The madness returns

Vincent J. Curtis

9 Aug 22

RE: Study connects climate to infectious diseases.  AP story by Seth Borenstein

RE: Citizens demanding change from banks and pensions.  Op-ed by Aislinn Clancy published in the Hamilton Spectator 9 Aug 22.

Climate madness has overtaken the Spectator - again.  It reports that “scientists have connected” climate to infectious diseases.  Really?

“If climate is changing, the risk of these diseases are changing.”,  “…think of diseases as symptoms of a sick earth.”, and “we all need to work together to prevent what will be without doubt a catastrophe as a result of climate change.” And so forth.

I wonder how much they were paid to say this claptrap?  Likely a seven figure “study.”

Over the last fifty years, human health world-wide has improved dramatically.  World population has more than doubled.  Average lifespans have increased a decade or more.  So what to make of these “risks” as climate has changed?  The folly of making these far-fetched claims is obvious, for how do you reconcile so much improvement in human health when you’re saying diseases are getting worse?  It never occurs to them that change could be for the better.  Look, if you don’t want to catch a tropical disease, stay out of the tropics!  If anything, global warming ought to mean that tropical diseases are moving northwards, except that’s not what they’re saying.  Good grief!  They can’t get past the most basic tests of philosophical consistency.

The op-ed calls on climate believers to harass their bank managers.  They’re supposed to torment them about investments the bank or their investment fund makes.  This is all based on the ridiculous notion that banks and investors themselves have emissions of greenhouse gases that need cutting, and they need to stop doing business with the oil and gas sector, the source of all evil and much wealth.

The poor bank manager has no say in investment decisions.  Those are made by a small group of well insulted people on Bay Street, whose job it is to make money for your lousy little pension fund.  Ethical funds have been around for decades, if that’s your idea of a sound investment.

Then, think of China, and not as a place to invest.

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