The recent guest editorial by councilors Alex Brown and Karl Ory, “We are in a climate emergency, and denial won’t save us,” illustrates just how weak their argument is.
They claim “11,000 scientists from around the world have recently come together to recognize climate change as an existential crisis that will lead to ‘untold human suffering.’ ” Riiight. Except there’s this inconvenient fact; there was no science study, there was just a press release. And it wasn’t 11,000 scientists, it was 11,000 random people who put their names on a web page. Anyone could put their name on it, and they did.
Signatories to that list of 11,000 included:
— Hans Wienhold who claimed to be a scientist in “BS detection and analysis” at Mohawk College, but is a retired taxi driver.
— Mickey Mouse as a professor at the “Mickey Mouse Institute for the Blind” in Namibia, Southern Africa.
— Harry Potter’s headmaster Albus Dumbledore from the Hogwarts School of Wizardry
Proponents of “climate change emergency” will swallow anything.
Meanwhile, 1934 remains the hottest, driest, year ever in Chico, according to data from the Chico State University Farm, the station of record for climate monitoring here. Yet these two seem to think Chico has a “climate emergency.” In their head, I’m sure there is, in the real world of data, not so much.
Then there’s the U.N. poll at http://data.myworld2015.org/.
Of 16 topics asked, “Action taken on climate change” comes in dead last. So much for “emergency.”
— Anthony Watts, Chico