It was Beijing’s violations of the Paris Accord. Or the decades of collectivist-induced economic misery and authoritarian control. Ponder this rhetorical question, posed by a columnist at The Hill: “Could climate change finally expose China as a global outlaw?” So it wasn’t the concentration camps that did it. AP Photo/Gerald Herbertīy claiming we are in an unprecedented crisis, we distort not only a proper understanding of our technological abilities, but our moral outlook as well. Joshua Fisher dumps debris into a pile as he helps gut a family member’s flooded home in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in LaPlace, La., Thursday, Sept. We’re safer, even though far more people live in areas with extreme weather.Īnd the notion that places such as Central America and the Middle East are experiencing conflicts and migration because of some unique climate changes ignores the entirety of history. Weather accounts for somewhere around 0.07 percent of worldwide deaths. But overall, deaths due to nature have dramatically plummeted during the past century, falling over 98 percent since 1900. Today, people still tragically die from, say, extreme heat (air conditioners save far more lives!). We’ve spent most of human existence attempting to mitigate its destructive power. Indeed, climate has always been bad for our health.
Acclimatizing to the realities of climate change is far cheaper and more moral than the state-compelled dismantling of modernity. Most of the damage had to do with how ill-prepared the city was for any storm.Īs Biden has pointed out, hurricanes are less destructive, because governments and companies adapt and prepare. When Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, it was a Category Three.
Only around 150,000 people lived in all of Dade County in those days. In 1926, the Great Miami hurricane killed 372, causing an estimated, inflation-adjusted $157 billion in damage.
Back in 1900, the Great Galveston hurricane likely killed some 10,000 people in Texas. Nor is there evidence that storms that make landfall do so with more intensity than in previous years.Ĭertainly, they aren’t any more dangerous. While victims of Ida will take no solace in this fact, historically speaking, hurricanes aren’t touching land at higher frequencies, either. President Joe Biden takes part in a briefing with local leaders in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida at the Somerset County Emergency Management Training Center in Hillsborough Township, New Jersey, on September 7, 2021. But the Texas storm was no different than the rare 1973 blizzard that hit the South. When a freak snowstorm hit Texas this year, the administration used it to push draconian policies. This reality is probably difficult to accept for a generation subjected to decades of fearmongering, but climate anomalies are nothing new. Because our situation is, in most ways, quantifiably better than before on nearly every front. But it’s an irrational way to think about the world. It’s convenient for politicians to treat every hurricane, tornado and flood as an apocalyptic sign from Gaia - and then blame political apostates for offending the goddess. White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy adds that climate is now a “health emergency.” President Biden claims recent hurricanes prove we’re in a “ climate crisis” - “code red” for the world, he warns. Hochul’s electric-bill posturing and other commentaryĬold war: Biden predicts ‘potential conflict’ between US, Russia over melting ArcticĪttack on Mona Lisa shows how eco-activists are destroying their own movement Carbon dioxide reaches levels not seen in millions of years
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