Unconvincing climate story

Vincent J. Curtis

17 Oct 22

RE: Extreme weather a pressing issue for Ontario’s vineyards.  CP story by Holly McKenzie-Sutter.  The Hamilton Spectator 17 Oct 22.

The obsession with climate change is even more persistent – and more noxious – than the COVID pandemic.  The page 1 story on how one Niagara grape grower was allegedly affected by “climate change” to a trained eye and mind actually shows the opposite of what the story slant was intended to show.

The opening line runs, “One extremely cold day last winter was all it took to cause widespread damage to Bill Redelmeier’s wine crops.”  Let’s start here.  CO2 is a greenhouse gas that causes global warming, and an extremely cold day can’t be assigned to global warming, and so it is assigned to mysterious climate change instead.  The extreme cold one day last January caused vascular injury to the plants, and the results were seen in characteristics of this season’s crop.  The fact that this kind of injury could be recognized shows that this damage has happened before, and in fact Mr. Redelmeier had precautions in place to prevent such occurrences.  These precautions proved unavailing.

The effects of cold on Niagara vines are known, and a recurring issue, which is why precautions are taken to prevent freezing.  This day in January proved too cold for the precautions, and some, but not all, of the crop was affected.  One day does not a climate make, especially when the alleged driver of change is supposed to make things warmer, not colder.

Try again!

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The reason we hear of climate change instead of global warming is that between 1998 and 2015, global temperatures stopped rising – the so-called “global warming pause.”  The term climate change was invented and substituted for global warming because rising CO2 levels weren’t producing the rising temperatures like the theory forecasted.  Now, unusual cold as well as unusual warmth are both attributed to rising CO2 levels, and even not rising at all, but common but unusual weather events are attributed to rising CO2 levels.  Now trapped energy is still energy, and it has to manifest itself in some way, and that way is in higher temperatures.  The climate crazies desperately try to hide the lack of energy in the atmosphere somewhere, somehow.  By waving credentials around, shouting loudly, and silencing those who point out the weaknesses in their arguments, the climate cabal have convinced a lot of people that doom is nigh, unless we effectively destroy western civilization immediately.

Science philosopher Karl Popper had a test for the validity of a scientific claim, and that is the falsifiability test.  Can a proposition be falsified, and if so, how?  A proposition that can’t be falsified in not scientific.  The switch from global warming to climate change was made because the global warming pause was falsifying the CO2 causes global warming proposition.  Climate change is not falsifiable.  And, the climate is always changing.