When Stuff Happens – Blame it on Climate Change! : Lupus, headaches, cancer, is there nothing the left won't blame on climate change?

Omnipotent is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as “having total power, able to do anything.” This word is typically used to describe God, but in the new world religion of environmentalism, climate change has replaced God. Climate change is omnipotent, possessing the power to do anything.

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This recent headline in the Daily Mail makes the case for climate change’s omnipotence, “Deadly fungal infection 'Valley Fever' that kills one in 100 sufferers is spreading across the US because of climate change”. This is one of many of the magical powers of climate change, but let’s take a deeper look at “Valley Fever.”

Valley Fever is a fungal infection due to coccidioidomycosis. According to the CDC, “Coccidioides lives in dust and soil in some areas in the southwestern United States, Mexico, and South America. In the United States, Coccidioides lives in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. “

If this fungal infection is caused by omnipotent climate change, it must be a recent phenomenon. After all, climate change hasn’t been around that long. When did climate change become a thing, replacing global warming?

According to the United Nations, global warming, “is widely believed to have been coined in 1975 by Columbia University geochemist Wallace Broecker.” As snow and cold weather needed to be accounted for, a convenient pivot was required along with a new name, "Climate change, which describes a long-term change in the Earth's climate, appeared a few years later in a 1979 National Academy of Science study on carbon dioxide.”

If Valley Fever is due to climate change, it should not have existed before climate change was inaugurated in the late 1970s. What if it started almost a century earlier?

What other magical powers does climate change have?

Climate change causes heart attacks.

Since that heat wave in 1995, climate change has intensified globally with wildfires, hurricanes, droughts, heat waves and cold spells leading to famine and drought. As a result of these extreme changes, the medical community is noticing an increasing rate of heart disease.

Association versus causation. Assuming extreme weather is increasing, which it is not, is that why heart attacks are on the rise? Or are inactivity, diabetes, poor diets, and obesity increasing, all major risk factors for heart disease?

Diabetes, too, alledgedly increasing due to climate change, without regard to diet, obesity, and exercise, actual causes for diabetes.

Between 1996 and 2009, as outdoor temperatures rose across the United States, so did the prevalence of diabetes.
During that same time period, the prevalence of smart phones and electronic books also increased, as did the national debt. Were those due to climate change too?

From today’s forecast in our area:

Cold has been the story this winter. For KRNO, the average
temperature (takes into account highs and lows) for the start of November through yesterday, 2/19, is the coldest since the winter of 2004-05. For Tahoe City, using the same climate stats, it’s the coldest period since the early 1950s!

Yup, really heatin’ up...... Fidiots!

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