By Allan Chatenay
(sent via email 21-Oct-2017)
Dear Prime Minister Trudeau and Minister McKenna; Canada has a problem.
Climate Change is Killing Us.
Or more precisely, your view of climate change is killing us.
The first issue is to understand the words “climate change.” In the recent public discourse, “climate change” has come to mean “blaming humans for changing the climate by using oil and gas and coal.” That creates a major difficulty, because it means that anytime the uninformed see an aspect of climate that either they haven’t seen before or an aspect that is genuinely changed, the underlying assumption is that it must be our own fault and it must be change for the worse. This view of our climate as primarily anthropomorphic is useful for scaring the populace into submission so you can tax and regulate us to death, but in fact it is the modern-day equivalent of the geocentric view of the universe dating back to Ptolemy.
So, let’s be clear. There is no doubt that the climate is changing. The climate has always changed and always will. The climate will never stay the same – nor should it. The only thing more absurd than denying climate change is thinking that humans can stop it from changing. But when people today say the words “climate change” they mean something else. They mean that humans are to blame.
It is only natural that because we humans tend to incorrectly perceive our- selves as the centre of things we would tend to blame ourselves when the earth’s climate changes. This flaw in human thought is not new.
The Maya, Inca and Aztecs used to do the same thing. In a vain attempt to control the weather and the resulting crop yields, they would engage in human sacrifices including decapitation, blood offerings and live heart extractions. If those efforts didn’t work and the crops failed, then the assumption would be that they didn’t do enough of it – leading to more sacrifices. Today it seems obvious to almost all of us that blood offerings don’t change the weather. I find it strange though that when the sacrificial offerings are from our own treasury, especially if the victims of sacrifice are either corporations or wealthy individuals, you and many other Canadians continue to believe essentially the same thing. And what leaders know is that being the master of the sacrifice concentrates power in those conducting the ritual.
Your government’s view that Canada can stop the global climate from changing by taxing Canadians, killing billions of dollars of new projects and chasing foreign investment away when none of the major global powers are doing the same is profoundly harmful and irresponsible. You have created a graveyard of cancelled mega-projects that are severely damaging to Canada but that strongly benefit other nations for no good reason. The Energy East cancella- tion resulting from the NEB including ‘climate change’ considerations in its evaluation of that project is the latest serious casualty. Insanity! You should be ashamed that we will now unnecessarily import oil from dictatorships when we could be building a stronger Canada.
Just 18,000 years ago almost all of Canada sat under giant thick sheets of ice. Both the Cordilleran and Laurentide Ice Sheets were continuous sheets thousands of kilometres across and several kilometres thick. They melted entirely without human intervention (as did their equivalents in Asia and Europe). They melted so quickly that the rocks upon which they rested (including the Canadian Precambrian Shield) are still rebounding from the rapid removal of their incredible weight. Sea levels have risen over 100 metres during that period separating Alaska from Russia and modifying ocean cur- rents around the globe. The changes we are observing and living through at present are simply the tail end of that monumental transformation and are absolutely in keeping with natural climate change.
Imagine the energy required to melt several continental ice sheets thousands of kilometres across and several kilometres thick, thereby raising the sea level by over 100 metres in just a few thousand years – a blink of an eye in geological time just on the edge of recorded human history. Let the fact that humans had nothing to do with that sink in, and then ask yourself how taxing Canadians and issuing government subsidies to install windmills and solar panels will stop that sort of planetary-scale climate change.
Rather than the disaster that you would have us believe has befallen us or will befall us in future, what we have in fact observed is that access to abundant and reliable energy has increased human life spans, reduced famine and suffering and lead to unprecedented levels of prosperity around the globe. Access to secure sources of energy reduces the impact of climate to humans, not the other way around.
Today, humans are more able to respond to natural disasters than ever before largely because we have access to abundant energy – and this is a good thing. Life before hydrocarbon energy was available was much harder and many lives were cut short by starvation and disease. Today, anti-hydrocarbon positions are written with computers made of and powered by hydrocarbons by people who got to work in a vehicle powered by hydrocarbons, who demand access to health care that is only possible because of hydrocarbon energy and who go on vacations to warmer climates in planes powered by hydrocarbons. The hypocrisy is telling – no opponent of hydrocarbon energy seems prepared or willing to live without it – including you and your government.
It is noteworthy that the two primary products of hydrocarbon combustion are H2O and CO2, which (along with the sun and nutrients from the earth) also happen to be the very building blocks of life on earth. This is because hydro- carbons are themselves the natural product of organic growth and decay. The primary indisputable and measurable impact of increased levels of CO2 on earth is that plants will grow quicker – which is why greenhouses routinely pump CO2 into their greenhouses (to levels 300% higher than current atmos- pheric levels) to accelerate plant growth. CO2 should be celebrated just as water is, not vilified as a ‘pollutant’ – which it clearly is not.
There is no invisible thermometer controlled by taxation and regulation and subsidy that will change the output of the sun or our relationship with the sun. It turns out that the earth and the sun and the universe at large just don’t care that much about humans or our actions. The simple fact of the matter is that we are vastly more affected by the planet than the planet is by us – and one day in the distant future we will simply be another sedimentary layer in the geological record.
However, just as Galileo was persecuted during his time for advancing a heliocentric theory and questioning the geocentric view of the universe, those of us who question this anthropocentric view of climate are now also subject to ridicule and persecution.
This persecution takes shape in the notion that if I deploy scientific knowledge to refute many of the alarmist claims made by those who believe climate change is anthropogenic, then I must be a ‘denier’ – an epithet closely linked
to neo-Nazism that would subtly try to link me to that horrible way of thinking.
Statements like “the science is settled” or “97% of scientists agree” are extremely troubling as they are themselves anti-scientific and designed to sup- press the relentless questioning that is essential to the scientific method. Even Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s statement that “the good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it” misappropriates the scientific method to declare science as an infallible source of truth rather than a process of finding and discovering truth through questioning and testing. People in your government tend to say things like “Canadians know…” or “We all know…” when it comes to the anthropocentric view of climate change. In fact, we may not know, or we may know the opposite.
Instead, I prefer Albert Einstein’s statement that “The important thing is to never stop questioning” as the ultimate piece of scientific advice.
The anthropocentric view of climate change has confused the masses and under your leadership is causing Canada to make a series of terrible decisions. In subscribing to this ill-conceived view of hydrocarbon energy as a bad thing, Canadians are suffering terrible casualties to your Liberal government’s economic friendly fire.
I have no doubt that you believe you are doing the right thing and that your intentions are good. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and history is full of leaders who destroyed their nations in fits of madness and in pursuit of vanity and folly.
It is high time you considered that you might be wrong. Many of us can already see that you are.
Best Regards, Allan Châtenay
Thanks for the good effort Allan.
Regardless whether the ‘ROYAL THEY’ read it or not I have friends I will be forwarding it to. At least it re enforces the points I have been making regarding Global Warming (since morphed into ‘climate change’) for the last few years as according to them I live on the ‘dark side’ of course.
These Globalists-Malthusians know perfectly well that AGW is fake. They invented it (Margaret Mead did.)
2018 marks the Northeast US’s greatest snowcover in 135 years. Now that’s what I call climate change! I’m waiting for the “concensus” explanation for that one.
That may be the “consensus” position, however like all the other “consensus” position, the actual science refutes it.
Rob
Which is it? AGW means my grandkids wont know what snow is or is it the more snow there is proves CAGW theory. It’s really easy when everything that can happen proves what you believe, kind of like signs from god.
Rob
It must be nice to live in your world, someone tells you that we have the most snow in the last 135 years (you know around the end of the LIA) and you say its proof of CAGW because of the nor’easters (cause we never had nor’easters before CAGW) caused by global warming. Everything that can happen no matter what proves to YOU that YOU are right, sanity is not your strong point is it?
Mark W
Rob said “Obviously you don’t live on the East Coast.”, not sure if you do or not, but I do and have for a very long time and there is nothing dramatically different about the weather we are having on the east coast from any we have had in the past, reminds me a lot of the mid to late 70s and the early 90s. Robs just looking for signs from his weather gods to justify his sacrificing of people on the altar of his beliefs.
Rob
These storms aren’t any more frequent than a zillion times in the past, they aren’t any stronger either, they are just typical mid-atlantic/ new england storms. You are just making things up in your own mind, i have lived through literally hundreds of these storms in my long years and much worse. Plus they have zero to do with the high level of snow cover in the northern hemisphere. You are self deluding you should really talk to someone about it, it is not healthy.
Rob
Either YOU don’t live on the east coast like you said about MarkW or you are just really young, because if you did or you aren’t you wouldn’t post the nonsense that you have posted.
Rob
I have lost power twice this year from the storms and hundreds of times in my life from many other storms, once for 3 weeks! how much of the record 200 inches of snow in Erie Pa is from these storms? Zero is the correct answer, these storms are not unusual at all, what is unusual is the persistent cold temperatures that we have had throughout March but again if you have lived in this area like you claim for any real length of time you remember plenty of times when it was like this or worse and you remember plenty of times when you go years without weather like this on the east coast.
Again you are posting nonsense that anyone that has experience living here for any length of time would be able to tell you. I have seen februaries with 70 degree weather and no storms and Aprils with 30+ inches and 20 degree weather, when the patterns line up it is not uncommon to have one nor’easter after the other its just what happens when you have cold storms coming from the west and warm moist air coming up the gulf stream. Again you must be young because there is no way if you have lived here for as long as I have that you would think this is unusual in frequency or severity, its called winter, get used to it.
Rob
“But it does make sense that the eastern U.S. has seen so many nor’easters in the last few weeks, he said. If the atmosphere is in the mood to produce a nor’easter, it doesn’t stop after making just one.
“One of the things we emphasized in the book is the episodic nature of these storms. They come in batches,” Uccellini told me. Northeast snowstorms can only emerge from a very specific set of circumstances. When those circumstances are achieved, storms can follow one after another, walloping the coast week after week.”
Louis W. Uccellini foremost expert on Nor’easters
Rob
I don’t live in Erie, was just pointing out that most of the snow that is making the coverage in this area unusual, every nor’easter covers the mid-atlantic to new england I 95 corridor, from Washington to Boston, what’s causing the unusual level of snow in this part of the US is the inland snow from Erie through New york and up into Maine.
Rob
“I’ll repeat it for you Bob…..“especially this late in March””
So its unusually cold in March because of CAGW,
Just so you know unusual doesn’t mean it’s not normal it just means its the dominant state.
Here i will help you understand, it’s unusual for it to snow in Georgia, but once in a while it does and thats normal.
Rob
” I never say “CAGW” because there is no “C” in the science of AGW.”
There also isn’t anything unusual about the weather or the climate just because you lost power twice this winter. You and I and the rest of the mid-atlantic/ new england I 95 corridor have experienced what we call in these parts WINTER!
Stop making a few storms into a world changing event, this is a normal weather pattern that comes around every 8 or 10 years or so, sometimes more often, sometimes less, but it is nothing unusual nor does it indicate a change in the climate, its a winter weather pattern one that has happened many many times.
I do agree though that there is no C in AGW, there is only a small W for that matter but no AGW or CAGW in the winter weather we have experienced. But if it makes your feel better go sacrifice a goat or something to your AGW gods and maybe you will survive, or better yet sacrifice your evil consumer ways and give up all forms of modern comforts and then maybe, just maybe we will all have a nicer winter next year.
Rob
“Bob, hopefully, the third time is a charm…….“this late in March.””
You can say it a million times, it has nothing to do with AGW nor is anything other than just unusual.
But i give up trying to reason with the irrational and self delusional, but do remember you can always sacrifice to your AGW gods you may just be saved.
Rob,
Its was the witches … that wan not absolute consensus but close enuf to kill a few of them.
I’ll bet if they had just killed all the suspected witches outright & immediately, those little girls would not have continued with the same afflictions. But I do wonder what those little girls would have done next/instead to get attention and exercise their new found power.
Likewise, without CO2 over 350 ppm there would not be people claiming that 4 nor’easters in late winter/early spring on the east coast were the work of CO2. What, I wonder, would you be doing if world wide actions took place that immediately that would get you to the 350 ppm; what would be your new affliction?
(in this analogy, you are the little girl).
Glad someone mentioned Georgia, that’s where I have lived all my life. Right outside Atlanta. Down here we have no snow to speak of most of the time, but every 20 years or so we get a batch of snow years. It’s kind of a big deal. Because we have problems with that whole driving on ice and snow thing. These events really stand out.
It happened in the late 50’s, then the late 70’s, then the late 90’s, and again after 2010. We are currently in that cold winter pattern which is common during snow years. Last year’s snow total was the highest in my limited record, the next highest was in the late 50’s to early 60’s. I say limited because I only have records going back to the 40’s.
As far as hot days go, we have what we call Dog Days. That usually occurs in August. I am not sure why we call them Dog Days (or Dog Daze as some would say) except dogs don’t move around much when it is really hot. They mostly lay around in shade, under front porches, or anywhere they can get some relief, panting as hard as they can. Dogs love AC. The hottest period in recent memory was in the mid to late 90’s. Since then we rarely see days above 95° F.
Those of us who grew up without air conditioning and who relied upon the old fashioned attic fan to keep from bursting into flame have a pretty good working knowledge of when the evening cool would come. That was when you could get unmiserable enough to go to sleep. You can feel the evening chill come on, usually when a bit of wind would pick up, as a sudden drop in temperature. In the mid 90’s in August there would be years where for a week or so that cool off just didn’t happen. Growing up that would happen in August about one to two hours after midnight. Now, it comes about an hour or so after dark. Lately dog days have been easier to live with than at any other time in my life.
If you examine data sets like the GHCN properly, understanding most of the data they have from the 27,721 temperature reporting stations in that set cover no more than 40 of the last 120 years, and look only at stations reporting every year you will see temperatures are not going up and up. There are only 493 stations that go from 1900 to 2011, the last year in that record according to Berkeley Earth, covering each year. And 1936 was the hottest year on record. Hot days did bump up in the late 90’s but no where near what happened in the 30’s. Cold days, that is days which failed to go above freezing, also decreased in the 90’s. But that is no different from what happened in the 30’s.
All over the world I see people saying similar things to what I just said. Yet, sure as you are born, some smug know it all is going to pop up here and say “But Climate Change is a World Wide Phenomena”. Just not in my part of the world huh? Just not in anyone’s part of the world! Only when you cobble together a bunch of unrelated and incomplete crap data can you even find global warming.
Rob
I can’t believe I am going to waste my time but I will bite, The AMO is in a slight cooling phase and may be headed for a longer cooling phase, what pray tell does that have to do with AGW and what do you see in the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation for March of 2018 that is some how remarkable or unprecedented? Discuss away genius.
Ugh why I am i doing this?
Richard,
There’s a one in a million chance that the current provincial election campaign might make a difference.
My MPP is the Environment critic and I’m trying to ‘educate’ him. You might do the same.
A major (sane) professional association has links to Doug Ford (Progressive Conservative leader) and is trying to reach him directly.
It would take a lot of courage for a politician to take this on but Ford has proven that he’s not a coward!
Let us pray!
Agreed, I used to love reading the news about how the left wing councillors would berate Rob Ford because he would spent only pennies of his office staff account while they often were thousands over, trying to buy votes with pens, team sponsorship and leaflets. Doug has a following in Toronto and should do better than other PCs but I think his greatest asset is rural Ontario. He could engage and offer to protect people from the onerous wind turbine movement that ignores them. Recently in southern Ontario families have seen their water wells contaminated coincidentally after pile driving started on a nearby wind farm. Government investigation says, not the wind farm fault.
https://stopthesethings.com/2018/03/16/water-wars-wind-turbine-construction-destroying-underground-water-supplies-in-ontario/
If he can get out these kinds of issues of which there are many and then day after day tell the people of Ontario how many billions were wasted through gas plant fiasco, Orange and E-Health (total $3 billion and counting) and what that money could have done for health care, education or just taxing less he might win.
Polski
What’s with this progressive crap that the Conservatives have adopted. More pandering to the liberals. Stop already. Write your MP and tell them to drop it. They need to start controlling the narrative, not acknowledge the liberal narrative
It is an excellent letter. It serves a great purpose in reminding our “Natural Governing Party” that there are voters out here who don’t support their thoughtless virtue signalling when it has negative real-world consequences.
The grand coalition of climate unchangers is actually just a cheap political convenience. It will collapse quite easily. Witness the fact that the Democrats in the U.S. have almost stopped mentioning it due to its expense and the end of the California drought and the bitter winter making it look like a stupid idea. Which it is! The climate change meme is headed for collapse in Canada also. Carbon tax will be dead within 2 years.
The road to Hell is paved with progressives.
Well written, smart and thoughtful. Now let’s elect a Prime Minister who can understand such a well presented argument and get rid of the wannabe beach model.
A more powerful closing quote instead of Einstein would be Richard Feynman: ” If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn’t make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is. If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. That’s all there is to it.” Then show him the famous graph of model outputs vs. satellite and weather balloon observations. That’s what convinced me.
May I have a link to the “famous graph”.?
Thank you.
I wouldn’t trust Trudeau. He wears brown shoes with a blue suit.
I only voted liberal because he promised to legalise weed, and look what’s happening to that today.
Reply from Trud. staffer : TLDR . Oh , by the way ….want to buy some carbon credits ?
And thanks for your vote …
climate change policies are killing tourism with gas prices now more than double the US. Canada is a huge country with large distances between the cities. unlike Europe where you can visit 5 countries in a day on a tank of gas. in Canada a tank of gas barely makes a dent getting from one province to the next.
Allan, you should not remind them of human sacrifices. Now they’ll ask for them.
Allan Châtenay does a very good job of pointing out why the term ‘climate change’, as used in the political context for political ends, is a harmful and wasteful canard, resulting in an ineffective investment of our money and time.
But perhaps the term ‘climate change’ is the perfect solution to the policy problems created by its global-warming-cum-climate-change makeover, because ‘climate change’, at root, refers to a complex set of massive changes to weather that unfold on a time scale and in ways not easily comprehended by humans.
The weather we experienced as children is perhaps different from the weather we experience today. We might consider that strange or unwanted (it might require us to change) but it is probably normal. We have a geologic time scale, helping us to account for stalactite growth or rocks eroded by water and wind over extremely long periods of time, but we lack a climate change timescale.
As an aspect of our understanding of human and natural history, climate change seems to be rarely appreciated or understood. But that could change.
Days ago I had the pleasure of a few guided tours through tropical rainforests, the professional guides sometimes drawing attention to endemic species threatened by climate change. While I awaited their pleas for taking personal responsibility, not a single guide called attention to human activities per se. They made no call to action. This is how it should be, where climate change is shown to play an important role in an ecosystem and that remains the focus.
On one of these tours was a Dutchman who knew that ice skates with metal blades were likely invented by the Dutch, leading sometimes to international dominance in speed skating, but he was unaware that his ancestors would have had to have been living through winters where freezing temperatures were the norm for such a development to take seed. Upon mentioning the Scottish developed curling during the Little Ice Age, all at our dinner table seemed surprised.
Collectively, we have little understanding of our climate history and it shows in the misguided policies of recent governments. If we teach our children that climate change occurs normally and usually gradually, and if we also draw their attention to climate features throughout natural and human history, including art and industry, then we improve our chances to respond efficiently and effectively to inevitable changes in the climate. Many examples come to mind. Hans Brinker or A Christmas Carol could be presented in the context of climate. Sacred architecture, like Gothic cathedrals, could be studied in relation to climate change. The Roman expansion could be reviewed in light of climate change.
We have to develop a nuanced appreciation of climate change. Drastic climate conditions underpin the Bering Strait crossing theory. But there is so much more to be said about climate, our planet and us. We should aim to embrace climate change influences on human history and better understand our influence, if any, on climate change.
That brings us back to the present, and Allan Châtenay drawing attention to our hubris and follies.
You have to remember that Trudeau’s primary advisor is Gerald Butts who came from the World Wildlife Fund. I have written to the Feds and Manitoba and the best you get is a motherhood reply. I asked my member 3 pointed questions and he has not replied at all. He will be reminded the next time he has “coffee” for his constituents.
These kinds of statements drive me nuts. This is Fake News! Galileo was not persecuted for advancing the heliocentric theory. He was placed under house arrest in an Italian mansion (villa?) for stating (without proof) that the heliocentric model was fact, even when he had been warned not to. Here is some good reading:
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/galileo-the-church-and-heliocentricity-a-rough-guide/
Interestingly, it wasn’t until 1725 when James Bradley discovered stellar aberration that proof of a heliocentric model had been made, over 100 years after Galileo.
Galileo drew sketches of airplanes and helicopters 200 years before man’s first flight!
My open chart for a letter….
http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php
Great letter. If you can somehow get the larger reaches of the Canadian citizens who perhaps need to understand the role they mus play in the folks they vote for, there is a chance for realism to take hold.
It’s a world wide problem.
And just who is Allan Chatenay and who is he affilliated with? I agree that the only constant in life is change and once you accept that everything else falls into place and that the carbon tax is full of hot air and just another tax grab. But what credentials do you have to back it up?
Fantastic analysis of Canada’s and Europe’s leaders gross arrogance and stupidity about the minuscule climate change we have witnessed since 1850. But no bureaucrats and politicians ever saw a tax or campaign contribution they didn’t like!
I am afraid your fine letter will be greek to Trudeau. He would not understand a single word. He exists within a bubble of warm and fuzzy feelings cannot imagine any concept which involves reality. A complete disaster for Canada and another lesson that elections have real consequences. Woe onto Canada if they renew their contract with the Liberals. GK
“Sacfice” (“no gain without pain”) is a peculiar aspect of the human mind set.
Self mutilation and sacrifice of life to appease some deity was not just peculiar to the natives of central and South America.
It shows up historically the world over including the Holy Bible.
The old testament is rife with sacrifices of sheep and lambs ( pretty much a routine) which basically insured that Priests where the best fed people in camp.( I don’t think God actually showed up to pick up the carcass.).
Ole Abraham seriously considered sacrificing his son Issac (God told him to), and Christ himself is held up as the sacred sacrifice that redeemed the rest of us from eaternal damination.
Since religions in this somewhat enlightened age have lost their credibility our collective physic has supplanted this primordial need to suffer with the pseudo science of “Climate Change”.
Well said Ken, although I would also add Darwinian evolution to climate change.
Allan Chatenay:
Excellent letter!
Well stated, excellent analogies and solid logic.
Entirely the wrong thing to send to a politician or government employees.
Too many complex ideas.
A politician looking for ten seconds of information to support their decisions, will stop at the first sentence.
A government employee tasked with summarizing or responding will stop at the first easy statement you make, then will ignore the rest. Especially employees tasked with summarizing/responding to piles of letters.
Your letter makes an excellent article for people like us who will read it through. Publishing for people who decide on ten seconds of information or the socially fixated shallow public need to read it as simple solid statements, with links to further detail.
There are some who believe the Mayan ruling class were overthrown during a very extended severe drought.
One the public are trained to sacrifice to the gods, they’re very willing to sacrifice the ruling class when desperate. That’s a claim that should clear Justin’s thoughts, for ten seconds.
Maybe it’s time to accidentally disable government’s heat and AC systems during winter’s coldest time. Force those characters who normally dash from vehicle to controlled temperature buildings and back, to experience a little winter weather.
ATheoK
I agree. I doubt that he ever saw the letter, some staffer more than likely skimmed through it and that was the end of it. Politicians have agendas; all the other opposing views that are out there, are just White Noise to be ignored. I always view politicians like the old Charlie Brown cartoons portrayed adults and teachers.
“…one day in the distant future we will simply be another sedimentary layer in the geological record.” What an optimist you are – first, to think that Justin Trudeau and gang (after all, one thing Canadians will never have to fear is a Canadian dictatorship – you need a real army for that) can be persuaded to change their(proclaimed) views, and secondly, to think that the demise of humanity is necessarily in the “distant” future.
In fact, while you may be right to think that we lack the power to damage the earth in the long run, the evidence is that we have produced (and continue to produce ) toxic substances which we lack the knowledge or technology to control under the best circumstances, let alone under the circumstances of a collapse of this global house of cards that cannot even support the alimentary and health needs of humanity now. These toxins have the potential to severely damage, and perhaps extinguish, many higher life forms on Earth, once we lose all hope of monitoring or containing them.
It might take nothing more than a successful EMP attack by a cornered dictatorship, or a sufficiently strong and focused CME to make the wheels come off our present joyride.
otropogo
You couldn’t fathom the number of doomsday sci fi movies, and books your comment triggered in my head. Science Fiction is often based upon modicums of facts, hyped to the xtremes. It is why the scare tactics have worked in the extremists favor, for their AGW and CC plot to destroy the fossil fuels industries and fill government coffers. It is the classic story of the Have Nots becoming the Haves in government; where the power of the new Haves control the ousted Haves by becoming totalitarian.
Sorry. All I meant to “trigger” was some realistic though processes. I’ve read my share of science fiction too, and long ago realized that reality is quite as horrific as anything dreamed up by Sci-Fi writers. I have no interest in scaring anyone. I’d just like us to have a fighting chance to advance civilization further instead of sinking back into a grim tooth and claw dog-eat-dog struggle for survival. For that to happen, a lot of people need to wake up and take a good look at the creaky limb humanity has climbed out on and how far it is to the bottom.
otropogo
I feel you missed my point. I was just pointing out that most science fiction writers base their stories on what scientist have discovered or alluded to outcomes of apocalypses. That having read your comment, it created a series of such Sci Fi to fit your comment. Only those that cannot separate facts from fiction would be really triggered by such nonsense. The trigger I had, was just a flow of books and movies that took those to xtremes.
The ignorant just think or perhaps don’t even think that climate has actually changed before. They don’t know about the warming over 170 years since the LIA. They don’t know about abrupt climate change or interglacial periods or that the trend over 8000 years is actually down whether or not there are a few extra CO2 particles per million. The actual increase of CO2 per volume of air is approx 0.012% over 150 years. I stand to be corrected.
A brilliant piece of writing and one to promulgate all over social media.