog page exposes their real motives " .. WE ACTIVELY MITIGATE FOR POWER Breaking down hierarchies of power for more equitable participation .. We live in a toxic system .. We collectively create the structures we need to challenge power. ..We are initiating and promoting campaigns of civil disobedience in the UK, which may include the breaking of laws . For many of us these actions are motivated by spiritual beliefs as Pagans, Quakers, Buddhists, Jews and so on. We are called to act in service of a higher authority, a higher purpose or on behalf of the Mother Earth .. We do not believe we have a functioning democracy in the UK .. The existing political and economic system is set to destroy civilisation and much if not all life on earth if allowed to continue .. No particular individual or group is responsible for this state of affairs. The problem is the whole system. It is out of control to the extent that it necessitates nonviolent civil disobedience as a means to prevent disaster and create the sane and equitable society we all desire and require for ourselves and future generations .. " (see Footnote 1 of this sub-section).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Related to its claimed aversion to our current economic system, XR's web page declares that " .. We do not endorse or create any merchandise and we will pursue and prosecute anyone who does .. " (see </span><a href="https://rebellion.earth/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://rebellion.earth</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). On the other hand it has created an anarchy handbook "This is not a Drill" that is merchandised by Amazon and others for several pounds stirling (e.g. see </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Not-Drill-Extinction-Rebellion/dp/0141991445/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Not-Drill-Extinction-Rebellion/dp/0141991445/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). Then, of course, there is that XRbusiness division that Gail Bradbrook denied was part of XR after the announcement of its formation upset so many XR members (see sub-section 7.1). The word "hypocrisy" springs to mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even the radical environmentalist journal Earth First regards Rising Up! as anarchist (</span><a href="https://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2018/06/25/eco-anarchy-in-the-uk-dissidence-group-mobilises-for-climate-justice/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2018/06/25/eco-anarchy-in-the-uk-dissidence-group-mobilises-for-climate-justice/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). It is doubtful that any right-minded individuals believe that the anarchy that Rising Up! promotes would be better than the UK's current economic and political structures, despite their imperfections.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. Rising Up's parent company is called Compassionate Revolution .. " (</span><a href="https://risingup.org.uk/about" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://risingup.org.uk/about</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). Compassionate Revolution Limited (Company No. 09622618) was incorporated in June 2015, with Gail Bradbrook and George Barda as its founding shareholders and directors and Gail Bradbrook as Secretary (</span><a href="https://companycheck.co.uk/company/09622618/COMPASSIONATE-REVOLUTION-LIMITED/companies-house-data" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://companycheck.co.uk/company/09622618/COMPASSIONATE-REVOLUTION-LIMITED/companies-house-data</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). In Jan. 2019 failed "organic" farmer Julian Roger Hallam (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">one of the XR founding members)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> was appointed as a director. </span><span style="background: rgb(253 , 253 , 253); color: #070707; font-family: "arial";">He </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">must have been delirious about his promotion from the obscurity of a failed organic farmer to the board of such a highly regarded organisation as Compassionate Revolution Ltd. Perhaps his appointment to that exalted position was his initial reward for</span><span style="color: #070707; font-family: "arial";"> inspiring Gail Bradbrook with his 'codes</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"> for social changes' (see 3.1.2)</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">. More rewards have followed (see sub-section 5.1.2).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Most members of the Extinction Rebellion organisation and its supporters enjoy the many benefits of living in developed and developing economies, including</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"> the modes of transport and other comforts arising from our use of fossil fuels.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"> As a consequence their sincerity in supporting the CACC fantasy warrants close scrutiny.. A prime example of their hypocrisy is Greenpeace activist Dame Emma Thompson, who proclaimed that " .. ‘We cannot continue to use fossil fuels in the way we have been doing .. We know that fossil fuels are threatening the future of the planet .. " (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/25/emma-thompson-says-we-should-fly-less-after-flying-5000-miles-to-join-climate-protest-9316937/&source=gmail&ust=1556644010998000&usg=AFQjCNEHf9yBxWuLbqkDEh4o4dzvjgG-VA" href="https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/25/emma-thompson-says-we-should-fly-less-after-flying-5000-miles-to-join-climate-protest-9316937/" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">). </span></div>
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According to Rising Up! Gail Bradbrook (47) was " .. raised working class white cis, straight woman, since educated to PhD. level. She’s a mother and lives in Gloucestershire. She’s helped run a small charity for 15 years and has a variety of skills as a result, for example fundraising and strategy. She’s been involved in tax and economic justice work, and was a Director of Transition Stroud .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://docs.google.com/document/d/17aCm7973qoVWI3QL6fMzlk-ORQ5sWHu7pdxzqdP8w8s/mobilebasic&source=gmail&ust=1556383147324000&usg=AFQjCNFDa9yR_grfRtQ7Hi-oHUjcLCZCTA" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/17aCm7973qoVWI3QL6fMzlk-ORQ5sWHu7pdxzqdP8w8s/mobilebasic" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/<wbr></wbr>document/d/<wbr></wbr>17aCm7973qoVWI3QL6fMzlk-<wbr></wbr>ORQ5sWHu7pdxzqdP8w8s/<wbr></wbr>mobilebasic</a>).</div>
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" .. Often called “the mother” by members of Extinction Rebellion, Gail is a molecular biophysicist by training, though she hasn’t worked in that capacity for quite some time. Not long after finishing her post-doctoral research into ‘protein saccharide interactions’, she became a consultant for several ‘political charities’ and has, for the past 18 years worked exclusively as a professional campaigner – a role which, during a talk at Off-Grid Festival, she admits is 'mostly about securing your own pay-check' .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.vigiliae.org/dr-gail-marie-bradbrook-compassionate-revolutionary-for-hire-by-un-extinction/&source=gmail&ust=1556376718054000&usg=AFQjCNEGCYfo9LCrMing7Hnr6WD3if5XxA" href="https://www.vigiliae.org/dr-gail-marie-bradbrook-compassionate-revolutionary-for-hire-by-un-extinction/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.vigiliae.org/dr-<wbr></wbr>gail-marie-bradbrook-<wbr></wbr>compassionate-revolutionary-<wbr></wbr>for-hire-by-un-extinction/</a> - this website makes some interesting comments). For more on potential sources of contributions to XR pay-cheques see Footnote 1 of this sub-section. </div>
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Gail Bradbrook earned her PhD in Molecule Biophysics from Manchester University, undertaking post-doctoral research from 1997-2000 (<a href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/gail-bradbrook-8808452a">https://uk.linkedin.com/in/gail-bradbrook-8808452a</a>), co-authoring several peer-reviewed papers around 2000/2001 (e.g. see <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/8659193_Gail_M_Bradbrook&source=gmail&ust=1556376718054000&usg=AFQjCNGmFqq93s5Y1R59GIDRb_ATWVDW6g" href="https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/8659193_Gail_M_Bradbrook" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/<wbr></wbr>scientific-contributions/<wbr></wbr>8659193_Gail_M_Bradbrook</a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?en0049&source=gmail&ust=1556376718054000&usg=AFQjCNHuqQb7x2pmyjfZTVSsGh8xWEtpbw" href="http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?en0049" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-<wbr></wbr>bin/paper?en0049</a>).<br />
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The article "DO PSYCHEDELICS HOLD THE KEY TO SOCIAL CHANGE?" (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.whatisemerging.com/opinions/psychedelics-and-social-change&source=gmail&ust=1556376718054000&usg=AFQjCNHoaxK0I1GwCL7G-R3gAZRkHkbX4Q" href="http://www.whatisemerging.com/opinions/psychedelics-and-social-change" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.whatisemerging.<wbr></wbr>com/opinions/psychedelics-and-<wbr></wbr>social-change</a>) begins " .. Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, explains how her psychedelic experiences helped to shape the genesis of the movement .. ". She proceeds to extoll the virtues of using psychedelic drugs and describes how she " .. wanted answers to how I could bring about social change .. There was a moment during my Iboga experience where I lay down and a voice that felt very external to me said “Gail, you create your own reality”. It spoke three times ..That was the essence of my entire experience, after which I could literally feel my brain being rewired. When I got home I ended a marriage and separated my family. It was a huge decision, but it was the right thing to do and I am a stronger and happier person now .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424205050/http://www.whatisemerging.com/opinions/psychedelics-and-social-change&source=gmail&ust=1556376718054000&usg=AFQjCNG59_0yXHcqpzcfGPbzNuRzszrYaQ" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190424205050/http://www.whatisemerging.com/opinions/psychedelics-and-social-change" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/<wbr></wbr>20190424205050/http://www.<wbr></wbr>whatisemerging.com/opinions/<wbr></wbr>psychedelics-and-social-change</a><wbr></wbr>).</div>
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<b>1)</b> <span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">It is noteworthy that XR claims that " .. The majority of people who work for Extinction Rebellion are volunteers, a small percentage is receiving living expenses .. we can spread our funds between the work we do and paying people .. " (</span><a href="https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/faqs/" style="line-height: normal;">https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/faqs/</a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">). Perhaps that is one of the sources that Gail Bradbrook uses to secure her own income, along with her company Compassionate Revolution Limited (</span><a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/company/09622618" style="line-height: normal;">https://www.thegazette.co.uk/company/09622618</a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">). After all, she did </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">admit in 2016 that “ .. Hands up, I run a charity and it's mostly about securing your own salary .. "</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">.</span></div>
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<b>2)</b> The Daily Mail reported that Gail Bradbrook had been married to former Air Force Officer, John D Fisher (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6945877/How-35-eco-protesters-charged-police-travelled-10-000-miles-demand-lower-carbon-emissions.html&source=gmail&ust=1556376718054000&usg=AFQjCNEerJntwJ5LHJ_31DN24bNDLzuk5A" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6945877/How-35-eco-protesters-charged-police-travelled-10-000-miles-demand-lower-carbon-emissions.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>news/article-6945877/How-35-<wbr></wbr>eco-protesters-charged-police-<wbr></wbr>travelled-10-000-miles-demand-<wbr></wbr>lower-carbon-emissions.html</a>). In June 2012 the Cheltenham Quakers announced " .. a Meeting for Worship for Marriage between Gail Bradbrook and John Fisher, both of Nailsworth Meeting, to be held at Nailsworth Meeting House on 30 June .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.cheltenhamquaker.org.uk/newsletters/cq201206.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1556376718054000&usg=AFQjCNEQg1lF-6gGwEuDnlUwioL0yky_Jw" href="http://www.cheltenhamquaker.org.uk/newsletters/cq201206.pdf" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.cheltenhamquaker.<wbr></wbr>org.uk/newsletters/cq201206.<wbr></wbr>pdf</a>).</div>
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There are some interesting related articles at <a href="https://nowhere.news/index.php/2019/04/08/green-gail-and-the-technocratic-industrialists-citizens-onlines-digitopian-nightmare/">https://nowhere.news/index.php/2019/04/08/green-gail-and-the-technocratic-industrialists-citizens-onlines-digitopian-nightmare/</a> and <a href="https://nowhere.news/index.php/2019/04/01/dr-gail-marie-bradbrook-compassionate-revolutionary-for-hire/">https://nowhere.news/index.php/2019/04/01/dr-gail-marie-bradbrook-compassionate-revolutionary-for-hire/</a>. </div>
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3.1.2 Julian Roger Hallam<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></h4>
Roger Hallam (53) is a researcher into social and political issues, not the physicalsciences <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">required for any hope of understanding the processes and drivers of the different global climates. He holds several directorships, including with Compassionate Revolution Limited (Jan. 2019</span> - see <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/kdEl0PYYWlGK5137rUGRH9mVRJY/appointments&source=gmail&ust=1556388255020000&usg=AFQjCNFU-jbvHQKgINR4v96EQUm4aZY15A" href="https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/kdEl0PYYWlGK5137rUGRH9mVRJY/appointments" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://beta.companieshouse.<wbr></wbr>gov.uk/officers/<wbr></wbr>kdEl0PYYWlGK5137rUGRH9mVRJY/<wbr></wbr>appointments</a>) <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">and Radical Think Tank Ltd (</span><a href="https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/k0X7Wb1TLNghi-VzgdAH_EFBod0/appointments" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/k0X7Wb1TLNghi-VzgdAH_EFBod0/appointments</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">) since its incorporation in 2016. That is a Community Interest Company (CIC) with a single member guarantor (£1), anthropologist and CACC-supporting environmental activist Annie Randall (25), of the Birmingham branch of Friends of the Earth (</span><a href="http://www.birminghamfoe.org.uk/news-events/news/campaigners-hold-funeral-for-fossil-fuel-investments/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.birminghamfoe.org.uk/news-events/news/campaigners-hold-funeral-for-fossil-fuel-investments/</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Londoner George Barda (43) " .. was educated at £38,100-a-year Winchester College and works for Greenpeace .. " (</span><a href="https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-scottish-mail-on-sunday/20180114/281612420805019">https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-scottish-mail-on-sunday/20180114/281612420805019</a>). He <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">earned a Master's degree in Environment, Politics and Globalisation from King's College (</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/george.barda.96">https://www.facebook.com/george.barda.96</a>). For<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px;">many years he has been involved in </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Greenpeace activism/street campaigning (</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/dec/19/occupy-london-prepares-legal-action">https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/dec/19/occupy-london-prepares-legal-action</a>)<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a rabble-rousing opinion piece in the Guardian in February 2012 he described himself as " .. a peace campaigner and postgraduate student at Kings College London .. ". He went on to say " .. The fight for democracy can't be left to Occupy. This Occupy movement isn't only for heretics. We need a world where citizens and activists are the same .. We hope that history will show that the past four-and-a-half months – not just in </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/london" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">London</a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, but globally – have been a vital step in achieving the systemic and democratic change we all need to believe in. But you can't leave it to us, and people like us: it needs you .. " (</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/feb/28/fight-democratic-change-occupy-london" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/feb/28/fight-democratic-change-occupy-london</a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2015 he and Gail Bradbrook set up Compassionate Revolution, which morphed into Rising Up! (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Bradbrook&source=gmail&ust=1556733905266000&usg=AFQjCNFOzCMIzuT9TmVaW_AYKENjjeg-Tw" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail_Bradbrook" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/<wbr></wbr>wiki/Gail_Bradbrook</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">), spawning Extinction Rebellion. He has been a Director of Interfaith Alliance UK (05914374) since Sept. 2012. At Interfaith's 2014 National Meeting he said " .. I
think of myself as a Christian and a Buddhist .. " (</span><a href="https://www.interfaith.org.uk/uploads/IFN_National_Meeting_Report_2014.pdf">https://www.interfaith.org.uk/uploads/IFN_National_Meeting_Report_2014.pdf</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He has also Director of Compassionate Revolution Limited (09622618) since June 2015. George has declared his occupation as " .. Campaigner .. " (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/0h1_s4cVd2RDNJgm7WzQW8Lu-Po/appointments&source=gmail&ust=1556733905266000&usg=AFQjCNFyplrrp2yXuGAcXAfa89PaZcf5rg" href="https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/0h1_s4cVd2RDNJgm7WzQW8Lu-Po/appointments" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://beta.companieshouse.<wbr></wbr>gov.uk/officers/0h1_<wbr></wbr>s4cVd2RDNJgm7WzQW8Lu-Po/<wbr></wbr>appointments</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">) and now " .. Greenpeace Sales Rep .. (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/TnLBfrApixNZ8P3ESyfI5-6lZWE/appointments&source=gmail&ust=1556733905266000&usg=AFQjCNElkvgC7Wx8J6F2sb-7_sy_dcD3dQ" href="https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/TnLBfrApixNZ8P3ESyfI5-6lZWE/appointments" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://beta.companieshouse.<wbr></wbr>gov.uk/officers/<wbr></wbr>TnLBfrApixNZ8P3ESyfI5-6lZWE/<wbr></wbr>appointments</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Following the Stroud launch of Compassionate Revolution in 2015 he commented " .. Social change has always involved periods of confrontation, when people are willing to undertake acts of civil disobedience .. " (</span><a href="http://stroudcommunity.tv/compassionate-revolution-george/">http://stroudcommunity.tv/compassionate-revolution-george/</a>).<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to a recent Daily Mail report, Gail Bradbrook's partner, bush-craft instructor and former builder Simon Bramwell (47) gave his " .. absolute apologies for the inconvenience caused but the future of our planet is at stake .. " (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6423895/Our-planet-stake-Bush-craft-instructor-London-climate-protests.html&source=gmail&ust=1556388255020000&usg=AFQjCNE5JlL6LKXif0QlGw2OLQK5x34V8Q" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6423895/Our-planet-stake-Bush-craft-instructor-London-climate-protests.html" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>news/article-6423895/Our-<wbr></wbr>planet-stake-Bush-craft-<wbr></wbr>instructor-London-climate-<wbr></wbr>protests.html</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In its 17 April 2019 article the Daily Mail reported that " .. Co-founder Simon Bramwell .. was taken away in a police van on Monday after supergluing himself to the glass door .. " (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6927195/The-faces-Extinction-Rebellion-climate-change-chaos.html&source=gmail&ust=1556388255020000&usg=AFQjCNHA9tv12ThpdncMa5Kk5SblFRuEMw" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6927195/The-faces-Extinction-Rebellion-climate-change-chaos.html" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>news/article-6927195/The-<wbr></wbr>faces-Extinction-Rebellion-<wbr></wbr>climate-change-chaos.html</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></div>
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</span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">" .. Simon Bramwell is a Pagan celebrant</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">, a carer, and co founder of Rising Up!, a direct action network and the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">lightning tree project, a deep inquiry into what skills are needed to village build at the end of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">the world. He's also a member of the highly dubious Medicinal Order of the Hyena, an</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"> international covergence of revolutionary witch's. He's been a recovering hope addict for the past decade and remains smitten by grief, love and the absolute conviction that true change can only be wrought through direct action in both the inner and outer worlds. He's currently busy co creating the extinction rebellion, a non violent campaign for ecological and social change. He recognises that no lasting change will occur until the earth shakes with unacknowledged grief and the initiation it brings. .. " (</span><a href="https://www.souland.org/conversations-with-grief--water.html#:~:text=Simon%20Bramwell%20is%20a%20Pagan,the%20end%20of%20the%20world.">https://www.souland.org/conversations-with-grief--water.html#:~:text=Simon%20Bramwell%20is%20a%20Pagan,the%20end%20of%20the%20world.</a> -<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">see also Footnote 1)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 19.5px;">His LinkedIN profile mentions only that one qualification, his Masters. It does suggest that he developed his IT/Web skills (See Footnote 1 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to this sub-section</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 19.5px;">), applying them during 2005-8 while studying in Toronto (Theology, not science). He then volunteered for a year on organic farms in various European countries (perhaps that's how he teamed up with Extinction Rebellion's inspirational co-founder and failed organic farmer Roger Hallam). Stuart Basden's LinkedIN profile suggests that he is still in Toronto, doing </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">web-related work for several organisations (</span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartbasden/?originalSubdomain=uk" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.linkedin.com/in/stuartbasden/?originalSubdomain=uk</a> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">see also </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">t</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he Basden family web-site </span><a href="http://www.basden.demon.co.uk/">http://www.basden.demon.<wbr></wbr>co.uk/</a> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">set up by his father Andrew - see sub-section 3.1.24</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). On the other hand Stuart said on 12th February 2016 " .. When I left Toronto in November 2015 .. " </span><a href="https://medium.com/@plaosmos/we-ve-been-busy-creating-victories-and-i-almost-missed-them-5cccadee03a2?source=" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://medium.com/@plaosmos/we-ve-been-busy-creating-victories-and-i-almost-missed-them-5cccadee03a2?source=</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No evidence could be found of Stuart Basden having </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">any competence in the physical sciences (see Section 2.0, Footnote 2) relevant to an understanding of the processes and drivers of the different global climates. Despite that, he does frequently pontificate on the highly contentious CACC issue as though there was no uncertainty about a predicted global climate</span><br />
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In July/August 2012 Stuart Basden became Director of Operations for the <span style="font-family: "arial";">University of Toronto student group </span>Toronto350 (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.toronto350.org/2012_11_30_santa_forced_to_relocate&source=gmail&ust=1556463874175000&usg=AFQjCNELvyDzhKFTP1b2KTWxFXRQXpv3pg" href="https://www.toronto350.org/2012_11_30_santa_forced_to_relocate" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.toronto350.org/<wbr></wbr>2012_11_30_santa_forced_to_<wbr></wbr>relocate</a> - see also Footnote 2 to this sub-section). " .. We are building a global, grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. We started in June 2012 .. We support youth action .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.toronto350.org/&source=gmail&ust=1556463874175000&usg=AFQjCNH45e3B-Z11NJuApSZJ9coTXtxflw" href="https://www.toronto350.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.toronto350.org/</a>). He was President from September 2013 (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.sindark.com/2013/09/25/the-fourth-toronto350-org-executive/&source=gmail&ust=1556463874175000&usg=AFQjCNHNstygKPmEy0JfByB0I3_tPkUAiQ" href="https://www.sindark.com/2013/09/25/the-fourth-toronto350-org-executive/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.sindark.com/2013/<wbr></wbr>09/25/the-fourth-toronto350-<wbr></wbr>org-executive/</a>) until the end of 2016.</div>
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He claims to have been with XR from the beginning. " .. I was one of the 15 people in April 2018 who came together and made the collective decision to try to create the conditions that would initiate a rebellion. I was a coordinator of one of the original five working groups, and I’ve been organising with XR day-and-night since then (frugally living off my savings so I don’t have to work, having quit an industry that paid me £1000/week). And I’ve been in RisingUp (the organisation from which XR has emerged) since the first RisingUp action in November 2016. I’m a RisingUp Holding Group member, and a member of the XR Guardianship Team .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://medium.com/@plaosmos/extinction-rebellion-isnt-about-the-climate-42a0a73d9d49&source=gmail&ust=1556129783021000&usg=AFQjCNGgLH5fCp2JSQwquMsuPfKyWsWmFg" href="https://medium.com/@plaosmos/extinction-rebellion-isnt-about-the-climate-42a0a73d9d49" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@plaosmos/<wbr></wbr>extinction-rebellion-isnt-<wbr></wbr>about-the-climate-42a0a73d9d49</a> and re-posted at <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://xrblog.org/2019/01/18/extinction-rebellion-isnt-about-the-climate/&source=gmail&ust=1556129783021000&usg=AFQjCNHlQz9umoaldl1Ruol4tO779BaM-g" href="https://xrblog.org/2019/01/18/extinction-rebellion-isnt-about-the-climate/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://xrblog.org/2019/01/18/<wbr></wbr>extinction-rebellion-isnt-<wbr></wbr>about-the-climate/</a>).</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><b>2) </b></span>Toronto350 is an<span style="text-align: start;"> affiliate of the international group 350.org - see </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://groups.google.com/forum/m/%23!msg/toronto-350/HT2q6T-oRAY/KR0JY00SWVQJ&source=gmail&ust=1556463874175000&usg=AFQjCNFSa9IlPmb2D8wqe7eskObrvQi0zQ" href="https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/toronto-350/HT2q6T-oRAY/KR0JY00SWVQJ" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/<wbr></wbr>forum/m/#!msg/toronto-350/<wbr></wbr>HT2q6T-oRAY/KR0JY00SWVQJ</a><span style="text-align: start;">). </span>The initial meeting of the Toronto350 coven was in June 2012, involving Milan Ilnyckyj, Tamara Brownstone, Monica Resendes and others (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://groups.google.com/forum/m/%23!msg/toronto-350/HT2q6T-oRAY/-JG4_i7vESkJ&source=gmail&ust=1556463874175000&usg=AFQjCNF9SsoKQhYzpL_HHozVxTOR4elsnQ" href="https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/toronto-350/HT2q6T-oRAY/-JG4_i7vESkJ" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/<wbr></wbr>forum/m/#!msg/toronto-350/<wbr></wbr>HT2q6T-oRAY/-JG4_i7vESkJ</a>). <span style="text-align: start;">" .. We are building a global, grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. We started in June 2012 .. We support youth action .. " (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.toronto350.org/&source=gmail&ust=1556463874175000&usg=AFQjCNH45e3B-Z11NJuApSZJ9coTXtxflw" href="https://www.toronto350.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.toronto350.org/</a><span style="text-align: start;">).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>3)</b> Stuart</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">'s father is covered in detail in sub-section 3.1.24. His</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> mother Ruth Carol Angel Basden </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is a "Bible Walker" registered with the UK branch of the "Walk Through the Bible Ministries" organisation as a "Qualified Presenter" to teach children (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bible.org.uk/team.php&source=gmail&ust=1563215054172000&usg=AFQjCNEQ9POJwgvv3MOGIze4WkinLCheHg" href="https://www.bible.org.uk/team.php" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.bible.org.uk/</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Stuart Basden's brother Dr. Alastair Graham Basden is employed by Durham University </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0.953); font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">technical manager for the COSMA High Performance Computing system</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Alastair appears to be a staunch supporter of the CACC hypothesis, believing that " .. It would be good to see greater allowance for new wind turbines, and a ban on coal mining and fracking. We need to be doing all we can to counter climate change .. " (</span><a href="https://durhamcc.objective.co.uk/portal/planning/preferredoptions?&page=1&pageSize=20&pointId=ID-4960375-9378&do=view&q:sortMode=">https://durhamcc.objective.<wbr></wbr>co.uk/portal/planning/<wbr></wbr>preferredoptions?&page=1&<wbr></wbr>pageSize=20&pointId=ID-<wbr></wbr>4960375-9378&do=view&q:<wbr></wbr>sortMode=</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). </span><br />
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3.1.6 Michael Dinesh</h4>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Michael Dinesh, another of those Extinction Rebellion members from Stroud is " .. a music teacher and Bhakti musician (singer of sacred songs and chants) .. "(</span><a href="http://www.michaeldinesh.co.uk/Michael_Dinesh/Home.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.michaeldinesh.co.uk/Michael_Dinesh/Home.html</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He has been a environmental extremist for decades and " .. In 1989/1990 I walked 60000 miles around the whole coastline of Britain raising money for Greenpeace .. chanting the mantra of Compassion, ‘Om Mani Padme Hum’ as I walked. Since then this theme has developed an increasing urgency.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Polly Higgins (Footnote 1) was another of those environmental activists from Stroud who was a member of Extinction Rebellion (see Footnote 2). </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She trained as a lawyer then became an environmental and climate change activist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2008 Polly and Jojo initiated the call for the creation of that "5th International Crime against Peace" (see sub-section 3.1.6), their "Law of Ecocide" (</span><a href="https://highprofiles.info/interview/polly-higgins/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://highprofiles.info/interview/polly-higgins/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Polly also set up the "Trees have rights too" movement (see </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121111004617/http://www.treeshaverightstoo.com/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://web.archive.org/web/20121111004617/http://www.treeshaverightstoo.com/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="https://theecologist.org/2009/apr/01/visionaries-polly-higgins" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://theecologist.org/2009/apr/01/visionaries-polly-higgins</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jojo Mehta (45? - see Footnote 3) co-founded the Ecocide movement with Polly Higgins. Another XR supporter from Stroud, she has been an environmental activist for years and is director of a campaign called "Stop ecocide: change the law" (</span><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/extinction-rebellion-climate-protests-spread-uk-190715141008361.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/extinction-rebellion-climate-protests-spread-uk-190715141008361.html</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jojo, who was a close friend and colleague of Polly, appears to have taken the baton from her to push for that Law of Ecocide. She is reported to have said in July 2019 that " .. At the moment, the damage and destruction to our planet that continues day by day does so because it's permitted .. ".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 19th July 2019 article "Stop Ecocide - Polly Higgins, the Extinction Rebellion boat" said " .. The boat has been named .. in honour of her memory and her important work .. will continue, with both legal and campaign teams co-ordinated by Jojo and with the support of thousands of ‘Earth Protectors’ signed up to a Trust Fund which will help small island nations amend the Rome Statute and bring the crime of ecocide under International Criminal Court jurisdiction .. " (</span><a href="https://realmedia.press/polly-boat/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://realmedia.press/polly-boat/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That article provides a link to the EcocideEarth web-site, inviting us to become an "earth protector" and begging for charitable donations towards the cause. It says " .. We are Ecological Defence Integrity, a small UK non-profit founded by legal pioneer Polly Higgins, working with a team of top international criminal lawyers and evidence experts. We are already preparing a test prosecution case against one of the world’s largest fossil fuel companies (Shell), and we are already working with Pacific small island (Great Ocean) states .. " (</span><a href="https://www.stopecocide.earth/ecocide" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.stopecocide.earth/ecocide</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A claimed benefit of registering as an "earth protector" is that " .. you are clearly stating that you believe that damage and destruction to the Earth and its inhabitants is a crime - and you will have a unique Trust Fund document in your name to show this, which carries legal weight. It can be used in court as primary evidence that you are not acting to cause harm but to prevent it:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">YOU ARE NOT A CRIMINAL - YOU ARE A CONSCIENTIOUS PROTECTOR .. " </span>(<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.stopecocide.earth/conscientious-protectors&source=gmail&ust=1596559957584000&usg=AFQjCNF4fgAA9hQtU_Wtt5R2pRJgh3bVqg" href="https://www.stopecocide.earth/conscientious-protectors" target="_blank">https://www.stopecocide.<wbr></wbr>earth/conscientious-protectors</a><wbr></wbr>).<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The quote in "Oliver Twist" from Mr Bumble is relevant "If the law supposes that, the law is a ass - a idiot."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the 23rd July 2019 9980 donors had registered. As poet and author Thomas Tusser said "A fool and his money are soon parted". Hopefully common sense will continue to prevail over environmental extremism and humans will continue to improve the environment for the benefit of humans, without unnecessarily harming lesser forms of life. Unfortunately, as can be recognised from the existence of organisations like the WWF (see Footnote 4 of this sub-section), FoE and Extinction Rebellion, logic and reason have a very hard struggle against emotion and blind faith, those sustaining forces of religions.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(For more on blind faith see sub-section 3.1.24, Footnote 6)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1)</b></span><a href="https://londonhollywood.wordpress.com/2019/04/22/in-memoriam-polly-higgins-lawyer-who-inspired-extinction-rebellion-never-before-published-interview-on-ecocide/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://londonhollywood.wordpress.com/2019/04/22/in-memoriam-polly-higgins-lawyer-who-inspired-extinction-rebellion-never-before-published-interview-on-ecocide/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). Jojo Mehta and Gail Bradbrook paid tribute to her at the Findhorn Foundation’s Climate Change and Consciousness Conference in April (</span><a href="http://newstoryhub.com/2019/05/honouring-polly-higgins-jojo-mehta-and-gail-bradbrook/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://newstoryhub.com/2019/05/honouring-polly-higgins-jojo-mehta-and-gail-bradbrook/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">), They did so again recently on the Extinction Rebellion boat (named after Polly) that clutters the road outside the Royal Courts of Justice during the XR summer rabble-rousing event (</span><a href="https://realmedia.press/polly-boat/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://realmedia.press/polly-boat/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>2)</b></span><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2X-rfydhwY0" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2X-rfydhwY0</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> at 3.20+ mins). Polly maintained her support for the Compassionate Revolution/RisingUP!/Ectinction Rebellion organisation to the end.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>3)</b></span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jojo-mehta-1a8ab830/?originalSubdomain=uk" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jojo-mehta-1a8ab830/?originalSubdomain=uk</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). These skills are of little use when trying to understand the complexity of the processes and drivers of the different global climates, which require competence in the physical sciences </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">(see Section 2.0, Footnote 2)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>4)</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">See the WWF's 2005 "Climate Chaos" CACC propaganda pack, designed for teachers to use in order to brainwash their vulnerable students - http://www.se-ed.co.uk/sites/default/files/resources/climate_chaos_info_pack.pdf)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 19.5px;">. A good example of such brainwashing is Greta Thunberg (see <a href="https://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html">Appendix</a> A6.3)</span></div>
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In 2014 Stephen Reid founded The Psychedelic Society, which believes " .. that the conscious use of psychedelics can help create a more compassionate and joyful world .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/&source=gmail&ust=1556388255021000&usg=AFQjCNFjmO5V2Vt9j27nnCg_FgvILEtmbw" href="http://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://psychedelicsociety.<wbr></wbr>org.uk/</a>).</div>
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I had funding to continue to PhD but at the last minute I dropped out and went to live in Strasbourg, France. After 4 months I returned to the UK and immersed myself in the world of climate activism with the Camp for Climate Action ('Climate Camp').</div>
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In 2011, I started working for the New Economics Foundation (NEF), a people-and-planet focused thinktank. There I co-founded the New Economy Organisers Network (NEON), a network bringing together campaigners, academics, activists, trade unionists, politicians and others working to bring about a new economic system.</div>
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In December 2012, I became the youngest ever board member of Greenpeace UK. In 2013 I left NEF and started working as a freelance digital consultant/developer for organisations including 38 Degrees, the Labour Party, the Green Party, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://350.org&source=gmail&ust=1556388255021000&usg=AFQjCNFoyKgDusbKYXnAZ3VDkwkHv8_Rjg" href="http://350.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">350.org</a>, the Living Wage Foundation, Positive Money, SumOfUs, 10:10 and Brandalism.</div>
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Since 2017 I have been fascinated with metamodern/Teal thinking. In mid-2018, the Psychedelic Society started making the transition to becoming a Teal organisation .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/about&source=gmail&ust=1556388255021000&usg=AFQjCNE5FYpKQJIdd_bZmhFrRXMTshyF3A" href="http://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/about" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://psychedelicsociety.<wbr></wbr>org.uk/about</a>).</div>
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During that interview he expressed the opinion that <span style="line-height: normal;">aeroplanes </span>" .. should only be used in emergencies .. " <span style="line-height: normal;">(</span><a href="https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/19/emma-thompson-flew-5400-miles-join-climate-change-protest-9262552/" style="line-height: normal;">https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/19/emma-thompson-flew-5400-miles-join-climate-change-protest-9262552/</a><span style="line-height: normal;">) yet apparently “ .. his Instagram tells a different story, showing him on luxurious foreign holidays awash with palm trees, ski slopes, and historic landmarks .. ” (</span><a href="https://order-order.com/people/robin-boardman-pattison/" style="line-height: normal;">https://order-order.com/people/robin-boardman-pattison/</a><span style="line-height: normal;">). If that is correct then the word “hypocrisy” again springs to mind (see sub-section 3.1).</span><span style="line-height: normal;"> </span></div>
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It would be interesting to know on what he spent the £935 in charitable donations that he had raised (<a href="https://uk.gofundme.com/votenoheathrow">https://uk.gofundme.com/votenoheathrow</a>).<br />
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<span style="line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span> <span style="line-height: 19.5px;">American Meteorologist Anthony Watts has an interesting article on Robin Boardman-Pattison (https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/04/18/the-extinction-rebellion-leaders-jet-setter-robin-boardman-a-buddhist-teacher-and-a-yoga-instructor/) which also makes mention of Roger Hallam. The numerous subsequent comments make interesting reading too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Cathy Eastburn (51) of Lambeth, London is " .. a mother of two teenage girls, have a longstanding interest in environmental issues in particular the psychology of climate change, and I work as a volunteer Legal Observer for the Green and Black Cross network, supporting protests and direct action in London. .." </span>(<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.soundtravels.co.uk/au-Cathy_Eastburn-177.aspx&source=gmail&ust=1596559957584000&usg=AFQjCNGj5iRGOKX5_U8QzvBhWXOhtRzY1w" href="https://www.soundtravels.co.uk/au-Cathy_Eastburn-177.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.soundtravels.co.<wbr></wbr>uk/au-Cathy_Eastburn-177.aspx</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">A graduate of Cambridge, " .. Cathy Eastburn started learning gamelan at London’s Southbank Centre in 1996 <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "bitstream charter" , serif; font-size: 16px;">and quickly fell under the spell of this most engaging and communal form of music</span>. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "bitstream charter" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Since 2002 she has been a member of the Southbank Gamelan Players and has studied in Surakarta, Central Java, with the eminent Javanese musicians Sukamso, Prasadiyanto, and Hartono. She has studied in the UK with Esther Wilds and in Indonesia with the famous Javanese singer Ni Muriah Budiarti.</span><br />
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Cathy is also the founder and director of Good Vibrations, a charity which runs gamelan projects in prisons as a way of helping prisoners to develop team-working and other vital life skills .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://oxfordgamelan.org/people/cathy-eastburn/&source=gmail&ust=1596559957584000&usg=AFQjCNEM34JOxrzAiTxefUrPnq9JkCSV1A" href="http://oxfordgamelan.org/people/cathy-eastburn/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">http://oxfordgamelan.org/<wbr></wbr>people/cathy-eastburn/</a>).</div>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">She was struck by the transformative potential of this .. and so decided to take it to some of the most marginalised people in the UK; prisoners .. Cathy delivered week-long gamelan pilots in HMP Brixton, HMP Glen Parva, HMP Wakefield, HMP The Wolds and HMP Nottingham .. 53 more prison gamelan projects .. " </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "bitstream charter" , serif;">(</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://oxfordgamelan.org/people/cathy-eastburn/&source=gmail&ust=1596559957584000&usg=AFQjCNEM34JOxrzAiTxefUrPnq9JkCSV1A" href="http://oxfordgamelan.org/people/cathy-eastburn/" target="_blank">http://oxfordgamelan.org/<wbr></wbr>people/cathy-eastburn/</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px;">I</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px;">n April </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px;">she had a different kind of experience of prison </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">" .. Cathy was one of three activists who glued themselves to a DLR train in east London during the International Rebellion. But unlike hundreds of other arrestees, Cathy was denied bail and sent to prison .. " (</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/48501/Stopping+climate+chaos+++an+activists+guide+to+changing+the+world" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank">https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/48501/Stopping+climate+chaos+++an+activists+guide+to+changing+the+world</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">see also</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/extinction-rebellion-dlr-protester-freed-from-highsecurity-jail-after-seven-days-and-is-banned-from-a4127191.html&source=gmail&ust=1556644010998000&usg=AFQjCNE5hJXrTbhBWJBiGRONBIsERRuR8w" href="https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/extinction-rebellion-dlr-protester-freed-from-highsecurity-jail-after-seven-days-and-is-banned-from-a4127191.html" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.standard.co.uk/</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">) - see also Footnote 1) of this sub-section.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The Daily Express's </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">19th April 2019</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">report on the same event claimed that " .. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">She also founded Good Vibrations to teach current and former prisoners life skills through gamelan. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A spokesman said Eastburn left Good Vibrations in 2014 'and no longer has an organisational connection with us. We wish her well, but these are her own private actions and views' .. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Eastburn is a popular figure on the activist circuit and has been at numerous events led by Extinction Rebellion, the group causing mayhem across London .. " (</span><a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1116379/cathy-eastburn-eco-activist-DLR-train-court">https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1116379/cathy-eastburn-eco-activist-DLR-train-court</a>)<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">1) The other two infamous Extinction Rebellion supporters were Mark Ovland and Luke Watson - see 3.1.12 and 3.1.13). The three were imprisoned, accused of obstructing the railway as part of the Extinction Rebellion protests.</span></div>
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Buddhist priest (54) Yanai Postelnik was " .. Born in Switzerland, of mixed European and Asian parentage, he grew up in New Zealand. Deeply concerned by what he saw around him, and in the world, he became involved in activism as a teenager .. he left his home in 1988 .. and spent a few years travelling internationally as a way of exploring himself.</div>
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Yanai encountered the teachings of the Buddha and the practice of Insight Meditation while in Asia in 1989, and sat his first Insight Meditation retreat in 1990. It was clear to him that these practices offered something truly beneficial and powerfully transformative, and so he has been engaged in the study, practice and service of the Buddha’s teachings on a full time basis, ever since .. Yanai began teaching at Gaia House, in Devon, in 1992, and moved to the USA to be the Resident Teacher at Insight Meditation Society, in Barre, Massachusetts in 1995-1996. He then returned to England and has been based in Devon since then. He lives in Ashburton, with his wife and teaching partner, Catherine McGee .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://yanaipostelnik.com/about-yanai/&source=gmail&ust=1556566135050000&usg=AFQjCNG4OkC8g-92DiaPd0-aGw9qFPquew" href="http://yanaipostelnik.com/about-yanai/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://yanaipostelnik.com/<wbr></wbr>about-yanai/</a>).</div>
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" .. He has practised and studied Insight Meditation and Buddhism since 1990 and has been teaching internationally for over 20 years. He is much inspired by the Thai forest tradition and the transformative power of the natural world. Yanai is a Core Faculty member of Insight Meditation Society, Massachusetts .. (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.oxfordinsightmeditation.org/attending-retreats/retreat-programme-2018/&source=gmail&ust=1556566135050000&usg=AFQjCNGPUU1foom5jPyvYq64Bs4Psed_Cg" href="http://www.oxfordinsightmeditation.org/attending-retreats/retreat-programme-2018/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr></wbr>oxfordinsightmeditation.org/<wbr></wbr>attending-retreats/retreat-<wbr></wbr>programme-2018/</a>).</div>
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He said of his involvement with Extinction Rebellion " .. “We face an undeclared emergency and I feel compelled by my conscience to stand up for our sacred, fragile planetary ecology, on behalf of our children and all living things who have no voice. I am called to risk my comfort, my privilege, and even my liberty, in responding to the ecological and spiritual devastation that confronts us, if we do not act together and act now, with courageous hearts .. ” (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.thedancewebsite.org/networks/dharma-and-civil-disobedience/&source=gmail&ust=1556566135050000&usg=AFQjCNHVXxtlzF2Xf6-JPzksb-es_wieXg" href="http://www.thedancewebsite.org/networks/dharma-and-civil-disobedience/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.thedancewebsite.<wbr></wbr>org/networks/dharma-and-civil-<wbr></wbr>disobedience/</a>).</div>
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This November many Dharma practitioners from the Gaia House community (including Yanai Postelnik, his wife, Rob Burbea, and Kirsten Kratz) participated in the Extinction Rebellion disruption in London. Yanai Postelnik was one of those arrested, along with other senior Dharma practitioners. (see<br />
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Trainee Buddhist teacher Mark Ovland (35) of Totness, Devon (a member of the Totnes Meditation Group) " .. is training to teach in the Insight Meditation tradition .. has been devoted to the Dharma, to study, service, and practice, since his mid-twenties. His passion and curiosity led him first to India, where he lived briefly as a monk of the Ramakrishna Order, and later to Devon .. He is socially and environmentally engaged, and in 2013 co-created the Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement (DANCE) .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.oxfordinsightmeditation.org/attending-retreats/retreat-programme-2018/&source=gmail&ust=1556566135050000&usg=AFQjCNGPUU1foom5jPyvYq64Bs4Psed_Cg" href="http://www.oxfordinsightmeditation.org/attending-retreats/retreat-programme-2018/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr></wbr>oxfordinsightmeditation.org/<wbr></wbr>attending-retreats/retreat-<wbr></wbr>programme-2018/</a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://totnes-meditation-group.org/our-teachers/&source=gmail&ust=1556566135050000&usg=AFQjCNFWPRjwhBu853DR6JGNYJ5JJrKedg" href="http://totnes-meditation-group.org/our-teachers/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://totnes-meditation-<wbr></wbr>group.org/our-teachers/</a>).</div>
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Poh-Eng San is a " .. Practitioner in Buqi healing and Plant Spirit Healing .. Contact Poh-Eng San at <a href="mailto:pohengsoundbuqi@yahoo.co.uk" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">pohengsoundbuqi@yahoo.co.uk</a> 07980 562 113 or 01453 297847 (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fulcrumhouse.co.uk/therapists/poh-eng-san/&source=gmail&ust=1556813179838000&usg=AFQjCNFdJj5WC61G7YvRpCuCrEcG4UyjuA" href="https://fulcrumhouse.co.uk/therapists/poh-eng-san/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://fulcrumhouse.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>therapists/poh-eng-san/</a>).</div>
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" .. As a young girl Poh Eng was known as Anna Kenrick .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.clevelandpools.org.uk/archive/picture.php?/1964&source=gmail&ust=1556813179838000&usg=AFQjCNHS7xFI9bTJ-3OWMNRa8WM8iFlipQ" href="http://www.clevelandpools.org.uk/archive/picture.php?/1964" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.clevelandpools.<wbr></wbr>org.uk/archive/picture.php?/<wbr></wbr>1964</a>).</div>
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Psychologist Joziet Khimba - aka Jo (Woolley)Khimba - is a " .. Counsellor with the Foundation for Emotional Therapeutic Counselling .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.linkedin.com/in/jo-khimba-7638ba28/?originalSubdomain%3Duk&source=gmail&ust=1556813179838000&usg=AFQjCNHvr1_bVSQvEuPqPz5KQ9t_TBp74g" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jo-khimba-7638ba28/?originalSubdomain=uk" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/<wbr></wbr>jo-khimba-7638ba28/?<wbr></wbr>originalSubdomain=uk</a>). " .. I am also a certified Laughter Facilitator, and have started to run a laughter club in Stroud .. ". </div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Andrew Medhurst " .. had taken a job in a government-backed workplace pension provider at the start of 2018 .. In November, he joined the Extinction Rebellion bridge-blocking protest at Waterloo .. in February Medhurdst gave up his job to join Extinction Rebellion where he helps manage the budget - provided by a mix of foundations, individuals, crowdfunding and corporate donations .. " (</span><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/9bcb1bf8-5b20-11e9-9dde-7aedca0a081a" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.ft.com/content/9bcb1bf8-5b20-11e9-9dde-7aedca0a081a</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In a Medium article explaining why he gave up his job at Nest in order to volunteer with XR, he pontificated about the predicted disaster claimed to be a result of our use of fossil fuels (the CACC fantasy). This former investment banker who decided the climate and ecological disaster demanded he volunteer full-time with Extinction Rebellion acknowledged that his understanding of climate change was less than expert (</span><a href="https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/climate-change-why-it-made-me-quit-my-job-316532b0e330" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/climate-change-why-it-made-me-quit-my-job-316532b0e330</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">). From what he says in that article it appears that he has no expertise whatsoever about the processes and drivers of the different global climates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Despite that apparent lack of expertise Andrew Medhurst seems to consider himself qualified to " .. deliver the XR talk "Heading for extinction (and what to do about it)" .. " (</span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/medhursta/?originalSubdomain=uk" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.linkedin.com/in/medhursta/?originalSubdomain=uk</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">). " .. In his talk, Andrew aims to share the latest climate science on where our planet is heading .. " (</span><a href="https://londonfuturists.com/2019/03/22/london-futurists-news-22-mar-2019/" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://londonfuturists.com/2019/03/22/london-futurists-news-22-mar-2019/</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">Alison Green (50+) earned a PhD in Psychology from Aberdeen University. " .. </span></span><span style="color: #101010; font-family: "pt sans" , "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">Whilst in Aberdeen, I co-founded a small consultancy company and carried out work in the oil industry, which included a fascinating stint on an oil platform in the North Sea .. " (</span><span style="color: #101010; font-family: "pt sans" , "helveticaneue" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><a href="https://connections.kmi.open.ac.uk/biography/alison-green">https://connections.kmi.open.ac.uk/biography/alison-green</a>).</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> After over a decade with the Open University she joined Arden University, Coventry as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic). After only 10 months she left to become " .. National Director (UK) at Scientists Warning, Chesterton, Cambridgeshire </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 19.5px;">.. an experienced senior academic leader who swapped academia for environmental activism. I now work with Scientists Warning and I lead the Extinction Rebellion Academic partnership team .. " (</span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-green-7228748/?originalSubdomain=uk" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; line-height: 19.5px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-green-7228748/?originalSubdomain=uk</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 19.5px;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of the 10 Advisory Board members </span>(<a href="http://www.scientistswarning.org/advisory-board/">http://www.scientistswarning.org/advisory-board/</a>)<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, only one appears to have qualifications, training and experience </span>in the relevant physical sciences <span style="background-color: white;">(see Section 2.0, Footnote 2</span>). The physical sciences are essential for an understanding of the inappropriately named “greenhouse effect” that underpins the CACC fantasy, which the climate hysteria that she supports is all about.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The areas of expertise of the members of the Board of Directors range from Psychology through IT, telecomunications devices and networks “(</span><a href="https://www.scientistswarning.org/about/board-of-directors/">https://www.scientistswarning.org/about/board-of-directors/</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Alison supports the belief of that organisation's diverse range of members that " .. We are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, with about 200 species becoming extinct each day .. we will not tolerate the failure of this or any other government to take robust and emergency action in respect of the worsening ecological crisis .. We therefore declare our support for Extinction Rebellion .. " (</span><a href="http://www.scientistswarning.org/we-must-take-action/" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.scientistswarning.org/we-must-take-action/</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">" .. Dr Alison Green was one of the early members of the civil disobedience group making a stand on climate change .. " (</span><a href="https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/extinction-rebellion-protest-london-alisongreen-16144466" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/extinction-rebellion-protest-london-alisongreen-16144466</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In her opinion " .. the system is the cause of the problem. Either we dismantle this edifice that we’ve built, or it’s going to crumble .. " (</span><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/9bcb1bf8-5b20-11e9-9dde-7aedca0a081a" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.ft.com/content/9bcb1bf8-5b20-11e9-9dde-7aedca0a081a</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">).</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She says " .. “ .. I have no formal background in environmental issues .. But .. I have taken the time to look properly at the evidence and have come to the clear conclusion that we are facing an imminent and potentially catastrophic climate emergency .. .. If you understand the science, and I would put myself in that category .. " (</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/26/we-have-a-duty-to-act-hundreds-ready-to-go-to-jail-over-climate-crisis" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/26/we-have-a-duty-to-act-hundreds-ready-to-go-to-jail-over-climate-crisis</a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). It appears that she has none of the relevant scientific qualifications or experience that are required in order to understand the highly complex processes and drivers of the different global climates.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Alison Green</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> believes t</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hat " .. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "crimson text" , "georgia" , serif; line-height: 1.4;">Children should be taught about the connection between our way of life – including the economic and political factors – and the impact it has on the ecosystem .. the consequences of this way of life for us and the planet. Climate and Ecology should be taught as a discrete subject and embedded throughout the curriculum </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "crimson text" , "georgia" , serif; line-height: 1.4;">.. Lessons in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics and the Social Sciences need to be based on up-to-date evidence from reliable sources. While the curriculum needs to reflect the concerns raised in the IPCC reports, it must acknowledge that the IPCC, as a consensual body (including both scientists and politicians), has consistently underestimated the rate at which climate change is happening .. ” (</span><a href="https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2019/02/21/this-friday-in-london-teachers-to-bring-climate-truth-to-the-department-for-education/">https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2019/02/21/this-friday-in-london-teachers-to-bring-climate-truth-to-the-department-for-education/</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2018 the ScientistsWarning organisation posted a scary letter claiming that “</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">We are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, with about </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">200 species becoming extinct each day, say 94 signatories including </span><strong style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Dr Alison Green” (</span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/26/facts-about-our-ecological-crisis-are-incontrovertible-we-must-take-action&source=gmail&ust=1596559957584000&usg=AFQjCNFwaWLCpInt9PITYAxkZlMXwiYKUQ" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/26/facts-about-our-ecological-crisis-are-incontrovertible-we-must-take-action" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/<wbr></wbr>environment/2018/oct/26/facts-<wbr></wbr>about-our-ecological-crisis-<wbr></wbr>are-incontrovertible-we-must-<wbr></wbr>take-action</a>) .. ".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In May 2019 Alison was challenged regarding the relevance of her area of expertise (Psychology) to the scientific issue of the processes and drivers of the different global climates. Her response included the claim that the letter was signed by some of the world's most distinguished climate scientists. She also appeared to think it worthwhile mentioning that ScientistsWarning was supported by James Hansen and ecologist William Ripple.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Alanna Byrne (30+) from West Byfleet </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">is a Press Cordinator for XR. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">She earned a degree in English and Art History from Roehampton College in 2010 (</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanna-byrne-0ab943127/?originalSubdomain=uk" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanna-byrne-0ab943127/?originalSubdomain=uk</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 19.5px;">After graduating she spent several years in Toronto, Canada before moving on to South America. In 2015 she travelled to Peru, being Communications Manager with Seeds of Hope, the mission being " .. to support children living in extreme poverty in Huaráz, Perú .. " (</span><a href="http://www.seedsofhope.pe/" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; line-height: 19.5px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://www.seedsofhope.pe/</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 19.5px;">). She also became a freelance writer with student travel provider Evolve Inc. (</span><a href="https://evolvetours.com/about-us-evolve-tours-school-trips/" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; line-height: 19.5px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://evolvetours.com/about-us-evolve-tours-school-trips/</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 19.5px;">), " .. a writer and NGO coordinator .. in deepest, darkest Peru. Originally from London, UK, she has travelled from a young age and lived for two years in Toronto. She’s about to embark on more backpacking adventures, first across South America and then onto New Zealand and Australia .. Follow her adventures here:</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 19.5px;"> </span><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160409045300/http://www.awritetoroam.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; line-height: 19.5px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://web.archive.org/web/20160409045300/http://www.awritetoroam.com/</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 19.5px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 19.5px;">.. " (</span><a href="https://evolvetours.com/machupicchu/" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; line-height: 19.5px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://evolvetours.com/machupicchu/</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 19.5px;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In 2016 Alanna Byrne became a Communications Officer with Project Cordillera, a " ..SOCIAL ENTERPRISE Promoting the Andes .. Having recently left Huaraz after almost a year there, I had already made my way across South America, New Zealand and Australia when I spoke with .. PC about helping out .. I can’t wait to visit again, hopefully on a Project Cordillera expedition! .. " (</span><a href="https://www.projectcordillera.org/2017/01/13/project-cordillera-team-stories-from-2016/">https://www.projectcordillera.org/2017/01/13/project-cordillera-team-stories-from-2016/</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Later in the year she added to her list of jobs the position Digital Communications Coordinator with a charity Action for Stammering Children (</span><a href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/alanna-byrne-0ab943127">https://uk.linkedin.com/in/alanna-byrne-0ab943127</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The countries that she has lived in or visited are " .. Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Spain, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States .. " (</span><a href="https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/alanna-byrne" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.couchsurfing.com/people/alanna-byrne</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Her profile on that blog says " .. I am .. currently making my way around the World .. ".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 19.5px;">Her enjoyment of all of that global travelling and the numerous other benefits of a modern lifestyle must involve the consumption of lots and lots of fossil fuel. On the other hand, the disruptive action in London by Extinction Rebellion that she is supporting is supposed to be fighting against our burgeoning use of fossil fuels. Her job at XR and her "Rebellion for Life" action in London does make </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Alanna Byrne look </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 19.5px;">somewhat hypocritical, like </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: normal;">Dame Emma Thompson</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; line-height: 19.5px;"> (see sub-section 3.1).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1) </b>Alanna may </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">also have used the alias Alannadunabyrne (</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; text-align: left;">e.g. see </span><a href="https://evolvetours.com/iquitos/">https://evolvetours.com/iquitos/</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cecily Bedner (20) is a student of film, etc. (see Footnote 1) and is an enthusiastic Extinction Rebellion supporter. She said recently that " .. I'm currently working on: A crowdfunded experimental documentary on climate action in the UK .. documents people taking action in the UK against the climate emergency - here is some info about it: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The targeted release date of the documentary is Autumn 2019.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cecily said in her appeal for money that " .. there are groups of people who are gravely concerned for our future. Extinction Rebellion is one of the most prominent groups; surfacing in late 018 with marches, road blockages, and creative works to express their passion for preventing the future devastating impacts of climate change .. " (</span><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/home-sick-a-documentary" style="background-color: transparent;">https://www.gofundme.com/f/home-sick-a-documentary</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cecily advised in update 2 to that appeal that " .. With this funding, we're able to go to events leading up to April's Week of Rebellion, and capture some of the week itself. .. we're also able to dedicate some money .. so we can share the message with as many people as possible .. ". She concluded " .. We are a couple of very happy treehuggers .. " (showing a photo' of an enthusiastic tree-hugger.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NB: Cecily has been - and may still be - involved in fundraising for the "Tree by Tree" organisation (see sub-section 3.1.22).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In update #4 of that appeal she boasted about having attended the " .. XR Hackney Street Party - Sat 9th Feb 2019 .. and experienced such an incredible energy from everyone .. We spent the day talking to XR members old and new, including those who were getting involved for the first time. There were songs, debates, discussions, and loads of passion. Safe to say myself and my crew traveled home with weary eyes and aching backs, but also with a great feeling of energy, motivation, and excitement for future events .. ".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In their 9th April call-to-arms and further appeal for charitable donations Cecily and Harley Sample begged " .. Our film needs your help one more time. This is the week it has all built up to. London will be rising up for our planet .. The rebels are gathering in the streets and are coming to stay for .. as long as it takes to be heard .. but unfortunately we don't have quite enough budget to stay in London .. for any longer than 3 DAYS. So we're reaching out one more time .. please support us however you can to keep us in London for the rebellion. We are desperate to stay .. DONATE here: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cecily boasted on 20th April about being " .. at Oxford Circus, after my first 'lock in'. with my friends .. we chained our arms together in metal pipes to hold the site overnight .. unfortunately this was only to swarmed by police officers just as we were waking up .. Extinction Rebellion is very much alive and kicking and dancing in our streets - check out what we're doing and support if you can .. ".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In update #5 of that Gofundme appeal (on 21st June) she declared that " .. Extinction Rebellion's April occupation of the streets of London was incredible to experience .. it was also incredibly draining .. Tension and exhaustion built up over six days until the Saturday evening when I was arrested at Parliament Sq (Section 14 Public Order Act) .. and spent 19 hours at Belgravia Police Station .. but I was very happy that I was able to make this choice in aid of something that I feel passionate about .. ". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What a shame that any supporters of XR who have donated funds to the "cause" haven't been charged with (or warned about) aiding and abetting the criminals who imposed such disruption on law-abiding citizens.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>FOOTNOTES</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2019 Cecily and fellow student Harley Sample (see Sub-section 3.1.20) received the UCA Student Union's award for "Outstanding Achievement in Sustainability" (</span><a href="https://ucasu.com/activities/farnham/clubs-societies/useful-information/awards-and-recognition/" style="background-color: transparent;">https://ucasu.com/activities/farnham/clubs-societies/useful-information/awards-and-recognition/</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cecily and myself are SO very lucky and greatful to announce that our GoFundMe has busted through our goal with a huge £1,055!!!! THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This means we can now create the documentary with NO limitations and we are so excited to show you our film being released in late August/September time .. ”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Environmental campaigner and CACC scaremonger George Marshall (see Dr. Judith Curry's article "Why Climate Disasters Might Not Increase Concern About Climate Change" - </span><a href="https://judithcurry.com/2012/11/23/why-climate-disasters-might-not-increase-concern-about-climate-change/">https://judithcurry.com/2012/11/23/why-climate-disasters-might-not-increase-concern-about-climate-change/</a>)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1)</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to describe XR's activities in Trafalgar Square and on Waterloo Bridge during April 2019. The Conference's "Welcome" document</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> includes " .. Presentations from .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">AVENA, GABRIELLE, INDRA, MARISA and; SILVA EXTINCTION REBELLION </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.. will share with you their thoughts about the way they experience their activism. A talk about fearless fire, fierce courage, love in action, sacred acts, sacrice, privilege and of solidarity with a call to arms to protect our sacred earth .. Avena Rawnsley is an environmental activist, sacred writer, story teller and nature lover. She is passionate about the earth, how we live on it and the stories we tell about it. She has been active in the goddess conference for many years, and she loves it .. Silva Rawnsley has been involved in the conference since 2001 when she was just six months old. Being brought up in a Goddess loving family, the Glastonbury Goddess Conference has been hugely important throughout Silva’s life. A performer, temple dancer, environmental activist and artist Silva is dedicated into the sisterhood of Rhiannon and last year was part of the moon maiden ceremonial group. In the past Silva has served as a Melissa, dancer, story teller and priestess within the conference. This year Silva will be speaking as part of an environmental call to stand, creating and moving ceremonial puppets and assisting with the Malisse team during and leading up to the conference .. " (</span><a href="https://goddessconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Goddess-Conference-Programme-2019-web.pdf" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://goddessconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Goddess-Conference-Programme-2019-web.pdf</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- page 22 and 14). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>3)</b></span><a href="https://goddessconference.com/about-the-goddess-conference/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://goddessconference.com/about-the-goddess-conference/</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, The "Welcome" document for the Moon Goddess Conference in 2018 says " .. AVENA RAWNSLEY was raised in the Goddess tradition, learning about ceremony and sustainable living. She is a writer, artist, nature lover and student of the world. She attended her first Goddess Conference in Glastonbury at six years old and since then she has travelled extensively visiting alternative and Goddess based communities and broadening her skills and world view. She has co-organised seasonal ceremonies within the community of Glastonbury and abroad, participating in public ceremonies as well as private ones. In the 2014 Goddess Conference she contributed her art to an exhibition titled ‘Old woman through the eyes of young woman’ that held a sacred gateway space for the death road. In 2017 she travelled to America and co-facilitated a creative writing journey workshop. Inviting people to study their inner landscape and express it in writing. She finds peace and connection when on the land and believes that respect for nature and care for all living beings is vital. This is her first Conference as a ceremonialist but Goddess and the Glastonbury conference are an integral part of her life. .. "</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 2018 Goddess Conference was " .. Celebrating the great Moon Goddess in Her Maiden aspect, the 13 original Moon Maidens, 13 Maiden faces of the Moon Goddess and reclaiming Her radiance in the world .. " </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><a href="https://goddessconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Goddess-Conference-Programme-2018-low-res.pdf" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://goddessconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Goddess-Conference-Programme-2018-low-res.pdf</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">For 13 years she has been a Director (Teacher) of The Glastonbury Goddess Temple (see </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Footnote 2 of this sub-section and 3 of </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">sub-section 3.1.21 Avena Valentina Rawnsley).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">annual Glastonbury Goddess Conference (see Footnote 3 of this sub-section) of </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">2019 was to " .. celebrate the Sun Lover Goddess, and warmly welcome you to Her Great Solar Temple .. on the sacred land of Avalon / Glastonbury .. ".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">According to the "Welcome" to the 2018 conference, which was " .. Celebrating the great Moon Goddess in Her Maiden aspect .. Katinka Soetens is a Ceremonialist of the Goddess and co-organiser of the Goddess Conference, Priestess of Avalon and a Sacred Sexual Priestess of Rhiannon .. teaching empowerment through Goddess ceremonies, trainings and workshops to honour the spiral of life grounded in the indigenous spirituality of Avalon and the European lands. She runs the Sacred Sexual Priestess of Rhiannon training for the Magdalene Mystery School in the U.K. .. also teaches a year long men’s soul quest journey : Path of the Lover – Brotherhood of Rhiannon .. as Priestess, Katinka facilitates healing of the wounding between the masculine and feminine .. Katinka works with movement, shadow hunting, touch, breath, sound, intimacy, embodiment and meditation .. Particularly interested in the sacredness of love .. Katinka facilitates sacred intimacy as a Priestess and sexual healer. This year, she is particularly excited to be Goddess Ceremonialist with her two daughters Avena and Silva Rawnsley .. ".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Among the services that Katinka offers are " .. resources and freebies to let you enter into the mysteries of the Goddess and let you walk into Her path of Love .. " (Footnote 4 of this sub-section) . She even offers training courses for men " .. A Soul-quest into authentic masculinity and deep connection to both Goddess and Horned God .. " (</span><a href="https://herpathoflove.com/" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://herpathoflove.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Katinka has significant control also at </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">THE GODDESS CONFERENCE LLP which she runs wit</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">h Maria Antonette Johanna Fransisca van Eupen (<a href="http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/company/OC418469/THE-GODDESS-CONFERENCE-LLP">http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/company/OC418469/THE-GODDESS-CONFERENCE-LLP</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Since 2013 she has also been Director of Her Path of Love Limited, with Avena Rawnsley named as its Secretary (</span><a href="https://companycheck.co.uk/company/08818020/HER-PATH-OF-LOVE-LIMITED/companies-house-data" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial";">https://companycheck.co.uk/company/08818020/HER-PATH-OF-LOVE-LIMITED/companies-house-data</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial";">).</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></div>
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1) <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rawnsley Woodland Products since 1996 along with partner Tino Rawnsley (see sub-section 3.1.22).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2) The Glastonbury Goddess Temple (05824913), 13 St. Edmunds Road, Glastonbury, Somerset, England, BA6 9HX, Director Appointed on 9 July 2006.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nationality: Dutch. Country of residence: United Kingdom, Occupation: Teacher</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(see </span><a href="https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05824913">https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05824913</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">3) See<b> </b></span><a href="https://goddessconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Goddess-Conference-Programme-2019-web.pdf" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://goddessconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Goddess-Conference-Programme-2019-web.pdf</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">and</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><a href="https://goddessconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Goddess-Conference-Programme-2018-low-res.pdf" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://goddessconference.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Goddess-Conference-Programme-2018-low-res.pdf</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4) Her Path of Love Limited (08818020), 36 Selwood Road, Glastonbury, England, BA6 8HW, Director Appointed on 17 December 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">IT specialist Andrew Basden (Footnote 1) is the father of Extinction Rebellion founding member Stuart Jeffrey Basden (sub- section 3.1.5).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Andrew is an evangelical Christian (see Footnote 2 of this sub-section) and an enthusiastic environmental activist (see Footnote 3 of this sub-section). He is also an active supporter of Extinction Rebellion and believer in the CACC hypothesis, clearly illustrated by:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- the title of his 26th March 2011 talk </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">to the Christian Ecology organisation on</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">"Green A</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">ctivism with Christ: Is spiritual regeneration needed for effective change?" (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.christian-ecology.org.uk/whatson-past-events-2011.htm&source=gmail&ust=1596817715097000&usg=AFQjCNHQYn8LBIZj24OGAKYCEFGINEXyDg" href="http://www.christian-ecology.org.uk/whatson-past-events-2011.htm" target="_blank">http://www.christian-ecology.<wbr></wbr>org.uk/whatson-past-events-<wbr></wbr>2011.htm</a> Leeds, 26th March)</span>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a staunch supporter of the CACC hypothesis, Andrew was (is?) a founding member (with fellow evangelical Christians, Professors John Houghton, Bob Goudzwaard and Dr. John Lockwood) of the "Climate Change and Global Economics Group" (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.abxn.org/ccge/&source=gmail&ust=1596044172071000&usg=AFQjCNFg9ZImtXhoLWEC49E72Am5Vxe0zg" href="http://www.abxn.org/ccge/" target="_blank">http://www.abxn.org/ccge/</a> - </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The CCGE group is covered in more detail in sub-section 3.2.1</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- I firmly believe we should spend our effort, resources and money on preserving and indeed revitalising the declining populations of other species, by curbing our destruction of their habitats, and re-installing those habitats .. we should take immediate, and sacrificial, action to immediately cease climate change emissions, to reverse the bad example we have set for the rest of the world .. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; text-align: start;">200 million refugees are likely when climate change really gets going; what are we going to do with them?</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">" .. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="color: black; text-align: start;">Religion is important to most parts of the world outside Europe; we need a theology of climate change .. "</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"> (</span><a href="http://www.basden.demon.co.uk/G/ccpresp.html">http://www.basden.demon.co.uk/G/ccpresp.html</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In her May 2019 article on XR's disruptive and illegal activitie<a class="tdb-author-name" href="https://www.nme.com/author/holliegeraghty" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 3px; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: middle;">Hollie Geraght</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">commented " .. We also spoke to veteran activist Andrew Basden, 70, .. He’s been involved in environmental activism since 1980, but felt the Extinction Rebellion was creating a new phase in the climate change debate. “At last somebody is talking about climate change and environmental responsibility,” he said. “I’ve been waiting 30 years for this .. ” .. UNQUOTE (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nme.com/features/extinction-rebellion-intergenerational-activists-awareness-2483848&source=gmail&ust=1596817715097000&usg=AFQjCNGaEpXxQs0bpxHpXOLOLw2tVoIPNg" href="https://www.nme.com/features/extinction-rebellion-intergenerational-activists-awareness-2483848" target="_blank">https://www.nme.com/features/<wbr></wbr>extinction-rebellion-<wbr></wbr>intergenerational-activists-<wbr></wbr>awareness-2483848</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It appears that </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">since childhood</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Andrew may have been driven more by faith than facts. He was "converted" by an Assemly of God missionary when about 10 years old, developing " .. a number of deeply held beliefs, or rather perspectives or paradigms on things: Above all, and encompassing all else:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- that we should take God seriously and Put God at the centre of life,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- that the Bible is the unique communication from God, and if we want to get to know God then we must do so through the Bible,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- that what the Bible says applies to me personally, and that I must be careful to apply it - hypocrisy is out,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- The reality of and necessity for conversion - an event at a point in time where we allow God to come into our lives and save us and take control,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- the church visible contains both 'real' Christians (converted) and 'nominal' Christians - </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">this is true of all denominations,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- God's people (the 'real' Christians) are distinct, and should be distinctive,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- God wants to save each person personally, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">God has no grandchildren,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- the applicability of the gospel to all peoples and cultures.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- the importance of going into all the world and preach the gospel to all creatures</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- And many more</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most of these have stayed deep within me all my life, though obviously refined through the years. However, I'm thankful to Calum Wilson for the foundation he helped to form in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">me. .. " (</span><a href="http://www.abxn.org/spiritual.journey.html">http://www.abxn.org/spiritual.journey.html</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">He says " .. I'm one of the 1.7 billion people called 'Christians' - those who, at least in theory, model their lives and everything else on Jesus Christ. What brand? I'm what might be called evangelical, rather than liberal, fundamentalist or anglo-catholic, in outlook</span> .<span style="text-align: start;">. " (</span></span><a href="http://www.abxn.org/andrew.html">http://www.abxn.org/andrew.html</a> but see Footnote 2 of this sub-section).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: 10px;">- in 2018 that " .. </span><span style="text-indent: 10px;">Jesus Christ .. </span><span style="text-indent: 10px;">is the one to whom I owe my entire life .. </span><span style="text-indent: 10px;">has shaped my whole life, character, personality, ideals, aims in life, and means ..</span><span style="text-indent: 10px;"> is the meaning of my life ..</span><span style="text-indent: 10px;"> my destiny: I believe that what I do here and now will 'translate' into the next life when I am with him in eternity; that is exciting, and it makes everything worthwhile .. " (</span></span><a href="http://stevebishop.blogspot.com/2018/01/interview-with-andrew-basden-part-1.html">http://stevebishop.blogspot.com/2018/01/interview-with-andrew-basden-part-1.html</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 10px;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2019 that </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">God want</span><span style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.3125; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s his people to take the lead on climate and environmental responsibility </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: inherit; white-space: inherit;">..Those who resist are working against God .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-style: inherit; white-space: inherit;">God is now allowing the natural world to unleash its fury on us so we change our attitude before it's too late </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 10px;">(</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 10px;"><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/androidbasden" target="_blank">https://mobile.twitter.com/<wbr></wbr>androidbasden</a>),</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 10px;">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">In 2020 " .. </span><span style="text-indent: 10px;">One important thing on my heart is to develop a compelling theology of environmental responsibility - see the article published in the Evangelical Alliance blog:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.eauk.org/news-and-views/a-compelling-theology-for-environmental-responsibility" style="color: purple; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.eauk.org/news-and-views/a-compelling-theology-for-environmental-responsibility</a> .. I've been working with the UK Christian Academic Network .. " (<a href="http://stevebishop.blogspot.com/2020/01/interview-with-andrew-basden.html">http://stevebishop.blogspot.com/2020/01/interview-with-andrew-basden.html</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More on Andrew, his religious views and journey is available in his "Writings on Christian Topics (</span><a href="http://www.abxn.org/andrew.html">http://www.abxn.org/andrew.html</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.abxn.org/index.htm&source=gmail&ust=1596902032556000&usg=AFQjCNHZWn6ZQky5mAs4OTRgGVXmv0_jqQ" href="http://www.abxn.org/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.abxn.org/index.htm</a><span style="color: #222222;"> and </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.abxn.org/spiritual.journey.html">http://www.abxn.org/spiritual.<wbr></wbr>journey.html</a> but see Footnote 5 of this sub-section)</span><span style="color: #222222;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are those who may find it hard to understand how claims such as the Bible is the Word of God or Jesus Christ was the only human son of God to be born of a woman passes any critical scrutiny (see Footnote 7 of this sub-section). Related texts can be found at </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.basden.demon.co.uk/xn/spiritual.journey.html&source=gmail&ust=1596817715097000&usg=AFQjCNEgI52O61JKBH0hk0uKbbj_66HBFA" href="http://www.basden.demon.co.uk/xn/spiritual.journey.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">http://www.basden.demon.co.<wbr></wbr>uk/xn/spiritual.journey.html</a> .<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Apart from the influence that his religious faith has had on Andrew, Dutch philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd appears to have had a significant influence. He discussed this in January 2020, pondering " ..<span style="color: black; text-indent: 10px;"> whether Dooyeweerd </span><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was somewhat trapped" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-673E12C8FF881DDC8F8AADDC83B05F59" data-pwa-rule-id="PASSIVE_VOICE" data-pwa-suggestions="" style="color: black; text-align: start; text-indent: 10px;"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was somewhat trapped" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-7F80332EE916C8FEFD3F96404F0CB804" data-pwa-rule-id="PASSIVE_VOICE" data-pwa-suggestions=""><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="was somewhat trapped" data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Passive verbs make your writing less direct. Try to use an active verb instead." data-pwa-id="pwa-14590EFCE84FBB501D4B4FE19263DE69" data-pwa-rule-id="PASSIVE_VOICE" data-pwa-suggestions="">was somewhat trapped</pwa></pwa></pwa><span style="color: black; text-indent: 10px;"> in the Greek-Scholastic-Humanist wish to find humans 'superior' to the rest of creation, in a way I do not find Biblical .. </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 10px;">With some surprise, however, I have found that most of Dooyeweerd's paths led me where I wanted to go, and needed little improvement .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; text-indent: 10px;">" (</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">see Footnote 8 of this sub-section).</span><br />
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Andrew was good en</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ough to make time available from his very busy schedule to review some of this article, including this sub-section (subsequently updated). His comments can be found in <a href="https://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html">Appendix</a> A5.3.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">2) Andrew interprets his evangelism on one of his blogs</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> (</span>http://www.abxn.org/<wbr></wbr>evangelical.html).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">3) As a mem</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">ber of the Green Party, Andrew was a local council candidate in 1987 for Edisbury, Cheshire, attracting 1.7% of the vote (</span><a href="https://green-history.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=124&catid=26">https://green-history.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=124&catid=26</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">" .. my confusion was I was a member of the Green Party in the 1980’s, I still am actually [although I don’t like it]. I came across lots of different factions fighting against each other. There were the deep ecologists who emphasised species and so on, there were the green economists, there were the new agers and spirituality. There were people who were emphasising decentralisation, and so on, and I couldn’t understand what is sustainability. I wanted to underst</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">and what is sustainability .. " (</span><a href="http://christianacademicnetwork.net/contribute/?p=245">http://christianacademicnetwork.net/contribute/?p=245</a> - see Footnote 4 for more on the Christian Academic Network).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px;">4) Andrew is closely involved with the "Christian Academic Network" (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://christianacademicnetwork.net/newjoomla/index.php/component/content/article/28-home-page/home-page-content/246-purpose&source=gmail&ust=1596817715098000&usg=AFQjCNGNgf6YGvAA-uXXZntD1qE9Smyckg" href="https://christianacademicnetwork.net/newjoomla/index.php/component/content/article/28-home-page/home-page-content/246-purpose" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">https://<wbr></wbr>christianacademicnetwork.net/<wbr></wbr>newjoomla/index.php/component/<wbr></wbr>content/article/28-home-page/<wbr></wbr>home-page-content/246-purpose</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 16px;">) which declares " .. Our purpose is to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ through the academic community. We seek to encourage the integration of Christian faith into academic life and to support and equip University and College staff and those academics working in research as witnesses for Christ in their workplace.</span><br />
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- Each member of staff has been uniquely gifted, specially called and placed on their campus by God. </div>
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- The academic community is one of the most influential groups in the country. We draw the next generation of leaders from university graduates and therefore university staff are strategically placed for tremendous national influence and a worldwide impact for Christ.</div>
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- Every Christian in the university community has a role to play in bringing God back to the centre of our intellectual life through working in their academic discipline. Christian values and thinking can again permeate the academy and in turn society as the Christian world view is seen as sufficient and relevant to all of life in every discipline.</div>
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- In working with other Christians on campus, the academic community and the body of Christ, each with their part to play, can have a greater impact than working alone.</div>
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- A country-wide, cross-disciplinary network of Christian academics and staff brings encouragement, support, stimulation and a renewed sense of corporate vision and hope to the academic community and its work .. ".</div>
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" .. Andrew .. is nervous about Christians developing a 'theology' of everything .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://christianacademicnetwork.net/newjoomla/index.php/conferences/previous-conference-reports/2003&source=gmail&ust=1596817715098000&usg=AFQjCNG8DXbLf3kdbwFIco9QHpjWfiOGOg" href="https://christianacademicnetwork.net/newjoomla/index.php/conferences/previous-conference-reports/2003" target="_blank">https://<wbr></wbr>christianacademicnetwork.net/<wbr></wbr>newjoomla/index.php/<wbr></wbr>conferences/previous-<wbr></wbr>conference-reports/2003</a>) but he is inclined towards a " .. Theology of Climate Change .. " (see para 4 of this sub-section).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5) R</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eaders should note that Andrew acknowledges that </span>the wording on his "</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Christian Writings" </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">blog " .. can</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">not be relied upon to express what the author(s) meant .. " </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 10px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.abxn.org/copyright.html&source=gmail&ust=1596902032556000&usg=AFQjCNExtkQu7fBDJzhjjDK7Qb73L11Jug" href="http://www.abxn.org/copyright.html" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr></wbr>abxn.org/copyright.html</a>)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. He also declares that " .. You are not allowed to use the material in aggressive arguments .. with any hostile intent .. Any use of this material in such a way is deemed null and void. However, constructive questioning and critique is .. not considered hostile; indeed, it is welcomed .. " </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 10px;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 10px;">It is interesting that Andrew appears to believe that he has the authority to judge whether or not what others say </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">has no value and is empty. On the other hand, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">at least</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">he </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">welcomes constructive criticism and will make time from his busy schedule to respond to it (e.g. see </span><a href="https://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Appendix</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"> A5.3).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6) Critical thinkers will surely find highly unpalatable the article "Blind Faith" (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://answersingenesis.org/the-word-of-god/blind-faith/&source=gmail&ust=1596969150688000&usg=AFQjCNHBrVBwplvCH4kxPo_zd-PFPbqYDg" href="https://answersingenesis.org/the-word-of-god/blind-faith/" target="_blank">https://answersingenesis.org/<wbr></wbr>the-word-of-god/blind-faith/</a>) by the Christian<span style="border: 0px; color: #3f4041; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> apologetics ministry '</span><span style="color: #3f4041;">Answers in Genesis', which is</span><span style="color: #3f4041;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #3f4041;">dedicated to helping Christians </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #3f4041;">defend their faith and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #3f4041;">effectively .. providing answers to questions about the Bible .. ". The history behind the evangelical organisation providing these "answers" is fascinating (</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #3f4041;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://answersingenesis.org/about/history/&source=gmail&ust=1596969150688000&usg=AFQjCNFGfrYqlxqvoWA0DERDxPQnNRWmFg" href="https://answersingenesis.org/about/history/" target="_blank">https://answersingenesis.org/<wbr></wbr>about/history/</a>).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7) " .. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. In its exemplary form, it is based on universal intellectual values that transcend subject matter divisions: clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, sound evidence, good reasons, depth, breadth, and fairness .. " (</span><a href="https://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/766">https://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/766</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> " .. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 10px;">Dooyeweerd has encouraged my (academic) thinking to be much more interdisciplinary and open to new ideas ..</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 10px;">I have been able to explore .. new ideas .. critically, because Dooyeweerd gives the basis for genuinely critical affirmation and enrichment. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 10px;">Dooyeweerd has been central to my career .. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 10px;">Dooyeweerd gave me a 'mission' in my academic life - .. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 10px;">clarified the mission that Christ gives me .. to bring Good and Joy into the world .. Since 2007 I have made Dooyeweerd .. the core of all I have taught .. because they are the ones </span><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="that " data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-FD9B299F5178293904138C8726CA395D" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1513" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; text-indent: 10px;"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="that " data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-8989919684EB8060C11702BF69B1A880" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1513" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="that " data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-E713F655EFBF5BF8B7A2B0D7E88023BC" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_1513" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">that </pwa></pwa></pwa><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 10px;">I find work better than any others ..</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 10px;"> It is interesting that some people </span><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="have come to " data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-65F3B13839DC30324F89E64548C56369" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_638" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start; text-indent: 10px;"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="have come to " data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-174E8B8931B1368C1CC58D20535E4F38" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_638" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)"><pwa class="pwa-mark pwa-mark-done" data-pwa-category="style" data-pwa-dictionary-word="have come to " data-pwa-heavy="false" data-pwa-hint="Readability may be enhanced by removing this" data-pwa-id="pwa-995D4CEE1D3CC68D8F24CA7345AB3AA4" data-pwa-rule-id="READABILITY_638" data-pwa-suggestions="(omit)">have come to </pwa></pwa></pwa><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: 10px;">accept Christ as Saviour and Lord because I taught the application of Dooyeweerd .. " (</span><a href="http://stevebishop.blogspot.com/2020/01/interview-with-andrew-basden.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://stevebishop.blogspot.com/2020/01/interview-with-andrew-basden.html</a> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- for more on Steve Bishop see Footnote 9 of this sub-section<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></span><br />
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allofliferedeemed.co.uk. He is a trustee of Thinking Faith
Network .. " (<a href="https://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3089&context=pro_rege">https://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3089&context=pro_rege</a> see also <a href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/steve-bishop-85302b18">https://uk.linkedin.com/in/steve-bishop-85302b18</a>). As well as being programme co-ordinator he lectures in Maths, Science and Sociology to further education students.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He provides an interesting overview of Andrew Basden's </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. '</span>LACE strategy' (listening, affirming, critiquing and enriching) .. "<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">approach to Christian scholarship </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><a href="https://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3089&context=pro_rege">https://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3089&context=pro_rege</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Farhana Yamin (53) is a staunch environmentalist and XR supporter who believes that " .. Fossil fuels are the main drivers of the climate Crisis .. " (</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/09/national-portrait-gallery-royal-opera-house-bp-extinction-rebellion-climate-breakdown" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/09/national-portrait-gallery-royal-opera-house-bp-extinction-rebellion-climate-breakdown</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">). At an XR press conference in March 2019 she declared “ .. We can’t just leave it to the COP, we can’t just leave it to the Climate Change Committee’s review of the UK’s long-term target to sort it out .. the entire system is out of kilter, out of touch, and it is certainly not working fast enough .. " (</span><a href="https://xrblog.org/2019/03/09/vice-what-radical-climate-protesters-xr-are-planning-next/" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://xrblog.org/2019/03/09/vice-what-radical-climate-protesters-xr-are-planning-next/</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">She is " .. a lawyer who helped negotiate the Paris climate agreement and now coordinates XR’s International Solidarity Network .. " (</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/09/artists-national-portrait-gallery-bp-oil" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/09/artists-national-portrait-gallery-bp-oil</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It is claimed that Farhana is " .. a leading international environmental lawyer .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Climate change lawyer and Extinction Rebellion activist .. with goal of social justice and zero emissions in line with 1.5 C .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">" (</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://www.festivalrepublic.com/news/creative-green-awards-2019" style="font-family: Arial;" target="_blank">https://www.festivalrepublic.com/news/creative-green-awards-2019</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">and </span><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/farhanaclimate?lang=en" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://mobile.twitter.com/farhanaclimate?lang=en#</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">). </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">She certainly is active at an international level regarding the UN-inspired CACC issue (see Footnote 1).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">She was prominent at Extinction Rebellion's March 2019 press conference in their temporary Euston HQ. At that conference she declared “ .. We can’t just leave it to the COP, we can’t just leave it to the Climate Change Committee’s review of the UK’s long-term target to sort it out .. the entire system is out of kilter, out of touch, and it is certainly not working fast enough .. " (</span><a href="https://xrblog.org/2019/03/09/vice-what-radical-climate-protesters-xr-are-planning-next/" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://xrblog.org/2019/03/09/vice-what-radical-climate-protesters-xr-are-planning-next/</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">).</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During XR’s April disruption in London this Internationally-renowned lawyer surprisingly declared that “ .. We’re having to break law rather than make law .. ” (</span><a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/20/clim-a20.html">https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/04/20/clim-a20.html</a>).<br />
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</span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Blogger Iain Davis has a somewhat different take on this " .. As activists go, Farhana is exceptionally powerful .. played a part in drawing up the Paris Climate Agreement .. Greenpeace board trustee (Greenpeace being the wealthiest environmental pressure group on Earth,) .. advisor to the World Wildlife Fund and World Economic Forum .. a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change .. a lawyer not a scientist, but you don’t need to be a scientist to become one of the ‘world’s leading climate experts’ as far as the IPCC are concerned .. A woman of many talents .. the founder and CEO of Track0 who aim to assist governments, businesses, investors and philanthropists to transition towards a decarbonised global economy. Her company partners with the Rockefeller Foundation, among other globalist heavyweights .. " (</span></span><a href="https://in-this-together.com/a-climate-emergency-fit-for-a-parasite-economy-part-2/">https://in-this-together.com/a-climate-emergency-fit-for-a-parasite-economy-part-2/</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Farhana's profiles can be viewed at hotbeds of CACC alarmism, Chatham House (</span><a href="https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/farhana-yamin" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/farhana-yamin</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">) and Climate Strategies at https://climatestrategies.org/team/farhana-yamin/. This shows her to have been closely involved with the Childrens' Investment Fund Foundation (an XR donor) and with the </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Institute of Development Studies, </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "lato" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">University of Sussex, </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Brighton </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">(as Research Fellow).</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>1) " .. </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">She has worked with the Children's Investment Fund Foundation from 2009 to 2012 leading on work relating to development of low emissions development strategies in developing countries and the development of progressive coalitions in the international negotiations. She was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex from 2003 to 2009 and published numerous books and articles on the climate/development nexus. She was Director of the Climate Change and Energy Programme of the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development from 1992 to 2002. She has been a Lead Author for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for three assessment reports and was Director of the Basic Project which brought together experts and government representatives from Brazil, South Africa, India and China for the very first time in 2004 to 2008 to discuss climate policy issues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ms Yamin has worked as a consultant to the European Commission from 1998-2002 providing advice on the EU Emissions Trading Directive. She was Special Adviser to Connie Hedegaard, EU Commissioner for Climate Action for 2012-2013, on issues relating to the international negotiations. She is a visiting professor at University College London, teaching international environmental law and climate change policy and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House .. " (</span><a href="https://cop23.unfccc.int/climate-action/momentum-for-change/advisory-panel-members/farhana-yamin">https://cop23.unfccc.int/climate-action/momentum-for-change/advisory-panel-members/farhana-yamin</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Farhana’s Track0 organisation actively supports the CACC fantasy and provides assistance to numerous organisations who are pushing for the UK to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions to net-zero. Track0 has some very powerful partners:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- The Rockerfeller Organisation “ .. By year-end 2016 assets were tallied at $4.1 billion (unchanged from 2015), with annual grants of $173 million.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- E3G (Third Generation Environmentalism) founded by Nick Mabey (ex-Greenpeace), Tom Burke, (ex-WWF) and John Ashton, (ex- Special Representative for Climate Change at the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office),</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- numerous organisations supportive of the CACC fantasy.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(see</span><a href="http://track0.org/about/partners-supporters/">http://track0.org/about/partners-supporters/</a>).</div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2017 “ .. Track 0 and Climate International Network (CAN International), held a major side-event at COP23 ..The event launched a major new publication by Track 0 and CAN International called ‘“A Compendium of Solutions for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Staying Below 1.5 0 C’ .. “ (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://track0.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/PDF-FOR-USE-STANDARD-FILE-A-Compendium-of-Solutions-for-achieving-the-Sustainable-Development-Goals-and-Staying-Below-2%C2%B0C-or-1.5%C2%B0C-01.09.2017.pdf">http://track0.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/PDF-FOR-USE-STANDARD-FILE-A-Compendium-of-Solutions-for-achieving-the-Sustainable-Development-Goals-and-Staying-Below-2%C2%B0C-or-1.5%C2%B0C-01.09.2017.pdf</a>). For more on the CAN see sub-section 3.1.24, Footnote 4.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">According to Robin " .. </span><span style="color: #292929; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">The world of today is breaking. We have built the modern world on the back of white supremacist, patriarchal and inequality-centric ideologies - it is a world of rampant racism, runaway climate change, massive gender inequity and falling living standards. My generation's future is on the line, it's time we stood up! .. ". (</span><span style="color: #292929; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://www.truthjusticeandpeanutbutter.com/about?fbclid=IwAR3vQx-KMy6PyLnZf8NmgCtj-QduDrp0rl-GMXT29B6ktQqK2yZM76p0iOQ). The word "grew" rather than "stood" appears more appropriate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Paolo Enoch (62) is a translator.and XR activist.who was charged with criminal damage in Westminster (see 3.1). He appears to have achieved little else that is noteworthy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Following a rather traumatic childhood Tiana traveled the world, spending time a</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">t an Indian ashram. Somewhat enlightened but still searching, she returned to the UK and attended the Hoffman Institute (</span><a href="https://www.hoffmaninstitute.co.uk/my-journey-back-to-earth-with-tiana-jacout-of-womanfest/">https://www.hoffmaninstitute.co.uk/my-journey-back-to-earth-with-tiana-jacout-of-womanfest/</a> - <span style="font-family: "arial";">see also Footnote 1 of this sub-section) and ended the 7-day process as a " .. transformed young woman .. She qualified in acupuncture and founded WomanFest .. " (Footnote 2 of this sub-section).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Tiana i</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">s a staunch XR and environmental activist and XR's festival organiser. She is considered to have been the “brains behind the bridges occupation”, i.e. the action in November of 2018 when thousands of XR members illegally disrupted the lives of law-abiding UK residents by blockading five bridges in central London .. " (</span><a href="https://xrblog.org/2019/03/09/vice-what-radical-climate-protesters-xr-are-planning-next/" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://xrblog.org/2019/03/09/vice-what-radical-climate-protesters-xr-are-planning-next/</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">In January 2019 Tiana warned Glastonbury and other festival organisers " .. "Join us or you're going to be rebelled against .. There has to be civil disobedience if people won't accept the truth .. She urges activists to come to London on International Rebellion Day and to take two weeks off from April 15th, one week to be in the streets and the second in prison .. to deal with the urgency of climate breakdown .. " (</span><a href="https://campfireconvention.uk/bugle/spotlight/tianas-extinction-rebellion-challenge-glastonbury" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://campfireconvention.uk/bugle/spotlight/tianas-extinction-rebellion-challenge-glastonbury</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">). In the associated video of her talk she said " .. we are creating a separate, true, fundamental democracy .. " (around 19+ seconds).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She appears</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> to have totally accepted the scare-mongering about CACC. When talking about Brexit in February 2019 at that XR press conference she said " .. It’s phenomenal that while your house is on fire, all the government can do is squabble about getting a slightly shittier trade deal with their closest allies .. People are squabbling over how food will get to England and not looking at the larger picture of whether there is food available to come to here in the first place .. ”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the invitation to her 2019 WomanFest (see Footnote 2 to this sub-section) Tiana ranted " .. we need women in their full power, to take leadership into a new world .. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had the honour this year to be one of the co-ordinators of Extinction Rebellion .. we were not just blocking roads - we were using that space to occupy it with a vision of the world our hearts knew was possible .. we cried with each other as we were taken away one-by-one by the police. I remain so humbled by everyone who KEEPS SHOWING UP .. in the face of overwhelming adversity. In their own life, in the struggles for freedom and justice .. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Woman Fest 2019 .. is a call to .. all those who wish to step into their power and purpose - to find your place in the new world we HAVE to build, for the sake of all living beings and for ourselves .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The rebellion is indigenous and female centred - it is not just about climate change - it is a reconnection to the world around us and a defiant NO to the ties that bind us to the old paradigm of Scarcity, division and control.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We reclaim our Sovereignty as Women .. " (</span><a href="https://www.womanfest.co.uk/blog">https://www.womanfest.co.uk/blog</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1)</b> The Hoffman Institute was f</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">ounded in 1967 by </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">Bob Hoffman, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">a </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">California</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">n tailor </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">with no formal education or training in psychotherapy</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">. Designed to help troubled individuals to identify the negative behaviours that developed during their childhood, t</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">he Hoffman Process</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is " .. a 7-day soul searching, healing retreat of transformation and development for people who feel stuck in one or more important areas of their life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Outcomes:</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Make peace with your past</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/">https://www.hoffmaninstitute.org/</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tiana Jacout, her three sisters (Lalie, Noemie and Chloe) and Mother Rikki have all undergone this process (</span><a href="https://www.hoffmaninstitute.co.uk/an-emotional-dynasty-meet-the-jacout-family/">https://www.hoffmaninstitute.co.uk/an-emotional-dynasty-meet-the-jacout-family/</a>)<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. There are some interesting comments about them at </span><a href="https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/threads/steam-me-another-yoni-tiana-jacout-strikes-again.288421/">https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/threads/steam-me-another-yoni-tiana-jacout-strikes-again.288421/</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tiana reveals some interesting information about herself in her Hoffman Institute article "My Journey Back to Earth". She admits to having been " .. a miserable child, and a worse teenager. The one your mother would shake her head at the mention of and tell you not to hang around with, muttering things like ‘bad influence’ and ‘will be found lying dead in a ditch somewhere’ .. ” (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.hoffmaninstitute.co.uk/my-journey-back-to-earth-with-tiana-jacout-of-womanfest/">https://www.hoffmaninstitute.co.uk/my-journey-back-to-earth-with-tiana-jacout-of-womanfest/</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She goes on to say that she “ .. was adrift in a sea of adult hypocrisy and cycles of abuse, and all the drugs, sex and suicide attempts couldn’t numb me enough to avoid the monsters that chased me .. So I ran .. Country to country, job to job, .. And then, to my utter astonishment, I ran into something .. Miraculous .. an ashram in India .. I had found something real for the first time in my life, I had found peace. I stayed there .. for two years .. of unwavering and unimaginable bliss. I stopped talking to my father – the perceived root of all my troubles! .. ”.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tiana then describes how " .. The cracks began to show slowly .. I was doing everything right! .. vegetarian, meditating .. practicing yoga, filling my mind with untold wisdom .. I felt so strong spiritually, and yet .. I still had the same inexplicable rage, self-doubt and self-sabotage in me. I still had my shadows .. The gap between my emotional self-awareness and my spiritual understanding had grown too wide to ignore, and I knew it needed to be addressed. So back to England I went, bound for the Hoffman Process .. ".</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Describing that experience, she says " .. something extraordinary happens. I find choice. I learn that my actions are my own .. I find autonomy. I find compassion for the people that raised me and for the mistakes they made .. I find forgiveness .. I’ve discovered that the world is not as it is, but as I am .. ".</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Next she describes what may well have sewn the seeds of WomanFest " .. Best of all I find my body .. with its cornucopia of feelings and passions and nuances. What had first been numbed by narcotics then disowned with philosophy came back to me. I rediscovered my connection to my womanness too, and the surprising, extraordinary and delightful gifts that had to give me, in connection to the feminine, to the Earth .. ".</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tiana then discloses her earth-shattering explanation of the cause of many global crises " .. A glaring consistency seems to be at the root of so many of our troubles; the disempowerment, oppression and even subjugation of the feminine. Climate change, violence, war, the opioid crisis, mass incarceration, industrialised animal farming – all can all be traced back to this in one way or another.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She appears to reject the notion that we would all be living happily together in a "Garden of Eden" if it hadn't been for the mischief of that first woman on Earth. She appears to prefer to put the blame on poor old Adam and his male lineage.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her concluding statement is " .. one thing Hoffman taught me .. If you don’t like a culture, change it .. ". That may explain her allegiance to the founding members of the XR/RU/CRLtd organisation. Remember their prime objective - to replace our well-established global political and economic systems with that wishy-washy "people power" alternative.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Perhaps Tiana would prefer the established global political and economic systems to be replaced by "women power". Many would scream "no thanks" to that!!. Maybe</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> w</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hen Extinction Rebellion is just an unpleasant distant memory Roger Hallam will try to inspire a "religion rebellion" with the prime objective of replacing the well-established different global religions with "Goddess" worship (see sub-section 3.1.21). He appears capable of such madness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Feb. 2015 Tiana revealed that " .. The Hoffman Process has blown open the doors to connecting and understanding people and what drives them. It has made me much more patient. I’ve become such a believer that everyone is fundamentally good, and trying their best; they just need a little sympathy and empathy. The phrase “Oh God, I think I’m turning into my mother” is something I hear all the time. What I think the Process can teach people is that .. If you are in full control of yourself, you can have more of an ‘opt in/opt out’ attitude to inheriting things from your ancestors. That attitude would create a world of present and self-possessed individuals. What a world that would be! .. " (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.hoffmaninstitute.co.uk/an-emotional-dynasty-meet-the-jacout-family/">https://www.hoffmaninstitute.co.uk/an-emotional-dynasty-meet-the-jacout-family/</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>2) </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">" .. an intention, a prayer .. a reimagining of an ancient women’s gathering where we come together, we step up for ourselves and each other, we learn, we share, we dance. We reconnect to and celebrate the Earth. We reimagine the world a little brighter and we heal. We burst out of our conditioning into our power; free, wild and mysterious – and a greater force for good than we could ever imagine .. " (</span><a href="https://www.hoffmaninstitute.co.uk/my-journey-back-to-earth-with-tiana-jacout-of-womanfest/" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.hoffmaninstitute.co.uk/my-journey-back-to-earth-with-tiana-jacout-of-womanfest/</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">). Shades of "Goddess" there (see sub-section 3.1.21 Avena Valentina Rawnsley, etc.).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tiana is owner, sole director and secretary of Woman Fest UK Ltd. (</span><a href="https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11306829/officers" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/11306829/officers</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">), registered in April 2018 by Tiana and Katherine Jordan a year after they met (</span><a href="https://watkinsbooks.com/woman-fest-2018/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://watkinsbooks.com/woman-fest-2018/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). Three months later Katherine handed her share to Tiana and resigned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> In that Watkins Books article Tiana said of WomanFest " .. " .. It came from our instant love of one another, that led to conversations about how we, as a global sisterhood are so fractured, so competitive .. ".</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> For more on the strange activities that go on at the Womanfest see the Mail article "Womb wisdom and Shamanic bee smoking... no, we've no clue either!" in which reporter Jan Moir " .. describes her gloriously bonkers weekend at Britain's first women only festival .. ". Jan tells us much more than simply that Tiana is " .. a five-element acupuncturist (based on Fire, Earth, Metal, Water and Wood) and an Emotional Freedom Technique practitioner .. " (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-6096365/JAN-MOIR-describes-gloriously-bonkers-weekend-Britains-women-festival.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-6096365/JAN-MOIR-describes-gloriously-bonkers-weekend-Britains-women-festival.html</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">XR's </span></b></span><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">‘fundraising director’ </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";">Margaret Klein Salamon (33 - also known as Margaret Salamon Klein) </span><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal;">is a </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";">Clinical Psychologist</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">(</span></b><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;">Footnote 1 of this subsection<wbr></wbr>). </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";">She </span><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"> describes herself as a ‘climate psychologist', a new discipline that perhaps she invented for herself. She claims to be " .. </span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "noto serif" , serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">a human, attempting to </span><a href="http://theclimatepsychologist.com/?p=156" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Living in Climate Truth, Sections I-V">live in climate truth</a> .. " (<a href="http://theclimatepsychologist.com/about-the-author/">http://theclimatepsychologist.com/about-the-author/</a>), but appears to prefer CACC fantasy.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">At the Sept. 2014 People's Climate March in New York City Margaret</span></b></span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> and </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">reporter and climate activist Ezra Silk - subsection 3.2.4.1) </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">co-founded </span><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">the US group The </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial";">Climate Mobilisation (TCM - see </span><a href="https://www.greenroofs.com/2014/09/11/the-peoples-climate-march-in-nyc-on-september-21-2014-and-the-movie-disruption/">https://www.greenroofs.com/2014/09/11/the-peoples-<span style="color: black;">climate-march-in-nyc-on-september-21-2014-and-the-movie-disruption/</span></a> and subsection 3.2.4).<span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">She has " .. </span><span style="text-align: start;">worked from home for the past five years .. </span><span style="text-align: start;">Before coronavirus, I was planning on continuing to do a fair amount of travel for book promotion. I just got back in late February from a two-week trip to Australia. I find travel incredibly taxing - I’ve been gearing myself up, with a special toiletry bag and luggage, like, God this sucks, but you gotta do it for the planet .. </span><span style="text-align: start;">" (</span><a href="https://www.thecut.com/2020/05/how-climate-psychologist-margaret-klein-salamon-gets-it-done.html">https://www.</a></span><a href="https://www.thecut.com/2020/05/how-climate-psychologist-margaret-klein-salamon-gets-it-done.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">thecut.com/2020/05/how-climate-psychologist-margaret-klein-salamon-gets-it-done.html</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The TCM web-site scaremongers that " .. It's true: The climate <b>crisis</b> poses a terrifying threat .. we’re facing <b>catastrophic breakdown</b> of our climate .. it’s terrifying .. but we can restore a safe climate .. " as she advertises her book "Facing the Climate <b>Emergency</b>" (<a href="https://www.theclimatemobilization.org/">https://www.theclimatemobilization.org/</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a 2015 article 'The Emergency Climate Movement' Margaret said that she had founded TCM (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ecowatch.com/the-emergency-climate-movement-1882101843.html&source=gmail&ust=1597585916965000&usg=AFQjCNGm7L59RKMPO1OvTj0sqSKhiXyTYw" href="https://www.ecowatch.com/the-emergency-climate-movement-1882101843.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://www.ecowatch.com/the-<wbr></wbr>emergency-climate-movement-<wbr></wbr>1882101843.html</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">), making no mention of any co-founder. In that article she did make reference to Ezra Silk
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">“ .. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Though she loved being a therapist, Margaret felt called to apply her psychological and anthrop</span><span style="background-color: white;">ological knowledge to solving climate change .. " (</span><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://climateemergencyfund.org/margaret-klein-salamon/">https://climateemergencyfund.org/margaret-klein-salamon/</a>).<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";">That could prove to be an insurmountable task for her unless and until she gets education/training/experience in the hard sciences required for any hope of understanding the processes and drivers of the different global climates. Expertise in psychology can make no contribution to improving our limited </span><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "arial";">understanding of those climate processes </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">and drivers</span><span style="color: #141412; font-family: "arial";">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"> She will have to look beyond her co-founder Ezra (whose area of expertise is history!) and her team mates at the CEF (whose wide-ranging areas of expertise appear to exclude any relevant scientific discipline).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";">More on Margaret is available <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ik-0392S6dzKtpVkQyfMADnrHqzG0MyyHlHWnY_cP8Q/mobilebasic">here</a>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;">Margaret’s blog “The Climate Psychologist” (</span><a href="http://theclimatepsychologist.com/">http://theclimatepsychologist.com/</a>) </span>is replete with scaremongering propaganda about our burgeoning use of fossil fuels leading to imminent catastrophic changes to the different global climates. For example she claims that " .. Climate change threatens to end human civilization within this century, possibly within a few decades. While this might seem like an exaggeration or scare-tactic, it is actually a sober assessment .. Indeed, climate change is already causing civilization to break down in some parts of the world .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://theclimatepsychologist.com/how-climate-change-threatens-civilization/&source=gmail&ust=1597077864253000&usg=AFQjCNGf0EpODIkkXN5hwgLQkC7NIW-i9g" href="http://theclimatepsychologist.com/how-climate-change-threatens-civilization/" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>theclimatepsychologist.com/<wbr></wbr>how-climate-change-threatens-<wbr></wbr>civilization/</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Knowing all of these things makes Margaret an ideal member of the Extinction Rebellion leadership.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Margaret goes</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>on to <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">use pseudo-scientific terminology to get her propaganda message across, i.e. that these changes are anthropogenic in origin, a.k.a. Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change (CACC). </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Anyone with a basic understanding of relevant science should easily spot her dearth of expertise about the processes and drivers of the different global climates. As the "Basics" heading to this article says " .. Fear feeds on ignorance .. ". </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">This is something of which any qualified psychologist should be well aware (</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2771546?seq%3D1&source=gmail&ust=1597147096347000&usg=AFQjCNEgCGDEVSWc5EAD7lYd83u98Sa-9A" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/2771546?seq=1" target="_blank">https://www.jstor.org/stable/<wbr></wbr>2771546?seq=1</a>)</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> and Margaret cannot plead ignorance about this. In one of her numerous <a href="https://ynotfreakinrecyclable.com/episode-2-facing-the-climate-emergency-with-margaret-klein-salamon/">rants </a> she</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> in</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">vites viewers to " .. </span><span style="text-align: start;">Tune in for an inspiring episode about facing climate truths, welcoming fear, grief and other painful feelings, re-imagining your life story, understanding and entering emergency mode, and living as a climate warrior</span> .. " - amen!<span style="background-color: transparent;">).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She can also be seen promoting the CACC propaganda in this video (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v%3DdYJB5eNji2E&source=gmail&ust=1598192946265000&usg=AFQjCNEZy97jETTTj8f0BXN8kvlhn9tMAA" href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dYJB5eNji2E" target="_blank">https://m.youtube.com/<wbr></wbr>watch?v=dYJB5eNji2E</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">It appears that her call to CACC evangelism began in 2013 or earlier, when she began talking about emotional responses to all of the scaremongering about our burgeoning use of fossil fuels causing apocalyptic changes to the different global climates. " .. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I will consider various emotional reactions that people may have, bearing in mind that most people will feel a shifting combination of these emotions in response to our changing climate .. Guilt .. Anger .. Fear .. Grief</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> .. Apathy .. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the only way that humanity has a fighting chance against the forces of climate change are to mobilize a massive collective effort, led by the government .. the most appropriate analogy to guide our response is .. World War II .. " </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2014 she was goading us with " .. Rising to the Challenge of Our Time, Together: Introducing the Climate Mobilization .. " (<a href="http://theclimatepsychologist.com/2014/04/">http://theclimatepsychologist.com/2014/04/</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 2015 she was " .. <span style="background-color: white; font-style: inherit;">Introducin</span><span style="background-color: white;">g the</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Emergency </span><span style="background-color: white;">Climate Movement .. </span><span style="background-color: white;">We are living in a state of planetary emergency. To have a chance of averting the collapse of civilization and the destr</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">uction of the natural world, we must mobilize our society on the scale of World Wa</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">r II to achieve net zero</span><span style="background-color: white;"> greenhouse gas emissions at wartime speed .. " (</span><a href="http://theclimatepsychologist.com/2015/09/">http://theclimatepsychologist.com/2015/09/</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2016 "Climate warrior" Margaret formulated a scaremongering CACC propaganda strategy that Steven Schneider </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(see Appendix A6.1) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">would have admired.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> She published "Leading the Public Into Emergency Mode: A New Strategy for the climate Movement". She advised that " .. Because emergency mode is contagious, the best strategy is for climate activists and organisation to go into emergence mode themselves and communicate .. the fact ". as clearly and emphatically as possible .. " (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9HHPq85FjLGNmhVODlrY2VoOGM/view&source=gmail&ust=1597332628518000&usg=AFQjCNFkSaNVaUhOa6ZJCaNcnvvH8-pmfA" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9HHPq85FjLGNmhVODlrY2VoOGM/view" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/<wbr></wbr>file/d/<wbr></wbr>0B9HHPq85FjLGNmhVODlrY2VoOGM/<wbr></wbr>view</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Having allowed time for the effects of her " .. Strategy for the climate Movement .. " to percolate global populations, in 2020 she published a book "Facing the Climate Emergency: How to transform yourself with Climate Truth" on how to deal with the mental trauma that such a strategy could reasonably be expected to cause in those who accept </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on face value</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">whatever they are told rather than apply their own critical thinking - clever!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fortunately she provides free access to the first chapter, only requiring to know your name and e-mail address. Like many of her notions about causes and impacts of climate change, this </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is virtually devoid of climate truth but brimming with emotional gobbledegook.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The goal of Margaret's scaremongering <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a8b2f10017db29af12740d5/t/5e83c6c3c3da6408cd0c743d/1585694414943/Facing+the+Climate+Emergency_Preview.pdf">book</a> " .. is not to make you feel less pain. Its goal is to make you .. face the pain of the climate and ecological emergency .. so that you can initiate a process of transformation .. use our pain to effect tremendous change .. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">". She goes on to say " .. Before I started a climate advocacy organization, I was a young professional in New York City — a clinical psychologist working on a doctoral degree, preparing to enter private practice and start paying off my six-figure student debt. I wasn’t a climate denier, but I was willfully ignorant and disengaged. I avoided thinking or reading much about the climate because it made me feel terrified and helpless. I would read the first sentences of articles about global warming, say to myself, “Nope! I can’t do it,” close the article, and distract myself with something else. .. "</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She describes her transformation following the Category 2 hurricane "Sandy" which hit New York in Oct. 2012. " .. I started to educate myself. I began to finish the articles that had previously overwhelmed me. I started to seek out books on the climate and ecological emergencies .. I left .. psychotherapy .. to found and direct .. The Climate Mobilization .. an organization that tells the truth about the climate emergency and advocates a WWII-scale transformation of our economy and society .. the first step towards transformation is to acknowledge climate truth .. ". Of course she makes no mention of the fact that Sandy was not the first devastating hurricane to hit New York, e.g 120 years earlier, before motor cars filled the roads or 'planes filled the sky the city was hit by a Category 1 storm (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/books/review/furious-sky-hurricanes-eric-jay-dolin.html&source=gmail&ust=1598289315580000&usg=AFQjCNHpxVcRktodklBEt6vX29WNndPUsg" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/books/review/furious-sky-hurricanes-eric-jay-dolin.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/<wbr></wbr>08/04/books/review/furious-<wbr></wbr>sky-hurricanes-eric-jay-dolin.<wbr></wbr>html</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She goes on to define her distorted notion of "climate truth" as " .. scientific consensus .. that a climate emergency and an ecologic crisis threaten everyone on this planet. Only an emergency mobilization of resources to rapidly transform our entire economy and society can protect us .. ".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Margaret would be better off applying her own critical thinking to the CACC hypothesis rather than simply accepting on face value what comes out of a politicised consensus (see </span><a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2010/03/politicization-of-climate-change-co2.html">http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2010/03/politicization-of-climate-change-co2.html</a>)<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. If she had done some research following her experience of hurricanes Irene and Sandy she would have found that " .. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;">The Effects of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;">Hurricane Irene</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;"> in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;">New York</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;"> were the worst from a hurricane since Hurricane Agnes in 1972 .. " (see <a href="https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&sxsrf=ALeKk01j02PsEmkBT-cJU7EAEmbh1StK9w%3A1598280712913&ei=CNRDX7C2N4KV1fAP-Lyv0Ag&q=%22Hurricane+Irene%22+%22New+York%22&oq=%22Hurricane+Irene%22+%22New+York%22&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQAzICCAAyAggAMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB5Q2FxYlYEBYMCKAWgAcAB4AIABWogBngeSAQIxMpgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXrAAQE&sclient=psy-ab&ved=0ahUKEwiw2pPRi7TrAhWCShUIHXjeC4oQ4dUDCAw&uact=5">here</a>).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">She would also have found a long list of such weather events (not climate change) " .. </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">Eighty-four tropical or subtropical </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Cyclone">cyclones</a><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"> have affected the state of </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="New York State">New York</a><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"> since the 17th century .. </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">The strongest of these storms was the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_New_England_hurricane" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="1938 New England hurricane">1938 New England hurricane</a><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">, which struck </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Long Island">Long Island</a><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"> as a Category 3 </span> <span style="background-color: white;">(</span><span style="background-color: white;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_hurricanes&source=gmail&ust=1598365221723000&usg=AFQjCNGb88Uv69D4uP8ZcIyy3q6CkcK_TA" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_hurricanes" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/<wbr></wbr>wiki/List_of_New_York_<wbr></wbr>hurricanes</a>). More recent ones were Cat. 2 </span>Sandy in Oct. 2012, Irene in Aug. 2011 and Agnes in June 1972.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.theclimatemobilization.org/blog/2018/09/20/2018-9-20-yale-climate-connections-covers-climate-emergency-campaign/">The Climate Mobilization Project</a> was founded in 2014</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, preceding Extinction Rebellion by 5 years. XR's mission (suspected to have been based upon Ezra Silk's 2016 '<a href="https://www.theclimatemobilization.org/resources/whitepapers/victory-plan/">Victory Plan</a>' </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is closely aligned with that of Margaret and Ezra''s "<a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a8b2f10017db29af12740d5/t/5b98131f40ec9ac14c3f6f8c/1536693024537/Creating+A+Climate+Breakthrough+In+2020+2-pager.pdf">Climate Mobilization Project</a>"</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Recall what Polly Higgins said </span><span style="background-color: white;">"</span><span style="background-color: white;">Gail describes movements as actions </span><span style="background-color: white;">of the heart, not the intellect' (section 1.0, </span><span style="background-color: white;">Footnote 1).</span> It is hardly surprising that Gail is one of the nine CACC propagandists (including Bill McKibben) who praised Margaret's emotion-filled but science-free book "Facing the Climate Emergency: How to transform yourself with climate truth". </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Godmother of Extinction Rebellion, Gail Bradbrook</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a8b2f10017db29af12740d5/t/5e83c6c3c3da6408cd0c743d/1585694414943/Facing+the+Climate+Emergency_Preview.pdf">commented</a> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Healing ourselves, and the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">world. This work is
not </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">optional.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Read it, use it, and rebel"</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Young rabble-rousers Margaret and Ezra certainly know how to inspire a mob of mindless morons, but not those who think critically about issues rather than simply accepting on face value what others tell them. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This begge</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d the question of how influential were they (and of course <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://350.org&source=gmail&ust=1597332628518000&usg=AFQjCNEF37F18IaFGxDrIIs6TfM57tPbsQ" href="http://350.org/" target="_blank">350.org</a>'s William Ernest McKibben, with his 2016 scaremongering nonsense "World at War" - <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://newrepublic.com/article/135684/declare-war-climate-change-mobilize-wwii&source=gmail&ust=1597332628518000&usg=AFQjCNFZEGEdT5H_9W7qvSz2gzekZricIg" href="https://newrepublic.com/article/135684/declare-war-climate-change-mobilize-wwii" target="_blank">https://newrepublic.com/<wbr></wbr>article/135684/declare-war-<wbr></wbr>climate-change-mobilize-wwii</a>) on </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">XR members Gail Bradbrook (see subsection 3.1.1, Roger Hallam (subsection 3.1.2) and fellow members </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in the founding of XR. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to Margaret's Climate Mobilization blog, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gail Bradbrook (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the "GodMother" of Extinction Rebellion) acknowledged that </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">“Margaret’s prescient writing and unflinching honesty helped to inform much of the psychological groundwork</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;"> that underpins the work and philosophies of XR and the entire climate emergency movement.”</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theclimatemobilization.org/climate-truth/&source=gmail&ust=1597332628518000&usg=AFQjCNFCzBUBfWZFb9RaiWZ2xIGAdKXgWw" href="https://www.theclimatemobilization.org/climate-truth/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>theclimatemobilization.org/<wbr></wbr>climate-truth/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 10th August 2020 an E-mail was sent to Margaret pointing out that those comments were still in moderation and asking for feedback on them and on this subsection. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her immediate response was " .. Please don't contact us again .. " !!! (see <a href="https://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html">Appendix</a> A5.4). It is reasonabl</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e to conclude that there is nothing here that Margaret considers might mislead anyone (there is no desire here to mislead, only to encourage others to apply critical thinking rather than accept on face value what they are told about CACC).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At 2020-08-27 only one of those recent comments, asking why my comments had not been published (</span><a href="http://theclimatepsychologist.com/about-the-author/#comment-15722">http://theclimatepsychologist.com/about-the-author/#comment-15722</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> but getting no response from Margaret<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">) had been published on her blog (see </span><a href="https://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html">Appendix</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 5.4</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">) b</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ut without . All others submitted remain in moderation, suggesting that either:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1) " .. Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD, is a clinical psychologist turned climate warrior whose work helps people to face the deeply frightening, painful truths of climate change and transform their despair into effective action.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She is a founder and director of The Climate Mobilization and Climate Mobilization Project. Our mission is to initiate an emergency-speed, all-hands-on-deck mobilization to protect humanity and the natural world from climate catastrophe. We develop and pioneer the strongest and most aggressive policies and strategies for reversing climate breakdown. For example, our Climate Emergency campaign—with the help of our partners like Extinction Rebellion and Sunrise Movement—has sparked more than 1300 declarations of Climate Emergency by governments around the world representing 800 million people .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://facingtheclimateemergency.com/&source=gmail&ust=1597332628518000&usg=AFQjCNHdiS99WTQyqdcHbqcwv3l2uYen_A" href="https://facingtheclimateemergency.com/" target="_blank">https://<wbr></wbr>facingtheclimateemergency.com/</a><wbr></wbr>).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She earned a BA in Social Anthropology from Harvard in 2008 then in 2014 a PhD in Clinical Psychology from <span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">The Gordon F Derner School of Psychology at </span>Adelphi University, New York (</span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaret-klein-salamon-a294a285">https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaret-klein-salamon-a294a285</a>)<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A Sept 2018 article "</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Climate Mobilization plea: Cities must declare emergency" </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">quoted Margaret as saying</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">QUOTE: .."</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If a city – if an elected government body – is willing to say </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">we’re in a </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">climate emergency and we need World War II-scale climate mobilization now .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that’s a huge shift.” .. UNQUOTE (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/09/climate-mobilization-plea-cities-must-declare-emergency/&source=gmail&ust=1597845070092000&usg=AFQjCNFvmMIKzMHdzleR9rskgG1kESFYOg" href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/09/climate-mobilization-plea-cities-must-declare-emergency/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">https://</span><wbr></wbr><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">yaleclimateconnections.org/</span><wbr></wbr><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2018/09/climate-</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">mobilization-<wbr></wbr>plea-cities-must-declare-<wbr></wbr>emergency/</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">She is also quoted as saying " .. </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">“What my psychology background has taught me is that telling the truth is at the core of change,”</span><span style="background-color: white;"> .. ". It appears that what her psychology background has NOT taught her is that in order to know the TRUTH about the processes and drivers of the different global climates one has to have:</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- relevant education, training and experience in the hard sciences,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Neither Margaret nor Ezra appear to have any of these.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One year later the New York Times published a relevant opinion piece concerning organisations such as XR and TCM invoking WWII-level reaction (see Footnote 4 of this subsection) to the fantacised future predicted by supporters of the CACC hypothesis. Following a brief mention of CACC scaremongers including Gore, Salamon/Klein, S</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ilk, McKibben and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Ocasio-Cortez </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Climate Change is not Wo</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rld War .. (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/opinion/climate-change-mobilization.html&source=gmail&ust=1597676721019000&usg=AFQjCNH2EpTnPyF2F2NW_2LbWK6Dh62Ltg" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/18/opinion/climate-change-mobilization.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/<wbr></wbr>09/18/opinion/climate-change-<wbr></wbr>mobilization.html</a>) says</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> " .. <span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">much of this rhetoric involves little or no understanding of what national mobilization actually meant for Americans living through World War II. As a result, the sacrifices and struggles of the 1940s have begun to seem like a romantic story of collective heroism, when they were in fact a time of rage, fear, grief and social disorder. Countless Americans experienced firsthand the terror and excitement of mortal violence, and nearly everyone saw himself caught up in an existential struggle for the future of the planet. .. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 20px;">".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like most supporters of the CACC hypotheisis, Salamon and Silk have no experience whatever of the global horrors that were inflicted leading up to, during and following WWII. The only experience that they have is of the cossetted life of most who were lucky enough to be born two generations later and brought up in economically developed countries, with all of the attendant benefits. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It appears that Aileen Getty (an heiress to the Getty fortune - made from investments in fossil fuels) has given significant financial support to the CEF which in turn makes donations to Extinction Rebellion coffers (</span><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/06/getty-heiress-donates-500000-fund-backs-extinction-rebellion/">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/06/getty-heiress-donates-500000-fund-backs-extinction-rebellion/</a>). More on Aileen can be found at <a href="http://jaquo.com/aileen-getty/">http://jaquo.com/aileen-getty/</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Nov. 2016 Sibi Moore (24) was charged with wilfull obstruction of the highway, along with Simon Bramwell, Ian Bray and 13 other law-breakers, who sat in the road to block access to Heathrow airport (</span><a href="https://www.cityam.com/fifteen-people-charged-over-heathrow-expansion-protest/">https://www.cityam.com/fifteen-people-charged-over-heathrow-expansion-protest/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";">.. We have to aim .. for zero carbon by 2025 .. through the means of a 'Citizens Assembly' - where we ask the people to determine how we would do it .. There's been a remarkable transformation in public opinion since the school strikes, since the April rebellion</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/extinction-rebellion-member-calls-theresa-2972750).</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Skeena Rathor (42) is a Labour councillor with Stroud District Council and member of the Extinction Rebellion Political Strategy/Visioning Team and “ .. Vision Coordinator for the Extinction Rebellion International movement .. She is on a mission to bring kindness, ethics and honesty to politics .. ” (</span><a href="http://compassionatementalhealth.co.uk/speaker/skeena-rathor">http://compassionatementalhealth.co.uk/speaker/skeena-rathor</a> - <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">see Footnote 1).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although she currently lives in Stroud her home town is London where, in April 2019 she was one of four XR extremist Labour party members who glued themselves to Jeremy Corbyn's garden fence (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/embarrassed-sad-how-stroud-groups-2772758">https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/embarrassed-sad-how-stroud-groups-2772758</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before venturing into politics and moving to Stroud, Keena qualified as a pilates instructor when she was 24 and taught in Wimbledon. SHe reveals a lot about herself in her "RisingUP! Pledge" (</span><a href="https://risingup.org.uk/pledge/politics-heart-honesty-ethics-and-kindness-pledge">https://risingup.org.uk/pledge/politics-heart-honesty-ethics-and-kindness-pledge</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Savannah participated in XR's illegal disruption in April 2019 at Marble Arch. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">During that rabble-rousing event she declared that " .. I'm dropping out of university for this because there is nothing is more important than this .. " (</span><a href="https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2019/04/22/climate-change-protest-arrests-top-1000-as-last-roadblock-finally-cleared/" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2019/04/22/climate-change-protest-arrests-top-1000-as-last-roadblock-finally-cleared/</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">At the April Heathrow disruption she moaned that " .. “We are consistently being punched in the face by the truth, but nobody is doing anything .. ” (</span><a href="https://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/1769186/diff/4/5">https://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/1769186/diff/4/5</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><b>1) </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">It is noteworthy that Savannah still claims to be studying at Falmouth University (</span><a href="https://m.facebook.com/may.autumn.52?fref=nf&__tn__=-R" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://m.facebook.com/may.autumn.52?fref=nf&__tn__=-R</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">) but was recently seeking accommodation in Bristol for herself and 6 or 7 other XR youth coordinators. Presumably she needs a base there for her role as Manager of Extinction Rebellion South-West Britain. Likely she is another of those recipients of those Volunteer Living Expenses, etc. from the Bank of RisingUP!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Dave Nicks (60?) is a member of the Compassionate Revolution organisation's finance team " .. For financial queries contact Dave Nicks (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">email address</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">) .. " </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">(</span><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2019/07/10/newsletter-25-love-in-the-time-of-teargas/">https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2019/07/10/newsletter-25-love-in-the-time-of-teargas/</a></span><span style="color: #222222;">), ha</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">ving been associated with XR’s parent organisation Compassionate Revolution Ltd. since shortly after its incorporation. He appears to be the nominated contact for anyone wanting further information about the Compassionate Revolution organisation and its subsidiaries RisingUP and Extinction Rebellion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's a sample of Liam's wise pronouncements " .. we have been talking to people about the real science that we’re seeing now, not in an alarmist way, but in a realistic way. We are now facing what could be the next mass extinction. We’re already grieving over the lives lost, both human and otherwise, to climate change. And we’re seeing and talking to people about the fact that we might now be facing human extinction. And so we’re asking people to face that grief and feel that emotional response to this crisis, what we’re calling an emergency crisis—we want to shift the language to that emergency crisis—and to respond to that and move through that into action .. " (</span><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2018/12/14/extinction_rebellion_uk_protesters_are_supergluing">https://www.democracynow.org/2018/12/14/extinction_rebellion_uk_protesters_are_supergluing</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Molly Scott Cato is a Green MEP representing the South West of England and Gibraltar who considers " .. the dubious forces behind the Brexit campaign – an alliance of far-right ideologues, climate change deniers, tax-dodging foreign billionaires and specialists in voter manipulation .. " (https://mollymep.org.uk/brexit/). She is an XR supporter who " .. pledged to swap lawmaking for lawbreaking in defence of the planet when and where necessary .. ". (</span><a href="https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/im-an-mep-who-helped-block-londons-central-bridges-to-protest-climate-change-there-is-more-civil-disobedience-to-come-224785">https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/im-an-mep-who-helped-block-londons-central-bridges-to-protest-climate-change-there-is-more-civil-disobedience-to-come-224785</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">".. She says stopping flying, or cutting back on flights considerably, is the ‘most important single thing we can do individually to protect our climate .. " (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://mollymep.org.uk/2019/07/11/flight-free-2020/">https://mollymep.org.uk/2019/07/11/flight-free-2020/</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. extreme weather patterns and events are now becoming the new norm, not just here but across the globe, driven by climate change .. " (</span><a href="https://mollymep.org.uk/2019/07/09/net-zero-why-wait-until-2050/">https://mollymep.org.uk/2019/07/09/net-zero-why-wait-until-2050/</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Chris Smith (56/7) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; line-height: 19.5px;">runs Extinction Rebellion Kingston (Footnote 1 of this sub-section) but </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is best known as the director of the WOMAD festival (<a href="https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/14622219.womad-boss-in-spotlight-but-behind-the-limelight-of-festival/">https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/14622219.womad-boss-in-spotlight-but-behind-the-limelight-of-festival/</a>). On 27th July 2019 he allowed Extinction Rebellion to hold a "Celebration of Life" on one of the stages " .. culminating in a Rebel Roar of defiance in defence of the planet .. " (</span><a href="https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2019/07/27/saturday-27-july-extinction-rebellion-hold-celebration-of-life-and-rebel-roar-at-womad-festival/">https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2019/07/27/saturday-27-july-extinction-rebellion-hold-celebration-of-life-and-rebel-roar-at-womad-festival/</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Despite this enthusiasm for supporting XR in its use of CACC propaganda to further its anarchistic objectives, Chris exhibits no expertise in the physical sciences necessary for even a basic understanding of the processes and drivers of the different global climates. Never mind - he does organise a very fine annual WOMAD festival.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">His petition read " .. Declare a Climate Emergency. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">We the undersigned petition the council to Immediately and publicly declare a state of Climate Emergency in line with the demands laid out below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The air is becoming unbreathable. The oceans are acidifying. The ice is melting. The temperatures and seas are rising. Wildlife is dying and ecosystems are collapsing. Climate forecasts are now truly horrific, we are already witnessing the 6th mass extinction. Unless radical action is taken without delay we are dooming ourselves, our children and all other species on this planet to a terrible fate beyond imagination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- Immediately and publicly declare a Climate Emergency.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">- Commit to going carbon neutral by 2025. This would be consistent with the world keeping within 1.5 degrees warming limit as committed to in the Paris Climate Agreement, thereby securing our children's futures along with most remaining natural habitats and ecosystems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Extinction Rebellion aims to raise awareness about this urgent crisis, spurring ordinary people to do whatever they can to help address this issue. As councillors you have a responsibility to do the same! .. " (</span><a href="https://moderngov.kingston.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?Id=51">https://moderngov.kingston.gov.uk/mgEPetitionDisplay.aspx?Id=51</a>)<span style="font-family: "arial";">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Plenty of emotion there but not a bit of science to back up those terrifying claims.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Jenny and Derek Langley (both 65) are enthusiastic supporters of XR, running regular Non-Violent Direct Action (NVDA) courses taking between 3 and 6 hours each, often several times a week. These can be in their home area of Cambridge or beyond. " .. They prepare people for what to expect when they get arrested, how to treat the police, politicians and motorists with respect, and how to de-escalate angry situations .. As well as travelling to London for demonstrations in the capital, we organise smaller local actions in and around Cambridge, such as blockading petrol stations and swarming — holding up traffic at the lights .. " (</span><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/do-extinction-rebellion-activists-practise-what-they-preach-at-home-bsg722z9q" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/do-extinction-rebellion-activists-practise-what-they-preach-at-home-bsg722z9q</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Derek appears to be proud of the fact that he has been arrested twice " .. once on the street and once for putting graffiti on the wall of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with blue paint .. ".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">He also appears to be proud that they do their best to minimise their "carbon footprint", including recycling aluminium cans that others have cast aside in the street. " .. Eight aluminium cans have the same carbon footprint as a loaf of bread .. " - would you believe it!!! - " .. which is why we volunteer our time — it’s for our grandchildren’s future .. ".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Jenny and Derek both fully support the CACC fantasy, saying " .. We .. have been aware of the science behind climate change since evidence started emerging in the late 1970s and 1980s .. " and the Times article misleadingly suggests that both are scientists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Decades ago Derek did earn a degree in Theoretical Physics, then spent 15 years working on Computer Aided Design. In 1991 he chose to focus on his beloved hobby, photography and a crafts/publishing business (</span><a href="http://artq.net/ArtistWork.asp?artist_id=WIKEN140286602027620">http://artq.net/ArtistWork.asp?artist_id=WIKEN140286602027620</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Jenny earned a degree in Chemistry decades ago (</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/495846523916402/">https://www.facebook.com/events/495846523916402/</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Jenny believes that " .. The science is so convincing; the planet is in terrible trouble .. beautiful countryside .. birds and animals and all that is threatened .. " (</span><a href="http://circularcambridge.org/blog/the-people-behind-circular-cambridge-qa/qa-for-circular-cambridge-with-jenny-langley-reclaimed-textiles-artist-and-founder-of-circulart/">http://circularcambridge.org/blog/the-people-behind-circular-cambridge-qa/qa-for-circular-cambridge-with-jenny-langley-reclaimed-textiles-artist-and-founder-of-circulart/</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Poet Mina Jaff (22) studied </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">English Literature at </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Leeds University,. She </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is a member of of Extinction Rebellion’s International Solidarity Network and its Northern Coordinator (</span><a href="https://www.sheffieldclimatealliance.net/2019/05/how-to-break-the-silence-on-environmental-collapse/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.sheffieldclimatealliance.net/2019/05/how-to-break-the-silence-on-environmental-collapse/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She was one of eight youngsters charged in November 2018 with willfully obstructing the highway in Manchester (<a href="https://news4trafford.co.uk/2018/11/25/trafford-man-charged-among-8-for-protesting-about-climate-change/">https://news4trafford.co.uk/2018/11/25/trafford-man-charged-among-8-for-protesting-about-climate-change/</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Ronan McNern (43/4), is a Media and Messaging Coordinator for XR, one of those privileged "volunteers" who get paid "living expenses" (£8500 from Nov 18 to May 19 - see sub-section 5.1.2). He has been an activist for many years, having been a press officer and spokesman in 2011/12 with Occupy London, the copy-cat movement following the lead of the USA's Occupy Wall Street. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">During XR's London disruption in Nov 2018 " .. Ronan McNern .. said the plan was to cause major disruption with a number of small teams .. moving around London. ' .. The lights go red. They go into and sit down in the road, wait seven minutes .. Come off .. let the angry drivers at the front go, then the light goes red and you go on again. This is about causing economic disruption by slowing things down, bringing things to a gridlock. This is an experiment, really. I think that’s the most important word.' .. " (</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her background gives a hint as to why she is so supportive of the CACC fantasy and considered it worthwhile getting involved with an organisation like XR. She has been a "sustainabilty" </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">consultant</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> for years. Vicky and her partner Naresh Ratilal Mistry own the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sustainability and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">IT Project Management consultancy Springfield Partners Ltd. (</span><a href="https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05526017/filing-history" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05526017/filing-history</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. The company is owned and managed by Directors Victoria and Naresh Mistry. Victoria actively manages the business providing sustainability advice to clients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Victoria is a qualified Chartered Civil Engineer with a wide range of construction experience both in the design office and as a contractor. She has also worked as a sustainability consultant for BRE for over five years. Services offered by Victoria include;</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Sustainability consultancy</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Sustainability training development and delivery (General and particularly BREEAM) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Development and facilitation of sustainability workshops </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Victoria is deputy chair of the Chesham Fairtrade Steering Group and is on the steering group for Chesham to become a Transition Town. .. " (</span><a href="http://www.springfieldpartners.co.uk/index.php?page=about-us" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.springfieldpartners.co.uk/index.php?page=about-us</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr Lyn Jenkins, a retired NHS ophthalmologist, is a significant participant in the Chesham faction of the XR organisation (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">see sub-section 6.1 "XR Chesham")</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. A Guardian article on 1st Sept 2019 said that " .. Lyn Jenkins was visited by police after being reported to counter-terrorism programme .. police declined to discuss why two of its officers had visited Jenkins at his home in Chesham .. " (</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/sep/01/nhs-reports-protester-to-prevent-extinction-rebellion" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/sep/01/nhs-reports-protester-to-prevent-extinction-rebellion</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lizzy is also " .. heavily involved with Extinction Rebellion .. I also want to support any students and staff members to go on the climate strikes, so I will be campaigning for no sanctions to those who want to strike" </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.5px;">(</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><a href="https://manchesterstudentsunion.com/sustainability/your-sustainable-union" target="_blank">https://manchesterstudentsunion.com/sustainability/your-sustainable-union</a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">). So, like others who are heavily involved with Extinction Rebellion, Lizzie appears to be happy to encourage others to follow her in breaking our laws and getting arrested (see Footnote 1 of this sub-section). Let's hope that she experiences the full force of the law for any future obstruction of the highway or incitement or conspiracy to do so, rather than the minor inconvenience that she experienced for her allegedly illegal activities in Manchester and London in November 2018 (https://camdencyclists.org.uk/2019/01/extinction-rebellion-activists-in-court-after-manchester-protest/ and https://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/crime-court/tower-hamlets-member-of-extinction-rebellion-appears-in-court-1-5978988).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The XR blog says of Lizzy QUOTE: .. Identifying a 12-year estimate for dealing with climate breakdown before facing human extinction, Haughton was clear that the issue was not whether “they [students] care enough”, but “telling them that they have to care” .. UNQUOTE (https://xrblog.org/category/news/). Here's another significant XR member with no apparent relevant education, training or experience in the hard scientific disciplines (see Section 2.0, Footnote 2) pushing CACC propaganda with impunity. Our Universities appear to be complicit in this nonsense instead of encouraging their students to think for themselves and form opinions based upon fact, not fantasy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kate's involvement in setting up Climate Emergency Action Limited and bringing members of Extinction Rebellion onto its board is somewhat puzzling (although it appears that she</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, like so many other XR activists,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> has close links to Stroud - https://vat-search.co.uk/o-5*F_Catherine+Lois+Sayer+%7C+Kate+Sayer). The XR/RU?/CRLtd organisation is not a charity and is perhaps more of a disruptive than social enterprise. As for being a "not-for-profit", it certainly is very wealthy and has an income that exceeds its outgoings, even after paying its "volunteers" - i.e. it makes a profit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kate has no apparent history of direct involvement in the CACC issue or any relevant expertise. Her twitter account gives the impression that she only recently became interested, retweeting an item on the 8th October. On the 11th October in response to a comment in the Economist Kate complained that " .. the article contains fundamental errors. Not anarchists. It isn’t controlled by cliques - it isn’t controlled by anyone. It has a self-organising system - unfortunate that Economist relies on a deeply flawed report by Policy Exchange .. " (</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sarah Clark earned a BS in English, History, Education and Science from the Open University in 2017 and an MSc in Sustainability from Anglia Ruskin University in 2018 (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She declares " .. a relentless passion for climate action. Currently supporting Extinction Rebellion partner and fundraising projects .. " and has supported campaigns for Chelmsford Council to declare a climate emergency, anti-fracking and divestment from fossil fuels by her university.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She also does Fundraising, Partnerships and Creative Messaging at Extinction Rebellion, as well as being happy to break the law in order to get arrested (http://xrchelmsford.org/october-rebellion-day-3). What a shame that those arrested were quickly released rather than being flung into goal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #070707;">Adaeze (Daze) Aghali (20) </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is an active member of XRYouth </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">who spoke at Extinction Rebellion's London disruption in April 2019. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As well as her XRYouth outreach activities she is a second-year student of history and politics at Goldsmiths University, South London (no worthwhile science there, so what is the likelihood of her understanding the processes and drivers of the different global climates, which requires education, training and experience in the hard sciences mentioned in Section 2.0, Footnote 2).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Despite her ignorance of the essential physical science disciplines required for any hope of understanding the processes and drivers of the different global climates (see Section 2.0, Footnote 2) Daze insists that </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">QUOTE: .. “We are at a turning point .. This generation can take leadership and make this change happen or we are facing a genuinely terrible future – so I am trying to do something, to be part of a new politics, part of the new world I want to see”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aghaji .. is standing as a Climate and Ecological Emergency Independent (CEEI) in Thursday’s European elections. The teenager .. is one of nine Extinction Rebellion activists who are standing as independents under the CEEI banner .. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">U</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">NQUOTE (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/20/extinction-rebellion-activist-european-elections-daze-aghaji&source=gmail&ust=1571075479005000&usg=AFQjCNEXJuTDUc5upKEom2_nkU3hWFdzfw" href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/20/extinction-rebellion-activist-european-elections-daze-aghaji" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/<wbr></wbr>politics/2019/may/20/<wbr></wbr>extinction-rebellion-activist-<wbr></wbr>european-elections-daze-aghaji</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> - see Footnote 1) of this sub-section for the other nine CEEI candidates).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As an MEP candidate In the run up to the May 2019 European elections (see Footnote 1 of this sub-section) Daze commented that " .. Being such an eco-head, people think I’m crazy or overreacting, but finally we’ve seen from the Rebellion and the Youth Strikes that young people get it. Finally, I’m not the only person saying 'Look, climate change is going to kill us' It’s given me so much reassurance that I’m not just a crazy eco woman .. " (</span><a href="https://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2019/05/meet-the-goldsmiths-student-and-xr-activist-running-in-the-european-elections/">https://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2019/05/meet-the-goldsmiths-student-and-xr-activist-running-in-the-european-elections/</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The real problem with the fantasised global climate </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Apocalypse/Armageddon/Breakdown/</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Catastrophe/Chaos/Crisis/Disaster/Disruption</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">/</span><wbr style="font-family: arial;"></wbr><span style="font-family: "arial";">Emergency/Inferno/Tragedy/etc.etc.etc.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> is that young people like Daze (along with older supporters of XR's anarchistic leaders) are only capable of parroting what CACC scaremongers say because they don't have the education, training or experience in those essential sciences (see Section 2.0, Footnote 2).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In that pre-election rant she also said " .. the likelihood of me getting elected is absolutely nothing. I’m not delusional, or even saying vote for me! But it’s important to vote for people that are trying to make a change and to help our climate. My only policies are about the environment because that is the only conversation that needs to be happening in politics right now. Political activists aren’t on the fringe or the street, I’m invading your home .. ”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The protection of a healthy environment is essential for sustaining life on Earth as we know it, a fact recognized by UK and other governments for many decades. The benefits to humans of our careful use of fossil fuels in as CLEAN a manner as possible far exceed any harm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Daze is understandably concerned about air pollution, especially as she suffers particularly badly from its effects (</span><a href="https://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/44398/1/young-activists-air-pollution-clean-air-now-xr-youth">https://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/44398/1/young-activists-air-pollution-clean-air-now-xr-youth</a>), but adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere is not increasing pollution. It is adding an essential, life supporting substance on which plants thrive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The reason pollution is so bad in cities like London these days is that EU environmental extremists like she and other XR supporters forced a change from petrol to diesel vehicles. That was in the misguided belief that it would reduce the emissions of that essential life-supporting substance carbon dioxide, allegedly to reduce global warming. Diesel vehicles emit far far more of those nasty nitrogen oxides that she finds so objectionable than do modern clean petrol vehicles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During a Chatham House meeting in July 2019, chaired by Fiona Harvey (Environment Correspondent with The Guardian) Daze made numerous ludicrous statements that included " .. the climate crisis is literally a life and death situation .. we are in, like, immediate danger now .. " (</span><a href="https://chathamhouse.soutron.net/Portal/DownloadImageFile.ashx?objectId=3160">https://chathamhouse.soutron.net/Portal/DownloadImageFile.ashx?objectId=3160</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Daze certainly is in a daze about the CACC issue and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">has a awful lot to learn about the science.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Even her history lessons could be useful, however, if she wants a proper understanding then she really does need to study the hard disciplines mentioned above. I doubt very much that she would notice that the eight industrial chimneys pictured in the "Tomorrow's World" air pollution video shown in that dazeddigital article are seen emitting nothing but WATER DROPLETS, another essential life-supporting substance. S</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">howing photo's of cooling towers is</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> a common trick used by CACC propagandists such as the BBC, Greenpeace, etc, especially if the picture has been taken when the sun was positioned to ensure significant black shadows rather than the lovely bright white when in full glare. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. </span></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #202122; text-align: start;">Nine candidates, seven in London and two in South West England, were part of the new Climate Emergency Independents group. They took part in and were inspired by the Extinction Rebellion protests</span><span style="color: #202122; text-align: start;"> .. " (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom</a>).</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">XR's 9 hopefuls for election as MEPs were:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Adaeze Chiamaka Nkemakonam Whitney Aghaji </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(20 - student of 68 Wilbury Way, Edmonton, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">N18 1BZ) -</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 0.05% votes,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Claudia Caitlin McDowell (21 - actress/singer? of 131A Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, London, SE5 9NU) - 0.05% votes, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">- Jonathan Henry Muss BSc. MSc (working for the Public Health team at London borough) of 63 Mildenhall Rd, Hackney, London, E5 0RT - 0.01% votes</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Zoe Delemere Lafferty (theatre director) of 59 Linden Gardens, W2 4HJ) - 10 votes, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Roger Hallam (see sub-section 3.1.2) of Wern Dolau, Golden Grove, Carmarthen, SA32 8NE!!!!!!!!!!!!) - 0.04% votes,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Kofi Mawuli Klu (self-employed jurisconsult, eco-pedagogy global citizenship educationist and researcher!!! of 23C Foxley Road, London, SW9 6EX) - 0.04 votes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Dr Larch Ian Albert Frank Maxey (see sub-section 3.1.49), of The Flat, 101 High Street, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 5PF - 0.03% votes,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Mothiur Rahman (co-founded the Community Chartering Network) of 7 Lower Meddon Street, Bideford, EX39 2BJ - 11 0.01% votes.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2019_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2019_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom</a> for the first seven candidates).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3.1.49 Dr. Larch Ian Albert Frank Maxey LLB. MSc. PhD. FRGS.</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">XR member Larch Maxey (46) - also known as Larch Juckes-Maxey - has a fine string of letters after his name, but what do they signify? He graduated in Law from The University of Manchester (1993) then earned his Masters in European Environmental Policy and Regulation from Lancaster University (1995).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His Geography PhD from Swansea University (2002) did not focus on the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, hard topics related to helping an understanding the causes of climate change. Instead he studied sustainable communities. That was followed by lecturing and researching sustainability (see Footnote 1 of this sub-section).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, here's another XR member and enthusiastic CACC supporter who appears to have inadequate education, training or experience in the disciplines required for any hope of understanding the processes and drivers of the different global climates (see Section 2.0, Footnote 2).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Larch is presently a full-time volunteer with XR (see Footnote 1 of this sub-section). He</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and his Canadian wife Emily are veteran climate change extremists, with Larch being obsessed about his "carbon emissions". He has taken a year's sabbatical throughout 2019 to be a full-time volunteer with XR after joining the organisation in August 2018 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(the second time that Larch has taken a long sabbatical in order to pursue his environmental extremism - Footnote 1 of this sub-section).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> For his efforts he hopes to get paid £600 per month of those lovely "VOLUNTEERS' LIVING EXPENSES". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During that interview with freelance journalist Suzanne Bearne in AUgust 2019 (Footnote 1 of this subsection) he said </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. I live for free with my best friend Toby in Brixton. As well as joining XR for our big rebellions and actions, he supports XR by giving me a free room .. I have a flat in Totnes, where I rent a couple of rooms. My mortgage is £850 a month and is mostly covered by two lodgers. Travel sets me back about £250 a month, with most of it spent on trains to and from Totnes .. I do have a car .. XR are going to use it for a tour of Europe .. " (that word "hypocrisy" once again springs to mind!!).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. We’re in an emergency and we need system change urgently. Far more important than how we vote or live is that we work together for system change and that requires mass peaceful civil disobedience. Join us. .. " (hopefully Larch will enjoy a much longer period in prison </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for conspiring with and inciting others to participate in XR's lawbreaking activities </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">than the 7 hours he had for </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">obstructing Southwark bridge</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyone wanting a good laugh should watch Larch's comedy act, available in Anthony Watts's </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">10th May 2019 </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Friday Funny" post </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/10/last-minute-friday-funny/&source=gmail&ust=1571337091531000&usg=AFQjCNG7VtoZX5a9zVjOmglWUrlgzlNmgA" href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/05/10/last-minute-friday-funny/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://wattsupwiththat.com/<wbr></wbr>2019/05/10/last-minute-friday-<wbr></wbr>funny/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. It shows Larch trying to work out how to glue himself to a pair of automatic doors</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 100 comments that it attracted express pertinent opinions, such as:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- " .. Not once, not twice, but three times that twit approached those doors, clearly confused by their operation. How did he get a doctoral degree?! .. ",</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- " .. Just remember, this guy is in the intellectual vanguard of the climate hysteria movement – now want to talk about actresses, fashion designers and television presenters? You should be worried, very worried at the influence these loons have on public policy .. ",</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- " .. Automatic sliding doors are obviously not the only thing that Dr Larch Maxey is unaware of. To look at him, he would be lucky to survive a crossing of the road, let alone a day in the Wild .. ",</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 7th October Larch was a member of the Extinction Rebellion rabble causing a nuisance near Trafalgar Square. He claims that a policeman snapped his finger "like a carrot" as he was trying to prevent fellow protesters from damaging scaffolding on the back of a truck that was being used in the protest, before officers "jumped on him" (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/08/extinction-rebellion-protester-says-police-snapped-finger-like-carrot-10884588/">https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/08/extinction-rebellion-protester-says-police-snapped-finger-like-carrot-10884588/</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1) </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>"</b></span><span style="color: #121212; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 17px;">I’m on a year’s sabbatical, and volunteering full-time with Extinction Rebellion. I’ve always been interested the environment and social justice – I have a PhD in sustainability and was a geography lecturer and post-doctoral researcher for 17 years – and I’ve been a climate-change activist for 25 years. During 1994-5 I lived up a tree for a year as part of the No M65 campaign in Lancashire, which I co-founded. For me that was all about the climate and ecological emergency; I’ve waited 25 years for a movement like </span><a class="u-underline" data-link-name="in body link" href="https://rebellion.earth/" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(220, 220, 220); color: #7d0068; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none !important; touch-action: manipulation; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s;" title="">Extinction Rebellion</a><span style="color: #121212; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 17px;"> (XR) that uses the science of social change so effectively .. " (</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/aug/10/extinction-rebellion-volunteer-how-i-spend-it">https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/aug/10/extinction-rebellion-volunteer-how-i-spend-it</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">XR member </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://jembendell.com/tag/extinction-rebellion/">https://jembendell.com/tag/extinction-rebellion/</a>) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jem Bendell (45?) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Professor of Sustainability Leadership and Founder of the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the University of Cumbria. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. He focuses on leadership and communications for social change, as well as approaches that may help humanity face climate-induced disruption .. The World Economic Forum (WEF) recognised Professor Bendell as a Young Global Leader for his work on sustainable business alliances .. " (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://jembendell.com/about/">https://jembendell.com/about/</a>).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">S</span>ociologist Jem </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">studied at Cambridge University during 1992-1995, earning a BA in geography, followed by a PhD from the University of Bristol in 2002. His undergraduate studies included oceanography with Dr Tom Spencer (see Footnote 1 of this sub-section) " .. and climate change was a key topic. But I dont claim to be a scientist. As a sociologist I find the evolution of climate scepticism interesting. As a person I find that scepticism tragic as people with a useful critical approach waste their and others time on shoddy scepticism, and ultimately I now find it rather boring .. " (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://jembendell.com/about/">https://jembendell.com/about/</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jem gave a CACC propaganda presentation on "Deep Adaptation - Crisis Just Ahead" </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(see also Footnote 2 of this sub-section)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. It was </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">organised by Momentum Bristol and Labour Party Bristol (see also Footnote 4 of this sub-section). In it</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Jem opined that " .. people are ready for a new conversation, which starts with an acceptance of what the scientists are telling us .. " (</span><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=daRrbSl1yvY" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=daRrbSl1yvY#</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. from 2mins. 5secs. into his sermon).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sustainability guru Jem may well be prepared to accept on face value the scaremongering claims of scientists who try to carry out Professor Stephen Schneider's wishes (see </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html">Appendix</a> A6.1). </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jem's sources of scientific guidance about climate change appear to be limited to CACC scaremongering organisations like the Arctic Methane Emergency Group. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It appears that Jem did not learn an awful lot from Dr. Spencer (see Footnote 1 of this sub-section) about the need to adopt a scientific approach to the CACC issue rather than simply accepting unquestioningly what others claim then forming an emotional opinion. As a sociologist, perhaps Jem finds </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"rather boring" (or simply beyond his ken) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the physical scientific disciplines (see Section 2, Footnote 2) so essential to understanding the processes and drivers of the different global climates.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">When asked in 2014 to clarify what he meant by shoddy climate scepticism he proceeded to accuse five highly qualified CACC sceptics of being funded by the oil industry (Jem denied doing so, but see Footnote 3 and </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://jembendell.com/about/#comment-8225">https://jembendell.com/about/#comment-8225</a> and Jem's response at <a href="https://jembendell.com/about/#comment-8256">https://jembendell.com/about/#comment-8256</a> )</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A prime example of the unscientific nonsense from sociologist Jem when discussing his concept of "deep adaptation" to his fantacised climate change emergency appears in his April 2018 interview with Dougald Hine. Jem opined on weather events that " .. once-in-a-century events will be happening every five years (</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://dougald.nu/extending-the-glide-a-conversation-with-jem-bendell/" style="background-color: transparent;">http://dougald.nu/extending-the-glide-a-conversation-with-jem-bendell/</a>).</span></div>
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about CACC " .. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">The truth is that climate change is unfolding faster and harder than we were told was likely .. The colourless blanket of carbon gases wrapping our planet is trapping so much heat that forests are catching fire .. more forest fires in the UK in 2019 than ever recorded. .. last year we saw how chaotic weather could begin to threaten our own lives. In the UK and in many European countries the production of grains and open-air vegetables fell by over twenty percent. The climate emergency is therefore about all of us, and the future of our food and water .. with carbon emissions rising last year faster than ever .. ".</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That is not science, but unadulterated</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial";"> scaremongering CACC propaganda typical of environmental activists who have inadequate education, training and experience in the hard sciences that are required for any hope of understanding the processes and drivers of the different global climates!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial";">In 2017 Ronald wrote another excellent article, that time on "</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Apocalypse Abuse and 'Climate Doomism'" (</span><a href="https://reason.com/2017/07/13/apocalypse-abuse-and-climate-doomism/" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank">https://reason.com/2017/07/13/<wbr></wbr>apocalypse-abuse-and-climate-<wbr></wbr>doomism/</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">). Jem, his "Deep Adaptation" associates and other CACC supporters could derive enormous benefit from carefully reading it and his several books on CACC alarmism.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is puzzling why an obviously intelligent individual like Jem Bendell is such an enthusiastic supporter of the CACC fantasy. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His apparent unreasonable faith in the CACC fantasy and fear of the consequences relate to the views on fear and ignorance expressed by former professors James Lovelock and William Mayer (see Section 2.0, Footnote 2).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In situations like this it is often </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">helpful to "follow the money" when trying to ascertain someone's real motivation (see Footnote 4 of this sub-section). </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recall the admission by Gail Bradbrook (the "GodMother" of Extinction Rebellion, of which Jem is a significant member) that " .. it's mostly about securing your own salary .. " </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">(see </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: center;">Footnote 5</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> of section 1.0).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Despite Jem's apparent blind acceptance of the CACC fantasy, one thing that he properly focuses on is the need for us to adapt to climate change. After all, that is what all forms of life have had to do since life began here on Earth, adapt locally to whatever Mother Nature decides to throw at us, rather than wasting scarce resources undertaking the futile task of trying to mitigate globally against it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1)</b> In stark contrast with Jem's wild CACC scaremongering, Dr. Spencer appears to prefer a more scientific approach based upon evidence rather than emotion. An example is the response to the horrific December 2015 UK floods during storm Desmond. The Guardian (apparently one of Jem's preferred sources of information about CACC, despite its obvious bias) reported how " .. Environmental campaigners say Storm Desmond is a sign of things to come .. Friends of the Earth .. said .. Climate change is increasing the frequency of extreme rainfall and floods in the UK and around the world .. the UK government is failing to protect us by not investing enough in .. the clean energy needed to tackle climate change' .. " (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/06/environmental-campaigners-say-storm-desmond-is-a-sign-of-things-to-come">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/06/environmental-campaigners-say-storm-desmond-is-a-sign-of-things-to-come</a>).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the other hand, scientist Dr. Spencer preferred a level-headed " .. the Environment Secretary called the flooding in north-west England ‘unprecedented’ and ‘consistent with climate change trends’ .. In fact, recent careful scientific analysis .. shows that 21st-century floods are not unprecedented in terms of both their frequency (they were more frequent before 1960) and magnitude (the biggest events occurred during the 17th–19th centuries .. " (<a href="https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/unprecedented-storms-and-floods-are-more-common-than-we-think">https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/unprecedented-storms-and-floods-are-more-common-than-we-think</a>).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">- Dr. Judith Curry, a climatologist, formerly chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">- Dr. Robert G Brown, Professor of Physics at Duke University, North Carolina,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Dr. Roy Spencer, a meteorologist and Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is a Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, where he and Dr. John Christy received NASA’s Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for their global temperature monitoring work with satellites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Dr. John Nichol, electromagnetic radiation research scientist. While based at James Cook University, Queensland, Dr Nicol worked at various times in the research laboratories of University College, London and for about three years at the Clarendon Laboratory Oxford. (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John is a member of the international .Climate Exit Committee of CACC sceptics - </span><a href="http://clexit.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/clexit-members.pdf" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://clexit.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/clexit-members.pdf</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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reviewing this article recently Jem made the unfounded complaint that “ .. </span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That is a mistake from you or your
source.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have not said anything about the people you list .. ”.</span></div>
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source is Jem's own blog, on which </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">three October 2014 comments </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">indicate
otherwise</span></span><a href="https://jembendell.com/about/#comment-8207" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://jembendell.com/about/#comment-8207</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://jembendell.com/about/#comment-8225" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://jembendell.com/about/#comment-8225</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
and </span><a href="https://jembendell.com/about/#comment-8256" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://jembendell.com/about/#comment-8256</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). Jem's unfounded comment about those appropriately qualified CACC-sceptical scientists is typical of CACC supporters who, like Jem, have inadequate education, training or experience in the physical sciences relevant to understanding the processes and drivers of the different global climates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is noteworthy that all of the CACC-sceptical scientists listed above are highly qualified and experienced in relevant hard disciplines (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">see Section 2.0, Footnote 2 - see also Footnote 8 of this sub-section) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">unlike Jem's own qualifications and experience in "Sustainability Leadership". A close associate of mine with a Masters in Leadership for Sustainable Development has held a leading position with a respected UK organisation for 10 years. Like Jem, she is a staunch CACC supporter yet devoid of any clue about relevant scientific disciplines.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><b>4) </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 19.5px;">including </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(Both Jem and Katie are closely
involved in the notions of Sustainability, "Deep
Adaptation" and "Global Citizenship" and "Development Education" - see Footnotes 5 and 6 of this sub-section).
</span>They sell periods of several days away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life at several international locations (e.g see </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.5px;"><a href="https://www.kalikalos.com/community/x/deep-adaptation-jem-bendell/">https://www.kalikalos.com/community/x/deep-adaptation-jem-bendell/</a> and <a href="https://jembendell.com/2019/02/08/deep-adaptation-retreat-uk-2019/">https://jembendell.com/2019/02/08/deep-adaptation-retreat-uk-2019/</a>).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jem and Katie offer the opportunity to " .. Take time out to pause, and give space and time to reflect – with others – on what is being asked of us in these extraordinary times. The emerging realisation that climate change is becoming a destructive tragedy .. is profoundly disorientating for many people .. What might become the purpose of our lives and work in the face of imminent societal breakdown from climate chaos? .. we aim to explore the possibilities for meaning, purpose, acceptance and joy amidst the climate tragedy .. This retreat is for you if you .. are accepting the premise of Deep Adaptation, that near-term social collapse due to climate change is inevitable or very likely .. ".</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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three day retreat experience in Cumbria will cost typically £350 without
accomodation and £500 with a shared tent - as long as you help with donestic
chores. Alternatively, it's about £650 to stay in their retreat in Greece
(see <a href="https://www.kalikalos.com/community/x/deep-adaptation-jem-bendell/" target="_blank">https://www.kalikalos.com/community/x/deep-adaptation-jem-bendell/</a>).
Travel there and back is extra cost (including any cost to the environment due
to those dirty "carbon" emissions - oops, sorry, its just that odourless, tasteless gas carbon dioxide, essential to life on Earth as we know it!).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Anyone interested in going should apply quickly, as it appears they are soon booked up! - even at those prices.</span></span><br />
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would be very interesting to see the annual accounts for their business but there is
nothing available on the Companies House or Charity Commission web-pages. That makes "follow the money" w.r.t. the Deep Adaptation Retreat business difficult. Jem and Katie's close associate and general assistant</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(blog name matslats) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">on </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the "Deep Adaptation Forum" is</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> "community currency" software specialist Matthew Slater (<a href="https://2018.open.coop/speakers/matthew-slater/">https://2018.open.coop/speakers/matthew-slater/</a>). Matthew complained in a </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">recent E-mail that " .. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;">the follow the money comment was an unsubstantiated slur .. ". To help decide whether the opinion that money might be a motive behind Jem's position on CACC is justified or should be discarded, his partner </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> asked in November 2019 if the business is prepared to disclose its financial information.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (There is no intention on this blog to mislead anyone or misrepresent facts, only to determine - if possible - what real "truth" is.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">Matthew did provide a copy of 2019 finances dated 2nd December 2019 (<a href="http://deepadaptation.info/financialstatement.html">http://deepadaptation.info/financialstatement.html</a>) but that was for the Deep Adaptation FORUM. The Deep Adaptation RETREAT business is a different (although related) operation. Included in that DA FORUM information is the comment that " ..</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All three DA retreats organised so far were non-profit, with Jem receiving a total of GBP1,100 to cover his costs of attendance .. ". That leaves a lot undisclosed about the DA RETREAT businesses accounts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jem is also " .. Advisor, Office of the Leader of the Opposition, London .. " (</span><a href="https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/academic-staff/all-staff-members/iflas/professor-jem-bendell.php" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/academic-staff/all-staff-members/iflas/professor-jem-bendell.php</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He has also </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">been a Senior Strategic Advisor to the WWF (</span><a href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jembendell" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jembendell</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Following the Labour government's declaration that 2006/07
would be a "Sustainable Schools Year of Action", USA politician Al
Gore's flawed and misleading film "An Inconvenient Truth" was
promoted in UK schools. High Court action was taken claiming that the use of
that film was political indoctrination, contrary to the Education Act 2002 (</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CACC sceptic atmospheric scientist Dr. Judith Curry (who was
initially a supporter of the notion that our use of fossil fuels could cause
significant and potentially damaging global warming) posted a related article
"Education versus Indoctrination" on her "Climate etc" blog
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used to set up and attend these shindigs, CoP17, like most of them) was a
miserable failure.</span></div>
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The CACC issue and the breakthrough for its sceptics
came in 2009, due to the release of revealing E-mails between climate
scientists in the USA and UK. This episode became known as Climategate (</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>8) </b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another highly qualified, trained and experienced CACC sceptic is geologist Dr. Roger Higgs, who earned his relevant DPhil from Oxford University (</span><a href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/roger-higgs-9216548" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://uk.linkedin.com/in/roger-higgs-9216548</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). Roger's April 2019 technical note (</span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332245803_27_bullet_points_prove_global_warming_by_the_sun_not_CO2_by_a_GEOLOGIST_for_a_change" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332245803_27_bullet_points_prove_global_warming_by_the_sun_not_CO2_by_a_GEOLOGIST_for_a_change</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">) will be of interest to any researcher of the processes and drivers of the different global climates who has an open mind. That would appear to rule out Jem Bendell, who is likely to respond with "You just added another to your bunch of people funded by the oil industry".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although Dr. Higgs has previously provided consultancy services to the oil industry, for the past four years he has been undertaking full-time,</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr. Higgs undertook a similar Pacific field trip In 2018 and has presented his preliminary findings at major geoscience conferences in Cape Town (2016), Denver (2016) and Vienna (2017), all self-funded (see </span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/project/Imminent-metre-scale-non-anthropogenic-sea-level-rise" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/project/Imminent-metre-scale-non-anthropogenic-sea-level-rise</a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like other open-minded sceptics of the CACC fantasy, such as Dr. Judith Curry (see Footnote 3 of this sub-section), Dr. Higgs started his 4-year quest for truth assuming that the government, BBC, Attenborough, etc. must know what they were talking about regarding CO2.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With regard to genuine pollution (which excludes CO2 emissions) caused by our use of fossil fuels, Dr. Higgs recommends abandoning the use of oil, gas and coal as fuels via the rather drastic solutions of:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- ban petrol/diesel vehicles from cities and towns immediately;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- urgently developing clean nuclear fusion,</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">- banning plastics </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">(see </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is hardly the statement of a person in the pay of the "wicked" oil industry, as Professor Bendell might suggest</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Regarding the IPCC's total disregard for geology, see Dr. Higgs's report at</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Toni Spencer (49?) earned a BA in art
from John Moores University, Liverpool in 1991 and an MSc. in Responsibility
and Business Practice from the University of Bath in 2004 (</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">No physical science there, yet happy to promote the
CACC propaganda!!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">" .. Toni is a Curator with the Emergence
Network leading on ‘Vulture: Courting the Otherwise in a Time of Breakdown’. In
2018 she co-lead a Deep Adaptation Deep Dive and is part of the Deep Adaptation
Forum. Toni initiated ‘the pause’ as part of Extinction Rebellion: an
invitation to bear witness and to lean in to the liminal in the midst of
action: part of an ongoing inquiry in to ‘A Politics of Wonder’.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">As a lecturer and course leader Toni has taught on the faculty of Schumacher
College </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Educational Practice, Ecological Facilitation as Leadership, Embodied Eco-literacy)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at Embercombe</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">and at Goldsmiths </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Eco Design)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">, University of London. As a participatory artist and
facilitator she has worked with Encounters Arts, Embercombe, the Transition movement, St
Ethelburgas, </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Feral Kitchen </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">and others, </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">taking ‘The Work That Reconnects’ to activist communities at Occupy London and elsewhere</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">. She is on the team for Call of The Wild with Wildwise
/Schumacher College.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">
She has an Action Research based MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice
and is trained in a range of facilitation modalities; awakening, deep ecology
and embodiment practices; grief tending and activism</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.. Toni is an educator, mentor and artist working with questions of deep ecology and ‘a politics of wonder’. She is a Trustee at ProcessworkUK and was on the Embercombe Coun</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cil for 8 years</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> .. ” (</span><a href="https://jembendell.com/2019/06/30/kissing-the-void-deep-adaptation-retreat-in-devon-uk/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://jembendell.com/2019/06/30/kissing-the-void-deep-adaptation-retreat-in-devon-uk/</a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. Toni brings
a varied basket of skills and practices from many years of studying, dancing,
foraging and ‘living life as inquiry’. She is a mentor and teacher for Call of
The Wild with Wildwise / Schumacher College .. " (</span><a href="https://wildwise.co.uk/short-course-details/ecofacilitation-skills-lab/22/0/0" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://wildwise.co.uk/short-course-details/ecofacilitation-skills-lab/22/0/0</a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He earned a First Class B.A.Honours in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford University in 1987 and a Ph.D in Philosophy from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA in 1995 (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No sign there of education, training or experience in the hard scientific disciplines required for any hope of understanding the processes and drivers of the different global climates (see Section 2.0, Footnote 2). Despite that Rupert is an enthusiastic CACC supporter and member of Extinction Rebellion - par for the course really.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. Most recently, I have been a frequent spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion and I am a member of their political liaison team .. We need action, and soon, against the values of greed and materialism that have placed us upon the precipice of catastrophic climate and ecological collapse .. " (</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For some of political/climate/environmental activist Rupert's rants on climate change see:- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 20th August 2018 the Irish Sun newspaper published an article entitled "Time to forget climate 'debate'" by comedian Oliver Callan (38), In it he told one of his funniest satirical jokes yet, referring to politics/economics philosopher Rupert as an " .. ENVIRONMENTAL expert .. " (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Environmental expert" Rupert argued that " .. the BBC should be ashamed of its nonsenical idea of balance when the scientific debate is as settled as the “debate” about whether smoking causes cancer .. " (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(see Section 2.0, Footnote 2</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of his most disgusting rants relates to the 2020 Covid19 pandemic (see also Section 8.0 "XR and Pestilence"), about which he appears to see a silver lining to that global black cloud - an opportunity for Extinction Rebellion's anarchistic leaders to achieve their fantasized objective " .. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">to create a new global regime .. " (see the introductory "XR BASICS" remarks)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span></div>
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Sue Breen (36), of County Wexford, is a leading member of XR's Republic of Ireland operation (<a href="https://m.facebook.com/338321693311717/posts/as-dublin-basked-in-warm-easter-sunshine-sue-breen-climbed-onto-a-makeshift-stag/631874457289771/" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 400;" target="_blank">https://m.facebook.com/338321693311717/posts/as-dublin-basked-in-warm-easter-sunshine-sue-breen-climbed-onto-a-makeshift-stag/631874457289771/</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 400;">). In July 2019 she played a prominent roll in XR's Dublin protest (</span><a href="https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/gorey-guardian/20191008/282187947768599" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 400;" target="_blank">https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/gorey-guardian/20191008/282187947768599</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: 400;">).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">As well as being a leading XR activist in the Irish Republic, Sue is an European co-ordinator for the American-based anti-civilisation movement Deep Green Resistance (see Appendix A9.1). </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">She also functions as the focal point for the Deep Green Resistance organisation’s UK coven (see sub-section A9.1.2).</span></div>
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- economist Prof. Bob Goudzwaard. professor emeritus of economics and social philosophy at the Free University in Amsterdam (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ivpress.com/bob-goudzwaard&source=gmail&ust=1596044172071000&usg=AFQjCNFwbp52TymWXLcZca2XmIo0c11qTg" href="https://www.ivpress.com/bob-goudzwaard" target="_blank">https://www.ivpress.com/bob-<wbr></wbr>goudzwaard</a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://prabook.com/web/bob.goudzwaard/610425&source=gmail&ust=1596044172071000&usg=AFQjCNHHOYWMCGNF9eUY5nDLFPncnv_WJA" href="https://prabook.com/web/bob.goudzwaard/610425" target="_blank">https://prabook.com/web/bob.<wbr></wbr>goudzwaard/610425</a>) and </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- H<span style="font-family: inherit;">oughton " .. <span style="color: black; text-align: start;">The most important choice I have made is to accept Jesus as my Saviour and Lord <span style="font-family: inherit;">.. </span></span><span style="color: black; text-align: start;">My favourite book, I am bound to say, is the Bible .. </span><span style="color: black; text-align: start;">I pray for God’s kingdom to come — fast! </span></span><span style="color: black; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span> </span>(</span></span><a href="https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2020/17-april/features/interviews/from-the-archives-interview-sir-john-houghton-meteorologist-climate-change-expert">https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2020/17-april/features/interviews/from-the-archives-interview-sir-john-houghton-meteorologist-climate-change-expert</a>),</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- Basden " .. I'm </span><span style="color: black; text-align: start;">one of the 1.7 billion people called 'Christians' .. who .. model their lives .. on Jesus Christ .. I'm .. evangelical</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> .. </span><span style="color: black; text-align: start;">the Bible as written version of God's revelation .. </span><span style="color: black; text-align: left;">the need for personal relationship with God .. </span><span style="color: black; text-align: left;">Jesus Christ seen as really good news for 'salvation' .. </span><span style="color: black; text-align: start;">Christ's death and resurrection are central .. </span><span style="color: black; text-align: left;">a strong emphasis on preaching, teaching .. " (</span><a href="http://kgsvr.net/xn/andrew.html">http://kgsvr.net/xn/andrew.html</a>),</div>
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the throne of the living God in heaven .. natural life, including economic life, was sanctified by God .. The living, personal God not only made the world but also rules it providentially from day to day .. God
preserves this world, but he does this in part unto its own judgment .. the cross of Christ, erected because of our sins .. " (<a href="http://www.reformationalpublishingproject.com/pdf_books/Scanned_Books_PDF/CapitalismAndProgressADiagnosisOfWesternCulture.pdf">http://www.reformationalpublishingproject.com/pdf_books/Scanned_Books_PDF/CapitalismAndProgressADiagnosisOfWesternCulture.pdf</a>),</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The main aims of the Christians in Science organisation are " .. Exploring God’s work in creation .. Applying biblical principles in science and technology .. " (<a href="file:///C:/Users/peter/Downloads/Apr_16_intouch_2%20(2).pdf">file:///C:/Users/peter/Downloads/Apr_16_intouch_2%20(2).pdf</a> page 24).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His 1000-word essay began with a 2018 quote from a 15-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunborg (see <a href="https://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html">Appendix</a> A6.3) " .. Treat the climate crisis like the acute crisis it is and give us a future .. Our lives are in your hands .. ". He continued adding " .. the present ecological crisis is occasionally viewed as an insurmountable task .. On the other hand, the situation can be viewed as the crucible where essential and new configurations for Christian witness might be forged .. ".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His concluding paragraph said that " .. the sacramental re-purposing of the created order is central to the Christian response to Extinction Rebellion is clearly demonstrated by considering the Eucharist. When the gathered community share in the Eucharist, they encounter Christ in the proclaimed Word of the Gospel, in the presence of their neighbours, and in the bread and wine (matter drawn from the created order and repurposed) receiving his risen life; they encounter his historical body, his ecclesiastical body, and sacramental body .. They are then sent back into the world to carry his presence with them: they prey, 'Send us out in the power of the Spirit, to live and work to your praise and glory .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.cis.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2nd-2019-C-West-CiS-Essay-2.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1596210081587000&usg=AFQjCNHZIPRBTtjvFF0jhGerpQXnTKE2Ww" href="https://www.cis.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2nd-2019-C-West-CiS-Essay-2.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.cis.org.uk/wp-<wbr></wbr>content/uploads/2019/11/2nd-<wbr></wbr>2019-C-West-CiS-Essay-2.pdf</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2) In 2018-2019 this Christopher West apparently also submitted the essay as part of his Year 2 Masters in Theological Studies at Trinity College Dublin (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.cis.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2nd-2019-C-West-CiS-Essay-2.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1596639692789000&usg=AFQjCNHAZtFpH268wboYyDh4Sg_cIFNq2A" href="https://www.cis.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2nd-2019-C-West-CiS-Essay-2.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.cis.org.uk/wp-<wbr></wbr>content/uploads/2019/11/2nd-<wbr></wbr>2019-C-West-CiS-Essay-2.pdf</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is also another </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Christopher West who is</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">an evangelical Roman Catholic theologian. This one co-founded (2004) and is President (2018) of the Theology of the Body Institute (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://tobinstitute.org/&source=gmail&ust=1596210081587000&usg=AFQjCNH1Vj8nNIH7WoyAf2zb7z8lFT_E7Q" href="https://tobinstitute.org/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://tobinstitute.org/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://corproject.com/about-christopher-west/&source=gmail&ust=1596210081587000&usg=AFQjCNEuTOyJ7QTNyOMSliwGUa0OkI-PZQ" href="http://corproject.com/about-christopher-west/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">http://corproject.com/about-<wbr></wbr>christopher-west/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). That Christopher West boasts that he is " .. the world’s most recognized teacher of John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body” – a bold, biblical vision of love and sexuality .. " (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://corproject.com/about-christopher-west/&source=gmail&ust=1596298556585000&usg=AFQjCNHrsIIVoKGVYz9JIpyLzD8JgvLL9Q" href="http://corproject.com/about-christopher-west/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">http://corproject.com/about-<wbr></wbr>christopher-west/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He has traveled the globe presenting his opinions on the "Theology of the Body" and " .. serves as Professor of Theological Anthropology in the jointly sponsored M.A. program with Pontifex University .." (see <a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/">http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/</a> Section 5.0).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These two Christopher Wests appear to have similar, very strong, Christian evangelical leanings, so they could be mistaken as one and the same. Information provided by CiS about the Christopher West who was runner up of the 2020 essay competition does not clarify this so the CiS Development Officer was asked for assistance. Ultimately CiS's Christopher West made contact to clear this up. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On 28th Aug. 2020 Christopher advised that " .. <span style="text-align: start;">he is a theologian from the Roman Catholic tradition, whereas I am a deacon in the Anglican tradition</span><span style="text-align: start;"> .. "</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;"> (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">see </span><a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Appendix</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> A</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">5.6).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More details about CiS can be found in "SpotlightON: Christians in Science and Technology" (<a href="https://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2020/08/spotlighton-christians-in-science-and.html">https://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2020/08/spotlighton-christians-in-science-and.html</a> section 2.0).</span></div>
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3.2.3 Institute for the Study of Christianity in an Age of Science and Technology</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1e1e; text-align: right;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">" .. ISCAST is a network of people<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, from students to distinguished academics, </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1e1e; text-align: right;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">exploring the interface of science, technology, and Christian faith .. " (</span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://www.iscast.org/">https://www.iscast.org/</a>)<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e1e1e; text-align: right;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This organisation is commonly known as Christians in Science and Technology</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the ISCAST 2020 conference on "A Hopeful Future?!" theologian Dr. Cullan Joyce, a member of and one-time coordinator with Extinction Rebellion, Victoria, Australia, gave a presentation "How to Save the World: Extinction Rebellion (XR), Christianity, and the Apocalypse" (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://iscastcosac.org/presenters/cullanjoyce/&source=gmail&ust=1596044172071000&usg=AFQjCNH8tY0wQXA4_RX1Jvm-2bXaCnrpiA" href="https://iscastcosac.org/presenters/cullanjoyce/" target="_blank">https://iscastcosac.org/<wbr></wbr>presenters/cullanjoyce/</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Climate Mobilization (TCM) organisation was co-founded by Margaret Klein Salamon (see subsection 3.1.30) and Ezra Silk (see sub-section 3.2.4.1) in 2014. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">Margaret serves as </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">its Executive Director and Ezra as a director. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Despite their conviction about the validity of the CACC hypothesis, neither Margaret nor Ezra appear to have any education, training or experience in relevant hard sciences required for any hope of understanding the processes and drivers of the different global climates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In "Is Life U</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nder <span style="color: #09222b; text-align: start;">during coronavirus how we will </span><span style="color: #09222b; text-align: start;">live during climate change?</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" Ezra is reported as saying</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> " .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The climate movement has been hesitant to talk about the level of disruptive change needed to transform the economy, because of the sense that public isn’t ready to hear that message and they would react very negatively.. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But what we’re seeing in this situation, in a condition of emergency, is that people are prepared … to adhere to major disruptions and to support them in the name of health and safety in the public .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The coronavirus crisis marks the first time that most people alive right now have ever lived through this type of collective, bond-forming, global experience .. " (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://grist.org/ask-umbra/what-will-all-this-coronavirus-sacrifice-mean-for-the-climate-cause/&source=gmail&ust=1597676721019000&usg=AFQjCNHRGGg_V4X1b42AG2aBX2b8UqcnXA" href="https://grist.org/ask-umbra/what-will-all-this-coronavirus-sacrifice-mean-for-the-climate-cause/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://grist.org/ask-umbra/<wbr></wbr>what-will-all-this-<wbr></wbr>coronavirus-sacrifice-mean-<wbr></wbr>for-the-climate-cause/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ezra then made reference to Wells's scaremongering article in the New York Magazine on the same subject. Wells begins " .. It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">teenager today .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html&source=gmail&ust=1598556153055000&usg=AFQjCNHPdVpZjArrP3u5stKDlIinrIiq9Q" href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html" target="_blank">https://nymag.com/<wbr></wbr>intelligencer/2017/07/climate-<wbr></wbr>change-earth-too-hot-for-<wbr></wbr>humans.html</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Margaret followed Ezra, opining that the article was a riveting read then expressing her grief that top climate science luminaries had objected to the scary manner that it presented the issue. She must have been referring to "denier" luminaries like Professors Richard Lindzen, Judith Curry, John Nichol, etc. etc. etc. since most CACC-supporting scientists are happy to follow the guidance of Dr. Steven Schneider (see </span><a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Appendix</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> A6.1)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1) David Wallace Wells is not a scientist but a journalist who scaremongers about the horrors of the climate apocalypse arising from our burgeoning use of fossil fuels. Unsurprisingly, he has no education, training or experience in the hard sciences necessary for any hope of understanding the processes and drivers of the different global climates. He earned a degree in HISTORY!!!! Never mind, scary CACC stories sell far better than <b>climate truth</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Journalist and one-time hairdressing entrepreneur (<a href="http://wesleyanargus.com/2010/04/13/shear-genius-student-barbers-on-cutting-edge/">http://wesleyanargus.com/<wbr></wbr>2010/04/13/shear-genius-<wbr></wbr>student-barbers-on-cutting-<wbr></wbr>edge/</a>) Ezra Silk is<span style="color: #222222;"> TCM's </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Director of Policy and Strategy. In 2016 he authored </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">a detailed "CLIMATE MOBILIZATION VICTORY PLAN" (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theclimatemobilization.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Victory-Plan-July-2020-Update.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1597341038688000&usg=AFQjCNHtm4uKMJ60RmQP8XCmB7HYbeCv-A" href="https://www.theclimatemobilization.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Victory-Plan-July-2020-Update.pdf" style="color: #222222;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>theclimatemobilization.org/wp-<wbr></wbr>content/uploads/2020/07/<wbr></wbr>Victory-Plan-July-2020-Update.<wbr></wbr>pdf</a><span style="color: #222222;">). In the acknowledgements preceding Ezra's victory plan he credited </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">with teaching him all that he knows about climate change, WWII (</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">see Footnote 1 of this sub-section</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">), sustainability and climate policy an </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Australian CACC scaremonger Dr. Philip Sutton (see subsection 3.2.4.4)</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. He should have tried to find someone with relevant education, training and experience in relevant hard sciences. There are plenty available (e.g. see subsection 3.1.50, Footnote 3).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">15</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">th August 2020 t</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he LinkedIN profile for Ezra Silk (30?) advised that he is: .. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><u>QUOTE:</u></b> .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> thoughtful and accomplished strategist, campaigner, researcher, and writer. Last year, he helped bring the idea of a World War II-scale mobilization to restore a safe climate to national prominence through a series of creative interventions in the presidential election. Ezra is the author of the The Climate Mobilization's groundbreaking Victory Plan, which shows how the United States could mobilize on an emergency basis to restore a safe climate, reverse ecological overshoot, rebuild our economy, and secure justice for all. Trained as a newspaper reporter with an interest in history, economics, psychology, earth systems sciences, and social theory, Ezra is a generalist with a boundless curiosity, as well as a passion for truth-telling, intellectual engagement, and big picture analysis. His work is driven by his love for his girlfriend, family, friends, and the people of the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oct 2015 – Present 4 years 11 months</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Co-founded and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">helped bring to prominence organization that now has four full-time staff (including myself), 15 chapters across the country, thousands of supporters, and a distinguished advisory board.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Directed successful campaign to advance the framework of a WWII-scale mobilization to solve the climate crisis through a series of strategic interventions in the 2016 presidential election.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Conceived, researched and wrote the widely-discussed and praised 110-page “Victory Plan”, The Victory Plan details how a fully mobilized United States government could drive our economy to net zero greenhouse gas emissions within a decade, restore a safe climate, end the sixth mass extinction, reverse ecological overshoot — and revitalize America. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is far beyond anything proposed in today’s polite political debates about climate action. We believe that unless policymakers, advocates, and citizens envision what "victory" might actually look like when facing the complexity of our looming emergency, it's impossible to determine a horizon for our ambitions that is in line with the increasingly stark realities of climate science. ... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fellow, Young Climate Leaders Network</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Aug 2016 – Present 4 years 1 month</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Young Climate Leaders Network (YCLN), convened by Breakthrough Strategies and Solutions, invests in a new generation of leaders who bring a deep commitment to climate justice and to shared leadership models. We assemble 28 diverse leaders from the private and public sector each year and provide them with leadership training, sessions on strategy, and practices to build powerful leadership networks rooted in shared values and strong personal and professional bonds. Younger leaders are adept at harnessing the power of new technologies, collaborating across ethnic and national boundaries, and working in teams. We won’t make it safely into the future without far more risk takers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders who work for results together. This project identifies and nurtures these diverse leaders and supports a powerful network of innovators who will remain connected over the coming years and decades.</span><br />
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Reporter, Current Publishing<br />
Nov 2013 – Oct 2015 2 years<br />
Westbrook, ME<br />
Wrote 6-7 articles per week covering municipal and cultural affairs in nine towns of the Sebago Lakes region for the Lakes Region Weekly newspaper<br />
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Author, "Carnival of Dissent"<br />
Mar 2012 – Sep 2013 1 year 7 months<br />
Bar Harbor, Maine<br />
A 200-page narrative of humorous and thought-provoking reporting on the Occupy Wall Street moment, across the country and in Southern Europe.<br />
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Reporter, Bar Harbor Times<br />
Sep 2010 – Nov 2011 1 year 3 months<br />
Bar Harbor, Maine<br />
Covered municipal affairs for weekly newspaper, writing 5 stories per week<br />
Published multiple investigations of a major municipal zoning scandal that led to a successful lawsuit against the town government<br />
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Intern Business Reporter<br />
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-hartford-courant?trk=public_profile_experience-item_result-card_subtitle-click"></a>The Hartford Courant<br />
Jun 2010 – Sep 2010 4 months<br />
Covered business stories in the Hartford metropolitan area.<br />
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Editor In Chief<br />
Wesleyan Argus<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, the bi-weekly student newspaper</span><br />
Jan 2009 – Jun 2009 6 months<br />
Middletown, CT<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wesleyan University</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">B.A.History</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2006-2010</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hall High School</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2002-2006</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/school/wesleyan-university/?trk=public_profile_school_result-card_full-click">(https://www.linkedin.com/in/ezra-silk-11424323</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ezra R Silk is.currently living in Portland, Maine, where he " .. practices mindfullness and loving kindness .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/spring-point-ledge-light-looms-in-the-background-while-ezra-news-photo/1180678376&source=gmail&ust=1597676721019000&usg=AFQjCNGTTR3wte49eWa3kNn7wim26tHJiQ" href="https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/spring-point-ledge-light-looms-in-the-background-while-ezra-news-photo/1180678376" target="_blank">https://www.gettyimages.co.<wbr></wbr>uk/detail/news-photo/spring-<wbr></wbr>point-ledge-light-looms-in-<wbr></wbr>the-background-while-ezra-<wbr></wbr>news-photo/1180678376</a>). He is a reporter for Portland Press Herald. , Previously he lived in West Hartford, Connecticut and was a staff reporter on the Hartford Courant<span style="background-color: white;"> (</span><span style="background-color: white;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.pressherald.com/2015/01/29/span-lost-to-hit-and-run/&source=gmail&ust=1597676721019000&usg=AFQjCNHU59W-YUmrV9w084NvUOpJg69ZLw" href="https://www.pressherald.com/2015/01/29/span-lost-to-hit-and-run/" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>pressherald.com/2015/01/29/<wbr></wbr>span-lost-to-hit-and-run/</a>).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Feb. 2014 version of the Mobilization Plan says " .. <span style="background-color: white;">Ezra </span>Silk<span style="background-color: white;"> lives .. in Portland, Maine. In 2010, he graduated from Wesleyan University, where he majored in history and was the editor of </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">The</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Wesleyan Argus</span><span style="background-color: white;">. Ezra has reported for </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Hartford Courant</span><span style="background-color: white;">, </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Bar Harbor Times</span><span style="background-color: white;"> and </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Lakes Region Weekly. </span><span style="background-color: white;">His forthcoming book, </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit;">Carnival of Dissent: The Voices of Protest, from Zuccotti to Athens</span><span style="background-color: white;">, relates the story of his travels through the United States, Spain and Greece, at the height of the Occupy movement. He can be reached at </span><a href="mailto:Ezra@TheClimateMobilization.org" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">.. TheClimateMobilization.org</a><span style="background-color: white;">. .. " (</span><span style="background-color: white;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://theclimatepsychologist.com/rising-to-the-challenge-of-our-time-together-introducing-the-climate-mobilization-2/&source=gmail&ust=1597676721019000&usg=AFQjCNH-B6dshN316fkmxe0pnFtyIyPK2A" href="http://theclimatepsychologist.com/rising-to-the-challenge-of-our-time-together-introducing-the-climate-mobilization-2/" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>theclimatepsychologist.com/<wbr></wbr>rising-to-the-challenge-of-<wbr></wbr>our-time-together-introducing-<wbr></wbr>the-climate-mobilization-2/</a>).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">TCM's one-time (see Footnote 1 of this subsection) "</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Head of Media"</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Anya Hunt (nee Grenier - see Footnote 2 of this subsection) g</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">raduated from Yale's </span>Arts College in 2015, earning a BA in English Language and Literature. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She has been a Managing Editor and Staff Reporter for Yale Daily News.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">After graduating from Yale Anya worked as a project manager for Alaska Longlines Fisherman's Association in Sitka, Alaska, coordinating its brand "Alaskans Own" (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.juneauempire.com/life/the-faces-behind-the-fish/&source=gmail&ust=1598717843844000&usg=AFQjCNEE8NVgtHRPGiQDQ3-PzsBE5jLABg" href="https://www.juneauempire.com/life/the-faces-behind-the-fish/" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank">https://www.juneauempire.com/<wbr></wbr>life/the-faces-behind-the-<wbr></wbr>fish/</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">). In 2016 she joined TCM as Head of Communications then in 2018 joined the Open Philanthropy charity, progressing from Associate to Recruitment Manager (see Footnote 3 of this subsection).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Sept. 2016 she posted an article "Grenier: Leaving the Climate Bubble" .. .. " (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/09/27/leaving-the-climate-bubble/&source=gmail&ust=1598556153055000&usg=AFQjCNFPavnqf2NZKAUa-BPqPTxrja1ITA" href="https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/09/27/leaving-the-climate-bubble/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://yaledailynews.com/<wbr></wbr>blog/2016/09/27/leaving-the-<wbr></wbr>climate-bubble/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). She described how her " .. latent anxiety about climate change .. felt irrelevant.. " while at Yale but changed on leaving. " .. this co-created illusion fell apart. After I graduated in 2015, I read book after book, article after article, all citing the world’s best climate scientists .. I spent the year .. trying to understand climate science .. I spend my days now, trying to spread </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">the truth</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> that climate change stands to collapse human civilization within our lifetimes .. </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This truth</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> .. gives our voices unique moral authority .. " (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/09/27/leaving-the-climate-bubble/&source=gmail&ust=1598556153055000&usg=AFQjCNFPavnqf2NZKAUa-BPqPTxrja1ITA" href="https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/09/27/leaving-the-climate-bubble/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://yaledailynews.com/<wbr></wbr>blog/2016/09/27/leaving-the-<wbr></wbr>climate-bubble/</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>but bold added<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In August 2016 " .. Anya Grenier published </span><a href="https://m.facebook.com/TheClimateMobilization/posts/our-own-anya-grenier-published-this-inspiring-testimony-of-her-awakening-to-clim/1092435930841914/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">this </a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">inspiring testimony of her awakening to climate truth .. to mark the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation .. " in which she declares " .. My faith explicitly prohibits fear .. As such, people of faith ought to be the first to confront this new reality and to throw themselves into building the kind of climate movement that we need .. ".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is suggested that, rather than accepting on face value what others tell her about climate change, Anya should throw herself into learning </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">real truth</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> about the causes of climate change. Simply accepting on face value what others say (blind faith?) about anything can be very dangerous, exemplified by what occurred in Germany pre-WWII (a topic of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">great interest to XR and TCM - see subsection <span style="color: #222222;">3.2.4,4 Footnote 1</span>). A far superior and safer approach is to apply critical thinking to the opinions of others and forming one's</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> own on the basis of knowledge, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">not ignorance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She pontificated that " .. for a good chance of avoiding irreversible levels of warming, we must reach net zero emissions within the next decade .. " apparently without having a clue about relevant hard science. She then moves on to talk about the wonders of TCM and the need for WWII levels of response to the fantacised CACC apocalypse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Approaching the end of her Yale Daily News rant Anya declared " .. if we do not acknowledge the truth of the climate emergency .. we cannot even support one another .. let alone act. Gestures as small as starting conversations and creating pockets of sanity and open discussion are important because they break us out .. of anxiety and create the seeds for joyful, beautiful and collective resistance. And if you’re interested in starting such a conversation, my email is below .. ". An earlier attempt (see </span><a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Appendix</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> A5.4) to create such a "pocket of sanity" within TCM was a miserable failure. In the spirit of supreme optimism and hoping that she is more open-minded than her fellows at TCM, Anya's invitation has been accepted on 26th Aug. 2020 (see </span><a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Appendix</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> A5.4). Hopefully she will apply critical thinking to what is written here and respond with her thoughts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Of course critical thinkers shouldn't believe everything that they read or are told by others, especially when it comes to significant issues such as CACC and similar religions. Instead we should do our best to separate fact from fiction (cleverly merged by all good publicists/propagandists) then form our own opinions from a position of knowledge, not ignorance.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A good example is this 2016 piece of advertising about Anya " .. Alaskans Own CSF Project Coordinator, Alaska Logline Fishermen’s Association Anya Grenier has years of experience working on organic farm with CSAs and other direct marketing arrangements. She is now working for the Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association and managing Alaskans Own, a Community Supported Fishery Program based out of Sitka, Alaska and serving a number of communities in and outside of the state .. " (my bold - <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://localcatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Bio-List.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1598717843844000&usg=AFQjCNEfSIHlURsYAtChN2b4rwl46Svp1A" href="https://localcatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Bio-List.pdf" target="_blank">https://localcatch.org/wp-<wbr></wbr>content/uploads/2016/02/Bio-<wbr></wbr>List.pdf</a>).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are no prizes for spotting the piece of promotional propaganda that warrants a search for substantiating evidence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1) According to her current LinkedIN profile Anya left TCM in May 2018 to join the Open Phylanthropy Project,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> San Francisco, California </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and is now its Recruiting Manager. (see also</span> <a href="https://www.zoominfo.com/p/Anya-Hunt/3358514735">https://www.zoominfo.com/p/Anya-Hunt/3358514735</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2) The Holy Trinity Cathedral, San Francisco weekly bulletin of 26 May 2019 announced the " .. Sacrament of Crowning in Holy Matrimony. God willing, today at 3 pm we will witness the marriage of Anya Grenier & Will Hunt. This is a great joy! The story of the wedding in Cana of Galilee is read at the Christian wedding ceremony in order to show that marriage is the miracle of the transformation of water into wine, that is, of daily routine into an unceasing and everyday feast, a perpetual celebration of the love of one person for the other. Please keep them in your prayers! .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://holy-trinity.org/about/weekly/2019-0526%2520Weekly%2520Bulletin.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1598717843844000&usg=AFQjCNHyll-P6YPrb-ktBQR9npfMAkirAQ" href="https://holy-trinity.org/about/weekly/2019-0526%20Weekly%20Bulletin.pdf" target="_blank">https://holy-trinity.org/<wbr></wbr>about/weekly/2019-0526%<wbr></wbr>20Weekly%20Bulletin.pdf</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3) The "Open Philanthropy" organisation has two virtually identical entries for Anya, differing only in her surname. The most recent shows her as its Recruitment Manager and says, " .. Anya Hunt joined the Grants Management team in June 2018 and became an Operations Associate in January 2019. Prior to joining Open Philanthropy, she worked as head of communications for The Climate Mobilization. Before that, she managed communications at the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association. She has a B.A. in English from Yale University .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.openphilanthropy.org/about/team/anya-hunt&source=gmail&ust=1598717843844000&usg=AFQjCNGA4uxmKB6Y_MMcP6GzuEjC0LwrvA" href="https://www.openphilanthropy.org/about/team/anya-hunt" target="_blank">https://www.openphilanthropy.<wbr></wbr>org/about/team/anya-hunt</a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/new-staff-operations-programs-and-research%23Anya_Grenier_Operations_Associate&source=gmail&ust=1598717843844000&usg=AFQjCNGvbXNnRqqZgEkoWq097ubzwpkaRQ" href="https://www.openphilanthropy.org/blog/new-staff-operations-programs-and-research#Anya_Grenier_Operations_Associate" target="_blank">https://www.openphilanthropy.<wbr></wbr>org/blog/new-staff-operations-<wbr></wbr>programs-and-research#Anya_<wbr></wbr>Grenier_Operations_Associate</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">TCM's </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Organizing Director" <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">R</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ebecca Harris </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(33?) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">earned a BS from Medill School of Journalism, North Western University, Illinois in 2008 (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-harris-6a74b1a1&source=gmail&ust=1598556153055000&usg=AFQjCNHUENwyHH0OFx33ZH3vzZ2VL1uVNQ" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-harris-6a74b1a1" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/<wbr></wbr>rebecca-harris-6a74b1a1</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. <span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">she has worked as a journalist covering equity in Chicago Public Schools and organized for housing rights and racial justice. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most recently, Rebecca worked as Development and Communications Manager at Latino Union of Chicago, an immigrants’ and workers’ rights organization. She is a 2017 graduate of the Reframe Mentorship in strategic communications and a 2019 participant in the Anne Braden Organizer Training Program .. "</span><span style="text-align: start;">(see <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YGRpG-kR8yLz8c5kXt_wQ9sFz-5jCRaFJQAHFPdqtOQ/edit">here </a>and <a href="https://socialinnovationsjournal.org/editions/issue-33-chicago/75-disruptive-innovations/2411-living-wage-hiring-halls-a-model-solution-for-improving-job-quality">here</a></span>).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like that famous climate scientist Al Gore (but hear the opinion of an expert at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQRle6pgBCY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQRle6pgBCY</a>) Philip Sutton (70?) appears to be very concerned about those poor polar bears allegedly </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">drowning</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> because their ice is melting</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. The cover of his 2008 book "Climate Code Red" (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://scribepublications.com/books-authors/books/climate-code-red&source=gmail&ust=1597341038688000&usg=AFQjCNGxdK5JLSucUlV9zKqc6OsFzs6uqw" href="https://scribepublications.com/books-authors/books/climate-code-red" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://scribepublications.<wbr></wbr>com/books-authors/books/<wbr></wbr>climate-code-red</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">) bears the picture of one gazing forlornly to sea from an isolated ice float. He also considered it relevant to quote from Al Gore's 2007 speech when he accepted that Nobel prize (for PEACE!!! not SCIENCE!!!) that he shared with the IPCC " .. We must quickly mobilize our civilization with the urgency and resolve that has previously been seen only when nations mobilized for war .. "</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Philip has also declared that " .. we now know that with a global average warming of 0.8C and 400 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide in the air, we are already committed to highly dangerous climate change unless the global temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are reduced to safe level with great urgency .. " (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.voteplanet.net/uploads/1/2/7/5/12758111/darebin-climate-emergency-plan-v4.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1597341038688000&usg=AFQjCNHV_W_TKb-R8rDBXFj7L4vlR85guA" href="https://www.voteplanet.net/uploads/1/2/7/5/12758111/darebin-climate-emergency-plan-v4.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.voteplanet.net/<wbr></wbr>uploads/1/2/7/5/12758111/<wbr></wbr>darebin-climate-emergency-<wbr></wbr>plan-v4.pdf</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> - see also Footnote 3 of this subsection).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">It i</span><span style="background-color: white;">s worthwhile taking a look at any of Philip Sutton's profiles/resumes/cvs to try to unearth his area of expertise. Only one appears to be readily available on the Internet, a bio at </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.green-innovations.asn.au/ps-bio.htm&source=gmail&ust=1597422955021000&usg=AFQjCNGVYnExvKIH_zLvWpirLAW0Gf0a-w" href="http://www.green-innovations.asn.au/ps-bio.htm" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">http://www.green-innovations.<wbr></wbr>asn.au/ps-bio.htm</a><span style="background-color: white;"> which says nothing about his education or training.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In order to KNOW things like this (rather than simply accepting what others have told him) Philip would surely require education, training and experience in relevant hard scientific disciplines essential for any hope of understanding the processes and drivers of the different global climates. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All that bio does is indicate:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- his " .. <span style="color: black; text-align: start;">leading role in the international campaign that has resulted in over 1000 governments (councils and national and sub-national governments in 28 countries) declaring a climate emergency .. "</span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2010 economist Hans Hoegh‐Guldberg referred to Philip and his coauthor as follows " .. Australian businessman and climate‐policy analyst David Spratt and ecological economist Philip Sutton in 2008 published a book which has gained a wide international readership for its “red alert” message on climate change .. " (</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nmssanctuaries.blob.core.windows.net/sanctuaries-prod/media/archive/science/socioeconomic/floridakeys/pdfs/changingscenarios.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1597521258299000&usg=AFQjCNHjmhhxEF46bN1luugTsul153tA1w" href="https://nmssanctuaries.blob.core.windows.net/sanctuaries-prod/media/archive/science/socioeconomic/floridakeys/pdfs/changingscenarios.pdf" target="_blank">https://nmssanctuaries.blob.<wbr></wbr>core.windows.net/sanctuaries-<wbr></wbr>prod/media/archive/science/<wbr></wbr>socioeconomic/floridakeys/<wbr></wbr>pdfs/changingscenarios.pdf</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Promotional material for the book "Climate Code Red: .. " describes </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , "verdana"; font-size: 15.68px;">David Spratt as </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , "verdana"; font-size: 15.68px;"> a Melbourne businessman, climate-policy analyst, and co-founder of Carbon Equity, which advocates personal carbon allowances as the most fair and equitable means of rapidly reducing carbon emissions. He has extensive advocacy experience in the peace movement, and in developing community-campaign communication and marketing strategies . " (</span><a href="https://www.safecom.org.au/climatecodered.htm">https://www.safecom.org.au/climatecodered.htm</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since at least 2011 David Spratt has been frequently reported as being " .. a Melbourne businessman, climate policy analyst, and co-founder of Carbon Equity .. " (e.g see <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nteu.org.au/vic/article/Community-Announcements-28-September-2011-11972&source=gmail&ust=1598038117175000&usg=AFQjCNFxlx5BdZey10UTJ31O1yqViJXxMw" href="https://www.nteu.org.au/vic/article/Community-Announcements-28-September-2011-11972" target="_blank">https://www.nteu.org.au/<wbr></wbr>vic/article/Community-<wbr></wbr>Announcements-28-September-<wbr></wbr>2011-11972</a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Code_Red&source=gmail&ust=1598038117175000&usg=AFQjCNF8TNSkO8pAM2Ig1hGF9RLy3WkgDw" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Code_Red" target="_blank">https://en.m.<wbr></wbr>wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_<wbr></wbr>Code_Red</a>). In 2020 it was reported that " .. <span style="color: #333333;">He has previously worked managing businesses specialising in research and journalism, book production and graphic design .. " (</span><span style="color: #333333;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://voicesmotherearth.blogspot.com/2020/07/are-worst-case-climate-scenarios-less.html&source=gmail&ust=1598038117175000&usg=AFQjCNFwWTtKBJF4YjHQEejchR6xzBPqrg" href="https://voicesmotherearth.blogspot.com/2020/07/are-worst-case-climate-scenarios-less.html" target="_blank">https://voicesmotherearth.<wbr></wbr>blogspot.com/2020/07/are-<wbr></wbr>worst-case-climate-scenarios-<wbr></wbr>less.html</a>).</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The same "Climate Code Red " promotional material says " .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , "verdana"; font-size: 15.68px;">Philip Sutton is the convener of the Greenleap Strategic Institute, a non-profit environmental-strategy think tank and advisory organisation promoting the very rapid achievement of global and local ecological sustainability. He is also the founder and director of strategy for Green Innovations, and an occasional university lecturer on global warming science and strategies for sustainability.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , "verdana"; font-size: 15.68px;">Philip has worked on a number of advisory and policy committees for Australian state and federal governments, was the architect of the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, and is a former president of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics (2001-2003) ... ".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1991 business entrepreneur Philip set up Green Innovations Inc. which may not have been the hoped-for commercial success. 1997 promotional material for his company posed the question " .. Why should business get involved in the greening business? .. ". He then proceeded to outline his perceived "green" business opportunity. " .. the inevitable changes .. will change virtually every product now on the market .. creating .. commercial opportunities so powerful that, as the next decade unfolds, no company will be immune from the changes .. This revolution can be experienced .. as a time of exciting commercial opportunity .. The greatest commercial gain will accrue to those that can lead the corporate change the furthest in the direction of necessary greening .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.green-innovations.asn.au/tapsmrkt.htm&source=gmail&ust=1598192946265000&usg=AFQjCNFeXLefJ9OEj4xbln1erkihXvL10w" href="http://www.green-innovations.asn.au/tapsmrkt.htm" target="_blank">http://www.green-innovations.<wbr></wbr>asn.au/tapsmrkt.htm</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He apparently dreamed that " .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ecological sustainability is going to be a key strategic driver for business during the next two decades. .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Within five years we will witness the start of the third and longest of the great surges in environmental awareness </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and action .. The previous .. in the late 1960s-early 1970 and .. late 1980s-early 1990s, focussed on individuals and governments. The next will focus on .. commercial firms. ".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">P</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hilip surely must be very disappointed that the fantasy </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy</a><span style="color: #222222;">) on which he based his business venture </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">h</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">as failed to materialise. If it ever was going to happen then the 2007</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> economic crash and the 2020 CoVid19 pandemic have kept environmentalism where it has been since the early 70's - in the shadows way behind </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">global economic development. Even that godmother of environmentalism, Rachel Carson, wasn't able to get economic development out of top spot. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It appears that Green Innovations Inc. failed to live up to Philips business expectations. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2006 he started another business venture, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Greenleap Strategic Institute Inc. and is its</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Strategy Director. According to GSI's </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">web page </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" .. The most </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">significant </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">project of the Institute so far has been its involvement in co-authoring the boo</span>k</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.greenlivingpedia.org/Climate_Code_Red&source=gmail&ust=1598192946265000&usg=AFQjCNGDa0xYIst_7Rr3cwAIUU6pY8vyew" href="https://www.greenlivingpedia.org/Climate_Code_Red" style="background-image: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Climate Code Red">Climate Code Red</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> .</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. "<span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.greenlivingpedia.org/Greenleap_Strategic_Institute&source=gmail&ust=1598192946265000&usg=AFQjCNHk2g8oY9szUzcX7jndo3h_GDgZ8Q" href="https://www.greenlivingpedia.org/Greenleap_Strategic_Institute" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">https://www.greenlivingpedia.<wbr></wbr>org/Greenleap_Strategic_<wbr></wbr>Institute</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">). </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That project was in 2008 so he doesn't appear to have done much with GSI in the 12 years since then!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2011 he started Research and Strategy for Transition Initiation Inc. a company considered to be " .. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">critical in creating the detailed strategic</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> documents used for councils to develop their own Climate Emergency response and supporting councils in developing their Climate </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Emergency plans .. " (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.caceonline.org/about.html&source=gmail&ust=1598192946265000&usg=AFQjCNG82vf5MV-Bw1GBY-RM4ghrPpkmZA" href="https://www.caceonline.org/about.html" target="_blank">https://www.caceonline.org/<wbr></wbr>about.html</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That business venture does appear to have had some success after teaming up with the "<span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Council Action in the Climate Emergency" </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">organisation, formed </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">in 2017 by Melbourne ecologists and CACC activists </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Adrian Whitehead (</span><a href="https://au.linkedin.com/in/adrian-whitehead-847a794" style="background-color: transparent;">https://au.linkedin.com/in/adrian-whitehead-847a794</a><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">) and Bryony Edwards (</span><a href="https://au.linkedin.com/in/bryony-edwards-3200031a" style="background-color: transparent;">https://au.linkedin.com/in/bryony-edwards-3200031a</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">)</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">. " .. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">CACE works in close partnership with .. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Research and Strategy for Transition Initiation Inc. .. "<b> (</b></span><a href="https://www.caceonline.org/about.html" style="background-color: transparent;">https://www.caceonline.org/about.html</a><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">)</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">, with numerous Australian councils (a more gullible option than state and federal governments * </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">using Philip (and his associate David Spratt) to produce their CACC strategy plans. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> - see "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">Council Action in the Climate Emergency"'s page</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><a href="https://www.caceonline.org/a-guide-for-councils.html" style="background-color: transparent;">https://www.caceonline.org/a-guide-for-councils.html</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">* Philip alludes to this (and WWII) in his Nov. 2018 CACC propaganda presentation during the "</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Darebin Climate Emergency Conference" (see from 18 Mins 20 secs into the video at <a href="https://climateemergencydeclaration.org/darebin-climate-emergency-conference-see-the-presentations/" style="background-color: transparent; text-align: justify;">https://climateemergencydeclaration.org/darebin-climate-emergency-conference-see-the-presentations/</a>). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In all of his 20 minute bluster about an existential threat unless we drastically cut our global carbon dioxide emissions, David made no mention of the fact that China and India are ramping up their construction of fossil-fuel powered electricity generating complexes. Of course David too had to make reference to WWII (at 23min 20 sec into his presentation). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2013 Philip was one of six <span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #303030;">election candidates with the newly formed</span> "<span style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #303030;">‘Save the Planet’ party but standing as independents</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He attracted less than 1% of the vote, failing miserably to get the support of the Batman electorate for fighting the fantacised climate apocalyps, a sentiment</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the face of it here are a businessman and an economist pontificating and advising on a highly complex scientific issue that even experienced scientists struggle with. </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That raises questions about the level of expertise about the processes and drivers of the different global climates that Philip and David have. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Philip invited comments and feedback on his "Darebin Climate Emergency Plan" (via E-mail) so </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the lack of any information in his bio about his education/training has been pointed out to him. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He was asked if he (and his co-author David) would be kind enough to provide details </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of his education, training and experience in science relating to the CACC issue.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In his response Philip declared that h</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e has " .. </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-left;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-left;">never at any stage had any involvement in or affiliation with Extinction Rebellion .. ". Consequently </span></span><span style="text-align: -webkit-left;">section 1.0 Introduction to this article points out that it also discusses </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-left;">organisations</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-left;"> </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-left;">related to XR and those who have had a significant influence on them, through </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-left;">objectives, strategies </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-left;">and </span><span style="text-align: -webkit-left;">membership. The</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-left;"> Climate Mobilization organisation, with their virtually identical objectives and strategies and its founding Ex</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-left;">ecutive Director </span>Margaret Salamon (XR's Fundraising Director) is one such organisation<span style="text-align: -webkit-left;">. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-left;">Margaret Salamon (subsection 3.1.30) </span>acknowledges that " .. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://theclimatepsychologist.com/the-science-of-climate-crisis-recount-by-david-spratt/www.theclimatemobilization.org&source=gmail&ust=1597946991690000&usg=AFQjCNHEAdiMnWCjncSMjk0-j_usBS88KA" href="http://theclimatepsychologist.com/the-science-of-climate-crisis-recount-by-david-spratt/www.theclimatemobilization.org" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Climate Mobilization</a> has been very influ</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">enced by David Spratt and Philip Sutton, our allies in Australia .. " </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">(</span><span style="color: #333333;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://theclimatepsychologist.com/the-science-of-climate-crisis-recount-by-david-spratt/&source=gmail&ust=1597946991690000&usg=AFQjCNH9cynqTDCPP3tMULJtp0qg-5q0tA" href="http://theclimatepsychologist.com/the-science-of-climate-crisis-recount-by-david-spratt/" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>theclimatepsychologist.com/<wbr></wbr>the-science-of-climate-crisis-<wbr></wbr>recount-by-david-spratt/</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent;">). It appears that </span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">David and Philip both have a signifi</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cant influence on TCM</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'s understanding of CACC science, Philip having taught founding director Ezra all </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that he knows about the science and David being a TCM advisor. On the other hand there appears to be no evidence whatsoever that either Philip or David have relevant education, training or experience in the hard sciences (see section 2.0 Footnote 2).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both Philip and David were </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">invited to provide some evidence of their scientific knowledge (see </span><a href="https://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Appendix</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 5.5).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Both responded </span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but declined to clear up any uncertainty about their areas of expertise</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Hopefully they will be able to make time to do so, as well as to review and if necessary challenge what is said here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The California think tank EcoEquity (run by political ecologist Tom Athanasiou) <span style="background-color: transparent;"> claims that " .. David Spratt .. knows the science .." </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">(</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ecoequity.org/2019/05/david-spratt-on-1-5c/&source=gmail&ust=1597946991690000&usg=AFQjCNE8X1iEXlMO0GMEalLX3SzdyRW7Ow" href="https://www.ecoequity.org/2019/05/david-spratt-on-1-5c/" target="_blank">https://www.ecoequity.org/<wbr></wbr>2019/05/david-spratt-on-1-5c/</a>)<wbr></wbr>. but there is no evidence of that. T</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">he video </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which accompanies that article shows</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> David Spratt expounding </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on CACC to the " .. Australian Extinction Rebellion crew in May 2019 .. ". David demonstrates </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a fair </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ability to propagate the CACC propaganda but </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">no </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">particular knowledge of relevant science</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc;">This notion about needing to "fight" climate change using WWII levels of mobilisation is not a recent one. As mentioned previously, Al Gore used it in 2007. David Spratt and Philip Sutton followed suit in 2008, a </span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc;">review of a Sydney "Climate Change/Social Change conference sponsored by </span><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;">Green Left Weekly</span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc;"> (a Socialist Alliance </span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc;">publication) in April 2008 commenting " .</span><span style="background-color: transparent;">.</span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc;"> A highlight .. was the launching of a report titled '</span><span style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: inherit;">Climate Code Red: The Case for a Sustainability Emergency'</span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc;"> authored by David Spratt</span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc;"> (CarbonEquity) and Philip Sutton (Greenleap Strategic Institute) and sponsored by Friends of the Earth.</span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc;"> Spratt and Sutton .. </span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc;">propose a framework for climate change campaigning based on the argument that the time to address climate change is urgent and requires emergency measures on the order of those adopted by the Allied powers against the Axis powers during World War II .. " (</span><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10624-009-9089-6&source=gmail&ust=1598038117174000&usg=AFQjCNG3FVXNkYAG5bxdt4X0jgnWPIchrg" href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10624-009-9089-6" target="_blank">https://link.springer.com/<wbr></wbr>article/10.1007/s10624-009-<wbr></wbr>9089-6</a>).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is worthwhile repeating what the XR founding members say on their RisingUp blog " .. The existing political and economic system is set to destroy civilisation and much if not all life on earth if allowed to continue .. the whole system .. is out of control to the extent that it necessitates nonviolent civil disobedience as a means to prevent disaster and create the sane and equitable society we all desire and require for ourselves and future generations .. " (see 3.0).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They go on to say " .. it is our duty to uphold the mission of the Compassionate Revolution company to enable people power, in the face of the corruption of our democracy by vested interests. We understand that people may be willing to undertake acts of defiance (some of which could be illegal) in the pursuit of social and environmental justice .. " (see section 3.0, Para 3).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It also says " .. WE ACTIVELY MITIGATE FOR POWER Breaking down hierarchies of power for more equitable participation .. We live in a toxic system .. We collectively create the structures we need to challenge power. ." (see section 3.0, para. 5).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Underpinning all of that are the words of Roger Hallam, the revolutionary who inspired his XR co-founder Gail Bradbrook following her brain rewiring by psychedelic drugs in Costa Rica (see sub-section 3.3). " .. Through mass civil resistance, we’re going to create a new global regime .. ".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Summarising, the XR founding members aim to use mass civil resistance in order to grab and redistribute power, tearing down existing political and economic systems and replacing them with - global anarchy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Rising Up blog says of its offspring “ .. Extinction Rebellion is an international apolitical network .. ”. International it may well be but It is hard to fathom how it can claim XR to have " .. no interest or involvement in political affairs .. " (</span><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apolitical" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apolitical</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">) when the aim is to replace one political system with another of its own making.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">XR's inspirational co-founder, Political Scientist Roger Hallam, said in a May 2019 interview that " .. our primary goal is to create a political space through which people of various countries can come together .. we're coming together through .. mass political action that breaks the law. It's the most effective way .. to actually create a crisis in society .. There's no way that's going to be brought about by incremental, conventional political action .. we need to focus on is the practicality of rapid political change .. the most effective way to change society – actually to do something about these people and to do something about the power of the rich and powerful to destroy our children – is to engage in mass-participation civil disobedience. This is a fundamental point about Extinction Rebellion .. to engage in the most effective mechanism to bring about change, which is to break the law on a mass scale in order to create a political crisis .. in society .. and in the government and the political class .. " (</span><a href="http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=267234" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=267234</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let's take a closer look at what they consider to be the flaws in the UK's political and economic system, comparing these with what they propose as replacements " ..in order to minimise the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse .. " (see section 2.0).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Rising Up! organisation supports those who may be willing to undertake acts of defiance (legal or otherwise) in the pursuit of what it believes are environmental and social justice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to Stroud Community TV, XR founding member Gail Bradbrook " .. is an economic justice campaigner and compassionate revolutionary .. " (</span><a href="http://stroudcommunity.tv/compassionate-revolution-gail/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://stroudcommunity.tv/compassionate-revolution-gail/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">XR founding member George Bada is one of the members of the Board of Occupy Faith UK, who " .. raise awareness of issues of social, economic and environmental justice as they affect communities across the UK .. " (</span><a href="http://www.occupyfaith.org.uk/2015/02/27/welcome-to-the-occupy-faith-uk-website-2/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.occupyfaith.org.uk/2015/02/27/welcome-to-the-occupy-faith-uk-website-2/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, they claim to be fighting social, economic and environmental injustice on a global scale (</span><a href="https://rebellion.earth/2019/04/14/monday-15-april-extinction-rebellions-international-rebellion-to-begin-in-over-80-cities-across-at-least-33-countries%EF%BB%BF/" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://rebellion.earth/2019/04/14/monday-15-april-extinction-rebellions-international-rebellion-to-begin-in-over-80-cities-across-at-least-33-countries%EF%BB%BF/</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">), all of which are exacerbated by anarchy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What the supporters of Extinction Rebellion (school-children, their parents and teachers, etc) who have been demonstrating across the world seem to prefer is the chaos of anarchy rather than the structure provided by democracy - hhhhmmmm!!!! Perhaps they really do not have a clue what Extinction Rebellion is all about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No doubt there is much room for improvement of social, economic and political systems across the world, but as Tom Bromwich said recently “ .. These reforms require the boring administrative aspects and cannot simply come about through banging a couple of drums in Westminster, or carrying a placard saying ‘capitalism is costing the Earth’ whilst atonally singing ‘We Shall Overcome’ .. “ (</span><a href="https://www.perspectives.news/single-post/2019/04/24/The-Hypocrisy-and-Left-Wing-Nature-of-the-Extinction-Rebellion" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.perspectives.news/single-post/2019/04/24/The-Hypocrisy-and-Left-Wing-Nature-of-the-Extinction-Rebellion</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">).</span><br />
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Before getting involved with or supporting Extinction Rebellion there are vital questions that we should all ask of the organisation and its members. The following is a sample of those that have been anticipated by XR's founders, with the unsatisfactory answers provided (see <a href="https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/faqs/">https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/faqs/</a>):</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">- Q "<b>Are you really grass roots people?</b>".</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">- A " .. We are ordinary people who .. want to do whatever we can peacefully to stop the destruction of Life on Earth and .. push for the better, fairer and more beautiful world .. ".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Further question yet to be answered "How does destroying established economic and political systems </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">such as we have in the UK,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that have progressively improved</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> our well-being and replacing them with anarchy lead to a </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">better, fairer and more beautiful world"?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- Q “<b>Who is behind Extinction Rebellion?</b>"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- A “Extinction Rebellion</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "arial";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">.. started in response to the IPCC report that we only have 12 years to stop catastrophic climate change and our understanding that we have entered the 6th mass </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">extinction event .. ”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1) </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">In April 2019 the XR-supporting Guardian newspaper reported that " .. the number of people who had signed up to support future demonstrations had risen from 10,000 before the protest to 40,000 by Wednesday morning .. " (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/24/support-for-extinction-rebellion-soars-in-wake-of-easter-protests&source=gmail&ust=1598290445263000&usg=AFQjCNHLy4v76wreZIpNwTPB46P6IXbz5Q" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/24/support-for-extinction-rebellion-soars-in-wake-of-easter-protests" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/<wbr></wbr>environment/2019/apr/24/<wbr></wbr>support-for-extinction-<wbr></wbr>rebellion-soars-in-wake-of-<wbr></wbr>easter-protests</a><span style="font-family: "arial";">). If when XR talks about volunteers it means those volunteering to demonstrate, then there could be 1200 or more recipients of those "Volunteer Living Expenses"! - see sub-section 5.1.2 for further details.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While looking at this, keep in mind the words in 2016 of XR's "GodMother" Gail Bradbrook “ .. Hands up, I run a charity and it's mostly about securing your own salary .. ". Also, remember these comments on XR's "Rebellion Earth" web-site " .. we give money to vital members of the team who require assistance to pay living expenses like rent and bills .. 3% of us receive what we call Volunteer Living Expenses .. " (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">XR appears to be very shy about precisely from where its funds come and to where they get disbursed. Parent RisingUP! has made available a somewhat cumbersome and less than transparent spreadsheet of its accounts for 2018/19 (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No explanatory notes are provided with those accounts and no information appears to be provided about who are RU/XR's "trustees"/principal managers.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Crowd-funding is one of XR's sources of income, along with donations from foundations, individuals and corporates (see sub-section 3.1.16).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rising UP! and Extinction Rebellion have enjoyed some success with their crowdfunding appeals for charitable donations. " .. Our first crowd funder raised over £115k .. " (</span></div>
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- <a href="https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/risingupwales">https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/risingupwales</a> (£0 - wise Welsh),</div>
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- <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fundrazr.com/StroudFrackFreeThree?ref%3Dab_55Pds3oGZis55Pds3oGZis&source=gmail&ust=1556811629419000&usg=AFQjCNEtlR8IGgKy3T9PK5Jhx3BQBnZARw" href="https://fundrazr.com/StroudFrackFreeThree?ref=ab_55Pds3oGZis55Pds3oGZis" style="color: #1155cc; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">https://fundrazr.com/<wbr></wbr>StroudFrackFreeThree?ref=ab_<wbr></wbr>55Pds3oGZis55Pds3oGZis</a> (£1,300),</div>
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- <a href="https://fundrazr.com/ExtinctionRebellion?ref=ab_3Z4oREweBtz3Z4oREweBtz">https://fundrazr.com/ExtinctionRebellion?ref=ab_3Z4oREweBtz3Z4oREweBtz</a> (£130,00+),</div>
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- <a href="https://fundrazr.com/Global_XR?ref=ab_3Z4oREweBtz3Z4oREweBtz">https://fundrazr.com/Global_XR?ref=ab_3Z4oREweBtz3Z4oREweBtz</a> (£490,000+).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Numerous appeals have also been made through the gofundme facility, often asking for funds to help pay legal costs for XR supporters who have fallen foul of the law in their various countries, e.g. see appeals by:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- Bristol XR supporters £425 (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.gofundme.com/pay-robin-and-tom039s-fines&source=gmail&ust=1557502678973000&usg=AFQjCNForIIlyEFemH7hAN91lgYaN1GDAw" href="https://www.gofundme.com/pay-robin-and-tom039s-fines" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.gofundme.com/pay-</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- Southampton XR £680 (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.gofundme.com/help-fuel-the-rebellion&source=gmail&ust=1557502678973000&usg=AFQjCNGdiZbMqbUNEa7rQK4CvKIjpR7dRQ" href="https://www.gofundme.com/help-fuel-the-rebellion" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.gofundme.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- Toronto XR appeal $880 (</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/XR-toronto" target="_blank">https://www.gofundme.com/f/<wbr></wbr>XR-toronto</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- XR supporter in Texas $2066 (</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://uk.gofundme.com/legal-defense-fund-for-extinction-rebellion-atx&source=gmail&ust=1557502678973000&usg=AFQjCNE7Par7cPTELfVXW0Rl8UD7SZyU5Q" href="https://uk.gofundme.com/legal-defense-fund-for-extinction-rebellion-atx" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">https://uk.gofundme.com/</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial";">),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then there are a couple of web-site appeals:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #1155cc;">- </span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>" .. Support Extinction Rebellion Monthly!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> .. £25, £100, £250 .. Help us Grow .. " (the bank balances of RU/XR and its primary members. !??!),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1155cc;">- <a href="https://rebellion.earth/donate/" target="_blank">https://rebellion.earth/donate/</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.. Main .. Our mere existence relies on .. " (fools with more money than sense?!!?). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.. Legal Costs .. Many brave rebels are being charged and put on trial. They need .. " (locking up for a long time!??!),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Unfortunately, in many walks of life gullible people are prepared to hand over their hard-earned money without doing any due diligence research into who and what is behind an appeal for charitable donations. Most of those appealing and donating appear to have accepted </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px;">without question the</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px;">CACC fantasy </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">that our burgeoning use of fossil fuels is leading to a global climate catastrop</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">he (see the 2010 article "Politicization of Climate Change and CO2" at</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/p/sundry-papers.html&source=gmail&ust=1557502678973000&usg=AFQjCNHWrQiCnJZco6Ot64DucXonHexulg" href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/p/sundry-papers.html" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">http://</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Let's first take a close look at the special 3% of XR members who benefit from that perk of Volunteer Living Expenses (VLE) from the Bank of RisingUP! and try to figure out why they are so blessed (see Footnote 1 to this sub-section).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">RU's spreadsheet of accounts for 2018/19 tells us that of the £1M + that came into the Bank of RisingUP?, £65k were paid out as "Living Expenses" to </span>the following " .. vital members of the team who require assistance to pay living expenses like rent and bills .. " (not permitted if XR was a registered charity!!):<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£8500 in Nov 2018-May 2019 to Ronan McNern (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£7000 from Oct 2018-Apr 2019 to Liam Geary Baulch (3.1.36)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £5700 in Jan-May 2019 to Jamie Lowe (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £5100 in Jan-May 2019 to Howard Rees</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £4710 in Nov/Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr/May to Gail Bradbrook (3.1.1)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £4600 in Dec 2018-May 2019 to George Barda (3.1.3)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£4240 in Nov 2018 - May 2019 to Tasmin Osmond (??)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £4000 in Jan/Feb/March/April 2019 to CJ and Claire Farrell (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £3600 in Feb-May 2019 to Jasmine Salter (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £3440 in Nov/Dec 2018/Jan/Mar 2019 to Annie Randall (see 3.1.2!!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £3048 in April/May/June 2019 to Chris Smith (3.1.138)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £2670 in Dec 2018/Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr/May 2019 to Francesca Harris (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £2665 in Mar/April 2019 to Eva Arnold (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£2400 in Apr/May to Julian/Julie Thompson (??)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £2234 in Mar/May 2019 to James Moulding (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £2100 in Apr/May 2019 to Irene Sinu (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£1940 in Mar/Apr 2019 to Michael Lynch White (??)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £1900 in Dec2018-Mar2019 to Jessica Townsend (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £1860 in Apr - Jun 2019 to Jason Stewart (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">- £1600 in Nov 2018-May 2019 to Peter Barry (??)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £1500 in Dec2018-May2019 to Hannah Cousins (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£1400 in Apr/May 2019 to Stephanie Kent (??)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">- £1300 in Mar/Apr 2019 to Sam Appleton (??)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £1200 in April/May 2019 to Clarissa Carlyon (??) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£1200 in Dec 2018 to Tiana Jacoult (??)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£1200 in Mar-May 2019 to Zephyr Blofeld (??)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £1000 in April 2019 to Jessica Brinton (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">- £1000 in Nov/Dec 2018 to Sibi Moore (3.1.31)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£ 950 in Dec 2019-Mar 2019 to Phoenix Barry (??)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 900 in Mar 2019 to Jamie Kelssey Fry (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 900 in Mar 2019 to Guy Bowden (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£ 900 in May 2019 to Richard Dent (??)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 850 in April/May to Alexi Phillips (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£ 808 in May 2019 to Tom Clarke (??)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 800 in April 2019 to Alanna Byrne (31.18),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 800 in May 2019 to Jonathan Milton (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£ 800 in May 2019 to Jonathan Milton (??)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£ 800 in May 2019 to Kinda Doyle (??)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£ 800 in Mar 2019 to NM Gahercolehan (??)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 720 in April/May to Douglas Rogers (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 700 in Apr/May 2019 to Greg Frey (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 600 in April/May 2919 to Alana Hyde Bloom (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£ 600 in June 2019 to Josephine Holt (??)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£. 600 in May to Kev Boon (??)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£ 600 in Apr 2019 to Lindford Lowe (??)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">- £ 600 in Mar/Apr 2019 to Robin Ellis Cockcroft/Cockett (??)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£ 600 in Mar/May 2019 to William Franks (??)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 500 in April/May to Ella Crowley (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 500 in May 2019 to Fray Milton (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 500 in June 2019 to Cathryn Jiggens (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£ 500 in May 2019 to Kay Michael (??)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£ 500 in May 2019 to Nick Osborne (??)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£ 500 in Dec 2018 to Simon Bramwell (3.1.4)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£. 450 in Mar 2019 to Paul Lichenstein (??)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 400 in Apr 2019 to Hannah van den Brul (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 400 in April 2019 to David Stitch (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 400 in May 2019 to Jaie Cooper (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£ 400 in Apr 2019 to Tom Morton (??)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 350 in Nov 2018 to Elizabeth Orchard (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 300 in May 2019 to Jack Goodwin (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 300 in May 2019 to Christopher Maunder (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£. 300 in June 2019 to Joseph O'Malley (??)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£ 290 in Dec 2018 to Thomas Katan (??)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 285 in May 2019 to Felix Reeves Whymark (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£ 200 in Dec 2018 to Josh Bullock (??)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 200 in April 2019 to Franks William (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 200 in Mar 2019 to Hollie Andrews (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 200 in May 2019 to Charlotte Fraser (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 200 in May 2019 to Alice Brown (??)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£ 160 in May 2019 to Joseph Goodman (??)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";">- </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">£ 150 in Apr 2019 to Peta Hoskins (??)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">- £ 77 in Feb. 2019 to Amy Caitlin Pritchard (??)</span></div>
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1) XR's "Rebellion Earth" blog advises that " .. We are experimenting with a system where we give money to vital members of the team who require assistance to pay living expenses like rent and bills .. No one is paid as “staff” 3% of us receive what we call Volunteer Living Expenses .. " (<a href="https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/faqs/">https://rebellion.earth/the-truth/faqs/</a>). How is this different from employing people? Certainly some lucky members of XR are obtaining at least part of their income from its parent organisation, the Bank of RisingUP!<br />
It will be interesting to see if the Inland Revenue agrees with XR that no-one is being paid as staff!<br />
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2) <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">Stuart Basden also had a "wellbeing/office" payment of £840 in Nov 2018 (account item 822)</span><br />
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It is claimed that there are about 150 branches of the XR/RUP/CRLtd organisation in the UK, no doubt all promoting the CACC propaganda used by XR founding members to further their various interests. As an example, XRChesham members Vicki Mistry (3.1.44) and Dr Lyn Jenkins (3.1.45) issued an invitation to an 11th June 2019 talk at the Chiltern Chamber of Commerce about “Heading for Extinction (and what to do about it)”. XR speakers were Dr. Emily Spry (3.1.42) and Professor Kate Jeffrey (3.1.43).</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Their invitation promised that the talk would present " .. the truth about climate change, extinction rates and the predicted impacts .. the facts around climate change, based on scientific data .. ". It went on to promoted the UN's speculative scare-mongering claim that " .. we have 11 years before climate catastrophe (3) (which includes food shortages here in the UK) and we have until 2020 to change course, so we need to act now .. " (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That UN link (3) which these XR representatives provided was not to any sound science about the processes and drivers of the different global climates, but to an UN propaganda bulletin. This includes among its questionable claims that " .. after more than a century and a half of industrialization, deforestation, and large scale agriculture, quantities of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have risen to record levels not seen in three million years .. The most abundant GHG, accounting for about two-thirds of GHGs, carbon dioxide (CO2), is largely the product of burning fossil fuels .. " (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The claim about record levels of atmospheric CO2 is based primarily on measurements of air allegedly "trapped" unchanged in deposits of ice or sediment for millennia (but see </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The claim that CO2 is the most abundant greenhouse gas is misleading, since it only accounts for 0.04% of the dry atmosphere. Water vapour is the most significant greenhouse gas by far and has a variable presence in the atmosphere, ranging from zero to several %.. Other claims in that scaremongering bulletin are equally misleading, just as Dr. Stephen Schneider ordered </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(see </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.com/2019/10/appendices-to-spotlighton-extinction.html">Appendix</a> A6.1)</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> It appears that Emily Spry and Kate Jeffrey are happy to preseny XR's “Heading for Extinction (and what to do about it)” propaganda wherever they can find a gullible audience, being scheduled for presentation to XR Nottingham (see sub-section 6.3) in late September 2019.</span></div>
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6.1 XR Chesham</h3>
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The web-site of XR's Chesham branch is at <a href="http://www.xrchesham.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.xrchesham.co.uk/</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Current membership appears to be limited to Dr Lyn Jenkins (see sub-section 3.1.45) and Vicki Mistry (sub-section 3.1.44)<o:p></o:p></div>
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Founded in Feb/Mar 2019 by medical doctor Emily Spry (see sub-section 3.1.42), the St Albans branch of XR (AKA SAXR) has a web-site at <a href="http://www.xr-stalbans.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.xr-stalbans.org.uk/</a> which says little about its structure.<i><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span style="color: #313131;">All of these questions relate not only to the structure and governance of the St Albans branch of XR but to the entire organisation. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">When asked about this Alison advised that XR’s local, regional and national (XRUK) groups “ .. are structured along the lines of a self-organizing system, as described in general by Frederic Laloux. The St Albans group includes several functional groupings (eg Actions, Outreach, Wellbeing) and Affinity Groups (comprising around 10 people who collectively have the skills to enable the group to operate somewhat autonomously during disruptive actions), with an Anchor Group that has a co-ordinating/organizing function. 'Governance' is a concept that is inconsistent with a self-organizing system. Each grouping has one or two facilitators or co-ordinators, but these are (or can be) rotating roles and are not 'group leaders' in the conventional sense .. ”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The theory that a society as complex as ours can be run effectively by citizens' assemblies may be fine but anyone with much experience of our real world knows that this does not work in practice. People differ on what they consider to be important issues, how they should be resolved and how to prevent their recurrence. On top of that, there are always some in society who are driven by their own vested, not common, interest, often along the lines of " .. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: center;">it's mostly about</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">securing your own salary .. " (see sub-section 3.1.1).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">That XR is " .. structured along the lines of a self-ORGANIZING SYSTEM .. " itself implies some form of governance. The fact that it was Alison who responded to my queries suggests that people in the St. Albans branch of the XR organisation have defined roles. The fact that she directed me to the RebellionEarth web pages demonstrates that a heirarchical structure exists. The fact that the founders of XR have imposed a "non-violence" rule indicates that governance exists. The fact that SAXR has a structure of sections such as Actions, Outreach, Wellbeing, etc. shows that defined responsibilities have been assigned within the group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Quite clearly, the letter </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">announced the formation </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by Extinction Rebellion </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of XRbusiness, with the penultimate signatory being no less that XR co-founder Gail Bradbrook (see sub-section 3,1,1),</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 19.5px;">On 27th May Gail Bradbrook did a U-turn, issuing a letter to the Extinction Rebellion community disowning XRbusiness. It was headed </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">“</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">I have been supporting a group of people associated with the business sector to think about what Extinction Rebellion means to them .. The entity, formerly known as ‘XR Business’, will now be more clearly communicated and branded: it is not part of Extinction Rebellion .. therefore no longer be called ‘XR Business’ .. I sincerely</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> </span><g class="gr_ gr_9 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling multiReplace" data-gr-id="9" id="9" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; outline: none;">apologise</g><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: normal;">for the confusion and anxiety this has caused .. “</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> .. " (see </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://rebellion.earth/act-now/resources/communities/mistaken-identity-xr-business-is-no-more/">https://rebellion.earth/act-now/resources/communities/mistaken-identity-xr-business-is-no-more/</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It appears that XR founding member Gail was very confused when she signed the announcement that " .. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Extinction Rebellion is evolving a new platform, XR Business .. ". Maybe she had recently returned from another Iboga trip in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Costa Rica (see sub-section 3.1.1).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial";">Whatever she might have wanted people to believe from her May declaration, full-time XR volunteer Andrew Medhurst (see sub-section 3.1.16) understood something quite the opposite. This professional with a successful 30-year career in Financial Services appeared to clearly understand in March that XRbusiness was more than just an informal group of people associated with the business sector. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Those signatories (Gail included) had the cheek to begin their Times Letter " .. The multi million-pound costs that the Extinction Rebellion protests have imposed on business are regrettable, as is the inconvenience to Londoners .. ". On top of that they showed no concern for the multi-million pounds that the Met. Police had to spend in enforcing the law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is interesting to take a look at those business leaders who appear to have such disregard for wasting others' money, starting with Jeremy Leggett (proud to be a supporter of XR) and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Elkington (who pulled the letter together) - see also Footnote 2 to this sub-section). Could there be any vested interest behind their support for XR? Does promoting all things relating to "sustainability" feature in their income streams? (see Footnote 3 of this sub-section)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The letter to the Times by business leaders that follows was pulled together by the inestimable John Elkington at short notice .. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">Sir, Contrary to belief, there is business support for the Extinction Rebellion (XR) agenda. The multi million-pound costs that the Extinction Rebellion protests have imposed on business are regrettable, as is the inconvenience to Londoners. But future costs imposed on our economies by the climate emergency will be many orders of magnitude greater.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hard pressure drives change, but even the most committed businesses will need time to respond. We welcome the news that Extinction Rebellion is evolving a new platform, XR Business, to engage business leaders, investors and advisers. To drive things forward, the idea is to convene a meeting of XR activists and experts with business leaders and influencers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most businesses were not designed in the context of the developing climate emergency. Hence we must urgently redesign entire industries and businesses, using science-based targets. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To kick start the process, businesses should make a declaration that we face a climate emergency and organise a session at a full board meeting to consider the case for urgent action. We will encourage the senior management teams of which we are part to do likewise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thomas Bourne, CEO and co-founder, Greenheart Business Ltd </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Amy Clarke, co-founder, Tribe Impact Capital LLC </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">John Elkington co-founder and Louise Kjellerup Roper, CEO, Volans Ventures Ltd </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brad Frankel, CEO and co-founder, Flooglebinder Ltd </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jake Hayman, CEO, Ten Years’ Time </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Safia Minney, founder and Former CEO, People Tree Fair Trade group. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sir Tim Smit, founder of The Eden Project, executive chairman of Eden Regeneration Ltd </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hermione Taylor, CEO and founder, The Do Nation Enterprise Ltd </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Diana Verde Nieto, CEO and co-founder, Positive Luxury Ltd </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">2) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">"Using Extinction Rebellion for free marketing" on 23rd April 2019</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 1.5; text-align: start; text-transform: uppercase;">"</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b>- John Elkington </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">(a Business Consultant advising about sustainability) </span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">is founder and Executive of Volans Ventures Limited, </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: start;">sits on the Board for Conservation X Labs and much much more (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Elkington_(business_author)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Elkington_(business_author)</a>).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">" .. I love Extinction Rebellion .. <span style="text-align: start;">was very impressed – by XR co-founder Gail Bradbrook when she came into Volans a few weeks ago. Our missions are closely aligned – and we are looking into how we might help them build bridges, rather than blocking them, to the business world .. " (</span><a href="https://johnelkington.com/2019/04/i-love-extinction-rebellion/">https://johnelkington.com/2019/04/i-love-extinction-rebellion/</a>)<span style="text-align: start;"> - no </span></span><span style="color: #36424a;">vested interest there ??!!</span></span></div>
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<b>Seb Beloe</b> is a partner at SWEB <span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: start;">" .. </span><span style="color: #36424a; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22.5px;">a positive impact investor focused on the opportunities created by the transition to a low carbon and sustainable global economy .. " (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 22.5px;"><span style="color: #36424a; font-family: "lato" , sans-serif;">http://www.whebgroup.com/)</span></span><span style="color: #36424a; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 22.5px;"> - no vested interest there ??!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The references in Section 1.0 to pestilence and locusts - </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">intended purely as sarcasm - </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">were made long before the world was hit by the Covid19 pandemic in </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2020.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">D</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">avid Rose's 4th April 2020 Spectator exposee "Revealed, Extinction Rebellion's plan to exploit the Covid crisis" begins with</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Read’s thoughts are set out in a paper entitled ‘Some strategic scenario-scoping of the coronavirus-XR nexus.’ The paper is not meant to be widely read. ‘NB, this is a confidential document for internal XR use, NOT for publication!’ he writes at the head .. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">" (</span><a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/revealed-extinction-rebellion-s-plans-to-exploit-the-Covid-crisis"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/revealed-extinction-rebellion-s-plans-to-exploit-the-Covid-crisis</span></a><span style="color: #222222;">)</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sociologist and sustainability guru Jem Bendell (+</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">see sub-section 3.1.50) </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is another of those XR scaremongers who appears to have an inadequate understanding of the necessary sciences to pontificate on CACC (or Covid19?).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Extinction Rebellion's rabble rousing leaders have used the CACC scaremongering as an aid to achieving their anarchistic objective. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now they appear to have jumped onto what they may see as a new bandwagon, the Covid19 pandemic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">XR's opportunistic web-page "Alone Together - Regenerative resources in a time of Coronavirus" claims " .. This is a world-changing moment. As coronavirus takes hold of our day to day lives, the way we organise and support each other will change .. This calls for an evolution .. of our rebellion. ... as part of the response to coronavirus, Extinction Rebellion UK is offering AloneTogether, a Regenerative Rebellion .. We are living through an emergency response that shows us things can be done differently .. to make the necessary and urgent changes to respond to the intersecting global crises – financial, health, climate and ecological – creating a world where life can thrive.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We can be part of this emergency response, holding to our goals, demands and strategy... " (</span><a href="https://extinctionrebellion.uk/alone-together/">https://extinctionrebellion.uk/alone-together/</a>)<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All very emotive and no doubt appealing to the gullible - but a reminder of the earlier warning. It is prudent to be sceptical of ANYTHING that comes out of the XR stable (especially if it relates to the CACC issue). </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">XR's page footer on "Copyright Info" again includes the declaration that " .. We do not endorse or create any merchandise and we will pursue and prosecute anyone who does .. " (</span><a href="https://extinctionrebellion.uk/">https://extinctionrebellion.uk/</a>)<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. On the other hand its anarchy handbook "This is not a Drill" is still being merchandised - £6+ for anyone who wants to waste their money - (e.g. see </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Not-Drill-Extinction-Rebellion/dp/0141991445">https://www.amazon.co.uk/This-Not-Drill-Extinction-Rebellion/dp/0141991445</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: lime;">2014-07-15 </b><span style="background-color: lime;">Added a reference to Owen Paterso</span><span style="background-color: lime; font-family: inherit;">n's April 2013 comment " .. </span></span><span style="background-color: lime; line-height: 24px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the purpose of waterways is to get rid of water .. ”.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">As has been widely reported by the UK media the 2013/14 winter storms have had a catastrophic impact upon many occupants of the Somerset Levels. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">On 3rd February 2014 Prince Charles paid a visit to the flooded Somerset Levels and it is reported that </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Charles Hignett, chairman of the Country Landowners and Business Association's Somerset Branch, said </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">" .. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">I think the Prince of Wales was listening, he was in a listening mode. I am quite sure he understands the issues very well." (</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><a href="http://www.talktalk.co.uk/news/uk/article/charles-on-tragedy-of-flood-delay/118400/">http://www.talktalk.co.uk/news/uk/article/charles-on-tragedy-of-flood-delay/118400/</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On 7th February 2014 the visit by Lord (Chris) Smith, Chairman of the Environmental Agency (</span><a href="http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/aboutus/organisation/38747.aspx" style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/aboutus/organisation/38747.aspx</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">) enjoyed a less enthusiastic welcome (Appendix A, Note <b>4</b>). His proposal to get started doing some dredging during the coming months was greeted with derision by locals who were asking why it had taken so long to reach the conclusion that this was a solution to the problem. During his visit (following that of Lord Smith) David Cameron said it was "wrong" to stop dredging in the Levels in the 1990s, adding: "We need to get dredging again .. Everything that can be done, will be done and I'll make sure that happens. There are always lessons to learn and I'll make sure they are learned. I've said that when the water-levels are down and it's safe to dredge, to make sure that these rivers and these ditches can carry a better capacity of water .. " (</span><a href="http://news.sky.com/story/1208256/cameron-pledges-help-to-flood-hit-somerset" style="font-family: inherit;">http://news.sky.com/story/1208256/cameron-pledges-help-to-flood-hit-somerset</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Respected journalist and author Christopher Booker, who is sceptical of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change hypothesis (Appendix A, Notes <b>1</b> and <b>2</b>), started his article "Flooding chaos is down to David Cameron, not climate change" with the comment that " .. The Environment Agency's failure to dredge clogged-up rivers is causing floods .. " and went on to say that " .. There is no doubt that a central part of this problem lies in the refusal of the Government’s own Environment Agency, since it took overall responsibility for draining the Levels in 1995, to dredge the main rivers, which are so clogged up that they can no longer carry away the run-off from flooding .. ". Fingering Cameron for the flooding is fair enough but other politicians and their appointees are equally culpable.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit;">Owen Paterson came in for a lot of criticism after the winter 2013/2014 flooding on the Somerset Levels but is this justified? Let us not forget that it was he who told the South West Agricultural Conference in April 2013 that “ .. "A directive went out from EA in 2006 that low risk agricultural water courses were not to be touched. A misguided idea that this was helping wildlife. I want to make it as easy as possible for land owners to get a licence to carry out local maintenance. <b>The purpose of waterways is to get rid of water</b> .. " </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">(</span><a href="http://anewnatureblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/have-we-reached-peak-paterson/comment-page-1/" style="font-family: inherit;">http://anewnatureblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/have-we-reached-peak-paterson/comment-page-1/</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">)</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"> I suspect that a lot of farmers and homeowners affected by the flooding would agree, but not, it seems, anglers </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">or environmentalists</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Angler's Mail had this to say following Owen Paterson's wise words " .. <span style="line-height: 24px;">Dredging rivers can have a very severe impact on fish and other wildlife</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">by removing gravels, woody debris and aquatic plants that are all vital parts of fish habitat. These features provide the places for fish to lay their eggs, find their food and to escape from predators. Removing them means that fish cannot breed, feed or hide, and the populations suffer as a result... " (</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://www.anglersmail.co.uk/blogs/angling-trust-blog-sat-perils-of-dredging-rivers-exposed/">http://www.anglersmail.co.uk/blogs/angling-trust-blog-sat-perils-of-dredging-rivers-exposed/</a>). Dredging the rivers may be very sad for those fish populations but it sure is good news for the human populations who experience severe flooding when dredging is stopped.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Perhaps Prince Charles, Lord Smith, David Cameron and the rest of those who have been putting in an appearance at the Somerset Levels during February 2014 have not read the article "EU policy: deliberately flooding the Somerset Levels" (</span><a href="http://eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=84683">http://eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=84683</a>) and follow-up articles by respected political commentator Dr. Richard North (Appendix A, Notes <b>2</b> and<b> 9</b>). If not then they might benefit from giving them careful consideration.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dr. North starts his article with " .. <span style="background-color: white;">It is all very well for Chris Smith, Chairman of the Environment Agency, to prattle on about '</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">difficult choices'</span><span style="background-color: white;"> .. But the flooding crisis over which he is presiding is one which he, at the behest of the EU, has deliberately allowed to happen. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Allowing the flooding of the Levels was a matter of EU policy, introduced by a 2007 Directive and consciously adopted by the Environment Agency in 2008, which then sought to increase the frequency of flooding in the area .. ".</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Following his usual careful presentation of the facts, Dr. North concludes " .. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Thus, when the </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26016378" style="background-color: white; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;">BBC reported</span></a><span style="background-color: white;"> that the government had been "slow to act", it could not have been more wrong. Our true government, the EU, had been there years before, planning to make the disaster that has overtaken the people of that part of Somerset a routine occurrence. The flooding was not so much man-made as made by government. </span><span style="background-color: white;">By the time Owen Peterson arrived to try to </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/10610118/Unsung-heroes-gave-Owen-Paterson-his-solution-to-the-Somerset-floods-crisis.html" style="background-color: white; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;">deal with the situation</span></a><span style="background-color: white;">, he was years too late. Between the EU, the previous Labour government and the Environment Agency, the damage had already been done .. ".</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Before following up on Dr. North's findings lets take a brief look at the history of flooding in the Somerset Levels in order to put some perspective on the devastating 2013/2014 winter floods. In doing so it is </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">worthwhile remembering that the centuries-old name given to the area in question - Somerset - derives from </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">old/middle-E</span><span style="background-color: white;">nglish <span style="font-family: inherit;">words "somer " (variant of "sumor" and Danish "sommer") meaning "summer" and "</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: start;">saete" (variant of old-Norse "saeti")</span> <span style="line-height: 18px;">meaning "a</span><span style="line-height: 20px;"> seat, a residence" (</span></span></span><span style="line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://halogen.le.ac.uk/kepn/kepn_elements/">http://halogen.le.ac.uk/kepn/kepn_elements/</a>)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px;"> i.e. somewhere to live or settle<b> in the Summer!!! </b>(see also Appendix A, Note <b>12</b></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span></span>The oldest man living does not remember such great floods and so much water. Everything beyond Bridgwater is like a sea" - not a quote from 2014 but from <b>1809!!! </b>(<a href="http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/static/documents/Leisure/_CFMP_Parrett_2012.pdf">http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/static/documents/Leisure/_CFMP_Parrett_2012.pdf</a>).</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">" .. The area is prone to winter floods of fresh water and occasional salt water inundations. The worst in </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">recorded history was the Bristol Channel floods of 1607, which resulted in the drowning of an estimated 2,000 or more people, houses and villages swept away, an estimated 200 square miles (518 km2) of</span> farmland inundated, and livestock killed. Another severe flood occurred in 1872–1873, when over 107 square miles (277 km2) were underwater from October to <span style="font-family: inherit;">March. .. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">the Somerset Levels have a temperate climate, which is generally wetter and milder than the rest of the country .. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">November to March have the highest mean wind speeds .. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">The Moors and Levels, formed from a submerged and reclaimed landscape .. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">In the Middle Ages, the monasteries ..</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;"> were responsible for much of the drainage. In 1129, the Abbot of Glastonbury was recorded as inspecting enclosed land at </span>Lympsham<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">. Efforts to control flooding on the </span>Parrett<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;"> were recorded around the same date.</span><span style="background-color: white;">"</span>(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_Levels">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset_Levels</a>).</span></div>
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The June 2012 summary report on the "Parrett Catchment Flood Management Plan" (PCFMP) by the Environmental Agency's South West Regional Director Richard Cresswell acknowledged the long history of flooding in the area and said " .. The most recent significant flood in the Parrett catchment was the autumn/winter flooding of 2000, the worst since October 1960. Flood defences built in Taunton and elsewhere since 1960 have reduced the risk of flooding. Despite these works approximately 350 properties were flooded in the River Parrett catchment and extensive flooding of the Somerset Levels and Moors occurred .. "</div>
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At the beginning of February 2014 it was widely reported in the media that Ian Liddell-Grainger, Conservative MP for Bridgwater in Somerset, had complained about the Environment Agency's failure to dredge the River Parrett, saying " .. They (the Environment Agency) need to dredge these rivers, stop spending money – £31 million – on bird sanctuaries and spend £5 million, that’s all we want, to sort this out .. " (e.g. see <a href="http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Westcountry-MP-demands-money-dredging/story-20543527-detail/story.html">http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Westcountry-MP-demands-money-dredging/story-20543527-detail/story.html</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.571428298950195px;">Mr. Liddell-Grainger confirmed that he had called Lord Smith “ .. a coward and a little git .. ”, going on to say “ .. I’m furious. He spent £31 million at the mouth of this river on a bird sanctuary yet he won’t get us £5 million to dredge this very river to give us 40% more capacity so that we can alleviate some of the flooding .. ”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.571428298950195px;">The river in question is the Parrett and in March 2008 the Environment Agency issued its “Parrett Catchment Flood Management Plan Consultation Draft (v5)”. That document does make mention of both dredging and birds, the first mention of dredging being not about protecting the area from flooding but as a “ .. Potentially destabilising phenomena (PDP) .. ” (<a href="http://www.tauntondeane.gov.uk/irj/go/km/docs/CouncilDocuments/TDBC/Documents/Forward%20Planning/Evidence%20Base/Parret%20Catchment%20Flood%20Management%20Plan.pdf">http://www.tauntondeane.gov.uk/irj/go/km/docs/CouncilDocuments/TDBC/Documents/Forward%20Planning/Evidence%20Base/Parret%20Catchment%20Flood%20Management%20Plan.pdf</a>, Section 2.4.2 Sediment system). The body of that document (i.e. excluding the Appendices) talks about dredging only three more times and then only in passing. On the other hand the document has more than enough to say about birds, such as:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The </span>PCFMP was signed off by the South West Regional Director on the 24 December 2008 and was agreed by the Wessex Regional Flood Defence Committee on 7 July 2008<br />
(<a href="http://a0768b4a8a31e106d8b0-50dc802554eb38a24458b98ff72d550b.r19.cf3.rackcdn.com/gesw1209brnj-e-e.pdf">http://a0768b4a8a31e106d8b0-50dc802554eb38a24458b98ff72d550b.r19.cf3.rackcdn.com/gesw1209brnj-e-e.pdf</a>). The South West Regional Director is one Dr. Richard Cresswell (<a href="http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/research/planning/40235.aspx">http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/research/planning/40235.aspx</a>) a <b>zoologist</b> who has had more than enough to say about climate change and our use of fossil fuels:<br />
- Aug. 2008 “The impacts of global climate change .. are at the forefront of everybody’s agenda. It is time for the Convergence Programmes to play, and be seen to play, a key role in helping stimulate a lower carbon economy .. ”<br />
(<a href="http://www.convergencecornwall.com/downloads/newsletters/11.pdf">http://www.convergencecornwall.com/downloads/newsletters/11.pdf</a>),<br />
- Dec. 2009 “ .. Using water more efficiently makes a significant contribution to meeting national targets for reduced carbon emissions and will ensure there is adequate water for our valued and diverse wildlife .. South West regional actions will enable .. The water environment to be restored, protected and improved so that habitats and species can better adapt to climate change .. Sustainable, low carbon solutions to be adopted .. Ensure water supply and demand is resilient to the effects of climate change .. Reduce carbon emissions associated with the supply of water .. Water use in the home accounts for about six per cent of UK carbon emissions .. If each person in the South West reduced their water use by 20 litres a day we could save 264,442 tonnes of carbon every year .. ”<br />
(<a href="http://a0768b4a8a31e106d8b0-50dc802554eb38a24458b98ff72d550b.r19.cf3.rackcdn.com/geho1209brlb-e-e.pdf">http://a0768b4a8a31e106d8b0-50dc802554eb38a24458b98ff72d550b.r19.cf3.rackcdn.com/geho1209brlb-e-e.pdf</a>).<br />
- March 2010 “ .. The region aims to be a world leader in the transition to a low carbon economy. The Government has recognised the region as the UK’s first low carbon economy zone, putting it at the forefront of the new green industrial revolution. .. ”<br />
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At the height of CACC hysteria in 2007 Dr. Cresswell was included as one of<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> " .. <span style="line-height: 18.025222778320313px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 1;">a panel of experts on Climate Change</span><strong style="line-height: 18.025222778320313px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; z-index: 1;"> .. </strong>" </span>!!! (“Climate Change - It's no joke!” - <a href="http://www.swcouncils.gov.uk/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=2710">http://www.swcouncils.gov.uk/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=2710</a>).<br />
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(<a href="http://www.persona.uk.com/ashton/Core_docs/New/C43.pdf">http://www.persona.uk.com/ashton/Core_docs/New/C43.pdf</a>) Dr. Cresswell said “ .. A major part of our flood defence strategy is .. to find compensatory habitat or be able to convince Government of the fact that we can find compensatory habitat, so that we comply with the Habitats Directive .. ” !!!<br />
(<a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmenergy/c879-iii/c87901.htm">http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmselect/cmenergy/c879-iii/c87901.htm</a>).<br />
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Zoologist Dr. Cresswell “ .. has previously held posts in Thames, Yorkshire and Welsh Water authorities and the National Rivers Authority .. is a Trustee of Sustainability South West, chair of Future Foundations, promoting sustainable construction in the south west, and chair of the South West Climate Change Partnership .. ”.<br />
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Getting back to the stormy weather event of Winter 2013/14, political maneuvering and the blame-game intensified.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">On 5th February the Independent posted an article “David Cameron overrules Environment Secretary Owen Paterson to order urgent dredging in Somerset to combat the flooding” and quoted David Cameron saying that “ .. From the late 1990s – far too long – the Environment Agency believed that it was wrong to dredge. Those of us with rural constituencies affected by flooding have seen the effectiveness of some dredging .. ” (<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/david-cameron-overrules-environment-secretary-owen-paterson-to-order-urgent-dredging-in-somerset-to-combat-the-flooding-9110120.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/david-cameron-overrules-environment-secretary-owen-paterson-to-order-urgent-dredging-in-somerset-to-combat-the-flooding-9110120.html</a>). Why this too-late reaction to the inevitable? Why did he wait for 14 years, during the last 4 of which he held the top political post, before pointing this out and doing something to reduce the impact of such well-known weather events?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was reported that on the same day Labour leader Ed Miliband had said “ .. I think the government has been slack in its planning and slow to help the people affected. The priority is now to get all of the help possible to those who have been affected by the flooding and the storms .. ” (</span><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/environment-agency-chairman-lord-smith-blasted-for-saying-britain-must-choose-between-protecting-town-and-country-from-floods-9113015.html" style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/environment-agency-chairman-lord-smith-blasted-for-saying-britain-must-choose-between-protecting-town-and-country-from-floods-9113015.html</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On 9th February the media reported on the outburst of Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and his comment “ .. We made a mistake, there's no doubt about that and we perhaps relied too much on the Environment Agency's advice .. I am really sorry that we took the advice … we thought we were dealing with experts .. " (<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/09/eric-pickles-apologises-floods-environment-agency-somerset">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/09/eric-pickles-apologises-floods-environment-agency-somerset</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On 10th February Miliband said “ .. "It is a disgrace that you have got government ministers pointing the finger of blame at each other when they should be rolling their sleeves up and helping those affected .. The prime minister has got to get a grip on the government's response to flooding .. " (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26116670">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26116670</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That is a bit rich, coming from someone who was a Cabinet minister from 2007 to 2010 during which he had every opportunity to speak out against those damaging EU-inspired “Flood Plans” discussed by Dr. North but apparently said not a word. It should be remembered that both the </span>EA's "Flooding in England: A National Assessment of Flood Risk" (<a href="http://a0768b4a8a31e106d8b0-50dc802554eb38a24458b98ff72d550b.r19.cf3.rackcdn.com/geho0609bqds-e-e.pdf">http://a0768b4a8a31e106d8b0-50dc802554eb38a24458b98ff72d550b.r19.cf3.rackcdn.com/geho0609bqds-e-e.pdf</a>) and the<span style="font-family: inherit;"> “Parrett Catchment Flood Management Plan” were implemented when Miliband was head of the Department of Energy and Climate Change</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On 3rd February 2014 Paul H</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 1.1em;">omewood, who runs the blog "Not a Lot of People Know That", posted a short artic<span style="font-family: inherit;">le "</span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cameron’s Claims Not Supported By DECC" (</span><a href="http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/02/03/camerons-claims-not-supported-by-decc/" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit;">http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/02/03/camerons-claims-not-supported-by-decc/</a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit;">). </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">This started with QUOTE: .. <span style="line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">Remember when David Cameron was asked in Parliament last month about recent bad weather, he replied </span><span style="line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">“</span><span style="line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">I agree with you that we are seeing more abnormal weather events. Colleagues across the House can argue about whether that is linked to climate change or not. I very much suspect that it is</span><span style="line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">.”.</span></span></div>
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Paul wen<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px;">t on to give an interesting account of his Freedom of Information (FOI ) request submitted to DECC and awaits a response from the Cabinet Office, concluding " .. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px;">As Cameron’s statement was made in Parliament, if he has made a statement that is not true he will have to retract it. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px;">Watch this space! .</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px;">. ".</span></div>
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- 5th February<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> 2014 "</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1929/30 Was Wetter In Southern England" (</span></span><span style="line-height: 17.600000381469727px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/192930-was-wetter-in-southern-england/">http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/192930-was-wetter-in-southern-england/</a>),</span></div>
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- 4th February 2014 article "£31 Million For The Birds"<br />
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- 4th February 2014 "It’s Been Wet For The Last Few Months In England – But It’s No Record"(<a href="http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/its-been-wet-for-the-last-few-months-in-england-but-it/">http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/its-been-wet-for-the-last-few-months-in-england-but-it/</a>),</div>
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- 6th January 2014 "Is England’s Bad Weather A Sign Of Climate Change?"<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The article "Extreme weather, now and then" (<a href="http://ccgi.newbery1.plus.com/blog/?p=700">http://ccgi.newbery1.plus.com/blog/?p=700</a>) by Tony Newbury (Appendix A, Note <b>5</b>) provides an interesting piece of anecdotal evidence of similar stormy weather in 1927 .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">UKIP leader Nigel Farage (Appendix A, Note <b>10</b>) was quoted as saying " .. <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.571428298950195px; text-align: left;">"The public inquiry I call for is to look overall at this country at how we manage rivers and to what extent we are doing it ourselves and how we are following EU laws .. ".</span></span><br />
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As is to be expected from the CACC scare-mongers, attempts are made to blame this weather event on climate change arising from our use of fossil fuels, an argument in support of which there is no convincing scientific evidence. On 9th February 2014 the UK Met. Office’s Chief Scientist Dame Julia Slingo (Appendix A, Note 7) said “ .. If we look at the broader base of evidence then we see things that support the premise that climate change has been making a contribution .. In a nutshell, while there is no definitive answer for the current weather patterns that we have seen, all the evidence suggests that climate change has a role to play in it .. ” (<a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-weather-climate-change-blamed-3127273">http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-weather-climate-change-blamed-3127273</a>).</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Although Dame Slingo made no direct reference to our burgeoning use of fossil duels making a contribution to global warming and climate change that is apparently the message that she was trying to promote, as presented in her “Ask the expert — Prof Julia Slingo” (</span><a href="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/q/e/julia-slingo.pdf" style="text-align: justify;">http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/media/pdf/q/e/julia-slingo.pdf</a><span style="text-align: justify;">). The “Is climate change caused by human activity?” section of the Met. Office web-site says “ .. It's true that there's a natural carbon cycle. This involves CO2 getting into the atmosphere from a variety of sources including volcanoes and animals breathing, it is then absorbed by trees, plants, rocks and the oceans. This cycle has been delicately balanced for thousands of years, but human influence has offset that balance to send the levels of CO2 rising .. ” (</span><a href="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-guide/climate-change/why/causes" style="text-align: justify;">http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-guide/climate-change/why/causes</a><span style="text-align: justify;">).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It is prudent to be suspicious of anyone who tries to blame </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;">our use of fossil fuels for </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">storms such as those experienced in the UK during </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;">the Winter 2013/14</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">. Look out for the hidden agenda. There is no convincing evidence that humans have any significant impact on weather events or the different global climates. The UN's claims about Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change (CACC) is a scam used to promote Agenda 21 - see "Rio+20 Fiasco - but Beware the Club of Rome and Agenda 21" (</span><a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/rio20-fiasco-but-beware-agenda-21.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/rio20-fiasco-but-beware-agenda-21.html</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">).</span><br />
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<b>1)</b> In 2009 Chistopher Booker authored an excellent book "The Real Global Warming Disaster - is the obsession with 'climate change' turning out to be the most costly scientific blunder in history" (<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7058406-the-real-global-warming-disaster">http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7058406-the-real-global-warming-disaster</a>). </div>
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<b>2)</b> In 2007 Dr Richard North and Christopher Booker co-authored "Scared to Death - From BSE to Global Warming: Why scares are costing us the Earth" (<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scared-Death-Global-Warming-Costing/dp/0826476201">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scared-Death-Global-Warming-Costing/dp/0826476201</a>).</div>
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Short profiles for each of these authors can be found at<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Richard-North/e/B001HPNQ4Y/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Richard-North/e/B001HPNQ4Y/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1</a>.<br />
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<b>3) </b>David Cameron's comments were reported widely in the media (e.g. see<br />
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<b>4)</b> I<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">n his 4th February 2014 article "</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">£31 Million For The Birds" </span>blogger Paul Homewood commen<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">ted QUOTE: .. <span style="line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-left;">One of the major criticisms of the Environment Agency has been its failure to properly dredge the rivers that drain the Somerset Levels. EA Chairman, </span><span style="line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Chris Smith</span><span style="line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-left;"> claims that this is due to a lack of funding, yet, as local MP </span><span style="line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Ian Liddell-Grainger</span><span style="line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-left;">, MP for Bridgwater in Somerset, says: </span><span style="line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-left;">“We’re just sick to death of it [flooding]. They [the Environment Agency] need to dredge these rivers, stop spending money — £31 million — on bird sanctuaries and spend £5 million, that’s all we want, to sort this out.” .. UNQUOTE </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">(</span><a href="http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/31-million-for-the-birds/">http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/31-million-for-the-birds/</a>).</div>
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Paul ends with some interesting information about " .. Chris Smith, who has ten other jobs that he has to fit into his busy schedule .. ". That same issue is discussed in the article "UK flooding: Environment Agency boss Lord Smith engulfed in crisis over his 11 jobs" (<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/10612383/UK-flooding-Environment-Agency-boss-Lord-Smith-engulfed-in-crisis-over-his-11-jobs.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/10612383/UK-flooding-Environment-Agency-boss-Lord-Smith-engulfed-in-crisis-over-his-11-jobs.html</a>).</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Paul’s 8th February 2014 article “Dawlish Railway – Then & Now” compares the related 2014 storm damage to the Dawlish railway line with a similar weather event nearly </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">160 years ago in 1855!!!</b></div>
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<b>5)</b> T<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px;">ony Newbury </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px;">worked with Andrew Montford to expose the BBC's CACC propaganda machine - </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px;">see:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">(See also the article "</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">New Report: The BBC and Cimate Change: A Triple Betrayal</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.263em; text-align: start; text-transform: uppercase;">"</span></span> by Christopher Booker - <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.thegwpf.org/new-report-the-bbc-and-climate-change-a-triple-betrayal/" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.thegwpf.org/new-report-the-bbc-and-climate-change-a-triple-betrayal/</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><b>6)</b> Garth Paltridge is an emeritus professor at the University of Tasmania, fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and was a chief research scientist with the CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research </span><span style="background-color: white;">(</span><a href="http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2014/01-02/fundamental-uncertainties-climate-change/">http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2014/01-02/fundamental-uncertainties-climate-change/</a><span style="background-color: white;">)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>7)</b> " .. Dame </span><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">Julia Mary Slingo</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;"> </span>DBE<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">(née Walker; born 13 December 1950) is a British</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;"> </span>meteorologist<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">. She has been the Chief Scientist at the</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;"> </span>Met Office<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">since 2009. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">Slingo obtained her BSc in 1973 and her PhD in 1989, both from the</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">University of Bristol</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">Before joining the Met Office she was the Director of Climate Research in NERC's National Centre for Atmospheric Science, at the University of Reading, where she is still a Professor of </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; text-align: start;">Meteorology. In 2006 she founded the Walker Institute for Climate System Research at Reading, aimed at addressing the cross disciplinary challenges of climate change and its impacts .. " (</span><span style="line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Slingo">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Slingo</a>).</span></span></div>
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<b>8) </b>On 9th February 2014 the Mail on Sunday posted an article “Agency for flooding that puts greater water parsnips and voles before local people” by David Rose in which he focuses on the 2008 consultation document covering the Parrett flood management plan. This article made similar points about humans being relegated below the status of not only birds but also “ .. water voles, greater water parsnips, silver diving beetles and large marsh grasshoppers .. Among the species it listed as expected to thrive were the voles, parsnips (a type of flower) and insects, as well as various birds .. ”<br />
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“ .. Barbara Scott Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone .. was the chief executive of the Environment Agency (2000 – May 2008), an appointment which led to her becoming a non-affiliated member in the House of Lords; previously she had taken the Labour Party whip. Other posts she has held include chair of English Nature; vice chairman of the BBC; board member of AWG plc; Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and of a number of local health authorities .. ”</div>
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“ .. She is also President of the British Trust for Ornithology; President of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Peterborough Wildlife Trust; Chancellor of Cranfield University; and a member of the Climate Change Adaptation Committee. This reflects her keen interest in the environment, particularly in birds and other wildlife .. ”</div>
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That's just the kind of person you would need to head up the Environment Agency during a period when it is concentrating on protecting birds rather than humans, i.e. "<b>Environment First</b>"!! (see Appendix C - The EA and CFMPs).<br />
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<b>9)</b> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">There is an inseparable link between flood management plans and “water level management plans” and contents of the “Bridgwater and Pawlett Water Level Management Plan” (</span><a href="http://www.somersetdrainageboards.gov.uk/media/BW-Pawlett-WLMP-Parr-Approved-Nov-09.pdf" style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.somersetdrainageboards.gov.uk/media/BW-Pawlett-WLMP-Parr-Approved-Nov-09.pdf</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">) drawn up by Parrett Internal Drainage Board and approved in June 2009 are noteworthy. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">“ .. Water Level Management Plans (WLMPs) are required for all areas which have a <b>conservation interest</b> and where the control of water is important for the <b>maintenance or rehabilitation of that interest</b>. <b>Priority is given</b> to WLMPs <b>for Sites of Special Scientific Interest</b> (SSSIs), particularly those of international importance (e.g. <b>Special Protection Areas, Ramsar Wetlands</b> of international importance) .. The Government has established a Public Service Agreement (PSA) target to ensure that 95% of all SSSIs are in a favourable condition (or in an unfavourable but recovering condition) by December 2010 .. ”</span></div>
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<b>10)</b> Several disenchanted key figures in the UKIP organisation are reported as having made some interesting comments about it (search on <a href="http://juniusonukip.blogspot.co.uk/">http://juniusonukip.blogspot.co.uk/</a>):</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">- 2004 UKIP founder ALAN SKED " .. I w</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: white;">as proud to found the UK Independence Party and I still avidly support the cause. However, since I quit the party in 1997, I have been disturbed by developments inside it and disagree on principle with its obsession with gaining seats in next month's elections in the European Parliament ,, ",</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="position: relative;"><span style="background-color: white;">- 2004? one-time UKIP Chief Researcher Richard North </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">" .. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px; text-align: -webkit-left;">It is, in effect, a one-man party …. the Farage Party .. </span><span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px; text-align: -webkit-left;">he has failed to develop with the party and now is the central reason why UKIP itself has failed to develop .. ",</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">A decade later and UKIP, under Nigel Farage's watch, is pushing Conservatives and Lib-Dems into 3rd and 4th place in UK bi-elections, e.g:</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">- <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10637931/Wythenshawe-by-election-Cameron-promises-to-listen-to-Ukip.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10637931/Wythenshawe-by-election-Cameron-promises-to-listen-to-Ukip.html</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>11)</b> </span>Perhaps the Met. Office wasn't aware of the catastrophe that hit the River Severn Estuary area in 1607. This could not be blamed on our use of fossil fuels so various causes have been<span style="background-color: white;"> <span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: start;">blamed " .. God .. bad weather .. storm surge, a combination of meteorological extremes</span> <span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px; text-align: start;">and a high tide .. " and more recently a tsunami (</span></span><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Channel_floods,_1607#Possible_causes">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Channel_floods,_1607#Possible_causes</a>). </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"> </b><br />
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<b style="font-family: inherit;">12) </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">This header picture of a flooded Burrowbridge, located at the </span>confluence<span style="font-family: inherit;"> of the rivers Parrett and Tone (and the old course of the Cary) on the Somerset Levels, was taken in February 2014. The centreground shows the ruins of St. Michael's Church atop Burrow Mump (hill) rising out of the low-lying Levels. Archaeologists from English Heritage advise that " .. </span>The sides of the mound appear to have been terraced in the medieval period for cultivation, possibly because dry land was at a premium at the time .. The majority of the land in the Levels lies below the high water mark, so in constant danger of flooding .. " (<a href="http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/aggregate-landscape-of-somerset-levels/Somerset_ALSF_NMP_Block2_Somerset_Levels_web.pdf">http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/aggregate-landscape-of-somerset-levels/Somerset_ALSF_NMP_Block2_Somerset_Levels_web.pdf</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The source of the header picture (and others) of the February 2014 flooding around </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; line-height: 28px;">Burrowbridge, Somerset, </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">is</span><b style="font-family: inherit;"> </b><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/27-staggering-new-pictures-of-the-somerset-levels-floods" style="text-align: center;">http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/27-staggering-new-pictures-of-the-somerset-levels-floods</a><span style="text-align: center;">). </span></div>
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<b>13)</b> <span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="background-color: white;">SpotlightON - Flood Hype and Vested Interest" (</span><a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/spotlighton-flood-hype-and-vested.html">http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/spotlighton-flood-hype-and-vested.html</a>)<span style="background-color: white;"> is a</span> related article on floods, risk and motivation, based upon an article by flood expert Professor <span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell.</span></span></div>
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The Environment Agency says in its 2012 "Catchment Flood Management Plans" annual report that " .. We protect and improve the environment and make it a better place for people and wildlife .. We reduce the risks to people and properties from flooding; make sure there is enough water for people and wildlife .. Acting to reduce climate change and helping people and wildlife adapt to its consequences are at the heart of all that we do .. "</div>
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Pete Ridleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08258973141061114628noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336588801040320412.post-86987950375397157622014-02-02T06:31:00.000-08:002015-04-24T03:42:14.531-07:00The Prince of Wales and his "Headless Chickens"<div style="text-align: justify;">
It has been widely reported that on 30th January 2014 t<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">he Prince of Wales branded climate change deniers the "headless chicken brigade" (e.g. see </span></span></span><span style="line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/31/prince-charles-climate-change_n_4702914.html?ncid=webmail1">http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/31/prince-charles-climate-change_n_4702914.html?ncid=webmail1</a> <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2549658/Prince-Charles-hits-climate-change-deniers-labelling-headless-chicken-brigade.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2549658/Prince-Charles-hits-climate-change-deniers-labelling-headless-chicken-brigade.html</a> <a href="http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/457273/Climate-change-deniers-are-headless-chickens-says-Prince-Charles">http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/457273/Climate-change-deniers-are-headless-chickens-says-Prince-Charles</a> etc. etc. etc.).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">Prince Charles is quoted as offering the following pearls of wisdom to his audience:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">1) " .. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">It is baffling .. that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science .. "</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">2) " .. </span><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="background-color: white;">with a barrage of sheer intimidation, we are told by powerful groups of deniers that the scientists are wrong .. "</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="background-color: white;">3) " .. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">we are told ...</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 21px;"><span style="background-color: white;"> we must abandon all our faith in so much overwhelming scientific </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">evidenc</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">e .. "</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px; text-align: left;">4) " .. </span><span style="line-height: 21px;">we have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction .. </span><span style="line-height: 21px;">".</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">5) " .. </span><span style="text-align: left;">So, thank goodness for our young entrepreneurs here, who have the far-sightedness and confidence in what they know is happening to ignore the headless chicken brigade .. ".</span></span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">It appears reasonable to assume that those comments were directed at those of us who reject the claim that our burgeoning use of fossil fuels is driving the world towards a climate catastrophe. One such UK organisation that is sceptical of the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change (CACC) hypothesis the Global Warming Policy Foundation </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">(</span><a href="http://www.thegwpf.org/who-we-are/" style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.thegwpf.org/who-we-are/</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">).</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">It is reported that </span>when responding to Prince Charles's comments the <span style="font-family: inherit;">GWPF co-founder </span>Benny Peiser said<span style="font-family: inherit;"> "This is not unusual or surprising as he has made these claims many times over the years. But the irony is that in doing so he, Charles, is the mirror image of the very climate change deniers he attacks".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Prince Charles is also reported to have said " .. </span><span style="line-height: 21px;">I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above the parapet and generally getting it shot off for pointing out what has always been blindingly obvious to me .. ". </span><span style="line-height: 21px;">Unfortunately, much of what has in the past been blindingly obvious to non-scientists has been proven by proper scientific investigation to be totally wrong. </span><span style="line-height: 21px;">As with many of his " .. head above the parapet .. " pronouncements, several of those points about the CACC hypothesis that Prince Charles makes fail to stand up to close scrutiny, e.g:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">- 2) Do those who reject the </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">CACC propaganda indulge in </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">a barrage of sheer intimidation"</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">? - NO!! </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">Those many respected scientists who challenge the </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">CACC hypothesis use the scientific method in order to support their arguments.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">- 3) Is there </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">overwhelming scientific evidenc</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">e"</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"> that the CACC hypothesis is valid? - NO!! The assessment reports of the UN's IPCC Working Group 1 make it clear that there is significant uncertainty about the science. The Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) upon which the CACC supporters heavily rely does not properly reflect this uncertainty and speculation by non-scientists about the causes of changes in global climates is rife. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">- 4) Most of us more elderly UK citizens who come from a far less-privileged background and really understand what poverty is would argue that we have not "</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction" Rather, we </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">much prefer the comfortable lifestyles that we enjoy today than the deprivation we experienced in the early part of the 20th Century, something that the privileged classes from that era might find hard to understand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px;">It is hard to disagree with the comment by Peter Mackay in his MailOnline article </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">in which he said " .. </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Charles's other public intervention — characterising those who don't accept global warming theories as 'headless chickens' — was curious. </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;">If anyone's behaving like headless </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">chickens right now, surely it's the environmental experts who claim every freak storm is a symptom of global </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">warming .. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="text-align: left;">hasn't the behaviour of Charles occasionally been reminiscent of a chicken recently parted from its head? </span><span style="text-align: left;">If we were asked to say which members of the Royal Family most resembled, in extremis, a headless chicken, surely he would be the outright winner </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">.. " </span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">(</span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2546500/PETER-MCKAY-Brit-stars-escape-curse-Bieber.html" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">http://</a></span><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2546500/PETER-MCKAY-Brit-stars-escape-curse-Bieber.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2546500/PETER-MCKAY-Brit-stars-escape-curse-Bieber.html</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Almost 5 years ago the Daily Telegraph reported another royal pearl of wisdom QUOTE .. </span><span style="line-height: 20.719999313354492px; text-align: start;">Prince Charles told 200 business leaders in Rio de Janeiro that the world has “less than 100 months” to save the planet .. UNQUOTE (</span><span style="line-height: 20.719999313354492px;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/4980347/Global-warming-has-reached-a-defining-moment-Prince-Charles-warns.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/4980347/Global-warming-has-reached-a-defining-moment-Prince-Charles-warns.html</a>)</span><span style="line-height: 20.719999313354492px; text-align: start;">. With only 42 months left to go the planet continues to thrive despite all of the scaremongering about its future.</span></span></div>
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In order to improve his understanding of the processes and drivers of the different global climates perhaps Prince Charles would be helped by having a careful read of the booklet "Global Warming: The Human Co<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">ntribution" by Dr. Jack Barrett (</span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Global-Warming-The-Human-Contribution-ebook/dp/B0083IOWPU" style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Global-Warming-The-Human-Contribution-ebook/dp/B0083IOWPU</a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">). It's an ideal introduction to the subject for those with a limited understanding of the science. For those who wish to develop their understanding, the science is discussed in detail on the web-site "Barrett Bellamy Climate" that Dr. Barrett hosts along with CACC sceptic Dr. David Belamy (</span><span style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.barrettbellamyclimate.com/index.htm">http://www.barrettbellamyclimate.com/index.htm</a>)</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;">.</span></div>
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On the other hand, perhaps Prince Charles has no desire to improve his scientific understanding. In "A Royal View On Sustainable Development" following the BBC's Reith Lectures 2000 Prince Charles is reported to have said " .. there is a sacred trust between mankind and our Creator, under which we accept a duty of stewardship for the earth .. It is only recently that this guiding principle has become smothered by almost impenetrable layers of scientific rationalism .. " (<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/reith_2000/text6.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/reith_2000/text6.stm</a>). That appears to suggest an aversion to the application of scientific rationalism and a preference for blind faith.</div>
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It appears that Prince Charles's father the Duke of Edinburgh may have a more open mind on the subject. One year ago the Daily Telegraph reported that the "Duke of Edinburgh invites climate change heretic David Bellamy to Buckingham Palace" (<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/9844243/Duke-of-Edinburgh-invites-climate-change-heretic-David-Bellamy-to-Buckingham-Palace.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/9844243/Duke-of-Edinburgh-invites-climate-change-heretic-David-Bellamy-to-Buckingham-Palace.html</a>). Maybe Prince Charles declined to attend that presentation.</div>
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It turns out that Prince Charles is the David Suzuki of British royalty, a purveyor of tired anti-modernity slogans lamenting the disenchantment of the world, individualism, consumerism, our obsession with technology and profit, and our inevitable alienation from nature. In order to recover from this alienation and restore our lost authentic wholeness, we need to learn “the grammar of harmony,” restore our lost “balance,” and achieve “organic order,” by inventing technologies that “work with the grain of Nature rather than against it.”</div>
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What any of this means exactly, by way of policies, institutions or technologies, Prince Charles does not say (perhaps on the grounds that this would be seen as an intervention into “politics”.) At any rate, I suppose it is not surprising that a man whose entire reason for living is based on a romantic attachment to the past is suspicious of modernity. Charles does concede that while there may have been some worthwhile advances in the preceding centuries (steam trains perhaps, or maybe the Restoration) the twentieth century, as he sees it, has been an unmitigated disaster .. </div>
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Fair points perhaps but not all of the commenters agreed, however, this comment aligns with my own opinion " .. I understand nostalgia for the past, but Prince Charles and his ilk have made a fetish of it, and it is one of the c<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">urses of England that they have allowed these attitudes to burden them .. " </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">(</span><a href="http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/02/canadians-dont-know-much-about-prince-charles-lucky-for-him/#comment-198552082" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/02/canadians-dont-know-much-about-prince-charles-lucky-for-him/#comment-198552082</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">).</span></div>
Pete Ridleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08258973141061114628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336588801040320412.post-65943765666458269262013-12-13T09:35:00.001-08:002015-04-24T03:40:31.515-07:00Let's get fracking <div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">There have been encouraging developments since this article was posted following the response from the UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to a suggestion </span>“ .. Let's get fracking here in the UK .. ”<span style="font-family: inherit;"> sent to politicians and copied to other interested parties, including members of Repeal the Act (</span><a href="http://www.repealtheact.org.uk/about" style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.repealtheact.org.uk/about</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">) and the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP).</span><br />
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... UNQUOTE (<a href="http://www.thegwpf.org/britain-wins-shale-battle-eu-leaves-fracking-stricter-environment-laws/">http://www.thegwpf.org/britain-wins-shale-battle-eu-leaves-fracking-stricter-environment-laws/</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In an E-mail of 12th Dec. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">a DECC c</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">orrespondence officer </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">had commented QUOTE: ..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Shale gas is still at a very early stage here in the UK. However, we need to move forward to enable the necessary exploration and prove the potential, while ensuring that the activity is safe and the environment is properly protected. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Government believe it is important that we do not hold back unnecessarily – we need to build momentum. That is why the Government have set up the Office for Unconventional Gas and Oil, who are taking forward work on a new onshore licensing round, and the Chancellor has announced fiscal measures to incentivise shale gas development in the UK. The new tax allowance being consulted upon by Treasury would reduce the tax on a portion of a company’s production income from 62% to 30% at current rates. This proposal recognises the high upfront costs associated with shale gas projects and means that greater support would be offered to the industry in its early stages when costs are likely to be higher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The UK has a long history of onshore oil and gas exploitation, and has developed a robust regulatory system to ensure that all such operations will be carried out to high standards of safety and environmental protection. All onshore oil and gas projects, including shale gas, are subject to scrutiny through the planning system, which addresses impacts on local residents such as traffic movements, noise, working hours, etc. They will subsequently be scrutinised by the relevant environmental agency [in England, the Environment Agency, in Wales Natural Resources Wales (NRW) in Scotland (SEPA)] and by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Consent from DECC is also required before drilling or production activities can commence. We have also put in place appropriate control measures to address seismic risks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Government and its regulatory agencies are studying the experience already gained with shale gas exploration and production in the US, so that we can learn from their experience and improve our system where possible. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Government understand concerns about potential risks to water supplies. The Environment Agency will scrutinise all proposals to ensure that water supplies are properly protected. They have powers to impose conditions to ensure proper protection or to prohibit activities which they consider to pose unacceptable risks. Their permission is also required for any water abstraction, and this will only be given where the proposed quantities are sustainable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There have also been concerns about non-disclosure of chemicals used in fracturing fluids. The agencies have powers to require full disclosure of chemicals used in fracking in England and Wales. All chemicals an operator proposes to use will be assessed, and will be not permitted if they are considered to be harmful in the relevant circumstances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Last year, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society conducted an independent review of the scientific and engineering evidence on the risks associated with hydraulic fracturing for shale gas. They concluded that the risks can be managed effectively in the UK, provided that operational best practices are implemented and enforced through regulation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the UK, only one shale gas well has so far been fracked. Fracking operations at this well in 2011 resulted in two small seismic tremors. Further fracking for shale gas was halted pending a detailed investigation, but DECC announced last December that, subject to new control measures to mitigate the risk of seismic tremors, fracking for shale gas would again be permitted, subject to case by case scrutiny and all other regulatory controls as outlined above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Government think it would be irresponsible not to explore the economic opportunities which shale gas can potentially offer the UK, and they are keen to build momentum. The Office of Unconventional Gas and Oil (OUGO) will join up responsibilities across Government, provide a single point of contact for investors, and ensure a simplified and streamlined regulatory process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Government strongly believe that communities hosting shale gas developments should see concrete benefits as a result. They welcome the industries commitment to early engagement. The details of the community benefit arrangements for any particular project will be designed in conjunction with local residents. The community benefits package will include:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At exploration stage, £100,000 in community benefits will be provided per well-site where fracking takes place</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Operators will publish evidence each year of how these commitments have been met.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This Charter and offer to communities will be regularly reviewed as the industry develops, and operators consult further with communities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you have access to the internet and are interested in further information about unconventional oil and gas drilling, you might be interested to see some Q and A material available on the Government website here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Sent: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:35</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Subject: Re: Graham Stringer MP speaking at our recent Repeal the Act! meeting (TO2013/23052)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dear Mr Ridley ... SEE MAIN ARTICLE FOR E-MAIL CONTENT</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Sent: 24 November 2013 19:27</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>To: Philip Foster...; Stella Creasy...; Neil Clegg...; Peter Gill...; Peter Lilley...; Graham Stringer...; press@ukip...; Euan Mearns...; A Smyth...; James Clappison...; Private Office@no10...; Oliver Letwin...; J Barron...; ...DECC...; Kenneth Clarke...; Marl Lazarowicz...; David Davies...; William Hague...; Ed Miliband...; Owen Paterson...; Vince Cable...; Trew David ...; Helen Dyer...; ... John Beddington...; ... Ed Tilley...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Cc: Fay Kelly Tuncay...; ... Piers Corbyn...; Benny Peiser...; Carrie Spurgeon...; John Spurgeon...; ... Angela Kelly...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Subject: Re: Graham Stringer MP speaking at our recent Repeal the Act! meeting</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Fay's E-mail included a link to the transcript of The House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs Inquiry on THE ECONOMIC IMPACT ON UK ENERGY POLICY OF SHALE GAS AND OIL of 19th Nov (<a href="http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-committees/economic-affairs/EnergyPolicy/uc%20Transcripts/ucEAC20131119Ev9.pdf">http://www.parliament.uk/documents/lords-committees/economic-affairs/EnergyPolicy/uc%20Transcripts/ucEAC20131119Ev9.pdf</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Evidence from Professor Dieter Helm included " .. the impact of US shale gas on world gas prices is, and is likely to remain, very limited .. that does not mean that there are not significant effects .. shale gas has displaced a significant amount of coal in the US, which is now in export markets. Coal prices are and have been falling quite sharply for some time .. US coal exports have added to that. The immediate price impact is to drive down the price .. coal burn has expanded very substantially in Europe and since the coal burn has gone up a lot in Britain .. ".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nigel Lawson put important points to Professor Helm, including " .. On the one hand you say that there are the rent-seeking groups and so on with a vested interest in preventing it. On the other hand, you have the drilling companies that might well say that there is nothing to worry about, but people will say, “Well, they would, wouldn’t they”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lord Shipley was asking whether there was not a case for the Environment Agency or the Government in some shape or form setting out objectively the state of play. What do think the position is? .. ".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Maybe involving the Environmental Agency would be detrimental, if a past employee of that august body is to be believed. Henry (who runs the blog "Inside the Environment Agency .. " says that he is "Exposing the internal waste of tax payer and licence payer funds, abuse of working/flexi time and annual leave by staff members, mismanagement by senior and line managers, and the victimisation and harassment of licence holders and operators" (<a href="http://www.insidetheenvironmentagency.co.uk/">http://www.insidetheenvironmentagency.co.uk/</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I hope that our politicians will heed the advice given by Professor Helm, which included " .. The reality .. is about economics. It is not about whether rocks contain shale gas; it is about whether they are accessible at reasonable cost. The answer to that .. you have to find out, and that means that you have to drill some holes. My suspicion is that we do not really know until we have done quite a lot of drilling how much is there .. get on and drill some holes and find out what is there. Then you can decide what to do about it, or not .. ".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Looking into Graham Stringer's contribution to the CACC debate took me to the web-site of the CACC-supporting organisation, the "Campaign against Climate Change" .. which includes George Monbiot, Michael Meacher, Alexis Rowell, Caroline Lucas, etc. (<a href="http://www.campaigncc.org/aboutus/whoweare">http://www.campaigncc.org/aboutus/whoweare</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Let's get fracking here in the UK - and VOTE UKIP for a sensible energy policy and freedom from the shackles of EU membership!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Sent: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 22:58</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Subject: Graham Stringer MP speaking at our recent Repeal the Act!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 20:40:45 +0000</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From: Fay Kelly Tuncay ... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To: Philip Foster ..., Ian Barton ..., Piers Corbyn..., Benny Peiser GWPF ..., Carrie Spurgeon ..., John Spurgeon ..., Angela Kelly ..., Terry Jackson ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Dear All,Graham Stringer MP speaking at our recent Repeal the Act!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Stringer: "Things won't change anytime soon... there is a lot of educating to do" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1C_K5vcXhYWell">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1C_K5vcXhYWell</a>, I think we need to keep it simple. Perhaps our next meeting should be "How to Get rid of the Green crap" - perhaps, we should invite a comedian instead of a professor of climate science!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This transcript also tells us that our energy policy is a very unfunny joke.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On 15th November 2013 that staunch supporter of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change (CACC) hypothesis, the Guardian, posted an article “Japan under fire for scaling back plans to cut greenhouse gases” (<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/nov/15/japan-scaling-back-cut-greenhouse-gases">http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/nov/15/japan-scaling-back-cut-greenhouse-gases</a>). It began with a picture of the Philippines negotiator </span>Naderev Sano <span style="font-family: inherit;">at the UN's climate change talks in Warsaw, Poland beneath which it says that he has begun a fast to protest against inaction on global warming, which he blames for Typhoon Haiyan (known locally as Typhoon Yolanda).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ed Davy agreed with Nigel Lawson about there being no evidence of climate change increasing the frequency of tropical storms but claimed evidence of increasing impact of such storms because sea levels are rising. He opined that with sea levels rising because of climate change, ice caps and glaciers melting, the real danger was that islands as in the Philippines and low-lying coastal areas are far more vulnerable to these storms than they ever used to be. He claimed that these disasters are on a scale that we’ve never seen before which is why we have to take climate change extremely seriously (however, see </span>Appendix A, Note <b>9</b>)<span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nikki King admitted that she found it all very confusing because of conflicting messages, one minute being told to save her rubbish and the next minute that it all goes into the same landfill site. One minute she is being told that if she doesn’t save the planet it’s going to die in 20 years and somebody else says no, it is just the natural life of the planet. She wishes that somebody would tell her exactly what’s going on so that she could make a decision. She mentioned being in the truck business and the motor industry being one that has done an lot to clean its act enormously and exemplified Calcutta, where the air coming out of the exhaust pipe of one of her trucks is cleaner than the air going in. She also referred to the thousands of ageing vehicles polluting the air there and questioned what Europe can do when there is so much of the rest of the world that needs to come up to speed (but see Appendix A, Note <b>10</b>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Stella Creasy invited Nigel Lawson to take up the offer made by the Philippine delegate (Appendix A, Note <b>8</b>) to the UN’s climate change conference in Warsaw (Appendix A, Note <b>1</b>), referring to his impassioned speech about there being a connection. She referred to the scientific evidence showing that there is a 95% chance that climate change is man-made and agreed on the need for public policy debate about how to deal with that kind of risk ratio. She considers that 95% is a pretty good basis to start thinking about what can be done to address climate change. She commented about our responsibilities about creating a more sustainable way of living and doesn’t want to take the risk when there is 95% independent evidence. She suggested that Nigel Lawson offers opinions as opposed to facts, ignoring the fact that climate change is happening. She recommended that those who prefer to ignore it, believing that somehow we can make it go away should go and talk to some of the people in the Philippines from whom they might hear a very different story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nigel Lawson argued that Stella Creasy was very confused, repeated that there is no connection between global warming and the hurricanes and typhoons, including this terrible one in the Philippines, a fact accepted by the IPCC and a great majority of scientists. They are saying that they are 95% certain that of the amount of global warming that there has been is largely due to carbon emissions but in fact there has been very little global warming. The fact is that there has been none at all over the past 15 years, as admitted by the UK’s Met Office (see Appendix A, Note <b>8</b>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ed Davy reacted by claiming that every decade for the last two decades it has been getting warmer. This year is going to be the 7th warmest on record. It is not just global temperatures but also temperatures in the oceans, ice caps are melting, sea levels and acidity are rising. There is overwhelming evidence that climate change is happening - don’t believe politicians, believe the scientists. He argued that the IPCC has 259 scientists from 39 countries, received 50,000 comments on its report from peer review, the most peer-reviewed piece of science in human history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ed Davey argued that </span>temperatures had not remained flat, rather <span style="font-family: inherit;">the warming had been slowing down and that longer time periods have to be considered. He also alleged that the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which Nigel Lawson chairs, is trying to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change. They use the 15 years period and say that climate change isn’t happening whereas the scientists say that over a short period of time they don’t expect temperatures to always go up. Over a longer time period temperatures are definitely going up and Nigel Lawson shouldn't choose his period.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">David Dimbleby then asked Ed Davey to explain why he says that Nigel Lawson tries to undermine scientific opinion, which suggests there is some ulterior motive. He asked what Ed Davey thought Nigel Lawson’s motive is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ed Davey deflected that question to Nigel Lawson but commented that Nigel Lawson wrote a good book about it (<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/An-Appeal-Reason-Global-Warming/dp/0715638416">http://www.amazon.co.uk/An-Appeal-Reason-Global-Warming/dp/0715638416</a>), although he disagrees with most of what’s in it. He then went on to say that Nigel Lawson denies the evidence not only from the international scientific community but also from the UK’s current and previous Chief Scientists that there is a huge issue, with scientists telling us that we’ve got to take this seriously.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Paul Kenny mentioned the Ozone scare in the 1970s with everyone moving from hair sprays, getting rid of fridges, etc. He acknowledged not having the scientific knowledge of other colleague on the panel, however he sees evidence that ocean acidity is rising, it is man-made, the polar ice caps are melting, asking what should we do about it, how do we adapt, what energy should we use and how. Many car manufacturers took the decision to move to really low car emissions, dual fuel, because they recognised that this was the way the markets were going to be. We have to force other people to do that. In some senses it is just good business to lower our carbon emissions. It is good business to take the view that there is global warming and adjust our types of energy and its use. He is still waiting for carbon capture, which has been talked about for years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">David Dimbleby asked if he was for or against adding a little to fuel bills in order to develop green and other sources of energy. Paul Kenny commented that he was more in favour of using some of the profits that the energy companies make instead of taking it out of the pockets of the consumers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Opinions were then invited from members of the audience, with one making the sensible comment that he thought they were slightly missing the point. He opined that the people of the Philippines affected by Typhoon Haiyan struggling to survive were not going to be talking about carbon tax and climate change but asking for help to build a house on proper foundations. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Another member of the audience thought that green levies, etc. are just a drop in the ocean when you compare it to other parts of Asia and China and so on where they are having massive more impact on climate change and CO2 emissions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nigel Lawson considered that the whole unworkable policy which Ed Davey is promoting is immoral. The Philippines people want is to rebuild their country, get richer because they are poor, exacerbated by being the fastest growing population in the world (Appendix A, Note <b>9</b>). He predicted that there would be no global agreement at COP{19 or in 2015. There was none in Copenhagen (COP15 in 2009). He explained his point about immorality by saying the reason why the world uses fossil fuel is that it’s far and away the cheapest form of energy and will be for the foreseeable future. Moving away from that meant moving to more expensive energy, which is causing enough problem in this country. The developing nations such as China are quite rightly not going to accept that. The increase in Chinese emissions in one year is bigger than the total emissions from the UK, so what we do is neither here nor there without this global agreement. The positive immorality is inhibiting their economic development by getting them to use expensive energy instead of cheaper energy. Hundreds of millions of people in China, India and the developing world would be condemned to premature death, unnecessary disease, unnecessary poverty and destitution. Economic growth will solve the problems in the Philippines and elsewhere and that means using the cheapest forms of energy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ed Davey countered that the developed world needs to make the biggest cut in carbon emissions and help the developing, poorer countries get a cleaner form of development than we had. China is investing more in low-carbon technology than any other country in the world. It has woken up to the problems of pollution and climate change and the appalling air pollution in places like Beijing (Appendix A, Note <b>10</b>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nigel Lawson interjected that air pollution has nothing to do with climate change, to which Ed Davey responded was not what the Chinese think. They are tackling this seriously, now talking about what they call an ecological civilisation, pushing green growth in order to try and change their whole growth model so that it doesn’t damage the air, environment and climate. China, the USA and other countries are moving fast to try to reduce the carbon emissions which is why he thinks there will be a desperately needed global deal. We need to make sure that we enable our and developing economies to grow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nikki King commented that in her industry the Chinese are working on low-emission technology to sell to the rest of the world but mentioned that this is not actually happening in the remote villages and townships in China.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nigel Lawson pointed out that the Chinese aim for electricity generation by 2020 is only 5% from wind and one half of 1% from solar. For several years they have been building about one coal-fired power station per month and are continuing with that and suggested (to loud applause) that Ed Davey was being taken for a ride.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ed Davey responded that it is extremely exciting that the cost of solar has plummeted in recent years because China is manufacturing solar panels at a massive scale. He claimed that it is brilliant for villages in sub-Saharan Africa which can’t connect to the grid. They are going to have much cheaper power than some of the kerosene fossil fuels that they presently use, saving money, going green and benefiting their education and health facilities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A materials scientist in the audience commented about being involved in developing materials that moved from CFCs etc. reducing greenhouse warming within the atmosphere. She opined that we had to reduce our need for fossil fuels, e.g. through greater efficiency. Following that comment the discussion turned to energy efficiency and preservation of resources, with David Dimbleby asking Stella Creasy if she agreed with Nigel Lawson on this. She commented that whether you think climate change is happening or not, being more efficient makes good business sense. She wants to see Britain leading in this because of all the jobs that will come from renewable energy and a different, more sustainable way of living because it is going to be better for our economy and better for Britain. She suggested that it was Nigel Lawson who is confused, thinking that we can carry on as we are now without there being any consequences. It is not just the people in the Philippines who are going to feel it but also those who have to deal with high levels of pollution (but see Appendix A, Note <b>10</b>) or don’t get the jobs that could come from improved efficiency because we are not being able to compete with the Chinese who have the technology.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One member of the audience commented about the contribution made by farming of an enormous amount of greenhouse gases – sheep in New Zealand, cattle in America. She also considered that it is incredibly arrogant of human beings to think that there’s anything we can do that will destroy the planet, which would just have enough and say goodbye to us. Another member of the audience suggested that using renewable energy is also about energy security so we’re not affected by a new Gulf war cutting off all supplies. He also suggested that renewable energy is probably more stable in terms of its cost, as opposed to the volatility of oil prices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The debate was then thrown open to anyone in the audience who agreed with Nigel Lawson about climate change. One member reflected on the ice cap in the Antarctic being as big as it’s ever been. He also mentioned that since the Big Bang the planet has been going in and out of cold, hot, wet, dry. Cleaning up the air is a great idea, renewables are a great idea but its arrogant to think that we can do anything to change the world. Stella Creasy suggested that if the scientists tell us though that there is a 95% possibility that we are responsible, it is right to look at what we can do to limit the damage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">APPENDIX A – Notes</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>1)</b> The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) 19th Climate Change Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (COP19) started in Warsaw on 11th November 2013 (<a href="http://www.cop19.gov.pl/">http://www.cop19.gov.pl/</a>). This years annual shindig has attracted over 10,000 delegates from around the globe</span> – for what? The prime objective of the developing economies represented at COP19 appears to be to get agreement and commitment from the developed economies to hand over money to them using the argument that our use of fossil fuels is causing catastrophic weather events like Typhoon Haiyan.<br />
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It looks less and less likely that they will achieve that objective. The Global Warming Policy Foundation’s bulletin of 21st November 2013 drew attention to the reluctance of developed economies to sign any such agreement, linking to an article in The Times “Britain rejects demands for climate disaster compensation ” which reported “ .. Britain sent a blunt message to developing countries yesterday that it would not give in to their demands for compensation for weather-related disasters, which, many scientists say, climate change has worsened. A group of 130 countries, including China, India and Brazil, are demanding that a new UN institution be created to measure “loss and damage” from storms, such as the typhoon in the Philippines that killed several thousand and destroyed or damaged more than 700,000 homes. Ed Davey, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, said while countries such as the Philippines could expect help adapting to climate change, they would not get compensation for their losses. Speaking at the annual UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Warsaw, he said: “We don’t accept the argument on compensation. We never have and we are not intending to start now.” A British official said that it would be impossible to calculate how much storm damage was caused by man-made climate change, even if one accepted that there was a link .. ” (<a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article3927261.ece">http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/environment/article3927261.ece</a>).<br />
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On the 21st November 2013 the Mail Online had a related article “Cut the green crap! Cameron reveals his private view of energy taxation and orders ministers to dump the eco-charges adding £110-a-year to bills” which it notes “ .. May 2010: 'We will be the greenest government ever' November 2013: 'We’ve got to get rid of all this green crap' - Prime Minister David Cameron .. ” (<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2510936/Cut-green-c-p-Camerons-private-view-energy-taxation-horrify-environmental-campaigners.html">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2510936/Cut-green-c-p-Camerons-private-view-energy-taxation-horrify-environmental-campaigners.html</a>). David Cameron’s pep-talk in 2010 to DECC employees can be seen at <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/may/14/cameron-wants-greenest-government-ever">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/may/14/cameron-wants-greenest-government-ever</a>. <br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>2)</b> Ed </span>Davy is the Liberal Democrat MP for Kingston and Surbiton and was appointed Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change in February 2012. He was educated at Nottingham High School and Jesus College, Oxford, where he studied politics, philosophy and economics (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/people/edward-davey">https://www.gov.uk/government/people/edward-davey</a>). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">CACC-sceptic Andrew Montford ran a short article on this under the title “Who is briefing Davey?” (<a href="http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2013/11/15/who-is-briefing-davey.html">http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2013/11/15/who-is-briefing-davey.html</a>) and there were some interesting comments made afterwards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>3)</b> Stella Creasy was elected as the Labour and Co-operative MP for Walthamstow in May 2010. Prior to that she was the Head of Campaigns at the Scout Association (<a href="http://www.workingforwalthamstow.org.uk/about-stella-creasy-mp/">http://www.workingforwalthamstow.org.uk/about-stella-creasy-mp/</a>). She joined the Shadow Cabinet in October 2013 as a member of Labour’s BIS team. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She studied psychology at the University of Cambridge, going on to gain a PhD from the London School of Economics and has said that climate change is the biggest progressive issue facing the world in the next 10 or 20 years .. ” (<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/aug/03/stella-creasy-labour">http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/aug/03/stella-creasy-labour</a>). She recently wrote that “ .. The world that produced climate change is also one developing house paint that generates solar power .. ” (<a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/09/bright-side-manifesto-why-labour-must-be-optimistic">http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/09/bright-side-manifesto-why-labour-must-be-optimistic</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>4)</b> Nigel Lawson, Chairman of the trustees of the Global Warming Policy Foundation which he co-founded in 2009 (<a href="http://www.thegwpf.org/who-we-are/">http://www.thegwpf.org/who-we-are/</a>), is highly sceptical of the CACC hypothesis and scathing of the UN’s IPCC (<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/10340408/Climate-change-this-is-not-science-its-mumbo-jumbo.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/10340408/Climate-change-this-is-not-science-its-mumbo-jumbo.html</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>6)</b> Nikki King is Managing Director of Isuzu Trucks (<a href="http://www.isuzutruck.co.uk/contact.asp">http://www.isuzutruck.co.uk/contact.asp</a> - see also <a href="http://www.gransnet.com/webchats/nikki-king">http://www.gransnet.com/webchats/nikki-king</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>7)</b> Simon Frost is CEO of Parity Trust (<a href="http://www.paritytrust.org.uk/">http://www.paritytrust.org.uk/</a>) which was </span>“ .. Formerly known as South Coast Moneyline, Parity Trust is the new trading name of the Portsmouth Area Regeneration Trust .. ” (<a href="http://www.hampshirechamber.co.uk/docs/October%20Chamber%20p1-28.pdf">http://www.hampshirechamber.co.uk/docs/October%20Chamber%20p1-28.pdf</a> - Oct. 2011).<span style="font-family: inherit;"> In his 15th November </span>2013 article Simon Frost <span style="font-family: inherit;">talked about how “ .. Last night, I was fortunate to obtain a ticket for the recording of the BBC Question Time programme and indeed later on was even luckier to put a question to the panel! .. One of the questions I didn't get a chance to put to the panel was whether now is the right time to ask whether we need a new business model for shipbuilding .. ” (</span><a href="http://www.paritytrust.org.uk/simons-blog/item/social-enterprise-model-for-shipbuilding?category_id=50" style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.paritytrust.org.uk/simons-blog/item/social-enterprise-model-for-shipbuilding?category_id=50</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">). The question that springs immediately to mind is why Simon Frost chose to put his question about CACC rather than the more obvious on-topic one about shipbuilding. Was he planted in the audience by the BBC and prompted to ask only about CACC?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The venue and panel for each “Question Time” program must be chosen well ahead of the event yet Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines on the 9th November, only 5 days before this one took place. How convenient for the BBC that with such short notice they were able to find someone who was prepared to attend the Portsmouth venue to ask specifically about it. It would be interesting to know more details of how Simon Frost came to be a member of the audience and whether there was any prompting from the BBC for him to ask this particular question.</span><br />
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Simon Frost’s LinkedIN entry says that he is an “Experienced leader, focusing a business development and marketing, social enterprise .. ” with a Diploma in Health Services Management and an Advanced Certificate in Marketing (<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/simon-frost/8/4a2/129">http://www.linkedin.com/pub/simon-frost/8/4a2/129</a>). There is no mention of anything concerning climate change. His focus appears to be on the worthwhile business of lending money to asset-rich but cash-poor homeowners rather than on the futile mission of trying to stop global climate change.<br />
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Until he put his question about Typhoon Haiyan and climate change to the BBC’s “Question Time” panel the only climate that Simon Frost seems to have shown any significant interest in publicly is the economic one and its effect on the Parity Trust’s customers (e.g. see <a href="http://www.paritytrust.org.uk/news/latest-news/33-home-trust-loan-scheme-delivers-p15m-in-home-repair-finance">http://www.paritytrust.org.uk/news/latest-news/33-home-trust-loan-scheme-delivers-p15m-in-home-repair-finance</a>). In his contribution to “Portsmouth Global Entrepreneurship Week 18th – 24th November 2013” (available via his LinkedIN page) he makes no mention of anything to do with climate change, the environment or natural weather events. On his Parity Trust blog there seems to have been only one reference to climate change, on 18th July 2013. On that occasion he simply said “ .. Quite a challenge for architects, especially with the impact of climate change thrown in! .. ” (<a href="http://www.paritytrust.org.uk/component/zoo/item/regenerating-homes-and-communities-is-rarely-an-easy-task-but-worthwhile#sthash.O7fbLNej.dpuf">http://www.paritytrust.org.uk/component/zoo/item/regenerating-homes-and-communities-is-rarely-an-easy-task-but-worthwhile#sthash.O7fbLNej.dpuf</a>). He has shown an interest in energy efficiency and renewable energy, although it appears to be more from concern about fuel poverty that fighting climate change (<a href="http://www.paritytrust.org.uk/component/zoo/item/fuel-poverty-how-can-we-tackle-it">http://www.paritytrust.org.uk/component/zoo/item/fuel-poverty-how-can-we-tackle-it</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>9)</b> </span>What were not mentioned during this debate and have had little mention elsewhere are similar Philippines catastrophes over a century ago.<br />
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One was in October 1897, reported in The Barrier Miner newspaper 3 months later under the headline “TYPHOON AND TIDAL WAVE IN THE PHILLIPINES 7000 Lives Lost .. ”.It reported on “ .. the fearful destruction wrought in the Phillipine Islands by the typhoon and tidal wave during October. It is estimated that 400 Europeans and 6000 natives lost their lives, many being drowned by the rush of water, while others were killed by the violence of the wind. Several towns have been swept or blown away .. The hurricane reached Leyte on October 12, and striking Tacloban, the capital, with terrific force, reduced it to ruins in less than half an hour .. ” (<a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/44204307?searchTerm=typhoon+phillipines&searchLimits">http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/44204307?searchTerm=typhoon+phillipines&searchLimits</a>).<br />
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The other was on Tuesday 26th October 1912 “ .. 15,000 persons were probably killed or wounded in a typhoon that swept the Philippines .. practically destroyed Tacloban, the capital of Leyte .. a population of 12,000 .. ” (<a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1912-11-30/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1836&index=7&rows=20&words=Tacloban&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1922&proxtext=tacloban&y=-221&x=-1060&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1912-11-30/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1836&index=7&rows=20&words=Tacloban&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1922&proxtext=tacloban&y=-221&x=-1060&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1</a>).<br />
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Both of these typhoons brought catastrophe to the same area of the Philippines (the island of Leyte) where Typhoon Haiyan caused such havoc on 9th November 2013 (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Haiyan">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Haiyan</a>).<br />
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If the reconstruction of past atmospheric CO2 levels from air “trapped” in ice is to be believed then the level of atmospheric CO2 by the end of the 19th century had risen from about 280ppm to just under 290ppm (see Fig. 2 in “Ice cores, CO2 concentration, and climate” by Geerts and Linacre <a href="http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/notes/chap01/icecore.html">http://www-das.uwyo.edu/~geerts/cwx/notes/chap01/icecore.html</a>). The level in 2013 is claimed to be just under 400ppm so that 1897 catastrophe in the Philippines could not have been a consequence of our use of fossil fuels. There weren’t a lot of cars, aeroplanes, electricity generating stations, etc. in those days!<br />
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Since that horrendous typhoon in 1898 the population of Tacloban has increased from 15,000 to over 200,000. The population of the Philippines has increased exponentially from an estimated 1Million to over 80 millions, with massive land use and cover change taking place. The population is projected to double again by 2050 (<a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/1755-1315/6/34/342025/pdf/1755-1315_6_34_342025.pdf">http://iopscience.iop.org/1755-1315/6/34/342025/pdf/1755-1315_6_34_342025.pdf</a>). Perhaps the horrendous impact of Typhoon Haiyan had more to do with population growth and the attendant change of land use than with any imagined increase in sea levels since 1898. That is much more likely cause than it arising from our burgeoning use of fossil fuels causing melting ice caps, as the UN and its supporters would have us believe.<br />
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Since that horrendous typhoon in 1898 the population of Tacloban has increased from 15,000 to over 200,000. The population of the Philippines has increased exponentially from an estimated 1Million to over 80 millions, with massive land use and cover change taking place. The population is projected to double again by 2050 (http://iopscience.iop.org/1755-1315/6/34/342025/pdf/1755-1315_6_34_342025.pdf). Perhaps the horrendous impact of Typhoon Haiyan had more to do with population growth and the attendant change of land use than with any imagined increase in sea levels since 1898. That is much more likely cause than it arising from our burgeoning use of fossil fuels causing melting ice caps, as the UN and its supporters would have us believe.<br />
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Those 1897 and 1912 disasters have been reported on at least one other blog. On the 15th November 2013 article “A history of storms: 1900s newspaper reveals devastating Leyte typhoon” (<a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/335673/scitech/science/a-history-of-storms-1900s-newspaper-reveals-devastating-leyte-typhoon">http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/335673/scitech/science/a-history-of-storms-1900s-newspaper-reveals-devastating-leyte-typhoon</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>10)</b> It has to be remembered that the "greenhouse gas" CO2 is NOT a pollutant but an essential, life-supporting substance without which there would be no life as we know it - see "</span>Greening the Globe with CO2"<span style="font-family: inherit;"> (</span><a href="http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/greening-the-globe.pdf">http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/greening-the-globe.pdf</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">APPENDIX B – <span style="font-weight: normal;">The </span></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><u>B</u><span style="font-weight: normal;">BC, </span><u>B</u><span style="font-weight: normal;">ias</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">and</span> <u>C</u><span style="font-weight: normal;">ACC</span></span></h2>
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Allegations abound about the BBC’s bias in favour of the CACC hypothesis, with possibly the most damning publication on the issue being that presented in Andrew Montford’s booklet “The Propaganda Bureau” (<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Propaganda-Bureau-Andrew-Montford-ebook/dp/B00AOLF5GY">http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Propaganda-Bureau-Andrew-Montford-ebook/dp/B00AOLF5GY</a>).<br />
Other sources can be found at:<br />
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- <a href="http://www.thegwpf.org/bbc-accused-systematic-bias-climate-change-cover-up/">http://www.thegwpf.org/bbc-accused-systematic-bias-climate-change-cover-up/</a></div>
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- <a href="http://bbcinstitutionalbias.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/278-war-jeremy-vine-show-and-climate.html">http://bbcinstitutionalbias.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/278-war-jeremy-vine-show-and-climate.html</a></div>
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- <a href="http://autonomousmind.wordpress.com/2013/09/27/bbc-entrenches-in-its-climate-change-propagandist-role/">http://autonomousmind.wordpress.com/2013/09/27/bbc-entrenches-in-its-climate-change-propagandist-role/</a></div>
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- <a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/james-delingpole/8758121/heres-a-bbc-scandal-that-should-really-make-you-disgusted/">http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/james-delingpole/8758121/heres-a-bbc-scandal-that-should-really-make-you-disgusted/</a></div>
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- <a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/uks-government-office-for-science.html">http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/uks-government-office-for-science.html</a>.</div>
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- <a href="http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2012/12/pharisees-and-pieties-at-the-abc/">http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2012/12/pharisees-and-pieties-at-the-abc/</a><br />
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In “The Propaganda Bureau” Andrew Montford reveals how the BBC allowed itself to be influenced by environmental activist organisations such as The Cambridge Media and Environment Programme (CMEP)<b><span style="color: lime;">*</span></b> and the International Broadcasting Trust IBT<b><span style="color: lime;">**</span></b> (<a href="http://www.ibt.org.uk/">http://www.ibt.org.uk/</a>). He also highlights the extreme effort that the BBC is prepared to put into remaining opaque about its activities relating to climate change and environmental programming.<br />
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Background information relating to the BBCs activities which Andrew Montford’s put under the spotlight in that essay events can be found in:<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">- “Abusing public trust: BBC, CBC and “the (climate change) cause” by Hilary Ostrov, December 9, 2011 (</span><a href="http://hro001.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/abusing-public-trust-bbc-cbc-and-the-climate-change-cause/" style="text-align: left;">http://hro001.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/abusing-public-trust-bbc-cbc-and-the-climate-change-cause/</a><span style="text-align: left;">), </span></div>
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- “Untrustworthy CBC blindly follows in “Auntie Beeb’s” footsteps” by Hilary Ostrov, December 4, 2012 (<a href="https://hro001.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/untrustworthy-cbc-blindly-follows-in-auntie-beebs-footsteps/">https://hro001.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/untrustworthy-cbc-blindly-follows-in-auntie-beebs-footsteps/</a>) and </div>
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- “Read this about TwentyEightGate (28Gate)” by Maurizio Morabito on 18th nov. 2012 (<a href="http://omnologos.com/read-this-about-twentyeightgate-28gate/">http://omnologos.com/read-this-about-twentyeightgate-28gate/</a>).</div>
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<b><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">*</span></b> Although the CMEP appears reluctant to disclose much about itself others have managed to unearth a fair bit about it, e.g. see:<br />
- “BBC, CMEP, CRU, UEA, WTF” (<a href="http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/11/14/bbc-cmep-cru-wtf/">http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2012/11/14/bbc-cmep-cru-wtf/</a>),<br />
- “How The Green Lobby Changed BBC Policy - Blogger Reveals Secret 28 Who Greened The BBC” (<a href="http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/51041">http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/51041</a>). <br />
- “More about the Cambridge Media and Environment Programme” (<a href="https://citizenjoesmith.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/more-about-the-cambridge-media-and-environment-programme/">https://citizenjoesmith.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/more-about-the-cambridge-media-and-environment-programme/</a>).<br />
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<b><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">**</span></b> “ .. The IBT is a membership based organisation. Our members determine our strategy, mission and vision. They come from a range of organisations who work in issues related to development, the environment and human rights .. ” (<a href="http://www.ibt.org.uk/members/">http://www.ibt.org.uk/members/</a>).<br />
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- Sci Dev Net (<a href="http://www.scidev.net/global/environment/climate-change/">http://www.scidev.net/global/environment/climate-change/</a>), </div>
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- Help The Aged (<a href="http://www.helpage.org/blogs/jessica-hartog-21197/typhoon-haiyan-the-role-of-climate-change-and-disaster-preparedness-648/">http://www.helpage.org/blogs/jessica-hartog-21197/typhoon-haiyan-the-role-of-climate-change-and-disaster-preparedness-648/</a>),</div>
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- WWF (<a href="http://www.wwf.org.uk/what_we_do/tackling_climate_change/">http://www.wwf.org.uk/what_we_do/tackling_climate_change/</a>),</div>
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- Oxfam (<a href="http://www.oxfam.org/en/grow/pressroom/reactions/oxfam-reaction-2013-intergovernmental-panel-climate-change-report">http://www.oxfam.org/en/grow/pressroom/reactions/oxfam-reaction-2013-intergovernmental-panel-climate-change-report</a>), </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This appendix presents a transcript of the Question Time exchanges from the time when the questions on Typhoon Haiyan and climate change were put (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03hztph/Question_Time_14_11_2013/">http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03hztph/Question_Time_14_11_2013/</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>At 34:39 minutes</b> – Simon Frost, a member of the audience, asked “Is Typhoon Haiyan further evidence of mankind creating climate change and what can we do to reduce the risk of further disasters?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>At 34:55 minutes</b> - response from Nigel Lawson “There’s no connection at all between this typhoon and climate change. If you look at tropical storms you will find that there has been no increase in the strength of the tropical storms for the past 100 years and indeed this year .. Typhoon Haiyan is terrible, appalling, but these things happen in the tropics. In the Atlantic hurricane season this year has been the quietest season in the Atlantic within living memory – the quietist, least, although they predicted there would be more, for 30 years or more. If you look at what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says, which is recognised as an authority on this, they say there is absolutely no connection between so-called climate change and tropical storms of all kinds. It is I’m afraid a scare which people latch onto but there is absolutely no scientific merit in it. There is no statistical merit in it. There has been no increase in extreme weather events at all and this is fact”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>At 36:20 minutes</b> - Ed Davey said “I’m glad to see that Lord Lawson is praying the IPCC in aid. He doesn’t normally do that. But on the question, I think that he’s actually right that there is no evidence that climate change is increasing the frequency of tropical storms. What there is evidence of is its increasing the impact of the intensity of those storms and this is how it is doing it. Sea levels are rising. That’s a fact and I hope that Nigel Lawson will agree. And that is happening because of climate change, because the ice caps are melting, the glaciers are melting. That means, with higher sea levels, islands like they have in the Philippines archipelago and low-lying coastal areas are far more vulnerable to these storms than they ever used to be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And that’s the real danger of climate change. It isn’t always that its increasing in extreme events, although the IPCC says in some cases it is, but it’s making these areas far more vulnerable and that’s why in these disasters are on a scale that we’ve never seen before. So that’s why we have to take climate change extremely seriously.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This country, we have to lead by making sure that we are taking the measures, whether its investing in renewables or low-carbon or energy efficiency. We have to lead in the world and next week I’m going to the global climate change talks in Warsaw to hopefully work towards signing a global deal in 2015. The world has got to take action. All the evidence says it’s more urgent than ever before and I hope Nigel, when he looks at the evidence now that is coming out from the IPCC, which he’s now quoting in favour of, which he doesn’t normally, I hope that he will now actually realise that the world has to take action on climate change”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>At 38:05 minutes</b> – Nikki King said “It’s all so confusing. One minute I’m told I’ve got to save my rubbish and the next minute I’m told that it all goes into the same landfill site. One minute I’m being told that if I don’t save the planet it’s going to die in 20 years and somebody else says no, it is just the natural life of the planet. I wish that somebody would tell me exactly what’s going on and then I could make a decision. It is so so difficult, so, I find it very confusing. I have to say, I’m in the truck business. I think that you’ll probably agree that the motor industry probably has been the industry that has done an awful lot for climate change – cleaned its own act up enormously. We’re now in the position that one of my trucks parked in Calcutta – the air coming out of the exhaust pipe will be cleaner than the air going in. But when I look round in Calcutta you’ll see thousands and thousands of vehicles 10 years old, 15 years old, 20 years old, pouring god knows what into the air. I’m not quite sure what this little Europe can do when there is so much of the rest of the world that needs to come up to speed”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>At 39:22 minutes</b> - Stella Creasy said “ .. Nigel, I hope that you’ll take up the offer made by the Philippino delegate to the climate change conference. I don’t know if people saw today his impassioned speech, that made a lot of people cry, about his view that there was a connection, but I take the scientific evidence. Let’s look at the scientific evidence and that shows that there is a 95% chance that climate change is man-made and absolutely that means that there is a 5% chance that it is not and it’s right that we have a public policy debate about how we deal with that kind of risk ratio. My sense is that 95% is a pretty good standard to start thinking about what we can do to address that because that gentleman was talking about trying to take dead relatives out of the rubble of the buildings and trying to deal with the consequences of this. We are not immune to our own responsibilities about the things that we can do to create a more sustainable way of living and I don’t want to take the risk that we might be in that 5% when 95% evidence, and it is independent scientific evidence Nikki. I’m afraid, sometimes when I hear you talk Nigel, I hear it’s where opinion meets fact and the fact is that climate change is happening. We have to find ways to address it. We have different debates about how we address it but the idea that we can ignore it, that somehow we can make it go away - well, I say just go and talk to some of the people in the Philippines. I think you’ll hear a very different story”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>At 40:40 minutes</b> - Nigel Lawson responded with “I think that you are very confused, if I may say so. First of all there is no connection - and this is accepted by the IPCC and accepted by a great majority of scientists - between global warming and the hurricanes and typhoons, including this terrible one in the Philippines which is of course particularly bad. As for the 95%, what they are saying is that they are 95% certain that of the amount of global warming that there has been is largely due to carbon emissions but in fact there has been very little global warming. There has been none at all over the past 15 years. This is a fact. Go to the Met Office. They admitted it. everybody who knows about this admits it. The amount of global warming is very little .. ”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>At 41:38 minutes</b> - Ed Davey commented that “Every decade for the last two decades it has been getting warmer. This year is going to be the 7th warmest on record and it’s not just global temperatures. It’s temperatures in the oceans. It’s not just temperatures, it’s the ice caps that are melting. It’s not just the ice caps that are melting, it’s the sea levels. It’s not just the sea levels, it’s the acidity in the sea. There is a huge, overwhelming evidence that climate change is happening and don’t believe me as a politician, believe the scientists. The IPCC has 259 scientists from 39 countries. They had 50,000 comments from peer review. It was the most peer-reviewed piece of science in human history”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>At 42:26 minutes</b> – after being brought back by David Dimbleby to the point made by Nigel Lawson about no warming during the past 15 years, Ed Davey said “ .. No, its been slowing down. It is not flat, it’s been slowing down. When we are talking about climate change we are talking about long periods. What the Global Warming Foundation which Nigel chairs, which is trying to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change, they take this 15 years and because the increase in global temperatures has been slowing down they say that climate change isn’t happening. When you ask the scientists they say that over a short period of time we don’t expect temperatures to always go up. If you take a longer time period temperatures are definitely going up. I’m afraid he chooses his period and he shouldn’t do that”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>At 43:12 minutes</b> - David Dimbleby challenged Ed Davey with “Why do you say that Nigel tries to undermine scientific opinion. What do you think his motive is? Undermining suggests there is some ulterior motive”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>At 43:24 minutes</b> - Ed Davey responded “Nigel will have to answer that. What Nigel does continually – he does it in a very open way – he writes a good book about it. It’s worth a read, I just disagree with most of what’s in it. What he does is he puts his argument but he denies, as far as I can see, the evidence from the international scientific community and it’s not just the international scientific community. The current Chief Scientist of Gt. Britain believes that there is a problem. The previous Chief Scientist in Britain thought there was a huge issue here and his predecessor as well. Scientists are telling us that we’ve got to take this seriously”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>At 44:26 minutes</b> - Paul Kenny said “I remember in the 70s the scientists were telling us that the ozone layer was being depleted .. I remember it well. Everyone was going around changing from hair sprays and getting rid of fridges and all sorts of things, so the idea that this has not been a long long run-in to where we are now is frankly not an honest position. The acidity of the oceans is rising and it is man-made and the polar ice caps are melting. Now someone didn’t leave the fridge door open. I mean they’re absolutely melting. Now that’s the evidence that I see. I don’t have the scientific knowledge of other colleague on the panel but that’s what I see. So what we need to do about it is – this is where the argument comes in about how we have to adapt, what energy we use, how we use it. And Nikki is dead right, a lot of the car manufacturers took the decision to move to much lower car emissions, really low emissions. We now see dual fuel issues. This was because they recognised that this was the way the markets were going to be and that is what we’ve got to force other people to do. In some senses it is just good business to lower our carbon emissions. It is good business to actually take the view that there is global warming and adjust our energy use, our types of energy. We’ve been talking about carbon capture for years but I’m still waiting to see it”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>At 45:56 minutes</b> - David Dimbleby asked “What about adding to fuel bills a bit for development of green and other sources of energy - are you in favour of that?”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>At 46:02 minutes </b>- Paul Kenny continued “I am actually, but I’m actually more in favour of actually using some of the profits that the energy companies make instead of taking it out of the pockets of the consumers”. – LOUD APPLAUSE!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Scott Mandia admits to being a climate change evangelist, i.e. he defends or maintains the CACC cause, therefore his pronouncements on CACC cannot be relied upon as being sound science. His co-author Hunt Janin acknowledged knowing virtually nothing about the issue of rising sea levels and trolled the Internet collecting information for his booklet. On that basis it is easy to imagine the message the booklet attempts to promulgate. It is simply another of many CACC propaganda booklets published in support of the politicised science promoted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for reasons far removed from taking over Nature's job of controlling the different global climates (see "</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rio+20 Fiasco - but Beware the Club of Rome and Agenda 21</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">" - </span><a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/rio20-fiasco-but-beware-agenda-21.html" style="font-family: inherit;">http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/rio20-fiasco-but-beware-agenda-21.html</a>)<span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the other hand, sea level expert Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner said recently “ .. With very great pleasure did I consume the paper by Faezeh et al. (2013) .. After a careful study of four major marine-terminating outlet glaciers, collectively draining 22% of the Greenland Ice Sheet, they were able to estimate the annual dynamic losses at volumes corresponding to a mean global sea level rise of 0.01–0.06 mm per year. In 100 years this would only give a sea level rise on 1-6 mm, which is insignificant. By applying a hypothetical future warming or 2.8 oC they increase this value to 19–30 mm rise by year 2200 (or about 9-15 mm by year 2100). Even this value is so low that it poses no threat what so ever to humanity .. ” (<a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/consequences-of-greenland-ice-melt.html">http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/consequences-of-greenland-ice-melt.html</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In his 6th Dec. 2012 Science and Public Policy Institute publication "Sea Level is not Rising" Dr. Morner concludes " .. </span>Observational facts indicate that sea level is by no means rapidly rising. It is quite stable. This is the case in key sites like the Maldives, Bangladesh, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Saint Paul Island, Qatar, French Guyana, Venice, and northwest Europe .. I hope that by this research we can free the world from the artificial crisis to which the IPCC has condemned it. There will be no extensive or disastrous global sea-level rise in the near future. That was the main threat in the IPCC’s arsenal of bugaboos, and now it is gone .. " (<a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/reprint/sea_level_not_rising.pdf">http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/reprint/sea_level_not_rising.pdf</a>).<br />
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Unlike Scott Mandia, Dr. Mörner is not a climate change evangelist trying to indoctrinate community college students with his own opinions on the CACC hypothesisis. Dr. Morner is a highly respected scientist internationally recognised for his expertise regarding sea level research who was President of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution from 1999-2003.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>1)</b> </span>Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner was interviewed by Gregory Murphy on 6th June 2007 for EIR. " .. Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner is the head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden. He is past president (1999-2003) of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, and leader of the Maldives Sea Level Project. Dr. Mörner has been studying the sea level and its effects on coastal areas for some 35 years. <span style="font-family: inherit;">(</span><a href="http://www.climatechangefacts.info/ClimateChangeDocuments/NilsAxelMornerinterview.pdf">http://www.climatechangefacts.info/ClimateChangeDocuments/NilsAxelMornerinterview.pdf</a>)<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In <span style="font-family: inherit;">his 30th July 2003 paper "<span style="text-align: start;">SEA LEVEL CHANGES: OBSERVATIONS VERSUS MODELS" </span>presented at the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">XVI INQUA Congress</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Dr. Morner said " .. </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to the glacial loading models, global sea level is</span> now rising by 2.4 mm/year or 1.8 mm/year. The IPCC models </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">have hypothesised of a very rapid rise in the near future, ranging for original wild estimates of 1-3 m in a century to the presently advocated value of 47 +37 mm in a century. The INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution .. hosts the true world specialists on sea level research. This commission has presented an observationally based analysis of the present sea level changes and the changes to be expected in the next century. Both the glacial loading models and the ICPP scenarios are strongly contradicted by observational data for the last 100-150 years that cannot have exceeded a mean rate of 1.0-1.1 mm/year. In the last 300 years, sea level has been oscillation close to the present with peak rates in the period 1890-1930. Sea level fell between 1930 and 1950. The late 20th century lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade. Therefore, observationally based predictions of future sea level in the year 2100 will give a value of +10 +10 cm (or +5 +15 cm), by this discarding model out-puts by IPCC as well as global loading models. In conclusions, there are firm observationally based reasons to free the world from the condemnation to become extensively flooded in the 21st century AD .. " (</span><a href="https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/inqu/finalprogram/abstract_54461.htm">https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/inqu/finalprogram/abstract_54461.htm</a>).<br />
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It was recently claimed (Times LIVE, May 26) that the City of St. Louis in the delta area of Senegal River in West Africa is on its way of drowning due to climate change.<br />
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In the text, we learn that “the city is plagued by flooding during the rainy season when the river overflows”. This implies that the flooding has nothing to do with a rising sea level.<br />
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Further in the text, we read: “In 2003, heavy rain in the drainage basin of the Senegal River alarmed the authorities who feared the water would rise above critical levels and so dug a new outlet for the river water across the spit. The channel was about 100 metres (328 feet) in length and 4 metres wide but grew rapidly in the first days as the sea flooded into the river mouth and continued to widen to more than 2 kilometres across today”.<br />
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So it was the digging of a new channel that altered the conditions and initiated the erosion and flooding into the river. This is bad planning and has nothing to do with “climate change”.<br />
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This is a side of the “climate change” issue that unfortunately has become increasingly common.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It appears that Dr. Mann was NOT a “Nobel Peace Prize winner”. “ .. The prize was awarded to the IPCC as an organization, and not to any individual associated with the IPCC. Thus it is incorrect to refer to any IPCC official, or scientist who worked on IPCC reports, as a Nobel laureate or Nobel Prize winner .. ” (<a href="http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/nobel/Nobel_statement_final.pdf">http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/nobel/Nobel_statement_final.pdf</a>). That the same misleading claim was made on the inside of the front cover of Dr. Mann’s own book “The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars” (<a href="http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/Mann/books/hockeystick/images/Mann_flyer.pdf">http://www.meteo.psu.edu/holocene/public_html/Mann/books/hockeystick/images/Mann_flyer.pdf</a>). </span></div>
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<br />Pete Ridleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08258973141061114628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336588801040320412.post-27033567455796283232013-05-10T01:25:00.002-07:002015-04-24T03:36:49.443-07:00Consequences of Greenland Ice Melt Trivial?<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This was forwarded on 9th May 2013 by </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Philip Foster (see "SpotlightON - PSI and PSI Acumen Ltd" Section </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;">3.8 Co-Founder and Compliance Officer Rev. Philip Foster - </span><a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/spotlighton-principia-scientific.html">http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/spotlighton-principia-scientific.html</a>)</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With very great pleasure did I consume the paper by Faezeh et al. (2013) just printed in Nature (May 9). After a careful study of four major marine-terminating outlet glaciers, collectively draining 22% of the Greenland Ice Sheet, they were able to estimate the annual dynamic losses at volumes corresponding to a mean global sea level rise of 0.01–0.06 mm per year. In 100 years this would only give a sea level rise on 1-6 mm, which is insignificant. By applying a hypothetical future warming or 2.8 oC they increase this value to 19–30 mm rise by year 2200 (or about 9-15 mm by year 2100). Even this value is so low that it poses no threat what so ever to humanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What was it I said, I may say referring to numerous previous papers of mine, but especially the paper on “Setting the frames of expected future sea level changes” (Mörner, 2011), where the problem of the contribution of glacial melting is specially addressed (Fig. 1).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">During the Holocene Climatic Optimum with a temperature 2.5 oC higher than today, the Greenland ice cap seems to have been of roughly the same dimensions as today. The Little Ice Ages of the last 600 years with significantly larger glaciers had small to insignificant effects on mean global sea level. A sea level rise of today would never stay a chance to exceed that of the main melting phase at the end of the Last Ice Age which amounted to about 10 mm year-1 (i.e. 1.0 m in 100 years); on the contrary, it would have to be well within these frames.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now, we can see that the present day melting of the Greenland Ice Cap provides sea level effects that are minute to negligible and fall well within the values of about 1 mm year-1 (Fig. 1) recorded during the last 300 years (Mörner, 2004).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Faezeh, M.N., Vieli, A., Andersen, M.L., Joughin, I., Payne, A., Edwards, T.L., Pattyn, F. & van de Wal, R.S.W., 2013. Future sea-level rise from Greenland’s main outlet glaciers in a warming climate. Nature, 497, 235-238.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mörner, N.-A., 2011. Setting the frames of expected future sea level changes. In: Evidence-based Climate Science, D.J. Easterbrook, Ed., Chapter 6, 197-209, Elsevier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Fig. 1. Introduction of the new values on the Greenland ice melting contribution to global sea level by Fraezeh et al. (2013) into the figure by Mörner (2011) on rates and amplitudes of expected future changes in sea level with the frame of physically possible changes set at 10 ±1 mm year-1 or 1.0 ±0.1 m in a century, and with the observed rate of changes in the last 300 years of 1 mm year-1 or 10 cm in a century. </span></div>
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Pete Ridleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08258973141061114628noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336588801040320412.post-36166400981608882302013-04-09T01:56:00.000-07:002015-04-24T03:35:44.320-07:00THANKS MAGGIE <div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">My thanks to sadly departed Margaret Thatcher for saving us </span>in the 70's <span style="font-family: inherit;">from the stranglehold of the trade unions and the persistent mismanagement of our economy by the Labour Party, demoralising taxation, explosion in public service (non-)job creation, rampant inflation, etc. etc. etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She restored our National pride and stature in world affairs but what a shame that she did not take us out of the EU while she was at it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">David Cameron's "New Conservatives" appear to have no-one within their ranks with the courage to sort out the the stranglehold that the EU has over us now or the mess that New Labour presided over and left for others to sort out. Cameron's "New Conservatives" experiment is unlikely to be any more successful than Blair's "New Labour" experiment was.</span></div>
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On 19th Sept 2013 the Rev. Philip Foster (Note 1) circulated an E-mail advising of an item " .. from Charles Moore's biog of Mrs T.<br />
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Dr John Ashworth, the Chief Scientist,... asked to see Mrs Thatcher shortly after she had arrived at No. 10. As he entered, the Prime <br />
Minister said: "Who are you?" "I am your Chief Scientist," Ashworth replied. "Oh," said Mrs Thatcher, "do I want one of those?" He <br />
explained his work, mentioning that he was completing a report about the then almost unstudied subject of climate change. Mrs Thatcher stared at him: "Are you standing there and seriously telling me that my government should worry about the *weather*?"<br />
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1) For more information about Rev. Foster in relation to climate change and the blogging group Principia Scientific International see "SpotlightON - PSI and PSI Acumen Ltd" (<a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/spotlighton-principia-scientific.html">http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/spotlighton-principia-scientific.html</a>) including sub-section 3.8 Co-Founder and "Compliance Officer" Rev. Philip Foster.</div>
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Pete Ridleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08258973141061114628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336588801040320412.post-23138668116216433212013-01-23T10:25:00.001-08:002015-04-24T03:35:21.085-07:00Are Politicians Just Parrots?<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s been a while since I wrote about shenanigans in the political arena and Obama’s recent inaugural speech provides some fodder linking my two pet subjects, the “Politicization of Climate Change and CO2” (<a href="http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=374&Itemid=1">http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=374&Itemid=1</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In his 2100-word inaugural speech Obama said “ .. We, the people, .. will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms. The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries, we must claim its promise. That’s how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure -- our forests and waterways, our crop lands and snow-capped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That’s what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared .. ” (<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/21/inaugural-address-president-barack-obama">http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/01/21/inaugural-address-president-barack-obama</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Passionate words indeed which Obama’s speech writers might hope would be enough to make even the most sceptical of “climate deniers” repent of their sins when denying the “truth” made known to us all by scientists such as Dr. James Hanson amd Dr. Michael Mann.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In his slightly longer inaugural speech in Jan 2009 Obama was not quite so lyrical on the subject of climate change. He simply generalised about the threats to the USA and the world “ .. That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood .. These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics .. Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real, they are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this America: They will be met .. ” and slipped in “ .. each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet .. We will restore science to its rightful place .. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories .. we'll work tirelessly to .. roll back the specter of a warming planet .. ” (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/us/politics/20text-obama.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/us/politics/20text-obama.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0</a>). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">.. The danger is that special interests will dilute and torque government policies, causing the climate to pass tipping points, with grave consequences for all life on the planet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">.. Mountain glaciers are receding worldwide and will be gone within 50 years if CO2 emissions continue to increase</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">.. Coral reefs, home to a quarter of biological species in the ocean, could be destroyed by rising temperature and ocean acidification due to increasing CO2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">.. Dry subtropics are expanding poleward with warming, affecting the southern United States, the Mediterranean region, and Australia, with increasing drought and fires</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">.. Arctic sea ice will disappear entirely in the summer, if CO2 continues to increase, with devastating effects on wildlife and indigenous people</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">.. Intensity of hydrologic extremes, including heavy rains, storms and floods on the one hand, and droughts and fires on the other, are increasing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">.. ice sheet disintegration and sea level rise, out of humanity’s control, eventually eliminating coastal cities and historical sites, creating havoc, hundreds of millions of refugees, and impoverishing nations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">.. Obama Promises a Big Push on Climate Change - The president appears determined to confront climate change, with or without the help of Congress .. Obama devoted the biggest single section of his second inaugural address to the problem of climate change. He has clearly decided to make confronting climate change a central objective of his second term .. (<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2013/01/22/obama-determined-to-make-confronting-cli">http://reason.com/archives/2013/01/22/obama-determined-to-make-confronting-cli</a>), </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">.. Inaugural address: Obama puts climate change back on the agenda - So has Barack Obama rediscovered climate change? After saying little on the subject for years – and remaining silent on it during the election campaign – he made it a centrepiece of his inauguration address .. the President seems to have backed his daughters over his less enthusiastic advisers and put climate change back high on his agenda .. (<a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geoffreylean/100199196/inaugural-address-obama-puts-climate-change-back-on-the-agenda/">http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geoffreylean/100199196/inaugural-address-obama-puts-climate-change-back-on-the-agenda/</a>). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Perhaps the recent hiatus over Jimmy Saville (<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19946626">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19946626</a>) has made the BBC a little more cautious about its distorted reporting in support of the CACC scare-mongering. These days the BBC News doesn’t show very many back-drops of those cooling towers pouring out that vile pollutant WATER VAPOUR. It was a different story not many months ago when a belching tower was there in the background every time weather or climate were mentioned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Perhaps it is surprising that the Telegraph should go along with this scare-mongering rather than challenging it. After all, climate realist Christopher Booker is a regular contributor to the Telegraph of his excellent articles exposing the political scare-mongering about our increasing use of fossil fuels leading to Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change (CACC). Following Obama’s first inaugural speech Booker was quick to comment in his article “BBC abandons 'impartiality' on warming - Again and again the BBC has been eager to promote every new scare raised by the advocates of man-made global warming .. It was ironic that, last week, while the BBC was refusing to show an appeal .. on the grounds that this might breach its charter obligation to be impartial, a rather less publicised row was raging over Newsnight's doctoring of film of President Obama's inaugural speech, which was used to support yet another of its items promoting the warming scare. Clips from the speech were spliced together to convey a considerably stronger impression of what Obama had said on global warming than his very careful wording justified .. ” (<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/4413474/BBC-abandons-impartiality-on-warming.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/4413474/BBC-abandons-impartiality-on-warming.html</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Talking of scare-mongering and Christopher Booker brings to mind his excellent 2007 book “Scared to Death – from BSE to Global Warming .. ” co-authored with Richard North (<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scared-Death-Global-Warming-Costing/dp/0826476201">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scared-Death-Global-Warming-Costing/dp/0826476201</a>). Chapter 14 “Saving the Planet” deserves a careful read because its 70 pages expose many of the political shenanigans behind the CACC propaganda, including the 1970's scare stories about a new and imminent ice age. At the time the book was released many leading politicians were proclaiming how climate change was the greatest threat to mankind and Booker drew attention to some examples, including " ..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Booker left out the best bit of those efforts </span>on 26th September 2006 <span style="font-family: inherit;">by the Guardian’s chief climate scare-monger George Monbiot to frighten the readership, i.e. his reference at the end of the article to his book “Heat: how to stop the planet burning”. Here’s what his promotional page has to say “ .. We know that climate change is happening. We know that it could, if the worst predictions come true, destroy the conditions which make human life possible. Only one question is now worth asking: can it be stopped? .. ” (</span><a href="http://www.monbiot.com/2006/11/07/heat/" style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.monbiot.com/2006/11/07/heat/</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hopefully no taxpayer’s money was wasted by our government in making that scare-mongering booklet available to try to indoctrinate our impressionable schoolchildren in the way that Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize winning nonsense “An Inconvenient Truth” was (<a href="http://grist.org/article/ait/">http://grist.org/article/ait/</a>). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Perhaps now is opportune for Christopher Booker to re-publish “Saving the Planet” as a stand-alone educational booklet for use in our schools. It would be invaluable for helping our teachers do their job of providing our children with impartial guidance instead of political indoctrination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Recent dramatic weather-related events such as the heat-wave in Australia, floods in the UK and Pakistan, drought and snowstorms in Russia, etc. etc. are used by our politicians, the environmental activists and the media to promote the scare that we are causing catastrophic climate change through using fossil fuels. A pertinent question is what evidence is there to justify this or does the evidence refute it? If the record of past weather events presented in the recently issued publication "</span>A Chronological Listing of Early Weather Events" 6th Edition by James A. Marusek (<a href="http://www.breadandbutterscience.com/Weather.pdf">http://www.breadandbutterscience.com/Weather.pdf</a>) <span style="font-family: inherit;">is reliable then the answer seems to be a resounding <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">NO! </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Maybe, at long last, common sense is infiltrating the media. A new film "<span style="border: none; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Climate <span style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Crimes - Environmental crimes in the name of climate protection" is</span></span> due for release in the UK this month. QUOTE: .. <span style="line-height: 24px;">If you are one of the skeptics, much of the film probably will be familiar to you. But if you’re a devout environmentalist who has been reading and believing all the climate propaganda put out by “environmental” and “climate protection” groups and institutes, then you may want to have an ambulance ready outside the cinema. It might be really tough to take. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Be sure to bring your environmentalist friends to see this film. Their reaction will be most interesting as it will reveal if they are truly open to the truth. Face it, there’s a huge industrial lobby behind the “green” movement too .. UNQUOTE </span><span style="border: none; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(<a href="http://notrickszone.com/2012/12/19/new-german-film-blasts-green-climate-movement-climate-protection-environmental-crimes/">http://notrickszone.com/2012/12/19/new-german-film-blasts-green-climate-movement-climate-protection-environmental-crimes/</a>).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 22.100000381469727px;"><i>“Effective execution of <a href="http://climatism.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/united-nations-agenda-21-the-death-knell-of-liberty/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong>Agenda 21</strong></a> will require a profound</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;">reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;">has ever experienced a major shift in the priorities of both </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;">governments and individuals and an <strong>unprecedented </strong></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;"><strong>redeployment of human and financial resources</strong>. This shift</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;">will demand that a concern for the <strong>environmental</strong> consequences </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;">of every human action be integrated into individual and </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;"><strong>collective</strong> decision-making at every level.“</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">- <b style="border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-weight: 600; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">UN Agenda 21</b></span></div>
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<i>“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the </i><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">industrialized civilizations collapse?</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Isn’t it our responsiblity to bring that about?”</span></i></div>
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On 24th March 2010 I asked “Are Politicians Competent” (<a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/are-politicians-competent_2578.html">http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/are-politicians-competent_2578.html</a>). Christopher Booker’s Sunday Telegraph article - 'Pathetic' Rio conference still leaves us with huge bill to pay - on 24th June 2012 provided a hint at the answer. I take the liberty of repeating Christopher Bookers article here.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The great global warming scare has long been dying on its feet, but </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">that sad fiasco of a conference in Rio last week saw it finally dead </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">and buried. "It's pathetic, it's appalling," wailed a spokesman </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">for WWF, one of the thousands of green activists who flew to Rio, many </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">at taxpayers' expense, to see the last rites read over their lost </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">dream. Their cause has even been abandoned by one of its most </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">outspoken champions, the green guru James Lovelock of "Gaia" fame, who </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">now admits that the warming scare was all a tragic mistake, and that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">talk of "Sustainable development" is just "meaningless drivel".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But the "epic failure" of Rio, as Friends of the Earth called it, is </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">an apt cue to recall how this leaves Britain as only country in the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">world committed by law to cut its emissions of carbon dioxide by 80 </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">per cent in less than 40 years: The Climate Change Act, on the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Government's own figures, faces us with a bill of up to £18 billion </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">every year until 2050, making it by far the most costly law ever </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">passed by Parliament.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is the question which, in April, I invited readers to put to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">their MPs, and I am very grateful to all those who have now sent me </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">the replies they received, from nearly 50 MPs. These, I fear, are even </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">more depressing than I anticipated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The question put to the MPs was simple. Since we depend on </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">CO2-emitting fossil fuels for 75 per cent of our electricity and </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">almost all of our transport system, how in practical terms can we </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">reduce those emissions by four-fifths? It is no good pretending that </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">we can rely on "renewables" such as wind and solar to fill the gap, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">since these are so intermittent that they would require up to 100 per </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">cent backup from fossil fuels to keep our now largely </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">computer-dependent economy functioning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They live in a bubble of make-believe which doesn't touch reality at </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">any point. Yet these are the people who passed the most potentially </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">damaging law in our history - in the name of a delusion which, in Rio </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">last week, died the death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">An interesting article "John Holdren, Obama's Science Czar, says: Forced abortions and mass sterilization needed to save the planet" (</span><a href="http://zombietime.com/john_holdren/#white_house_statement" style="font-family: inherit;">http://zombietime.com/john_holdren/#white_house_statement</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">) discusses opinions expressed in a 1977 book "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment" (</span><a href="http://www.questia.com/read/98156598/ecoscience-population-resources-environment" style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.questia.com/read/98156598/ecoscience-population-resources-environment</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">). This presents the proposals of co-authors Paul and Anne Ehrlich and John Holdren on subjects such as global government, population control and environmental management. Few of these proposals are acceptable to those of us who reject the idea of independent nations handing over authority to unelected organisations such as the UN.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- “ .. Even more than the resources of the oceans, the atmosphere is shared by all human beings -- and other organisms as well. It is crucial to preserve the atmospheres quality and the stability of global climate .. But that these are now threatened and should be protected by international agreement is only beginning to be recognized in a few quarters. Should a Law of the Sea be successfully established, it could serve as a model for a future Law of the Atmosphere to regulate the use of airspace, to monitor climate change, and to control atmospheric pollution. Perhaps those agencies, combined with UNEP and the United Nations population agencies, might eventually be developed into a Planetary Regime -- sort of an international superagency for population, resources, and environment. Such a comprehensive Planetary Regime could control the development, administration.. (Page 943)</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 14px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In her 9th Feb 2011 article "</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">John Holdren’s IPCC Myths" </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 14px;">(</span><a href="http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2011/02/09/john-holdrens-ipcc-myths/" style="font-family: inherit;">http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2011/02/09/john-holdrens-ipcc-myths/</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">) </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 14px;">Donna Laframboise made some interesting comments about Holdren and the IPCC. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">6 months later an article "</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: normal; text-align: start;">“The Skeptical Environmentalist”: A Ten Year Appreciation (Bjørn Lomborg vindication of the late Julian Simon continues to resonate today)" was posted by </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: normal; text-align: start;">Robert Bradley Jr</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: normal; text-align: start;"> (</span><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.masterresource.org/2011/09/skeptical-environmentalist-ten-years/#more-16570">http://www.masterresource.org/2011/09/skeptical-environmentalist-ten-years/#more-16570</a></span><span style="line-height: 18px;">). <span style="font-family: inherit;">In it he refe<span style="font-family: inherit;">rred to " .. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">a slew of establishment neo-Malthusians, led by John Holdren .. " and quoted from a less-than-complementary E-mail that he received from Holdren. He then linked to his 2009 article which expands on those exchanges, in which Bradley concluded " .. </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">Close mindedness and diatribes are the last things that are needed in a science advisor .. " (</span><a href="http://www.masterresource.org/2009/01/john-holdren-and-the-argument-from-authority-part-vii-in-a-series-on-obamas-new-science-advisor/">http://www.masterresource.org/2009/01/john-holdren-and-the-argument-from-authority-part-vii-in-a-series-on-obamas-new-science-advisor/</a>). Both of those articles by Bradley and the subsequent comments are worth reading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: start;">"...current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and </span><b style="text-align: start;">work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable</b><span style="text-align: start;">. </span><b style="text-align: start;">A shift is necessary</b><span style="text-align: start;">. which will require a vast strengthening of the multilateral system, including the United Nations..." </span><span style="color: black; text-align: start;">[1] Maurice Strong , opening speech at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">The UN Plan For Human Settlements = also by </span></span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white;">Berit Kjos, June 199</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">6 - that began " .. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">Land...cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. </span><b style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice</b><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes. </span><b style="text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: white;">Public control of land use is therefore indi</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">spensable</span></b><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">.... ... </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: start;">B</span><span style="text-align: start;">icycles instead of cars? Dense apartment clusters instead of single homes? <b>Community rituals instead of churches? </b>"Human rights" instead of religious freedom? .. </span><span style="text-align: start;">" </span></span><br />
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“The United Nations future, as implemented by the Australian government, is one where the legal system will give priority to distributive justice (people thousands of miles away have a claim on you if you possess more than them), intergenerational justice (the law will become clairvoyant and grant rights to people who do not yet exist), and animal rights (land owners will have to face animal lawyers in court disputes over property use). Further, lack of scientific evidence will be no defence because of the precautionary principle. Opponents will be silenced by a campaign of vilification and intimidation .. ” (<a href="http://tome22.info/Submissions/GW-AgendaFor21stCentury.htm">http://tome22.info/Submissions/GW-AgendaFor21stCentury.htm</a>).<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Graham has just released his report "Politicians Act as Agents for the United Nations to Enforce Agenda 21 Upon Australians". Anyone interested in seeing it should ask Graham (<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: start;">grahamhw AT iprimus.com.au).</span></span><br />
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The Charter of the International Council for Local Initiatives (ICLEI) declares that " .. ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (hereafter referred to as the “Association”) was established as an international local government association in the year 1990. From its founding until 31 December 2003, the Association bore the name “International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)”<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> .. </span></span>The Association’s seat shall be the location of its international headquarters (World Secretariat) .. The Association’s Mission shall be to build and serve a worldwide movement of local governments to achieve tangible improvements in global sustainability with special focus on environmental conditions through cumulative local actions .. The Association shall build an active and committed municipal membership of local spheres of government (local and regional governments and authorities) as well as international, regional, national and sub-national local-government associations .. " (<a href="http://www.iclei.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ICLEI_WS/Documents/Governance/Charter_approved_FINALforCOUNCIL20110912.pdf">http://www.iclei.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ICLEI_WS/Documents/Governance/Charter_approved_FINALforCOUNCIL20110912.pdf</a>).<br />
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The basis for rthis section is the ICLEI Charter (<a href="http://www.iclei.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ICLEI_WS/Documents/Governance/Charter_approved_FINALforCOUNCIL20110912.pdf">http://www.iclei.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ICLEI_WS/Documents/Governance/Charter_approved_FINALforCOUNCIL20110912.pdf</a>).<br />
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" .. The Council represents ICLEI’s global membership by way of representative democracy. It is the supreme decision-making and oversight body of the global association .. The Council shall:<br />
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" .. is currently the Director General for the Covenant of Mayors Mexico City Pact at Fundacion Pensar and has served as the Secretary of Environment at Mexico City, President of the Latin American Network of Environmental Authorities and the alternate governor of the World Water Council. Among various achievements, she coordinated the elaboration of the Mexico City Climate Action Plan .. ".<br />
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<b>Mary Jane Crisanto Ortega - " .. </b>the former Mayor of San Fernando City, Philippines, and is currently serving as the Secretary General of CityNet - The Regional Network of Local Authorities for the Management of Human Settlements in Asia-Pacific .. ".<br />
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<b>Africa - James Nxumalo </b>(see above).<br />
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<b>SE Asia - Mary Jane Crisanto Ortega</b> (see above).<br />
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<b>North America - Frank Cownie</b>, Mayor, Des Moines, Iowa, USA.<br />
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<b>Latin America and the Caribbean - </b> <b>Eduardo Rivera Pérez</b>, Mayor, City of Puebla, Mexico.</div>
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<b>East Asia - Yeom, Tye-Young</b>, Mayor, Suwon city, Republic of Korea.</div>
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4.2 ICLEI Involvement in promoting CACC</h3>
" .. Park, Won-soon, Mayor, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Chief Delegate to UNFCCC .. has a background in international law .. As Chair of the WMCCC and chief delegate to UNFCCC, he represents ICLEI Member Cities in issues related to climate change and governance ..".<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">" .. The World Mayors Council on Climate Change is an alliance of committed local government leadersconcerned about climate change. They advocate for enhanced engagement of local governments as governmental stakeholders in multilateral efforts addressing climate change and related issues of global sustainability ...founded in December 2005 by Yorikane Masumoto, Mayor of City of Kyoto (Japan) .. Chair of the Council is Park Won Soon, Mayor of Seoul Metropolitan Government. Jürgen Nimptsch, Mayor of Bonn (Germany), is serving as Vice Chair while Former Mayor Yorikane Masumoto of Kyoto City (Japan) is the Honorary Chair .. " (<a href="http://www.worldmayorscouncil.org/about.html">http://www.worldmayorscouncil.org/about.html</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 16.1200008392334px; text-align: left;">" .. </span><span style="text-align: start;">In 1992, countries joined an international treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to cooperatively consider what they could do to limit average global temperature increases and the resulting climate change .. </span><span style="text-align: start;">By 1995, countries realized that emission reductions provisions in the Convention were inadequate .. </span><span style="text-align: start;">At the very heart of the response to climate change, however, lies the need to reduce emissions. In 2010, governments agreed that emissions need to be reduced so that global temperature increases are limited to below 2 degrees Celsius .. " (</span><a href="http://unfccc.int/essential_background/items/6031.php">http://unfccc.int/essential_background/items/6031.php</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Although there is no mention on that UNFCCC web-page of what emissions are being referred to, these are human emissions of greenhouse gases, particularly CO2 from our use of fossil fuels. It is clear that the ICLEI is founded upon the belief that our burgeoning use of fossil fuels is leading to CACC and its focus is on that topic from behind the smoke screen of "sustainability".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Although at first glance these may appear to be quite distinct groups with different agenda that is not the reality. A single umbrella embraces them and is recognised by the term Global Governance. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">" .. The real enemy then, is humanity itself .</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">. "</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;">In</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-align: left;"> 1993</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;">Club of Rome President Ricardo Diez Hochleitner said in his Forward to The First Global Revolution<a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8RNKHGbzUuAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Alexander+King,+Bertrand+Schneider%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HnLZUprIA9OAhAfL14GYCg&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false">:</a> A Report by the Council of the Club of Rome" (</span></span></span><a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8RNKHGbzUuAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22Alexander+King,+Bertrand+Schneider%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HnLZUprIA9OAhAfL14GYCg&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-align: left;">click hear</a>)<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;"> by Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider that " .. in 1968 .. the Club of Rome .. was f</span></span></span>ounded by Aurelio Peccei <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-align: left;">(its first President until 1984)</span> and Alexander King at the Academia dei Lincei in Rome .. The Club was widely criticised for what was seen as advocacy of a zero growth economy. This was never our intention. We fully accepted the pressing need for material growth in the poor countries of the world, but warned readers about the <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-align: left;">consequences of an unthinking pursuit of growth by the industrialized countries .. ".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white;">That report says on P75 " </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">.. The common enemy of humanity is Man. </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. In their totality and their interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which must be confronted by everyone together. All these </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">dangers are caused by <b><i>human</i></b> intervention, and it is only through </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The real enemy then, is humanity itself .</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">. " </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-align: left;">The report talks about anthropogenic environmental pollution, including on Page 25 " .. The most menacing macro-pollution so far, the so-called "greenhouse effect" .. trace gasses control the greenhouse effect. Since the Industrial Revolution, the proportion of these gase in the atmosphere has increased. The most important of these, carbon dioxide, has increased by 25% .. due to the combustion of fossil fuels .. ".</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-align: left;">QUOTE .. So, what exactly is the Club of Rome and who are its members? Founded in 1968 at David Rockefeller’s estate in Bellagio, Italy, the CoR describes itself as “</span><span style="border: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a group of world citizens, sharing a common concern for the future of humanity</span>.</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-align: left;">” It consists of current and former Heads of State, UN beaureacrats, high-level politicians and government officials, diplomats, scientists, economists, and business leaders from around the globe .. UNQUOTE (</span></span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://agendatwentyone.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/the-club-of-rome-where-the-buck-stops/">http://agendatwentyone.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/the-club-of-rome-where-the-buck-stops/</a></span>)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-align: left;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-align: left;">Many of those named in the article will be familiar to most readers. The links given are worth following. This quotation in one of the comments is worth considering " .. </span><span style="line-height: 19.78333282470703px; text-align: left;">“Whenever an ideal, ANY ideal, gets its </span><span style="line-height: 19.78333282470703px; text-align: left;">hands on the real levers of power </span><span style="line-height: 19.78333282470703px; text-align: left;">—you get pure EVIL.” </span><span style="line-height: 19.78333282470703px; text-align: left;">-D H Lawrence </span><span style="line-height: 19.78333282470703px; text-align: left;">1922.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: start;">In his </span><span style="text-align: start;">1988 </span><span style="text-align: start;">message to the delegates at the Twentieth Anniversary Conference of the Club of Rome in </span><span style="text-align: start;">Paris, </span><span style="text-align: start;">Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh commented </span><span style="text-align: start;">"No generation has ever liked its prophets, least of all those who point out the consequences of bad judgement and lack of foresight. </span><span style="text-align: start;">The Club of Rome can take pride in the fact that it has been unpopular for the last twenty years. I hope it will continue for many years to come to spell out the unpalatable facts and to unsettle the conscience of the smug and apathetic".</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">5.1.1 New World Order I: World Communism, Club of Rome Tells G20 AUGUST 29, 2009</span></h4>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This article (</span><a href="http://nwoobserver.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/new-world-order-i-world-communism-club-of-rome-tells-g20/">http://nwoobserver.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/new-world-order-i-world-communism-club-of-rome-tells-g20/</a>) <span style="font-family: inherit;">says QUOTE: .. </span><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">Summary:</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">This is a review of a speech made by Club of Rome´s secretary-general before UNESCO at a meeting on 15 June. The Speech was presented to the G20 in London on 2 April – and to the G8 and the G5 as well. The secretary-general says that the Club of Rome has moved on to influencing world politics directly. He wants a strong climate policy, communist distribution of wealth in the world</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">, <a href="http://euro-med.dk/?p=9525" style="text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank" title="sustainability"><span style="color: black;">sustainability</span></a>, </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">reduction of our consumption, stop population to growth, radical restructuring of the </span><a href="http://euro-med.dk/?p=5139" style="font-family: inherit; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank" title="world government"><span style="color: black;">world government</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> now. Problems can only be solved together: global government for global problems. Otherwise unimaginable disaster awaits us. UNESCO will be used to indoctrinates world population accordingly.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">.. <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">the </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">threats of climate change and ecosystems collapse</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><strong>are real and imminent</strong></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"> and .. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">an inequitable and polarised world of rich and poor is morally unacceptable and presents major dangers of conflict, then it will be evident that the connected challenges of the 21st Century will only be contained and resolved through a </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">radical redesign and reform of the architecture of global governance .. UNQUOTE</strong></span><br />
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That final paragraph pulls into context much of what is discussed on this Global Political Shenanigans blog.<br />
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<b style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="read-font-plus3" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="read-font-plus3" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;">1) See "Population Control: John Holdren Also Wants to Sex You Down" (</span></span></span></b></span></b><a href="http://theintelhub.com/2012/02/15/population-control-john-holdren-also-wants-to-sex-you-down/">http://theintelhub.com/2012/02/15/population-control-john-holdren-also-wants-to-sex-you-down/</a>) <b style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="read-font-plus3" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="read-font-plus3" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="read-font-plus3" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="read-font-plus3" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">which says QUOTE: .. </span></span></b></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></b></span><b style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="read-font-plus3" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Preface of Ecoscience opens with:</span></span></b></b><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="read-font-plus3" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em>“Since the first edition of Population, Resources, Environment was published seven years ago [1970], the population of the world has grown by almost one-half billion people…. The realization has dawned that seemingly disparate events in the economic, environmental, and political spheres are interconnected. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">That civilization has entered a period of grave crisis is now doubted only by those afflicted with incurable Micawberism</span>; everyone who is alertable is alerted.”</em></span></span></b></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="read-font-plus3" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="read-font-plus3" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have indeed read one of Holdren’s recent works that reveals his clingy reverence for, and allegiance to, the gurus of population control authoritarianism. He’s just gotten smarter about cloaking it behind global warming hysteria. In 2007, he addressed the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference .. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="read-font-plus3" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="read-font-plus3" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Holdren admitted that his “preoccupation” with apocalyptic matters such as “the rates at which people breed” is a lifelong obsession inspired by scientist Harrison Brown .. UNQUOTE.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">5) It seems that Holdren is on the same wavelength as eco-extremist Polly Higgins who believes that "Trees Have Rights Too" (<a href="http://treeshaverightstoo.com/">http://treeshaverightstoo.com/</a>) and is trying to pursuade the UN to introduce a 5th Crime against Peace, the Crime of Ecocide (<a href="http://www.pollyhiggins.com/Polly_Higgins/Ecocide__5th_Crime_Against_Peace.html">http://www.pollyhiggins.com/Polly_Higgins/Ecocide__5th_Crime_Against_Peace.html</a>)!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>2012-09-17</b> The New American article "</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">GOP Platform Rejects UN Agenda 21 as Threat to Sovereignty" (</span><a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/12675-gop-platform-rejects-un-agenda-21-as-threat-to-sovereignty">http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/12675-gop-platform-rejects-un-agenda-21-as-threat-to-sovereignty</a>) <span style="font-family: inherit;">provides an interesting insight into the position of the Republican Party. It includes </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px;">" .. We strongly reject the U.N. Agenda 21 as erosive of American sovereignty, and we oppose any form of U.N. Global Tax .. ”. Enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is a transcript of the Question & Answer session that followed Professor Lindzen’s widely reported and debated presentation made in the Palace of Westminster at the invitation of the UK’s Campaign to Repeal the Climate Change Act (<a href="http://repealtheact.org.uk/">http://repealtheact.org.uk/</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Copies of Professor Lindzen’s slides and Audio-Visual recordings of the presentation and the Q&A session are available at http://repealtheact.org.uk/videos or at <a href="http://impactofcc.blogspot.com/2012/02/campaign-to-repeal-climate-change-act.html">http://impactofcc.blogspot.com/2012/02/campaign-to-repeal-climate-change-act.html</a> (slides and presentation A/Vs)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">00:35 mins: from <span style="color: red;">???</span> “Do you think that it’s possible to infer from the work of <span style="color: red;">??? (00:40)</span> of proxy measurements of carbon dioxide levels and temperature levels of the Earth to argue that way to say that there isn’t a likelihood of tipping points from the positive feed-back side of the argument?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">00:57 mins: by Lindzen “It all depends on what you mean by tipping points. I’ve always assumed that what they mean is that after crossing one <span style="color: red;">(?01:05)</span> – and I think that the history of the Earth is that there has been no such tipping point.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">01:10 mins: from <span style="color: red;">???</span> “There has been a report recently from the Japanese television station that the Japanese IBUKI climate satellite has revealed data showing that the areas showing the greatest CO2 emissions are areas of vegetation whereas the industrial areas like the concreted North America and here show the least. Would you put any credibility on that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">01:42 mins. by Lindzen “That’s not new. It’s one big anomaly that the carbon cycle involves very large changes of which the anthropogenic component if a small percentage. The argument has always been that the changes due to vegetation and everything else are “natural and in balance” and the industrial contribution is small but an imbalance. In favour of that, to be fair, is the argument that the increases in the amount of the CO2 in the atmosphere are of the order of – actually they are only half of – the industrial output, so it is not as though the changes are completely out of line. Who knows what the truth is, because there’s still an open question as to how much changes in temperature have created the imbalance and the increase in CO2. For the moment I would be hard-pressed to argue it can’t be industrial.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">03:06 mins: from UKIP MEP Stuart Agnew “A question and a statement – the question is I’m a little bit puzzled that earlier in the talk you said that an increase in the carbon dioxide will increase the temperature but not by very much yet later in the talk you said that Al Gore’s graph actually shows that the rise in temperature came before the increase in carbon dioxide. I thought that is what I heard you say. Can I just refer you to something else. I’m a Member of the European Parliament. You may have heard about something called the European Citizens’ Initiative. The Poles are very keen to do what we are trying to do here which is to suspend the energy and climate package that Brussels has got. The Poles need six other partners – need seven other people, seven other countries to organise the collection of a million votes so I hope that somebody in this room will decide to represent Great Britain and get the thing rolling from here. Thank you.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">04:10 Mins: by Lindzen “There’s nothing that I can say about that, I mean that’s a statement not a question – oh, how do I account for .. it’s not conflicting. It is known that CO2 can be affected by the temperature. In other words there is a … the simplest example is let’s say carbonated water. As you heat it the bubbles escape and the carbon dioxide is released. You have something similar in the buffering system of the upper ocean. So it is known that increases in temperature will cause increased CO2 and that looks like what’s going on in Gore’s picture. The CO2 increases – decreases after the temperature decreases. Subsequent measurements, not on that diagram, show that the same thing is true at the other end. I’m simply saying that OK, now the CO2 changes, that in principle can cause a change in temperature but that’s a pretty meagre effect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">05:27 mins: from Martin Lack “Professor Lindzen sir, I count it a privilege to be here today to hear you speak. I’m also grateful to Philip Foster for inviting me. I have a geological background and sir if you’ll forgive me there are many .. ”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">05:57 mins: from Martin Lack “There are many questions that I’d like to ask you but I’ll just .. in order to stick to .. I’ll stick to one. In order to answer the question you’ll need a little bit of context. You did mention paleo-climatology I think and you had a graph on the screen of the last 1 million years and our 7 or so glacial inter-glacials??? and you mentioned the time lag between CO2 and temperature changes and indeed you mentioned the 200-800 years. What I think failed to mention is the fact that that time lag is due to Milankovitch cycles with the wobbles in the Earth’s axis causing temperature changes which the Earth has to then correct by transferring CO2 between the ocean and the atmosphere. OK, so the CO2 is in effect like the Earth’s thermostat but what we are dealing with now, we have induced CO2 change. The Earth still has a thermostat and in order to rectify that energy imbalance between inward and outward radiation the Earth must increase its temperature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So I consider – it seems to me a little bit bazaar to not even mention, not even acknowledge that fact. The temperature lag in the inter-glacial glacial is irrelevant. The important thing is that the Earth regulates its temperature .. ”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">13:56 mins. By Lindzen “Two separate questions. Roy and us, Spencer, Braswell, myself, Troy are lookng at much the same thing, getting much the same results. Where we’re differing is in methodologies for how you deal with lags, you know there’s engineering methodology of looking at the phase space. That seems to be too noisy. We think it’s sorted, but basically our stuff is supportive. When you get to Svensmark – a diffent issue. The issue of cloudiness and cosmic rays is a much subtler issue than people think. You always will get clouds. You don’t need cosmic rays to produce clouds that would not otherwise occur, but they occur certainly at a different level. They might have a different concentration of super-cooled droplets that would have different optical properties, so Svensmark is showing that cosmic rays could affect clouds. It would not be a feedback, it would be another cloud variation that is obscuring the feedback but it is something that would be relevant to what I mentioned, you know, that if, you know, 5 degrees with a doubling of CO2 then your almost against the vertical portion of the graph and then something like Svensmark’s mechanism could bring you over the top by simply changing the property of the clouds that are being fed back. So, yeh, its says that feedback factor won’t be constant. There are other things causing fluctuations and in the case of feedbacks that could alter the feedback factor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> 16:07 mins: by Lindzen “OK, first let me issue a caveat. This I something that I am not an expert on – of carbon chemistry, but there are different time-scales, so for instance one of the things that is being cited is let’s say you have an equilibrating system and the disequilibration decays exponentially. Nevertheless it can be argued that - let’s say the exponential time-scale’s 50 years – that even in a million years you still have something. It’s not yet zero. Is that of any interest to anyone? I doubt it but that is sometimes what is being referred to. The exponential thing would be the statement that if I perturbed the equilibrium what is the effective time-scale for it to mostly – 2/3rds of the way on return to equilibrium. That’s almost certainly 50 years. The reason I say that is, if I assume that they’re correct the increase of CO2 is due to man’s emissions, the emissions themselves have been e-folding??? over most of the industrial period with a time-scale of almost 50 years. In an equilibrating system the fact that you see only half of what was emitted to the atmosphere is suggesting that the relaxation time of the system is also of about 50 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">17:52 Mins: from Piers Corbyn “Richard, yes, you’ve shown us very ably that CO2 isn’t a problem, indeed you told me this years ago in a meeting of the Royal Society. The problem of course is the politics which flows from this nonsense, however, I do want to ask you a scientific question, which is you’ve shown us why the CO2 theory essentially doesn’t work so the question is could there be more things we haven’t yet got to grips with which show even its effect is zero, such as for example the assumption is a sort of semi-static system whereas in fact we’ve got dynamical systems with temperature fluctuations in the upper atmosphere all the time. Now could it be that feedback’s there because the 4th power of a mean is less that the mean of a 4th power, could it be that in fact considering dynamical changes would that even make the CO2 effect come to zero?” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">19:42 mins: from <span style="color: red;">????</span> “I wonder if I can get you to comment on the ideas of Jim Zacos for example which were published widely in the National Geographic in October last year about the significance of the <span style="color: red;">peri???</span> Internal maximum <span style="color: red;">????</span>. You will remember it requires an input of 1000 gigatons of carbon into the atmosphere, the ocean became acidic, the temperature went up by 5 degrees and they’re using their hard geological evidence as an analogue for what we may be doing to the system at the moment so I wonder if you’d care to comment on that?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">20:21 mins: by Lindzen “Yeh, I mean the Eocene is a fascinating issue. It’s a primary .. As you know there are certain controversial aspects of it. A long time ago not just Zacos but Zacos and others had estimated that the temperature changes at the equator were minimal, might even have been cooling and that you had a vast reduction in the equator to pole temperature difference in winter. The measurements of CO2 have never supported a large increase in CO2 during this period. Only recently have people returned to that. The first estimate of high CO2 was Berner and when I asked Berner how he got it he said he assumed th emodels were correct. So, the fact that he saw the temperature increase meant that the CO2 had to increase, so it wasn’t an independent confirmation. What’s happened of late
– and it’s something I’m personally interested in – you had attempts with the models to simulate this by cranking up CO2. The problem with the models was that they gave you as much temperature increase at the equator as at the poles so they didn’t affect the pole to equator temperature difference. They just made everything higher. You now have people like <span style="color: red;">Huber???</span> coming in and saying that there’s no observational constraint on the temperature at the equator. I don’t believe that. In addition there’s something that they’re not aware of and that’s something new. If I look at the temperature difference between the equator and pole at about 5 kilometres, today in the Earth’s atmosphere that difference is no different from what you had at the Eocene at the surface. It’s about half the temperature difference that you have at the surface. The whole business of the difference at the surface is the Arctic inversion and there’s almost no work on that. That suggests that this may be an instability of ice, that you have an anomalous period, you get ice, you get inversion, it spreads the isotherms at least pole-ward by about 50 degrees and Zacos I think is just joining a band-wagon with that recent thing in the National Geographic. I’m surprised .. because he had a lot of good papers before .. just accurately laid out.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">23:57 mins by Lindzen “I don’t feel guilty on this count. I mean, I’m reminded from your remark there was an English mathematician that some of you may know the name of, Watson. He wrote a huge tomb on Bessel Functions and it had a bibliography that extended for forty pages. In the last edition of this book Bessel Functions he has a preface in which he acknowledges that the bibliography has not expended greatly from the previous edition but he dais after 30 years his interest in Bessel Functions has waned.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">24:36 mins: from <span style="color: red;">????</span> “I’d like to make a political point. Do you know, as an American, that it seems to be a required indoctrination in schools that Gore’s – Al Gore’s – you know, documentary is <span style="color: red;">???</span> view.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">24:50 mins: by Lindzen “Yeh, there are places where it is shown, it’s been shown widely. It is encouraged in the schools. There are people who are fighting this. It has not reached the courts yet but the problems are multiple and part of it is In America at least – and I don’t know how it is in the UK – the primary qualification to teach science is a degree in education and not science. So you have teachers who wouldn’t know science if they saw it and th ekids – the good part of that is the kids know that. To assume children are completely <span style="color: red;">copular rossa ????</span> is probably a mistake. They can tell phoneyness and so I don’t see young people being completely indoctrinated by it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">26:06 by Lindzen “You know, certainly the primary driver – what do you mean, the fluctuations?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">26:16 mins: by Lindzen “Well, of course, you know, it’s essentially a planet heated by the Sun and responding. It’s also a planet that has been reasonably stable in climate for 4 ½ billion years during which time the Sun has changed a great deal, so there must be something more to it and when we’re talking about the last 150 years the changes are completely compatible with the internal changes which require external changes. We’re talking about tenths of a degree. So when people ask what’s the driver well yes, in some sense the Sun is essential to driving the system but then it doesn’t mean that if I’m looking at it for 100 years and I see fluctuations that it has to be the Sun. The system has plenty of other degrees of freedom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">27:13 mins: by Lord Monckton “Ladies and gentlement it remains only for me to say the very warmerst and most heart-felt thanks to our kind speaker. It’s very rare in either house of our Parliament that somebody comes to us and speaks with such an engaging combination of clarity and authority born of profound study and prolonged meditation and with such an entire absence of political spin. From that, we have a lot to learn, but I think that all of us, Sir, have learnt a great deal about how the climate hangs together, the various influences - some of which we can model, some of which frankly we cannot - and the likelihood or un-likelihood that we are likely to see anything in the way of major warming and even if there were, major catastrophe arising from that warming. I agree with the gentleman at the back that I wish there were more scientists who, like Dick Lindzen, have been going around - in his case for the last 30 years and more - giving talks like this to legislators and also to the public and getting the scientific facts across and having to endure, as everyone does who dares to question this particular new superstition, the vilification and ad-hominem attacks of those who are entirely incapable of arguing with the elegance and authority that you have treated us to here today, Professor. So I ask everyone to give the very warmest thanks to Professor Richard Lindzen”.</span></div>
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1300-Year History of Atmosheric CO2<br />
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“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge .. the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress.”<br />
by American historian Daniel Joseph Boorstin<br />
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This work-in-progress investigates the validity of attempts by scientists to reconstruct past atmospheric CO2 concentrations using air recovered from ice sheets and glaciers. This air is considered by some to remain virtually unchanged for the decades, centuries and millennia that it is enclosed within pores that form in the ice as it is compressed. Geologist Professor Richard Alley has gone as far as referring to the ice-core record as the "Gold Standard" for determining past atmospheric CO2 content - but is it?.<br />
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Falling snow brings with it the components of the atmospheric air in which it formed and fell. As it builds up on the surface the snow's structure changes. It becomes " Firn .. partially compacted granular snow that is the intermediate stage between snow and glacial ice .. formed under the pressure of overlying snow by the processes of compaction, re-crystallization, localized melting, and the crushing of individual snowflakes. This process is thought to take a period of about one year .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.britannica.com/science/firn&source=gmail&ust=1593603277780000&usg=AFQjCNHIfJ3aVXdtvASnTMO5pn2EhPfs3Q" href="https://www.britannica.com/science/firn" target="_blank">https://www.britannica.com/<wbr></wbr>science/firn</a>).<br />
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Initially firn has pores through which air can circulate. As it gradually builds up, pores in lower firn are compressed and the deep firn becomes fully lithified as ice, where the pores are sealed off, leaving bubbles of air. The process towards lithification takes many decades or centuries, depending upon weather conditions which vary over time and space for each individual location.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Fig. 1 Illustration of the vertical structure of an Ice Sheet </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">(from </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/research/drill_analysing/cutting_and_analysing_ice_cores/analysing_gasses/firn_zone/">http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/research/drill_analysing/cutting_and_analysing_ice_cores/analysing_gasses/firn_zone/</a>)</span></div>
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The upper firn, with a density of less than 400kg/m3, is macro-porous (porosity of around 70%) and all constituent gases plus new atmospheric air can diffuse readily within it. In the deeper firn, where the density approaches 800kg/m3, pores have been so reduced in size by compaction that the firn is meso-porous.<br />
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In the solid ice below the firn migration of gases is restricted to hopping between defects in the crystal <span style="font-family: inherit;">lattice, two such defects being interstitials and vacancies (see </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Para 5.5.3 of </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span><span class="fn" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span dir="ltr">Ice Ph</span></span><span class="fn" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"><span dir="ltr">ysics</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">", by Peter V Hobbs - </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Physics-Oxford-Classic-Physical-Sciences/dp/019958771X">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Physics-Oxford-Classic-Physical-Sciences/dp/019958771X</a>)<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit;">. </span></div>
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From the top of an ice sheet or glacier to its base there is a gradually reducing ice porosity (see Footnotes 1b and 2 of this sub-section). As a consequence, enclosed gases experience different types of diffusion. Researchers have identified five relevant diffusion regimes; gaseous (or molecular), Knudsen, liquid, configurational and atomic (in solids). This is discussed further in Section 2.0, Footnotes 2-5.</div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">1a) </b>Measurements on an ice core from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide site show the somewhat erratic (<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1d1e;">high‐resolution -</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #8e7cc3;">light purple</span>) but gradually (mean black line) increasing density of firn with depth.<br />
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The University of Copenhagen's Neils Bohr Institute Centre for Ice and Climate proclaims that <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">" </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">.. Air bubbles trapped in polar ice sheets reveal the composition of the atmosphere of the past. Ice cores from the large ice sh</span>eets show that the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases, in particular CO2 and CH4, have risen tremendously over the past 100 years compared to past natural levels .. "</span><br />
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An article to which it links includes a graph purporting to show how atmospheric CO2, CH4 and temperature have fluctuated during the past 800,000 years (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/research/past_atmos/composition_greenhouse/&source=gmail&ust=1592409359987000&usg=AFQjCNE9Y4L2nc4qHt322cUtO9E2GPcNfg" href="http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/research/past_atmos/composition_greenhouse/" target="_blank">http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.<wbr></wbr>ku.dk/research/past_atmos/<wbr></wbr>composition_greenhouse/</a>).<br />
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The bulk of the graph is a reconstruction using measurements of air recovered from ice cor<span style="font-family: inherit;">es drilled at the <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;">European Project for Ice Coring in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;">Antarctica</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;"> (</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;">EPICA</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;">) Dome C site (</span></span><a href="https://www.nature.com/collections/xrrdzjdblm#podcast">https://www.nature.com/collections/xrrdzjdblm#podcast</a>)<span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">T</span>hat air has allegedly been "trapped" within Antarctic ice for decades, centuries and millennia with its composition remaining virtually unchanged.</div>
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Conveniently spliced onto a tiny fraction at the end of the 800,000 year reconstruction is an almost vertical line connecting to much higher CO2 and CH4 measurements. made in 2009 on samples of atmospheric air. Those 2009 values appear to have been obtained from samples taken at several measurement sites set up during the last 50 years (see Footnotes 1 and 2 of this sub-section). The scary impression given is that greenhouse gases have been rising at an unprecedented rate to unprecedented heights in recent decades, forcing global temperatures to do the same. </div>
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It is recognised that migration of atmospheric gasses within the porous solid firn causes a low-pass filtering effect on gas concentrations. The degree of filtering is specific to the particular gas and equivalent filtering appears not to have been applied to the direct air measurements spliced on the end of the graphs. </div>
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The objective of this article is to try to better understand how the molecules of the atmospheric gases, particularly N2, O2, CO2 and CH4 move within an ice sheet or glacier. Although there are interesting questions about snow flake formation and the progressive weathering/compaction processes depicted in Fig. 1, this article focuses on what happens during the period when the Lock-in-Zone (LIZ) of the deep firn is gradually being compressed through "close-off" of channels connecting air pockets.</div>
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Aspects of this issue were discussed in the 1992 paper “Do Glaciers Tell A True Atmospheric CO2 Story?” by Z. Jaworowski, T. V. Segalstad and N. Ono, along with several subsequent papers and articles by Segalstad and Jaworowski.<br />
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In his 1<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">997 article "<span style="text-align: center;">Carbon cycle modelling and </span><span style="text-align: center;">the residence time of natural and </span><span style="text-align: center;">anthropogenic atmospheric CO</span><sub style="text-align: center;">2</sub><span style="text-align: center;">: </span><span style="text-align: center;">on the construction of the </span><span style="text-align: center;">"Greenhouse Effect Global Warming" dogma." Dr. </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Segalstad commented " .. the ice core </span>CO2 results are not representative of paleoatmospheres .. hence the CO2-ice-core-method and its results must be rejected .. " (<a href="http://folk.uio.no/tomvs/esef/ESEF3VO2.htm">http://folk.uio.n</a><a href="http://folk.uio.no/tomvs/esef/ESEF3VO2.htm">o/tomvs/esef/ESEF3VO2.htm</a>)</div>
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Dr. Jaworowski said in his 1998 paper "Ancient Atmosphere - Validity of ice records" (<a href="http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02986939#page-1">http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02986939#page-1</a>) QUOTE:<br />
.. The fractionation of atmospheric gases in ice sheets was observed and discussed since the beginning of CO2 studies in ice in the 1950s .. Stauffer and Berner (1978) concluded that due to fractionation processes "the CO2 content of ancient air is neither directly preserved in the total CO2 concentration (in the ice) not in the CO2 concentration in the bubbles". Although no experimental evidence contradicting this statement has since been presented, the current opinion seems to be opposite ..<span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"> In the early publications, CO2 concentrations recorded in the bubbles from pre-industrial and ancient ice were often higher than in the present atmosphere. After 1985, the high readings reported by (NEFTEL et al. 1982) from the Byrd core of 325 and 417 ppmv have disappeared without explanation (NEFTEL et al. 1988). In this latter paper the highest value reported was 290 ppmv, and the pre-industrial mean concentration was calculated at 280 ppmv, supporting carbon cycle models used for greenhouse warming predictions .. The quality of ice cores as a material for the reconstruction of the past atmospheric composition is questionable .. the air bubbles ,, do not fulfil the absolutely essential closed system criterion .. </span>UNQUOTE.<br />
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There have been extensive discussions about this with numerous scientists and others, including those who give their full support to the CACC doctrine (Appendix A, Note <b>4</b>), initially in Dec. 2009 on the blog of science student Chris Colose following his article “<a href="http://chriscolose.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/richard-alley-at-agu-2009-the-biggest-control-knob/">Richard Alley at AGU 2009: The Biggest Control Knob</a>”. These discussions focussed on the preferential fractionation of CO2 due to its smaller kinetic diameter but little progress was made there (see also Appendix A, Note <b>15</b>).</div>
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Presently the dry atmosphere comprises the following major gaseous components in these approximate proportions, nitrogen (N2) - 78%, oxygen (O2) - 21%, Argon (Ar) - 0.93%, carbon dioxide (CO2) - 0.04%), methane (CH4) - 0.0002% (<a href="http://www.warwickhughes.com/papers/barrett_ee05.pdf">http://www.warwickhughes.com/papers/barrett_ee05.pdf</a>). That is approximately the composition of the air before it is carried to the surface of ice sheets in remote places such as the Antarctic and Greenland from where the ice cores are recovered.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is significant uncertainty about how the atoms/molecules of the atmospheric gases O2, N2, Ar, CO2 and CH4 move during the process of "close-off" of the pores in the deepest firn during its lithification </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">towards solid ice - discussed further in </span>Section 3.0.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of particular concern here is the relevance of two (of several) common measures of molecular size, <b>collision</b> and <b>kinetic</b> diameters (but see Section 2.0, Footnote 1 and its para. 7) when considering what occurs as the size of pores approaches that of the individual molecules themselves. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">During this period of compression the firn progresses in stages from being a macro-porous medium through </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">meso- then micro-</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">porous to solid ice. </span>This is an important area of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change (CACC) research that has been given inadequate attention.<br />
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The diameter of the atoms that combine to form the different gas molecules present in atmospheric air cover a narrow range of only a few Angstroms (Å), i,e, tenths of a nanometer (see Appendix A, Note <b>6).</b> Researchers and designers of systems for purifying gas streams have relevant expertise in the movement of these and other gas molecules, e.g. those working on the purification of mine gas or the removal of pollutants from flue emissions. This is discussed further in Section 5 "Size-dependent Fractionation - Examples".<br />
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The results of research so far have disclosed that as far as molecular diameter is concerned, for N2, O2 Ar and CH4, there is little difference between collision and kinetic diameters at approximately 3.8Å and 3.6Å for N2, 3.5Å for O2, 3.5Å and 3.4Å for Ar and 3.8Å for CH4 respectively (see table in Section 3). On the other hand, the <b>collision</b> diameter for CO2 is higher than any of the others (3.9Å) but its <b>kinetic</b> diameter is smaller than all of the others (3.3Å). The question then is what significance does this have as far as possible preferential fractionation of CO2 during its meanderings within ice for decades, centuries and millennia before being extracted in a core and subjected to analysis (Appendix A, Notes <b>10 </b>and <b>17</b>)? </div>
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1) NOAA's measurement sites are: </div>
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- Barrow, Alaska, CO2 started in 1973, CH4 in 1986, </div>
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(see <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/insitu/index.html&source=gmail&ust=1592409359987000&usg=AFQjCNHzjtoVJdjAndBhHXbwi3Xv5W0iAw" href="https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/insitu/index.html" target="_blank">https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/<wbr></wbr>ccgg/insitu/index.html</a>)</div>
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2) Copenhagen U's Professor Thomas Blunier is the nominated person to be contacted for more information on the topic. He has failed to respond to related E-mails inviting him to comment on the issues raised herein. <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;">Associate</span> Professor <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anders Svensson did respond briefly, providing a copy of a 2006 GRL letter "</span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Law Dome CO2, CH4 and N2O ice core records extended to </span></span><span style="color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;">2000 years BP"</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">MacFarling Meure, et al. (</span><a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2006GL026152" style="text-align: start;">https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2006GL026152</a>).</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cathy_Trudinger/publication/240490870/figure/fig1/AS:340635891585035@1458225334160/The-Law-Dome-ice-core-and-firn-air-records-AD-1800-to-Present-top-CO-2-middle-CH.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Law Dome ice core and firn air records: AD 1800 to Present. (top) CO 2 , (middle) CH 4 and (bottom) N 2 O. Also shown are published Law Dome records and contemporary records from Cape Grim (deseasonalized flask, archive and in situ). Thin lines are spline fits (Enting, 1987): 20 year smoothing for CO 2 and CH 4 , and 40 year smoothing for N 2 O. Uncertainties associated with ice core air samples are graphically shown, firn air uncertainties are described in text. " border="0" height="180" src="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cathy_Trudinger/publication/240490870/figure/fig1/AS:340635891585035@1458225334160/The-Law-Dome-ice-core-and-firn-air-records-AD-1800-to-Present-top-CO-2-middle-CH.png" width="200" /></a></div>
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Discussions with numerous scientists (Appendix A, Note <b>16</b>) involved in ice core studies as well as with other interested individuals suggest that there is poor understanding within the paleo-climatology community of the specific issue of how the "size" (see Footnote 1 of this section) of the molecules of the different gases affects their movement through firn during the later stages of compaction. Researchers have recognised since at least 1995 that a degree of fractionation of atmospheric gases in firn does indeed take place.<br />
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At a November 1995 colloquium on ‘‘Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change’’ a paper "Gases in ice cores" was presented by researchers Bender, Sowers and Brook. They commented " .. The diffusivity of an element or compound decreases with
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gas and another (e.g., CO2 and CH4) in firn is different from
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In their 2005 Earth and Planetary Science letter "Evidence for molecular size dependent fractionation in firn air .. " Huber, Severinghouse, et al said " .. we <b>believe</b> that the effect of close-off fractionation is nonexistent or at least very small .. for large molecules, like Xe, Kr, N2, CO2, CH4, and N2O. This is an important confirmation for the integrity of polar ice cores as a climate archive of the ancient atmospheric composition of these gases .. ". Once again these ice core specialists choose to use collision, not kinetic diameter (see Table 2 of the letter).<br />
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The letter's authors said in the abstract that " .. for diameters greater than about 3.6 Å the fractionation seems to be significantly smaller or even negligible .. ". They also said " .. To constrain the model, we used the CO2 firn air measurements (Fig. 1). The model was forced with atmospheric CO2 concentration since 1750 from ice core data and measurements from Point Barrow .. Modeling the CO2 profile is a good tool to adjust the parameters of the relation between diffusivity and open porosity used in the model .. ".</div>
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As experts in the energy industry who design systems for separating gases such as O2, N2 and CO2 from natural gas (mainly CH4), it is the <b>kinetic </b>diameter of those molecules which is relevant, not the <b>collision </b>diameter preferred by ice core specialists.<br />
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As there was no worthwhile response from Copenhagen University ice core specialists Professors Blunier and Svennson (see sub-section 1.2 "Gold Standard or Fools Gold", Footnote 2) a co-worker/author was contacted. Utrecht University Professor Thomas<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> </b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Röckmann's </span></span>research focus appears to have been on the analysis of past and present atmospheric gas isotope ratio histories for CH4, N2O and CO, not the history of atmospheric CO2. He was the primary author, with Thomas Blunier et al. of "Isotope Variations in Atmospheric Methane Over the Last Two Millenia" (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/publications/annual_meetings/2012/abstracts/110-120409-A.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1593362197498000&usg=AFQjCNEDlRp5DXFoB9jzDz12MPTRbq2Ivw" href="https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/publications/annual_meetings/2012/abstracts/110-120409-A.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/<wbr></wbr>gmd/publications/annual_<wbr></wbr>meetings/2012/abstracts/110-<wbr></wbr>120409-A.pdf</a>)<span style="color: red;">*</span>.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">*</span> The attention of CACC sceptic Anthony Watts was drawn to two versions of this paper (see <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/want-to-make-a-paper-more-alarming-and-appealing-to-coverage-blame-the-romans-for-climate-change/&source=gmail&ust=1593362197498000&usg=AFQjCNFZWoUNov5kqL4lHnN059V9Md4lVQ" href="https://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/want-to-make-a-paper-more-alarming-and-appealing-to-coverage-blame-the-romans-for-climate-change/" target="_blank">https://wattsupwiththat.<wbr></wbr>wordpress.com/2012/10/04/want-<wbr></wbr>to-make-a-paper-more-alarming-<wbr></wbr>and-appealing-to-coverage-<wbr></wbr>blame-the-romans-for-climate-<wbr></wbr>change/</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">In 2003 </span></span>Professor <span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Röckmann</span> said that " .. Air trapped in .. firn and ice provides an important natural archive of the past atmospheric composition .. " (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/3/315/2003/acp-3-315-2003.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1593362197498000&usg=AFQjCNECtmVNL2wTe00_LPluFIG2-IdEjA" href="https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/3/315/2003/acp-3-315-2003.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.atmos-chem-phys.<wbr></wbr>net/3/315/2003/acp-3-315-2003.<wbr></wbr>pdf</a>). He and fellow scientists (many mentioned herein) may <b>believe</b> that evidence in air recovered from ancient ice is the best available record of past atmospheric composition. That hardly justifies regarding it as "the Gold Standard", as suggested by Professor Alley (see Appendix A, Note 1).</div>
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That needs to be taken into consideration alongside a comment by University of Cambridge ice-core specialist Dr. Eric Wolff, FRS,<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 17.92px;">Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Cambridge</span>. P</span>rofessor Wolff, an i<span style="font-family: inherit;">nternationally recognised expert and supporter of the CACC hypothesis (see Appendix A, Note 14) </span>leads the British Antarctic Survey team<span style="font-family: inherit;">. On 2nd May 2011 Professor Wolff said </span>“ .. I think that none of us has a definite molecular level understanding of the physical process occurring at close-off, and it would be great if someone can do the experiments in the lab to understand that better. But it won’t alter the empirical facts .. ” (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic%3D38675.msg354373%23msg354373&source=gmail&ust=1593263755275000&usg=AFQjCNEzvOhL-eOXWXEGNHx3hklO8X3pFg" href="https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=38675.msg354373#msg354373" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>thenakedscientists.com/forum/<wbr></wbr>index.php?topic=38675.<wbr></wbr>msg354373#msg354373</a> - see also Appendix A, Notes <b>12</b> and 14).<br />
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What Professor Wolff said suggests that these ice core specialists may not understand all relevant processes to the fundamental level, leaving room for misinterpretation of their research. Gas fractionation experts in the energy industry could provide ice core specialists with much-needed guidance. Sadly departed Professor Zbiniew Jaworowski, who repeatedly challenged the validity of the ice core record since 1992, said in an E-mail in June 2010 that “I am also not versatile in diffusion, and writing my paper in 1994 I was advised and enlightened by a geologist from the Norwegian oil industry, who was specializing in diffusion, a subject of great importance for oil industry. This is a highly specialized field of science. My impression is that it is a terra incognita for glaciologists” (see Appendix C).</div>
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As well as gravitational and thermal fractionation of the gases in air, further research by ice core specialists did identify a third cause of preferential fractionation arising from the difference in size of their atoms/molecules. In 2006 Severinghaus and Battle (see sub-section 4.3) reported that air withdrawn from polar firn showed systematic enrichment in the firn–ice transition region of Ne, O2 and Ar compared with N2 (a larger molecule than the other three - see the table in Section 3.0) with air from the bubbles being correspondingly depleted. Those gases appear to be preferentially excluded from the shrinking and occluding bubbles, progressively depleting the air in the bubbles and enriching the firn air over time and depth. In simple terms, the smaller molecules are squeezed out of the older (deeper) into younger (higher) levels of the ice.<br />
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In their 2003 paper "The Use of Molecular Probes for the Characterization of Nanoporous Adsorbents" (<a href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7275/ea66a319acc12addd17aac0be08e2215cbc3.pdf">https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7275/ea66a319acc12addd17aac0be08e2215cbc3.pdf</a>) Sing and Williams discuss the characterisation of synthetic zeolites. They list the molecular probes used for characterisation in the order of increasing kinetic (not collision) diameter - see their Table 1. They go on to comment " .. In the early work on molecular sieve zeolites the van
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1) It should be noted that the molecules in question here should not be regarded as hard, inert balls with a fixed diameter, however, such a simple model is adequate for a basic understanding of size-dependent fractionation of gases.</div>
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2) A sound understanding of the movement of gases like N2, O2, CO2, CH4 in porous media is fundamental within the fossil fuel industry. This well-researched part of the energy industry provides relevant knowledge for paleo-climatologists working in areas such as the analysis of ice cores.</div>
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3) Ice cores are porous crystalline structures in which porosity is graded with depth. An important form of well-researched porous material used in the energy industry are Zeolites " .. porous, crystalline alumino-silicates. Their well-defined lattice structures contains cavities and/or channel intersections connected to each other by channels (also called windows or pores) of molecular dimensions ..</div>
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4) Molecules should not be viewed as rigid spheres, nor should zeolite channels be viewed as rigid walls. For the case where molecular diameter is close to but still smaller than the zeolite channel diameter, molecules might experience a net attraction when passing through the channels; If molecular diameter is slightly larger than the zeolite channel diameter, molecules might experience a net repulsive force instead. If molecular diameter is much larger than channel diameter, molecules can no longer enter the zeolite due to the strong repulsive force from the channels. .. Neither zeolite channel diameter nor molecular diameter can be described by a well-defined number. The diameter of an atom, such as oxygen, is difficult to define explicitly .. </div>
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5) There are four well-known types of diffusion: gaseous (or molecular) diffusion .., Knudsen diffusion .. , liquid diffusion .. and atomic diffusion in solids .. In porous media exposed to a gas phase, gaseous diffusion retains its characteristics so long as the pore size is much larger than the mean free path of the molecules. Molecules collide with each other after travelling an average distance equivalent to their mean free path with the average kinetic speed determined by the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. When the pore size is smaller than the mean free path, collisions between molecules and the wall occur more frequently than collisions among molecules themselves. The average distance traveled before collisions approximately equals the pore diameter. Knudsen diffusion results ..</div>
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For solids, an atom vibrates about its equilibrium position due to the strong bonding with neighboring atoms. The atomic vibrational mode with its frequency, v, becomes responsible for diffusion. In one unit of time, the atom makes v passes at the energy barrier presented by its neighbors, with a probability exp(-E/kT) of surmounting the barrier on each try. The jump length is often related to a, the lattice constant (Kittle, 1976) .. </div>
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Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski (Appendix A, Note 5) was respected by sceptics of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change (CAC) hypothesis for his persistent criticism of claims that air “trapped” in ice for decades, centuries and millennia provided a reliable record of past atmospheric composition. Despite the unfounded claims that his arguments had been refuted by scientists who support the CACC hypothesis, Jaworowski remained resolute in his persistent rejection of the claim that ice cores provide a “Gold Standard”.<br />
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Professor Jaworowski is not the only scientist to have questioned the validity of this “Gold Standard”. Even those who support it acknowledge mechanisms that Jaworowski argued could distort the ice-core paleo-record over time. For example, in their 1993 paper “The Ice Record of Greenhouse Gases” (<a href="http://www.csun.edu/~hmc60533/CSUN_311/article_references/Sc_Feb93_IceRecordGHgases.pdf">http://www.csun.edu/~hmc60533/CSUN_311/article_references/Sc_Feb93_IceRecordGHgases.pdf</a>) Raynaud et al. acknowledged four of the processes that Jaworowski expressed concerns about QUOTE: ..(i) .. physi .. and chemisorption of gases on the surfaces of snow and ice ..(ii) .. the separation .. of gases in the firn ..(iii) .. alteration of .. composition by formation of air hydrates .. or by drilling ..(iv) .. alteration by chemical between the gases and the ice on long time scales .. the second of which is relevant to this article.<br />
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In their excellent 1992 paper “Do glaciers tell a true atmospheric CO2 story?” (<a href="http://www.co2web.info/stoten92.pdf">http://www.co2web.info/stoten92.pdf</a>) Professor Jaworowski et al. discussed the flaws in the claim of an ice-core “gold standard” and many of the physical/chemical processes that distort the composition of air during its long sojourn in the ice. They also challenged the manner in which the air/ice age difference is (gu)es(s)timated in order to fit with measurements at Mauna Loa.</div>
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In August 2011 atmospheric physicist Professor Murry L Salby, who at the time (Appendix A, Note <b>9</b>) had been Chair of Climate at the Faculty of Science of Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia since 2008, gave a presentation to the Sydney Institute on the topic of “Global Emission of CO2: The Contribution from Natural Sources” (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrI03ts--9I&feature=youtu.be">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrI03ts--9I&feature=youtu.be</a>). In this presentation Professor Salby made a brief reference to the ice core record of past atmospheric CO2 concentration but in the subsequent Question and Answer session he made the point (at 48 minutes) that the pitfall is that people take the ice record of CO2 literally but that this is not atmospheric CO2. He said that he did not believe that it was CO2 that was in the atmosphere when that piece of snow was laid down.</div>
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Professor Salby gave much more detailed presentations on the subject of the “Relationship between Greenhouse Gases and Global Temperature” (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ROw_cDKwc0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ROw_cDKwc0</a>), first at the Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg on 18th April 2013 then at a <span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Cambridge Centre </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">for</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Climate Science (CCfCS) seminar on 22nd April 2013 (</span><a href="http://www.talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/44760">http://www.talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/44760</a>)<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">. I</span><span style="background-color: white;">n November 2013 h</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">e followed up with similar presentations </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">on “Climate: What we know and what we don’t” to audiences in</span> Edinburgh (<a href="http://scottishsceptic.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/report-lecture-by-prof-salby-7th-nov-2013/">http://scottishsceptic.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/report-lecture-by-prof-salby-7th-nov-2013/</a>) and London in November 2013 (see Appendix A, Note <b>7</b>). In these he looked more closely at the significance of the ice core record (see Appendix A, Note <b>8</b>), opining that non-conservative influences would cause past atmospheric CO2 to be significantly underestimated, so it is likely that the recent rise in CO2 is not unprecedented. He proposed a damping mechanism such as diffusion to explain an anomaly between the behaviour of CO2 in the actual atmosphere and that seen in the proxy record from the ice core, stating “Non-conservative influences inherent in the proxy record enable past atmospheric changes to be significantly UNDERESTIMATED”.</div>
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Professor Salby suggested that the ice core proxy CO2 record underestimates the fluctuations in concentration of atmospheric CO2 to an extent that increases with core depth, pointing out how diffusion, first in the firn but continuing thereafter, reduced the amplitude of fluctuations. He showed how the annual variations shown in proxy record from the firn were lower than (perhaps ½ of) the true atmospheric concentration such as those shown in the Mauna Loa record. He went on to suggest that the proxy record from much deeper in the core could be an order of magnitude lower.</div>
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It appears that this arises because of diffusion, unhindered for several decades in the firn but continuing with increasing difficulty even beneath close-off of the firn, within the “solid” ice for centuries, millennia, etc. As discussed above, this eventually leads to size-dependent preferential fractionation of the atmospheric components having the smallest molecules. It appears that the most relevant measure of molecular size under the restricted diffusion conditions within “solid” ice is kinetic diameter which for CO2 is 0.33nm. That compares with N2 (0.36), O2 (0.35), Ar (0.34) and CH4 (0.38). In other words, CO2 will continue escaping from air pockets within the ”solid” ice long after other significant gases are too large to escape, i.e. reducing the CO2 concentration in the mixture that remains trapped in the air pockets.</div>
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As is to be expected, ice-core specialist and CACC-supporter Professor Eric Wolff (see Appendix A, Note 14) took exception to Professor Salby's claims and responded with a short article "Ice core measurements of trace gases". Professor Wolff presented what he saw as " .. the main evidence that the ice core record of CO2 is a good representation of the past atmospheric concentration, and that the record is not consistent with the changes I think he believes must have occurred .. " (<a href="http://www.climatescience.cam.ac.uk/community/file/download/843">http://www.climatescience.cam.ac.uk/community/file/download/843</a>). Included as the second of his two most important pieces of "evidence" was that 1000-year "hockey stick" reconstruction shown at the start of this article. He opined that " .. This slide shows that CO2 rose out of what had been a very small variability in about 1830 .. It always remained in the range 170‐300 ppmv (compare the graph on the right and values in 2013 of about 395 ppmv) .. ".</div>
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Professor Wolff then goes on to opine " .. that when the bubbles are broken open to analyse the air, one is actually measuring the<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> concentration of CO2 in the air sample just as if it was from a flask collected from air </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">today .. "!! He then presented his "evidence" that CO2 in ice is a good representation of CO2 in the air when the bubbles closed, based upon the research reported in the 1996 paper "</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 14px;">Natural and anthropogenic changes in atmospheric CO</span><sub style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: nowrap;">2</sub><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 14px;"> over the last 1000 years from air in Antarctic ice and firn" </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">by Etheridge et al.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">It should be noted that the Etheridge et al. paper makes no mention of size-dependent fractionation of atmospheric gases during the long period when the firn is being compacted into "solid" ice. 10 years later the paper "</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evidence for molecular size dependent gas fractionation in firn air derived from noble gases, oxygen, and nitrogen measurements" </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">by </span><span style="background-color: white;">Huber et al. </span><span style="background-color: white;">presented evidence of significant preferential fractionation taking place for the smaller gases He, Ne and even O2 (see Figure 8 of the paper</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">In their 2006 paper "</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fractionation of gases in polar ice during bubble close-off: New constraints from firn air Ne, Kr and Xe observations" (</span><a href="http://icebubbles.ucsd.edu/Publications/closeoff_EPSL.pdf" style="font-family: inherit;">http://icebubbles.ucsd.edu/Publications/closeoff_EPSL.pdf</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">) Severinghaus and Battle discussed the size-dependent fractionation of Ne, Ar and O2. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Severinghaus and Battle chose to simply infer that such fractionation did not take place for CO2 (see Table 1 in the paper) despite CO2 having a smaller diameter than O2. That inference was based upon the arguments in the Etheridge et al. paper that firn air CO2 concentration was the same as air extracted from bubbles at the same depth, the assumption being made that the air pockets were completely sealed at the chosen depth.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">It is noteworthy that in their Table 1 "Molecular size and observed fractionation in firn air" the fractionation figures for O2, Ar and Ne (all of which have collision diameters of less than 3.6Å) are OBSERVED figures. On the other hand the figure of 0 shown for fractionation of CO2 (collision diameter of 3.9Å) is merely INFERRED from firn and bubble air observations reported in the 1996 paper "Natural and anthropogenic changes in atmospheric CO2 over the last 1000 years from air in Antarctic ice and firn" by Etheridge et al. (</span><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/95JD03410/abstract" style="text-align: justify;">http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/95JD03410/abstract</a><span style="text-align: justify;">).</span></div>
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Severinghaus and Battle regard <b>collision</b> diameter, not the <b>kinetic</b> diameter, to be the relevant measure of mo<span style="font-family: inherit;">lecular size. That measure may be relevant in the relatively open structure of the higher levels of firn, in the snow above and even in the atmosphere. <span style="background-color: white;">In the meso-porous t</span><span style="background-color: white;">o micro-</span><span style="background-color: white;">porous structure of the deeper firn</span>, as it approaches close-off and lithification into "solid" ice, it is the <b>kinetic </b>diameter which is relevant. The kinetic diameter of CO2 (3.3Å) is smaller than N2 (3.8Å), O2 (3.5Å), Ar (3.5Å) and CH4 (3.8Å) - see the table in Section 3.0. This implies that CO2 can continue diffusing through the micro-porous parts of the firn into higher, more porous levels well after the other gases are cons</span>trained by their size in relation to the size of the interconnecting channels between pockets of air. Also, this smaller size means that CO2 is likely to diffuse more readily within the "solid" ice after full close-off to all gases than larger gas species such as N2, O2, Ar and CH4.<br />
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In May 1993 Professor J. Douglas Way (Appendix A, Note <b>19</b>) reported on research undertaken " .. to investigate the transport mechanism in microporous, metal oxide membranes and to examine the relationship between the microstructure of the membrane, the membrane surface chemistry, and the separation performance of the membrane .. A further objective is to use molecular dynamics to simulate the transport of penetrants in pores of molecular dimensions .. " (<a href="http://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/10118702">http://www.osti.gov/scitech/servlets/purl/10118702</a>).</div>
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- 1. The permeability of gases with kinetic diameters of 2.89Å to 3.9Å were measured through microporous silica hollow fiber membranes over the temperature range 298 K to 473 K at 20 atm feed gas pressure. Permeabilities ranged from 0.01 Barrer to 1000Barrer and were inversely proportional to the kinetic diameter of the penetrant.<br />
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<b>1)</b> Geologist Dr. Richard Alley, <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "palatino" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Evan Pugh Professor of </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "palatino" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">Geosciences </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "palatino" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">(</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "palatino" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.geosc.psu.edu/sites/default/files/Alley_vita_long_aug13.pdf">http://www.geosc.psu.edu/sites/default/files/Alley_vita_long_aug13.pdf</a>)</span></span> is another staunch supporter of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change (CACC) hypothesis. Like Professor Michael Mann, originator of the (in?)famous global temperature hockey stick so enthusiastically promoted by the IPCC in its 2001 Third Assessment Report, Professor Alley hails from Penn State University. In the autumn of 2009 he gave the Bjerknes Lecture at the American Geophysical Union, giving it the title "The Biggest Control Knob: Carbon dioxide in Earth's climate history" (<a href="http://vimeo.com/34099316">http://vimeo.com/34099316</a>).</div>
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Within the first 5 minutes of his somewhat over-excited presentation Dr. Alley acknowledged that as far as work on ice cores is concerned " .. I don't actually do that but I talk about it .. I teach history of the Earth's climate .. ". He then went on to claim that " .. CO2 keeps being the only explanation for a lot of what happened which is validated .. So far the only thing which really works is .. the CO2 rock-weathering thermostat .. The CO2 thermostat takes half a million years or so to work, which means it's possible to get fairly large fluctuations in temperature before this thermostat brings it back. .. How do we know CO2 in the past? Our gold standard it the ice cores. You drill and ice core. You break the bubbles. You suck the CO2 out. You measure the concentration .. We have high confidence that the ice core record really is good .. ".<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>2) </b>C</span>onstructive comments are welcome from anyone who would like to help - if they shed light on the uncertainties underpinning this important aspect of paleoclimatology. Contributors are respectfully asked to avoid simply declaring that claims that the ice core record is flawed have been refuted. Such claims have been made before with links to comments such as those of Hans Oeschger, Professor of Physics, University of Bern, purporting to do the refuting. All they do is reject, not refute. If you think that they refute then please be specific about how they are supposed to do it rather than simply providing a link or mentioning a name. Too much time has already been wasted following up on such claims and finding that they were simply unsubstantiated criticisms or flawed inferences.</div>
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<b>3)</b> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Several articles (e.g. <a href="http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/co2/siple.html">http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/co2/siple.html</a>) have made reference to a 1984 paper "Age difference between polar ice and the air trapped in its bubbles" by Schwander and Stauffer claiming that the duration of the close-off process was 22 years but I haven’t been able to track down any such paper. I suspect that the reference is to this "Letter to Nature" (<a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v311/n5981/pdf/311045a0.pdf">http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v311/n5981/pdf/311045a0.pdf</a>). Can anyone provide a link to the full letter or to a paper of that title by the same authors?</span><br />
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<b>4)</b><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">In 2007 I started researching the CACC doctrine being pushed by the UN and environmental activists (that our continuing use of fossil fuels will lead to catastrophic global climate change/disruption) after reading a review of propaganda booklet “Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet” by Mark Lynas. Since then I have become increasingly interested in his concerns, especially after reading Andrew Montford’s excellent exposé “The Hockey Stick Illusion”, which set me wondering if the CO2 hockey stick might also be simply another illusion.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">NB: In early 2013 there was an attempt to breath life back into the temperature "hockey stick" using one of the same questionable proxies and once again Steve McIntyre highlighted the flaws in the analysis (<a href="http://climateaudit.org/2013/04/11/more-from-the-junior-birdmen/">http://climateaudit.org/2013/04/11/more-from-the-junior-birdmen/</a>).</span></span></div>
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<b>5)</b> The sad news about Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski's death was announced on 12th Nov. 2011 (<a href="http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/sad-death-of-dr-zbigniew-jaworowski-nov-12th-2011-poland/#comment-10055">http://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/sad-death-of-dr-zbigniew-jaworowski-nov-12th-2011-poland/#comment-10055</a>). What a tragic loss to honest science. My condolences to Dr. Jaworowski's loved ones. This reminded me that a further update to this article was long overdue.</div>
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<b>7) </b>Most of the slides used by Professor Salby can be found on the ScottishSceptic site (<a href="http://scottishsceptic.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/report-lecture-by-prof-salby-7th-nov-2013/">http://scottishsceptic.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/report-lecture-by-prof-salby-7th-nov-2013/</a>). For comments on his presentation see also <a href="http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/climate-scientist-dr-murry-salby.html">http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/climate-scientist-dr-murry-salby.html</a> and <a href="http://claesjohnson.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/the-dog-and-tail-temperature-vs-co2.html">http://claesjohnson.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/the-dog-and-tail-temperature-vs-co2.html</a> <b>.</b></div>
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<b>9)</b> A month after making his presentation to Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg in April 2013, atmospheric physicist Professor Salby was dismissed by Macquarie University, Sydney (<a href="http://joannenova.com.au/2013/07/macquarie-university-sabotages-exiles-blackbans-strands-and-abandons-murry-salby/">http://joannenova.com.au/2013/07/macquarie-university-sabotages-exiles-blackbans-strands-and-abandons-murry-salby/</a>). If the claims made by Professor Salby are correct then it seems that he was treated disgracefully by Macquarie University from the outset. He may have put himself in the firing line on 2nd August 2011 when, as Chair of Climate at its Faculty of Science, he gave the presentation to the Sydney Institute on the topic of “Global Emission of CO2: The Contribution from Natural Sources” (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrI03ts--9I&feature=youtu.be">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrI03ts--9I&feature=youtu.be</a>). That was at a time when the Australian Government, a coalition between Labour and Greens led by Julia Gillard (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Gillard">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Gillard</a>), was really pushing the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change (CACC) propaganda hard. More importantly, there is a lot of tax-payers money being handed out to universities for research that supports the CACC hypothesis.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As usual there are at least two sides to every story. A very different side to this one is offered in these interesting Desmogblog articles of 12th July 2013:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- "<span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.38999998569488525px; line-height: 1.3em;">Climate Sceptic Professor Sacked From Australian University Was Banned By National Science Foundation For Deceptive Conduct" </span>(<a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_508316780">http://www.desmogblog</a><a href="http://.com/2013/07/12/murry-salby-sacked-australian-university--banned-national-science-foundation">.com/2013/07/12/murry-salby-sacked-australian-university--banned-national-science-foundation</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- "<span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.38999998569488525px; line-height: 1.3em;">Murry Salby: Galileo? Bozo? Or P.T.Barnum?" </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.38999998569488525px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">by John Mashey (</span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.38999998569488525px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/07/12/murry-salby-galileo-bozo-or-p-t-barnum">http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/07/12/murry-salby-galileo-bozo-or-p-t-barnum</a>)</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.38999998569488525px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.38999998569488525px; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;">These articles focus not on Professor Salby's scientific arguments but </span></span>his previous employment as <span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.38999998569488525px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: start;">a tenured Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder</span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.38999998569488525px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: start;"> from 1988 to 2008 and his debarment from funding for three years by the National Science Foundation. They provide links to some very interesting items, including the </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.38999998569488525px; line-height: 19.5px;">NSF's </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.38999998569488525px; line-height: 19.5px; text-align: justify;">"</span><span style="text-align: justify;">Report of Investigation Case Number I06090025 February 20,2009, which includes the Closeout Memorandum provided by the Office of Inspector General, Office of Investigations: " .. </span><span style="text-align: justify;">Our investigation determined that the subject:' </span><span style="text-align: justify;">submitted significantly overlapped proposals to NSF and another federal agency; </span><span style="text-align: justify;">received compensation from NSF awards substantially in excess of approved budget amounts; </span><span style="text-align: justify;">overcharged NSF awards for indirect costs on a subcontract, and failed to disclose the subcontract to NSF; </span><span style="text-align: justify;">received payments for effort that he documented with questionable time and effort reports; and failed to comply with his University's conflicts of interest and financial disclosure policy.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.38999998569488525px; line-height: 19.5px;"><b>10)</b> <span style="letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal;">I have asked this question of numerous high-profile “disciples“ of the doctrine such as </span><a href="http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2010/07/monbiot-exonerated.html" style="letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal;">James Annan</a><span style="letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal;">, </span><a href="http://initforthegold.blogspot.com/2010/07/arrogance.html" style="letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal;">Michael Tobis</a><span style="letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal;">, </span><a href="http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2010/06/engineering_the_software_for_u.php" style="letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal;">William Connolley</a><span style="letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal;">, etc. but no attempt was made by any of them to answer this other than to claim that Jaworowski had been refuted years before, which appears not to be so. One of the pioneers of ice core research, Professor Claude Lorius, one of his followers and prominent IPCC supporter, Professor Richard Alley, prominent sceptics Professor Hans Oerlemans and Dr. Roy Spencer were asked if they would like to help clear up the remaining significant uncertainties when attempting to reconstruct past atmospheric CO2 concentrations from air allegedly “trapped” in ice virtually unchanged for millenia. Professor Alley was good enough to respond within a matter of hours with helpful comments and several references.</span></span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.38999998569488525px; line-height: 19.5px;"><b>11)</b> </span>The thread was promptly closed by the moderator, so I contacted Professor Wolff on 20th April 2011. He responded on 26th but couldn’t post on the closed thread. Despite the thread being locked there was significant continuing interest in it, evidenced by the viewing figures so, after several requests the site admin re-opened it )apparently reluctantly) and Professor Wolff posted several very helpful comments before the thread was once again closed.<br />
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<b>12)</b> Anyone interested in finding out more about this discussion with Professor Wolff should read the exchanges on the Science Forum of University of Cambidge "Naked Scientists" project in the “Another Hockey Stick Illusion?” thread (<a href="http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=38675">http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=38675</a>). There is also another interesting set of related exchanges on another thread “What does Iain Stewart's "CO2 experiment" Demonstrate” <a href="http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=38723">http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=38723</a> (both of which were locked by The Naked Scientists admin team) - see also Note <b>16)</b>.<br />
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<b>13)</b> <span style="background-color: white;">This concern is still held by Professor Hartmut Frank – see the comment of 28/04/2011 at 19:50 on The University of Cambridge’s Naked Science forum - </span><a href="http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=38675.50" style="background-color: white;">http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=38675.50</a><br />
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<b>14)</b> More about Professor Wolff can be found at <a href="http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/people/academic-staff/professor-eric-wolff">http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/people/academic-staff/professor-eric-wolff</a>, <a href="http://www.climatescience.cam.ac.uk/community/profile/ewwo">http://www.climatescience.cam.ac.uk/community/profile/ewwo</a> and <a href="http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/contact/staff/profile/ericwolff/">http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/contact/staff/profile/ericwolff/</a>.<br />
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Short clips of Professor Wolff opinions about the analysis of gases recovered from ice cores can be seen in the videos at:<br />
- <a href="http://www.bl.uk/voices-of-science/interviewees/eric-wolff/video/eric-wolff-climate-change-in-ice-cores">http://www.bl.uk/voices-of-science/interviewees/eric-wolff/video/eric-wolff-climate-change-in-ice-cores</a><br />
- <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Kr02VF3ralc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Kr02VF3ralc</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Professor Wolff appears to be a staunch supporter of the CACC hypothesis. In its Sept 2006 news article "</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Deep ice tells long climate story"</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> the BBC reported that at the British Associations Science Festival in Norwich Dr. Wolff said " .. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">My point would be that there's nothing in the ice core that gives us any cause for comfort .. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">There's nothing that suggests that the Earth will take care of the increase in carbon dioxide. The ice core suggests that the increase in carbon dioxide will definitely give us a climate change that will be dangerous .. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Ice cores reveal the Earth's natural climate rhythm over the last 800,000 years. When carbon dioxide changed there was always an accompanying climate change. Over the last 200 years human activity has increased carbon dioxide to well outside the natural range .. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">scary thing .. (is) .. the rate of change now occurring in CO2 concentrations. In the core, the fastest increase seen was of the order of 30 parts per million (ppm) by volume over a period of roughly 1,000 years. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">The last 30 ppm of increase has occurred in just 17 years .. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">" (</span><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5314592.stm" style="font-family: inherit;">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5314592.stm</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">)</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><b>15) </b></span></span>In March 2010 Josh Halpern (AKA Eli Rabbitt) was asked on his "<a href="http://rabett.blogspot.com/2010/03/too-bad-to-be-believed.html">Rabett Run</a>" blog if he could help on molecular diameter and he started a thread “<a href="http://rabett.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-big-is-that-molecule-in-window.html">How big is that molecule in the window</a>”. He offered some basic physics and concluded “Think of this as the start of a discussion” which subsequently even involved a member of the (in)famous “hockey team’ support squad Realclimate, theoretical physicist Raymond Pierrehumbert (<a href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/raymond-t-pierrehumbert/">Raypierre</a>). The discussion unfortunately did what the ice core experts do, obsessing on collision (Lennard-Jones) diameter, which for CO2 is larger than that of CH4, N2 and O2. This was despite the fact that Joshua had discussed briefly the smaller kinetic diameter of CO2 on <a href="http://rabett.blogspot.com/2010/01/its-slow-week.html">another of his threads</a> on 25th January in response to an enquiry from an “Anonymous former-chemist-mouse” (AKA Marcus) who was involved in the discussion on Chris Colose’s thread.<br />
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<b>16)</b> <span style="font-family: inherit;">The scientists involved in these disc</span>ussions include Professors Alley, Jeff Severinghaus, Michael Bender and Eric Wolff. In April 2010 the issue was raised on the Science Forum of “The Naked Scientists … a media-savvy group of physicians and researchers from Cambridge University .. ” (<a href="http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/about-us/">http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/about-us/</a>)” under the thread title “Another Hockey Stick Illusion?” (<a href="http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=38675">http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=38675</a>). It was hoped that such an august body (which had previously posted a thread about Professor Wolff's activities) would be able to contribute to a better understanding of the diffusion processes taking place within ice sheets. The question asked was “why do paleo-climatologists use collision diameter in preference to kinetic diameter when considering the migration of air molecules through firn and ice?” and additional information was provided to supplement the question.<br />
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The "Naked Scientists" were unable to answer the question (Appendix A, Note <b>11</b>) so Professor Wolff was contacted and postseveral very helpful comments. In his final submission on 2nd May, fter having discussed my question with Professors Alley and Severinghaus, Professor Wolff said that “.. the empirical evidence that CO2 is not fractionated on enclosure (as well as the observation that Ar is less fractionated than O2) is what led these authors to hypothesise that collision diameter was the controlling variable. So the specific answer is that they use collision diameter because this is what allows them to rationalise the data that they observe .. ”.<br />
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<b>17)</b> Techniques for extracting and analysing the air in ice cores are described in various articles, including:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">- "H<span style="line-height: 1.4em; text-align: start;">istorical CO</span><span style="bottom: -0.25em; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-shadow: none !important; vertical-align: baseline;">2</span><span style="line-height: 1.4em; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.4em; text-align: start;">Records from the Law Dome DE08, DE08-2, and DSS Ice Cores" (</span></span><span style="line-height: 22.400001525878906px;"><a href="http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/co2/lawdome.html">http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/co2/lawdome.html</a>),</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22.400001525878906px;">- "</span><a href="http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/research/drill_analysing/" style="line-height: 16.5px; text-decoration: none;" title="Drilling and analysing ice cores">Drilling and analysing ice cores</a> - <span style="line-height: 16.5px;">Sampling and analysing the gas </span></span><span style="line-height: 22.400001525878906px; text-align: start;">(</span><span style="line-height: 22.400001525878906px;"><a href="http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/research/drill_analysing/cutting_and_analysing_ice_cores/analysing_gasses/sampling_and_analysing/">http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/research/drill_analysing/cutting_and_analysing_ice_cores/analysing_gasses/sampling_and_analysing/</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 22.400001525878906px;"><b>18)</b></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> Dr. Jeff Severinghaus is a professor of geosciences in the Geosciences Research Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. His current research interests center on using trapped bubbles of gases contained in ice cores to track changes in ancient climate.(<a href="http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/jseveringhaus/biocv">http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/jseveringhaus/biocv</a>).</span><br />
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<b>1)</b> Update on 2013-03-02 "A new method for predicting transport properties of polar firn with respect to gases on the pore space scale" by J. Freitag, U. Dobrindt and S. Kipfstuhl.</div>
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<b>2)</b> Update<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"> 2013-06-13 "</span><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/147447107/Breaking-Ice-Hockey-Sticks-Can-Ice-Be-Trusted" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; line-height: 32px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;">Breaking Ice Hockey Sticks - Can Ice Be Trusted?</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">" by Dr. Jonathan Drake 8th June 2013 (</span><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/147447107/Breaking-Ice-Hockey-Sticks-Can-Ice-Be-Trusted" style="font-family: inherit;">http://www.scribd.com/doc/147447107/Breaking-Ice-Hockey-Sticks-Can-Ice-Be-Trusted</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">" .. </span><b>Abstract:</b> It has been claimed by those supporting the hypothesis of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) that ice core measurements prove that levels of carbon dioxide in contemporary air are much greater than prior to the industrial revolution as a result of burning earth-sourced hydrocarbons, more generally known as fossil fuels. The data analysed in this document is from the South Pole and has been reassessed in various ways. Also, the findings of the authors of the paper that published the data are highlighted. The conclusions drawn are that all gaseous species or isotopes undergo fractionation during capture into the ice sheet. This means that absolute concentrations of trapped air components are not representative of the atmosphere at the time or close to the time of their capture. It is also shown that there is divergence between the purported carbon dioxide record and the modelled oxygen record – based upon fossil fuel usage data – that occurs as the capture process completes .. .. At this juncture, it seems appropriate to mention that glaciologists, or at least some, use the collision diameter for CO2 of 3.9Å which is rather naïve value to use in such systems. It is essentially an average size attributed to a linear molecule. The dimension that should be used in this type of situation is the smallest dimension – critical or kinetic diameter – which for CO2 is around 3.3Å. By using the collision diameter and comparing it to O2 and N2 it is purported that CO2 does not fractionate by molecular sieving when air is included in ice sheets because 3.9Å is greater than the ice lattice gaps estimated to be ~3.6 Å. However, most studies of gas permeability and diffusion through membranes and porous media, outside of this climate science discipline, use the critical or kinetic diameter .. ".</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Hi Professor Frank, thanks for both attachments which I can open OK. Your responses are very much appreciated. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">I had a response from Professor Jaworowski yesterday which I will be quoting from on appropriate blogs but he was unable to answer explicitly my question about the preferential diffusion of CO2, i.e:- </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">is it feasible that the ice core experts like Professor Alley are incorrect in using the collision diameter of molecules rather than the kinetic diameter? Also, would the process of diffusion within the ice after total close-off (i.e. when CO2 is too large to pass through any interconnecting capillaries) that CO2 diffuses through the "solid" ice in a mainly upward direction due to , e.g. the reducing pressure at higher levels? I am not a physicist or chemist so do not sufficiently understand the various diffusion, adsorption and other fractionation effects to debate these issues from a position of knowledge. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Severinghouse and Battle said in their ??? paper "The data presented here suggests that close-off fractionation increases very non-linearly with decreasing molecular size .. The pattern of fractionation in different gases deduced from the firn air samples shows a strong inverse relationship with effective molecular diameter inferred from viscosity data, but no clear trend with molecular mass. We conclude that the close-off fractionation is primarily size-dependent .. The large atoms .. show no significant trends in the lock-in zone, .. This observation implies the existence of an effective size threshold of 3.6Å, above which molecules have a low probability of escape from the bubbles and therefore do not become significantly fractionated. This places constraints on proposed mechanisms for the size-dependent fractionation. Our data are consistent with the recent suggestion .. that the regular crystal structure of the ice lattice contains a hole 3.6Å in diameter that sharply increases the escape probability of gases smaller than this size. Our data also are consistent with the hypothesis .. that fractionation occurs because of size-dependent differential permeation of gases through the ice lattice .. no evidence for close-off fractionation is seen for molecules larger than 3.6Å" </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">SandB seem to regard the collision diameter to be relevant here not the kinetic diameter. My instinct tells me to the contrary, meaning that CO2, having a 3.3 A kinetic diameter as opposed to N2, O2 and CH4 (3.8, 3.5 and 3.8) will continue diffusing in the firn well after the other gases. Also, would not this smaller size mean that CO2 more readily diffuses within the "solid" ice after full close-off to all gases? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Do you have any knowledge of proper research having been undertaken into what I see as this very significant area of uncertainty? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">In my opinion the ice core reconstructions produce as dubious a "hockey stick" as do the reconstructions of past global temperatures but maybe I am being overly sceptical. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Best regards and thanks once again for your help, Pete Ridley </span></div>
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<b>From: Hartmut Frank <hartmut .frank="" uni-bayreuth.de=""></hartmut></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Dear Mr. Ridley; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Attached I am sending you the slide once more as pdf. I hope you can </span><span style="background-color: white;">open </span><span style="background-color: white;">it - it is a simplified illustration of the major processes which are </span><span style="background-color: white;">leading to changes of gas concentrations in the secondary bubbles </span><span style="background-color: white;">(including and especially of carbon dioxide). As I have said before, if </span><span style="background-color: white;">one would apply rigorous quality assurance/quality control standards as </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">they are t</span></span>ypical nowadays in analytical chemistry, the methods and results used and generated by these ama<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">teur ice-core analysts - who are mostly </span><span style="background-color: white;">physicists - one would have to throw the whole data sets out. But since </span><span style="background-color: white;">they are politically protected and have developed strong pressure groups </span><span style="background-color: white;">including a former American Vice President, nothing can be done. I </span><span style="background-color: white;">suggest </span><span style="background-color: white;">to read the paper of Daniel Sarewitz "How science makes environmental </span><span style="background-color: white;">controversies worse" (attached). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">In my opinion it is best just to wait until the whole story falls apart, </span><span style="background-color: white;">but it will still take a while, i.e. until Schellnhuber, Al Gore and the </span><span style="background-color: white;">other protagonists are fully retired. Any energy invested into this </span><span style="background-color: white;">collective stupidity is wasted. </span></span></div>
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I am also not versatile in diffusion, and writing my paper in 1994 I was advised and enlightened by a geologist from the Norwegian oil industry, who was specializing in diffusion, a subject of great importance for oil industry. This is a highly specialized field of science. My impression is that it is a terra incognita for glaciologists. </div>
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Hi Professor Jaworowski, thanks very much for making the time to reply to my E-mail. May I assume that you, like Professor Frank, have no objection to me quoting relevant parts verbatim on the various blogs that I comment on? I will hold back on doing so for a few days but will understand that if I receive no response from you by Sunday 27th then I am at liberty to use your comment as I see appropriate .. </div>
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BTW, is it feasible that the ice core experts like Professor Alley are incorrect in using the collision diameter of molecules rather than the kinetic diameter? Also, would the process of diffusion within the ice after total close-off (i.e. when CO2 is too large to pass through any interconnecting capilliaries) that CO2 diffuses through the "solid" ice in a mainly upward direction due to , e.g. the reducing pressure at higher levels? I am not a physicist or chemist so do not sufficiently understand the various diffusion, adsorption and other fractionation effects to debate these issues from a position of knowledge. </div>
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<b><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">From: Hartmut Frank ...</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">To: Peter Ridley...</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">CC: Zbiniew Jaworowski ...; Tom Segalstad...</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sent: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:18</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Subject: Re: Preferential Fractionation of CO2 in Air 'Trapped' in Ice</span></b></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">.... It is a simple, undisputable fact that carbon dioxide is chemically completely different to nitrogen and oxygen. Since meteorologists and climate change researcher are almost all no chemist they have completely overlooked this fact: for physicists the various molecules are just volumes with different diameters. The preferential escape of carbon dioxide from the air bubbles within decades or even centuries of storage under increasing pressure (or rather back diffusion of nitrogen and oxygen into the secondary bubbles which are formed when the ice core is horizontally stored for a while) depends just on their completely different chemical behaviour and the slow reaction rates typically for carbon dioxide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So Prof. Jaworowski's main argument is valid and will remain valid because it is based on simple, but hard physicochemical facts. Most of the facts can be found in the old, traditional "Gmelin's Handbook of Inorganic Chemistry” - but nobody reads such books anymore today. The facts are so basic that one cannot even start a research project on an investigation of the validity of such carbon dioxide analyses in ice cores because the referees would judge it too trivial. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But if one would apply proper quality assurance/quality control principles, as they are common in most other areas of application of chemical-analytical methods (for instance in drug control or toxicology) the whole building of climate change would collapse because of the overlooked fault.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">PS: Attached I am sending you a slide from a presentation which I just gave a few days ago to graduate students at the Technical University in Gdansk. The times given above and below the arrows of the reaction scheme are not meant to express reaction rates but how long these processes have time to go into the one or other direction.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hartmut Frank, Prof. em., Dr.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Affil. Prof., Univ. Free State, Bloemfontein, RSA</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Editor "Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry"</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cheesefondue Workshops</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">University Bayreuth</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">(office: Hudo-Rüdel-Str. 8, D-95445 Bayreuth)</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tel +49-921-555460, Mobile: +49-152-05923690,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Fax +49-921-552334</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">... </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">=================== </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">From: Peter Ridley .... </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">To: Zbiniew Jaworo...; Tom Segalstad...; Hartmut Frank... </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sent: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:36 </span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Subject: Preferential Fractionation of CO2 in Air "Trapped" in Ice </b></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello Professor Jaworowski, Professor Segalstad and Professor Frank, ... I have been trying for months now to get clarification on the current status of this debate. No-one has been able to point me to any convincing research showing that the arguments offered in several papers, including: </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">- "Do glaciers tell a true atmospheric CO2 story? The Science of the Total Environment" 1992, </span></span></div>
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<b>2020-01-16 Replaced the header graphs</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>2014-07-27 </b>Updated Section 2.0 Size-Dependent Fractionation in Ice". Added sub-sections 4.3 "Professors Je<b>2014-07-25</b> Changed the title of Section 4.0 from "Professor Murry Salby" to "SOME SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENTS", with sub-section 4.1 becoming "Professor Murry Salby" and added sub-section 2 "Professosr Eric Wolfe, Jeffrey Severinghaus and Mark Battle" and 4.4 "Professor J. Douglas Way".</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>2014-07-11 </b>Updated Section 5.0 "Size-dependent Fractionation - Examples" relating to the research by Professor J. Douglas Way<span style="font-family: inherit;"> into </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">the transport mechanism in microporous, metal oxide membranes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>2014-01-19</b> Added the ice lithification diagram to Section 1.0 Introduction and added Appendix C - E-mails, with references thereto. Added abstract of Jonathan Drake's article to Appendix B, ref. 2).</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><b>2013-06-13 </b>Added to Appendix B, ref. 2) "Further reading Material" a reference to a recent related article "Breaking Ice Hockey Sticks: Can Ice be Trusted?" by Jonathan Drake.</span></div>
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That staunch defender of the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Change (CACC) religion, our "beloved" BBC, provided the thankfully outgoing chief scientist Professor Beddington with another opportunity to push the CACC propaganda. On BBC News this morning he was there claiming that atmospheric CO2 levels have been pushed up to dangerous levels due to our use of fossil fuels and the consequence would be drastic weather conditions with more extreme changes between flooding and droughts.</div>
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One might ask what the charity 10:10 and its dubious activities have to do with the Government’s chief scientist. Well, on 11th October, less that two weeks after this explosion of disgust from people around the world about the 10:10 charity’s film, the UK Government Office for Science <a href="http://www.bis.gov.uk/go-science/news/2010/Oct/10-10-campaign">proudly announced</a> that Chief Scientific Advisor “John Beddington pledged his support for the 10:10 campaign”. Bear in mind that "the <a href="http://www.1010global.org/uk/about">10:10 campaign</a> was founded by Franny Armstrong .. The idea came to Franny while walking through Regent’s Park in London on her way to a debate with UK Climate & Energy Secretary Ed Miliband. Two things sprang to mind: a recent George Monbiot article had laid out the kind of policies we’d need to cut the UK’s emissions very quickly, none of which sounded impossible. And the Climate Safety report had identified a 10% cut in the developed world's emissions by the end of 2010 as the kind of target we should be aiming for to maximise our chances of avoiding a climate catastrophe”.</div>
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On 19th March 2009 the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7951838.stm">BBC reported</a> that Sir John had made the following comments in his presentation to the government's Sustainable Development UK conference in Westminster “By 2030 the demand for resources will create a crisis with dire consequences. Demand for food and energy will jump 50% by 2030 and for fresh water by 30%, as the population tops 8.3 billion. Climate change will exacerbate matters in unpredictable ways. It's a perfect storm”. That BBC report ended with “He wants policy-makers in the European Commission to receive the same high level of scientific advice as the new US president, Barack Obama. One solution would be to create a new post of chief science adviser to the European Commission, he suggested”.</div>
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Those comments with reference to climate change, along with full support for the 10:10 objectives give the unmistakable impression that Sir John has already made up his mind that our continuing use of fossil fuels will lead to catastrophic global climate change. </div>
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This article is not intended to ask questions about the motives of the Office for Science giving its full support to an organisation like 10:10 but there could be other than scientific motivations behind support for the opinions expressed in “The science of climate change” Web-pages. There is no doubt in the minds of sceptics about the political motives that influence the manner in which the supposed science in the assessment reports of the UN’s IPCC is presented. The question to be addressed here is to what extent is the “science” presented in the Web-pages of the UK Government’s Office for Science similarly affected. </div>
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Here in full is what the “Public Service” article reported Sir John to have said about his “The science of climate change” <a href="http://www.bis.gov.uk/go-science/climatescience">Web-site</a>. “Reporting on climate change science has often created more heat than light. The evidence is compelling that climate change is happening, that human activities are the major driver for this and that the future risks are substantial. At the same time, there is much we need to understand better; for example, the pace and extent of the changes we can expect, and regional impacts. The fact that uncertainty exists in climate science, as it does in other fields, does not detract from the value of the evidence. But an appreciation of the nature and degree of uncertainty, and of the likelihood and potential severity of risks, is critical if the science is to properly inform decision-making".</div>
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In the introductory page of “The Science of Climate Change” Sir John said “The evidence is compelling that climate change is happening, that human activities are the major driver for this and that the future risks are substantial. This evidence includes wide-ranging, long term and robust observations of changes that are taking place, and projections of possible future changes that are based on basic physical laws”. Sceptics argue strongly that there is no convincing evidence that “ .. human activities are the major driver for .. “ any significant changes to the different global climates that may be happening.</div>
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In saying “There are also many areas where major uncertainties remain and where more research and long term, reliable observations are required” Sir John shows that he understands such scepticism even if he disagrees with it. He goes on to say “In developing this section of the Government Office for Science website I have drawn upon the expertise of many leading scientists, including the network of Departmental Chief Scientific Advisers across Government. My consultations have included discussions with those sceptical or agnostic on aspects of the science”.</div>
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A few days after the announcement of their “Climate Change” Web-pages I asked the Office for Science for the names of the scientists, including sceptics, who had advised during the preparation of the pages. Two weeks later I was provided with a list;</div>
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All of the scientists named are well known for their support of the UN-inspired doctrine that our use of fossil fuels would lead to catastrophic changes to the different global climates. All excepting Keith Shine are signatories of the Met Office's "Statement from the UK science community" just ahead of the UN's COP15 fiasco in Copenhagen.</div>
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Already there was evidence of overwhelming bias at the UK Government Office for Science in favour of the doctrine so I wondered if this bias also permeates the information provided on “The science of climate change” Web-site. After an initial review of what is offered on those Web-pages I concluded that it is totally biased in favour of the doctrine. As a result of a request from Sir John’s Energy, Food & Environment Issues Team I have a work-in-progress detailing what I consider demonstrates this bias.</div>
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This is presented in Part 2.</div>
Pete Ridleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08258973141061114628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336588801040320412.post-48589639905523918862010-09-29T07:07:00.000-07:002015-04-24T03:18:52.827-07:00DEATH BY DROWNING - THE NEXT PHASE OF INDOCTRINATION? Part 2 29/09/2010<b>Introduction</b><br />
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In Part 1 of this three-part article I talked about some of the earlier political propaganda promoting The (significant human-made global climate change) Hypothesis and looked at possible motivation of one UK publisher of books by authors who support that hypothesis. This time I’ll talk about a book that is in preparation, the co-authors and a little about its USA publisher.</div>
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This additional potential “spin and scare” book “Rising Sea Levels” is being prepared for publication by McFarland and Co by co-authors Hunt Janin and Ursula Carlson. Let us take a closer look at the degree of expertise in the subject of “Rising Sea Levels” shared by this pair of ambitious writers. After all, it would seem to be reasonable to expect that they know something about a subject that they are writing about, especially one as contentious as sea levels claimed to be rising as a result of our use of fossil fuels.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Hunt is “a former US diplomat-turned writer” and “a published author of children's books and young adult books” (Note 1). In July I was surprised to receive an E-mail from Hunt, someone I had never heard of before, requesting help on this book. I considered it worthwhile helping him to write accurately about such an important subject so the next day I offered my assistance with suggestions about balance when commenting on measurement and modelling.</span></div>
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Hunt responded, acknowledging his state of ignorance on the subject and attaching a draft copy which I reviewed. Hunt’s response to my review comments included “I'm assuming that the deniers will not like what I write. That's OK with me: I'm writing for the British Library, not for them .. and will, I hope, remain there for a very long time -- long after the current generation of deniers is dead and buried...”. Those references to “deniers” gives an indication of the degree of balanced presentation to be expected in the book. </div>
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Co-author Ursula Carlson teaches writing and literature at the community college of Western Nevada as Professor in the English Department. She has a B.A. in English from Michigan State University; an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Detroit - note that “creative writing” bit (Note 2). </div>
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The Nevada education authority’s Academic, Research and Student Affairs Committee commented recently (Note 3) that she is knowledgeable, scholarly, intellectual, well-grounded in her subject and stands for integrity. The committee makes no mention there of any expertise in sea levels or climate change, however, it does say that she is a published poet (hardly relevant to writing a book about rising sea levels).</div>
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I thought it possible that the committee had simply overlooked that area of her expertise so searched elsewhere for any reference to it. Ursula did write a couple of articles on the subject for publication by her local newspaper The Nevada Appeal. In the first article “Fresh ideas: Heed signs of a warming planet before it's too late” (Note 4) in June she gives the impression that she is knowledgeable on the subject of global warming and says such things as “ .. nearly every major glacier in the world is shrinking .. Oceans are not only warmer, but more acidic; the difference between daytime and nighttime temperatures is decreasing; plants are blooming earlier (some by days, some by weeks) than they used to; animals are moving farther and farther toward the North and South poles .. ”.</div>
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Ursula concludes “In other words, as I understand it, by the time global warming is so obvious as to be potentially or probably catastrophic, climate change may be so much underway that there is little that can be done to mitigate it, much less reverse it”.</div>
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This is very scary, but how does she know all of this? Well, the note at the bottom of the article says “Ursula Carlson .. for this column referred to Elizabeth Kolbert's “Field Notes from a Catastrophe” published in 2006”. So that expression of her “understanding” is not from her own research into the subject but is second hand from Elizabeth Kolbert. Where have we seen that name before? Oh yes, she is author of one of the books published by Bloomsbury that I listed in Part 1 of this series. Elizabeth Kolbert, like Ursula Carlson, is not a scientist. She is a journalist who studied literature and moved straight into journalism (Note 5) and has been with the Obama-supporting New Yorker since 1999. The extent of her expertise in the numerous scientific disciplines that contribute to improving our poor understanding of global climate processes and drivers is from talking to scientists. This suggests that the extent of Ursular Carlson’s expertise in this area is even less than that of Elizabeth Kolbert and I have been unable to find any evidence to the contrary.</div>
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In the second article “Loss of permafrost provides visual proof of climate change” this month (Note 6) she is somewhat more cautious. Although she talks about global warming and greenhouse gases she avoids any suggestion that humans are responsible for any climate change or able to exercise any control over it. She does make the nonsensical statement that “Melting snow and ice seems reasonable in a world that is getting warmer, but the earth itself, the dirt, the soil, the permafrost is melting as well”. Although “Ursula .. is currently reading studies on climate change” she does need to do much more reading before she can be considered to be an authority on the subject.</div>
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To sum up so far, Hunt Janin and Ursula Carlson appear to have only two things in common as far as writing a book relating to sea level rise or climate change:<br />
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1) they co-authored “Trails of Historic New Mexico: Routes Used by Indian, Spanish and American Travellers Through 1886.” (Note 7), which had nothing to do with the subject, </div>
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On 1st September I wrote to Hunt and Ursula recommending that they read the article "South Pacific Sea Level: A Reassessment" by highly respected sceptic Vincent Gray (Note 8) but neither responded. I didn’t expect to get involved with either any more after that but I was drawn back to them via seemingly unconnected comment about political “spin”. This led me to checking the Internet for what, if anything, Hunt was doing about his book.</div>
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I found that Hunt is trolling Internet blogs - mostly of supporters of The (significant human-made global climate change) Hypothesis - seeking help on the topic from anyone who is prepared to give it, regardless of expertise in the subject, e.g. realclimate, Profmandia, Open Mind, Design Observer, Scienceof Doom. As is to be expected, the responses on these blogs to the questions Hunt was posing are heavily biased towards supporting the IPCC’s position that our continued use of fossil fuels will result in catastrophic changes to global climates. The responses, which also refer Hunt to equally biased blogs, give an indication of the likely shape of the finished book As an example there is not a mention of sea level expert Nils-Axel Mörner (Note 9).</div>
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From this evidence Hunt and Ursula need help – a lot of it, but not from Internet blogs. A good starting point would be an interview with Mörner entitled “Sea-level Expert: It’s Not Rising” (Note 10). </div>
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This is enough to give you a feel for how biased that book “Rising Sea Levels” by Hunt Janin and Ursula Carlson will be. This begs the question of why would a respected publisher of non-fiction get involved with people who are writing a book on a subject about which they know virtually nothing? </div>
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This publisher boasts of being “a leading U.S. publisher of scholarly, reference and academic books .. recognized for its serious works”. In June last year McFarland and Co celebrated 30 years of involvement in publishing (Note 11), that’s 7 more years than Bloomsbury, another highly successful publisher on the other side of the Atlantic. McFarland and Company, Inc.(Note 12) QUOTE:</div>
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.. McFarland welcomes proposals for nonfiction manuscripts on a wide range of subjects, .. Reference books are one of our specialties. </div>
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Checking on previous titles I can find only one book on climate change/global warming/sea level and that is “Climate Change Policy in the United States The Science, the Politics and the Prospects for Change” by Dianne Rahm, a professor of public administration and policy, not a scientist. On the basis of the above claims that McFarland make about themselves it is not obvious how the company could possibly benefit from publishing a book on Rising Sea Levels” by Janin and Carlson?</div>
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As far as I can ascertain the major players at McFarland and CO. majority owner and Editor in Chief Robert Franklin, Executive Vice President Rhonda Herman and Assistant Editor Charles Perdue seem to have no involvement in the climate change debate. The only explanation of this publication on “Rising Sea Levels” by these co-authors that I could find comes in this report in 2008 (Note 13). QUOTE:</div>
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A “slow, but steady decline” is how Rhonda Herman , executive vice president at reference publisher McFarland and Co. Inc., characterizes the market for reference books. “We are cautious about sales and will feel lucky if sales remain flat.” The reality of an economic downturn is starting to sink in—McFarland’s volume is flat, Herman says, “but actual income is down 2 percent. The reason for this is that we are experiencing higher than normal overstock returns, which is not surprising in this market.” Both direct and indirect costs are hitting the bottom line at the Jefferson, N.C.-based publisher. Higher fuel costs are forcing up the price of paper and shipping.</div>
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Perhaps McFarland have decided to change its previous direction by publishing in areas other than “reference works and scholarly monographs” – is it as simple as “Any port in a storm”? I did invite McFarland and Co. to comment prior to publishing this article but had no response.</div>
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The first two parts of this series of articles has looked at the motives for the involvement in such a poorly understood field as global climate processes and drivers of two well-known publishers in the UK and the USA. The final part of this series of articles will look at the motives of the mainstream media.</div>
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1) see http://www.jacketflap.com/persondetail.asp?person=63215 <br />
2) see http://www.wnc.edu/directory/ucarlson/ <br />
3) see http://system.nevada.edu/Board-of-R/Meetings/Agendas/March-2010/Academic--/ref-ARSA-10a.pdf <br />
4) see http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20100630/NEWS/100629568 <br />
5) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Kolbert <br />
6) see http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20100922/NEWS/100929957/1001&parentprofile=1 <br />
7) see http://www.allbookstores.com/Trails-Historic-New-Mexico-Routes/9780786440108 <br />
8) see http://climaterealists.com/index.php?id=6171 <br />
9) see http://www.climatechangefacts.info/ClimateChangeDocuments/NilsAxelMornerinterview.pdf <br />
10) see http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles%202007/MornerInterview.pdf <br />
11) see http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jefferson-NC/McFarland-Company-Inc-Publishers/68068646584#!/event.php?eid=78553723359&ref=mf<br />
12) see http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/about.html & http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/authors.html <br />
13) see http://www.bookbusinessmag.com/article/a-struggling-economy-changing-market-challenge-publishers-119081/1#utm_source=bookbusinessmag.com&utm_medium=search_results_page&utm_campaign=search_result <br />
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Best regards,Pete Ridleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08258973141061114628noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336588801040320412.post-44139068051491311212010-09-09T11:23:00.000-07:002015-04-24T03:18:42.940-07:00DEATH BY DROWNING - THE NEXT PHASE OF INDOCTRINATION? Part 1 09/09/2010<div style="text-align: justify;">
Last October in the run-up to the UN’s COP15 climate change fiasco in Copenhagen the previous UK “New Labour” Government’s Department of Energy and Climate Change ran a £6M advertising “scare” campaign “Bedtime Stories” as part of its Act on CO2 initiative. Accoring to the BBC (Note 1) QUOTE: This was intended “to make adults feel guilty about the impact their carbon emissions are having on their children's future. .. The minute-long ad, which launched on 9 October, features a father telling his daughter a bedtime story about "a very very strange" world with "horrible consequences" for children. It then goes on to show streets and houses underwater, with cartoon animals and people drowning and a jagged-tooth monster in the sky, representing global warming” UNQUOTE..</div>
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That campaign back-fired, with the Advertising Standards Authority receiving hundreds of complaints about the ad. QUOTE: An ASA spokeswoman said: "It is not just about the issue of climate change in this particular case. We have had a huge number of complaints about the science but also whether the ad itself is scary for children" UNQUOTE (Note 1).</div>
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Eventually the UK’s telecommunications regulator Ofcom investigated (Note 2) QUOTE: “According to the Communications Act, the government is allowed to run advertising of a public service nature .. but is not allowed to run political ads that aim to "influence public opinion on a matter of public controversy". .. Ofcom's investigation comes after two months of allegations that climate-change scientists manipulated and withheld data. .. Some of the complaints argued there is no scientific evidence of climate change. Others claimed there was a division of scientific opinion on the issue and that the ad should therefore not have attributed global warming to human activity UNQUOTE.</div>
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In March the BBC announced (Note 3) QUOTE: Two government press adverts which used nursery rhymes to raise awareness of climate change have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). It said the advertisements went beyond mainstream scientific consensus in asserting that climate change would cause flooding and drought. .. The ASA ruled that the banned adverts .. made exaggerated claims about the threat posed to the UK by global warming. .. It noted that predictions about the potential impact of global warming made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "involved uncertainties" that had not been reflected in the adverts. .. UNQUOTE.</div>
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It should be noted that not all UK ministers supported the Government’s advertising campaign. In 2009 the Belfast Telegraph reported (Note 4) QUOTE: “Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has banned government television adverts in Northern Ireland warning of the effects of climate change, it emerged today. The DUP man said he was not prepared to allow “insidious New Labour propaganda” about the impact of climate change which would have been screened on UTV UNQUOTE.</div>
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That ill-considered campaign is behind us now but the propaganda machine keeps rolling out its distorted version of the facts, with a prime target being our children and youngsters. Al Gore’s “The Climate Project” organisation sponsors the “Inconvenient Youth” organisation (Note 5) which is spreading its tentacles cross the globe “spinning” the truth to those QUOTE: .. between the ages of 13 and 18 — but there are special sections “for adults” and “for educators” .. UNQUOTE in the way Al Gore did in his “An Inconvenient Truth”. </div>
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Al Gore and fellow “spinners” James Hansen and Tim Worth know all about spinning things to scare people. They are claimed (Note 6) to have started the process back in 1988 with a clever bit of preparation and “spinning” in their successful efforts to scare US Senators into thinking that catastrophic global climate change was just around the corner. It is suggested that they carefully chose the hottest day of the year and the meeting room windows just happened to be left open overnight so that the air conditioning system failed, ensuring that the audience and speaker were soaked in sweat.</div>
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In March Professor Bob Carter wrote an interesting article “Lysenkoism and James Hansen” (Note 7) which makes reference to Hansen’s 1988 presentation and says QUOTE:</div>
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Fifteen years later, in the Scientific American in March, 2004, Hansen came to write that "Emphasis on extreme scenarios may have been appropriate at one time, when the public and decision-makers were relatively unaware of the global warming issue. Now, however, the need is for demonstrably objective climate forcing scenarios consistent with what is realistic" UNQUOTE</div>
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but Hansen has had to revert to type with spinning of the facts following the revelations of the Climategate and other IPCC-gate scandals. I do not see the general public being fooled for a second time. It would be like the UK voters bringing Tony Blair back into Downing Street.</div>
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Those of you who have strong stomachs may like to listen to Hansen and Wirth’s July 2008 WorldwatchInstitute audio/visual presentations (Note 8). Just as a warning, in the first one “Stop Using Coal” Hansen starts out with “We need to be honest … ”.</div>
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Hansen continued with his “spin and scare” campaign in his 2009 book “Storms of My Grandchildren – the truth about the coming climate catastrophe” (Note 9) published by Bloomsbury. Note that word “truth” then have a look at the extract provided. It really tears at the heart strings, just like the UK’s “Bedtime Stories” adverts did.</div>
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There is a beautiful quote claimed to be from Dr. Laurence I Gould, Professor of Physics, U of Hartford, CT, (a sceptic about The Hypothesis) which appears on several blogs QUOTE: Comparing climate alarmist Hansen to Cassandra is WRONG. Cassandra's (Greek mythology) dire prophecies were never believed but were always right. Hansen's dire prophecies are usually believed but are always wrong UNQUOTE.</div>
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Thinking about Gore’s “An Inconvenient truth” and Hansen’s “Storms of My Grandchildren .. ” I found it odd that Bloomsbury, arguably the most successful publisher in the UK, would be interested in publishing books on climate change, considering that this is such a niche market. I recognised Bloomsbury as the publishers of the top-selling Harry Potter stories and other works of fiction but nothing of significance about science. This led me to checking up on recent and past science publications. In the listing (Note 10) I found:</div>
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It is noticeable that all of those books are written by well-known supporters of The (significant human-made global climate change) Hypothesis.</div>
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According to the Wikipedia articles (Note 11) “Bloomsbury .. was founded in 1986 by Nigel Newton .. Bloomsbury was originally founded to publish high quality fiction. It has since expanded into non fiction and children's books”. The Independent (Note 12) says of Nigel Newton QUOTE: One of his maxims is: "Out of uncertainty comes discovery" UNQUOTE and I expect that he fully appreciates the extent of the uncertainty surrounding those processes and drivers of global climates. He also appreciates the type of fiction that appeals to both children and adults so why would such a successful publisher invest resources in science (fiction) books that could be expected to make little if any return?</div>
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1) see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8317998.stm <br />
2) see http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/feb/24/ofcom-climate-change-bedtime-stories <br />
3) see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8571353.stm <br />
4) see http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/environment--minister-sammy-wilson-bans-adverts-warning-of-the-effects-of-climate-change-14180104.html <br />
5) see http://www.inconvenientyouth.org/ and http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/computers/stories/inconvenient-youth-is-the-new-one-stop-shop-for-teens-fighting-climate- <br />
6) see http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/17534/stagecraft/chris-horner <br />
7) see http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/doomed-planet/2010/03/hansenist-climate-alarmism <br />
8) see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzvegYdEQ8w <br />
9) see http://www.stormsofmygrandchildren.com/ <br />
10) see http://www.bloomsbury.com/Books/details.aspx?isbn=9781596916104 <br />
11) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsbury_Publishing & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Newton <br />
12) see http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/nigel-newton-is-there-life-after-harry-you-can-bet-your-hogwarts-there-is-497327.html<br />
13) see http://www.solarnavigator.net/geography/sussex/cuckmere_valley_exceat.htm <br />
14) see http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3864602.ece <br />
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I recently came across a September 2010 report <span style="background-color: white;">written by </span><span style="background-color: white;">Andrew Montford</span><span style="background-color: white;"> for the Global Warming Policy Foundation. "</span><span style="background-color: white;">THE </span><span style="background-color: white;">CLIMATEGATE </span><span style="background-color: white;">INQUIRIES" </span><span style="background-color: white;"> is worth reading (</span><a href="http://thegwpf.org/images/stories/gwpf-reports/Climategate-Inquiries.pdf">http://thegwpf.org/images/stories/gwpf-reports/Climategate-Inquiries.pdf</a>)<span style="background-color: white;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">As Lord Turnbull (</span><a href="http://thegwpf.org/who-we-are/board-of-trustees.html" style="background-color: white;">http://thegwpf.org/who-we-are/board-of-trustees.html</a>) said in his forward to the report " .. <span style="background-color: white;">The result has been that the three investigations have failed to achieve their objective, ie early </span><span style="background-color: white;">and conclusive closure and restoration of confidence .. ".</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">As I pointed out at the end of this article there were high hopes for the action taken by Kenneth Cuccinelli, </span><span style="background-color: white;">Attorney General of Virginia, against the University of Virginia but these were dashed in a March by the decision of the Circuit Court of Albermarle County to QUOTE: .. </span><span style="background-color: white;">set aside the CIDs with prejudice, on the different </span><span style="background-color: white;">ground that the University of Virginia, as an agency of the </span><span style="background-color: white;">Commonwealth, does not constitute a "person" under the Fraud </span><span style="background-color: white;">Against Taxpayers Act and therefore cannot be the proper </span><span style="background-color: white;">subject of a CID .. UNQUOTE (</span><a href="http://www.courts.state.va.us/opinions/opnscvwp/1102359.pdf" style="background-color: white;">http://www.courts.state.va.us/opinions/opnscvwp/1102359.pdf</a><span style="background-color: white;">).</span></div>
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In my articles of 13th May, 14th April and 30th March I commented on the politically inspired whitewashing of the UEA CRU following the leaking of E-mails in November. First there was the expected political whitewash by the UK’s Commons Science and Technology Committee following its perfunctory investigation over all of 4 weeks. Considering that UK politicians of all parties had given their almost unanimous support to the Climate Change Act 2008 nothing less than a whitewash could be expected.</div>
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Then there was the UEA’s “independent” review chaired by Lord Oxburgh, again a whitewash anticipated and sure enough, expectations were satisfied. After that we had the long-awaited report by the UEA’s own review team chaired by Sir Muir Russell.</div>
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It must not be overlooked that none of these enquiries have investigated the most important aspect of this whole fiasco, the validity of the conclusions drawn by scientists about global climates, past, present and future. Even the Oxburgh enquiry, set up by the University of East Anglia with the help of the Royal Society, did not review the science. This is despite the declaration in the 10th February “Memorandum submitted by the University of East Anglia” (Note 3) that QUOTE: .. Alongside Sir Muir Russell’s Review, we have decided on an additional scientific assessment of CRU’s key scientific publications; an external reappraisal of the science itself. The Royal Society has agreed to assist the University in identifying assessors with the requisite experience, standing and independence UNQUOTE.</div>
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Last winter, the progress of this belief – that the world faces catastrophe unless we spend trillions of dollars to halt global warming – suffered an unprecedented reverse. In Copenhagen, the world's leaders failed to agree a treaty designed to reshape the future of civilisation. This coincided with a series of scandals that blew up around the IPCC's 2007 report. Since then several inquiries, including three into the leaked "Climategate" emails, have tried to hold the official line, all following a consistent pattern. Each has made a few peripheral criticisms, for plausibility, while deliberately avoiding the main issue. Each has then gone on to put over the required message: that the science of global warming remains unchallenged.</div>
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At first sight, last week's Inter-Academy report on the "processes and procedures of the IPCC" seems to have played it more cleverly. It criticises the IPCC's abuse of its own procedures in very trenchant terms, and suggests some radical reforms to them. Passages on "conflict of interest", and a recommendation that top officials should serve only one term, seem to hint that Dr Pachauri, reappointed to serve until 2014 after presiding over the IPCC's last controversial report, should step down. But, as with the reports that preceded it, this one also tiptoes round a mighty elephant in the room, in order to put over the familiar message: the IPCC has generally "served society well", the science remains unchallenged. It is as one might expect of a report produced on behalf of bodies such as Britain's Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences, which have long been leading advocates for the belief in global warming.</div>
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Politicians are fully familiar with the phrase “Lies, damned lies and statistics” (the origin of which has been attributed to the UK politician Benjamin Disraeli – Note 1) and frequently use the powers of statistical manipulation to distort facts in order to support <span style="background-color: white;">whatever</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">argument </span><span style="background-color: white;">they are using at any particular time.</span></div>
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It is clear to anyone who has spent time researching The (significant human-made global climate change) Hypothesis that statistical manipulation plays a major role in trying to unravel the enormous uncertainties underpinning our poor understanding of the extremely complex (almost chaotic) processes and drivers of global climates. This lack of clear understanding is acknowledged by scientists who are involved in climate research and in advising politicians about it. A good example is given by Adelaide University’s Professor Barry Brook (a biologist), Director of Climate Change Research (Note 2) in his criticism of the book “Heaven and Earth” (Note 3) by his sceptical Adelaide associate Professor Ian Plimer, Professor of Mining Geology.</div>
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This disagreement between a biologist and a geologist at the same university appears to be representative of a wider level of disagreement between those two disciplines. A 2008 poll by The Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta, Canada (Note 4) found that QUOTE: .. A 99-per-cent majority believes the climate is changing. But 45 per cent blame both human and natural influences, and 68 per cent disagree with the popular statement that “the debate on the scientific causes of recent climate change is settled.” .. UNQUOTE.</div>
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Experts within statistics and paleoclimatology, two more of those numerous disciplines that are contributing to improving our understanding of the processes and drivers of global climates, have disagreed vigorously for years. A significant part of this debate is about the validity of the statistical manipulations used by paleoclimatologists to reconstruct global temperature conditions during the past 1000 years. A graph of such by paleoclimatologist Michael Mann was prominently displayed in numerous places in the IPCC’s Third Assessment Report. Significant support for the results of this and subsequent attempted reconstructions by paleoclimatologists considered to be part of Mann’s “hockey team” using similar data and statistical methods as Mann was still given in the 4th Assessment Report. </div>
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On the other hand scant consideration was given to the arguments of expert statisticians Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick. These arguments were fully supported by a USA inquiry in 2006 by a team of statisticians chaired by recognised expert Edward Wegman (Note 5). A detailed study of this issue is given in “The Hockey Stick Illusion” by Andrewe Montford of Bishop Hill blog fame (Note 6) which presents the facts behind the efforts by “The Hockey Team” to get rid of the Medievil Warm Period and the Little Ice Age through the use of inappropriate statistical manipulations. It’s well worth reading and you may be interested in the interview that he gave with The Register (Note 7) around the time of its publication. Also of interest are the reviews of the book available at Amazon (Note 8).</div>
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Another enquiry held this year in the UK into the “Climategate” scandal (the leaking of the University of East Anglia E-mails between members of the “hockey team”) included one statistician and concluded with the understatement (Note 9) QUOTE: .. We cannot help remarking that it is very surprising that research in an area that depends so heavily on statistical methods has not been carried out in close collaboration with professional statisticians. Indeed there would be mutual benefit if there were closer collaboration and interaction between CRU and a much wider scientific group outside the relatively small international circle of temperature specialists .. UNQUOTE. In this area, where statistics plays such a major role, the involvement of expert statisticians has been shown to be an essential requirement, not only as members of teams undertaking the original research but also in teams involved in the auditing of the reports of such work.</div>
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Political and scientific supporters of the UN’s IPCC appear to have perfected the art of statistical manipulation in their attempts to convince us that our use of fossil fuels as a source of energy is causing significant (leading to catastrophic) global climate change. This is amply demonstrated in the IPCC’s 3rd and 4th assessment reports in 2001 and 2007. The IPCC is presently gearing up for its 5th assessment report (Note 10) with the following representatives being nominated for Chapter 5: Information from Paleoclimate Archives.</div>
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Although there are numerous names above that are familiar to anyone who has followed the “Climategate” scandal I cannot identify any expert statisticians among these so it looks as though the IPCC has chosen once again to ignore the advice of experts when preparing its assessment reports. While looking unsuccessfully for evidence of any expert statisticians being involved in the 5th assessment report I did come across an interesting comment relating to review editor Heinz Wanner (Note 11) QUOTE: .. Climate has changed substantially since the last Ice Age. Heinz Wanner will present the changes that have been deduced, and how these changes can be inferred from natural archives of past climate change. This indirect evidence records climate changes and other influences, and hence estimates of past climate change are uncertain UNQUOTE. It will be interesting to see how Dr. John Haslett (Note 12), Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, Trinity College, Dublin (and a Chartered Statistician I believe) QUOTE: .. explains how to explore and quantify the uncertainty .. UNQUOTE.</div>
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John Haslett would appear to be an ideal candidate for inclusion by the IPCC as one of its lead authors for Chapter 5 and I’m puzzled as to why the IPCC has not nominated him as an expert author for the 5th assessment report. Maybe it’s because he’s not a signed-up member of the Mann “hockey team”. When talking in his 2010 paper “Palaeoclimate Histories” (Note 13) about statistical manipulations relating to the “hockey stick” Professor Haslett discusses my favourite topic – uncertainty. QUOTE: .. Uncertainty in the discussion of climate is inevitable. But ignoring it – or using over-simple methods – is not. Modelling uncertainty (and indeed communicating it) is neither simple nor cheap; however it cannot be set aside. In fact, confidence about the handling of uncertainty not only pre-empts the sometimes sterile debate encouraged by unqualified (or poorly qualified) statements about climate change, past and future; but it goes further. It provides a basis for pooling the many different sources of information and thus for reducing the uncertainty associated with at least some statements. In this paper we discuss some of the challenges and look forward to the fruits of recent developments .. UNQUOTE.</div>
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1) see http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/lies.htm <br />
2) see http://www.adelaide.edu.au/environment/people/barrybrook.html <br />
3) see http://bravenewclimate.com/2009/04/23/ian-plimer-heaven-and-earth/ <br />
4) see http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=1d688937-54b7-48f4-a4be-d6979dada5df&k=65311 <br />
5) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Wegman <br />
6) see http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2009/11/21/the-hockey-stick-illusion.html <br />
7) see http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/08/andrew_montford_interview/<br />
8) see http://www.amazon.com/Hockey-Stick-Illusion-Climategate-Independent/product-reviews/1906768358/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful?ie=UTF8&coliid=&showViewpoints=1&colid=&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending <br />
9) see http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/CRUstatements/SAP <br />
10) see http://www.ipcc.ch/index.htm <br />
11) see http://www.rse.org.uk/events/Diarymay10.pdf <br />
12) see http://www.tcd.ie/Statistics/staff/johnhaslett.shtml <br />
13) see http://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/ias/insights/Haslett3Mar.pdf<br />
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Back in January at wattsupwiththat Anthony Watts presented an article concerning copyright and Peter Sinclair (much revered by gullible supporters of the UN’s human-made global climate change propaganda. That thread was referenced several times during the first half of March on Australian Senator Steve Fielding’s “Climate Change” thread (Note 1).</div>
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I was 7 when the war in Europe ended and only knew about the horrors of Hitler’s regime through later Pathe News items seen at the cinema. It was much later (1974) that I started taking a real interest in the subject, after reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” by William L. Shirer (Note 8). Since then I have collected numerous video cassettes of recordings from BBC and other TV programmes dedicated to educating us about the evils that can spring from a blind acceptance of state propaganda. The BBC has a lot of articles on this (Note 9) one of which says QUOTE: Initially, Hitler saw himself as a political evangelist...rather than as a political leader UNQUOTE. In August 2007 The Huffington Post published an article (Note 10) QUOTE: A Nobel Prize for an Environmental Evangelist – Al Gore UNQUOTE. It is clear that I am not the only one to recognise the similarities between Hitler and Gore.</div>
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Although there are similarities between these four producers, with Leni Riefenstahl there is one significant difference – Riefenstahl was recruited by Hitler’s propaganda machine whereas Gore was recruited by the other three. I was always under the impression that the award for the film was to Al Gore, but apparently it was (Note 18) QUOTE: The best-documentary Oscar itself actually went to director Davis Guggenheim and producers Lawrence Bender, Laurie David and Scott Burns UNQUOTE. But Gore also claims to have invented the Internet doesn’t he (Note 19)? We are fortunate that Al Gore hasn’t yet achieved his ambition to become President of the USA (but there’s still the UN Secretary General post up for grabs after 31st of December 2011 – watch out Ban Ki-). </div>
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1) see http://www.stevefielding.com.au/forums/viewthread/125/P7530/<br />
2) see http://wattsupwiththat.com/<br />
3) see http://www.littlegreenfootballs2.com/2009/08/11/peter-sinclair-global-warming-charlatan/ <br />
4) see http://adventist-environmental-advocacy.blogspot.com/ <br />
5) see http://www.theclimateproject.org/<br />
6) see http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/08/17/inconvenient-youth-brainwashing-teens-climate-hysteria#comment-686517 <br />
7) see http://www.inconvenientyouth.org/about.php and http://www.inconvenientyouth.org/blog/ <br />
8) see http://uk.ask.com/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Third_Reich <br />
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9) see http://search.bbc.co.uk/search?go=toolbar&uri=%2Fhistory%2F&q=Hitler <br />
10) see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-wallis/a-nobel-prize-for-an-envi_b_68867.html <br />
11) see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k56wFujOMOg ,<br />
12) see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/2209547.stm <br />
13) see http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2465858329/ <br />
14) see http://www.lauriedavid.com/bio.html <br />
15) see http://www.mediamischief.com/The%20Mischief%20Starts%20Here/C8BCCC1C-8EF7-455C-9AE0-FA396D64FDF5.html <br />
16) see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-bender/the-pusher-plagiarizes-ad_b_15160.html <br />
17) see http://brucemulkey.com/2007/02/ <br />
18) see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpxtKcLSFWw <br />
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Best regards,Pete Ridleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08258973141061114628noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336588801040320412.post-15028488258823678572010-05-13T12:12:00.001-07:002015-04-24T03:17:54.282-07:00CAN THERE BE AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION OF IPCC? – update 13/05/2010<div style="text-align: justify;">
In my articles of 14th April and 31st March I commented on the politically inspired whitewashing of the UEA CRU following the leaking of E-mails in November. First there was the whitewash by the UK’s Commons Science and Technology Committee then another by the UEA’s “independent” review chaired by Lord Oxburgh. It looks as though we’ll soon have the media reporting a third, this one by the UEA’s own review team chaired by Sir Muir Russell.</div>
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Early in December, shortly after the Climategate scandal broke it was announced that the UEA would fund an independent enquiry (Note 1) into the leaking of CRU E-mails which would report in “the Spring”. The most recent entry at its Web-site (Note 2) was on 17th April and simply said QUOTE: "The Review team has read and noted all submissions, and is currently working towards its conclusions UNQUOTE. The enquiry team comprises:</div>
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It was reported (Note 3) that Russel’s web-site says QUOTE: Do any of the Review team members have a predetermined view on climate change and climate science? No. Members of the research team come from a variety of scientific backgrounds. They were selected on the basis they have no prejudicial interest in climate change and climate science and for the contribution they can make to the issues the Review is looking at UNQUOTE. Let’s find out for ourselves if this is the case. Following the previous “whitewash” enquiries it is important to look closely at the credentials of the members of the Russel team. </div>
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It is clear from the above that all of the members of the review team could be considered to have vested interest in the continuation of acceptance of the UN’s climate change propaganda, whether arising from scientific bias, funding pressures or political influence. It looks as though there could well be another UK whitewash, although they do say “third time lucky”.</div>
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1) see http://www.cce-review.org/Biogs.php <br />
2) see http://www.cce-review.org/News.php <br />
3) see http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100025934/climategate-the-official-cover-up-continues/ <br />
4) see http://www.scottishpower.com/PressReleases_1612.htm <br />
5) see http://www.renewableenergyfocus.com/view/7757/iberdrola-creates-scottish-offshore-wind-energy-division/ <br />
6) see http://briefingroom.typepad.com/the_briefing_room/2010/02/more-scandal-in-climategate-review-another-panellist-biased.html <br />
7) see http://www.coca-colahellenic.com/home/2009-10-07<br />
8) see http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=98&contentId=7061445 <br />
9) see http://www.ucs.ed.ac.uk/bits/2008/october_2008/bits.pdf and http://www.hector.ac.uk/news-events/press/releases/2007-02-22.php <br />
10) see http://www.profjimnorton.com/ <br />
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Best regards,Pete Ridleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08258973141061114628noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336588801040320412.post-91173217684896089772010-05-06T13:29:00.000-07:002015-04-24T03:17:42.453-07:00Climate Change, Pension Funds and the BBC<div style="text-align: justify;">
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Some time ago sceptical climate change commentator John O’Sullivan published a revealing article QUOTE: Follow the Money: BBC Exposed in Biggest Climate Racket on Planet UNQUOTE (Note 1). It is an excellent example of how pension fund investments in green/renewable energy technologies provided the financial incentive for mainstream media organisations like the BBC to give full support to the UN’s human-made global climate change propaganda.</div>
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As reported (Note 4) QUOTE: On the heels of international climate treaty talks in Copenhagen, the world’s largest investors today released a statement calling on the U.S. and other governments to move quickly to adopt strong national climate policies that will spur low-carbon investments to reduce emissions causing climate change. UNQUOTE The big boys were there (see the photos): Al Gore, Generation Investment Management; George Soros, Soros Fund Management; Abby Joseph Cohen, Goldman Sachs; Kevin Parker, Deutsche Asset Management; Jeremy Oppenheim, McKinsey & Company; plus ; Timothy E. Wirth, President of the United Nations Foundation and all of the other UN hangers-on.</div>
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There were QUOTE: .. U.S., European and Australian investor groups representing $13 trillion in assets .. UNQUOTE including investors like Anne Stausboll, CEO, California Public Employees' Retirement System ($205B); Howard Jacobs, Trustee, Universities Superannuation Scheme; The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) which represents institutional investors operating in Australia and New Zealand, with assets around AU$500bn. There’s big big money riding on the back of and depend upon global acceptance of the UN’s propaganda. As most of us recognise, Gore and his cronies are prime promoters of this propaganda.</div>
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The motivating forces behind Gore, Soros and their UN buddies has nothing to do with the benefits of controlling global climates but plenty to do with the benefits of controlling global finances.</div>
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On 16th March 2007 Executive Intelligence Review published a feature (Note 6) “THE CULT OF THE OLIGARCHY The Gore of Babylon” by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. (Note 7). Accepting the fact that not everyone appreciates the opinions of LaRouche, he is not very complementary about Gore. Here are some of LaRouche’s comments QUOTE:</div>
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3) see http://www.iigcc.org/docs/PDF/Public/AboutIIGCC.pdf <br />
4) see http://www.iigcc.org/docs/PDF/Public/Pressrelease14Jan10.pdf <br />
5) see http://incr.com/investorsummit <br />
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7) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche<br />
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In my article “More Climate Change Propaganda in Australia .. ”on 15th April (Note 9) I talked about how Penny Wrong, the Australian Minister for Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Water, used her political skills to push the UN-sponsored propaganda (Note 10) about catastrophic climate change from our use of fossil fuels. She did this with the whole-hearted support of Australian Premier Kevin Rudd who only five months earlier on 6th November had presented QUOTE: .. one of the strongest statements seen from a Head of Government of a ‘developed’ nation on climate change .. UNQUOTE (Note 1) to The Lowy Institute.</div>
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Rudd and his climate change team under Wong must be feeling extremely frustrated about the way the tide has turned since the Climategate scandal first broke as well as being very worried about their job security. This frustration was clearly evident from the reaction of Rudd’s chief advisor on climate sciences, Professor Barry Brook of Adelaide Uiversity (Note 3). Barry is a determined critic of his sceptical Adelaide University associate, Professor Ian Plimer (Note 4) and Plimer’s book “Heaven and Earth”. After being banned from his site in June for questioning him repeatedly about his comment QUOTE: .. There are a lot of uncertainties in science, and it is indeed likely that the current consensus on some points of climate science is wrong, or at least sufficiently uncertain that we don’t know anything much useful about processes or drivers. ..UNQUOTE (Note 5) I looked in again on 3rd March.</div>
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I was delighted to see that others had taken up the sceptical side of the debate with increased vigour, especially after “Climategate”. In the end Barry Brook (who had been unusually quiet) commented on 29th November QUOTE: .. Anyway, no more time on this thread for me. You’re nothing more than a conspiratorial looney, “John Berns”, so begone with you and the rest of the foetid trolls who have infested this thread. I edit morons, not data. Vangel, Berns, PeterW, JeffT, gianmarco, Wick: you’re all on moderation. UNQUOTE. Eventually Brook childishly resorted to QUOTE: Shorter Denis Maclaine: “Blah, di blah blah blah” UNQUOTE (13th December) and QUOTE: Bob Thomas: “Blah di blah blah blah. Go away, you conspiratorial crank. This blog is for serious discussion. UNQUOTE (18th Dec). Finally on 19th QUOTE: This thread has degenerated to the point where comments here are no longer serving any useful purpose. It has become infested by trolls and delusionists who are more interested in pushing ideology than discussing matters of science or evidence. Comments closed. UNQUOTE.</div>
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Let’s now look at those to whom Rudd addressed his emphatic QUOTE: The Government I lead will act UNQUOTE. The Lowy Institute includes on its Board of Directors (Note 6) Mr Frank Lowy, Mr David H. Lowy, Mr Peter S. Lowy and Mr Steven M. Lowy. All of these are also on the Board of Directors of The Westfield Group (Note 7) QUOTE: .. which is the largest retail property group in the world by equity market capitalisation and one of the largest entities listed on the Australian Securities Exchange .. UNQUOTE. For someone looking no further than that there might appear to be no vested interest in climate change other than a natural concern for its impact upon human existence, but let’s look a little deeper. </div>
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More relevant to the UN’s climate change propaganda, QUOTE: Westfield also manages assets on behalf of institutional and other investors. This investment is undertaken .. with partners such as AMP Capital Investors, Australian Prime Property Fund (APPF), DEXUS Property Group, Forest City Enterprises, JP Morgan Asset Management Real Estate Investment Management, Morgan Stanley Real Estate Management, the Perron Group and Prudential Plc, or as an investor in other forms of property-owning vehicles such as limited partnership arrangements in the United Kingdom with the Possfund and BT Pension Scheme, which are managed by the Hermes Group UNQUOTE.</div>
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That is where the alarm bells should start to ring. What is it that those investors consider worth ploughing their money into in order to get the best return? Could it be anything to do with climate change – perhaps renewable energy generation (like wind turbines, solar mirrors, solar panels), distribution (like cable, towers and other “green” investments? Well, if the UN has anything to do with it – Yes.</div>
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Pension Funds Online said in 2008 in its “The Future of Pension Funds: Sustainable Investment” article (Note 8) QUOTE: The Board members of the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment Initiative (PRI) represent some of the world’s largest pension funds from five different continents including France’s Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites, PREVI in Brazil and the UK’s BT Pension Scheme. They take a similar view. Donald MacDonald, Chair of the PRI Board, has said ““As clients and part owners of the financial institutions at the core of this crisis, institutional investors should accept some shared responsibility for the behaviours that led to the crisis.” and “We believe this current crisis could have a catalytic effect of shifting the mainstream investment sector towards more responsible investment practices.” UNQUOTE.</div>
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Now there is an interesting area of research for the UN and its supporters to put a little of those enormous funds they have available and I’m sure that the findings would be much more revealing than the research into global climate processes and drivers has been so far.</div>
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NOTES:<br />
1) see <a href="http://getenergysmartnow.com/2009/11/06/australian-pm-rudd-takes-global-warming-deniers-to/">http://getenergysmartnow.com/2009/11/06/australian-pm-rudd-takes-global-warming-deniers-to/ </a><br />
2) see <a href="http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/climate-change/rudds-ets-flipflop-sparks-climate-chaos-20100428-tsgu.html">http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/climate-change/rudds-ets-flipflop-sparks-climate-chaos-20100428-tsgu.html </a><br />
3) see <a href="http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/barry.brook#Biography/%20Background">http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/barry.brook#Biography/%20Background </a><br />
4) see <a href="http://www.ecms.adelaide.edu.au/civeng/staff/iplimer01.html">http://www.ecms.adelaide.edu.au/civeng/staff/iplimer01.html </a><br />
5) see <a href="http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=374&Itemid=1">http://nzclimatescience.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=374&Itemid=1 </a><br />
6) see <a href="http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Board.asp">http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Board.asp </a><br />
7) see <a href="http://westfield.com/corporate/about-westfield-group/board-of-directors/">http://westfield.com/corporate/about-westfield-group/board-of-directors/ </a><br />
8) see <a href="http://www.pensionfundsonline.co.uk/articles/uksif.aspx">http://www.pensionfundsonline.co.uk/articles/uksif.aspx</a><br />
9) see <a href="http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/more-climate-change-propaganda-in.html">http://globalpoliticalshenanigans.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/more-climate-change-propaganda-in.html</a><br />
10) see <a href="http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm">http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm</a><br />
<br />Pete Ridleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08258973141061114628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336588801040320412.post-78982166025559887262010-04-15T05:31:00.000-07:002015-04-24T03:17:08.895-07:00More Climate Change Propaganda in Australia on 12th April<div style="text-align: justify;">
Australian Minister for Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Water Penny Wrong gave a “Faculty of Law Public Lecture Series” presentation (Note 1) at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane on 12 April 2010. It certainly was a beautiful piece of political propaganda, using much of what Hitler used in Germany and what many religions use today. It had it all, the warnings of avoidable catastrophe, the finger pointing at the culprits (the common enemy), the sacrifice necessary to avoid the catastrophe, the promise of reward for compliance, the mingling of truth with fiction and of course, the “messianic words” to be trusted unquestioningly. Wong covered many main points but I present a few observations about them.</div>
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1) Mingling truth and fiction QUOTE: The CPRS is grounded in unavoidable truths UNQUOTE.<br />
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The truths:- QUOTE: The overwhelming weight of scientific evidence confirms that climate change is real and we have to do something about it. .. Any effective climate change response now also needs to address the question: how do we adapt to the impacts of climate change that we cannot avoid? UNQUOTE. We can’t argue with those!</div>
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The fiction:- QUOTE: To do something about it you have to address the cause of climate change: carbon pollution. UNQUOTE.</div>
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The catastrophe:- QUOTE: This means that Australian jobs, businesses and livelihoods will be lost, alongside environmental damage of massive proportions.” .. If we fail to tackle climate change, we have a lot to worry about UNQUOTE.</div>
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The common enemy:- QUOTE .. to make polluters pay a premium if they want to keep polluting .. And that as well as making polluters pay, we have to put a limit on how much pollution we will allow to be produced UNQUOTE.</div>
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The sacrifice:- QUOTE: To reduce our carbon pollution, we need to put a price on carbon pollution .. UNQUOTE</div>
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The rewards:- QUOTE: .. and create the reward for clean development. .. This is driving innovation and green jobs in Australia’s car industry .. But there is much to be gained if we act. Already, the economic opportunity is great, .. Already .. global climate revenues rose 75% in 2008 to USD530 billion. .. The number of employees engaged in climate-related activities since 2004 has more than doubled from just over a million to approximately 2.4 million globally UNQUOTE..</div>
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The “messianic word”:- QUOTE: The Rudd Government’s policies get Australia out of the blocks in a global race – for the first time. … There are four main ways the Rudd Government is driving this change. The third way the Rudd Government is driving change is through an expansion in clean energy .. The simple truth is it is a policy that works .. And it works not just by enforcing a limit on emissions. By putting a price on carbon – by making polluters pay - it creates an economic incentive to pollute less. It will be the single biggest driver in clean development in the coming decades. UNQUOTE.</div>
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That speech was a most beautifully crafted piece of propaganda and deserves a special award. Let’s hope that the Australian voting public give it the response that it deserves at the next Federal Election, due before 2011. If the March elections in South Australia are an indicator there is a significant swing (7% - Note 2) away from Labour and it’s ludicrous Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme towards the Liberals.</div>
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1) see http://www.climatechange.gov.au/en/minister/wong/2010/major-speeches/April/sp20100412.aspx <br />
2) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Australian_state_election,_2010 <br />
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Best regards,Pete Ridleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08258973141061114628noreply@blogger.com0