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To Advance The Climate Agenda, Never Let Bad Weather Go To Waste

by Steve Milloy
July 29, 2021, 1:43 PM
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bad weather stormBad weather is wreaking havoc in parts of the world. The cynical climate alarmist community hopes it will help get Joe Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar climate agenda through Congress.

“Amid summer of fire and floods, a moment of truth for climate action,” editorialized the Washington Post. So let’s look at the “summer of fires and floods.”

Yes, it has been very hot in the Pacific Northwest. Is this global warming, as alarmists want you to believe, or just weather?

The temperature reality is that there is no trend from 1911-2020 in very hot (i.e., 99F+) days in the Pacific Northwest. That’s according to Cliff Mass, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington and no one’s idea of a “climate denier.”

It’s out-of-control wildfire season again, which is being fueled by the ongoing drought. Climate alarmists, of course, expect the public to believe that the drought is caused by global warming.

But the natural history of the West over the past 1,100 years shows that megadroughts lasting as long as 200 years are the norm rather than the exception.

And since the federal and state governments kicked out the loggers and stopped managing public lands 40 years ago, these wildfires may come back every year until there is nothing left in the West to burn. This is not global warming; it’s a combination of Mother Nature and bad government.

Then there is the catastrophic flooding from torrential rains that have hit Germany, China, and India. In none of these places are such rain and flooding novel.

The region of Germany that flooded has a history of flooding that goes back to 1348, long before SUVs were invented. German towns often record this history on buildings.

China is also no stranger to flooding. The torrential rain that recently is no worse than the torrential rain that struck the mainland in August 1975, according to the regional weather bureau. If the flooding has been worse, it’s because land use and poor stormwater management have made it so.

And there is no trend in monsoon rains in India, per the most up-to-date recordkeeping from 1871 to 2017.

Despite these inconvenient truths, could these calamities still be due to global warming? Well, there isn’t even much of that right now.

According to the most recent NASA satellite data, the average global temperature for June 2021 was slightly below the 30-average.

But don’t expect climate and weather reality to dampen the alarm repeated over and over every day in the media.

President Biden and Democrats plan to pass a $3.5 trillion “stimulus” bill in the fall. About $2 trillion of the spending is earmarked for climate.

Although no one has seen the bill, it reportedly will include a “clean energy standard” that will set mandatory goals for wind and solar power with an aim to eliminating fossil fuels from the electricity grid by 2035.

It’s extreme spending and policy that will affect every American and not for the better. Think frozen Texas windmills and California blackouts.

Even if you believe the Democrat and media line on climate, you should realize that global emissions are going up with no end in sight according to a new report by the International Energy Agency.

Part of the reason that emissions will continue to rise is that new electricity demand can only be met by more fossil fuel generation, according to another new IEA report.

Both Joe Biden and John Kerry have openly admitted that unilateral US action on climate will achieve nothing. China has no plans to cut emissions and the G-20 just failed to agree on quitting coal and climate targets.

Yet Democrats nevertheless insist on massive climate spending and changes to our energy system even though there is no conceivable way they will accomplish their supposed underlying goal of controlling the weather.

We are not living through unprecedented bad weather so much as we are living through unprecedented exploitation of it for bad ends.


Steve Milloy publishes JunkScience.com and is the author of “Scare Pollution: Why and How to Fix the EPA.”

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Comments 9

  1. Chaamjamal says:
    4 years ago

    Sadly, this kind of data interpretation bias is also found on our side of the fence on rare ocassion.
    Here is an example
    https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/07/31/forestry-climate-action/

    Reply
  2. Brian James says:
    4 years ago

    Nov 28, 2016 Weather is NOT Climate!

    No, weather is NOT climate…even when it’s warm outside. But in case there’s a climate cultist in your life that insists otherwise, here are some facts about global warming and vaguely-defined “extreme” weather that you can use to talk some sense into them.

    https://youtu.be/sT4133vfTmk

    Reply
    • Brian James says:
      4 years ago

      This video has been removed so I have a another read here.

      .July 19, 2021 Impossibly Inconsistent Climate Disaster Claims – an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Fantasy

      Climate alarmists have a problem presenting a consistent narrative on the dangers supposed human-caused climate change poses.

      https://climaterealism.com/2021/07/impossibly-inconsistent-climate-disaster-claims-an-alice-in-wonderland-fantasy/

      Reply
  3. Sonnyhill says:
    4 years ago

    I’m a farmer and I watch the commodity markets closely. There’s a wicked drought in the Dakota’s, Minnesota and Canadian Prairies. The media and market commentary emphasizes that area. But the sharp marketers ask “How good is the good, and how bad is the bad?” That’s where you’ll find the answer.

    Reply
  4. Spurwing Plover says:
    4 years ago

    Trying to claim Global Warming/Climate Change will make Hurricanes and Tornados worst just another Big Lie and Con men like Al Gore the Bore selling us his Snake Oil

    Reply
  5. Gumnut says:
    4 years ago

    A 13-tonne Tesla lithium battery is on fire in Victoria. It was expected to be unveiled later this year as the biggest battery in the southern hemisphere.

    This disaster is absolutely linked to climate catastrophism. As such, though it will not be of interest to the catastrophist faithful.

    Catastrophists are not known for having a double-sided ledger on anything, whether it be economics or emergencies.

    Reply
  6. Gumnut says:
    4 years ago

    Bushfires in Australia have been a steady source of climate angst. That’s because the alarmists are dictating forest management policy and that predisposes us to more frequent catastrophic fires, which can then be used to justify more power for alarmists, which can then reduce proper bushfire management and increase fire frequency and intensity even more… Et cetera, et cetera.

    This is a lose-lose situation for common sense, which is why committed greenies love it.

    Reply
  7. Chaamjamal says:
    4 years ago

    QUESTION: It’s been hot in the northwest. Is that climate change or just weather?

    ANSWER: Maybe it’s Internal Climate Variability

    https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/07/16/the-internal-variability-issue/

    Reply
  8. Spurwing Plover says:
    4 years ago

    We just had a some Lightning and thunder was that caused by Global Warming/Climate Change?

    Reply

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