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Bill McGuire, emeritus professor, Geophysical & Climate Hazards, University College London is unique within the scientific community. He claims that scientists have a public duty to tell the unvarnished truth no matter how alarming. According to sources, he embraces the label “alarmist” re the “climate emergency.”

This article is based upon a recent interview with Bill McGuire. Some statements herein are direct quotes. For those who prefer “sugar-coated” analyses, such as: “we still have time” … “transitioning to a Net-Zero future” … “plants love CO2” … “carbon capture technology” this article is not for you. Stop reading now.

Bill McGuire’s recent interview was conducted via Aaron Bastani’s Downstream on Novara Media, 1:26:03: Elites Have NO PLAN for Climate Collapse. Telling it like it is.

Elites?

Anonymous – a person who holds a unique high-level job in the U.S. government: “I post here from time to time to remind people about (1) how deeply ordinary the ‘elites’ truly are, and (2) how fragile government really is. One of the things I’ve had to quickly shed in my professional life is the notion that anyone is in control or coming to save the day. The reality is rooms full of people asking, ‘what the fuck are we going to do?” (Anonymous, not from the McGuire interview)

As for UK’s current climate change and impact on crops, McGuire views the speed of climate change as “just staggering,” headed for trouble; once we get to the stage where we’ve got food rationing, then everything’ll change. As things currently stand, it’s up for grabs; nobody knows how quickly it’ll happen. A warning was issued by the National Farmers Union publicly warning of shortages of food later in the year. This risk of food shortages is therefore common public knowledge.

Martin Lines, CEO of the Nature Friendly Farming Network, a farmer from Cambridgeshire: “As a farmer, I’m used to ironing out the bad years with the good, but three terrible harvests in a row is just devastating for my business and the........

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