Diverting Attention. This year's hurricane season is just about over, and it proved astoundingly mild. Only five full hurricanes developed, and none hit any part of the United States — nor much of any other land mass. Nonetheless, the doomsayers in our midst who have been frantically trying to 'wake us' to the 'threat' of human-induced climate change insist that this stark departure from their predictions that "global warming" will make for ever worse hurricane seasons have not relented. They continue to assert, with absolute 'scientific' certitude, that we are inevitably going to suffer horrendously in future years. Indeed, the world is less than a decade from a "point of no return", intoned John McLaughlin on this past weekend's McLaughlin Group TV punditfest. What a bunch of bull. They shout, "Don't pay any attention to that man behind the curtain. Listen to me!"
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"Global" does not mean "here and there, now and then". As we all know from global-replaces in word processing, "global" means "everywhere" and "every time". If what so-called climatologists are actually talking about is something other than that, they need to choose another term.
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Remember "El Niño" and "La Niña"? Remember that first El and then La were the be-all and end-all of climate variation? Then "global warming" came into vogue, and El and La somehow vanished from public awareness. They're b-a-a-a-ck! But not The Next Big Thing and comprehensive explanation they were touted to be when they first rose to prominence. I have heard El spoken of once in the past few weeks, and La not at all. Yet.
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The neat thing about El and La was that they provided a kind of explanation for why some years are warmer and wetter or colder and dryer than others, and they alternated, so there appeared to be some balance in nature. Then along came "global warming" with its dire prediction that every year would be warmer and dryer. And when that didn't happen, and warmer meant wetter? Well, that is a temporary aberration, but just wait: the inevitable progression to universal desertification of internal land masses and flooding of hundreds of thousands of square miles of coastlines all around the planet will resume. And not, of course, because we just happen to be in an interglacial period (between Ice Ages), but because we are destroying the world! This year's hurricane season was nothing? An aberration, meaningless.
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How many "aberrations" do we have to see before we realize that the "pattern" is bullsh*t?
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Moslem Takeover of Europe — or Not. Another alarmist prediction we have seen is that Europe's declining population will inevitably result in a vast inflow of immigrants from neighboring areas, mostly Moslem, and Europe will be conquered by Islam by process of demographic change. A Reuters story today about the Anglican Church and diversity issues in Britain reported that there are only 1.8 million Moslems in Britain. There are over 6 million in the United States, which is thousands of miles from the Middle East and has a growing population.
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I like disaster scenarios as much as the next person, but it would be more entertaining if they bore some resemblance to reality.
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 2,882 — for Israel.)
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 1:56 AM