The Great Climate Hustle: Covid Crazies' Next Stop
While the federal leaders’ debate initially excluded discussions of foreign policy— even as Canada’s Afghanistan meltdown made headlines— we could be sure that the climate-change hustle was going to get plenty of oxygen. The people who ride E-bikes and have Tesla chargers in their garage made sure of that.
Forget that polling shows that, going into the debate, climate change polls seventh in importance (8.2 percent) to Canadian voters, behind taxation, housing, cost of living, healthcare, Covid and pandemic recovery. (Greta Thunberg fans are 100 percent obsessed with it however.) You’re not allowed to have a debate without politicians promising to control the weather.
The globalist corporate crowd is all in on climate as the next great push. Noel Quinn, CEO of HSBC sees Covid as shaping the urgency to make climate the next demand on taxpayers. “Clients are actually coming for that dialogue proactively rather than us having to go to them. I think COVID has helped in that regard. Everybody in the world has had a wakeup call on how fragile the world economy is. With that wakeup call, I think the pace of change has accelerated.”
Read: The Reset. Currently the devotees are pointing to the recent hurricanes that hit America as proof that extreme weather (read: climate change) and deaths from said weather are increasing. Here’s one headline: “Hurricane Larry brings flash flood, tornado warnings to Northeast”. This was when the storm was thousands of miles from the North East.
Forget that the frequency of storms in the affected regions was much higher from 1930-1950 (the 1940s is the peak for landed storms.). Here’s how Henri and Ida in 2021 compare to Connie and Diane in 1955.
Or that— despite humans encroaching on many high-risk areas— deaths are way down. According to author/ researcher Bjorn Lomborg, the individual risk of dying from weather-related disasters declined by 99 percent since the 1920s. In spite of this Joe Biden says, “We’ve gotta’ listen to the scientists and economists… They tell us this is code red… The world is in peril… that’s not hyperbole.”
Research has been massaged to support Biden’s hysteria. For example, The IPCC had 54 studies available on disaster normalization— 53 of the 54 studies claim no attribution of disaster losses to climate change. One of the 54 claims there was attribution due to climate change. They only cited one study? You’ll never guess which one. As noted scientist Roger Pielke Jr. writes, the IPCC's “ treatment of disaster normalization is egregious cherry picking”.
As another example of cherry picking, the percentage of hot weather days in September peaked in the 1930s. Yet this summer’s heat was seen as extraordinary. Or that Arctic sea ice melt this summer was the lowest in fifteen years and Antarctic sea ice extent is well above average.
No matter. There are plebes to be petrified and billions— no trillions— to be filched from the public purse. What’s surprising about this fixation on climate extinction is that the most recent International Panel On Climate Change report actually said that the risk has been lessened since the IPCC first issued its Burn After Reading opus.
You thought the report was, in the words of the UN’s Secretary General Antonio Guterres, “a red light for extinction”? Didn’t the Media Party blanket its pages and newscast with the most horrific warnings that all was lost if we didn’t heed the cries of “science”. Front pages of lava floes and trees twisted in the wind.
Didn’t the U.S. National Climate Assessment in 2018 predict a temperature increase of 6.1 degrees in the next century? And, remember, these dudes are never wrong.
Well, the IPCC’s latest computer-generated jeremiad actually admitted that maybe their previous eyeball-popping predictions were a tad (excuse the pun) overheated. In fact the numbers might be far lower than what they once predicted.
As Holman Jenkins of the Wall Street Journal writes https://iowaclimate.org/2021/09/05/holman-jenkins-jr-the-media-cant-handle-the-climate-truth/, “ the U.N. panel now says the dire emissions scenario it promoted for two decades should be regarded as highly unlikely, with more plausible projections at least a third lower…
The ultimate likely worst-case effect of a doubling of CO2 might be 4 degrees, but the best estimate of the “transient climate response” this century is about 2.7 degrees, or 1.6 degrees on top of the warming experienced since the start of the industrial age.”
But that message was drowned (more puns) by a media intent on cranking the volume of terror. Holman says the press has abandoned its integrity on climate change. “If the latest in a 40-year succession of climate forecasts differs from its predecessors in finding temperature change and emissions not as bad as previously projected, this would qualify as news. That is, to a media not wedded to the senseless assumption that climate science can only produce a succession of ever more dire discoveries.”
Ultimately, the credibility of climate change will rest with how much the public accepts from “experts” who’ve dramatically revised their estimates since “96 months to save the planet” or Greta Thunberg’s dystopian teenage vision. With predictions pushed back to 2150, 2200 or even later there has been wiggle room to adjust their doom forecasts.
But the public is just now emerging from two years of “experts” operating predictive models in real time. The abject failures of computer modelling and autocratic behaviour on Covid-19 is fresh in their mind as they reassess the climate-change agenda being pushed.
Terence Corcoran observes, “COVID models were the basis for the lockdowns that were supposed to “flatten the curve” of the virus, a modelling exercise now viewed as totally flawed. Instead of flattening, as per the models, the curve of cases has been anything but flat and now appears to be rising again toward a fourth wave.”
One thing is certain. The zeal of globalists like Justin Trudeau will be undimmed. Whether he gets the chance to deliver Canada on a plate to the Noel Quinns of the world will be told on Sept. 20. Heaven help us.
Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster (http://www.notthepublicbroadcaster.com). The best-selling author of Cap In Hand is also a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, his new book Personal Account with Tony Comper is now available on http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx