{"id":71508,"date":"2021-08-30T14:51:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T19:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=71508"},"modified":"2021-08-30T22:17:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T03:17:44","slug":"71508","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=71508","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me restate my position on ‘Climate Change’.
\nWhen the elitists, who say<\/em> climate change is a real problem, begin living their lives<\/em> like it is a real problem, I’ll begin<\/em> to consider that it may be<\/em> a real problem. As to the rest of this academic BS? You already know my position.<\/p>\n

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No, The Climate Chupacabra Doesn\u2019t Cause \u201cGun\u201d Violence<\/a><\/p>\n

Bloomberg\u2019s anti-Bill of Rights publication\u00a0The Trace<\/i>\u00a0recently ran\u00a0an article<\/a> speculating about a causal link between climate change and \u201cgun\u201d violence. The article, which is an interview of Rutgers University\u2013Camden professor Daniel Semenza, checks every fashionable academic fad: climate change, \u201cgun\u201d violence, inequality, you name it.<\/p>\n

Cited in the article and professor Semenza\u2019s\u00a0Twitter thread<\/a>\u00a0(Archive\u00a0link<\/a>) are a couple of\u00a0academic<\/a>\u00a0papers<\/a>\u00a0that posit a link between climate change and violent crime based on speculative models. One cited paper establishes an\u00a0incontrovertible connection<\/a>\u00a0between weather and crime in Chicago based on real data. However, the article as a whole takes a giant leap from crime data in a specific locale tied to weather to massive speculative claims on a causal link between climate change and \u201cgun\u201d violence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, something that\u2019s missing in the article.<\/p>\n

Gun violence tends to cluster in more disadvantaged areas where people are interacting, engaging, and getting into conflicts over smaller things, shows of disrespect, and interpersonal issues that happened with family and friends. When it\u2019s hot outside, we\u2019re more frustrated, and it\u2019s easier to get angry. You throw a bunch of guns into the mix and you can see how violence can ensue.<\/p>\n

Shootings spike in summer months, and that\u2019s often because in the communities where gun violence is high, a lot of people don\u2019t have air conditioning or they live in smaller homes where they\u2019re not comfortable, so they go outside more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although this seems plausible, I cannot help but point out that the country I grew up in \u2013 India \u2013 is a mostly sweltering hot country with a population of 1.3 billion. I don\u2019t recall people being nasty because of the weather. I grew up without air conditioning in summers that could get up to 120\u00baF; we couldn\u2019t even run cheap ceiling fans to keep us cool because the power supply was so unreliable and spotty. (It was truly a democratic socialist wonderland.)<\/p>\n

My story isn\u2019t unique by any measure; hundreds of millions of people coped with the summer heat without killing one another over small insults. Indian food requires a lot of prep and women managed to cook for their families in front of a hot stove in a hot kitchen without turning knives into assault weapons. Granted India wasn\u2019t violence-free despite its image in the West as the birthplace of Gandhian non-violent political struggle, the country was and is by and large good, and the people are decent despite the hot weather and endemic poverty.<\/p>\n

So, what was different there? Maybe a culture that respects life? Or a family structure that\u2019s largely intact despite horrible poverty? A respect for your elders?\u00a0Religiosity<\/a>? That\u2019s for sociologists to study and figure out.<\/p>\n

There are lots of tall claims about what climate change can cause, scary enough that it almost has the mythical stature of the\u00a0Chupacabra<\/a>. (Check out: \u201cA complete list of things caused by global warming<\/a>,\u201d and \u201cWrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions<\/a>.\u201d). One common claim is that impacts on food production will lead to violence, something that has\u00a0failed the real world test<\/a>. Another common claim is that climate change drives wars; that also lacks\u00a0concrete proof<\/a>. Climate alarmism goes back decades; read this article published June 29 1989, titled, \u201cU.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked<\/a>,\u201d and see how many of those claims have come to fruition. (While you\u2019re at it, look at the\u00a0current version<\/a> of the article on The Associated Press website and notice how the headline and date of publication have been memory holed.)<\/p>\n

Despite the provocative headline above, I don\u2019t think climate change is something humanity should take lightly; I won\u2019t get into that, but what I do take serious issue with is the exploitation of climate change alarmism to push every far-Left agenda item that many of us oppose: top-down economic planning and control, micromanaging the lives of the\u00a0hoi polloi<\/i>, controlling their\u00a0food<\/a>\u00a0choices<\/a>,\u00a0transportation<\/a>\u00a0choices<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0lifestyle choices<\/a>, while the\u00a0elites shamelessly fly in on private jets<\/a>\u00a0to congregate<\/a>\u00a0on an island<\/a>\u00a0in the middle of a pandemic<\/a>\u00a0for an ex-President\u2019s glitzy birthday party<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For a long time, we have seen the CDC camel trying to stick its nose under the Second Amendment tent using the ruse that \u201cgun\u201d violence is a public health issue. What\u2019s next? The United States Geological Survey (USGS) mucking around with the Second Amendment using climate change as a pretext?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me restate my position on ‘Climate Change’. When the elitists, who say climate change is a real problem, begin living their lives like it is a real problem, I’ll begin to consider that it may be a real problem. As to the rest of this academic BS? You already know my position. No, The … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71550,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71508\/revisions\/71550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}