By Michael Graham
Boston Herald Op-Ed
Meet the global weirdos.
They’re the ones telling you that all the snow outside
is proof that it’s getting warmer.
Only, they don’t call it “warming” anymore.
No, that was back in the “Earth has a fever” days.
Back when Al Gore was predicting that the ice caps
were melting, the polar bears were drowning and
Manhattan would sink beneath 20 feet of water
“in the near future.”
But then something happened.
Since 1998, temperatures have been relatively flat.
We’ve got more polar bears than ever, and Manhattan
is buried under snow. For a planet-roasting crisis that
threatened the human race with extinction, there doesn’t
seem to be much actual warming.
So then the mantra became “climate change.”
The liberals formerly known as “warmists” began predicting
that we would experience fundamental changes in our weather.
Scientists at the University of East Anglia —
the Harvard of climate change —
said snow would be “a very rare and exciting event.”
Children wouldn’t know what it was.
As for summers, in the wake of Katrina “change-ist” groups
like realclimate.org predicted “global warming will make
hurricanes even worse in the future.”
What happened? Nothing.
Europe has had three winters in a row of snow and cold
temperatures. In the Atlantic, “there has been a dramatic
decrease in the number of hurricanes in the last five years,”
according to meteorologist Art Horn.
“The total energy in all hurricanes around the world has
plunged since 1993. The opposite of what was predicted.”
So the new fall back is “global weirding.”
The site thedailygreen.com has a “Weird Weather Watch” page.
The uber-liberal Huffington Post ran a story in August headlined
“Global Weirding”: Extreme Climate Events Dominate The Summer.”
“The extreme climate events all across the globe must say
something about whether climate change is already upon us,”
the HuffPo insisted. “Extreme is the new normal.”
They quote a professor of “environmental studies and politics”
from Oberlin College who says, “More hottest hots, driest dries,
wettest wets, windiest wind conditions. So it’s all part of a pattern.”
Gore is on board, too.
He’s now merely claiming rising temperatures will “create all
sorts of havoc, ranging from hotter dry spells to colder winters.”
Not “warming,” but “weirding.”
Not “heating,” but “havoc.”
Which is how global warming can cause more snow,
less snow, no snow, avalanches, heat waves, cold snaps,
wetter wets, drier dries, gingivitis, delirium tremens and
irritable bowel syndrome . . . all at the same time!
Global warming — is there anything it can’t do?
Well, the one thing it apparently doesn’t do is help predict
the weather. The UK’s Met Office stopped giving seasonal
forecasts last year after mis-predicting warmer winters
three years in a row. Meteorologists without a warmist
agenda like Piers Corbyn and AccuWeather’s Joe Bastardi,
on the other hand, continue to pay the bills by making
predictions directly contrary to the “weirdos.”
Oddly, they don’t have degrees in politics.
For a theory to be scientific, it must be fallible —
capable of being proven false. If every weather condition
can be used to “prove” global warming simply by being
declared “weird,” then it’s not science. It’s a joke.
Which is exactly what the environmental movement has become.
