Violence In Cameroon? Blame It On Global Warming!
By Paul Homewood
h/t Dennis Ambler
Here we go again – Lake Chad is disappearing before our very eyes, and it’s all YOUR FAULT!
https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/12/1107622
It’s a fake news story which comes around every year like clockwork.
A French study in 2016 debunked the myth, finding that while lake levels fluctuated up and down, there was no evidence that it was disappearing:
Note:
- All claims of drying up are based on 1963 levels, which were a 20thC maximum
- On many occasions during the 20thC, Lake Chad dried up to similar levels as in the 1980s.
- The drying up of Lake Chad after 1963 all took place during the droughts of the 1970s and 80s.
- Since 2001, water levels have risen strongly
Another study two years ago came to the same conclusions:
https://shoring-up-stability.org/
It is worth pointing out that the 1970s drought coincided with a period of global cooling. This is not coincidental: HH Lamb wrote about a “moisture optimum in the Lake Chad Basin between AD700 and 1200”, followed by “greater difficulties during the Little Ice Age”.
There are doubtless real problems for people living in the region, but they have nothing to do with global warming.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Apologies for this interruption, but the archive conversations on Polar Bears have been closed to comments. This recent publication deserves a look…
ADVENTURE: How the Polar Bear Capital of the World Is Dealing With Climate Change
https://www.cntraveler.com/?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=cnt&utm_mailing=CNT_Daily_PM_121021&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5c33a063fc942d4c3f76587b&cndid=37223743&hasha=dc6adb8d8757d0cbc22cad6641cb31e8&hashb=94c919c6a91ab075834161ba42413e08d27e4995&hashc=2d04ef12f42afbb3ca9e020eb5c247dff580fec21f9df51936b393e35f228591&esrc=AUTO_OTHER&utm_content=A&utm_term=CNT_Daily
Scroll down…More nonsense!
Nope. Try as I might, BL, all I’m getting is a holiday sites website. Tried looking for adventure and polar bears…..
Very sorry. Try this instead:
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/how-the-polar-bear-capital-of-the-world-is-dealing-with-climate-change
There are 2 ‘solutions’ either ship the polar bears to Lake Chad or ship snow there. Either is stupid, expensive and would have serious consequences so I expect them to be announced shortly by the Greens as desirable, nay necessary, to save the world.
‘Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso are experiencing climate change-induced temperature rises that are 1.5 times faster than the global average’
Indefinite. But precise.
Which must some places are seeing rises below the average. Pretty sure that’s how averages work.
Did I see Nicola Sturgeon blowing up a Power Station on the BBC News, or was I hallucinating?
Climate Emergency?
Pau, nicely done.
The Guardian is making a similar play about a non-existent climate crisis in The Gambia. I hope you don’t mind me mentioning it here:
And why wouldn’t lower rainfall be coincident with cooling if higher rainfall is coincident with warming?
Same old story, ignore historical variation and use a maximum or minimum to measure things from. The sad thing is how many journalists have no idea how ridiculous it is.
“…have no idea how…”
To think!
Hardly anybody learns to think. Being clever actually does not help. Such people tend to confuse having a high IQ with being able to use that high IQ. Whilst in the belly of the educational monster, they may pick up a sort of play-ground rudeness (“Everybody KNOWS…!” or smart-arsery (“Says YOU…!” and be forever proud of what they fondly imagine are keen debating skills.
At best, entrants to some professions – such as accountancy and engineering – have to learn to analyze a coherent body of concepts, to function at all. But it is a limited, specialized training. And it can lead to gross over-confidence, when outside the boundaries; the old “Have hammer. Will treat everything as a nail.”
“Need to learn to think.”
For clarification, I am commenting on journalists – not Phoenix44!
I happened to be reading something by the 19th Century scientist Michael Faraday, who had no academic qualifications what-so-ever, but taught himself to think logically.
Faraday’s laboratory journal still exists in its entirety. He wrote in numbered, separate, extended, paragraphs; and the whole, hand-written, work forms one connected narrative of his entire scientific life, with constant internal references to findings recorded earlier.
The last paragraph he wrote, before giving up work entirely, starts with the number 16,041,
He was a most tolerant critic. There exists a letter to Tyndall in which he says (roughly)
I am returning your paper, with all the penciled comments I made, still in the margins. I apologize for so much defacing, and that I obviously jumped to some false conclusions while reading, but I was so interested and excited! Perhaps some trifling changes would make it unnecessary for another reader to work at anticipating your excellent solutions to difficulties?
Just like the BBC and Sky News stories that Victoria Falls is drying up.
Most of the problems in Africa are caused by outsiders.
Meddlesome post-colonials countries and UN policies; restrictions on development loans enforced by Central Banks, The IMF, & The World Banks, etc.; unrepresentative NGOs ensuring wasting donor money while playing political games with the indigenous populations. NOTE most Central Banks are PRIVATE banks designed to maximize profits for their unrepresentative and usually unknown boards and investors.
Cameroon like many of the Central African countries are tied to the Central African franc (CFA). This in turn ensures that France dictates how the domestic economies of the region function while making profits from manipulating them. See https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/03/africa-colonies-france-cfa-franc-currency for more about how Cameroon and 13 other African countries are affected by France’s policies to them.