Thank you, David Little of the Chico Enterprise Record. Readers please note: I had nothing to do with his Sunday column opinion piece, it is as much a surprise to me as I’m sure it will be to you.
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David Little: It’s all the fault of climate change
I have a couple of flaws when it comes to believing anything I’m told.
First, I’m old. Second, I’m a journalist. Both of those unalterable traits make me worse than just a skeptic. I’m a skeptic squared.
I see things like Gov. Jerry Brown’s dog-and-pony show Monday in Sacramento and think more about his motivation than I do about his message. Brown spoke at a conference about climate change, and the media in attendance relayed his concern that global warming threatens our state.
He said California is at the “epicenter” of global climate change. He said the state must prepare for longer fire seasons, for rising oceans and for extended droughts. And he had charts and graphs to prove his points, so it must be true.
If I wasn’t on the downhill side of my journey up and over the hill, I’d be very worried — because while going up the hill, I remember a similar warning. I’m old enough to remember the ’70s, a truly forgettable decade. Growing up back then, there was talk about a “Mini Ice Age” that was coming. It scared the heck out of me. As an impressionable young lad with a love for swimming in creeks and running around in cutoffs during the hot Northern California summers, I didn’t want to give that up.
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Here’s the problem I have with the global warming boogeyman: It gets blamed for everything. Only now it’s called climate change, because it needs to encompass more than just hot weather.
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“He said California is at the “epicenter” of global climate change.”
So climate change is going on deep underground?
No Chico Little, he
Very, very true, what an excellent article. Thanks for sharing that with us Anthony!
Gotta fine that down a bit more. For Governor Moonbeam and all the rest of these caterwauling catastrophists, it’s “climate change” due to man-made carbon dioxide, and therefore their efforts to tax and punish and suppress productive human activities involving the complete combustion of petrochemical fuels.
Got that? The alleged mechanism of these thieving, lying bastiches’ alleged “climate change” claims is the greenhouse gas effect of CO2, and therefore statistically significant adverse WARMING of the global climate.
Let’s never lose sight of that. Every friggin’ cure proposed for “climate change” rams down our throats all kinds of draconian government aggression aimed at treating carbon dioxide as a pollutant because it’s supposed to increase the greenhouse gas effect, and that WARMING is at the root of all this frabjous awful-bad-nasty-horrible-astonishing “climate change.”
I repeat: WARMING, as in “man-made global warming.”
Y’know. With global average temperatures going UP. Not down. Not staying more or less the same, the way we’ve been seeing things happening for close onto the past two decades now.
So how come we’ve let these sons of bitches get away from the word WARMING all of a sudden?
When the roadkill media says it, that says it all.
There’s the thing.
Just what are the catastrophists going to say when even THEY will be prepared to admit that their beloved models are simply not up to the task?
When all predictions (which cannot be wished away) do not come true?
Especially with such heartless individuals as “jimbo” are so willing to show them for the snake-oil salesmen that they are….(cruel….very very cruel…..)
I ask rhetorically really.
Should I put a sarc on the this?…..
typo….”on the END OF”……..
With folks like John Kohn Kerry representing us, who needs enemies?
He should say he’s old, and he’s an old-style journalist. I’m not convinced that new style journalists do anything but repeat the press releases they are handed by governments and powerful or fashionable groups.
If Mr Little was growing up in the 70s, he can’t be on the downhill slope yet, surely?
As an Australian who grew up in the 50s it’s nice to know there are younger blokes who are both journalists and rational.
Ah, those Californians! Does their place HAVE to be at the ‘epicentre’ of everything? Sigh.
Soon after I changed my avatar picture – on a forum I regularly contribute – to a picture of the 1976 PNE Prize Home and added the caption “1976 PNE Prize home during the Global Cooling, Energy Crisis Era”, I started to notice a lot of references to the global cooling of the 1970s, such as this Chico article. Coincidence ?
http://garymount.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/pne-home-1976-pg1of4.jpg
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On the forum I changed my original avatar picture temporarily for a joke that got a lot of laughs (I’m Proton2 there) :
http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Stolen-Phone-Selfie
I grew up in the sixties when we had lost of weather and it was always changing. Even in the UK we had heatwaves and droughts and floods and snow and ice and gales and storms. I’ve not noticed anything different in the following 40+ years. Just more of the same old same old.
Not only just hot weather, It doesn’t have to be global either. Any local weather change can be labeled as climante change, and CO2 can be blamed for it. It is far more ambiguous than global warming. It cannot be measured (you can measure warming with a thermometer but is there an unique way of measuring change?) It is the perfect straw man.
As another Australian who grew up in the 1950s I’d say that guy from Chico is on a roll.
The old ’54!
Really good read!
I tweeted it, and although I shy away from posting politics on FB, I shared it on Facebook. But this is journalism and “science”, isn’t it? So I stated that on my Facebook entry.
quote: “I guess there’s one bright side to fewer kids reading newspapers today — they won’t get frightened by the story talking about raging fire, rising seas and widespread death of many living things.”
Unfortunately they’re getting it rammed down their throats in government schools (and some “private” ones too, no doubt). The indoctrination is continuing apace.
A great post regarding the alarmist nonsense from Acting Man: http://www.acting-man.com/?p=30752 There is Nothing Global Warming Cannot Do – S&P Becomes ‘Climate Change’ Expert
He’s not that old, if he grew up in the 1970’s. But he is doing a good job of reaping one of the benefits of being old: You are allowed to be grumpy. And Governor Moonbeam does give one much to be grumpy about.
“David Little of the Chico Enterprise Record” Who? Sadly unless the MSM in most countries follow his lead this will fall on deaf ears. Andrew Bolt is about as far as you can get with “anti-agw” propaganda in Australia. No point wasting your time with any other media outlet here IMO.
Don’t forget the recent Failed Meteor Shower was due to Global Warming!!!!
Great to see someone in MSM state the obvious. Perhaps more of the general population will also see the obvious, further leading to the decline of climate alarmism.
Given some of the other stories we have read from our adopted-home town Chico, this is a significant development. He’s obviously been listening to Anthony and reading WUWT. Mr. Little could be in some trouble however, because this will get the green syndicate going.
I still think that this video and statement provided a wake up call to many of the brainwashed.
“A growing body of evidence suggests that the kind of extreme cold being experienced by much of the United States as we speak is a pattern that we can expect to see with increasing frequency as global warming continues,” Holdren asserts.
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/01/john-holdren-video-polar-vortex
From the moment I heard those words, it became the post powerful evidence of going way too far with blaming everything on global warming/climate change.
It would be one thing if Holdren didn’t mean to say it exactly that way and it came out wrong but this was entirely scripted and part of a special science video created by the White House climate change expert.
I’m well aware of the “theory” of Arctic amplification behind this explanation and though I disagree regarding their science on that, am commenting with regards to the counterproductive marketing strategy involved with this desperate attempt at damage control because of extreme and sustained cold occurring in the highly populated areas of the United States.
People can believe a lot of stuff about greenhouse gas warming but warning about the increasing frequency of extreme cold is like warning somebody to protect themselves with sunblock……………in a flash flood.
They should have just chocked it up to bad luck that the epicenter of numerous months of the coldest Winter temperature anomalies on the planet continued to freeze the behinds off of people in these key locations, instead of spinning what appeared to be a big fairytale to cover their behinds.
I usually don’t predict seasonal forecasts but will predict with moderate confidence that if the Us has another cool Summer(even if its hot out West) especially like 2009, we can start driving some big political nails in the coffin of this issue.
2 decades of scary predictions about future weather and climate got old. Now, the tactic is to convince people that scary weather and climate is the right here and now. This can only work if we actually have something extreme and widespread enough that people can be convinced to connect it with climate change(even though that will have nothing to do with it).
It has to happen this year because the world is noticing that all the gloom and doom forecasts the last 20 years are not happening. In fact, they are not happening because they probably never will happen, other than with strokes of bad luck(or good luck if your an alarmist). That’s what us meteorologist’s call WEATHER!
Having the highest heating bills of their life(like I did last Winter) ain’t gonna cut it to convince people that climate change is for real.