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There was a time when weather was what was outside your door. A hurricane was a fact one battened down the hatches for. A tornado was an act of nature (or God) one could not predict. A gentle summer rain had no reason, nor inertia – it was merely nature equalizing itself.
Today, however, weather has an ethos, a meaning, a larger context to which politics can attach itself. For, if every anomaly in nature can be given a genesis in carbon-consumption – then nature itself can be regulated and give the politicians wind beneath their wings. But, facts are stubborn things. The fact is more carbon chaos is created by a volcano in one hellacious second than the internal combustion engine has created since its inception. Yet, nature rebounds? How is this possible?
I find the arguments tiring. Yet, on The Weather Channel, which is supposed to be about the atmospheric trends at any given moment, there is a blog site one can go to “learn” what there is to learn about man’s rape of our blessed Mother Earth. Here is a litany of the articles one can find at The Weather Channel’s blog site:
“How Could a Wind Turbine Possibly Be Bad For You?” – an exploration of why objections to wind power are minor, compared to the Greater Good.
“One Fish, Two Fish” – an analysis of why fisheries need tighter regulations.
“Organic vs. local – a 5-year-old’s perspective” – a whiny mom lamenting the high cost of eating ‘healthy.’
“Did the Olympics Live Up to China’s Environmental Promises?” – a laundry list of enviro-friendly Olympic Village features that never once mentions the China outside of the cloistered environment of the athletic venues – that China, by and large, is a toxic dump of unregulated, communist-inflicted enviro-abuse.
“Signs of the Times – Cadillac To Go Smaller” – a critique of how luxury need not be consumptive. The assumption is that the automotive engineers desire to go green – and damn the consumer.
“Biden’s Climate Record” – an declaration of Biden’s embrace of global warming assumptions.
“Goat Mowers” – an enviro-friendly look at the goat as a preferred method of controlling the pesky kudzu plant – as opposed to burning.
“Plastic Sushi” – the horrors of fish ingesting plastic.
It goes on. There is an endless litany of this tripe. The Weather Channel? I hate it. Their presumptions about MMGW are implicit in everything they do. I watch them grudgingly; only when I’m tracking a thunderstorm or a blizzard or a hurricane. I turn the sound off.
The pictures tell the story their reporters won’t.
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