Climate Change Crazies

Vincent J. Curtis

13 Dec 20

The climate change crazies were let out in full force in Saturday’s Spectator.  Richard MacKinnon falsely claimed that Lancet Countdown 2020 holds that climate change is claiming lives, as in killing people.  The report, in fact, speaks of the adverse health effects as a result of climate change.

No respectable climate scientist is claiming that climate change per se is killing people.  Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and fires kill people, but climate change affects climate, it doesn’t kill people.  Nevertheless, MacKinnon says that Canada’s fossil fuel exports are killing people.  The entire article, when it isn’t making clearly false or tendentious assertions of fact, is drawing far-fetched and unsupportable conclusions.

Then there’s Grant Linney.  For him, climate change is a religion, and he was busy calling out heretics.  They include the Liberal party for not being extreme enough, deniers 2.0,  and the subspecies of that designation.  Linney doesn’t make false claims, he makes ridiculous demands, like abolishing the use of fossil fuels altogether.  He doesn’t explain how Canadians will heat their homes, or how agricultural products will be planted, cultivated, harvested, processed, and shipped to his neighbourhood supermarket without them.  He is no advocate for nuclear power, so how all the work gets done without energy is what makes his demand so ridiculous.

Lately, big media has gotten into fact checking news and views, especially those that are controversial.  How did these two works of absurdity sneak past the censors?

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