As cold weather kills hundreds, Walter Russell Mead desperately seeks greens who know the difference between weather and climate and want to make this a better planet
12/26/12, "Cold Weather Across Europe, Asia Kills Hundreds," Via Meadia, Walter Russell Mead
"Cold weather in the past few days has sadly gone from severe to deadly.
While unusually high snowfall has disrupted the travel plans of millions
of Americans, freezing temperatures have taken the lives of hundreds of
people from Central Europe to South Asia. The BBC reports that in Poland, 49 people have died; in Ukraine, 83; in Russia, 88; and in India, at least 93.
The majority of those dead are the elderly and the homeless.
Besides being an obvious tragedy for many across the world, this is a
reminder that "weather" is not "climate," unless it suits the needs of
environmental hotheads to claim that it is. When there's a hot spell or a
dry spell or a wet spell that can somehow be connected with the climate
change narrative, the media resounds with panicky warnings. But when
people die of frostbite in Punjab and temperatures hit -58F in Russia,
- the silence of the alarmists is deafening.
In the past few years we’ve seen climate change blamed for hot weather,
for floods and for droughts. It’s been blamed for both the presence and
the absence of storms. It’s been blamed for
- excessive snow as well as
for
- the absence of snow.
We don’t blame the smart greens for these
recurring epidemics of media foolishness, but we wish they did more to
focus the public discussion on practicalities and realities....
In addition to everything else, the continuing development of human
technological capability and social productivity will also give
countries beset with natural calamities the ability to protect their
most vulnerable citizens. The path to that kind of safety and
sustainability is not through Malthusian hysteria,
but through economic
growth and modernization.
The energy and the passion that greens have
wasted on failed initiatives like Kyoto, ethanol, solar subsidies, the
UN climate treaty process and other fiascoes could, if effectively
harnessed, do a lot to make this a better world.
May 2013 see the start of an era of smart greens." via Tom Nelson
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