Climate collapse

Vincent J. Curtis

8 Nov 22

 

The new buzzword among climate alarmists is “climate collapse.”  You see on Twitter and will soon be hearing it at the COP27 Conference.  The expression “climate collapse” is a poetical metaphor intended to scare people.  There is no physical reality to it.

Climate exists in the earth’s atmosphere.  Climate is a condition of the earth’s atmosphere.  Nobody is saying the earth’s atmosphere is going to collapse, or describes what that collapse would even look like.  Similarly, no one is describing what a climate “collapse” would look like.  If a house painted red were repainted brown, no one would say that the house had collapsed.  No one would say the color had collapsed.  Likewise, it makes no sense to say that the earth’s climate (again, a vague notion since the earth has many climates) collapsed because it changed.

Forewarned is forearmed.  If a speaker does wax poetic about climate collapse, you have to wonder if they actually know what they are saying, or if they are merely trying to scare you into something.  And if they’re trying to scare you, why is fear a necessary motivator since fear tends to shut down rational thought?

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