Posted on 05/31/2019 11:04:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
Climate isn't the same as weather -- unless, of course, weather happens to be politically useful. In that case, weather portends climate apocalypse.
So warns Elizabeth Warren as she surveyed Iowan rainstorms, which she claims, like tornadoes and floods, are more frequent and severe. "Different parts of the country deal with different climate issues," Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-Malthusia, cautioned as she too warned of extreme tornadoes. "But ALL of these threats will be increasing in intensity as climate crisis grows and we fail to act appropriately."
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., recently sent a fundraising email warning Democrats that climate change was causing "growing mega-fires, extremely destructive hurricanes, and horrific flooding" which put "American lives are at stake."
Even if we pretend that passing a bazillion-dollar authoritarian Green New Deal would do anything to change the climate, there is no real-world evidence that today's weather is increasingly threatening to human lives. By every quantifiable measure, in fact, we're much safer despite the cataclysmal framing of every weather-related event.
How many of those taken in by alarmism realize that deaths from extreme weather have dropped somewhere around 99.9 percent since the 1920s? Heat and cold can still be killer, but thanks to increasingly reliable and affordable heating and cooling systems, and others luxuries of the age, the vast majority of Americans will never have to fear the climate in any genuine way.
Since 1980, death caused by all natural disasters and heat and cold is somewhere under 0.5 percent.
It's true that 2019 has seen a spike in tornadoes, but mostly because 2018 was the first year recorded without a single violent tornado in the United States. Tornadoes killed 10 Americans in 2018, the fewest since we started keeping track of these things in 1875, only four years after the nefarious combustion engine was invented.
There has also been a long-term decline in the cost of tornado damage, as well. In 2018, we experienced near-lows in this regard. The only better years were 2017, 2016 and 2015.
After a few devastating hurricanes around a decade ago, we were similarly warned that it was a prelude to endless storms and ecological disaster. This was followed by nine years without a single major hurricane in the United States.
According to the U.S. Natural Hazard Statistics, in fact, 2018 saw below the 30-year average in deaths not only by tornadoes and hurricanes (way under average) but also from heat, flooding and lighting. We did experience a slight rise in deaths due to cold.
Pointing out these sort of things usually elicits the same reaction: Why do you knuckle-dragging troglodytes hate science? Well, because science's predictive abilities on most things, but especially climate, has been atrocious. But mostly because science is being used as a cudgel to push leftist policy prescriptions without considering economic tradeoffs, societal reality or morality.
There are two things in this debate that we can predict with near certitude: First, that modern technology will continue to allow human beings to adapt to organic and anthropogenic changes in the environment. Second, that human beings will never surrender the wealth and safety that technology has and continues to afford them.
People who deny these realities are as clueless as any "denier" of science. Which brings me back to Democrats.
There have been a number of stories predicting that 2020 will finally be the year politicians start making climate change an important issue. One can only imagine these reporters started their jobs last week.
It's true that a number of Democrats presidential hopefuls have taken "no fossil fuel money" pledges -- as if they were going to get any of that cash anyway -- as they spew carbon into the atmosphere searching for another bad-weather photo-op. Kevin Curtis, executive director of NRDC Action Fund, told BuzzFeed News that all of this was "really wicked cool."
The 2018 midterm elections, adds Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, are when "climate change was beginning, for the first time, to play a significant role in a few races across the country."
A poll conducted by that very same Yale Program on Climate Change Communication found that even for the most left-wing voters, climate change -- an imminent planetary tragedy that threatens the existence of all humanity and most animal species -- ranked third on the list of most important issues. It ranked 17th among all voters, behind things like border security, tax reform and terrorism.
Maybe one day the electorate will finally buy in. Climate change, though, didn't even make a blip on exit polls of 2018. Which is why Democrats keep ratcheting up the hysteria over every environmental tragedy.
"Climate chaos is here," declares Merkley, "but it's not too late to act." Remember: When disaster is perpetually 10 years away, it's never too late to send Democrats some of your money.
Demonrats have the power to put a stop to it by not exhaling CO2 anymore.
The weather varies. The climate varies. There is “weather change” and “climate change.” 100% natural. Stop making it a political event!
So, just how arrogant must some of these fidiots be to believe we’re causing this? When humans are gone, muvver erf will keep on rollin’ along like she just shed a few ticks.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
This climate scam has been going on for four or five decades now. It's a scare strategy by the liberals to pick your wallet of your remaining cash.
Tactics abound and any review of the internet, will show that everything bad in the world, according to the believers, is caused by climate change. Every few years, they change the name of the so-called problem to something more scary to gin up waning support and, as we used to say, stay one step ahead of the law.
The Left-leaning, The Guaradian, newspaper in Great Britain just came out with new guidelines for their reporters when reporting on climate change issues.
Instead of climate change, the new term to be used was mandated as "climate emergency" and "climate crisis or breakdown", to make it sound like a more serious problem. "Global heating" replaces global warming.
And now they have Trump-is-bad to compete with climate change for why and when the world is ending soon.
When I read one of the parts of the Green New Deal, the latest alliteration of the Left's attack on climate change, I knew it was a hoax.
Part of the Green New Deal was "to provide a living wage to those who are unwilling to work for a living". WTF?!
If that doesn't convince you that climate change and the Left is full of sh*t, nothing will.
I remember when it was an impending disaster that was just a decade away......in 1989 when James Hansen said as much in congressional testimony.....
I’m to young to remember the Cassandras shrieking about global cooling or the population bomb in the 60s.
The Dems have been saying this same sh*t for the past 20 years!
Oh well, there is a new crop of high school students that need to be indoctrinated so they keep this stuff up.
High schoolers(Seniors) that weren’t even born on 9/11/2001.
don’t ask them that question! You will only encourage them.
They will want to immediately put a screen up around the earth to block the sun s rays. Death to the earth in very short order.
They are stupid.
I am sick and tired of uneducated clowns calling people “climate deniers”! For the benefit of any of those idiots who might read this a climate denier would be someone who denies that any such thing as climate exists. I would be slightly less annoyed if the clowns would take some classes in basic sentence construction rather than just tossing word salad and the next time someone says something totally stupid to me and when I ask them what the hell they mean they respond with, “Oh, you know what I mean”, I will not be responsible for what may happen.
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