tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708742651224387088.post5539560740205990921..comments2022-03-30T17:18:31.662-07:00Comments on How to be a complete bastard: Flooding: the anatomy of failurePete Northhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04172420184509249126noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708742651224387088.post-66064732505698618622014-02-21T04:26:33.916-08:002014-02-21T04:26:33.916-08:00Pete this is a great piece and I would just like ...Pete this is a great piece and I would just like to add that the day of the settle science academic who can't think for themselves is numbered. The Political class from the Prince of Wales downwards have a fawning attitude towards experts that borders on the obsessive. Most normal people are sceptical of “experts” for the simple reason they are nearly always wrong. This scepticism earns us the title of “headless chickens” or swivel eyed loons”. You note that we are never challenged with a well-crafted argument, only name calling.<br /><br />But science is about to go through some shock treatment. Certain well held theories and Laws are wrong; perhaps the most obvious are the Laws of Gravity. Currently it is accepted science that Gravity is as a result of mass, but this only works on the surface of the earth. Too many inconsistencies are now known to exist that Gravity must be something else. And as we move to galactic scales we see settled science inventing dark matter and dark energy to make the maths work. A classic human case of we don’t believe what we see so we will event something that explains it. There is every reason to believe that the red shift when measuring light from distant objects may not be consistent. Certain Quasars that appear to be at the same distance from us exhibit vastly different redshifts in their light. This calls into question expansion and the big bang. Black holes are another bit of mathematical theory with no observational support. If we look at earth the only explanation for the large size of the dinosaurs is that gravity has changed. This leads to the expanding earth theory, and on it goes. <br /><br />Since WWII science has been funded by government to prove things. Science has made very few discoveries of late that fundamentally change our world. I believe that is about to change but what single factor of fact kicks this off I don’t know. Settled science has supported the “beneficial crisis” but this will dissolve if shown to be wrong. This is why the debunking of climate science has been so important. It will encourage others in all manner of science disciplines to be forthcoming with “inconvenient data”. It’s important for the way we are governed that each new crop of Politians that comes to power understand that there is no such thing as settled science so they are not tempted to follow the “experts” Once Politians understand this they will readily dispense with the NGO scourge. <br />PeterMGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01212008728231863115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708742651224387088.post-82360253065143595872014-02-21T03:54:11.812-08:002014-02-21T03:54:11.812-08:00'Historically no progress has ever been made i...'Historically no progress has ever been made in any area by upholding the consensus but it is risky, prove your point against overwhelming odds or pay the mortgage.' Fantastic comment. Sums it up. Legitimate problems with the theory of evolution (and I'm, not talking about creationist nonsense) are silenced by this mechanism, as are any other phenomena (e.g.psi), which threaten the prevailing materialist paradigm. Science as a whole is being held back on a number of fronts by these forces. And philosophy is now another species of sheep. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708742651224387088.post-86305653449290358022014-02-20T05:40:06.214-08:002014-02-20T05:40:06.214-08:00Science has evelvolved into a tiered hierarchy whe...Science has evelvolved into a tiered hierarchy whereby the postulations of the upper tiers are passed down presented and taught as facts to the lower eschelons. If one wishes to remain as a scientist within the discipline one has to work within these constraints. It's a brave soul that goes off message to where the real progress is to be made. Historically no progress has ever been made in any area by upholding the consensus but it is risky, prove your point against overwhelming odds or pay the mortgage.<br />Great piece Mr North.Flyintheskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08727985139542701667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708742651224387088.post-20085925665993986872014-02-20T00:57:07.561-08:002014-02-20T00:57:07.561-08:00Your observation:
"How we got to a state w...Your observation: <br /><br />"How we got to a state where academics lack the capacity to think is too big a discussion for the scope of this piece, and perhaps I will explore that another time . . ."<br /><br />is at the core of the problem.<br /><br />People have not been educated to think but rather to obey and be 'socially mutual'.<br />We are, indeed, in deep trouble as these people rule the system and their lack of common sense precludes wisdom and intelligence.<br />The main thing that gets one to a position of influence in any field, political, media, academia, whatever is power-thirst and the ability to manipulate others. Addressing reality comes second, sometimes not at all.<br />I must concede, however, that the power seekers have done a very intelligent and competent job of keeping their opposition in disarray.John Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05363879677850548257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708742651224387088.post-28155334758171324172014-02-20T00:44:21.076-08:002014-02-20T00:44:21.076-08:00Excellent piece.
The fact that the Somerset floo...Excellent piece. <br /><br />The fact that the Somerset floods have been allowed to become an environmental, ecological and economic disaster because of old EU laws and the policies enacted by/advocated for the Brussels-Whitehall-Quango-NGO nexus that has replaced constitutional democracy and representative government/cabinet responsibility in this country is easily knowable. Largely due to the outstanding work of Dr North at EURef, for which he cannot be thanked enough.<br /><br />One is frustrated that other people cannot see it. There is nothing clandestine or secret about these agendas. The media schizophrenically acts as cheerleader/tries to ignore the influence of the institutions that have effectively disenfranchised the people. Then again, what else would one expect from people who have (largely) allowed themselves to become little more than court scribes and jesters? As Ernest Bevan may or may not have said of the British press: "Why bother to muzzle sheep".<br /><br />Most "political" reporting consists of informing the "masses" of what the authorities have to say. Servility is assumed and this helps to inculcate a mindset that is repelled by even the merest hint of dissent. I doubt that most journalists even know that they are doing it. "Servile? Me? No, relentless seeker telling truth to power! Have you not seen All the President's Men? That's why I got into this racket!" Yet, their reports all say: "Today the Prime Minister said that he would seek to 'reform' and 'renegotiate' Britain's relationship with the EU". It is generally considered "bad form" to point out, "and he was lying through his teeth and everyone in the hall was struggling to hold back their jeers and titters". That wouldn't be cricket, what, what, etc.<br /><br />Then one faces the fact that the "elite agendas" pursued by the UN-Brussels-Whitehall-Quango-NGO puppet masters (I exclude a compliant and complicit Westminster only because if people were <i>really serious</i> we do still have the power elect our own parliamentary representatives - although, that probably too hopeful in the sense that it downplays the influence of the MSM...) are broadly shared by the population at large because these are the same people who "create" the culture.<br /><br />I have been trying to read into/understand the origins of this phenomena and (to simplify to the point of caricature) I think that it can be essentially traced back to the influence of two 19th century Englishman: Charles Darwin and Thomas Malthus. Darwin because of "survival of the fittest" (a term coined by Herbert Spencer and NOT part Darwin's original theory), and Malthus because of his advocacy for population reduction based on essential resource scarcity. Both mistaken, both providing the "intellectual" underpinnings for (as far as I can determine) ALL of the reactionary anti-technology, anti-trade, anti-business, anti-human environmentalist/Leftist/collectivist/totalitarian theories today. I am not saying this explains all manifestations of elite evil, only that the ideas espoused by these two men (or corruptions of same) provide the seedbed for the current crop of weeds that "legitimise" the need for a "power elite" who must be granted the power to boss us around because they know more than the rest of us. <br /><br />How to make this clear to the "other side"? Maybe one can use their own tactics against them and point out that both of these upper-class Englishman worked for the East India Company, which was folded into what became known as the British Empire. You see! It is all the fault of anglo-British capitalist imperialists - everything Graun readers and lefties in general love to oppose, all tied up in a neat little package!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708742651224387088.post-34043691231155897722014-02-19T09:54:19.405-08:002014-02-19T09:54:19.405-08:00Ultimately this is about power. That is why we ne...Ultimately this is about power. That is why we need to take the power back.<br /><br />http://harrogateagenda.org.uk/Pete Northhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04172420184509249126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708742651224387088.post-1058198130765721312014-02-19T04:03:53.589-08:002014-02-19T04:03:53.589-08:00The problem is how do we get the government to und...The problem is how do we get the government to understand they have been scammed by these NGO's?<br /><br />How do you explain to an environmentalists that managing the level for farmers is going to help the wildlife?<br /><br />By allowing the Somerset levels to flood have they have killed more animals than they have saved?<br /><br /><br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12970330500618047138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7708742651224387088.post-82803093717776257082014-02-18T22:17:33.567-08:002014-02-18T22:17:33.567-08:00Well said Pete. I would also like to point out tha...Well said Pete. I would also like to point out that the residents of Christchurch New Zealand have been presented with this concept of "managed retreat" (the exact same words, in fact) in the face of "rising sea levels", which is derived from an engineering report that admits there have been no measurable sea level changes in the last 10 years <br /><br />andyscrasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03739470194342258593noreply@blogger.com