Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism
Its hard to tell if we are witnessing mass climate hysteria, or just loathsome fear mongering to promote a political agenda, but it is oh so predictable, and oh so sickening. Every weather event and every tragedy is now due rising CO2. To paraphrase Dr. Viner, “natural storms and earthquakes are now just a thing of the past”. With the help of a few alarmist scientists, the media bombards us with the meme that “Everything is caused by rising CO2.” Today the Seth Bornstein prize for yellow climate journalism goes to Newsweek.
Last August they tried to infect our psyche’s suggesting the horrific Ebola outbreak was a function of rising CO2 writing, “Ebola and Climate Change: Are Humans Responsible for the Severity of the Current Outbreak?”
This March they hawked the notion that the brutalities of the War in Syria are due to global warming firing off that “Climate Change Helped Create Conditions for War in Syria, Study Suggests.”
Now with tragic deaths from the earthquake-caused avalanche in Nepal, not even the ground we walk on is safe from the devastating effects of climate change, as Newsweek blathers “More Fatal Earthquakes to Come, Warn Climate Change Scientists”
“Climate change may play a critical role in triggering certain faults in certain places where they could kill a hell of a lot of people,” says Professor McGuire. Some of his colleagues suspect the process may already have started. “
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There is one true link, however. The loss of Newsweek readership is related to CO2 …
This story has to be a hoax, and one in very poor taste at that. It seems Bill McGuire has built a career out of his headline-grabbing nonsense. But the schoolboy howlers in Renton’s report are too many and too evident for this to be anything but a sad attempt to sucker Newsweek’s remnant readership. Just consider the Mt. Pavlov claims, as one example. McGuire falsely states that the volcano erupts only in autumn and winter, yet the last three eruptions have commenced in August 2007, May 2013 and May 2014. He then ascribes these “winter” eruptions to the 10-15 cm seasonal rise in sea level caused by low pressure systems. It seems not to have occurred to the professor, or the ever-credulous Alex Renton, that this effect does nothing more than nullify the cause as far as crustal loading is concerned, but of course climate science does not admit to negative feedbacks. Nor would a climate zealot pay heed to more frequent and mundane variations in loading such as oceanic and crustal tides, (out of phase by a few hours), pressure systems and storms. We could also consider glacial rebound and even plate boundary convergence, but how trivial are these compared with the baleful outcomes of human existence.
It causes no end of tragedy…
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http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/james-blog/2405629/this-is-what-climate-crisis-really-means
Newsweek profiting from the misery and suffering of real people.
Doubtless Newsweek is making a substantial donation to the Red Cross.
/Snark
“More Fatal Earthquakes to Come, Warn Climate Change Scientists”
I could safely make that prediction……………… and I’m just a plumber
… and the Iranian mullahs claim earthquakes are caused by “female immodesty” such as women showing some hair or a bit of ankle. The competition among the crazies is tough.
But.. CO2 does everything – the science is settled!
Oops, I did it too.
But then, this has to spread, only 600 views roughly, so far.
Thank you!
Lulz
Reblogged this on the WeatherAction News Blog and commented:
Perhaps Professor McGuire could explain the previous fault ruptures?
Saturday’s magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck to the north-west of Kathmandu
The last time the fault ruptured at this location was in back in 1344
It was preceded in 1255 by a big event to the east of Kathmandu
The last rupture there was in 1934, hinting strain might accumulate westward
2015’s quake follows the pattern with a gap between events of 80 years or so
When Bollinger and his colleagues saw this historic pattern of events, they became greatly concerned.
“We could see that both Kathmandu and Pokhara would now be particularly exposed to earthquakes rupturing the main fault, where it likely last did in 1344, between the two cities,”
Disgraceful but don’t wait for the climate vultures to call the the Professor or Newsweek out.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32472310
How was the earthquake count in the 30s and 40s when (we will rediscover after the climate mess is re-corrected) it was as warm or warmer than now?
well a couple rags blamed iSIS on climate change so….no surprise here
So it’s been confirmed, ISIS caused the earthquake!!
Just checking on McGuire’s claim that Mt Pavlof only erupts in autumn and winter; Wikipedia (confirmed by other sources BTW) has this to say:
“Pavlof Volcano is a stratovolcano of the Aleutian Range on the Alaska Peninsula. It has been one of the most active in the United States since 1980, with eruptions recorded in 1980, 1981, 1983, 1986–1988, 1996–1997, August 15 to September 13, 2007, May 13 to August 8, 2013, and most recently May 31, 2014 and continuing as of June 3, 2014.”
There was also a minor event in December 2014. It would seem that Pavlof can actually erupt at any time of the year and that Professor McGuire is not averse to telling porkies if they will support and advance his pet hypothetical biases.
more info at:
http://www.avo.alaska.edu/volcanoes/volcact.php?volcname=Pavlof
When do these type of quotes by “scientists” get defined for what they are — “scientific malpractice”. Where is the shame from the rest of the scientific community?
It seems peer review is fundamentally broken.
Haven’t Ed and warren been claiming that all the scientists are on their side?
Quote: I read this piece by Dr. Tim Daughtry titled “Calling for a true conservative strategy” from Feb 4. 2013 today, and thought: What would our country look like if we simply capitulated to the far-left and let them win?
Daughtry has a line in the piece which is tragically accurate:
“The strategy (of the far-left) was one of immersion more than conversion. It was not necessary to convert students or consumers of news to leftist thinking; it was only necessary to surround them with liberalism as if there were no other respectable way of thinking. While conservatives were focused on winning the next election, the left focused on winning the next generation. And they are succeeding.”
Their “immersion” strategy has been a tremendous success. It has changed the debate landscape by altering the playing field from one where two different ideological belief systems competed against one another (individual liberty and limited government vs. heavy-handed rule by government elites), to one where heavy-handed government intervention in our lives is accepted as “the norm,” and arguing against big government makes you an “extremist” or something far worse in the eyes of the cultural “elites.” Unquote
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2015/04/what-would-the-country-look-like-if-the-far-left-won
Newsweek was heralding the science of an impending new ice age in the 1970s. Of course the journalists of that time have died or retired. I predict a mass extinction of all these antediluvian rags.
Earthquakes and volcanoes are the price we pay for residing on a planet with life. Eliminate continental drift, volcanoes, and earthquakes, and you get dead Mars..
Continental drift.
Personally I’ve always liked a little sight seeing.
Hey. Not so “news” weak. I quit smoking because of CO2, and my house plants love it! /sarc
Was talking to a gal yesterday who was so upset that plants were using OXYGEN and expelling CO2. She wanted to remove all plants. I asked her if she was just stupid, or had mental problems. Said she learned it in school. This is what passes for school these days? I’m 57, and that’s not even close. We are down the hoops of the crapper. Good grief. Ask any farmer. Plants need and love CO2, and after they are done photosynthesing(sp?) it, they release O2. Time to get a rocket launcher.
I’d have asked what she planned on eating after they got rid of all the plants.
Oh. and I was taught that ignorance can be corrected…..stupid is forever.
Shameless.
Seven Years to Save the Planet, author Bill McGuire, published 2008. 2008+7=2015…Ummm? Slight miscalculation, perhaps?
Is there some payola system for publishers to engage in this crazy ant tactic? I’m seeing it develop and expand with local publications as well, starting with a few ridiculous stories, then interview question inserts on unrelated topics, etc. etc. It looks planned and monetized in addition to being obviously dumb.
Yes, there is a payloa system, it’s called “checkout sales.” National Enquirer started it with those catchy headlines like “Marilyn Monroe is Alive and Living in Toledo!” Now once legit pubs are doing it to slow their ascent to financial doom.
No, I was thinking of a type of street money payola like spreading the wealth even among very low volume media outlets. It would be like an ad placement without identifying it as such.
I have a limerick that I feel is applicable:
Authority figures, foretelling
Hot doom (and our “myths” dispelling),
Cast great dispersions
On skeptical versions
(Which keep carbon credits from selling)!
Now, shriller and louder they’re yelling,
To drown out the doubters’ rebelling!
New taxes are “just”
(When you’ve gained public trust),
So “the questioners” (quickly) they’re quelling.
I’ve arrived at the realization
That industrial civilization
Is only a sin
If the green leftists win,
On their platform of demonization!
Apologies if you’ve already seen it.
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
Rahm Emanuel
Totally ludicrous BS. NewsWeek is now on par with those cheesy magazines you see in the grocery store checkout lines. I sincerely doubt the American public is as stupid as these magazines thing people are. Stop buying the product, the brand withers and dies.
McGuire’s theory is about as insane as Velikovsky’s “Worlds in Collision.”
Actually, there are modern theories that aren’t all that different from Velikovsky.
Notice that Newsweek has now changed its headline to read “More Fatal Earthquakes to Come, Geologists Warn. ”
The print version of Newsweek went out of business several years ago. In its death throes it solicited “guest editors” like Colbert, which went over like you’d expect. I wasn’t aware it even existed online; its digital branch is Daily Beast. The kind of reader that believes plate tectonics are driven by atmospheric gases. That’s what they’re left with.