Meet Britain's Climate Fascist Professors
It's tricky to know if they can hear themselves...
A resurfaced document has exposed some truly obscene viewpoints harboured by senior members of the British intelligentsia about climate sceptics.
In June 2020, while UK police casually trampled on the rights of the average citizen, fining them for unsanctioned strolls and the like, three UK-based academics co-wrote a rather curious paper about the so-called proliferation of climate mis and disinformation.
The paper featured on the Carbon Brief website where they outlined what climate disinformation is, identified participating groups, analysed how it spread, and theorised about ways to stop it.
Upon reading the article, a few problems immediately arose. It became painfully clear that this little exercise was by no means impartial. And by no means impartial, I mean bonkers partial. The kind that makes hyper partisans like Mehdi Hasan look like the Dalai Lama.
By the 6th paragraph, the authors had already exposed the limitation of their own objectivity. They state, “there is a negligible amount of literature about climate alarmism compared to climate scepticism, suggesting it is significantly less prevalent”.
A cruder interpretation might go something like this, “we couldn’t find much information about the prevalence of fake climate alarmism so it must not be as bad”.
The more, let’s say, critical reader would ponder, well, did you look into alarmism as throughly as scepticism? What sources did you use? As firm believers of human-induced climate change, did you do anything to negate your own biases?
There is little wonder why the authors failed to evidence such a claim.
In the macro, however, their argument was quite simple. Words incite specific actions, so words are the problem. Thus, towards the end of the paper, they suggest, as a method to counteract the effect of such words, we could “put in place punishments, such as fines or imprisonment.”
In short, three senior academics are embracing fascism to establish a monopoly on climate discourse. The same people lecturing scores of impressionable young teens in environments that supposedly spearhead intellectual freedom.
Here is the accompanying graphic they displayed:
Meet The Tyrannical Trio
Professor Saffron O’Neill’s work centres on the social science aspects of climate variability. She is currently the Co-Director of the Centre for Climate Communication and Data Science (C3DS), a position she will hold from 2023 to 2025, funded by the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF). She serves as the Co-Director of Communications and Outreach for the ACCESS network, which aims to enhance the capacity for climate and environment social science, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) also known as the UK Government.
According to The University of Exeter’s website, O’Neill is not currently teaching. Yet, she is “contributing” to a variety of undergraduate and Masters-level Geography programmes. She also “convenes” the interdisciplinary GEO2317 module ‘Climate Change: Science and Society’ for students. (So she is teaching).
Professor Hywel Williams holds a faculty position in Computer Science at the University of Exeter and is connected with the Institute for Data Science & Artificial Intelligence as well as the Global Systems Institute. Additionally, he plays a pivotal role as the Co-Director of the Joint Centre of Excellence in Environmental Intelligence, a partnership between the University of Exeter and the UK Met Office, which is funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) on behalf of the UK Government.
Hywell has led several postgraduate programs in data science, marking his influence on the next generation of data scientists.
Kathie Treen is a PhD student working under the tutelage of both O’Neill and Williams. Her work is said to be rooted in data science, but branches out into quantitative social sciences, communications science, and environmental politics.
According to her Linkedin profile, Treen has supervises Master of Science (MSc) students for their dissertations.
Ties To The Oxford Climate Journalism Network and The Media
Now if the idea that British taxpayers are funding the work of climate fascists isn’t troublesome enough, perhaps Saffron O’Neill’s ties to The Oxford Climate Journalism Network (OCJN) and the BBC are.
Turns out, when O’Neill isn’t busy brainwashing (most likely) students, she is out “training” mainstream media journalists. One of her recent endeavours involved speaking at course orchestrated by the OCJN, which BBC Verify’s very own climate disinformation specialist, Marco Silva, frequented. Attendees of this course learn to “move beyond their siloed past” into a strategic position within newsrooms “combining expertise with collaboration”.
If you want to read more about the particulars said course, the Daily Sceptic’s climate editor Chris Morrison published this article detailing events.
To summarise the connecting dots, we are essentially bankrolling extremists academics to indoctrinate our young students, scheme about ways to subvert our rights, and twist our journalists into activists. BBC journalists, one might add, the UK Government, meaning us, also funds.
One haunting thought to leave you with… If this trio of tinpot tyrants are so openly honest about their want for fascistic provisions, what does this say for attitudes among the intelligentsia at large?
Do you think if things stay the way they are our best days are ahead of us?
Are you going to sit down and watch as our media and governments push for yet more invasive, authoritarian, censorious policy?
If you want to do something today to help fight back, your financial support, however small, goes a long way in helping citizen journalists like me spread awareness about it.
A lie 50 years in the making...that's about 2 generations. It may take as long to clear it up.