Emily Atkin writes Heated Substack which features a rather fetching angry flame emoticon: It’s kind of an angry-woke take on the non existent ‘climate crisis’ and who’s really to blame for this non existent breakdown of our once fine and dandy global weather and climate machine. In keeping with the angry theme, Emily recently posted this:
And lo it was written in the holey book, that thou shall make obeisance to the computer modellers and their garbage in/garbage out predictions of the end of days, for they shall inherit the earth...
As commenters have said, it is indeed like the Witch Trials. Salem re-run, ad nauseum, across the internet and social media - including Substack. I've set up this Court of Appeal on Substack but I don't expect any prosecuting lawyers or witnesses for the prosecution to turn up and defend their accusations of witchcraft.
Climate change absolutely can be partially blamed for the severity of the Maui disaster because climate change worsens wildfires, and climate change plays a role in literally all weather events.
This is, of course, a nonsensical statement, as the weather, as well as climate, are ALWAYS changing. So, literally, this statement means absolutely nothing.
Of yes, for our poor, dear, ignorant of science Emily, the fact is that, yes, we are still emerging from the LIA (let me guess, Em... you are too ignorant to even know what that basic climatological term means, right?) so we are indeed warmer. But as Kegwin, who wrote in Science, 1996:274:1504-1508, https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.274.5292.1504 the mean surface temp of the Sargasso Sea (which lies roughly between the West Indies and the Azores), which was obtained by readings of isotope ratios in marine organism remains in sediment, shows we are, today, below the three thousand year average, and far below the Medieval Climatic Optimum, albeit far above the LIA. Civil Defense Perspectives, Mar. 2007, Vol. 23, #3, p. 1, notes that evidence for this climatic optimum has been found in all but 2 out of 103 locations where it was examined for, including Asia, Africa, South America and the western U.S. The following graph of temperature in the Sargasso Sea tells you all you need to know (note: that big horizontal line running across the page is the 3,000 year average!), Interestingly, the warmer times coincided not only with the best harvests, but also the least amount of major storm activity.
Indeed, when I was visiting Iceland at Skaftafell Nat'l Park a few years ago, Icelandic historians know from extant deeds – and have put in the displays at the park - that somewhere around FORTY old Viking era farms are currently buried under the Vatnajokull glacier system (the largest in the world outside of Greenland and Antarctica). In other words, it was simply much warmer in the Icelandic settlement era than it is today
It is always hard to argue with the religious fanatic, the overly talkative early adopter or the glassy eyed cult member.
It is sad really that so many people have been so mentally damaged by their telescreen addictions, the believing what ever Big Brother, the Party, Fearless Leader or their drooling sycophants regurgitate.
It is also sad that so many are pontificating about weather or about fire behavior with only a background in supermarket tabloids.
Keep spreading truthful information and never let the radical climatists rest.
I wouldn't worry the ambulance chasing climate vultures have already moved on to ex hurricane Hilary which has SoCal in its sights and has caused the usual amnesic rewriting of history by the usual alarmist numpties. Roger Pielke is on the case and quite biting for him.
“Tropical cyclones have a much larger effect on the climate of the southwestern United States than is realized by many people, including some meteorologists and climatologists” — Fascinating, not least because it comes from an era when history and data mattered more than modeled futures and simplistic claims of attribution."
“For those really, really wanting to associate Hilary with climate change — given data, research and history, it is a difficult case to make.
However, here are some suggestions for how the linkage might be made:
All weather events are impacted by climate change, and Hilary is definitely a weather event;
Of the many hundreds of model-based projections of future tropical cyclone incidence, we can select several of these models that suggest an increase by 2100 of various characteristics of tropical cyclones.
Finally, there will be some quotable, credentialed people on Twitter making strong claims of attribution who can be cited in support of attribution claims.”
LOL. As with the Maui fires, so also with Hurricane Hilary.
And lo it was written in the holey book, that thou shall make obeisance to the computer modellers and their garbage in/garbage out predictions of the end of days, for they shall inherit the earth...
But not understand it...
As commenters have said, it is indeed like the Witch Trials. Salem re-run, ad nauseum, across the internet and social media - including Substack. I've set up this Court of Appeal on Substack but I don't expect any prosecuting lawyers or witnesses for the prosecution to turn up and defend their accusations of witchcraft.
It's modern day witch trials. Last time around tens of thousands were burned or otherwise met gruesome deaths. This time, it's millions.
Depressing as hell :-(
Climate change absolutely can be partially blamed for the severity of the Maui disaster because climate change worsens wildfires, and climate change plays a role in literally all weather events.
This is, of course, a nonsensical statement, as the weather, as well as climate, are ALWAYS changing. So, literally, this statement means absolutely nothing.
Of yes, for our poor, dear, ignorant of science Emily, the fact is that, yes, we are still emerging from the LIA (let me guess, Em... you are too ignorant to even know what that basic climatological term means, right?) so we are indeed warmer. But as Kegwin, who wrote in Science, 1996:274:1504-1508, https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.274.5292.1504 the mean surface temp of the Sargasso Sea (which lies roughly between the West Indies and the Azores), which was obtained by readings of isotope ratios in marine organism remains in sediment, shows we are, today, below the three thousand year average, and far below the Medieval Climatic Optimum, albeit far above the LIA. Civil Defense Perspectives, Mar. 2007, Vol. 23, #3, p. 1, notes that evidence for this climatic optimum has been found in all but 2 out of 103 locations where it was examined for, including Asia, Africa, South America and the western U.S. The following graph of temperature in the Sargasso Sea tells you all you need to know (note: that big horizontal line running across the page is the 3,000 year average!), Interestingly, the warmer times coincided not only with the best harvests, but also the least amount of major storm activity.
Dansgaard & Johnson study, cited from ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-near-surface-temperatures-of-the-northern-hemisphere-during-the-past-11000-years_fig5_313127868 shows the same. Only poor Emily is long on political correctness and short on IQ.
Indeed, when I was visiting Iceland at Skaftafell Nat'l Park a few years ago, Icelandic historians know from extant deeds – and have put in the displays at the park - that somewhere around FORTY old Viking era farms are currently buried under the Vatnajokull glacier system (the largest in the world outside of Greenland and Antarctica). In other words, it was simply much warmer in the Icelandic settlement era than it is today
Life becomes parody...
Peasant 1: A witch! We have found a witch! Can we burn her?
Belvedere: How do you know that she is a witch?
Peasant 2: Because she looks like one!
Witch: I am not a witch! I am not a witch! They dressed me up like this, and this is not my nose it is a false one!
[Belvedere pulls off the false nose and opens his helmet]
Peasant 1: Well, we did do the nose, and the hat.
Peasant 2: She has a wart.
Belvedere: Why do you think that she is a witch?
Peasant 2: Well, she turned me into a newt.
[Belvedere gives him a disbelieving look]
Belvedere: A newt?
[Silence]
Peasant 2: Well I got better.
Peasant 3: Burn her anyway.
[Yells of "Burn her!"]
Belvedere: There are ways of telling whether she is a witch. Tell me, what do you do with witches?
Peasants: Burn them!
Belvedere: Now, what do burn besides witches?
Peasant 3: More witches! [receives a punch from Peasant 1; silence]
Peasant 2: Wood?
Belvedere: So, why do witches burn? [more silence]
Peasant 2: Because there made of wood?
Belvedere: So, how do you tell if she is made of wood?
Peasant 3: Build a bridge out of her!
Belvedere: Ah, but cant you also build bridges out of stone?
Peasant 3: Oh, right.
Belvedere: Tell me, does wood sink?
Peasant 1: No, it floats.
Belvedere: What also floats in water?
[lots of yelling and many wrong and random answers including very small rocks]
King Arthur: A duck!
Belvedere: Exactly!
Peasant 2: So if she weighs as much as a duck she is made of wood.
Belvedere: And therefore?
Peasants: A witch!
Belvedere: We shall use my largest scales.
[Having been revealed to weigh the same as a duck, therefore proving her a witch, the crowd goes insane]
Witch: It's a fair cop.
Airheads and grifters will not escape the blast of sanity from Jaimie.
All my heros have been banned from Twitter...
It is always hard to argue with the religious fanatic, the overly talkative early adopter or the glassy eyed cult member.
It is sad really that so many people have been so mentally damaged by their telescreen addictions, the believing what ever Big Brother, the Party, Fearless Leader or their drooling sycophants regurgitate.
It is also sad that so many are pontificating about weather or about fire behavior with only a background in supermarket tabloids.
Keep spreading truthful information and never let the radical climatists rest.
I wouldn't worry the ambulance chasing climate vultures have already moved on to ex hurricane Hilary which has SoCal in its sights and has caused the usual amnesic rewriting of history by the usual alarmist numpties. Roger Pielke is on the case and quite biting for him.
“Tropical cyclones have a much larger effect on the climate of the southwestern United States than is realized by many people, including some meteorologists and climatologists” — Fascinating, not least because it comes from an era when history and data mattered more than modeled futures and simplistic claims of attribution."
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/hurricane-hilary-points-and-pointers
Roger says:
“For those really, really wanting to associate Hilary with climate change — given data, research and history, it is a difficult case to make.
However, here are some suggestions for how the linkage might be made:
All weather events are impacted by climate change, and Hilary is definitely a weather event;
Of the many hundreds of model-based projections of future tropical cyclone incidence, we can select several of these models that suggest an increase by 2100 of various characteristics of tropical cyclones.
Finally, there will be some quotable, credentialed people on Twitter making strong claims of attribution who can be cited in support of attribution claims.”
LOL. As with the Maui fires, so also with Hurricane Hilary.