As the tragic events in Nepal unfolded, ghoulish greens in Europe circled the spectacle. Before the causes of the event had been understood, and estimates of the human and financial costs had been published by the authorities, the inevitable links between the event and climate change were made. According to these green ghouls, the disaster reveals the scale of revenge that is waiting for us all if we don’t change our ways with urgent climate policies. But what such claims actually reveal is the grotesque and shameless exploitation of other people’s tragedies, revealing in turn the immoral core of environmentalism.
According to Sunil Acharya – “a Nepali citizen working on international climate policy for more than a decade” – in the Guardian, the disaster was “the cost of not acting in the face of the climate crisis”. It “comes after years of warnings from scientists and civil society that a rapidly warming planet would make disasters more frequent, more intense and harder to predict”. “The Nepal floods seem a world away,” says columnist Nesrine Malik in the same fakenewspaper, “but make no mistake, climate breakdown will affect us all.” “Flash floods have devastated Nepal,” observes the Independent’s James Reynolds. “Climate change could make them routine” – the claims for which depend on academic opinion. Bethan Davies, Professor of Glaciology at Newcastle University, for example, tells Reynolds that “I find it very difficult when some of our politicians downplay the risks of climate change, when they tell us to enjoy the warm weather, for
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That Professor of Glaciology was rather quick to comment.
Why does that make me suspicious about her knowledge of how glaciers work?
HAARP, DARPA, DOD, NOAA, Geoengineering everywhere, and yet this is natural “climate change”. Heartbreaking.
Note: ice starts to melt at 0C. So if the air temperature is above 0C it will melt, global warming or not.
Glaciers, which are on an incline, melt underneath because of the pressure and friction of a large mass of ice moving, forming a thin layer of slush which acts as a lubricant. As they move to lower altitudes, the leading section encounters warmer conditions and that part starts to melt. This has been happening over thousands of years in very cold conditions as the Earth moved out of its last ice-age.
Global warming/climate change cannot have any effect on the underside of a glacier hundreds of metres deep.
Glaciologists should know this, so saying the opposite means they are either incompetent or lying.
Exactly – looking at the topography of the region, how do people think all those deep valleys were formed in the first place? By events like this over millennia… I would bet over the centuries people always moved closer and closer to the river, until a life changing event like this wiped them away…
It’s a shame that the glacier woman hasn’t remembered that glaciers move and that big bits always have fallen of the ends. The glacier concerned must have dropped similar chunks in the past and the valley would have been subject to floods before. In which case it is unwise to build housing and hydro electric power stations there.
When taxpayers are brainwashed into accepting extortionate electricity prices, the destruction of the Industrial Base, millions forced into energy poverty and the haemorrhaging of thousands of well paid jobs and then they are told that this is an “opportunity” and the chance to “lead the world” it is time to wake up and realise that this stopped being about the environment a long time ago.
In the Middle Ages all disaster was caused by sinfulness and could be remedied by giving cash to the Church. Plus ça change; now it’s climate change and the answer is to give cash to government.
I’ve yet to see a scientific paper on the link between environmental catastrophe and income tax, but no doubt several are on the way.
At one time there was an archetype of ‘Lady Bountiful’. A woman notable for or conspicuous in her benevolences. Perhaps we need a new archetype? Lady Banshee – a woman (or man of course) notable or conspicuous in her wailing and keening about death or forthcoming death.
Or even a Trans-shee?
How long before the green movement claims that animal sacrifice to appease the climate gods is based in science?
We already have child mutilation sanctioned by government and the judiciary.
Could the Nepal disaster be anything to do with the increase in population from approx 8 million to approx 30 million in the last 75 years
As in Pakistan.
Population 36 million in the 50’s
260 million now and projected to be 510 million by the end of the century.
90% of the population live within the wider Indus River basin – what could go wrong?
60 million of them in Midlands UK cities?
Indeed. Factor in the bainwashed, those many that have allowed themselves to be programmed to believe whatever they are fed through the MSM and the Government’s malign use of behavioural science, evidences how morally bankrupt environmentalism has become.