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Climate Instability? Well, Gosh! That Sounds Kind of Crisis-y, Doesn’t It?

Jimmie | December 22, 2009 | Comments (0)

If at first second third, you don’t succeed in getting your latest progressive panic phrase to stick, try, try again with a more, shall way say flexible, term.

This new terminology is more clever, for it neatly avoids the shortcomings of its clumsy forebears. It requires neither warming, nor change. Just television.

When blizzards descend on scientists and world leaders from Copenhagen to East Anglia to Washington, they warmists can now claim ownership.

When hurricane forecasts fall short of the mark, the propagandists can cite their very failure to support their scheme.

Warm winters, cold winters, more hurricanes, fewer hurricanes, growing ice caps, melting ice caps – directions won’t matter. Every “new” temperature record, every seasonal flood, every California hot spell, every dusting of snow in the south of France – in other words, local weather, reported globally, will return full force as evidence of anthropogenic climate crime, as it did in a simpler time when the ice conditions of a canal in Ottawa led to nationwide panic.

So, get ready to welcome the new talking point on the block: “climate instability“.

Wow. Who doesn’t like stability, especially in our climate? It’s a simple idea to sell, too, since you can use any two disparate weather events to prove it. Hot today but cold yesterday? Climate instability. Few hurricanes this year but a normal amount next year? Climate instability. See how easily it could be slipped into the daily media stream? See how insidious it could become?

The only real way to refute this meme is to laugh at anyone who dares to use it seriously. It is easy enough to ridicule, since you can blame anything on “instability”. Did it rain today? Well, it’s just that darned unstable climate! Been in a bit of a drought and need some rain? Get out there and drive your SUV to cause a little more “instability” in the form of a rainstorm! Make a joke of the whole thing and you dimish everyone’s ability to take it seriously and those who do look more ridiculous.

It’ll be tougher to kill than “global warming” or “global cooling” because it, like the philosophy that spawned it, is to empty of actual fact and meaning, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do the deed. Such a phrase, left unchallenged, can run an awfully long way. Just look at the horribly-abused “universal health care” still being used by the Democrats even though not a single one of their health care reform plans has ever purported to be universal. Do you think if conservatives had slammed the door on that lie early, the march to where we are right now wouldn’t have proceeded at such a blistering pace? Conservatives surrendered that language battle and we’re paying for it sorely now. I’m dog-tired of ceding our language to the totalitarian wanna-bes on the left.

This seems like a great place to make them look like the nasty little deceivers they really are.