Assuming your conclusions

Vincent J. Curtis

5 Oct 22

RE: Big Oil’s damning role in climate disaster.  Opinion by Torstar Columnist Linda McQuaig.  The Hamilton Spectator 5 Oct 22

It used to be considered an academic scandal to assume one’s conclusions.  Now, that’s become standard procedure in the Humanities, thoroughly polluted and made rotten by Marxist nihilism.  Assumer her conclusions is the procedure employed by Torstar typist Linda McQuaig.  She assumes that oil company executives are responsible for climate change, that it’s already here, and that it’s bad.

You’d expect a Marxist to accuse “Big Oil” for CO2 emissions, but not Communist China or emerging India which are building coal-fired power plants, and are responsible for 40 percent of world CO2 emissions, and growing.

Never mind that climate change is supposed to happen by 2050 or 2100, Hurricane Ian is proof that it’s here now.  Why, a famous media go-to person for endorsing climate change was coaxed into saying as much!  Never mind that CNN host Don Lemon got his head handed on to him TV by the NOAA Hurricane Center expert when Lemon tried coaxing him into saying that Hurricane Ian’s “intensity” was caused by climate change.  No, you can’t say that Don about any one weather evert, as McQuaig does.

The most deadly hurricane in Canadian history occurred in September, 1775, when over 4,000 people were killed in Newfoundland.  Over the last hundred years the number of people killed by natural disasters world-wide has fallen by 90 percent.  None of the “facts” alleged by McQuaig are, in fact, “facts.”

For all the hype, no one has shown that changing climate, which, historically, is always changing, is caused by man exclusively.  That’s always assumed, as is that change is bad.  Not so; the medieval warm period were great times for human prosperity.

When you assume your conclusions, your academic product is worthless.  Making the right progressive noises might get you a pass in high-school English, but in the grown-up world, work like McQuaig offers is a waste of space.

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