Reefer Madness
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Reefer Madness
Among the contradictions in modern fear-based climate “science” is the idea that heat will be the doom of life on earth. The implication is that life needs not warmth, but snow and ice to thrive. To quote George Will:
Well.
Has no one noticed the distinct lack of abundance of life at earth’s polar icecaps, on glaciers, and in the depths of winter season in the temperate zones and higher latitudes? There’s a reason that the hypothesized ideal zones for life in the universe have been narrowed to include only planets where there might be water in its liquid form. Frozen water is all but useless to biology—no more accessible than a rock.
If the climate discussion were to have at least one foot firmly planted in reality, there would be acknowledgment that warm temperatures below the boiling point are essential to life, and any claimed scares based on warming should be dismissed. In that spirit, John Robson of CDN takes on the recurring alarmist stories about the planet’s coral reefs undergoing “bleaching” due to warming, just as it is warmth that the reef building organisms need to live.
Robson’s YouTube channel is admittedly a bit trollish in tone, but some of the claims of the activists trying to induce panic are hardly within the realm of the serious.
To the best of our understanding, based on research conducted outside the politicized arena of “climate science”, many of earth’s interglacial periods were not just completely ice-free, they also featured tropical temperatures at the poles. Temperatures in that realm—far away from where the earth’s climate is today—would be the most conducive to life in general. But it would probably be full of pesky creatures trying to nibble on us or infect us all the time. Life is a miracle, but it also entails brutal competition for survival.
In sum, warming temperatures would probably be conducive to fabulous coral reefs in all the world’s oceans, it seems fair to say. They should not be a cause for alarm.
Good morning.
"Life is a miracle, but it also entails brutal competition for survival."
Nature is where stuff eats other stuff. There are predatory fungi. Corals are absolutely voracious and totally without mercy toward competitors. Ice sheets will smush you after you starve to death and then freeze solid.
Our species is so bonkers.
I learned that Trump is here in my area this afternoon. Fortunately, he should be gone before I have to go anywhere else. When I saw the item, I thought about the traffic jam on the way to the library, but that was caused by a fender-bender in the middle lane.