Here’s a little puzzle for you: a dam is drained and at its bottom are found the remnants of an old farm. Do you conclude that a) the water level was once as low or lower than now, when the farm was built; or b) that the find shows that the low water level in the dam now is unprecedented.
If you’re a climate alarmist, it has to be b). It always has to be b), because, no matter what, everything now must be “unprecedented” and, therefore, a harbinger of imminent doom.
On a wind-blasted rocky ridge high up at 9,500ft (2,900 metres) on the Italian-Swiss border, amid fields of snow and ice, a hole about the size of a suitcase leads into a darkened chamber.
Military historian Giovanni Cadioli wriggles in backwards, his head torch revealing an extraordinary scene that has literally been frozen in time.
It is a First World War bunker constructed from timber, scattered with the possessions of its past inhabitants – rusted tins of food, bullet casings and metal cooking implements.
If the soldiers were able to dig a hole in the ground one hundred years ago, ipso facto, that ground was not buried under a glacier. Which is, indeed, the case.
It was once used by a platoon of Austro-Hungarian soldiers who repulsed suicidal assaults launched by Italian forces, but in the decades since was surrounded by a glacier.
The ice preserved everything – even scraps of paper, shreds of clothing and the hay that the soldiers used for bedding.
But a century on, the glacier that once entombed the bunker, located on the slopes of Monte Scorluzzo in the Stelvio National Park, high in the Italian Alps, has largely melted as a result of global warming.
So, the glacier has retreated to roughly the same place it was in the early 20th century. If that is “as a result of global warming”, ipso facto, the globe was as warm 100 years ago as it is today.
QED.
Ha. Never bet against a climate alarmist when it comes to loony logic and unhinged catastrophism.
This frozen depository of the past now carries a stark warning for the future as world leaders gathering at Cop 26 in Glasgow deliberate how to try to put a brake on climate change.
“A hundred years ago this mountain was part of a glacier, you would only be able to see the rocks on the warmest days of August,” Mr Cadioli, a post-doctorate researcher at the University of Padua, told The Telegraph.
Well, unless the soldiers got busy on just the warmest days of August, that claim is clearly false.
The newly-rediscovered bunker was not even the highest one dug.
The highest point occupied was Monte Ortles, at a staggering 12,800ft (3,905 metres).
“Never before had war been waged at such altitudes,” said Mr Cadioli, the historian.
Mountain positions taken by the Austro-Hungarians were turned into “impregnable castles”, riddled with tunnels and caves.
The Telegraph
If those forts are only now emerging from melting ice, you might be forgiven for thinking that the world now is just getting as warm as it was when they were dug, before the ice advanced.
But that sort of clear-eyed logic is why you’re not smart enough to be a climate activist.
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