Climate Pornography

 

 

give2asia.org

 Bangladesh is a country with a long history of floods, situated as it is on the Brahmaputra Delta and crossed by a number of rivers flowing into the Bay of Bengal. The Bengalis seem to accept the recurrent high water because they haven't moved to the Himalayas. There must be some reason they continue to live there. Even so, the media is quick to couple their current flooding with supposed global warming.

According to MSN: 

G M Tarekul Islam, a professor at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology's Institute of Water and Flood Management, says climate change is a factor behind the erratic and early rains that triggered the floods.

"The erratic rainfall in India's Cherapunji and other areas is the main reason for this flood. Because of global warming, the climate has changed and so has the pattern of rainfall. Now we are observing more and more heavy rainfall," he told DW.

 

 

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The wildfires in northern California are also a by-product of global warming, despite bad forest management practices, suspect electrical distribution and evidence of arson. Before Europeans arrived wild fires were a normal event at one time or another all over the continent, caused by either lightning strikes or human agency, just as they are today. Maybe incidents of lightning are also a by-product of internal combustion engines and coal-fired power plants.

 The Los Angeles Times: California is being pushed to extremes. And the record heat, fires and pollution all have one thing in common: They were made worse by climate change. Their convergence is perhaps the strongest signal yet that the calamity climate scientists have warned of for years isn’t far off in the future; it is here today and can no longer be ignored.

 

 

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Even a blizzard, such as the one in Buffalo, NY, is said to be caused by AGW. 

USA Today:

 

Average air temperatures have been warming across the planet for decades, and as they do, the atmosphere holds more water vapor in some locations, increasing the potential for extreme rain and snow events, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Warmer temperatures mean it takes longer for the Great Lakes to freeze over in the fall and winter, said David Easterling, chief of the climate assessments section for NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. That open water means more fuel for nature's snow machine known as lake-effectsnow to wallop the region.

 

The photos and commentary indicate that snow storms, floods and wild fires are isolated unusual events that were extremely rare just a short time ago, at least in geological terms, and that their occurrence now is more frequent and intense because of a change in global climate. This is climate pornography. These photos and commentary are meant to generate profits, just as sexual pornography is.

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