Hurricanes are a fact of life. They have always been with us and from time to time, we get a bad one. We do not have a climate crisis.
It took a dangerous category 3 hurricane in Florida to force climate change onto some, but not all, newspaper front pages. Normally this is a subject for gentle condescension.
You’ll have read a dozen such pieces. Climate change is genuine – there’s no denying that – but let’s be real about so-called “net zero”. We need to be “financially prudent as well as environmentally responsible”, as The Times intoned this week in endorsing BP’s retreat from agreed targets. We must stand against the politicisation of the weather, as Florida governor Ron DeSantis is fond of saying. Blah, blah, blah, as Greta Thunberg would say.
The blah, blah, blah is pure projection. And anyone who quotes the doom troll cannot be taken seriously. That said, I don’t take Rushbridger seriously on any topic. The man once edited the Grauniad, so we know where he is coming from -the far left.
News judgements over such things can be fickle. The day before Milton made landfall a group of respected scientists issued a report which warned that “the future of humanity hangs in the balance” and that we could be facing “partial societal collapse”.
Look! Look! There’s a wolf!
But there are two deeper problems with the way the media thinks about climate change. The first is that it has become the subject of ideology more than science.
Yup. And it’s pricks like you preaching it.
The second problem is that journalism is most comfortable when looking in the rearview mirror. Something that happened yesterday is news: something that may – or may not – happen in 30 years is a prediction.
Every prediction these charlatans have made over the last half century or so have been wrong. They haven’t managed to get anything right. So, not making stupid predictions is probably a sensible idea. Not listening to alarmists like Rushbridger is also a very good idea.
Badenoch’s rival for the Tory leadership, Robert Jenrick, has also been examined by DeSmog, who found a growing record of attacks on climate action. He denounces “net zero zealotry” and has labelled the UK’s net zero target as “dangerous fantasy green politics unmoored from reality”. He has supported the opening of new coal mines.
He is correct. The alarmists are cultists crying wolf.
Climate Change, “has become the subject of ideology more than science.”
You don’t say.
How can anyone not be aware that hurricanes are nothing new? Are these people being deliberately obtuse and pretending that they don’t know? Of course the climate alarmists predicted the hurricanes would get both more intense and more frequent. They were wrong about that as they have been about everything else.
The lack of self awareness from this jerk was amusing, but equally depressing.
Galveston 1900. UK 1703. And from personal memory, Europe and UK 1953. Why?
The Zanclean flood. The draining of Lake Agassiz. The fate that befell the Doggerlanders because they persisted in herding their flatulence aurochs.
Oh dear. We never learn.
Honestly, Longrider.
How can you not believe in man-made climate change? Just look at the evidence.
We had the northern lights in North Wales last night. Was cool to look at, but this increase in solar activity is just evidence of our effect on the climate because we’re all driving cars and pumping out CO2, making the sun hotter.
Or something.
A battering from Desmog is a badge of honour. Everything they write is specious drivel.
I seem to remember reading, since records began, in 1851 or 1861, there has been 43 categocy 3 or higher storms. Galveston was a big one.
Particularly given the author’s background, Alan Rusbridger was the Guardian editor in chief for 2 decades – right through the Blair/ Brown era which caused almost all the issues we face as a country, and during which he enthusiastically supported them. This is the equivalent of Albert Speer complaining he is being ignored in his warnings over the Jewish menace. The guy should have been arrested for multiple treason charges in 2010. A proper Conservative government would have done so alongside his entire editorial staff,
A couple of years ago the BBC did a series of programmes about weather in the USA, starting in Florida and finishing on the west coast. I only watched the first programme about Florida. In one of the presenters went up in a helicopter with a weather expert to look at the role of clouds. The scientist said that as there is less pollution in the clouds the suns heat is able to reach the surface more easily and cause hurricanes. The presenter managed, all by herself, to connect the dots… the frequency and severity of hurricanes is merely going back to pre-industrial levels.