- Scorch watch: as fall closes in, we forecast fewer uses of “scorch” and “soar” in weather reports for about nine months until summer surprises journalists by returning. But The Weather Network is hanging in there with “B.C. and Alberta roast in late-August heat as records fall, relief out of reach”. And no, they didn’t find a synonym; the piece says “The last week of August is turning into a scorcher in Western Canada, with B.C. and Alberta experiencing relentless heat.” And we’re experiencing relentless rhetoric.
- Record heat watch: The records, meanwhile, are artefacts like Edmonton having “a high of 30.2ºC, which the city has only witnessed twice before in July 2024 and June 2021. It has never happened in August.” So a non-record record and, yes, it’s measured at the airport. Oh, and it seems to be completely false, as Edmonton Weather Records reports a high of 35.6 there on August 18, 2008. (Evidently the story mixed up the temperature with a seven-day streak of hot days. But who expects a journalist to check facts while sowing climate panic?)
- Tidal death watch: the Daily Mail actually hollers yet again “West Antarctic Ice Sheet is on the verge of a ‘catastrophic’ COLLAPSE – sparking 9.8ft of irreversible global sea level rise, scientists warn”. Wake us when it doesn’t. Or don’t, because the Guardian promptly shrilled “Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds/ Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout”. Zzzzzzzz.
- Science: it is a difficult concept. Reuters “Sustainable Switch” reports gullibly that “Europe is breaking its reliance on critical scientific data that was provided by the United States, which was historically made freely available to the world, as President Trump’s administration rolls back vital climate regulations on greenhouse gases. The European Union is ramping up its own data collection systems to monitor climate change and weather extremes, according to Reuters interviews.” So we remind these journalists that science is not a thing done by governments, imposing uniformity through various dirty PR stratagems, to justify policy decided on ahead of time. It is done by scientists, testing rival hypotheses ruthlessly to eliminate error come what may.
- Self-awareness is also a difficult concept. The Washington Post writes with a straight typeface that: “Trump rolls back rules meant to keep politics out of climate research”. Riiiight. And there was none of that in the Obama/Biden years, no agency capture, no distortions of data, no dubious bureaucratic findings, no intemperate tone. At least none the Post is aware of. (Like say the survey that 7 of 8 federal scientists are Democrats.) And to think readership is declining.
- How it’s done: under the pointed headline “Missed Target So Lowered It”, Blacklock’s Reporter observes that “The failed Low Carbon Economy Fund was a ‘good example’ of climate leadership, then-Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said in 2022” but an in-house evaluation determined that “Higher than expected project delays, cancellations and withdrawals impacted the program’s ability to meet established greenhouse gas reduction targets within planned timelines”. Oops. So admit failure? Take responsibility? Heck no. This $2.2 billion fund for green corporate retrofits was “launched quickly without meaningful engagement of provinces” and was such a bust that it was cut to $820 million. Also, the original projection of cutting emissions by 10 million tonnes by 2030 was yanked back to 7 million then 3.9 million, while the job-creation target was slashed from up to 115,200 to 34,500. Fail the test, revise the test. Leadership indeed.
- James Hansen, godfather of the climate crisis, isn’t content to let ill enough alone. He has a new paper saying that ECS, the absolute warming in degrees Celsius/Kelvin you’d expect from a doubling of atmospheric CO2, is higher than his fellow comprador alarmists believe, well above three. Never mind that empirical evidence shows it being lower and casts some doubt on it even being a constant. We love our crisis and its human guilt and we aren’t letting go.
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03 Sep 2025 | News Roundup
Yeah,Edmonton experiences "record" temps for late August.Climate change!Meanwhile in Southern Ontario,we had a week of fall-like temps,overnight lows of 7C,and colder farther north.And lots of rain,welcome for gardeners and agriculture.Just weather,man.