- A series of what? The San Bernardino Sun tells us “After a series of winter storms over the past two months, Southern California drivers may have noticed they’re navigating more than just traffic – they’re also dodging a growing number of potholes.” Winter storms? And here we were told that season was vanishing even in chilly Canada. What’s it doing in sunny California? Vacationing?
- Perhaps. After all, Climate Depot informs us, “California Snowpack at Healthiest 3-Year Stretch in 25 Years After Wet Winters”. Still, small dudes won’t know what snow is, man.
- Mark Carney’s GFANZ increasingly resembles the GI of U.S. army mythology who was dead but too dumb to lie down. Reuters “Sustainable Switch” delicately describes it as “The world’s leading bank coalition looking to help tackle climate change has voted to ditch some of its more stringent membership rules to better reflect the slow pace of change in the real economy, its chair told Reuters.” But what really happened is that they bailed on the supposedly crucial 1.5°C red line while pretending they were continuing to aim at some unspecified thing below 2°C, because neither is remotely practical given what humans are doing and what nature is.
- So it’s not just Gaza. Evidently “Israel will face massive climate disasters this summer, [President Isaac] Herzog warns”. Massive. And (all together now) it will be worse than average because, State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman chimed in, “As a country located in a hotspot region, the climate changes Israel is expected to face due to global warming will be more intense than the global average and may have serious implications for its economic, social, and security resilience”. And if not, if this summer it’s just still a hot dry desert that stubborn inhabitants made bloom anyway, will either fearmonger apologize?
- An alert reader shares with us a copy of Beaver Tales which, if you’re not in the know you may have to be told is “the ADM(IE) newsletter” and “your one stop shop for all information IE”. Which if you’re not arguably too far into the know you may have to be told is a publication of the “Assistant Deputy Minister (Infrastructure and Environment)” in Canada’s Department of Defence. Who certainly has nothing better to do than to nag everybody with: “a selection of resources that explore our planet, the issues impacting it most like climate change, and how these threats can be addressed... The choices we make and the actions we take can make a difference not just for ourselves and our local communities but also on a global scale.” Which is the kind of thing fuddy-duddies used to say about the military’s ability to fight rather than to virtue-signal.
- Even in the wacky world of climate alarmism, it’s healthy once in a while to check a fact or two. And courtesy of Matthew Wielicki, we get a chart of percent change in carbon emissions by China, India, the U.S., Europe and everyone else. Which alert CDN readers don’t even need to look at, do you? Except for the details that between 2000 and 2018 China went up 208%, India 155% and “Other countries” by 53% while the US went down 10% and Europe down 16%. So if you really think CO2 is setting the planet on fire and aren’t just trying to undermine Western civilization for geopolitical reasons (Beijing) or randomly malicious envy (local activists) then whatever you think of the reasons for this chart, you must see that it’s China, India and Other that must mend their ways. Right?
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23 Apr 2025 | News Roundup
Greta will be concerned for the brave Hamas, hiding amongst women and children. Those tunnels might become too hot due to Gazza's faster than expected temperature rise.