The Glasgow Climate Change Kabuki

George Rebane

President Biden heads to Glasgow with an empty quiver this weekend in a futile effort to demonstrate that his administration is still hanging on to some vestiges of global leadership here and there.  Most nations have either written off the United States as a worthy ally, or most certainly as a hegemon to be respected.  And Bumblebrain accomplished all that by himself.

Climate change is no longer on the list of important concerns for Americans, and even less so for people of other lands.  However, our leftwing lamestream media keeps up the drumbeat of global warming hysterics with lies ranging from the sublime to the ludicrous.  A major one that hits close to home is the progress of destructive wildfires, the frequency and size of which are supposed to be growing without bound due to manmade preventable global warming.  In Biden’s new spending framework there is $500B or so allocated for various green bamboozles designed to fool the foolish and enrich Democrats’ favorites.

But as Bjorn Lomborg of the Copenhagen Consensus, reiterates what these pages have reported for years – the acreage of America’s annual wildfires continues to decline, and has been declining since record keeping was initiated in 1900 (see nearby graphic).  This fact has been quietly reported by the World Wildlife Fund, and vigorously ignored by our lying politicians, environmental activists, and media.

In ‘Climate Activists Blow Smoke on Wildfire Fears’ (28oct21 WSJ) Lomborg cites data and again points out how the hysterical scenarios on climate change consistently fail to incorporate the most salient and significant factor that mitigates and ameliorates the predicted catastrophes – human adaptation.  In such loudly trumpeted forecasts, humans do nothing and quietly accept whatever nature has in store for them.  Over the millennia this never has been the case, and most certainly won’t be in a technologically and resource rich future that we can and are building for ourselves.

What our average citizen has trouble parsing is the difference between the frequencies and size of wildfires, and the property damage done by wildfires.  In a 2016 study Nature reported, “Contrary to common perception, human exposure to wildfires increases in the future mainly owing to projected population growth in areas with frequent wildfires, rather than by a general increase in burned area.”

Lomborg concludes – “Helping future wildfire victims has little to do with strict and expensive climate policies, and everything to do with simpler, cheaper measures like better forest management and building codes. There’s no good reason to terrify children with stories of apocalyptic firestorms.”  All of this will be ignored during the Glasgow kabuki.

Comments

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You know, it's probably safe to say that people fall into three camps.
. Global warmingcooling is real, the US should reduce it's own share of greenhouse gas (15% of world and shrinking).
. Global warmingcooling is real, so what.
. Global warmingcooling isn't real (at least the manmade variety). Do nothing.

The thing is, in all cases, there should be more in the way of fire mitigation. By 'more', I don't mean meetings, research papers, nonprofits writing grant proposals, money flowing to government and contractor management.

To me, the great crime of the California Left (who run the place, let's face it) is that their sequence of events is (a)global warming is real (b)global warming causes all the fires (c) let's get everyone riled up to win an election or move some money to our friends (d) all done.

I'm bored with the whole thing.

[Bill Tozer]

All this simpleton can do is to point out that Global Warming Climate Charge here on the Left Coast sure put the hurts on our fire season.

[Bill Tozer]

Did Glasgow Deliver ‘Blah, Blah, Blah’?

“At root, almost every globalist and transnational institution and summit has a common feature: the endless transfer of wealth from the First World, the historic oppressors, to their alleged Third World victims.”

https://buchanan.org/blog/did-glasgow-deliver-blah-blah-blah-158726