Climate Change Ate My Homework
Habitat loss damages wildlife far more than climate change
Posted on 25 Apr 25
by Mark HodgsonIn Agriculture, alarmism, climate change, Conservation, Ecology, Environmentalism, Uncategorized
John Ridgway’s article Is 3.0 Really Greater than 0.85 is, of course, worth reading in its own right. As was merited by the subject raised therein, an interesting discussion followed. In one comment, John pointed out the specific absurdity of climate change being shoehorned into a BBC article about the threat of flooding to New York, given that the city is sinking three times faster than the sea level is rising, and he made the point thus:
This narrative that the global warming impact was to blame for the exceptional New York flooding completely fails to mention that the greater problem has been the sinking of the city and the extent to which that has made it more vulnerable to flooding.
This is a common aspect of the narrative these days. It doesn’t seem to matter what the cause of a particular problem, an article appearing on the BBC or Guardian websites will usually add “and climate change”, whilst failing to make explicit the extent to which climate change is having an impact on the problem, and without even attempting to identify the relative impact of other factors compared to climate change. If there’s a problem, then climate change must be part of the mix, and that’s all there is to it.
In another comment, I drew attention to a study reported in Nature last month, which I thought was rather more promising. My take on it was as follows:
https://cliscep.com/2025/04/25/climate-change-ate-my-homework/
