The most extreme examples of climate change were the ice ages and they were really a catastrophe for life in many parts of the world. And we don’t understand them.
We just don’t know why they started or why they come and go in a more or less periodic fashion. It’s all a big mystery. And if we don’t understand ice ages we don’t understand climate. – Freeman Dyson
The California wildfires are sparking yet another round of claims that a natural phenomena, in this case wildfires, is being caused by climate change. It is more likely caused by poor land management, the permitting the accumulation of brush in chaparral country, but who cares? Nor is this a new problem. John McPhee, spent one-third of his 1989 book The Control of Nature discussing Los Angeles’s struggle with these types of wildfires. Back then folks were worrying that man was going to trigger a new ice age rather than runaway heating.
To paraphrase Thomas Sowell’s quote about racism, climate change is like ketchup; it can be poured over practically anything – and demanding evidence makes you a climate change denier.
What climate change does demonstrate is the pernicious effect of government funding on basic science. The results end up mirroring the desires of those holding the purse strings, because only people producing the desired results get funded whether they are motivated by being true believers or because they wish to retain their rice bowls. The age of science is being supplanted by the age of government-funded superstition.
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