True North

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. 

Cross-posted at Freedom Dogs. Comments welcome.