Elephants in the room

Vincent J. Curtis

23 Jan 25

RE: An economy built on waste. Op-ed by Wayne Poole. The Hamilton Spectator 23 Jan 25.

Once again, the Spectator publishes a Cri de Coeur from a climate nutter who fails to address the multiple elephants in the room. Never mind the nonsense “science” called upon by the writer, the article appears on the day when a foot of snow fell on New Orleans and the Florida panhandle, which border the Gulf of America.

One elephant is, “who is he talking to?” Canada, producing 1.5 percent of global CO2 emissions, isn’t part of the problem and isn’t part of the solution. The United States has just withdrawn from the Paris Climate Accord, and China alone will commission 100 coal fired power plants this year. Canada could disappear, and the alleged danger posed by rising CO2 would remain, which, given the snowfall on the Gulf of America, obviously isn’t going to turn the planet earth into Venus.

As to the dubious “science”: methane at 2 ppm, and nitrous oxides at the 500 ppb range, rank a distant fourth and fifth as greenhouse gases respectively. Carbon dioxide is no threat to global overheating, as demonstrated this week, and these latter gases are of theoretical interest only.  Calling for their demise is part of the anti-human agenda, which I deplore.

The climate hoax has been busted, and its time for the Spectator to acknowledge that.

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Like talking to a wall

Vincent J. Curtis

17 Jan 25

RE: Weather disasters are here to stay. Op-ed by Tricia Clarkson. The Hamilton Spectator 17 Jan 25. Clarkson is co-chair of the activist Peterborough Alliance for Climate Action

Like all other Canadian climate nutters, Tricia Clarkson believes that by her heroic efforts alone, Canada can stop the rise is atmospheric CO2, and thus save the planet from the bad weather that CO2 causes.

She writes, “If we don’t immediately reduce our CO2 emissions, we will have an increase in deadly weather events.” It couldn’t be plainer: CO2 causes bad weather. Absurd!

But also, she uses the pronoun “we.” To borrow from Ronald Reagan, “What’d ya mean ‘we’?”  Canada produces 1.5 percent of global CO2 emissions, and China is going to build 100 coal-fired power plants this year. If Canada disappeared tomorrow, China would make up for all that lost emission before long.

But don’t ask the climate nutters to justify their claims or explain what they expect us to do in light of all this because there’s nobody home. To repeat this message, press 3.

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Climate hoaxing again

Vincent J. Curtis

11 Jan 25

RE: Winters feeling warmer? News item by Matthew van Dongen The Hamilton Spectator, 11 Jan 24.

It’s all so soft and vague and dreamy, the insinuation of CO2 induced climate change: winter’s feeling warmer, sensing this, vaguely recollecting a distant past.  A busy-body, activist “research non-profit” called Climate Central “suggests”, on the basis of a model, that, “on average” Hamilton’s winters now have eleven more days of above freezing temperatures than they did a decade ago. And this is due to the agent “climate change”: it’s not ‘may be due to’, but is.  Being so programmed, the model says so. (Since it’s a program, that’s how they can obtain an average on the basis of a one-off; it’s a probability, not a fact.)

Okay, let’s take that as read: The Climate has Changed (albeit for the better!). We know from climate physics that bad weather is not caused by carbon dioxide; and we also know from climate physics that rising carbon dioxide levels cannot account for substantially increasing global temperature.  What isn’t admitted is that the planet is in an interglacial period; that it’s still thawing out from the Little Ice Age, and global temperatures today are cooler than they were during the Medieval Warm Period, and cooler still than during the Holocene Climate Optimum, when the Arctic ocean really was ice-free in summer.

The upshot is that the planet has been here before, and we’re just along for the ride. The claim that CO2 is responsible for bad weather and for planetary overheating are ridiculous nonsense designed to control people, not the weather.

It’s time to call B.S. on the climate hoax.

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