In a time of universal deceit about climate change, telling the truth is not just a revolutionary, but a positively heretical act. Just ask, say, Bjorn Lomborg or Judith Curry.
Even speaking from personal experience, nothing induces pure, spitting rage in a climate botherer so much as calmly reciting facts that demolish their apocalyptic certainties. Just watch Bill Nye and Piers Morgan dissolve into spluttering fury as Marc Morano lists inconvenient facts:
But it’s heresy from within that really gets the climate cultists reaching for the torches and pitchforks. When the BBC — yes, the BBC — actually published a piece pondering the possibility that a warming world might, on balance, be a good thing, the cultists went supernova.
But, as Professor Ian Plimer has said, we must be the first generation in human history to be afraid of a warmer climate.
Siberians may be able to grow more crops, for example. Melting ice may open new shipping routes. Oil exploration may be easier in Alaska. In a warmer world, people may even enjoy “healthier outdoor lifestyles”.
Given what we already know about the effects of warmer global temperatures, all of these scenarios are entirely plausible.
Of course telling children that they don’t need to cower in fear of imminent climate doom had the cultists screeching “How dare you!” faster than an activist scrambling for a pile of taxpayer dollars.
Guardian columnist and veteran alarmist George Monbiot fumed.
“I’m sorry, but it’s an absolute disgrace. You could come away thinking: ‘on balance, it sounds pretty good’.”
Well, yes. Did Mooners never notice that hardly anyone goes to Siberia for the good of their health, instead of the warm, sunny South of France?
Speaking of the South of France, wine is another “victim” of climate change.
“Alcohol levels in wine have increased in recent years,” Canada’s Globe and Mail reported last week.
“Cabernets made in California in the 1970s contained around 12 per cent alcohol, while most made today are 14 per cent or higher.
“Red wines produced in Bordeaux, Tuscany and Piedmont have experienced similar increases according to a new report that surveyed alcohol levels in so-called fine wines over the past 30 years […] Climate change is the biggest culprit for creeping alcohol levels.”
The Daily Telegraph
They say that like it’s a bad thing.
At this rate, we’ll all be tanned, warm, drunk, and sunning ourselves on the beaches that are refusing to go away.
Remind me again why I’m supposed to be afraid of climate change?
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