Of Earthquakes and Climate Change

Vincent J. Curtis

8 Feb 23

RE: 15 million people live under threat of glacial floods: study.  AP story.  The Hamilton Spectator 8 Feb 23.

Thousands of people are dead in Turkey from an earthquake, thousands more lie trapped in rubble, and the Spectator runs a quack story on climate change.  15 million people are at risk of death from climate change!  They live next to lakes in which a mountain glacier could conceivably calf an iceberg, or release an ‘outburst flood,’ and the resulting rush of water could drown everybody!  It actually happened in Peru in 1941!  (before climate change, incidentally) And for the sake of those 15 million in China, India, Pakistan, and Peru who won’t move, we have to go broke.

Millions of people choose to live in known earthquake zones, like in Turkey.  Millions of people choose to live near the ocean, and are exposed to the risk of a tsunami, as happened in Fukashima, Japan.  It’s not up to us in Canada to fix that by impoverishing ourselves.

And just who issued this newsworthy bit of worry?  Unnamed people, who wrote an unnamed article that appeared in the Hansard of the climate change movement, Nature.  It’s better and more effective when you write the warnings from unnamed “experts” and disaster risk “scientists” without opening the curtain and exposing the real Wizard of Oz.

Climate change is the pathetic, all-purpose narrative of the bored and the brain dead.

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