Jonah,
why should we suddenly forget that there has not been any 'canes for 12 years? In fact the week before Harvey, a Canadian climate geographer prof was interviewed, CBC national radio, that temps are well within normal ranges, but the problem is heat waves. He said this 3x in the first 5 minutes of his 30 min interview. What ever happened to storms and rising sea levels? Yet no one pounced on him for changing the script. So perhaps there is more doubt out there than the elites think.
The elites would be the ones who have declared that 0.1 degree increase in the next 25 years is a crisis for which all western banking is to be altered TODAY.
why should we forget 'Hole in the Wall' glacier at Taku, Alaska, and for that matter, Lake Taku? HinW did not exist in 1900. It now burst sideways from Taku, N. America's largest glacier, and a cross section of it, once you are 'downflow' from the ridge it broke through, is the height and width of downtown Seattle. doesn't sound like receding. Mendenhall is receding, of course, but it is so steep, you can see the whole thing in one view in the bay below. Taku is 45 miles long. HinW is only the size of Mendenhall.
then there is the Lake. The lake existed because, yes, Taku used to extend further in the 1700s. and dammed the huge Taku river. But then in broke through and the lake disappeared. That was early 1800s, quite a ways before internal combusion, you see.
Or there is the ice station at the top of Taku. I don't know what the challenge is within the science community, but every year they get people in there in July, who are totally surprised to find that they are going to spend half of their time at the station just digging out; digging out a glacier that is supposedly a crisis. It has become a local joke around Juneau. The rabid environmentalist arrives from Europe or wherever and month later has infected, blistered hands and back problems when he comes down from the station.
