Bernie: HOTTEST DAY EVER CONGRESS MUST ACT NOW D00M D0000M D000000MMMMM

I couldn't finish this nonsense (at the Grauniad, unsuprisingly).

Here's the only thing that giant pile of shit is good for: if you can get through it without laughing hysterically or hurling, then--and I say this from a place of love--you gotta read more about the subject.

   Here's a good short post hitting some of the important points. 

   Points as I'd put 'em:

   Not only do we no know that yesterday was the hottest day in 125k years, but we don't even know what the global temperature was yesterday. Figuring that out is damn hard. It also requires a lot of reasoning, modeling, and conjecture. At every point, there are opportunities to fiddle with the data. Guess which way it normally gets fiddled with?

   Temperature records get set all the time. There's a lot variance in temperatures, we haven't been keeping careful records that long. On an average day, lots of records are being set. A sufficiently fanatical and/or dishonest person or organization can often find a way to make things look alarming--in one direction or another.

   Go look at the charts at WUWT.

   Bernie's just lying or ignorant about extreme weather. (Not that he actually wrote the thing.) There's little or no evidence that AGW is causing more extreme weather. As for the Canadian wildfires: er, a lot of those were arson, you realize...right? 

   Yes, heat waves kill people. Cold kills a lot more people than heat. Note that those numbers are missing. Warming overall saves more people than it kills.

   The claim that there is a clear, observable link between climate change and the litany of problems he lists is simply false.

   It's like a Twilight Zone episode, watching this propaganda be pumped out, and seeing the "elites"/intelligentsia eat it up because they're too lazy, uninterested, and locked into leftist groupthink to investigate.

   Though, as I've noted, this isn't like gender psychopathy / men are women. At least it isn't outright war is peace...the sky is green...2+2=5... The climate issue is complicated and obscure enough that confusion is at least excusable.

   And, as always: I agree that there's a problem here. But hysteria just makes things worse. We don't have to fix it all right now--and we can't. The left is just using this as an excuse to implement their nefarious woke/socialist agenda. The left creates panic in order to herd people toward policies they'd never agree to otherwise. Nothing we do will matter much given that China isn't going to do anything. Panic can only hurt the West. It can't solve the problem, and can't even really mitigate it. Our options are (a) do nothing, (b) start moving judiciously in the direction of lower emissions, (c) panic, wreck our economy, increase the power of the soft-totalitarian left...all without solving the alleged problem.