As the dog and I stepped out into the -15°C air this morning, my thoughts drifted inexorably to global warming.
The bad news is that not only has there not been any warming for the last 15 years, there isn’t going to be any for the next five either.
This is not news that is welcomed by global warming Cassandras: Christopher Monckton, the third viscount of Benchley, the bearer of the bad tidings that global warming is a sham, was ejected from the United Nations climate change conference for his efforts.
Some speculate that the U.N.’s determination to make Canada even colder is really a surreptitious war against capitalism. Since every self-respecting, anti-capitalist, liberal-left apparatchik from the impotent Fred Hiltz to the messianic Barack Obama is beside himself with excitement at the prospect of crippling Western industry with carbon penalties – no-one seems to care much about CO2 from China or India – it seems pretty clear that they are right.
Still, at least it has warmed up to -12°C for the dog’s evening walk.
This is too funny.
David, you are sounding like limp-wristed wimp right now. Minus 15 and you call that cold. And not only that, you had to go out in it to walk your domesticated pet wolf. You poor suffering soul…
Yesterday at 7:30 am when I first went outside it was minus 32 and windy. Today, in town, people were commenting on what a nice day it was and the temperature was minus 17.
Oh yes, don’t forget to remind me that out here, at least we have you all you Ontario types call “a dry cold.”
Trillions of dollars in a carbon derivative bubble, 2% tax on the world GDP paid to people you don’t elect and can’t depose who make laws that supersede national sovereignty.
Love your insightful and humorous comments on things theological. But your anti-environmental rants give me indigestion. Please consider setting up an alternative website for this – it has nothing to do with Anglicanism or Christianity.
With respect, I disagree. Discussion of AGW has plenty to do with Anglicanism and Christianity because it presents one of the various kinds of Molochs people fall down to worship when they fall away from the worship of God. I came across the expression of ‘Cargo Cult Science’ today to describe AGW which I think pretty apt.
I tend to agree. There are a great many things in the global warming alarmist world which smack of an alternate religion. They have a god (Gaia), an organization (IPCC), a good book (AR4), apostles (A Gore), an invisible devil (CO2), sinners (humanity), and apocalyptic retribution (climate catastrophe). I think the only things missing are a martyr and a network of churches.
In a few centuries we might see frescoes of Gore and Pachaurie on the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel. Now there’s a happy thought.
We have a similar problem in Australia. Here however, we have a Prime Minister who promised that “there will be no Carbon Tax under the Government I lead,” and within twelve months what did we get?
Of course, the fact that she’s an admitted atheist probably excuses her cavalier treatment of truth.