Nothing So Strange
‘There’s nothing so strange as folks.’ Was the sage saying of my old mate Albert, who also called liars, ‘Tom Pepper’. Tom Pepper is mythological fella who could out-lie the devil himself, so was booted out of hell. Last night Tom Pepper came to mind when I caught a report where the Melanesian islands of Vanuatu are taking Britian to court claiming that she is responsible for the climate change that causes devastating hurricanes to the islands. There were two faces shown, one an islander, probably the PM and another, the lawyer who presumably, the Vanuatuan government has engaged to bring the case to court. Suspicious as ever, I spent about two minutes searching the record, and found ‘devastating’ hurricanes have hit the New Hebrides, which is the islands’ old name, in the following years: 1893, 1898, 1904, 1905, 1911, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1932… we have no record of earlier hurricanes, but the trend is obvious. There’s irony in Albert’s first quote because my country, being a member of the Pacific, always provides assistance to New Hebrides/Vanuatu and other Pacific nations when disaster strikes, and as the New Hebrides were under the umbrella of France, they no doubt provided aid too. Now they are now wanting another bite of the cherry. Proving free money is never really appreciated. Charles Darwin might have figured out about evolution, but during his trip across the Pacific he figured out how the islands grow… and they are growing, not sinking as the lawyer is bound to allege. Of course, with climate change being so widely propagandised, it’s worth the islands and their lawyer to have a crack at the British taxpayer, because judges will just go along with the narrative.
Modern television outfit like the clickbait of weather-related disasters, and in another episode, there were cars piled against a bridge in Valencia, Spain, which was quickly attributed to climate change. The fact is, Valencia is sitting on a riverbed, and because of a ‘devastating’ flood in 1957, they ‘relocated’ the river’s course instead of the town, this flood has returned the river to its historic course as rivers so often do. I found flooding has been recorded at Valencia since 1321, but again two minutes of research revealed floods during the following years: 1879, 1888, 1891, 1907, 1909, 1912, 1919, 1926, 1935, 1937, 1940, 1941, 1957 and 1971. It is apparently difficult to say in a television news bulletin, that the area is a floodplain and has always been prone to flooding. In fact, all floodplains are prone to flooding.
‘There’s nothing so strange as folks’ might come down to people seeing the same thing differently, one group might believe their winning football team won on its merits, while the other team’s supporters believe their team only lost because of the referee’s poor calls. People tend to lie to themselves… why is that? There are a number of reasons, but a strong motive is for some perceived advantage as in the Vanuatu case, both from the islanders’ and the lawyer’s point of view. Old Scruff, who used to skin possums from a similar habitat as me, reckoned he was paid twice as much for his skins as I was… from the same buyer too. To me what was important, was the interaction between the buyer and me, I knew the truth from his body language. The old-timers used sayings as a learning tool, and old Bert used to say, ‘You can’t fix stupid.’ But opinion on that is in the eye of the beholder… isn’t it?
There’s self-esteem, boasting, preventing a perceived threat, control and, avoiding guilt to consider, but topping the reasons for fibbing is the will to deceive oneself to believe in what others believe so as not to look different. None of these reasons have any logic about them, because somehow, sometime the truth will out but folk become swept along on the tide. I’ve always been interested in the weather more so than the climate, because understanding weather was part of my job and to me it’s obvious that we’re being led down the path by a bunch of people about the so-called climate emergency. What also fascinates me is peoples’ response and willingness to agree and thus comply with what are often draconian rules.
A good example was complying with the Covid rules. There was more known about the virus than we were told, and banning family at the deathbed of kin was a gross infringement of humanity. Our country didn’t even allow citizens to come home from overseas! A mate of mine travelled three hundred kilometres to see his dying sister in a rest home, where he was given fifteen minutes… there’s no logic in that, the near-dead aren’t going to die any earlier. Since the 1970’s it has been known that breathing in your own carbon dioxide inside a facemask has all sorts health risks, especially for children, yet wearing them was mandated… it was also known the weave was too open to keep out viruses. And the dangers of lockdowns were also known, and worse still, the populus weren’t allowed to ask questions.
Oddly, an earlier quote from the United Nations was that climate policy is not environmental policy, it is economic policy. If you consider wind turbines and solar panels, climate policy can’t possibly be environmental policy because putting aside the land degradation caused by mining for the minerals, the impacts on wildlife and the changes to the landscape, it certainly isn’t caring for the planet. Yet here they are saying that their climate policy will save the planet! The real damage to the environment, is that the lifespan of so-called green energy is so short and there’s no adequate way of recycling them, so they present a toxic hazard for the next generation to cope with… but for the politicians and bureaucrats, 25 years is just long enough for another regime to be the benefactors of the toxic menace, which is counterintuitive to a healthy economy as well.
So far there’s been no sensible approach to energy. Most western nations brought in electric vehicles when already their power grid was stretched and there was hardly any charging infrastructure. No credit has gone to the refining process of liquid fuels or the catalectic converters on vehicles that greatly reduce emissions. We were remonstrated by a teenage truant girl about collapsing ecosystems and people dying, but hey, the greening planet hosts biodiversity and habitat and carbon dioxide has contributed to record crop yields as in SW Ontario and elsewhere with per acre yields twice that of the 1970’s. Basically if there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, plants don’t need so much water, plant growth is better, which has to be good for humanity.
Climate change is much the same as the Covid experience, with the imposed narrative that we should trust the science, but both are easily exposed by applying simple research and logic. There is a wealth of information that can easily be found on the internet… but here’s a warning: Claus Swarb the WEF big noise, has said the algorithms on various search engines have been modified so their version of the climate narrative appears first. I’m not about to prove their climate change narrative is wrong here, I’d rather you do it yourself, but here’s a guide… the first step is to consider critically why Swarb said what he did, why there’s a need to do that if the narrative stacks up? For climate change to be real, there needs to be a long-term trend of the same weather pattern (usually temperature) for a minimum of thirty years or more realistically one hundred. Consider this and check that I’m accurate; 760-910AD there was a drought in Mexico which brought down the Mayans… no question it happened. Check these other changes in climate; 300BC-300AD was the Roman Warm Period, The Medieval Warm Period occurred 900AD-1250AD, you will no doubt see that, your search engine will say, ‘these periods were localised, but the Mayan experience fits, and Mexico is far away from Europe. Later, along came the Little Ice Age 1330-1850 and there’s literature on the living conditions in Europe at that time. The timing of the end of the Little Ice Age coincided with the end of the Industrial Revolutions 1760-1850, and why people wanted to exit Europe. Since the Industrial Revolution together with the end of the Little Ice Age, we have had a warming trend. Question: How does an ice age end? Here’s another, since the Industrial Revolution, atmospheric carbon dioxide has risen steadily, why then, hasn’t the temperature risen steadily with it? Look at the temperature graphs… you will see on many that they start at 1980 because the 1970’s were a period of low temperatures and they don’t want you to know. The other question to ask is, ‘if there were storms and weather-related loss of life before say, 1950, when atmospheric carbon dioxide started to increase, how come storms and loss of life is less now when there is more atmospheric carbon dioxide? Help to answer those questions can be found from Tony Heller, realclimatescience.com. Consider the strongest blast on the planet in one hundred years, which was the Tongan undersea volcanic eruption, which increased the moisture content of the stratosphere by ten percent or more… why is such a significant blast hardly mentioned? The likely aftermath, you’d think, would be floods and heatwaves for up to five years after the event, but it fits rather nicely with climate alarmism, so climate change it is. Search the Laki Haze of 1783/4 and also Gilbert White who diarised its aftermath at the English village of Selbourne, and think about it being an anomaly within the Little Ice Age. The power of volcanic action on the planet can be significant.
Climate change is one of the tools the United Nations are using to encourage us to accept their Agenda Thirty. One of their goals is to reduce world poverty, which is a laudable idea, but it here’s the method they intend to achieve that aim. Shortly there is to be the next climate forum known as a COP29, at this one, they intend to punish the nations that have benefitted from the Industrial Revolution. They are debating how much ‘compensation’ those nations will pay to poor nations of the world for the damage to them that man-made climate change is causing… the figure they are proposing is in the trillions. To help get your head around one trillion; one trillion seconds equates to 31,688 years. If that doesn’t concern you, nothing will.
The Tom Peppers of the world are trying hard to extend the time before they are totally exposed, but it will happen… there’s nothing so strange as folks. Basically, the climate and cosmos are so complicated nobody truly understands them, and to say carbon dioxide is a control knob, simply lacks credibility.
