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It’s an emergency, the Defence Industry wants to get some climate-money too. Send Fear and Brimstone!

By Jo Nova

Climate change is now a severe national security threat

A secret report by a Joint Intelligence committee in the UK claim climate change poses a severe threat to National Security. It’s one of the biggest risks facing Britain, the report is “understood” to say.  Get ready to be bowled over by the hyperbole:  It’s a “stark warning” say anonymous sources, and it’s a “hard hitting report” say the journalists who have not seen it.

You might wonder how a 0.14° degree rise per decade could creep up and threaten the SAS, apart from nasty cuts from a broken thermometer — but apparently, the food supply chains are at risk, and migration from the worst affected countries might cause “social disorder”. Which begs the question of why the UK doesn’t just stop disorderly migrants at the national moat?

This is the country, after all,  that once stopped German tanks and bombers but now is in danger of being overrun by unarmed men in inflatable dinghies.

It also seems quite incongruous — the experts have told us a million times that all migrants are good migrants, and yet here’s the Joint Intelligence team trying to raise funding by saying climate migrants might “impact UK security”. So which is it?

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

The Guardian

Migration from countries worst affected by the climate and biodiversity crises will also have an impact on society and the economy. Some of the countries worst affected are likely to see governments fall and the rise of social disorder, leading to political instability that in turn will have an impact on the UK’s security.

This is pure polished vaporware English — the right keywords are all there but the words are carefully assembled so they don’t say anything that can embarrass the Minister on GB News.

And let’s not forgot, the ultimate threat here is that thanks to climate change the UK might end up being a bit more like Spain?

How bad can it be? Englishmen might stay home for a holiday?

The realm may experience an intolerable increase in sunshine, optimism, and outdoor dining?

As for food insecurity, the  UK grows more crops per hectare than nearly anywhere else in the world.

Unlike some nations, Britain can feed itself. Though if supply lines get cut, people may have to live without mangoes for a while.

This, below, is the awful impact of climate change on British farmers. Seven centuries of increased yield.

Bring in the Hellfire missiles…

 

The real reason for the climate  scare report — They want more money, more power and bigger titles

Defence experts have grown increasingly concerned at the lack of action, and some have called for climate finance to be considered part of national security spending.

Why are they halting a climate report?

Are they afraid the enemy might find out “about climate change” after they cleverly hid it inside 30 years of propaganda?

The hard-hitting report was to be published on Thursday at a landmark event in London. But the Guardian understands that the report, prepared by experts over many months, has been halted.

One source told the Guardian they feared it was being suppressed because the government was unwilling to face the issues raised. Overseas aid, formally known as official development assistance (ODA), which could help to stabilise countries most at risk from the climate crisis and avoid some of the impacts warned about, has been slashed.

Is this just the same cynical attention-seeking media trick used in Australia last month? Leak the story, “hide” the report, discuss the conspiracy, play the victim. Call it worrying and stark, thus generating media stories which the critics can’t criticize because they haven’t got the details. Then release it anyway. Revel in the attention! Repeat and recycle!

This same nation which once repelled the Luftwaffe, cracked the Enigma code, and supplied half the world with coal and steel, now stands imperiled by a mild change in the weather.

Imagine having too much sunshine — It’s just not British!

Beach image by Judy from Pixabay

 

 

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46 comments to It’s an emergency, the Defence Industry wants to get some climate-money too. Send Fear and Brimstone!

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    Eng_Ian

    Oh course the war machine is going to face hardship due to climate change.

    They’ll be no electricity and no liquid fuels. How can you go to a modern war on horseback and canoe? Unless it’s a domestic war….. Just a thought.

    It’s for your own good.

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    Murray Shaw

    Maybe, just maybe, the authors of this report, after looking around started to see the fragility of their thinking, and see that maybe it (the report) may not stand up to public scrutiny, in light of the cracks that are starting to appear in the Climate narrative.

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      David Maddison

      But who in Once Great Britain would dare to question it?

      Afterall, they are routinely questioning or arresting people for social media posts, including those that cause “anxiety”.

      Once you go down that path the range of offences deemed to be considered thought crimes expands without llimit. It will no doubt soon including questioning “climate change”.

      In Australia we have another Senate inquiry about “misinformation”.

      The Left consider questioning the Official Narrative on “climate change” to be “misinformation” which should be illegal, despite the fact that free and open inquiry is the basis of the Scientific Method (which they neither understand or care for).

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        wal1957

        Very few people in government or officialdom have the right to declare anything as misinformation after the Covid psyop that was orchestrated upon a willing and gullible population.

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        Mark Jones

        The people of “Tommyland” have had enough, methinks! Mainstream doesnt report it but the groundswell is building up stronger than the pre-Brexit vote.

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    Johnny Rotten

    Instead of ‘No S*x, we are British’, it is now, ‘No Sunshine, we are British’.

    I can’t wait to read this Report if or when it’s released.

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      Graeme No.3

      Well some of their comments might be readable.
      1981: Scientists (including Steven Schneider) warn global warming would see Buckingham Palace 7 feet underwater (that was supposedly happening by 1989)
      1988: UN — world will be 4℃ warmer and Antarctica 5.5℃ by 2030 and the Maldives completely under water in 30 years
      2000: ‘Children won’t know what snow is by 2010.’
      Dr. David Viner a senior research scientist at the climate research unit CRU of the University of East Anglia “Within a few years winter snowfall will become a rare and exciting event. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is”
      2004: Britain to have Siberian climate by 2020 Source: The Guardian, February 21, 2004
      Between 2010 and 2020, Europe would be hardest hit by climatic change, with an average annual temperature drop of 6°F (3°C). Major cities in Europe will be sunk beneath rising seas

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    Harves

    Perhaps that’s why the British Navy can’t stop rubber dinghies loaded with fighting aged males … they’re afraid of going to sea because of climate change.

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    Ronin

    The military might need to worry where all the diesel will be coming from.

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    Ronin

    The once proud seafaring nation is now being overrun by third world scum in rubber dinghies,

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      Dennis

      And the EU nations ignoring the UN Convention on Refugees that requires them to register at the nearest safe haven country to their home country for asylum.

      Example of not acceptable would be from Afghanistan into Pakistan and failing to register at a UNHCR refugee camp for support, instead paying a people smuggler to take them to a country of their own choice as economic refugees but illegal immigrants seeking asylum. From Pakistan to Indonesia to Australia for example.

      Offshore processing in detention centres (not prisons) using UNHCR rules, and if the applicant failed to meet the requirements then deported or if, usually because the applicant has travelled on a forged passport and arrives with no passport at the country of choice, or if no country will accept them they remain in detention with no access to Australia.

      Most after a while find their passport and return to country of origin unless government and legal system override the deportation order.

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    Dave of Gold Coast

    Ahh, good old climate change; the open door for Islamic and Communistic powers to overwhelm the west, If anyone thinks the Hamas attack on Israel was only against the Jewish community they are dreaming. Plain facts are now obvious as Hamas are now in entrenched in UK, Canada and Australia plus more. Israel became a means to an end to destroy and take over the west. Hate campaigns are now world wide, pressing on to conquest of our countries. Take Victoria as an example!

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      el+gordo

      Too many memes, let’s stick to the climate, we are losing the information war.

      ‘Leak the story, hide the report, discuss the conspiracy, play the victim.’

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    farmerbraun

    While the hockey stick of wheat yields /hectare is impressive, I have a suspicion that the increase in EROEI may not be nearly as spectacular.

    .
    [EROEI – energy return on energy investment]

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      Ronin

      I always thought England had really good farm soil, until I watched ‘Clarksons Farm’, the paddocks look like they’ve been top dressed with roadbase.

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        Annie

        There’s lots of Cotswold ‘brash’ 2″ to 4″ below the surface. This rises up to the surface and seems to be unending in supply. It was the bane of my life setting up a veggie garden when we lived in the Cotswolds. You’d try to cultivate with a garden fork which came to an unpleasant halt as it struck the stone. Presumably JC’s farm is similar?
        Not all of English farming land is like this though; far from it.

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    David Maddison

    It’s one of the biggest risks facing Britain,…

    No. The BIGGEST risk to Once Great Britain is their open borders illegal immigration policy allowing in some of the world’s most violent, uneducated, anti-Western, anti-Christian and antisemitic people plus extensive censorship and other totalitarian laws to try to keep the whole mess under control.

    The next biggest threat is the systematic destruction of their energy supply but unlike the case of Australia, at least Once Great Britain can import cheap, reliable nuclear power from its neighbour, France.

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      Dennis

      I was shocked and saddened when I watched several years ago British schoolgirls and grooming by migrants and according to the documentary a code of silence blocked police from assisting those children.

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        Whilst Sir Starmer opposed a formal national enquiry, he has [surprise!] done a screeching U-turn.
        The enquiry will probably report as soon as possible – likely by mid-2040 – and will, I imagine, enrich a generation of lawyers – not all sleazy moneygrubbing bottom-feeders!

        It will establish what any sentient Brit now knows – many hundreds [and probably thousands] of overwhelmingly white teen, and even pre-teen, girls were abused, in many cities and towns across the UK.

        Many – probably most of them – were vulnerable, ‘in care’ – in an institutional system that really doesn’t care at all, as long as no waves are made.

        The abusers certainly included many from Pakistani-heritage families [some immigrants, some born here].

        And, although some honest individuals – police, social carers – tried, at risk of their jobs as whistleblowers, to get ‘the authorities’ to take this widespread abuse [possibly including murder of one victim or more] at all seriously – nothing was done!

        Hundreds [a bare minimum] of vulnerable children raped [many times a night, sometimes], beaten, prostituted, trafficked, drugged – and nothing was done, in the name of ‘community cohesion’ [or some other phrase used to disguise the overwhelming hunger for votes – votes from the communities of which the abusers were part, perhaps a prominent part ].

        Some few of the abusers have been prosecuted and convicted – here is one report – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd2rld9mj2o – but the institutional inaction has not yet been actually addressed.

        No responsibility.

        Nobody has been sacked, so far as I am aware – nobody has lost their pension; nobody has been taken to court for malfeasance in public office – let alone locked in the stocks for a week, imprisoned, or executed.

        And the political classes [all flavours, it seems] seem aghast that the public thinks of them with contempt.

        Out of touch, much?

        Auto

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      doc

      No. In all democracies now – except the USA – the biggest risk is our weak politicians. Too easily misled. Too tied up in ideology. Too much in the hands of their donors. Too removed from reality. No knowledge of history. No reverence of traditions. No respect for their own civilisation. Believe in nothing except their own egos. Believe in their own exceptionalism. Chase power for themselves; make laws to render their own citizens defenceless against their wildest dreams.

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    David Maddison

    Australia’s fully woke military sees “climate change” as a risk as well.

    https://www.minister.defence.gov.au/media-releases/2024-10-25/defence-net-zero-strategy-future-energy-strategy-released

    Climate change is a national security issue. It poses risks to Australia’s national interests and exacerbates geostrategic risks. The shift to net zero not only contributes to making Australians safer but also enhances Australia’s standing in the Indo-Pacific.

    As the Australian Government’s largest landholder and energy user, Defence has developed plans to reduce its emissions and increase reliable renewable energy.

    By investing in clean energy, investigating opportunities for adopting lower-carbon fuels and preparing for future energy needs, Defence will contribute to a cleaner, safer environment and more resilient Australia, without compromising military preparedness or operational requirements.

    Investing in clean energy offers significant long-term economic benefits for Defence. As global dynamics shift towards sustainability the cost of maintaining outdated, non-renewable energy sources will inevitably rise.

    BLAH BLAH BLAH

    They just don’t have a clue.

    I’m sure the Chicomms can’t stop laughing.

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      Neville

      David I’ve listened to a military yapper on their ABC telling us about our dangerous weather and also the danger from fires in the future.
      Perhaps he should look at the death rates from fires and burns all over the world and Aussies are even lower than NZ and the UK and some other colder Nordic countries.
      This data covers the big improvement all over the world since 1980 and only takes a few minutes online.
      Isn’t this better than WASTING TRILLIONS of $ for a SFA return?

      https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fire-death-rates?tab=line&country=OWID_WRL~OWID_LIC~OWID_HIC~OWID_UMC~OWID_LMC~NZL~AUS~African+Region+%28WHO%29~GBR

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        Neville

        BTW the world population in 1980 was about 4.4 billion and about 7.9 bn in 2021.
        Aussie population in 1980 was just 14.8 million and 25.7 in 2021.
        But Africa’s population was just 482 million in 1980 and 1393 million in 2021.
        Just proves how much safer we are today from fires and burns and all over the world. In just 41 years.
        When will our donkeys start to think? See Macrotrends population data 1980 to 2021.

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      Ronin

      A clue that our management fools don’t have a clue is the signing of a mutual aid agreement with PNG, wtf, how will they come to our aid if needed and won’t it just put us in direct conflict with the Indo forces in West Papua.

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        Mike Jonas

        Actually, that one is smart, although a bit late. China already has a military base – oops research facility – in PNG within bow and arrow range of Cape York. The deal with PNG gives us a wee bit of a chance of loosening China’s grip.

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      Ronin

      I wonder how their battery powered tanks are coming along, they could have a chat with Twiggy for updates.

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    Tony Tea

    Send the Graun a brown-paper-wrapped package of a dozen sticks of fear, brimstone and stark warnings.

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    Jon Rattin

    The Brits no longer have to worry about ze Germans now that they are faced with the existential threat of ze climate change.

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    Neville

    Perhaps we should use OWI Data to prove how stupid the UK is today?
    Who would think that the UK emits NO MORE co2 emissions today than they did in 1880?
    And Aussies are nearly as stupid, so why can’t the Starmer loony spend a few minutes online and save his country from a lot of misery?
    Perhaps he could also tell Albo and B O Bowen as well?

    https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-country?country=OWID_WRL~GBR~AUS~CHN~OWID_HIC~OWID_UMC~OECD+%28GCP%29~North+America+%28GCP%29~Non-OECD+%28GCP%29~OWID_EUR~OWID_LMC~IND~RUS~DEU~OWID_LIC

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      StephenP

      Thanks for the link, it provides useful information to counter the ‘greenies’ assertions that the UK is increasing its CO2 emmissions in the UK.
      We could stop all CO2 emmissions and it would hardly be noticed.
      Although we do seem to have exported some emmissions, probably to China.

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    Ross

    All the science aside, Jo’s articles are always just a really entertaining read. Hilarious at times! During the week I laughed out loud, when I read “ the cats out of the bag and had kittens”. This piece is similar. The sheer irony in predicting future climate migration when thousands of illegal immigrants are arriving every week is just again, hilarious. How anyone could front a media conference talking about the garbage in this potential report is quite astonishing. But, I suppose thats’s the role of modern politicians- to get up in front of the public and tell a bunch of lies. COVID taught us that in spades.

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    Lee

    There is a huge threat to Britain and it isn’t climate change!

    The UK government and military worry about an imaginary threat while ignoring the elephant in the room.

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      doc

      They don’t ignore it. They know they are responsible for it and don’t want to have to face the music. So, as in Australia, they make laws that make one’s freedom at risk if one chooses to take up the debate. Our freedoms have never been as curtailed as now except in war time. And they keep getting further curtailed!

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    Honk R Smith

    Well, here in America, we spent gazillions building an arsenal against Communism.
    Now, we can turn an abandoned ICBM missile silo into a boutique home.
    We can buy underwear made in Viet Nam.
    And untold amounts of our stuff is made by Communists that murdered tens of millions of there own own people.
    For Communism.
    (Capitalism has worked for Communists.)

    And now we’re going to have a Communist mayor of NYC.
    And most of the kids that come out of the educational system are devout Communists.
    Half the rock and movie stars are rich Communists.

    So I guess this means if the military is committing to fight Climate Change …
    in 50 years we will have lots of Climate Change.

    (And I have been immoderate by stating fact about Communists.)

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    Ronin

    Operation Sealion failed yet this generation is letting the enemy just paddle ashore.

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    Neville

    So why don’t the defence industries check out the 99 + % fall in death rates from natural climate disasters since 1900?
    See Dr Goklany, Lomborg, Dr Koonin, Dr Spencer, Dr Happer Dr Chrisy etc and all of the co2 Coalition Scientists and of course OWI Data Climate death rates since 1900.
    Why can’t our Defence donkeys understand very simple graphs and data?

    https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/natural-disaster-death-rates

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      Neville

      Worldometer shows that at the start of the IND REV the population of the world was about 770 million and 1.6 billion by 1900 and about 3 billion by 1960 and about 8.2 billion today.
      Why don’t the OECD Defence yappers start to earn their salaries and WAKE UP?

      https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/

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        czechlist

        Ironic?
        80 years ago the bleeding hearts told us it was our responsibility to feed the non-produtive third worlders. We did and all they have done is multiply but are still non-productive and have outgrown their natural habitats.
        Of course politics and economics drive much of it. The farmers overproduce and the goverments buy their products to keep them happy/solvent and send that product to the third world who eat and procreate.

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    Dennis

    I hope this report gives the bare facts about what is implied
    by committing to a net-zero emissions economy for 2050.
    Short of a command economy, it is simply an unattainable
    pipe dream, and we will struggle to get 10–20% of the way
    to the target, even with a democratic mandate to proceed. I
    think that the hard facts should put a stop to urgent mitiga-
    tion and lead to a focus on adaptation. Mankind has adapted
    to the climate over recent millennia, and is better equipped
    than ever to adapt in the coming decades. With respect to
    sea-level-rise, the Dutch have been showing us the way for
    centuries. Climate adaptation in the here and now is a much
    easier sell to the UK citizenry than mitigation.
    There is a very strong case to repeal the net-zero emis-
    sions legislation, and replace it with a rather longer time ho-
    rizon. The continued pressure towards a net-zero economy
    will become a crime of sedition if the public rise up violently
    to reject it. The silence of the Royal Society, the Royal Acad-
    emy of Engineering and the professional science and engi-
    neering bodies about these engineering realities is a matter
    of complicity.

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    Ronin

    SA power at midday, rooftop solar 72.5%, grid scale solar 0.1%, wind 38.4%.
    Rooftop is eating their lunch.

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      ozfred

      or about 111%
      Exports?

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      Ross

      Will be the same or better for the next 2 days based on wind forecast. But tell me what wind will be producing in 10 days time? I know Loy Yang B coalie in Victoria will be at 100-110 capacity, as it has for that last 10 years. At least solar is half way predictable.

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        ozfred

        The odds of Loy Yang B producing are quite good but not 100%, though perhaps close. The chances for wind would be a great deal less than 100%

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    STJOHNOFGRAFTON

    It’s a given that wind, air temperature and barometric pressure all affect munitions propellent and ballistics functions. But now it seems that Defence Industries are suffering FOMO and want to hop on the government grant gravy train to get compensation for climate change.

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