By The Ridiculous List of Things “Caused by Climate Change”
by James Corbett | Corbett Report
In the modern era, when someone says, “The devil made me do it!” we recognize they’re trying to deflect blame for their own rotten behaviour, and we rightly scoff at them.
But how about if they use the 21st century equivalent of that rotten excuse: “Climate change made me do it!”?
Sound ridiculous?
Well, what if I were to tell you that climate change is causing Pakistani men to beat their wives?
Or that the climate crisis can derail trains?
Or that climate weirding is responsible for an uptick in child marriages in Pakistan?
Or that increasing temperatures are turning lobsters into cannibals?
Or that global warming can cause THE ENTIRE EARTH TO EXPLODE!
Well, it can, and it does, and it is!
Don’t believe me? Look upon this list of things that The Science™ has officially pinned on the devil—errr, I mean “climate change”—and prepare to weep, deniers!
THE WARMLIST
This site is devoted to the monitoring of the misleading numbers that rain down on us via the media. Whether they are generated by Single Issue Fanatics (SIFs), politicians, bureaucrats, quasi-scientists (junk, pseudo- or just bad), such numbers swamp the media, generating unnecessary alarm and panic. They are seized upon by media, hungry for eye-catching stories. There is a growing band of people whose livelihoods depend on creating and maintaining panic. There are also some who are trying to keep numbers away from your notice and others who hope that you will not make comparisons. Their stock in trade is the gratuitous lie. The aim here is to nail just a few of them.
In fulfillment of that lofty goal, Brignell kept not only a running monthly blog of some of the worst abuses of statistics and numbers in the media at the time, but also a “Number of the Month.” (For example, “40 million,” the Number of the Month for October 2001, chosen in honor of the 40 million sheep that the UK government was prepared to slaughter in the name of the Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) scamdemic.)
Take a look at the Wayback Machine capture of Brignell’s site from 2003 and have a poke around. It’s a refreshing reminder of what the weird, wacky world wide web used to look like before it became a homogenized blob of soulless corporate commercialism. In a further sign of just how much public discourse on these matters has changed over the years, consider that Number Watch—a site that would no doubt be subject to social media censorship and government sanction if it were around today for daring to question The Science™—was hailed by Science News in October 2005 as a recommended website.
Whatever goodwill the greater scientific community held for Number Watch ended abruptly in 2006, however, when Brignell began compiling “The Warmlist.” There, on his quaint old Web 1.0 site, in plain, unadorned HTML, Brignell began compiling “A complete list of things caused by global warming.” Read Full Article >
