Have We Finally Reached Peak Climate Insanity?

“I’ll believe there’s a crisis when the people who tell me there’s a crisis start acting like there’s a crisis.” — Glenn Reynolds

I’ve written several times about climate change.  For example, see The Climate Crisis Crisis,  Paleo What? and Predictions.

As I’ve said many times, I totally believe there’s climate change.  It’s an indisputable fact that, since its birth billions of years ago, the earth’s climate has been changing.  The climate today is different than what the climate was when dinosaurs walked the earth.  What I don’t believe is that the flyspeck of humanity has any real impact on our climate.

As time goes on ‘climate change” has become a “climate crisis” based upon evidence that has not always stood up to scientific scrutiny. 

How many times can you hear that polar bears are becoming extinct, only to find out that’s not true?  How many other wild claims will be proven false?  How many crazy predictions will be made?  Do we even believe them anymore?

Here are some of the most bazaar climate claims.  Are the people pushing the climate crisis narrative to be taken seriously?

It’s Insane

• You Must Stop Wearing Jeans.  Recent research from Guangdong University of Technology found that wearing a pair of jeans just once creates a whopping 2.50 kg of carbon emissions.  The environmental wear-and-tear of the pants once is equivalent to driving 6.4 miles in an average gasoline-powered car.

• Stop Digging, Dirt Is BAD!  A study published in the Nature Portfolio Journal has estimated that median annual emissions from Australian soils will range from about 30 to 100 megatons of CO2 over the next 80 years.

• Climate Change Is Hurting "Indonesian Trans Sex Workers."  A bizarre Reuters article warns that climate change is having a detrimental impact on the income of Indonesian transgender sex workers.  The story’s author says that “Nearly 93% of respondents saw decreased income during the rainy season,” explaining “Trans women…are among the most affected by extreme weather linked to climate change, as well as suffering disproportionately when disasters strike.”

• Global Warming Is Slowing the Earth’s Rotation.  According to the magazine Nature, as rising global temperatures melt Earth’s polar ice sheets, the shifting water is creating such a huge redistribution of our planet’s mass that its rotation speed is dropping.  In the coming years, a second will need to be removed from global time.

Here's the insanity winner:  From NBC New York, “Earthquakes…are rare but sea level rise and frequent flooding may lead to a higher frequency of quakes.”

What’s Actually Happening

Funny how you never hear about any of this in the corporate media.

• Remember when 2023 was touted as the warmest summer on record due to climate change?  Well, according to NASA, “when the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15 [2022]…the underwater eruption…blasted an enormous plume of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – enough to fill more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools.”  Nasa stated that “the huge amounts of water vapor from the eruption may have a small, temporary warming effect, since water vapor traps heat.”  This has been attributed as the increase in summer temperatures.

• According to Danish environmental economy author Bjorn Lomborg, “As temperatures go up, we’re likely to see more people die from heat...but what is underreported is the fact that nine times as many people die from cold.  As temperatures go up, you’re going to see fewer people die from cold.  Over the last 20 years, because of temperature rises, we have seen about 116,000 more people die from heat.  But 283,000 fewer people die from cold.”

• Regardless of reports that the polar icecaps are melting, North America Snow Coverage Hits "Decadal Highs."  According to Judah Cohen, Director of Seasonal Forecasting at Verisk Analytics', the January Polar Vortex turned the polar icecap from a record low to decadal highs in a couple of weeks.  To corroborate this, a November 2023 report from the Rutgers University Global Snow Lab reveals snow cover across the Northern Hemisphere is at the upper end of a 57-year maximum. 

• In August of 2023 a total of 1,609 scientists and professionals from around the world have signed the World Climate Declaration, including 321 from the United States.  The declaration stated in part: “Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific.  Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures.”  The declaration said the Little Ice Age only ended as recently as 1850, "therefore, it is no surprise that we now are experiencing a period of warming."

Do As I Say, Not As I Do

• On March 10, 2024 establishment scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson said on X (Twitter).  "In Florida, at 345-feet, Britton Hill is the highest elevation…this makes Florida supremely susceptible to sea-level rise during Climate Change.  An objective truth even if you don't believe in Climate Change."  X users (@RealSpikeCohen, @DefNotDarth among many) quickly pointed out that Tyson owns a $2.1 million second-floor condo in Manhattan—an area that will be underwater in the scientist's own climate change model.  They also pointed out that the elite buy oceanfront mansions in such places as Nantucket and Malibu. 

• According to the Emissions Inequality Calculator, created by the Stockholm Environment Institute, the world’s richest 1% (with an average income of $310K) were responsible for 15% of global CO₂ emissions.

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Regardless of your belief in the cause of climate change, I think we all would agree that those pushing the narrative should take a step back and take a more serious, realistic, and scientific approach.