By Bob Hoye ——Bio and Archives--June 13, 2023
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The air is full of smoke and the media full of hysteria, and it is worth adding – hypocrisy. One can say that the pitch is part of government’s “The fog of war”.
Well, wildfires happen and have been a natural part of Canada’s very extensive boreal forest that stretches from the Atlantic provinces all the way to the Alaskan cordillera. That’s more than 3,000 miles, and it has existed since the climate warmed into the Holocene some 7,000 years ago. Many varieties of fir trees require the heat of a fire to invigorate their seeds. Regular fires improve the overall health of the forest.
The urgency of the bleats from downtown dwellers is ironical. Everyone knows they live there because they like to see the air they breathe.
During a much warmer climate of some 6,000 years ago, wildfires would have extended right up to the Arctic Ocean. Indeed, there is a boreal-sized tree stump still standing on a beach of the Arctic Ocean.
The issue now is that with dry conditions the fires can naturally be explosive and in this case the ones in Quebec have sent a lot of smoke down to the big cities that host legions of the Left and most of their media. And it is adding huge fuel to the fires about man-caused global warming. Which promotion has been remarkably successful in describing CO2 as the physical equivalent to a pane of glass up there. Doing the two things that greenhouses do. Reflecting heat back into where the extra warmth is needed as well as preventing heat loss through convection.
What’s more in showing complete confusion about negative feedback warming influences will reach a “tipping point”. And, as Al Gore recently shrieked at Davos, accelerate to where the oceans will “boil”.
Because the concept is intuitive it has been easy to promote, but there is no empirical evidence of CO2 causing “Change”. Indeed, on charts going back millions of years the record is that changes to warming precede increases in atmospheric CO2 by some 600 to 800 years. In so many words, heat causes the increase in CO2, not the other way around.
The other big wrong is that warming is bad. At the last extreme of cold how much life was there when Chicago was under a mile of ice? Climate warming has always been beneficial to life on our uniquely hospitable planet. Well, not so much at the poles or at the top of Everest.
Of course, with the convictions about runaway heat has been that storms are made worse by modern lifestyles. During the dreadful cooling of the Little Ice Age, consistently bad weather caused serious crop failures, famines and massive die offs. The grass was so poor that even farm animals were dying.
Scapegoats were required and through the dreadful weather witches were blamed. Learned magistrates tried, convicted and executed thousands of such women. Nowadays, scapegoating is more democratic with all women, men and infants being blamed for bad weather.
And in a world driven to complete politicization of everything, weather superstitions have been an ideal tool for control freaks. You are frightened about the weather – obey our rules and surrender increasing amounts of your taxes. Both are supposed to placate the weather gods.
Trudeau is the special member representing the World Economic Forum, not all Canadians. During the last year of debate in the House, the opposition has competently criticized the government for raising the costs of energy by reducing such supplies and their pipelines. Naturally the opposition criticizes the rising costs of food and Trudeau suddenly declares nitrogen as evil, when agricultural soils need to have it replenished each growing season. And the PM’s response has been that he must “save” the planet, which in his brainwashed condition drives him to unrelentingly go on about “Carbon Taxes”, which materially raises the cost of living. One point being is that Ottawa wants gas prices so high that folk increase their use of “clean” public transit.
Today’s climate zealots will feature the history of wildfires in the US since the 1980s. Which is OK, because the chart is based upon the best data in North America. The reason for selecting this dating is to show wildfires are due to “Global Warming” and you are responsible.
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However, in printing the full chart we see that the recent increase is to a level much less than recorded a hundred years ago.
And then there has been the intense handwringing about rising atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and sea levels:
The promotion about Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming, and other disasters, has been at full-tilt for more than thirty years. And the public is seeing that there has been the usual change from season to season as well from nice days to stormy ones.
Another point has been very weird and that is for the first time in a billion years of being beneficial, warming is suddenly bad for life. It’s appropriate to research the life forms under the Antarctic Ice Cap.
And the closing line is obvious: “They are blowing a lot of smoke”, but more and more people are seeing through this fog of social warfare.
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Bob Hoye (BobHoye.com) has been researching investments for decades, which eventually included the history of financial and political markets. He considers now to be the most fascinating time for both since the Great Reformation of the 1600s. Bob casts a caustic eye on all promotions and, having a degree in geophysics, is severely critical of the audacity that a committee can “manage” not just the economy, but also the temperature of the nearest planet. He has had articles published in major financial journals and, as a speaker, has amused assemblies in a number of cities, from London to Zurich to Tokyo.