What a farrago of specious pseudoscientific claptrap, beautifully illustrating the old injunction "if you can't dazzle them with science, baffle them with bullshit".
Climate change still hasn't got around to pushing up the price of my regular chocolate bars. I suspect climate change might be biased against the celebration of major Christian festivals.
However further down the article (the bit the BBC obviously didn't read) a spokesperson from Waitrose said: “We work incredibly hard to keep prices down and also have a wide range of special offers to help customers make even greater savings. Thanks to our ongoing focus on price, the eggs that feature in this study are now considerably cheaper than the prices quoted. The Maltesers Egg, for example, is available for £8.50 rather than £13.”
This particular delicacy was £8 last year - so an increase of 6% or so.
Looks like this is just another example of the BBC adding 2 and 2 to get 5 in the time-honoured tradition of hack journalism.
I remember when Easter eggs were deemed "non essential items" and Plod was going round supermarkets checking people's trolleys for indulgences which would lead to millions dying from the killer plague.
The UCL article specifically mentions El Nino, but that would only apply to late winter/early spring this year. Before that, we had three consecutive years of La Nina.
Imperial college London is the gold standard......
Of places so devoid of integrity and morality, that any data that comes out of there, should be instantly dismissed as propaganda, or totally ignored until it can be safely and inhumanely destroyed and a real study done by honest scientists.
With the help of RCP 8.5 there is no weather that the World Weather Attribution group cannot attribute to Climate Change™️. I get the feeling that their models are tuned rather like Mann's Hockey Schtick which turns random noise into a blade.
Very informative post from Judith Curry:
https://judithcurry.com/2024/03/24/the-extraordinary-climate-events-of-2022-24/
Bullshit, the attribution link does not prove climate change is attributable to humans.
The solution to "Klimate change" or "Covid" is and was always the same.....
Stop reading and watching any Legacy media especially the aptly named moniker of the BBC...
What a farrago of specious pseudoscientific claptrap, beautifully illustrating the old injunction "if you can't dazzle them with science, baffle them with bullshit".
I'm so pleased you see it - all of it.
Climate change still hasn't got around to pushing up the price of my regular chocolate bars. I suspect climate change might be biased against the celebration of major Christian festivals.
https://thewalrus.ca/christmas-tree-shortage/
Anything labelled “Climate Change Attribution Study” should be filed under “Toxic Waste”.
At least they're no longer blaming it on the unvaccinated.
I looked up a Which? report which claimed at one point that the Waitrose price for one particular product had gone up by 62%.
( https://www.which.co.uk/policy-and-insight/article/eggstraordinary-cost-of-easter-as-which-finds-some-popular-chocolate-eggs-have-jumped-in-price-by-50-or-more-ahjuU4F8jEHq )
However further down the article (the bit the BBC obviously didn't read) a spokesperson from Waitrose said: “We work incredibly hard to keep prices down and also have a wide range of special offers to help customers make even greater savings. Thanks to our ongoing focus on price, the eggs that feature in this study are now considerably cheaper than the prices quoted. The Maltesers Egg, for example, is available for £8.50 rather than £13.”
This particular delicacy was £8 last year - so an increase of 6% or so.
Looks like this is just another example of the BBC adding 2 and 2 to get 5 in the time-honoured tradition of hack journalism.
I remember when Easter eggs were deemed "non essential items" and Plod was going round supermarkets checking people's trolleys for indulgences which would lead to millions dying from the killer plague.
Reuters and UCL both covered the story without mentioning ‘climate change’.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/african-cocoa-plants-run-out-beans-global-chocolate-crisis-deepens-2024-03-13/
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/mar/analysis-cocoa-beans-short-supply-what-means-farmers-businesses-chocolate-lovers
The UCL article specifically mentions El Nino, but that would only apply to late winter/early spring this year. Before that, we had three consecutive years of La Nina.
Imperial college London is the gold standard......
Of places so devoid of integrity and morality, that any data that comes out of there, should be instantly dismissed as propaganda, or totally ignored until it can be safely and inhumanely destroyed and a real study done by honest scientists.
With the help of RCP 8.5 there is no weather that the World Weather Attribution group cannot attribute to Climate Change™️. I get the feeling that their models are tuned rather like Mann's Hockey Schtick which turns random noise into a blade.