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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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
Just another step on the road to a new Pangea.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/new-earth-dawns-supercontinent-slowly-takes-shape-20150426-1mqa1q.html
It seems however much rope they are given they never run out of ways to use it.
Does a “Director emeritus” trump a “Professor emeritus”?
Oh, this is news to me………that Newsweek still exists. Or is it just an online group still using the old name under license? They set the record for longest credibility decline, since at least the 70s.
Fault movement can also release huge volumes of CO2 if prior policy programs had put it there over the years in sequester storage sites. Blame it on George Bush if anything happens later.
“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
Well wait a minute there.
Apparently the professor is suggesting that before the IPCC, climate and earthquakes never killed anyone.
In which case this incontrovertible evidence casts suspicion on the IPCC as the ultimate cause of climate and earthquake related fatalities.
My silly hyperbole aside, McGuire’s hyperbole is just as silly except he is peddling it as serious science. Simply horrible behavior, and of course the idiots at Newsweek ready to lap it up.
And there it is!
I was just remarking that some disingenuous Libtard was bound to tie earthquake deaths in Nepal to ACO2, sooner or later…
And there it is!
Do realize the importance that the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Sphinx of Giza is a clock counting down the precession of the Earth?
The heart of the Sphinx indicates the brightest star in the constellation Leo in the period of construction.
No, no, no….two butterflies landed on an unseasonable dandelion in my front yard. I saw it!!
From the Newsweek story
“It sounds like a pitch for a Hollywood apocalypse-fest – indeed the movie 2012 featured the Earth’s crust collapsing after a rapid heating of the Earth’s core. The mechanism here is rather more mundane, though potentially no less devastating.”
Climate change can be no less devastating than the spontaneous collapsing of the Earth’s crust depicted in the movie 2012? Its hard to believe anybody at Newsweek read this article before it went out. How can anybody read that and think “Yep, that’s good journalism, lets print it!” Even for a tabloid that is absurd.
It’s not journalism or a proofing problem if instead it is a type of ad placement like Google charges for banners and other ads. It is more of an eyeball count than journalism. It’s the new normal. Truth is a page hit rate rather than a hard item like the old definition.
Since satellite measurements from RSS show the global average temperature now is essentially the same as it was 18 years ago, shouldn’t they be saying that the LACK of climate change caused the earthquake?
Okay, so the climate change payola is now strictly paying for media placements by volume with no regard to reality. It was half detached from reality before but the business model and incentive program were changed.
Somehow I was half-expecting that some idiot would blame this tragedy on CO². Everything from broken fingernails to cars that won’t start have been blamed on it, so what can we expect.
On the other hand, Nepal is home to the largest mountains on Earth (save for one), so the geology that formed those mountains is gonna do a little movin’ and shakin’ once in a while.
Why is it so hard for those science-deficient journalists, erm, presstitutes to understand?
OK, follow the money…..
Thoughts and prayers to the victims, in any case. Also that the aid gets to those who need it most quickly and without any extra hands in the till…..
What is the transit time for a one degree temperature rise through 15km of rock?
My WAG is in the thousands of years. So this quake may have been triggered by the ice age ending 11 K years ago. Or it was the result of seismic strain due to the collision of India with Asia.
Question: Since when is the activity portrayed in this video considered science?
The earthquake in Nepal on 2015-04-25 at 06:11:26 (UTC) at Lamjung, Nepal. The epicenter was 28.147°N 84.708°E. and the center of the quake was 15Km under that point. The quake was assigned a magnitude of 7.8 and released approximately 32 PJ of energy.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20002926#general_summary
15 Km under the earth’s surface the rock has a temperature of approximately 375°C.
How anything occurring in the atmosphere could affect that situation is not apparent. Allow me to posit that there is no plausible physical theory that could connect climate to events that deep at those temperatures.
375.00000000001 must be the tipping point, ya know, with all that CO2 forcing /sarc
The most astonishing thing here is that Newsweek is apparently still a thing.
noloctd,
Yes. I think Newsweak is only online now. I still have one of their last print issues. The cover shows a black hand shaking a red hand, with the caption:
We Are All Socialists Now
It gives me immense pleasure knowing that issue was their dying gasp.
[Also, for those late to the party and who might have missed it, here’s the UN’s climate chief, Christiana Figueres]:
http://moonbattery.com/graphics/Dr-Smith_Christiana-Figueres.jpg
It is most unfortunate even the print and electronic media is publishing such trash. This story was published in Indian media.
Dr. S. Jeevananda Reddy
These alarmists are either evil, ……………or stupid. And I don’t think they’re stupid.
McGuire, who clearly should not be a professor, has stated that sceptics are similar to holocaust deniers. As well as disgusting, his comment is anti-science. The whole basis of science is scepticism – take nobody’s word is the ancient motto of the Royal Society – or it was before the climate loons took the Society over.
As far as I’m aware, the historical global earthquake data, corrected for reporting bias, shows no overall trend. If this is so, then McGuire is talking poisonous nonsense.
Also, the earthquake that occurred in the early 20th century was more powerful than the recent one and it killed 10,000. There is also a possible 70 year cycle of massive earthquakes in the area, so it was a disaster waiting to happen. Sadly, the current number of deaths may reach 10,000 but no doubt the modern population is much higher.
As always, many of the victims were killed by poverty, as the buildings were hopelessly inadequate. And yet extremists like McGuire are the very ones who want to ensure the developing world is kept in poverty by pushing up the cost of energy.
It’s not just bad and corrupt science. It’s immoral. It’s a crime against humanity. People like McGuire are literally using terror to push their extremist green views. Of course, there’s a name for people who use terror to further their own interests….
Chris
In other words, if you drive an SUV, you just killed all those poor people in Nepal. My GOD! How can academic research sustain this level of crazy? I have very little faith in modern high school graduates, but won’t even they eventually twig to this crap and drift away from these kinds of professors?