Linney’s Latest Apocalypse

Vincent J. Curtis

29 May 23

RE: Flirting with collective suicide.  Op-ed by Grant Linney.  The Hamilton Spectator 29 May 23.  Linney used to boast that he was specially trained by Al Gore, but no longer.

Grant Linney’s latest lamentation about climate was sad, pathetic really.  And I’m not sure that his mood would be brightened to learn that the theory of CO2 causing global warming has been busted by over forty years of data collection.

The global average temperature this morning was 14.19℃, based upon the readings of over 70,000 ground thermometers.  It got up to 14.7℃ in early 2017, and has since fallen.  It’s the same temperature now as it was in mid-1991.  There is no upward trend in temperature as CO2 concentration increases.  The most generous allowance for global temperature rise will be less than a degree Celsius by 2100.  And nobody’s said what so special about 16℃ that’s going to turn the globe into a fiery hell.

Linney notably ignores China, India, and Russia in his alleged suicide pact.  These three nations together contribute half of the world’s CO2 emissions, but he ignores them.  Canada contributes 1.6 percent of global CO2 emissions, so it isn’t part of the problem and can’t be part of the solution.  Yet, Linney wants Canada to suffer and get poor to fix his non-problem.

It’s time to put an end to this climate lunacy, which persists because so many people are making money and exercising power off the scam.

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