The narcissism of climate change

 The warmest on record

Vincent J. Curtis

24 Apr 22

RE: Europe saw warmest summer on record.  AP story published in the Spec on 23 apr 22.

This AP story was published because it feeds into the climate change narrative.  The catch in the report lies in the expression, “on record.”  If your record set is short enough, there can be lots of things that are the highest, “on record.”  In this case, the record goes back thirty years, less than the average temperature cycles observed in the 20^th century.

The geographical Europe we know emerged from the last ice age, 10,000 years ago.  Within the last millennium and a half, historical records claim that the Seine and the Rhine Rivers ran dry during summers that were exceptionally hot and dry.  (Tony Heller of Real Climate Science mentions this is in a couple of his videos)  If something like that happened today, the climate crazies would have paroxysms, of either pain or joy I’m not sure which.

In the grand scheme of things, last summer was nothing special for Europe, and the world is larger than Europe.  What was interesting about the story was the observation that when summers get hot, the wind tends not to blow, striking a blow at the nostrum that wind and solar are the future of power generation.  Wind and solar simply aren’t there when you need it most.

That mankind is destroying the earth’s atmosphere is an expression of narcissism, as well as of Marxist nihilism.  The lesion here isn’t that that the earth is warming due to man, but that the environmentalists are wrong on both counts.

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