I tell you what though Fifer ol' bud...seeing as you'd rather talk about climate than weather now, here's one I just read that I kind of like:
Canada’s leaders infected with climate hysteria$1:
Throughout Europe in the Middle Ages there were repeated episodes of what we describe today as “dancing mania.”
Inexplicably, hundreds of people would start dancing for days on end, many to the point of exhaustion, collapse and even death. Numerous theories have been offered for why this happened,.
Many point to the communal fears and widespread belief in the supernatural rampant in the Middle Ages, acting as an accelerant to the dancing mania. What is known is that what we would today describe as an insane behaviour happened over and over again.
Today, dancing mania aptly describes climate mania, or, if you prefer, climate hysteria, globally and in Canada.
The United Nations keeps issuing increasingly apocalyptic reports of imminent climate catastrophe, along with dire warnings we’re so far behind reducing our industrial greenhouse gas emissions to the level that’s needed to save the planet, that we’re racing towards doom.
The UN did it again Tuesday in its latest “emissions gap” report. It warned global emissions are at record levels, still rising, and we now have to do three to five times as much to reduce them as was agreed to in the 2015 Paris climate accord, to avert a climate apocalypse.
The report says Canada has fallen far short of reaching both its 2020 and 2030 emission reduction targets that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed to in that accord. That is, we’re falling far short of the completely inadequate targets which the UN now says must be replaced by much deeper cuts.
Meanwhile, Trudeau, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and the Liberal chorus assure us Canada is on track to meet its emission target for 2030, having stopped talking about 2020 for the obvious reason that it’s only two years away.
Their claim is utter nonsense.
Anyone who has run the numbers knows Trudeau’s national carbon price of $20 per tonne of emissions starting Jan. 1, 2019, rising to $50 per tonne in 2022, is completely inadequate to achieve our Paris accord 2030 target, let alone the far more stringent targets the UN says are now required.
The reason Trudeau and McKenna won’t answer questions about what carbon prices they would impose post 2022 is that they would have to be in the hundreds of dollars per tonne, implemented immediately, to meet the UN’s latest climate targets. That’s not going to happen because it would be political suicide.
So the actual position of Trudeau and McKenna is that in the face of what they tell us is imminent climate catastrophe, they’re going to dink us with an ineffective carbon tax as the world goes up in flames.
Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives say their solution is an as-yet-unrevealed plan that is better than the Liberal one, without a carbon tax, even though carbon taxes are the most effective way to reduce emissions.
Thus it can fairly be said that our two major political parties have been infected by climate mania, similar to the dancing mania of the Middle Ages, where people inexplicably behaved in insane ways.
If Trudeau, Scheer et al. really believe the world faces an imminent existential threat from climate change then what they’re doing, and more significantly not doing, makes no sense. The only way it would make sense is that if they actually don’t believe this and consider climate change to be just another political issue where the public needs to be deceived, managed and spun.
Because that’s how they’re behaving.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnis ... e-hysteria
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