Don’t Worry, Another Armageddon Will Be Along In A Minute

A few years ago the climate alarmists stopped talking about global warming and moved effortlessly to climate change. Rather inconveniently the global temperature failed to budge for 16 years after 1998.

So farewell global warming, you served us well, hello climate change covering all possible bases. Whatever the weather does, the humans get it.

These days most papers that claim to be scientific lug in the extreme changey stuff to promote the latest eco-scare du jour.

Obliging journalists then sub the press release and tempt their readers with headlines like ‘raging ocean heat waves cooking marine ecosystems’.

This culinary-themed claptrap from the Huff Post arose from a paper written by a number of marine biologists that appeared in Nature Climate Change. The paper attempts to suggest that marine heat waves (mhw) are increasing in frequency.

But the authors are forced to admit that mhw are caused by a range of processes ‘from localized air-sea heat flux to large scale climate drivers such as the El Nino Southern Oscillation’.

In other words, natural atmospheric conditions cause localized increases and decreases in temperature in the ocean. I think we already knew that.

Add currents, gravitational and orbital effects and ground-sea heat flux from the thousands of underwater volcanoes, many unmapped, and we have many natural reasons why a wide variety of temperatures are found across the world’s oceans.

But the modern craze is to note every small change in the weather and the environment and to paint a picture of Armageddon.

The paper is careful not to say mhw are directly caused by man-made climate change – there is no evidence for this theory – but it does note that discrete and prolonged warming events occur in the ocean as well as the atmosphere.

It is claimed that the 21st century has already experienced record-shattering atmospheric heatwaves with ‘devastating consequences for human health, economics, and the environment’.

The scientists have to be a little careful what they write – it can safely be left to the Guardian to frighten the impressionable with the laughable suggestion that scientists have revealed heatwaves are sweeping the oceans ‘like wildfire’.

Global warming, or climate change, detached itself from scientific reality some time ago. Genuine scientific research that is considered off-message is ignored and discouraged while obvious green propaganda is used to promote a political agenda dominated by collectivist thought and population control.

Nowadays Caroline Lucas MP declares a ‘climate emergency’ after the recent short spell of balmy Spring weather and her views are considered worth publishing.

Without a doubt, reality left the stage in the recent case of two emotional women who declared a ‘birth strike’ because the planet was being devastated by climate change.

Melanie Phillips noted that this action was perhaps the most literal demonstration of the revolution consuming its own – all for a climate theory ‘without foundation’.

A less charitable Darwinian view than that offered by the sage of our time is the human gene pool has been done a favor by the self-denying gesture.

One must hope that the resolve of the strikers remains resolute once the TV cameras have departed and the virtue points banked.

Up the revolution: one in, all in.

Whose heart was not melted recently over the story of the little brown rat that was declared extinct? Sadly, it seems to have been blown off its fragile perch on a small sandy island off the north coast of Australia slap bang in the middle of cyclone alley.

Nobody knew how it had got there in the first place – the best bet being that it had hopped on a small branch, said goodbye to a million of its close relatives, and set sail. Certainly, it was happy in its new home with a healthy diet of blue turtle and birds’ eggs to keep it going.

But recently, to much fanfare in the mainstream media, the rat was declared the first species on earth to go extinct due to climate change.

The Guardian asked for a ‘moment of silence’ for the rat and declared we ‘will continue to fight for the things you believe in’ – although presumably not the bit about scoffing turtle and birds’ eggs. 

Science certainly left the building when the Left-wing Institute for Public Policy Research recently published a report that claimed global floods had risen 15 times since 2005, while wildfire had increased sevenfold.

Extreme weather events, marking their new status in the pantheon of climate alarm, rose a whopping 20 times. Maybe in the recent past journalist alarm bells would have sounded.

Left-wing activists making wildly improbable claims in a report where the only previous experience of one of the three authors was working as a research volunteer for two Edinburgh ‘equality’ charities. Er, hello.

The alarm bells failed to ring at the BBC and Roger Harrabin used the report to tap into the vast reservoir of rent-a-quote geography professors.

Simon Lewis from UCL said the IPPR was right to say that environmental change is happening ever faster and threatens to destabilize society, while Harriett Bulkeley from Durham thought it was a ‘good interpretation of the current evidence’.

The BBC eventually changed its coverage after Paul Homewood pressed a formal complaint.

Meanwhile, Caroline Lucas told TCW last night that the report, like a balmy Spring day, just ‘didn’t feel right’. Sorry, couldn’t resist – made that last bit up.

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