- From the “irony can be pretty ironic sometimes” file, the San Bernardino Sun, or in this case lack of same, reports that “Over three hundred people at a climate action conference had to be rescued on Thursday, March 13 after a heavy snow storm left them stranded at a camp near Big Bear.” Having failed to stock extra food (presumably only “preppers” do that kind of crazy stuff, not apocalypts obsessed with the certainty that bad weather is wrecking civilization including paralyzing infrastructure), participants ended up slogging through snow to stranded busses only to be bailed out by the San Bernardino County fire department, which rescued them in a “snow cat” and opened Station 96 in “Fawnskin” (no, really) to let them thaw out. Anyone taking bets on whether “the end of winter” was a conference theme?
- If at first you don’t succeed go in circles. The only real result of the Canadian government’s pledge to plant two billion trees having been a face-plant, we’re now told “12 Million New Trees to Be Planted on Tłı̨chǫ Lands”. No, don’t worry, they don’t know how to pronounce it either. But the idea is that for just $53 million, 12 million trees will be planted north of Great Slave Lake (don’t ask as the name comes from the Cree thinking the locals appealingly easy to enslave which might cause talk) at a bargain-basement $4.41 per seedling. Or something. See “Funding for this project will enable the Tłı̨chǫ Government to: design and build greenhouse facilities for a tree nursery; work with community members to incorporate cultural values; provide training and employment opportunities to support and increase capacity within the community for long-term restoration activities; create sustainable economic opportunities, and; plant 12 million trees with seeds collected from local sources over the next seven years.” Or plant 12 million cultural values. Or whatever.
- A Guardian columnist claims that British PM Keir Starmer and his hapless Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) Rachel Reeves are just pretending to come to their senses on extravagant green schemes while “waiting for their broader domestic growth strategy to bear fruit” on a tree that seems to have fallen over. “In the meantime, these rather thin pro-fossil fuel policies give them a chance to say ‘look at how focused we are on increasing GDP’ in front of the rightwing press and less strategically minded members of the parliamentary party.” When your supposed friends are saying don’t worry, they’re just fools and liars, you don’t really need enemies.
- Last week in a piece on alarmists’ disregard for truth, trumpeting falsehoods while chanting “follow the science”, we mentioned The Economist “Environment editor” having written that “summers get hotter and extreme weather events more devastating” when the data supports neither claim. And it might seem petty, or painting the lily, to add that her article claimed her job was nevertheless not depressing because: “it seems increasingly likely that a peak [in manmade GHG emissions] has finally been reached. The crucial variable is China.” But it’s not, because you could do a lot of indignant fact checks on Donald Trump before getting to a claim as brazenly untethered to reality as that China is cutting emissions. And what’s her evidence? Why: “Though it is hard to know for sure, not least because the figures published by the Chinese government tend to lag by several years, observers reckon that the country’s emissions may have been falling since their post-lockdown surge in 2023.” Observers reckon? If you chase through the links these “observers” seem to be a study from the Asia Society Policy Institute, and a pretty foggy one at that. With reporting like that, who needs propaganda? Not even the Politburo in Beijing.
- Following up on our denunciation of clickbait stories that make absurd links between whatever’s happening and climate change, we bring you “20 Shocking Impacts of Global Warming on Snowfall Patterns”. Not just a few, or a dozen. Twenty. Many of them imaginary, like “Decreased Snowfall Amounts” especially in the U.S. or “Changes in Snow Quality”. Yeah. Not like the perfect snowman stuff that always fell when we were kids. But who cares? We have clicks to bait.
- Also a follow-up, on how Green parties were mysteriously in lockstep with progressivism generally instead of having a distinctive organic view of various policy issues, why is the British Green party completely committed to transgender radicalism and unable to say what a woman is? Surely there’s not much that’s more natural than gender.
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19 Mar 2025 | News Roundup
It's actually a mater of consistent logic that Green Parties are also committed to "transgender radicalism". Gender pretense goes with their pretense of mastery of environmentalism essentially defined as omniscience. “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire