September 14, 2022
A heat wave, and now the climate nuts go even more nuts
By Mark C. Ross
Having just survived the first real heat wave of this year's summer, I am tragically amused by all of the new climate change hysteria being broadcast. You see, there's this handy-dandy tool that is so useful in observing earthly phenomena: perspective. Way back in late September of 1964, when I was in high school, all of the schools in Los Angeles were suddenly closed when the temperature rose to 110 degrees F and beyond.
Back in 1934, during the depth of the Great Depression, there began a series of droughts that drastically affected the Great Plains. Historians and others call it the Dust Bowl. Ultimately farming practices were changed so as to better conserve the fertile top soil. But immense demographic changes still occurred, as described in John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. A major street just south of Los Angeles is named Prairie Avenue for an obvious reason.
Going even farther back was the California flood of 1862. Torrential rains at the year's beginning ultimately submerged the Central Valley for about six months. The terms "Pineapple Express" and "atmospheric river" are used to describe the phenomenon, for which modern sediment analysis has established an approximate 165-year repeating cycle that has persisted for thousands of years.
There now seems to be this overwhelming compulsion within the "woke activist" community to exaggerate and, thus, exploit every newsworthy weather event — especially if it has to do with warm temperatures. Floods and droughts tend to cancel each other out, but they're still good for at least a twinge of fear.
Political success is the result of influencing the opinions of others. Scaring the living crap out of folks often proves useful. That's why it is so often done — problem being that, within our cultural heritage, is the fable of the little boy who cried "wolf!" Thus, a combination of weariness and numbness is whittling away at the impact of such tactics when they involve climate and weather. Just FYI, when I took climatology, the professor specifically defined climate as weather averaged over twenty years.
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