How can you tell that something is a cult and not a science? When everything bad that happens is the result of people refusing to comply with the edicts of the cult
The politics of harsh winters
In the past, extreme weather and disastrous harvests have proved socially divisive. We have been warned, say climate researchersIn the winter of 1432-33 people in Scotland “had to use fire to melt the wine before drinking it†ran a line in the research about the coldest decade of winters in the last 1,000 years.
Short of real temperature readings, descriptions of such incidents and records of rivers and lakes freezing over for months at a time, tree rings and ice cores are what climate scientists have to use to trace weather extremes of the past.
In the past, this was all natural. Now?
Part of the research is looking at how the cold decade affected society’s attitudes. The famines and subsequent epidemics among the weakened populations were often blamed on minorities, although in some cities, including London, there was a more constructive approach. Communal grain stores were built so as many people could be kept alive as possible – the medieval equivalent of food banks.
With the erratic behaviour of the weather with climate change, the researchers say it is conceivable that Europe could have another run of poor harvests. That would raise food prices, but what are the other possible consequences, and who would get the blame? The researchers say we should prepare for such shocks.
Got that? Because of Mankind and their fossil fuels addiction, we could be looking at poor harvests from carbon pollution cold weather.
