I would be less skeptical of the global warming industry were it not for the cloak of crapola it wears so comfortably.

The latest manifestation is the 40,000 people in Paris, most of them flown in from around the world on carbon-spewing jets, mostly at taxpayers’ expense, for yet another last-chance-to-save-the-planet climate conference.

What is this, the third last-chance to save the planet, or the fourth? I forget.

What is this, the third last-chance to save the planet, or the fourth? I forget. These conferences should be numbered, like Superbowls, to help us keep track of our last chances.

What distinguishes this climate conference is the attendance. When 40,000 people show up for an event, it smacks more of festivities than of work. They’ll have to truck in croissants from Lyon to feed everyone. I ask those in attendance, please, don’t tell us to reduce our carbon emissions with your mouths full.

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To see 40,000 flown in to a conference about reducing carbon emissions is especially dubious. In terms of numbers, at least, it looks like a conference to generate more carbon, not less. Of course, you can’t get all those people to Paris on solar energy. We will significantly reduce global carbon emissions when only those within the climate industry are allowed the luxury of travel.

Another loose seam in the cloak of climate crapola was exposed this week on CBC radio, which is gaga over global warming. Instead of taking the skeptical view that distinguishes journalists from boosters, CBC is reporting on the deviant psychology of climate change skeptics. We’re sick, apparently. We need help. But why, then, why does the climate industry care what we say? Why do alarmists get so worked up by those they deride as “deniers?” You don’t see historians getting worked up every time someone claims to be Napoleon.

I’ll tell you why climate alarmists cannot abide any whiff of doubt. The explanation comes from the late American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr: “Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt.”

Presenting a flooded floodplain as evidence of global warming is like using an eclipse of the sun to impress primitives.

Sometimes it is rooted in BS. Monday morning on CBC radio was an orthodox alarmist who claimed we already are seeing the impact of climate change. The terrible flood in Calgary in 2013 was but a taste of weather extremes to come he said, unchallenged.

Too bad, because the claim is nonsense. The Calgary flood was the result of building a city on a floodplain. Floodplains flood. That’s why they’re called floodplains. Because the land is flat and fertile and close to the river, people build on them anyway. Inevitably, they are inundated. In Calgary, there are five major floods on record. Four of these were before industrialization, so carbon emissions had nothing to do with it.