Blizzard of Contradictions
... Apparently, the climate crisis is now capable of producing both the imminent demise of snow and an old-fashioned Rocky Mountain blizzard. Sometimes on the same page.
This is not satire. It’s modern climate journalism.
Climate journalism is actually a thing. The Washington Post employed 24-30 such journalists and recently laid off 14 of them...
The problem is not that weather varies. It always has. The problem is that whatever happens is now cited as evidence of climate catastrophe.
If it snows less than average -- climate change.
If it snows more than average -- climate change...
If drought hits -- climate change.
If floods come -- climate change.
At this point, climate change has become less a scientific hypothesis and more a theological doctrine: omnipresent, unfalsifiable, and invoked to explain all things.
Author Michael Crichton asserted that environmentalism transformed into “one of the most powerful religions in the Western World.”...
Ten thousand years ago, Chicago and much of the Great Lakes region were buried beneath a mile-thick ice sheet. That ice melted, unaided by internal combustion engines, coal-fired power plants, or plastic straws. Sea levels rose dramatically as the last Ice Age ended.
The climate changed. It always has. It always will...
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