- There go those islands, apparently. Earth.com thunders that “The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recently reported that the sea levels in the vast Pacific Ocean are climbing faster than the global average, raising alarm bells for low-lying island nations.” Um you do know all the oceans are connected, right? And because of gravity water flows downhill so if the Pacific was rising faster than, say, the Atlantic, it would pour from the former into the latter until they equalized? Or did you just not think about it?
- This just in from the Canadian government (h/t True North): wildfires are racist. No, really. It’s called “An intersectional analysis of the disproportionate health impacts of wildfires on diverse populations and communities” and it says blah blah blah in all the usual language including “diverse” meaning monotonous (for instance “Indigenous Peoples’ spirituality is land-based” and “there is a specific and deep level of distress associated with the destruction of the land and disruption of traditional land-based activities” whereas everyone else just shrugs it off if their cottage burns). Also wildfires are Islamophobic. As in “Faith communities can experience specific barriers and experience certain disruptions when evacuated due to wildfires” and “During the 2016 Wildfire, 10% of Fort McMurray’s population was Muslim.” (No mention of Jews, of course.) Oh, and “The impact of wildfires on Indigenous Peoples is influenced by colonialism, and has forced many Indigenous Peoples to live in isolation or in communities that are isolated from the rest of society.” And here we thought it was the isolation that made them susceptible to wildfires.
- Chronology: it is a difficult concept. In the New York Times “Climate Forward” David Gelles laments that the Teton Range visible from his Jackson Lake Lodge hotel room in Moran, WY had snowier peaks in the 1950s and “the glaciers are markedly smaller than they were just 70 years ago.” So are you saying man-made warming begin in the 1950s? Or that the glaciers have been retreating for centuries due to natural warming that became artificial 20 years ago or thereabouts, can’t really say when, can’t really say why or how we know? Or did you just not think about it?
- Another tiresome piece of alarmist recycling, from The Atlantic “Weekly Planet”: “The Corals That Survive Climate Change Will Be Unrecognizable”. They rhapsodize about coral to the point that the email newsletter calls it “A Biblical Tale of Resilience” before telling us coral is not resilient. They emphasize how much it has shaped the planet, and how much it has changed due to, what’s this, massive constant natural climate change over many millions of years, to the point that modern corals only date back around 4 million years as cooling conditions made life difficult for them, although coral generally dates back half a billion, before whining “given how fast conditions on Earth are changing, life has likely never been quite as stressful for them as it is now”. Gosh. Is that why the Great Barrier Reef is flourishing as never before since really detailed monitoring began in 1985? Or did you just not think about it?
- We deniers may have all the money. But my goodness, Parker Gallant has unearthed some interesting details about MakeWay!, né the Tides Foundation, including it getting $15 million from the B.C. government in 2022 alone to hector it for not doing enough for climate and for... shucks... them. Oh, and they’re particularly benefiting from largesse from Environment and Climate Change minister Steven Guilbeault who coincidentally, in his journey from scofflaw to lawmaker, got money from… Tides Foundation. Nice work if you can get it.
- The normally sensible columnist Fr. Raymond J. de Souza argues of the incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the man who might aspire to replace him, Mark Carney, that “Some may think that the two have similar positions on climate” whereas in fact “Carney favours climate prosperity. Trudeau climate penance.” No, Trudeau also believes in climate prosperity and has been promising it all along; like Carney he’s just wrong about the impact of their preferred policies. They both think, as the Hill Times recently put it, “Green transition offers a chance for Canadian wealth creation/ Providing patient, long-term capital for our future winners is critical.” And are equally wrong.
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04 Sep 2024 | News Roundup
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