The problem with the media and quangos increasingly being run by and for Millennials, goldfish-brained ignoramuses for whom the 1980s are as distant an era as the 1880s is that everything is “unprecedented”.
No matter how many times it’s happened before.
And, of course, if it’s “unprecedented”, it’s literally the scariest thing ever. They’re literally shaking.
Is anyone else tiring of all this green hysteria over the heatwave? There is something medieval about it. There is something creepily pre-modern in the idea that sinful mankind has brought heat and fire and floods upon himself with his wicked, hubristic behaviour. What next – plagues of locusts as a punishment for our failure to recycle?
Oh, come on: they coloured the weather maps red. RED!
Let’s have some perspective. Propagandistic terms like ‘extreme weather’ and ‘Weather of Mass Destruction’ are meant to whip up fear in the populace every time there’s sunshine or floods. And yet, as Bjorn Lomborg points out, the number of people dying in climate-related disasters has plummeted spectacularly over the past hundred years.
When Australia was swept, as it regularly has been for the last 200 years, by catastrophic bushfires, the tiny-brained goldfish of the Klimate Kult shrieked that no such Armageddon had ever been witnessed before in the history of this continent.
Never mind that the biggest area burnt by bushfire was in the 1970s. Or the similarly catastrophic bushfires dating back to the 1850s. Ignore the historical data recording blistering heatwaves in the 18th century.
In the 1920s, close to 500,000 people died every year in storms, floods, droughts and heatwaves. In 2020, just 14,000 people died as a result of such natural calamities. That means global annual deaths from climate disasters have fallen by 96 per cent. The modernity that eco-warriors so disdain has actually helped to protect humanity from the violent whims of Mother Nature. Lomborg also points out that in most parts of the world, cold deaths ‘vastly outweigh’ heat deaths. So while the warming of the planet might increase heatwaves, it will reduce coldwaves. Which will be very good for human life. Are we allowed to look on the bright side anymore?
For all their blatherskite about The Science™, the Klimate Kult are as fundamentally superstitious in their thinking as a Mediaeval witch-burner.
As the German historian Wolfgang Behringer has documented, in the 14th and 15th centuries ‘unnatural climatic phenomena’ were often blamed on ‘a great conspiracy of witches’. During the Little Ice Age in particular, when crops failed in many parts of Europe, there was a frenzy of witch-hunting. Some in society ‘held the witches directly responsible for the high frequency of climatic anomalies’.
Sound familiar?
Spectator Australia
The claims of even mainstream climate science are so “post-normal science” as to border on pseudoscience. Climate alarmism, which bears a similar relationship to real climate science as casting a horoscope does to the James Webb space telescope, is nothing more than old-fashioned religious hysteria.
Just because the witch-burners are wearing borrowed lab coats instead of cassocks, doesn’t make their ludicrous hysterics “science”.
