Climate shock or schlock?

Isn’t “climate shock” that moment in the morning when you drawer back the curtains and see you had heavy snow overnight?
Or is that just “weather shock”?

Just a note, I looked for this supposed paper, and since the title nor journal is listed, I can’t find it. I was hoping it would have a definition of “climate shock”
Must be a take off of the term “oil shock”.
How the 1973 Oil Embargo Saved the Planet
OPEC Gave the Rest of the World a Head Start Against Climate Change
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140173/michael-l-ross/how-the-1973-oil-embargo-saved-the-planet
” ….The panic that the oil shock induced brought sweeping changes to global energy policies in the 1970s and 1980s in preparation for the imminent depletion of global oil and gas reserves, which turned out to be illusory ….”

Wasn’t it fossil fuels that most mitigated the effect of natural climate shocks?
Before that, entire civilisations crumbled when their regional weather changed.
The biggest climate shock for some is the absence of changes for the past 17 years or so.

Climate shock. The realization that billions of dollars are being wasted on studying weather events using poor science with nothing to show for it.

It IS just shocking how much global temperatures have risen in the last 17 years and 6 months. 😉

Man-Made Global Warming Zealots and Man-Made Climate Change Zealots spend every minute of their working day, thinking up new psychological ways to brainwash the general public into believing they’re to blame for everything that happens with the climate of our planet. I really believe the Climate Zealots are getting desperate after investing hundreds of billions of dollars failing to convince the general public the weather is their fault. All that money spent just pissed down the drain. What a shame.

And the slide towards “skeptical” positions continues. What’s the difference in a typhoon hitting Northern Australia and one hitting the Philippines? Vulnerability!
Decreasing vulnerability to disasters is the way to prepare for the future. That’s what skeptics have been saying the whole time.

“Was wondering who Wenner Gren was…”
Axel Wenner-Gren was a sort of early swedish Bernie Madoff, though he had the good taste to die a natural death before the bubble burst.

Climate shock. When your Environmental Agency predicts drought and instead you suffer through the worst floods in 50 years.

Am sure results won’t be appreciated by the mad local-food crowd

“…nor does it define what a “climate shock” is…”
Made me think of Climate Shock Troops in green jackboots kicking in doors looking for deniers.

Climate shock is when your team emails go public…

Or leaving Delhi at 105 F (“in the shade”) and arriving at Minneapolis St. Paul at -19 F.
What’s 1 F between friends compared to such 124 F swings?

I had my climate shocks changed as they weren’t capable of “smoothing” any longer.

Talk about HYPOCRITES!

September 21, 2012 How to fight a food crisis: To blunt the ravages of drought and market greed, we need a national grain reserve
…The modern concept of a strategic grain reserve was first proposed in the 1930s by Wall Street legend Benjamin Graham. Graham’s idea hinged on the clever management of buffer stocks of grain to tame our daily bread’s tendencies toward boom and bust….
In the inflationary 1970s, the USDA revamped FDR’s program into the Farmer-Owned Grain Reserve, which encouraged farmers to store grain in government facilities by offering low-cost and even no-interest loans and reimbursement to cover the storage costs. But over the next quarter of a century the dogma of deregulated global markets came to dominate American politics, and the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act abolished our national system of holding grain in reserve. [NOTE: the Act was written by Cargill VP Dan Amstutz who later worked for Goldman Sachs. He was so successful in implementing the agenda of the grain traders that they established an award in his name.]
As for all that wheat held in storage…. The stores were gradually depleted until 2008, when the USDA decided to convert all of what was left into its dollar equivalent. And so the grain that once stabilized prices for farmers, bakers and American consumers ended up as a number on a spreadsheet in the Department of Agriculture….
articles(DOT)latimes.com/2012/sep/21/opinion/la-oe-kaufman-food-hunger-drought-20120921

Instead of rebuilding a grain reserve the USA is now intentionally burning all reserves and ADM profits soar 550 percent as ethanol margins improve.
Remember the US CIA was having hissy fits in their 1974 CIA report:“A Study of Climatological Research as it Pertains to Intelligence Problems”, when grain reserves in 1972 hit a low of a 30 day supply compared with 1969. The stored grain reserves decreased from 600 million metric tons (6 months supply) to less than 100 million metric tons ( 30 day supply)
by 1972.
What is the supply now? – Just-in-time from other countries. The US storage silos have been removed.
Of course food shortages were exactly what investors and grain traders wanted:
The following quotes show the grain traders greed and the level of concern for other humans.

In summary, we have record low grain inventories globally as we move into a new crop year. We have demand growing strongly. Which means that going forward even small crop failures are going to drive grain prices to record levels. As an investor, we continue to find these long term trends…very attractive. — Food shortfalls predicted: 2008 (wwwDOT)financialsense.com/fsu/editorials/dancy/2008/0104.html

Recently there have been increased calls for the development of a U.S. or international grain reserve to provide priority access to food supplies for Humanitarian needs. The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) and the North American Export Grain Association (NAEGA) strongly advise against this concept..Stock reserves have a documented depressing effect on prices… and resulted in less aggressive market bidding for the grains..– July 22, 2008 letter to President Bush (wwwDOT)naega.org/images/pdf/grain_reserves_for_food_aid.pdf

The Council on Foreign Relations reports the Bankers esp. Goldman Sachs made out like bandits from the new 1996 policy of no grain reserves – How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis
The World Bank mean while reports: “Globally, food prices are near their historic peaks, and food price volatility is widely seen as the “new normal.” Managing this volatility and feeding a rapidly growing population will require sustained commitment, co-ordination, and vigilance from the international community to help governments put policies in place to help people better cope…”
I am sure they are crying REAL crocodile tears all the way to the bank.

“… supposed paper, and since the title nor journal is listed …” (sic)
Suggested edit: “… and since neither the title nor the journal is listed …”

Yea, a few years ago the world’s climatista determined that the public had become fatigued by the term climate change, so they introduced the new term ‘climate disruption’. For a few months afterwards climate disruption was used at every opportunity but it didn’t stick, so they fell back on climate change and you seldom hear anyone use climate disruption anymore. But this new term ‘climate shock’ is catchy, it contains an implicit fear component and it rolls off the tongue easily, but I don’t think it will stick either. It lacks something.

The lesson from history is very clear: when the world gets warmer (e.g. the Roman and Medieval periods) mankind prospers. It is when the world gets colder that mankind suffers (e.g. the Dark Ages and the Little Ice Age). Many of the great ancient civilisations failed when the world was colder.
This is where the phrase “climate change” is so useful. It makes it so easy to hide the fact that, historically, warming has always been beneficial. It makes it easy to deceive people so that they automatically assume that any negative impacts of “climate change” was actually caused by warming.
Chris