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A Hot Mess: Climate of Confusion
Our betters had better get a grip on their narrative. We have been assured that the science is settled. Wicked men have offended Mother Earth and she is getting hot under the collar. To deny this is heresy. Heretics must be cast out, silenced, deplatformed, unpersoned. We must unite to denounce and deny the deniers…at Newsweek!
Newsweek is certainly a member in good standing of the church of correct thinking. So how could it possibly be that they would blaspheme Anthropogenic Global Warming? Yet here is the evidence that they have transgressed [emphasis added]:
TECH & SCIENCE
ICE AGES ARE CAUSED BY MASSIVE COLLISIONS OF EARTH’S CONTINENTS, STUDY SAYS
BY HANNAH OSBORNE ON 3/14/19 AT 2:00 PM EDTA team of U.S. researchers has found that the last three major ice ages—which took place over 540 million years—were all preceded by massive tectonic pile-ups around the equator. Their findings, published in the journal Science, provide new insight into the causes of ice ages, which up until now were thought to relate to volcanic eruptions.
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We are currently living in an ice age that began just over 2.5 million years ago. At present, we are in an interglacial period—where Earth goes through a warm period within an ice age.
At the moment, there is a zone in Indonesia where two tectonic plates are colliding. This could potentially be what was responsible for the current ice age—and why we have a cool climate and ice caps today.
The science is settled, so how dare Science publish such wrongthink? Was the editor asleep at Newsweek? Did Mark Steyn hack their server? Surely real scientists could never write such things! There must be a hoax or some conspiracy afoot! We must look to our high priestess AOC for protection and guidance in the Green New Way, lest civilization whither and blow away in the hot air.
Indeed, the Pope has apparently blessed the doctrinal soundness of Anthropogenic Global Warming. He has even pronounced a system of penances, or are they indulgences? @DonG asks “Is the Pope Catholic? Or is he a Gaiaist?” Perhaps the answer is “yes.” It would hardly be the first time religious authorities sprinkled holy water or waved incense over the pronouncements of secular powers.
Published in Group Writing
Yeah, it’s pretty amazing and scary what Republicans and business have done to the planet.
There may be no real way to evaluate that finding. (Although the New Left will happily pounce on it as another warning signal from About To Crumble Mother Earth.)
From having lived with Lake Michigan as part of my natural playground, until I was 24 and left Chicago, I didn’t find out til i was 30 something that Lake Michigan has a cycle whereby its currents eat away at the southwest coastline of Michigan for X amount of years. Then the current switches directions and begins to eat away at the Chicago side of things.
This meant that many a stately North Side of Chicago high rise had its basement garage floors taken out. Of course, once the lower floors are gone, the entire buildings would be doomed as well. But in terms of overall “Climactic Change Catastrophes,” it seems to have been a steady cycle that had been in effect since people started noticing such things in the late 1800’s. Unfortunately it was a cycle that the architects who built those high rises in the late Nineteen teens and 1920’s had chosen to ignore.
Don’t they line the shorelines with anything? Around NYC, they line the edges with stone that is like gravel, except each chunk is a pound or two, too heavy to be moved by the water. I assume that’s about erosion.
Thank you, sir!
Yes, and there are parts of the Chicago shoreline that are protected in various ways.
Around NYC it might also be about bedrock disposal.
It’s called riprap.