Wow. Greek Academics Come Storming Back With Humour, Logic and Aristotelian Reason As They Dismiss Talk Of A 'Climate Crisis'

This paper, published in the journal Water is a sign that real scientists are starting to fight back against the climate change cultists who have hijacked climatology and meteorology with their pseudoscientific belief system. It’s so refreshing to read the authors letting rip on the phoney ‘climate crisis’. H/T to WattsUpWithThat for bringing it to my attention.

First, the humour. Humour is always a very positive sign. The title of the paper:

LOL. All of the authors are Greek, unlike the globalist international collaborative efforts so often published by climate ‘scientists’ purporting to link this or that weather event with climate change. It’s a national effort, examining a national issue, i.e. alternating periods of dry and wet weather. That’s encouraging too. In fact, the authors appear to be somewhat scathing of the EU and the globalist UN:

Following the decision of the European Parliament to declare a climate emergency [2], and in accord with related announcements by the United Nations’ Secretary General (e.g., [3]), the Greek Government established the Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection (November 2021), also advertising it as “an important innovation of our country” [4]. The establishment of the ministry was preceded by several catastrophic events, such as floods and wildfires, which politicians and journalists effortlessly attributed to a worsening of climate. However, a more careful investigation of the causes would reveal the omissions of the central and local administration (e.g., the intervention of river beds without flood protection [5]) and the absence of climate-related trends [6].

The paper starts off with a quote from Thucydides:

Καὶ τὴν εἰωθυῖαν ἀξίωσιν τῶν ὀνομάτων ἐς τὰ ἔργα ἀντήλλαξαν τῇ δικαιώσει

They even changed the usual meaning of the words to justify their actions

Whatever can they mean by this I wonder? The clue comes right at the end of the paper:

Climate, renamed climate change, climate emergency, climate crisis etc., has been the post-modern scapegoat on which every disaster is blamed. For example, in Greece, even the new coronavirus was blamed on it [50].

In fact, they started off over 40 years ago calling it global warming, then when it became clear that the globe was not warming quite as catastrophically and continuously as they predicted, they renamed it climate change and then, because that wasn’t scary enough, Guardian journalists invented the terms ‘climate crisis’, ‘climate emergency’ and ‘climate breakdown’. Alternatively, and also in recognition of the fact that, at times, the planet didn’t seem to be continuously warming (as predicted), Richard Betts of the Met Office came up with the more ‘technically correct’ term of ‘global heating’, which only the idiotic Guardian uses, and then, not that frequently - ‘climate crisis’ is so much juicier. You see, the planet is absorbing energy (heat) continuously, as it must, due to the nasty Greenhouse effect created by nasty man-made greenhouse gas emissions, but that doesn’t always mean the the planet gets warmer, get it? Much more sciency than global warming, according to Betts.

So anyway, back to the Greek paper. The authors’ summary and conclusions are as follows [my highlight]:

The two over-century-long rainfall time series of Greece (Athens and Thessaloniki) show that the record average and maximum rainfall depths occurred in the 19th or early 20th century. Compared to other locations on the globe with long time series, these two time series of Greece show much smaller to negligible climate variability, both in mean and maximum rainfall heights.

The current period can be characterized as normal without notable climatic events. Regarding maximum daily precipitation, the number of stations with time series of 60 years or more (238 stations in all water districts) allows us to safely conclude that there are no notable climatic events during the period in question. Both the temporal distribution of record highs and climatic fluctuations thereof are in impressive agreement with theoretical expectations under stationarity, while there is a balance between positive and negative climatic trends.

In terms of the annual average rainfall, the two most important climatic events that have occurred in Greece from the middle of the 20th century to the present day are (a) the grouping of the high records of the annual average rainfall depth, namely 1/3 of all stations, in one year, the hydrological year 1962–63, and (b) the intense and persistent drought before and after 1990, where the five-year period from 1988–89 to 1992–93 saw more than 50% of all record lows.

The alternation of dry and wet periods is also a notable characteristic revealed by the study of hydrological data. This behaviour has been known to Greek philosophers since the 6th century BC (cf. Xenophanes; see [46]). Besides, the dry conditions in Greece have not been an obstacle to the development of Greek civilization but rather a trigger for the development of science, technology, and management [47,48]. The ancient aqueducts of Athens that are still operational to date are a living testimony of this fact [49].

A modern repetition of the latter achievement is that, as a result of the successful management of the big drought 30 years ago, Athens now has a perfect water supply system. The successful handling of this crisis is arguably one of the greatest achievements of modern Greek public policy. It would have been impossible without competent and pragmatic leadership and public participation.

However, by now, the successful management of that drought may have been forgotten as there is a tendency to associate everything with anthropogenic climate change and manage it in such a framework.

Scathing. But not nearly as scathing as the authors’ closing remarks:

The most recent train crash in Greece [51] (widely referred to as a “national tragedy”), in which dozens were killed (and which was not blamed on climatic events yet), may be viewed as a dramatic call for a return to reason (the Aristotelian «ορθός λόγος» [52]) and meritocracy (the necessary companion of democracy, according to Pericles [53]), and for the reverse of post-modern socio-political decline and decadence.

It was Greece which started us off on this long journey towards democracy, meritocracy (the very opposite of idiotic, retarded Woke ideology), science, logic, rationality and Western civilisation. Maybe they will be instrumental in stopping the present Unenlightenment rot which is creeping (nay, racing) across western society and western science, in particular, and all its institutions.