Global means global

Vincent J. Curtis

21 Aug 23

RE: Out of options on climate change.  Op-ed b y Torstar co.umnist Heather Mallick.  The Hamilton Spectator 21 Aug 23.

The significant term in the expression “global warming” is the word “global.”  Local heatwaves and local storms prove nothing.  They are normal abnormalities, and we expect them.  And all we ever hear about are the local disasters, never about the wide swaths of compensating subnormalities.

You don’t hear that the US had a summer of generally below normal temperatures; non-events aren’t newsworthy; and besides, such a report would vitiate the disaster narrative.  You don’t hear, as BC and the NWT burns, that California has had its lowest year of burn acreage in decades.  You don’t hear about boiling oceans anymore, after the scandal of how that alleged phenomenon was created was revealed.  You used to hear about ice not forming around Antarctica, until the satellite photos of its extent around the continent were released.  The column by Heather Mallick is typical of the smug, comfortable, and poorly uninformed media elites blessing us with their perspective of conventional opinion, spiced with a heaping helping of contempt for Alberta’s premier, as you'd expect from a Torstar columnist.

None of the climate crazies forecasted this summer of weather events; no, and they all engaged in the fallacy of affirming the consequent.

The dominance of climate craziness will continue so long a people aren’t confronted with the costs of believing it.

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