Essay by Eric Worrall
“… If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell”?
As heat records break, the climate movement has the right answers – but the words are all wrong
Jonathan Freedland
Sat 15 Jul 2023 05.36 AESTThe fossil fuel industry has spent billions on winning over the public. Green activists must learn from its tactics
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It’s happening all over – biblical downpours in New York state, unquenchable fires in Canada – and yet humanity is not acting as if it is confronting a planetary emergency. Extreme weather is fast becoming the norm in the US, and yet Americans tell pollsters it is a low priority, ranking it 17th out of 21 national issues in a recent Pew survey. Even when the impact is personal, as it was for many Australians when bushfires raged through the country in 2019, opinions prove stubbornly hard to shift: one study found that among those “directly impacted” by the fires, around a third saw no connection to the climate. They were “unmoved.”
How can this be? How can we, like Nero, fiddle while the Earth burns? …
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This specific problem, like the climate crisis itself, is made by human beings – which is simultaneously enraging and encouraging. Enraging, because it is born of a greed that puts gargantuan profit ahead of a habitable planet. Encouraging, because most problems made by human beings can be fixed by them. Enter the climate movement – the scientists, the activists, the campaigners who have done so much for so long to combat this threat. Except, it turns out, they are part of the problem too.
The trouble is, they have not been communicating the threat loudly enough or in the right way. …
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Yet “climate change” doesn’t work either. Mere “change” is too gentle: it doesn’t indicate whether the change will be negative or positive. It is not immediate: it hints that its consequences will be felt only in the future, when we are feeling them right now. Which is why this newspaper is right to speak of a climate crisis or emergency.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/14/big-oil-climate-crisis-fossil-fuel-public
“If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell” ― Carl Sandburg
Jonathan, please stop wasting our time. At least try to be original.
Climate activists have already tried changing the words multiple times, and have failed utterly.
In the wake of all the mistruths told during the height of the Covid outbreak, the blatant manipulations, abuses of power, and panic mongering, a growing number of people just don’t believe wild claims of imminent catastrophe anymore, no matter what spin you put on it.
The Guardian quickly closed down comments on that article
Yeah I read some of the comments – these moron’s really think they’re in personal danger from the weather. And they think they just need better communication? No you need psychiatric help.
More often than not, the JSO protesters in the UK are wearing sweaters, jackets, scarves, at least long sleeve shirts, and sometimes even gloves in “summer.” It would seem a little warming might reduce their clothing budget.
Here’s THE catch thread that will win over Climate Skeptics and Climate Realists…
“Climate Acceptance”
Accept that Climate Changes
Accept that Global Temperatures Change … Up and Down
Accept that CO2 also has Positive Climate Attributes
Accept that CO2 = Life
Why can’t they glue John Kerry to a runway?
It might cause Planes to Lurch on take off
I doubt there would even feel the bump.
There you go!
I just found out the Climate Czar, John Kerry, has a budget of about $15 million and has 45 people working under him! And Congress didn’t know anything about it! And here Kerry is representing all of us on climate change.
The traitor, Joe Biden, hires another traitor, John Kerry, to work for him. Birds of a feather, flock together. And both of them are focused on destroying the United States using the climate change scam as their device.
A few months ago I was watching a documentary on dinosaurs being found in Canada. One young paleontologist declared that the reason we needed to study the dinosaurs was to figure out how they survived climate changes. He also proclaimed that the reason why this was more important than ever was because the current rate of extinction was approaching the rate that occurred at the KT boundary.
Yes, he really did compare our current rate of a few hundred species over 100 years, to losing over 75% of all species on the planet.
So a change in the weather is now like being hit by a big rock? Nice to know.
As usual, the Malthusian tendency is on hand to explain things
MaithAnCailin
We’re a species of ape that’s ruined this lovely planet for every other species.
rockyrex
Before long the governments will blame the scientists for not warning them.
QuadrupleIPA
What we need is: Art, books, theater, music, festivals, films etc on the topic… The human capacity for beauty again seems to induce the human capacity for insight (and hopefully subsequent action).
Ad bleedin’ nauseam.
The first one sounds like your average city dweller who has never actually stepped foot outside the city she was born in. She seems to actually believe that the entire planet has been paved over.
Good to see their Comment Macht Frei policy is still there.
Not before I commented (as I am a British lefty Guardianista)
Interestingly, that comment has not been universally derided by my fellow lefty Guardianistas. In fact it has more than a dozen up votes.
Because they don’t understand the import of what you said. They misunderstood that your last sentence wasn’t directed at people with normal concerns but that it was directed at their fear of climate change. It comes from being so sure of oneself that any contrary information is skimmed through, with an interpretation of it supporting your belief system.
You have interpreted my comment as I intended, But I think (and I hope) you are wrong about how my fellow Guardianistas have interpreted it.
The first half of my comment criticised the premise of the article. It stated that people do know about climate change. Half my comment sets up my plea for humility.
Surely some people read from start to finish, and not just skip to the end?
In a perfect world. How many down-votes did you get?
Perfect timing, there is A God = what kicks off this talk (7 sins)
Title: How To Live a Crap Life: The Deadly Sins Of Leftism by Andrew Klavan
He explains and gives examples for my frequent lament:
i.e. Everything. Is. Now. Wrong.
“ there is A God”
Sorry, Peta. I feel compelled to ask you for some shred of proof on that.
It’s a very bold statement.
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.”
Look around. The proof there for you to see if you want to.
God was made in the image of man ( hence the patriarchal society )
You ask for proof of a bold statement, then you create an equally bold statement, also without proof.
I did say a shred of proof, not your belief
Yeah – if there is proof to be had it will be in the detail – a number that keeps occurring in different places, for example; just a tiny thing that underpins evrything. Not found it yet, obviously!
42?
I was interested in the fern frond/leaf – it’s a fractal pattern all the way down and I thought there might be a set ratio between the sizes of each fractal pattern from the large leaf, to the smaller fronds off that, to the even smaller fronds off them. Then if that ratio recurs anywhere else?
I read Someone proved the human body loses measurable mass at the time of passing. All the mass loss was nearly the same. (Weight of the Soul???)
I read somewhere that we are the soul, we merely (and temporarily) have a body.
That’s what the climate nutters say, “the proof is there for you to see.” Religion is about faith. Fear of Armageddon. Sound familiar? Same playbook the Guardian and other churches are using about the climate.
Jeremiah 29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart. KJV
If your not seeking Him, you’ll never find Him. But if you honestly seek Him, you’ll find He’s “hiding” in plain sight.
(But, this is Anthony’s “living room” and not the place to get into a “food fight” regarding physical proof of spiritual realities.)
Why on earth would anyone down vote that comment?
I agree I did not make a second comment.
I’ve “bit my tongue” many times.
Yeah, like GreenPiss hasn’t been a mulitple $100 million per year operation for the last 2-30 years. That sure looks like billions to me. They don’t need to “learn from” these tactics, they invented them.
When others fight back against their lies they cry “foul” !!
The fossil fuel industry did very little to fight the green blob. In fact, big oil and gas seemed quite clean content to sit back and watch as coal was plants were converted to gas and coal mining companies went bankrupt. Oil and gas producers certainly know that there is no danger of being replaced by renewables in the foreseeable future.
Somewhere in the back offices, they realize they can raise prices of their commodity while possibly spending fewer exploration dollars against known field decline rates…if green whiners succeed in a few % demand reduction.….What’s not to like about less cost for more profit, and the rather obvious occurrence in a decade or so where governments plead for them to “drill-baby-drill”…
climategrog, beyond the fact that they ignore the billions spent by their own advocates, they can’t actually find any of the money that the fossil fuel industry has allegedly been spending.
They just assume it must be because otherwise everyone would agree with them.
Yes, there’s no evidence that the oil and gas companies have spent billions of dollars trying to downplay the false narrative of human-caused climate change.
It’s just a talking point for the climate change alarmists. They have to have a boogey man to blame things on.
Climate activist-journalists at the Graun follow the time tested alarmist strategy. If your message is not convincing anyone, it must because you are not screaming loud enough.
It’s like the typical British tourist on holiday in Spain, whose drunken English demands are not understood by Manuel the waiter. So he just keeps repeating the same thing in English but shouting louder and louder.
“The fossil fuel industry has spent billions on winning…”
The, er, oil and gas that we depend on. Not only that, but the industry has provided rich revenue streams for governments, streams they otherwise would not have.
The lament of the alarmist…
“It’s happening all over [the media] – biblical downpours in New York state, unquenchable fires in Canada – and yet humanity is not acting as if it is confronting a planetary emergency. Extreme weather is fast becoming the norm in the US, and yet Americans tell pollsters it is a low priority, ranking it 17th out of 21 national issues in a recent Pew survey. Even when the impact is personal, as it was for many Australians when bushfires raged through the country in 2019, opinions prove stubbornly hard to shift: one study found that among those “directly impacted” by the fires, around a third saw no connection to the climate. They were “unmoved.”
How can this be?
Well, it’s quite simple Jonathon. Some feel compelled to believe in ‘something’ or other and many of us use our powers of reasoning rather than go with blind faith.
Try reason for a change.
“Even when the impact is personal, as it was for many Australians when bushfires raged through the country in 2019, opinions prove stubbornly hard to shift: one study found that among those “directly impacted” by the fires, around a third saw no connection to the climate. They were “unmoved.”
Given everything we hear about Australian politicians, this provides evidence that the people are more intelligent than that after all. Or perhaps its just those out in the bush, i.e., those with a connection to nature.
“The fossil fuel industry has spent billions on winning over the public. Green activists must learn from its tactics”
This quote is simply to easy to disprove: The most important thing in science is the word and question why … why doesn´t Extinction Rebellion, Letze Generation and the Just Stop Oil movement asks themself, who funds them, the list is long … Why does these “donors” fund them. This, the second question is propably over the top because it requires a little bit of disciplin in critical thinking. The first one on the other hand, will prove that the Green activists can´t learn a tactic they already are a part off.
Jonathan Freedlands quote is rubbish … talk about basic psycholgy, the false flag he presents falls back on the question why … his quote is based on what, when and how therefore it´s useless … !!
This specific problem, like the climate crisis itself, is made by human beings – which is simultaneously enraging and encouraging. Enraging, because it is born of a greed that puts gargantuan profit ahead of a habitable planet.
Hear! hear! We have to shout down the greedy sods buying sexist EVs-
Study finds just one in ten electric car drivers in Britain are women (msn.com)
Park our old ICE bangers in their subsidised charging bays. Solidarity sisters!
A lone female at a charging station late at night or early in the morning…..
” only one in ten women are driving battery-powered cars.”
Proves they are smarter than men !!
The minor little problem is that wildfires are more destructive due to green NGOs intervening to disrupt any reasonable wildlands management program. Logging? Gaia Forbid! Controlled burns? Carbon storage and air pollution. Etc.
The greens have the fantasy that wildlands just need to be left alone, and everything will be managed by Nature.
To save it you have to let it burn
not really- if you manage forests- you can harvest wood “products” and prevent burning, other than in American National Parks where it’s expected to leave it alone
Nature does manage it and always has. Natural wildfires came long before man got involved
People have been in the Mediterranean, Australia, and California since before the end of the last ice age. Twelve thousand years ago, the current ecology did not exist, so it has developed with human intervention.
The Green Blob acts as if Aborigines and American Indians did not exist in an ecological sense.
Part of the left wing belief system requires one to believe that pre-industrial humans were pure and pristine. They only became evil once they started gathering in cities and invented capitalism.
As such they find it impossible to believe that indigenous peoples would do something so destructive as deliberately setting fire to the land.
One young socialist assured me that the tomahawk was actually a farming implement and the natives didn’t even know it could be used to hurt other humans into the Europeans showed them how. Beyond that, they had no need to use it as a weapon of war, because the natives were completely peaceful and would never hurt one another.
Yeah, and Danish Bearded Axes were woodworking tools.
I am almost certainly part Mexican Indian, and acting like a character in a Disney “Nature documentary” would be an insult to their intelligence. They were probably as much truculent sods as my European ancestors.
Yes – there’s the whole ‘garden of eden’ and ‘noble savage’ mentalities going on there – that we once existed in a beautiful equilibrium with nature where we lived in harmony and tranquillity. Rather than the reality of living in a dirty hole in the ground, always on the brink of starvation, hunted by every animal with claws and scavenging scraps that the carnivores didn’t want.
And getting so bored you make war on the neighboring tribe just for entertainment.
Ah, the noble savage!
“… everything will be managed by Nature.” But, like everything else that is decided for you, you won’t like the outcome. Nature is the Great Bitch, beyond the wildest fishwife imagination.
The greens have the fantasy that wildlands just need to be left alone, and everything will be managed by Nature.
But lefties don’t do irony which is why they’re Hell bent on making the weather conform to their Utopian view of how it should be. This time their hubris will be different of course.
The places where media access is the most well-developed are also the places where misinformed opinions about “climate change” are most bizarre. These very same places are also where technology has enabled the most sophisticated forms of personal environment, ie. HVAC. Most of the inhabitants of modern, Western cities live and work within structures with a command personal climate maintained within a small window of acceptable temperature and humidity. Going outside at some times in the summer impresses them as being unbearably hot. This was not the case just a few years ago when AC wasn’t a feature of residential housing and people simply acknowledged that occasionally summer would be uncomfortable.
In other, less technologically advanced areas of the world, the people are familiar with summer heat, rivers rising over their banks and intermittent droughts. They’re not outraged by those situations. The few who do express concern are those who are educated members of international NGOs who have little in common with everymen of the countries they supposedly represent. Climate change panic is a phenomenon limited to the affluent west and the elites of the undeveloped world.
This individual is a good example of the above.
Volker Turk Says, “Our environment is burning. It’s melting. It’s flooding. It’s depleting. It’s drying. It’s dying,”
What a tw@t !!!
and Al Gore says the oceans are boiling
How many remember when entire family went to motion picture theatres because their major attraction was that they were “air conditioned”?
When I grew up A/C was unheard of in a typical home.
Yup, it’s the old appeal to the “heckler’s veto” maybe change the words, but yell louder and don’t let the opposing side speak.
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Those who demonstrably know exactly what they are talking about don’t have to stage shouty ignoramuses; these events are for the brainwashed, deluded, hysterical; they can “exit left” to demonstrate their unerring faith in the root of their religious fervour and leave “the stage” to everyone else….now.
“one study found that among those “directly impacted” by the fires, around a third saw no connection to the climate.”
These are rational folk who live on the land and under the weather. They’ve experienced fires, droughts, heat waves, floods, unusually hot and unusually cold weather. They’ve heard the stories from their parents, grandparents who heard stories from their predecessors…
I was born in the late 1930s, and I heard my family and friends’ families talk about the Dirty Thirties heat, drought, “riding the rods”, hunger, … for 20 years. It was the most significant thing in their lives. That, folks was the 20th century temperature high stand that we haven’t surpassed. I can assure you we would all have noticed if we came near to something like that!
Individual state and province records still stand. When the super el Niño of 1998 occurred, it didn’t come near breaking records of ’30s and early ’40s. Indeed, it wasn’t until 2007, on the eve of the retirement of the Father of Global Warming that GISS pushed the 20th century high stand down a degree, and in that stroke, abolished the weather disaster of the century, and with it that forty years of deep cooling that followed. Actually, much of the warm spell of the 80s and 90s was simply recovery from the “Ice Age Cometh” cold period (that everyone ls noticed).
‘biblical downpours in New York state, unquenchable fires in Canada –
They left out dogs and cats living together.
Does make sense though that Saint Kathleen of Albany who a few years prior was behind a pulpit commanding her neurotic “disciples” to follow her and shame and persecute those who didn’t get the Vax – of course she would insist that the Great Deluge of Noah’s day was repeating itself.
Looking right at the WX records and right there are forty days and forty nights of globe flooding rains in NY /sarc
‘Biblical downpours’, at least they can’t claim they are unprecedented.
Mass Hysteria:
I wonder how the Hudson Valley got formed. 🙂
Enter the climate movement – the scientists, the activists, the campaigners who have done so much for so long to combat this threat. Except, it turns out, they are part of the problem too.
The trouble is, they have not been communicating the threat loudly enough or in the right way. …
Aside from many remembering the failed projections by the “settled science”, many have seen the activist doing stupid stuff like gluing themselves to things, AOC promoting “The Green New Deal, Brandon doing … what Brandon does, etc., and concluded “There’s something wrong here” and they want no part of it.
Substitute ‘law’ for ‘science’ and you pretty much have the exact ethos of this site.
Says he who has not been able to produce anything resembling science to back up his religion.
The real science is against you.
That is why you and your cult members have to rant and rave and generally carry on like petulant little children.
You have nothing else.
Calm yourself
So agree with me , yet again..
No counter argument whatsoever.
Thanks
But, but, all the scientists who are paid to push the climate warming agenda agree that global warming is going to kill us all.
Forget the scientists then. Just take a look around the world at the moment.
Heatwaves, record warm temperatures… Do you really believe this is all being made up?
A lot of it is certainly made up and hyped by the AGW cultists.
Heat waves have always happened.
There is actually nothing untoward happening with the global climate, period.
Currently the globe is in a COOLER period of the last 10,000 years,
… and, as you continue to show, there is no evidence that the slight increase in real temperature since the LIA has anything to do with humans.
“Heatwaves, record warm temperatures… Do you really believe this is all being made up?”
I believe it is just normal, Earth weather. Record warm temperatures? Where? I hear the meteorologists say there is a potential to break some temperature records in the western U.S. They haven’t been broken yet.
And what if they were. Exceeded by one degree? This is a catastrophe?
What we really have going on is an over-hyping of the weather by people who have a climate change agenda.
The reason the climate change promoters are over-hyping the weather, is because they have no evidence that CO2 is doing what they claim it is doing to the Earth’s atmosphere, so they pretend that normal weather is abnormal and is being caused by human-derived CO2, with no evidence to back up this claim whatsoever, so they hope and pray for a climate record to happen so they will have something to talk about.
And keep in mind that these temperature records only go back for a couple of hundred years, and we have no idea what happened with the weather before that time.
Hyping normal Earth weather as being unprecedented is the last refuge of the climate change alarmist scoundrels.
Hmm … I know there are emojis for lots of reactions. ( 😎 , 8-( , 😉 )
What’s the emoji for “laughable”?
Just who is advocating “pound the table and yell like hell”?
Well, for example, people who emphatically insist that a clear and obvious problem happening all around them doesn’t exist.
There is no climate crisis… period.
It is all in your brain-washed fear-induced gullibility.
The planet is actually in a cooler period of the Holocene.
Maybe if you actually learnt some facts, and faced reality, you wouldn’t be so gormlessly paranoid. !
I recently almost glued my fingers together using super glue trying to fix something. I didn’t yell and scream and demand attention and that no one else can be heard.
I don’t know how old you are but I’m old enough to have seen all these weather events before. (I’ve lived through some of them.)
And I’ve looked into a few bits of history regarding weather events.
Nothing new. It’s happened before.
I’ve also happen to have the list of record Highs an Lows for my little spot on the globe captured over a number of years. Amazing how a record High for a date in 2012 is lower than the record High for that same date in 2007.
(Did I just “pound a table” by pointing that out?)
Which one is you, FN ?
Talk about self-mockery.. making a total goose of yourself… childish petulance…pounding the table etc etc..
These are the people YOU support !
I don’t support that crowd.
I suspect they are about as informed as most commenters here are, but with a different political bias.
Most commenter here are very well informed.
You are NOT one of those. !
You support everything they stand for…
don’t pretend otherwise. !
Projection, much, TFN?
He’s only got one skill, so he’s making the most of it.
I’m still waiting for someone to come up some actual science that proves that global warming is a problem worth worrying abouit.
Computer models, especially ones that can’t replicate past climates, are not science.
You’ll wait a long time when you refuse to accept the evidence presented to you.
We are waiting for your evidence.
So far, you are empty, devoid, with nothing.
You have presented absolutely nothing that hasn’t been baseless, non-science mantra.
It would help if the information provided by UN IPCC CliSciFi climate models was accurate.
A hypothesis, to be scientifically valid must be falsifiable; it must put forward a prediction that may be answered with only “yes or no” based on experimentation. The vast majority of climate models are programmed to reflect the hypothesis from climate scientists that there must be tropospheric hot spots to conform to the fundamental underpinnings of climate science that CO2 warming is amplified by water vapor in the troposphere. Thus, in that limited sense they are falsifiable.
Well, the experiments to test that hypothesis have been conducted every day for decades by weather balloons and satellites and it always turns out that there are no hot spots. The result is that the hypothesis of tropospheric hot spots based on the fundamentals of climate science has been falsified by experimentation. Accordingly, all of the elements of climate models that generate hot spots within the models must be removed to be consistent with the scientific method. Until such time as they are modified they have been and will remain nothing but mental masturbation costing billions of dollars that has been allowed to pervert climate science from the beginning.
“The result is that the hypothesis of tropospheric hot spots based on the fundamentals of climate science has been falsified by experimentation. Accordingly, all of the elements of climate models that generate hot spots within the models must be removed to be consistent with the scientific method.”
That’s correct.
Unfortunately, the climate change alarmists don’t remove their bogus climate change models, they double down on them. Their hypothesis is falsified, but they keep right on going. Real scientists should be appalled.
Here is some climate alarmist yelling that is music to my ears.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1680195005439156224
Not quite a Darwin award.. but still pretty funny in a slap-stick comedy kind of way. 🙂
Poor diddums !!
Oh dear, how sad. Never mind!
Probably best to leave the 127 Guardian readers in their echo chamber, it’s like a padded cell
Well this is OT, but I have to say it.
I foresee a huge “I told you so” coming. The fact that Ukraine has lost their war is becoming ever more evident. Their offensive was a disaster and now the very countries that promised to back them and their entrance into NATO are turning their backs on them. In the near future the evidence to back that fact will soon reach such a critical mass that all the Kings horses and men cannot hide it.
The ONLY people that have gained from that war are the Merchants of Death that make the weapons and the politicians that are on their payroll. The American tax payer has been robbed, our military ordinance stores raided, and massive numbers of Ukrainians and Russians have died or are suffering. Russia and China’s standing in the world will be increased and NATO’s standing diminished.
And all of that for WHAT?
The Ukranian offensive has been a disaster. It has gained virtually nothing and its spearhead is now broken. They have lost!
The Russians now have 10x the artillery the Ukrainians have. They have 5x the number of tanks and APVs. The Patriot systems cannot possibly deal with the swarms of drones the Russians are deploying.
Russia will win. I have said that from the beginning. Not because that is the result I want but because my military judgement was from the beginning that Ukraine simply did not have the ability to win even with NATO backing. They simply do not have the manpower and one cannot build an effective combined arms force on the fly in the short time they have tried to do so. Having weapons is one thing. Knowing how to use them most effectively to achieve one’s objectives is quite another thing altogether.
Have any of you sis-boom-bah types that jumped so hard on the fabricated back Ukraine wave to protect Europe and democracy learned anything from this? You freely embraced the narratives about the war of the very governments and press outlets that you denigrate and dispute when they fabricate and broadcast the climate change lies.
I was needled because I refused to support that crap. This former SF soldier that spent over a decade on hazardous duty during the “cold war” in 10th SFG (A) specifically targeted against the Soviets whose loyalty was questioned as if I was supporting Russia because I would not support Ukraine.
This war was unnecessary! And the American people have been lied to by their government and their press about the reasons for it and their reporting on who is winning. And now, the time is coming when the truth about what has actually been happening on the battlefield is going to come out.
It needed saying. A negotiated settlement back in 2014 may well have avoided the carnage inflicted on the Donbas by Ukraine shelling as well as the wanton destruction inflicted on Ukraine by the Russian Invasion. The Biden regime will just walk away, patting their wallets.
Thank you for your service rah – semper fi
Thank you, but I have always thought the ones that need thanking are those brothers who have paid the price.
The nut jobs actually seem to believe that history started in 1979.
Every single one of these so called crisis have happened before and usually there are historical instances that were significantly worse that the recent examples that have their panties in such wads.
Where did you get the year 1979 from? It’s not mentioned in the article.
You again show that you haven’t paid any attention to your AGW masters…
… just the propaganda headlines, which you gullibly swallow and regurgitate.
A Norwegian Blue would have more credibility.
Oh lord, FN. Not. One. Damn. Clue. I know it must be a huge effort for you but do, please, try to keep up with the conversation, there’s a dear.
“Climate Scorchio”
From the article: “The fossil fuel industry has spent billions on winning over the public.”
Another unsubstantiated claim by climate change alarmists.
“It’s happening all over – biblical downpours in New York state, unquenchable fires in Canada – and yet humanity is not acting as if it is confronting a planetary emergency.”
That would be because there is no planet emergency. It’s just weather. It happens every year, and has happened since the beginning of time.
“Extreme weather is fast becoming the norm in the US,”
Wrong! That’s just your uneducated opinion. It’s just weather, which climate change alarmists blow all out of proportion because it is the only argument they can make, but unfortunately for them, there is zero evidence that humans are causing the weather to be worse that it was in the past. There is no unprecedented weather happening. Only in the fevered imaginations of climate change alarmists.
“The trouble is, they (the activists) have not been communicating the threat loudly enough or in the right way. …”
The trouble for you is people live their lives in the real world, where the weather they see has happened in the past and is no big deal. They don’t wring their hands over a thunderstorm.
“Yet “climate change” doesn’t work either. Mere “change” is too gentle: it doesn’t indicate whether the change will be negative or positive.”
Now the author is attacking the term “climate change”! It’s not scary-sounding enough for him! He should feel free to give it any catastrophic name he can think of. All his fellow climate alarmists do it.
It doesn’t change the fact that the weather we are experiencing today is the same kind of weather we have experienced in the past. When the climate change alarmists talk about possibly setting new temperature records, they are telling you that in the past the temperatures were just as warm as today and we have a ways to go to exceed those numbers.
In the past, some humans used to think that witches caused bad weather. They swore up and down that they did. They even executed people for being witches. Do witches cause bad weather?
Climate Change Alarmists are the new Witch Hunters.
“…and yet humanity is not acting as if it is confronting a planetary emergency.”
That’s because it is not.
Show us the data that indicates wild fires, or any other extreme weather “calamity”, never occurred prior to 1850 in either frequency or intensity.