Kooky blogs in England

It's official. Myron Ebell loves global warming. That's the title of his article in Forbes, the magazine for the rich. He writes:

Researchers have warned us that a temperature rise of a few degrees will bring about plagues of jellyfish on our shores, more poison ivy in our gardens, maple syrup shortages, drowning polar bears, invasions by hordes of smaller and smaller ants, and a proliferation of new types of crime (at least in Australia). Dry areas will become deserts, wet places malarial swamps. Sea levels will rise faster and, worst of all, the effects will fall hardest on women, minorities, children and the poorest people in the poorest countries.

... whom Myron believes do not deserve to live because they do not provide any economic benefit to the likes of Exxon. If their crops fail it's not the drought, it's because there's not yet enough CO2 in the atmosphere to make them "grow more quickly, more vigorously and... be more resistant to things like drought." You bonehead!

[R]ising sea levels, if they happen, would be bad for a lot of people. But a warming trend would be good for other people... I'd like to suggest that the debate about climate change include, for once, a fair assessment of the benefits alongside the declamations of harm.

So, we see a shift here: he's finally accepting that everyone now believes in the well-founded scientific predictions, as opposed to the transparent fiction that he's given to us until now, and says that some of the consequences therein stated do not matter.

For example, cold winter storms kill a lot of people. More people die from blizzards and cold spells than from heat waves.

Here's a good bit.

Increased death rates usually persist for weeks after the unusually cold temperatures have passed, which suggests that the cold is killing people who would otherwise live into another season at least. Mortality rates during heat waves are just the reverse. The increase ends and often the rate drops below normal as soon as temperatures cool, which suggests that the higher temperatures are killing people who are likely to die soon anyway.

I have no idea how the logic works here. He's excels himself. Anyway, we move on:

So modest climatic improvement would be to have fewer and less severe big winter storms. Amazingly, that's exactly what we should get if global warming theory turns out to be true. The models say that much of the warming will occur in the upper latitudes and in the winter. At the risk of further ridicule in kooky blogs in England, where global warming alarmism is now a religion, that sounds pretty good to me. Fewer people will die from the cold... Life in many places [only in America] would become more pleasant. Instead of 20 below zero in January in Saskatoon, it might be only 10 below.

And now the punchline. Wait for it...

This promising scenario of milder winters in northern regions, which would become reality in the unlikely event that global warming turns out to be as considerable as predicted, comes with a catch, however. Air-conditioning is now considered a necessity... Air-conditioning takes a lot of energy. But to stop global warming, we're supposed to use much less energy. Given our obvious preference for living in warmer climates as long as we have air-conditioning, I doubt that we're going to go on the energy diet that the global warming doomsters urge us to undertake.

Coincidentally, above the article, was a banner ad which took you to Exxon's new PR campaign.

why not take wastes that would end up in landfills-- and recycle them so they end up as roads. That's travelling in the right direction!

Just what do they take us for? You can't even parody this nonsense. Did they actually pay good PR money for it? Why not take Myron's big book of no longer useful lies, and recycle them as school books?

How are his children doing so far anyway? Have they achieved anything for the Stop Myron Ebell campaign. Maybe they don't want to make a fuss because they need his money to get an education. What's the subject? Environmental sciences. Could be useful to know in a changing world. I hope it's not law school. Lawyers can tell you they own the world, but they will be first on the barbeque when the famine comes. All they're good for is meat.