{"id":283714,"date":"2023-10-17T19:42:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T17:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=283714"},"modified":"2023-10-17T19:42:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T17:42:44","slug":"washington-post-climate-change-is-the-catastrophe-to-end-all-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=283714","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post: Climate change is the catastrophe to end all others"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Climate scaremongers tell us a lot of climate nonsense to accept their climate emergency but there is no climate crisis.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What catastrophe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate change is the catastrophe to end all other catastrophes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Fatima Bhutto
October 16, 2023 at 6:30 a.m. EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fatima Bhutto is a Pakistani writer and novelist. Her latest book is \u201cNew Kings of the World.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This past summer, the primordial elements conspired to ravage Greece, the birthplace of Western civilization. The Mediterranean\u2019s many islands were swept by water, air and especially fire, leaving a trail of wreckage. Helios, the sun god, whose statue in Rhodes was among the Seven Wonders<\/a> of the ancient world, brought scorching temperatures to that island, sparking hundreds of wildfires. In coastal Alexandroupolis, pine forests were \u201creduced to blackened, skeletal bark,\u201d according to Reuters<\/a>, while fires in the Dadia forest, home to a magnificent nature sanctuary, torched 281 square miles \u2014 an area roughly the size of New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across Greece, tens of thousands of people, locals and tourists both, had to be evacuated, \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September, scant weeks after the fires, came the deluge. Storms buffeted Bulgaria<\/a>, Turkey<\/a> and Greece<\/a>, precipitating massive floods. Regions logged record rainfall \u2014 a season\u2019s worth in a day<\/a>, according to one estimate. The crescendo \u2014 for now \u2014 was the inundation of Derna<\/a> on Libya\u2019s Mediterranean coast. Whole neighborhoods were swept out to sea after rains overwhelmed the city\u2019s aging dams. The death toll<\/a> there stands at 11,300, with 10,000 people still unaccounted for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This barrage in and around Greece could not help but remind me of my country, Pakistan, and the so-called super flood<\/a> it endured one year earlier. As more adventurous tourists will be aware, the reaches of northern Pakistan are home to Earth\u2019s largest collection of glaciers<\/a> outside the polar regions \u2014 surrounded by the three highest mountain ranges<\/a> in the world: the Himalayas, the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush. The landscape is surreally beautiful: lunar visions of ice and rock, encircled by jagged peaks. But as global temperatures rise, glacial melt<\/a> has led to the formation of more than 3,000 new lakes, posing flood risks to the 7 million people downstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/10\/16\/climate-catastrophe-greece-wildfires-pakistan-super-floods\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This is the nonsense climate believers want you to accept as a climate emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of this is historically unusual. Greece suffers large fires from time to time. If they want less destructive fires, they should try some forest management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Libya suffered large casualties because not enough people evacuated. Libya is a political mess, large scale consequences to natural disasters are an inevitable consequence of nations suffering political chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pakistan is a land of droughts and floods \u2013 but there has been enormous neglect of water infrastructure<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compare all this to how Florida handled recent hurricane disasters \u2013 like the highly praised evacuation of the Florida Keys during Hurricane Harvey.<\/a> Modern countries rarely suffer major loss of life during disasters, simply because we are better organised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building wind turbines won\u2019t help people who have suffered recent devastation. What would help them is fossil fuel modernity and better government \u2013 just as a modern, high energy lifestyle and better government has helped most of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate scaremongers tell us a lot of climate nonsense to accept their climate emergency but there is no climate crisis. From Watts Up With That? Essay by Eric Worrall What catastrophe? 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