Month: July 2023

Climate Alarmist War On Nitrous Oxide Threatens The Global Food Supply

By Jerome R. Corsi

In November 2022, four eminent scientists issued a theoretical physics paper, “Nitrous Oxide and Climate.” It proves that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s “war on nitrous oxide” to achieve Net Zero Emissions (NZE) by 2050 threatens to cause a significant collapse in the world’s food supply.

The article’s four authors are eminent men in their field, so their analysis and opinion deserve to be taken very seriously: (1) C.A. de Lange, a physicist at Vrije Universiteit, in Amsterdam; (2) J.D. Ferguson, an M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, with a specialty in developing computer models of the effect of nitrogen fertilizers on dairy farming; (3) William Happer, emeritus professor of physics at Princeton; and (4) W.A. van Wijngaarden, a professor of physics at York University in Canada.

All four are staunch critics of the IPCC war to expand the hysterical climate attack on carbon dioxide (CO2) to include demonizing nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4), which are classed as “minor greenhouse gases.” The report concludes with a compelling truth: “It is not possible to maintain highly productive agriculture without nitrogen fertilizer.” It’s a genuinely frightening thought that the neo-Marxists at the heart of today’s climate hysteria have chosen to attack N2O because millions will die if governments ban nitrogen fertilizers. The neo-Marxist ideologues are willing to manipulate existential climate fear in their insane willingness to kill millions if that’s what is required to negate capitalism.

Famine from the Palazzo Abatellis. Photo © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro / CC BY-SA 4.0.

The scientists’ core argument completely negates the IPCC’s hysteria. The data establish that the minimal impact of N2O and CH4 on Earth’s temperature does not risk a collapse in the global food chain. They write:

Since the biosphere is the main source of the minor greenhouse gases, nitrous oxide and methane, agriculture has been targeted with various regulations that will supposedly “save the planet” from climate change. The planet is not in danger from greenhouse gases. But some of the regulations to address this non-problem are of great concern since they will drastically cut food supplies for the world.

This argument understands the definition of “radiative forcing,” the scientific phenomenon that quantifies mathematically what in common parlance is loosely known as the “greenhouse gas” effect.

Radiative forcing is the difference in the net upward thermal radiation flux from the Earth through a transparent atmosphere and radiation through an otherwise identical atmosphere with greenhouse gases.

The point is that greenhouse gases prevent all the heat from the solar irradiance the Earth absorbs during the day from escaping to outer space at night. Without greenhouse gases, the Earth would most likely not be habitable for human life. Radiative forcing is measured scientifically in W m-2, i.e., in watts per square meter irradiance.

N2O is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 because N2O absorbs more escaping irradiance, but N2O is much less plentiful than CO2 in the atmosphere. N2O’s contribution to radiative forcing is about 1/13 that of CO2.

A significant conclusion of the paper is that the observed rates of increase of N2O “pose no threat whatsoever to climate.” The authors base this conclusion “on the well-established principles of radiation transfer, which shows that for current growth rates, the contribution of N2O to warming is only about 6% that of all greenhouse gases.” Thus, they estimate that “the absolute warming rate from N2O is about 0.064 C [Celsius] per century.” This means that imposing rigorous regulations to eliminate nitrogen fertilizers from agriculture would be reckless, given the minuscule contribution of N2O at current emission rates to global warming. They stress:

Proposals to place harsh restrictions on nitrous oxide emissions because of warming fears are not justified by these facts. Restrictions could cause serious harm; for example, by jeopardizing world food supplies.

The scientists helpfully explain that nitrogen fertilizers are the “single most important” factor that has led to the “huge increases in agricultural productivity since the year 1950 [that] have eliminated the deadly famines that plagued mankind throughout recorded history.” Eliminating nitrogen fertilizers would force a return to “low output agriculture” that would “not achieve the food supply needed to support 8.5 to 10 billion people.”

Environmentalist Bjørn Lomborg has caught on to the Malthusian nature of the global warming/climate change movement’s attack on N2O. On April 19, 2023, Lomborg posted the following on Twitter:

Organic agriculture everywhere can today, optimistically, support 4.7 billion people.

Industrial agriculture everywhere can today, optimistically support 12 billion.

The global population is 8 billion.

You do the math.

In his 2020 book False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet, Lomborg discussed how we have been here before, some twenty years ago, when “the craze for biofuels swept rich countries. He wrote:

The European Union led the way, stipulating member states in 2003 pass legislation aimed at replacing 5.75 of all transport fossil fuels with biofuels by 2010. Developing nations, even those in the grip of famine, were pushed to grow crops for ethanol instead of for food.

Lomborg noted that the massive biofuel growth “inevitably contributed to a reduction in food and an increase in food prices.” A confidential World Bank report published by the Guardian found that biofuels had forced global food prices up by 75 percent, “pushing a hundred million people into poverty and thirty million into hunger.”

In “Nitrous Oxide and Climate,” de Lange, Ferguson, Happer, and Wijngaarden agree that the war on N2O emissions is ideological, showing a willingness to sacrifice millions of lives on a hoax popular science delusion. In conclusion, the four authors write:

Since few citizens realize that the effects of total N2O emissions on climate are negligible, many governments are under pressure to “do something” about agricultural contributions of N2O. Ideologically driven government mandates on agriculture have usually led to disaster. The world has just witnessed the collapse of the once bountiful agricultural sector of Sri Lanka as a result of government restrictions on mineral fertilizer.

And lest you have any doubts about how far Marxists will go, the four authors note that today’s war on N2O is not the first time Marxists have collapsed the food supply to enforce their totalitarian ideology:

An earlier example is the collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union, when the kulak (the derogatory Bolshevik word “fist” for a successful farmer) was “eliminated as a class.” In consequence, millions died of starvation. Folk members of the Golodomor (hunger-murder) played no small part in unleashing the present war in Ukraine.

In this age dominated by censorship and disinformation, the only narrative permitted conforms with the neo-Marxist dictum that capitalism is evil and must be destroyed, even if that means wiping out the N2O used to feed a hungry world.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/07/climate_alarmist_war_on_nitrous_oxide_threatens_the_global_food_supply.html

German politicians respond after Eritrean ‘culture festival’ riots lead to 131 arrests, 26 wounded officers

In the wake of the massive riots by Eritreans in the German city of Giessen, the political debate has begun after yet another show of violence from Germany’s migrant community.

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) was quick to condemn the riots and assaults on police, which were posted across social media and showed officers battling with Eritreans.

“How can you allow the Eritrean dictatorship to show off in Germany, endanger the life and limb of German police officers and even pose a threat to the German population,” stated AfD MP Stephan Brandner.

The so-called “culture festival” is organized annually by the Central Council of Eritreans in Germany, which is said to have a strong relationship with the military dictatorship in the East African country. Opponents of the current government already clashed with other Eritreans supporting the regime in 2022, and this year has now seen a repeat of the violence. Police say that Eritreans even came from abroad to clash with the Eritreans partaking in the festival.

AfD’s Brandner complained that the dictatorship has been flying high-ranking military officers into Germany for years. “Let the dictatorship celebrate itself in Eritrea — something like that has no place in our country.”

With anger growing over Germany’s ongoing migrant crisis, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which was largely responsible for Germany’s open borders policies under Merkel, is calling for action. Hesse’s Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) said the German government should call in Eritrea’s ambassador. “It must be made clear to the Eritrean government that Eritrean conflicts must not be fought on German soil,” Beuth said. “Our police officers are not the buffer stops for the conflicts of third countries.”

The festival comes at a time when the population of Eritreans has exploded in Germany, rising from 11,655 in 2013 to 75,735 in 2020, representing a nearly 700 percent increase.

The AfD, which has soared in popularity and currently commands 21 percent of the vote, is showcasing the riots as yet another sign that multiculturalism has failed in Germany. The spokesman for the domestic policy of the AfD parliamentary group, Gottfried Curio, spoke of a “frightening signal for internal security in Germany.” He said it is imperative for Germany “not to continuously increase the scope of such groups of people.”

A particularly unsavory element of the Eritrean Festival showcased some of the foreigners going to the bathroom in public fountains.

“They carry their civil war into our cities, They despise our society and culture, and quite a few of them are not even willing to meet the simplest standards of civilization in dealing with one another,” wrote Georg Pazderski, a former politician of the AfD party.

A total of 26 security personnel were injured during the weekend’s riots, 131 people were taken into custody, and 125 criminal proceedings were initiated, according to police.

Germany’s left has largely downplayed or ignored the foreign element of the riots. Federal Interior Minister Nancy Fraser (SPD), who is known for her constant claims that the right is the biggest threat to German security, did not comment on the perpetrators. She did, however, condemn “the massive violence and rioting against police officers in Giessen,” in a Twitter post.

As noted, last year there were riots at the festival as well, with 30 people arrested. Once it became clear that the turnout would be far higher this year and social media reports hit of potential violence, the city tried to ban the event in advance, but a ban was rejected by administrative courts.

As Remix News reported, just last month, Germany’s migrant community was responsible for clan battles and massive brawls at swimming pools; each incident, month after month, adds to the growing anti-immigrant sentiment in the country. The mass riots by migrants during New Year’s in Berlin and other German cities are a case in point in this regard.

In light of these developments, the AfD has begun tracking crimes committed by foreigners with a new integrated map.

https://rmx.news/germany/german-politicians-respond-after-eritrean-culture-festival-riots-lead-to-131-arrests-26-wounded-officers/

France on the Verge of Chaos?

https://ripostelaique.com/

June 27, 2023. Nanterre, in the western suburbs of Paris, shortly before 8 a.m. Two policemen on a motorcycle try to stop a car. The driver, 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk, is obviously dangerous, driving erratically, barely avoiding people crossing the street. A 15-second video circulating on social networks shows the car stopped, with the two policemen aiming their weapons at Merzouk. One policeman, gun drawn, leans his elbow on the windshield. He tells Merzouk to turn off the engine and place his hands above his head. The car drives off. The policeman shoots at the car. Merzouk is shot and dies shortly after.

The police have witnesses, video surveillance, and data showing that the driver has been implicated five times for refusing to comply with police officers. He had been arrested a few weeks earlier for disorderly conduct against police and consumption and sale of narcotics, and was shortly to appear before a judge. He was only 17, too young even to have a French driver’s license.

That day, he was driving a rented $90,000 Mercedes with fake Polish license plates. All of this information, apart from his age, was glossed over by the media and political leaders. The single video, filmed by a passerby on an iPhone and sent to the media, failed to show the entire incident.

Before any investigation, and without any respect for the presumption of innocence, French President Emmanuel Macron immediately said that the policeman’s act had been “unexplainable” and “inexcusable”. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said that “the law was not respected” by the policeman, and Yael Braun Pivet, the president of the National Assembly asked the deputies for a minute of silence in memory of the young driver.

Merzouk’s mother told journalists that he had been a wonderful and kind person. Several lawyers rushed onto television to say they were representing his family, and that the police had committed a “racist murder.” The politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon stated that “no police officer has the right to kill,” and that any investigation into Merzouk’s past must immediately stop.

The police officer who shot Merzouk has been indicted by a judge for intentional homicide and jailed. His name and home address were leaked on social media, and his wife and children had to go into hiding.

Matthieu Valet, president of the Independent Union of Police Commissioners, spoke on television of the extreme difficulty of police work in dangerous French suburbs. In some neighborhoods, he said, the police were constantly threatened, and many officers felt betrayed by the president and the government. Macron, he continued, by arbitrarily accusing a policeman, no doubt hoped to avoid riots, but riots would take place nevertheless. He was right.

The evening of June 27, riots broke out in all the major cities of France. Hundreds of cars, including police cars, were burned and police stations attacked. Some were robbed by criminals who stole whatever weapons they could find there. The town halls of Val Fourré and Villeneuve-le-Roi were set on fire. Hundreds of stores were looted and burned. Delivery trucks were stopped, looted, set on fire, and their drivers were pushed to the ground and beaten.

The riots grew bigger. Schools and theaters were destroyed. The buses in the Seine-Saint-Denis bus depot were torched; churches were burned to the ground; graffiti in red paint on a church in Marseilles declared: “Mohammed was the last prophet”. Bank branches were ransacked and ATMs opened with chainsaws. Slogans were shouted: “death to the police”, “death to France”, “death to the Jews!”

The Secretary General of the Alliance Police Union, Julien Schénardi, remarked on June 28 that the riots were even more serious than those of 2005. This time, he said, many small towns experienced violence. In 2005, he pointed out, 10,000 police officers had been deployed; in June 2023 the number was 45,000, including units specialized in organized crime. In 2005, he recalled, no store had been looted and burned down in Paris; this time many were destroyed.

A march to pay tribute to Merzouk was organized for the afternoon of June 28, in the town of Nanterre where he had been shot, at the request of his mother and the town’s communist mayor, Patrick Jarry. A journalist from RMC radio station, Nicolas Poincaré, described what he saw, “six thousand people, mainly veiled women and men of African and North African origin, some leftists”. Slogans shouted included “death to the police” and “Allahu Akbar” [“Allah is the greatest”].

“We are Muslims,” one angry protester shouted, “if the police kill us we have the right to kill; it is written in the Koran!” Hundreds of police were injured, many seriously.

As soon as the march ended, Poincaré noted, demonstrators began to destroy street furniture. Several broke into a bank on the ground floor of an apartment building, then the entire building was set on fire. The fire engine that came to try to put out the fire, he said, was attacked, adding:

” In 2005, no apartment building had been set on fire, and no monument had been attacked… [Now,] the memorial to Holocaust victims and members of the French resistance was vandalized and defaced with graffiti”.

“This is an absolute outrage and a disgrace,” wrote the lawyer Ariel Goldmann on Twitter, posting a video of the vandalized memorial. “Nothing is respected”.

“The riots,” wrote the journalist Frederic Lassez, “come from a clannish France that thrives in so-called ‘sensitive’ areas where Islamism and narco-banditry are rampant”. It appears, in fact, as if all the rioters with whom journalists were able to speak, do, in fact, live in the those “sensitive” areas. Most seemed to be Arabs or Africans; most seemed to be Muslim.

The situation in which France finds itself is the result of several decades of willful blindness and inaction by the French political authorities, who appeared to hope that by spending billions of euros on immigrants, that these problems would melt away.

Since the 1970s, France has welcomed an ever-increasing number of immigrants from the Muslim world, said Sorbonne University Professor Bernard Rougier, author of the book Les territoires conquis de l’islamisme (“The Conquered Territories of Islamism“), in 2020. Most newcomers are housed in low-cost buildings in the poor suburbs of big cities. Some work, others live on welfare. Only a tiny minority have assimilated into French society. The others live as they lived in their countries of origin.

Radical imams came from the Muslim world and allege that France is guilty of having colonized their countries, that Muslims should continue to live according to the law of Islam and that, in the imams’ view, France should pay for its crimes. Many politicians have told the newcomers that France is racist and had exploited them.

Criminal gangs formed and began ruling these neighborhoods. Radical imams justified the gangs’ criminal activities by claiming that the French must pay for what they did in the Muslim world. French political leaders closed their eyes. Meanwhile, these Muslim neighborhoods have grown and crime from them increased.

During the summer of 1983, violent clashes took place between the police and a criminal group in a Muslim quarter of Vénissieux, near Lyon. The French government at the time responded by granting massive financial aid to the Muslim quarter and its inhabitants. Sympathetic organizations later organized a “March for Equality and Against Racism” and demanded that all Muslim neighborhoods receive massive financial aid. Successive French governments spent hundreds of millions of euros to comply. In 1984, a group called SOS Racism was created and accused French police of constant racism against young Muslims. The police were ordered by the government to avoid any incidents that could lead to accusations of racism.

In 2005, police wanted to arrest two young Muslim criminals, Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré. The two teenagers had entered an electricity substation to hide and unfortunately were electrocuted. The police were sanctioned and indicted for “not assisting persons in danger”. Riots broke out, lasted three weeks and only subsided because then President Jacques Chirac asked imams to restore calm and promised to give even more money to Muslim neighborhoods. The police were ordered not to intervene in them at all; they fell entirely under the control of gangs and imams. It was then that these neighborhoods effectively became lawless “no-go zones” (zones urbaines sensibles), of which there are 750.

President Nicolas Sarkozy, elected in 2007, promised to put an end to no-go zones. Sarkozy, however, did nothing. President François Hollande, his successor, also did nothing.

Macron suggested that creating a “French Islam,” supposedly quite different from Islam in the rest of the world, would be the solution, but he quickly gave up on that plan. He then said he wanted to fight against what he called “Islamic separatism” (the no-go zones, neighborhoods where Muslims live separately from the rest of the population). He, too, has done nothing.

In the past, riots have broken out following violent incidents in which young criminals from no-go zones resisted arrest. Each time, those who were punished were the police. The riots affected one or two towns, not the whole country, and after two or three days of destruction and looting, calm was restored.

This time, however, the riots took on a scale that was unprecedented. The government appeared helpless and the country seemed on the verge of chaos. The police, according to investigative reporter Laurent Valdiguié, were ordered to avoid any action that could lead to the injury or death of a rioter. The government believed that the result would just intensify the violence. “The government prefers that the conflagration calm down gradually,” Valdiguié said, adding that the government did not want to declare a state of emergency for fear that such an announcement would not restore calm.

Macron seems to imagine that he has found explanations for these problems: Parents of rioters, he said, do not exercise their parental authority, and video games poison the minds of young people. His comments seemed completely disconnected from reality; social media was quick to mock them.

Political leaders say that calm must return, but none of them offers a solution. The only exception is former journalist Éric Zemmour, now leader of the right-wing Reconquest party. On June 30, in a lengthy interview, Zemmour described the situation as the “precursor symptom of a civil war”, stressed that “civil war is almost here” and that it may well destroy the country. What is happening, he said, is “an ethnic uprising” resulting from “crazy immigration…. Macron has abandoned the police and chosen submission”. At present, Zemmour concluded, it would take “ferocious, firm and ruthless repression” to restore calm, but “there is no one among those in power ready to act in a determined way and make the necessary decisions.”

“The seeds of a civil war,” columnist Ivan Rioufol wrote on June 29, “are just waiting to explode…. Emmanuel Macron’s inconsistency puts France in mortal danger.”

A June 30 press release from the two main French police unions, titled “Now that’s enough,” stated:

“Today the police are in combat because we are at war. Tomorrow we will enter resistance and the government should be aware of this.”

It is not certain that the government is even slightly “aware of this”.

In 2021, twenty retired French army generals published an open letter addressed to the French government and Macron: “The situation is critical. France is in danger. Several mortal dangers threaten it”. The letter spoke of “suburban hordes” and of the “detachment of multiple parcels of the nation to transform them into territories subject to dogmas contrary to the French constitution… The violence is increasing day by day… those who run our country must imperatively find the courage necessary to eradicate the dangers”.

At the time, the letter was treated with contempt. Today, it looks as if its signatories got it absolutely right.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19798/france-chaos

German youths increasingly use Arabic words like “Mach’Allah” in the schoolyard

Young people in Germany are using more and more Arabic words without perhaps knowing what they mean exactly. In the news magazine “Der Spiegel”, the Syrian columnist talks about the meaning of the most common expressions and what they say about Arab culture.

[…]
In the course of the waves of migration, new Arabic vocabulary has entered the language in recent years, especially among young people. Therefore, I would like to shed light on some of them here – and the meaning of the terms behind them.

I have noticed that many people know the Arabic expression Alhamdouli’llah. Germans like to use it when talking to a person of Arab origin. Sometimes it is even shouted at us when Gerd [co-author of this column] and I are late for a meeting. Maybe some think that the term translates as “finally!”. That is certainly not wrong, but it falls short.

[…]
Young Germans are also increasingly using another Arabic word that I often hear in the schoolyard: “Mashallah”. They use it as a strong expression, as a “Wow!” or ” Brilliant!” or simply as a filler word. Courrier International

https://www.fdesouche.com/2023/07/10/les-jeunes-allemands-utilisent-de-plus-en-plus-de-mots-arabes-comme-machallah-dans-la-cour-decole/

Is wokester Hollywood starting to shrivel?

Image:  Pixabay / Pixabay License

By Monica Showalter

If something is falling apart but wants to stay afloat, it’s usually a pretty right time for making some changes.

Which brings us to Hollywood, where Power Line attorney and writer John Hinderaker has found some good observations:

Like most of corporate America, Hollywood has fallen prey to the “DEI” delusion in recent years. Far from being a good thing, corporate “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” measures generally represent a poisonous brew of racism, leftism and anti-Americanism. The sooner this fad fades from the scene, the better.

In the Telegraph, U.S. Editor Nick Allen sees signs that the entertainment industry is moving back toward sanity:

Hollywood is suffering “diversity fatigue”, insiders have said, after four leading inclusion executives left high-profile roles in the space of 10 days.

The departures came at three major studios and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Commentators in Hollywood suggested it showed “diversity fatigue” and it led to complaints that the entertainment industry was not fully committed to implementing inclusivity policies.

We can only hope.

That’s a pretty dramatic development, and Hinderaker notes that it coincides with Hollywood losing profitability in the wake of its wokester products produced as a result. Disney, for one, lost something like $900 million dollars on its films since it got on the woke train, Hinderaker noted.

Bottom line here is that money talks in Hollywood, and if they are getting rid of these profit-killing virtue-signaling mechanism, they obviously intend to end the loss of profits.

That calls to mind other things going on in Hollywood. It’s not just that the bloated wokester DEI companies are losing money — it’s that upstarts are gaining it — millions and millions of it, with none of it for them.

Anybody see what Angel Studios is doing these days in the wake of its runaway hit series The Chosen? That’s right, a new hit, this one on human trafficking, and they are hitting box office gold on that one, too.

According to the National Catholic Register:

Sound of Freedom, an anti-human-trafficking film made by Catholic filmmakers Eduardo Verastegui and Alejandro Monteverde, had a massively successful opening day in which it reached number one at the box office, beating out Disney’s fifth Indiana Jones installment, and raking in $14.24 million.

Sound of Freedom had an overall production budget of $14.5 million and only played at 2,600 theaters on its July 4 opening day. Meanwhile, Disney’s Indiana Jones had a budget of $295 million, played at many more theaters, and brought in $11.69 million on July 4.

That’s a stunning haulaway, breaking even on costs at the starting line (they will make more later), not only because they blew Disney’s tired sequel gone woke out of the water on earnings, but because the serious and unhappy topic would be considered box office poison by Hollywood. It wasn’t. Like the Bud Light drinkers, who replaced Bud Light with high-quality Modelo Especial, the alienated moviegoers were interested in serious and quality replacement fare for the products they were leaving behind, too. Hollywood had treated them like morons and they got tired of it and moved on to serious adult topic issues in their filmgoing.

That has to howl like a gale wind to Hollywood, when they see how much money is coming in, and none of it is going to them. You can bet they are going to be taking lessons from that too — which would require them to dump the woke DEI and focus on quality, too.

Here’s a third trend that leaps out at me: President Trump went to an event in Las Vegas over the weekend — and met up with Hollywood A-list celebrities such as Mark Wahlberg. That’s no small fry in the Hollywood pond — Wahlberg is a walking blockbuster and Hollywood knows it. They don’t mess with him, at least, not so far. So it was no mean thing that Wahlberg did what he wanted and instead of issue wokesterly statements like most of them, went to see what Trump was like and talk to him himself. Other celebss were there, too. What does that say? That they don’t fear the Hollywood mafia anymore and have enough power to do what works for them. The moneymakers in Hollywood like him are moving away from ‘woke’ and they don’t care who knows it.

That’s a trend away from woke, too.

They all add up to a Hollywood that has seen the light on the oppressive death-grip of wokecraft. This can only be a good thing, particularly when we see more of it.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/is_wokester_hollywood_starting_to_shrivel.html

France: Left-wing mob agitates against Italian star conductor because she is friends with Giorgia Meloni

https://www.youtube.com/

Several associations have denounced the arrival of Beatrice Venezi, invited to perform during the celebrations of the end of the year celebrations. Daughter of Gabriele Venezi, a former politician belonging to the neo-fascist Forza Nuova party, she is close to the Italian Prime Minister.

Associations protested Monday against the arrival in Nice of an Italian conductor described as “neofascist” and close to the head of the Italian government Giorgia Meloni. The city of Nice has invited the Italian conductor Beatrice Venezi to conduct its Philharmonic Orchestra, for the traditional Christmas ballets and the New Year’s Concert.

Gathered in a collective “Touscitoyens06”, the associations indicated in a statement their “opposition” to the arrival of “a neofascist conductor” and asked the mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi (Horizons) and the director general of the Opera “to cancel this event“. A rare female conductor, Beatrice Venezi, daughter of Gabriele Venezi, former leader of the openly neo-fascist Forza Nuova party in the first decade of the 2000s, is an adviser to Italian Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano.

His appearance at the Limoges Opera in April had already sparked a protest movement. In a reaction sent to AFP, the director general of the Nice Opera, Bertrand Rossi, said that “music has the power to transcend divisions and bring people together around a common experience, it is essential to separate art from politics. As a cultural institution, our role is to foster free artistic expression and create an environment where everyone can feel comfortable and respected, regardless of their political affiliations,” he added, recalling that Ms. Venezi, “a talented conductor of international renown“, had already been welcomed in Nice for a concert in 2022.

https://newsrnd.com/life/2023-07-10-the-invitation-of-a-conductor-close-to-meloni-to-the-nice-opera-creates-controversy.rJ-TU2utY2.html

Global Warming Hype Boils Over

Global warming hoaxers exploit the fact that temperatures always fluctuate. When we get a cold snap, the media sneers, “That’s weather, not climate. Get educated.” When the inevitable heat wave comes along, it bellows, “YOU SEE!!!”

Lately propagandists have gotten carried away with their attempts to stampede the herd into believing that the apocalypse is nigh if we don’t forsake freedom:

Earth’s average temperature set a new unofficial record high on Thursday, the third such milestone in a week that already rated as the hottest on record and what one prominent scientist says could be the hottest in 120,000 years.

Wow, 120,000 years. I guess we’d better panic.

“It is certainly plausible that the past couple days and past week were the warmest days globally in 120,000 years,” University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann said.

Seriously, they are still citing Michael Mann as an expert. He’s the guy who came up with Al Gore’s infamous hockey stick graph by “hiding the decline.” But don’t call Mann a fraud who fudges data. He is a moonbat, so he responds not with facts but with lawfare.

Thursday’s planetary average surpassed the 62.9-degree mark (17.18-degree mark) set Tuesday and equaled Wednesday, according to data from the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, a tool that uses satellite data and computer simulations to measure the world’s condition.

Hold on, a few scientists even within the government still care about credibility:

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday issued a note of caution about the Maine tool’s findings, saying it could not confirm data that results in part from computer modeling, saying it wasn’t a good substitute for observations.

Models show whatever they are designed to show. Garbage in, garbage out.

You don’t have to be a scientist to know global warming is a scam. Bankers and realtors know it too. Otherwise, think of the deals you could get on Florida real estate. Language alert:

https://moonbattery.com/global-warming-hype-boils-over/