{"id":91360,"date":"2024-09-06T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=91360"},"modified":"2024-09-05T16:19:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T20:19:56","slug":"climate-catastrophism-in-a-phrase-the-sky-gods-are-angry-and-were-all-gonna-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/09\/06\/climate-catastrophism-in-a-phrase-the-sky-gods-are-angry-and-were-all-gonna-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate catastrophism in a phrase &#8211; &#8220;The sky gods are angry and we&#8217;re all gonna pay&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relax, weather-panic true believers &mdash; this is a post from <a href=\"https:\/\/jimtreacher.substack.com\/p\/the-nyt-begs-for-angry-sky-gods-to\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Treacher<\/a> who gets paid to write funny stuff. This means you can mock everything in it as &#8220;fake news&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m pretty old at this point, and for my whole life, the media has been predicting the weather will kill us all.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid, the news was all about the coming Ice Age. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Time-The-Cooling-of-America-cover.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Time-The-Cooling-of-America-cover.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-91361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Time-The-Cooling-of-America-cover.png 380w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Time-The-Cooling-of-America-cover-114x150.png 114w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brrrrr! Iran was a bunch of terrorist assholes even back in the &#8217;70s, but the existential threat to America hadn&#8217;t been updated yet. They thought the <em>cold<\/em> was gonna get us.<\/p>\n<p>And that dumb magazine was only $1.25 an issue! Everything might be more expensive 45 years later, but at least we haven&#8217;t all frozen to death.<\/p>\n<p>Then the big threat became &#8220;global warming&#8221;. But when people noticed it wasn&#8217;t getting any warmer outside, despite the climate models that were supposed to horrify us, the scare tactic became &#8220;climate change&#8221;. They didn&#8217;t think we&#8217;d notice, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>And through it all, there was one constant refrain: The sky gods are angry and we&#8217;re all gonna pay.<\/p>\n<p>Do you leave your phone charger plugged in when you&#8217;re not using it? Do you drive a gas-powered car because it actually works? Then you&#8217;re destroying the planet, according to a pack of millionaires with yachts and private jets.<\/p>\n<p>But now the celebrities and other climate supplicants are in dismay. The weather is letting them down again! Yet another of their predictions hasn&#8217;t come true, and they want to know why their climate deities have abandoned them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/04\/weather\/hurricane-season-forecast-september.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Judson Jones, <em>NYT<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Halfway through an Atlantic hurricane season that forecasters expected would be one of the most active on record, there has been a considerable interlude in storms during what is typically the busiest portion of the season, leaving observers to wonder if the forecast was a bust \u2014 or if the worst may be yet to come.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Often, at this time of the year, it isn&#8217;t uncommon to see two, three or even four named storms occurring simultaneously. But on Wednesday there were no current storms, and there hasn&#8217;t been one since Hurricane Ernesto formed, beginning as a tropical storm, on Aug. 12 &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Despite the reprieve in recent weeks, though, &#8220;it is too early to dismiss the seasonal hurricane outlook as a bust,&#8221; said Dan Harnos, a meteorologist at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You got that? We haven&#8217;t endured as many deadly, destructive hurricanes as the scientists predicted. And they&#8217;re worried about it. They want people to suffer and die, but they&#8217;re hopeful that nature will still unleash its fury on us.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still time for the worst to happen. Fingers crossed!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relax, weather-panic true believers &mdash; this is a post from Jim Treacher who gets paid to write funny stuff. This means you can mock everything in it as &#8220;fake news&#8221;: I&#8217;m pretty old at this point, and for my whole life, the media has been predicting the weather will kill us all. When I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,7,28,53,13],"tags":[263,245,240,456,206],"class_list":["post-91360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-history","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-1970s","tag-climatechange","tag-globalwarming","tag-hysteria","tag-severeweather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-nLy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91362,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91360\/revisions\/91362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}