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Heatmap declares, to wallop Donald Trump over the Iran War, that “Now Is the Worst Time for Diesel to Get Expensive” because “Agricultural equipment largely runs on diesel, and with the harvest season coming up, that spells bad news for farmers.” But um isn’t the whole point of carbon taxes, credits and regulatory restrictions to drive up the price of hydrocarbon energy so people use less of it? And then it’s secretly where food comes from? Oh dear. And you only just thought of it now?
From the “oh shut up” file, yet another AMOC scare story. Something called “Astrum Earth” declares that “The End of Europe Is Coming | AMOC” and if you’re wondering why we care, it’s because MSN swept it up and instead of putting it in the bin published it on the Internet. Admittedly with a less lurid headline “An AMOC collapse could drop Europe by 18 degrees - and the debate is getting louder”. But less lurid doesn’t mean more accurate. What debate? They go on to say “Scientists are warning that an AMOC collapse could radically disrupt Europe’s climate, and the debate over when it might happen is getting harder to ignore.” They do their best to stir up a ruckus over whether it’s “a late-century threat – or a crisis that could begin around the 2050s.” But as usual they miss the real story, which is that ocean currents are so poorly understood that nobody even knows if it’s likely. Instead they insist that the science is settled, including that it’s worse than they think. (MSN also reprinted another Astrum piece under the heading “Scientists found new clues hidden inside T rex bones – the results are alarming”. For our part we do not think that getting eaten by a T rex has become worse, or more likely. But we do make our usual sarcastic comment about settled science.)
Mind you if you like apocalypse, we were recently offered a dystopian SciFi novel asking what would happen if someone told AI to “stop global warming” and it believed humans were the cause.
So close… and yet… The New York Times “Climate Forward” writes that “Saving trees might save lives” and explains that there appears to be a statistical correlation between cooling shade and longevity in cities. Of course it has a “world ends, women and minorities hardest hit” angle. And it notes as if it were new and surprising that mature trees already cast shade whereas saplings take years to get big. Who knew? But surely the obvious point is that a great deal of urban planning, or improvising, has created ugly heat traps. Call it the “Urban Heat Island” effect and beware its impact on temperature records, right? No. Of course not. Instead “a sapling can take years to develop into a tree that becomes part of a canopy. And the sapling might not make it at all, especially under the increasing stress of climate change, which not only brings high temperatures but also more intense storms.” Is New York, say, actually getting more intense storms? Is the rural part of the state warming like the asphalt jungle? They don’t even ask. Everybody knows.
Because Britain is currently dry the usual suspects are calling British drought a predictable, if not predicted, consequence of “climate change”. Although if it soon becomes wet, it’s one too, thus effectively admitting that their theory predicts everything so it explains nothing, and treats every kind of weather as some dreadful novelty. But speaking of becoming wet, West Virginia just declared a state of emergency over floods. What does it mean? CO2 has turned Eden into a savage wilderness? Or that most weather is bad and always has been?
While the West destroys itself in a cloud of virtue-signalling, the rest go on with life. As Robert Bryce writes, “Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, Vietnam has become a manufacturing powerhouse, driven by an electricity boom that’s fueled by coal.” So let Britain and Germany shut down their industries and economies. It won’t affect global emissions.
Then why did you impose them in the first place? Blacklock’s Reporter informs us that “Repeal of electric car mandates will save Canadians billions a year, according to new federal figures. Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin on Saturday served legal notice that mandates suspended six months ago will be permanently abolished.” Though technically it’s not a “savings” if all they are doing is declining to proceed with costly rules they had planned to impose.

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