I wish I were joking. The beginning of an Associated Press article carried by the Canadian Press carried by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation:
This was the year the Earth struck back.
Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed more than a quarter of a million people in 2010 — the deadliest year for natural disasters in more than a generation.
The Earth “struck back”? Sounds like a really bad B-movie.
And just what the hell is a “super typhoon”? Is it a typhoon that wears a cape and spandex tights?
Here’s the end of the article:
Scientists say Earth’s climate is also changing as a result of man-made climate change, bringing more extreme weather, such as heat waves and flooding.
That is why those who study disasters for a living say it would be wrong to chalk 2010 up to just another bad year.
Debarati Guha Sapir of the World Health Organization said the planet often strikes back as a result of bad decision-making by people.
Debarati Guha Sapir sounds like a real swell human being.
But the problem is that the largest number of deaths and disaster this year were caused by earthquake (Chile, Haiti), while the chaos caused in Europe was due to the explosion of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. The last time I checked, anthropogenic tectonic plate movement was something even Al Gore didn’t try to sell.
Now, I’m certain our friend Debarati would blame the current ice age in Europe on climate change (cold being the logical conclusion to a warming planet), but I fail to see how she can blame the thousands killed in Earthquakes for their poor decision-making.
It’s pretty specious to blame a quarter million deaths on global warming, too. Lumping everybody who dies as a result of floods, drought and hurricanes into one big catch-all category called climate change is the surest path to confirmation bias.
Hey look, somebody just drowned in a flood. Climate change. Oh no, a drought killed thousands in Africa. Climate change. A storm killed a dozen people in the South Pacific. Climate change.
The end result of such imbecility is a new generation of children who actually believe the planet is an entity and strikes back at people:
Hey, if the planet WERE a living being and WERE to sink L.A. & San Fransico into the sea (like the movie 2012) I’d be cheering for the planet.
Yup a small atmospheric temperature increase of a couple of degrees, if true, is affecting conditions hundreds of miles under the Earth’s crust in the mantel where temperatures are in the thousands of degrees: Don’t take the numbers as more than ballpark figures, but the point is that it’s volcano lava hot !
So, heat your house too much and the Earth will get revenge by having a volcano erupt in your basement: I have now newly increased respect for Global Warming scientists and militants pushing the idea in the media ….
That would be NOOOOOOO ….. LOL ( I hope the sarcasm was obvious ).
“anthropogenic tectonic plate movement was something even Al Gore didn’t try to sell”
Oh but the climate alarmists wasted no time at all creating the link between climate and earthquakes. The link is; the climate warms up which causes melting glaciers which releases tons of weight from the earths crust, causing isostatic rebound which causes the earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Simply establishing a link, any link at all, to AGW is all that is needed to maintain the AGW fear and faith. This is why the skeptics refer to AGW as a faith or religion.
I feel sad for the psychology and emotional health of this generation of children that grow up with so much fear, and are victims of the taxpayer-funded institutions that promote anthropomorphism.