- A quick reminder: if you know someone, work with someone or are related to someone who holds an overheated belief that things like floods are getting worse, the CDN archive contains series from Unspun to #Lookitup linking to sober data, including from the IPCC, that refutes such myths.
- Clearly at CDN we do not agree with climate alarmists about a great many things. But we do share their distaste for “greenwashing”, from Canada Post touting “Carbon-Neutral Shipping” of clothing much of which came from overseas to Windows Update telling us (we are not making this up) that “Windows Update is committed to helping reduce carbon emissions” to random vehicles lurching about proclaiming “Zero carbone.” The difference is that it annoys them that firms are pretending to be part of this new green economy when they’re not, and it annoys us that they’re pretending it exists.
- Obviously we feel similar, and similarly different, about headlines like “The US Is Losing the Electrification Race to Asia”. They’re mad that the U.S. is losing a race for an alleged pot of gold and we’re mad that the race even exists when there’s no prize.
- Another thing that bothers us is heatwave porn in the pernicious form of weather forecasts that exaggerate what’s going to happen. We realize it’s best to be safe, and if they warn of tornadoes or heavy rainfall and we only get a strong wind or a drizzle, we’re not mad… at least not the first three or four times. But periodically we do check what temperatures they predicted against what actually happened that same day and it annoys us that they exaggerate. For instance on June 23 we were menaced with a high of 36C and only got 34. And overnight we were meant to melt in 27C heat whereas really it went to 24. And if you say 2 or 3 degrees isn’t a big deal, well, then, how come 1.5C since 1850 is the beginning of the end?
- Of course we are not to be trusted, being insane climate deniers. According to Canada’s government-funded news propaganda agency, the CBC, a government-funded study by a government-funded university “found people who are more skeptical about climate change are more likely to rank higher on scales of narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy — traits that reflect a tendency to be self-centred, manipulative, callous and socially aversive.” Busted! Send money as we burn up your planet cackle cackle wheeeeee! (Unless you are “more likely to have pro-social personality traits of openness, agreeableness, honesty, humility and emotionality” like, say, the researchers and the politicians.)
- Mind you in real science those who dissent are seen as open-minded and attractive. Hence The Atlantic runs a piece on “The Nobel Prize Winner Who Thinks We Have the Universe All Wrong” and says “Cosmologists are fighting over everything.” Including, in the case of Adam Riess, himself, as he now questions his own pathbreaking work. Whereas dare mention that CO2 and temperature don’t correlate and you’ll be orbiting Pluto in no time.
- Blacklock’s Reporter informs us that in Canada “Two climate programs launched on a $300 million promise of new jobs and lower emissions could prove neither after seven years, says a Department of Natural Resources report. Managers ‘stopped collecting’ data that would establish whether taxpayers received value for money, it said.” But they know all about the science, honest they do. And they can track carbon credits across six continents and seven seas. No really.
- From the “get a real job” file, Climate Cosmos tries to peddle “10 Cities in Maryland That Handle Extreme Weather the Best” on the premise that “In the face of increasing climate challenges, certain cities in Maryland have risen to the occasion with innovative strategies and strong community initiatives.” We don’t need none. Git off’n our porch.
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09 Jul 2025 | News Roundup
No money in cosmology, I'm afraid. No incentive to touch your forelock to your paymaster