{"id":278312,"date":"2023-09-11T18:42:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T16:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=278312"},"modified":"2023-09-11T18:42:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T16:42:35","slug":"climate-ambulance-chasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=278312","title":{"rendered":"Climate Ambulance Chasers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Science Matters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ron Clutz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Holman Jenkins reports at WSJ Maui Sees Off the Climate-Change Ambulance Chasers.<\/strong><\/a>  Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images.  H\/T  climate depot<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making climate policy the answer to weather risks
is a distraction & fraud on the public<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was modestly funny when Hurricane Sandy<\/strong>, after it came ashore in 2012, had to be hurriedly renamed Superstorm Sandy<\/strong> (a title with no formal meteorological meaning) because it was no longer a hurricane.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Local politicians blabbed<\/strong> in the aftermath about climate change to help unlock Obama disaster aid<\/strong>, and<\/strong> also to duck questions about inadequate preparation<\/strong>. But the storm itself was no different<\/strong> from many that had battered the Northeastern seaboard for centuries. The difference was how many people and structures were in its path.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing is funny in the aftermath of the Maui wildfire,<\/strong> which swept through a town and killed at least 115. But it\u2019s noteworthy that Joe Biden<\/strong> refrained from his usual clamor about a climate crisis. He didn\u2019t even mention the word climate<\/strong> in his speech when visiting the island.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps Mr. Biden\u2019s off-key anecdote about a kitchen fire at his Delaware home was his ad-lib substitution. Whatever the reason, his aides<\/strong> apparently understood<\/strong> that climate talk would come across as criminal and cowardly<\/strong> in the face of the true causes of the Maui disaster.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

High winds are a common occurrence. Dry conditions are a common occurrence.
Invasive grasses taking over abandoned pineapple and sugar plantations
were a known menace, complicated by unhelpful land-use policy.<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emergency sirens weren\u2019t sounded. Water wasn\u2019t available<\/strong> due to political squabbles over allocation rights. The local utility was instructed<\/strong> by Hawaii\u2019s Legislature to meet ambitious renewables targets rather than spend on reducing fire risk<\/strong>. Firefighters reportedly left the scene early believing they had extinguished the initial blaze.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maui itself is an island surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, with vagaries
more immediate and potent than any caused by a 0.3% fluctuation
in the planet\u2019s long-term energy balance due to atmospheric CO2.<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blue-green algae gave us oxygen to breathe and yet we don\u2019t blame blue-green algae for everything oxygen-breathing organisms do. Likewise, nothing very useful<\/strong> comes from trying to explain every weather-related misfortune in terms of human-caused carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weather is a product of climate<\/strong>, we should specify; our climate is currently influenced by atmospheric CO2 of 419 parts per million.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But hurricanes, fires, floods and heat waves also occurred when the concentration
was 280 parts per million, and tended to claim more lives than they do now.<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever man\u2019s role in climate change, whatever the merits of regulating CO2, making climate policy the answer to weather risks is a distraction and fraud on the public.<\/strong> Nearly one-third of all greenhouse gases have been released since Al Gore won his 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for a climate movie. These emissions have an estimated half-life in the atmosphere of 120 years. Your electric car isn\u2019t going to change that.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By now, though, activists and lobbyists have a picture on the wall, blown up to five times life-size, of a certain\u00a0type of voter willing to believe anything,<\/strong>\u00a0even that Joe Biden\u2019s pork-ridden Inflation Reduction Act meaningfully addresses a warming planet.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, a\u00a0Nobel Prize laureate in physics<\/strong>\u00a0who decries the \u201capplication of scientific disinformation for opportunistic purposes\u201d can expect to be disinvited from giving a speech to the International Monetary Fund, as the 2022 laureate John Clauser recently was. His offending words, which are hard to dispute in the dictionary sense:\u00a0\u201cI believe that climate change is not a crisis\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(emphasis added).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A crisis, after all, usually calls for concerted, immediate action. Why is it that\u00a0nothing is ever seriously proposed or enacted,<\/strong>\u00a0including Mr. Biden\u2019s bag of handouts for \u201cgreen\u201d energy interests,\u00a0that would actually have a detectable effect on weather and climate now or in the future?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To stress something not usually emphasized, the science is still\u00a0largely a science of computer simulations.<\/strong>\u00a0For now, though, it suggests\u00a0a relatively manageable human adaptation to a slowly warming planet,<\/strong>\u00a0mainly through everyday decisions about where and how to live, build and work. Once again,\u00a0a weather-related disaster is too important to cheapen for the sake of the \u2018narrative.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was\u00a0modestly funny when Hurricane Sandy, after it came ashore in 2012, had to be hurriedly\u00a0renamed Superstorm Sandy\u00a0(a title with no formal meteorological meaning) because it was no longer a 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