Extreme Weather Events are Increasing
Yet another green propaganda myth
By James Delingpole
So I’m a speaker at this conference, a month or two ago, and I’ve just delivered my spiel about the global warming hysteria being a classic example of the madness of crowds. The audience are gratifyingly impressed: some of them have never heard this stuff before, certainly not expressed in quite so forthright a way. Now there are questions from the floor and one of them comes from a university professor.
Actually – I’ve seen this before, all too many times: it’s how the Warmists roll – there’s no question being asked, it’s more of a rambling, grandstanding statement. The professor roots his statement in the personal, always a good tactic when you’re trying to make your case seem likeable, reasonable, down-to-earth. He tells us how on his travels and in his back garden, he’s noticed how very much the seasons have been changing in recent decades, how Autumn is definitely lasting longer and Spring is coming earlier, and glaciers are melting and butterflies are doing whatever it is to indicate that things bain’t natural and global warming is real. Then he begins invoking “the science.” What the scientists are now telling us, apparently, is that climate change isn’t so much a case of global warming as of a chaotic system (my, how the Warmists love that phrase!) being disrupted and leading in turn to “extreme weather events” of a greater intensity than ever before.
(Ah yes. That old chestnut. Didn’t the BBC once christen it “global weirding”? They surely did…)
As an example of these “extreme weather events”, the learned professor eruditely and loftily cites something he calls – with a straight face – SuperStorm Sandy.
At this point, I’ve heard quite enough. “It’s only called ‘SuperStorm’ Sandy by places like the BBC and the Guardian and the New York Times for emotive propaganda purposes. And you do realise that it wasn’t the strongest category of hurricane. Just a cat 3…” (And only a Cat 1, I should have added, by the time it reached shore).
Read the rest:
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100248380/extreme-weather-events-are-increasing-yet-another-green-propaganda-myth/
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