Let’s enjoy the moment: Spec suffers a SOSA

Vincent J. Curtis

8 Aug 22

RE: Farming is losing to urban politics.  By Sylvain Charlesbois, who is the senior director of Agri-food Analytics Lab, and a professor of food distribution and policy at Dalhousie University.

RE: Coal-fired plants.  A letter to the editor by Wendy Frank of Grimsby. The Hamilton Spectator 8 Aug 22.

The Spectator seems to have suffered from a rare SOSA episode – Sudden Onset of Sanity Attack.  Let’s enjoy the moment while it lasts.

Sylvain Charlebois writes: “…activism has become institutionalized in recent years, meaning that interest groups, even academics who have become advocates, will weaponize science to support a narrative, which fits with a biased view….This is a reckless way of dictating policy.”  And he said this in respect of climate change craziness! 

Then, we read Wendy Frank counting the number of coal-fired power plants in China, the United States, India, and South America, and observing that the cost in terms of CO2 emission of Canada importing wine from France doesn’t seem that important.  A powerful bit of reasoning that has evaded the notice of pur climate change “experts.”

I’ve a documented record of observing the politicization of science going back 27 years.  In respect of climate change, it began when Vice President Space Cadet skewed U.S. federal science funding to support his favorite cause.  It made him look intelligent, not an easy thing.  But the politics struck a powerful ‘weaken America’ political cord, and now we’re 30 years into skewed science funding that supports climate fraud.  Scientist who want a funding grant have to cast a little incense into the temple of Baal to get it. 

Strangely, those scientists who challenge the climate change narrative are attacked as “anti-science,” like Dr. Judith Curry and Dr. William Hopper.  The folks running satellite temperature measurements at UAH, Dr. Roy Spencer and Dr. John Christy, as well as Steve McIntyre of Climate Audit, and U of G economist Ross McKitrick get completely ignored because their cases are irrefutable and damaging to the climate change religion.

Somehow, the comments by Sylvain Charlebois and Wendy Frank escaped the notice of the woke censors at the Spec and the cat got let out of the bag.  The Spec had a SOSA episode.  Let’s enjoy the moment.

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