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WHEN the history of the global warming scare
comes to be
written, a chapter should be devoted to the way the message had to be
altered to keep the show on the road. Global warming became climate
change so as to be able to take the blame for cold spells and wet
seasons as well as hot days. Then, to keep its options open, the
movement began to talk about “extreme weather”.
 Part of the problem was that
some time towards the end of the
first decade of the 21st century it became clear that the Earth’s
average temperature just was not consistently rising any more,
... So
those who made their living from alarm, and by then there were lots,
switched tactics and began to jump on any unusual weather event,
whether it was a storm, a drought, a blizzard or a flood, and blame it
on man-made carbon dioxide emissions. This proved a rewarding tactic,
because people – egged on by journalists – have an inexhaustible
appetite for believing in the vindictiveness of the weather gods. The
fossil fuel industry was inserted in the place of Zeus as the scapegoat
of choice. (Scientists are the priests.)
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