Dr. Sally Baliunas discusses the history of people’s reactions to extreme weather.
When extreme weather in Europe centuries ago made people fearful, it led to many people being tortured and killed for “weather cooking” with the help of Satan.
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Thank you for that reminder. The language has a ring to it, and the psychometric attribution sounds familiar. Thank goodness we are unlikely to be burnt at the stake for asking questions.
There’s nothing new under the sun. Extreme weather has always occurred.
May 24th, 1626, one meter of hail. Grape vines exploded.
Wimpy modern people won’t be able to handle actual extreme weather events or natural climate change when it does finally occur (not from us evil sinners, but because it does). People who think it is the Western World’s job to nourish and medicalize the poor people of the world are going to learn a lesson about stupid compassion.
“People being tortured and killed for “weather cooking” with the help of Satan.”
Oh please bring back the old days!!
Mann there lots of people come to mind for nomination 🙂
Breaking Bad. Cooking. I really thought this was a different topic!!!!
Fast forward to the 21st Century. United Nation’s climate scientists are 95% certain that evil weather cookers emit carbon dioxide in their weather cooking processes. All sources of this evil have to be eliminated if the planet is to survive.
Weather cooking has given way to data cooking.
On the cheerful side, after years of having alarmist panels on global warming, the World Science Fiction Convention this year has dropped the topic from the program. Lack of interest, or lack of warming?
In certain aspects of human behaviour we have not progressed very far. Thanks for posting.
Wow, that’s a big warning! And history repeats itself for all to see: myth trump science in CAGW.
Weather CO-Oking is rampant!
The parallels between present day CAGW’s skeptic “witch hunts” and the 13th-15th century “weather cooker” witch hunts is astounding.
Both witch hunts attributed severe weather events to be anthropogenic in origin. Both witch hunts had their scapegoats with the earlier one accusing satan worshipers, while present day “witches” are accused of worshiping commerce and empirical evidence. Both witch hunts were encouraged by government and “academic” leaders, and both witch hunts attribute their “science” to have been settled.
Both witch hunts attribute great future suffering if the witches aren’t punished and both demand urgent action before more suffering becomes inevitable.
Both witch hunts refused to accept evidence disconfirming popular folklore and continue unabated in their failed beliefs in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Let’s hope the duration of the present day witch hunts doesn’t also share the longevity of the former, which lasted 300 years before men finally came to their senses.
“Weather” is the least of it. From c. 1825 – 1900, the 19th Century’s Innovation Age created every basis of today’s accelerating high-tech info-communications culture. Two generations reaped a whirlwind, the first born 1896 (in Flanders Fields), the second born 1922 (throughout Europe, Russia, and East Asia).
Luddite environmentalism aka AGW Catastrophism is a psychotropic syndrome akin to anti-depressants, sedatives, and tranquilizers– as with post-medieval witchcraft, an ultra-reactionary withdrawal tendency citing Malthusian fantasies in fear-of-change. The socio-cultural/political recipe here is Heinrich Kramer’s “Malleus Maleficarum” (“Hammer of Witches,” 1487), a gnostic treatise appealing to “hidden wisdom” types common among rote scholastics and rent-seeking ideologues.
Kramer’s sulfurous excrescence had horrific consequences for three hundred years. Klimat Kooks’ Gramscian romp will linger not one-tenth that time, but sabotaging global energy economies on the threshold of a new Ice Age imperils populations out of all proportion to Green Gang asininities.
Just a slightly different angle on this:
The protesters at the Balcombe (UK) drilling site will now have moved on to the west of England to join the anti-badger-cull demonstrators. At least they’re consistent. In my case, I accept the title of “sceptic” because I don’t trust the climate science, thanks to this site and a few others. I’m much more positive about the science behind the badger cull, even though I don’t like it. How much is that due to the science and how much down to my sympathy for the farmers?
Ian_UK says:
August 27, 2013 at 12:29 am
Just a slightly different angle on this:
The protesters at the Balcombe (UK) drilling site will now have moved on to the west of England to join the anti-badger-cull demonstrators. At least they’re consistent. In my case, I accept the title of “sceptic” because I don’t trust the climate science, thanks to this site and a few others. I’m much more positive about the science behind the badger cull, even though I don’t like it. How much is that due to the science and how much down to my sympathy for the farmers?
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I am reminded of an “environmentalist” a few years back complaining because Australia was culling herds of camels.
This luminary was of the firm opinion that killing native animals was a terrible act.
Pity she didn’t do a bit of fact checking first.
She might not have seemed such a dim bulb when it was pointed out to her on national television that camels are not native to Australia.
Facts, always check and double check the facts.
Maybe non native horses will be next, but hey, horses are pretty so ya can’t have that cull. Poalar bears anyone, they seem to be the plumb du nome?
And I thought this article was going to be about John Cook, the cartoonist. My guess is that Mr. Cook and his ilk would not get the point of this talk.
SAMURAI:
I think you made a typo, “men & women came to their senses!”
Ian_UK
I trust the climate science, not all the climate scientists, especially if they’re being paid to deliver bureaucratic science, that stuff that comes in on time & on budget just when the politicos want it!!!!
They will probably make up some kind of proxy survey to meet their perceived intentions and determine it was 97% somewhere. And the LSM will report it everywhere.
Well many people were killed for these reasons in the medieval times and Elizabethan times too, but it was worse in Europe and the Salem tragedy. I am very disheartened, for in New England ex retired Tony Windsor has produced his mate Rod Taber who owns New England Solar because he has always supported climate change a la IPCC. Rod is a nice decent man though, but has made a fortune in solar panels. And believes solar panels will cut carbon emissions and CO2 contributing to climate change. I object against politicians or would be if they can making money from this scam. And I think the new government made up of the coalition (Liberal and National parties) will scrap the Green bank, Tim Flannery and the climate change commission and in return start a green army, sustainability and concentrating on soil science. Hope so.
Isn’t it reassuring to know that we have come so far since the C16th.
So Michael Mann has a historical precedent in Cotton Mather.
You don’t need to be a weatherman to know witch way the wind is blowing. When we’ve completely run out of other people’s money here in the USofA, who will be seen as the witches; a bunch of people who sat around arguing for years that CO2 wasn’t going to cause the oceans to boil or the politicians who spent us into penury?.
I know where the missing heat is. Satan’s hiding it for the Deniers.
Niff says: August 26, 2013 at 10:52 pm
“Thank goodness we are unlikely to be burnt at the stake for asking questions.”
Carbon capture at source will make burning at the stake an acceptable practice.
So true. Thank you Dr Baliunas.