Blaming oil companies for adverse weather is akin to putting your finger in a dyke with no leak.
I’m not saying emissions are good but the amount of volcanic activity above and below the ocean accounts for unstoppable emissions and ocean warming. We’re still warming from an ice age and mini ice age. Urban temperatures are rising faster due to blacktop, concrete, and office buildings being heated and cooled 24/7, not to mention minimal greenspace.
Plate tectonics raise and lower all land masses. Earth will resemble Venus one day. Mars lost its atmosphere due to losing magnetic poles, which is the only thing protecting us from frying up from solar winds. We still get hit by cosmic rays, but maybe people can learn instead of playing the media blame game.
ALSO READ: CRD to vote on studying impact of joining lawsuit against ‘big oil’ firms
Don’t live in a floodplain or by a river. Poor construction planning caused Coquihalla damage. Malahat workers failed on drainage impacts as we’ve had many wetter 48-hour periods. Abbotsford floods every 10 years from a U.S. river breach due to choosing fish habitat over dredging. When tides and rivers keep pushing silt up, we need to dredge as the water needs to go somewhere. Dykes always fail, hills always slide, people cause most forest fires, yet we all like to blame weather.
Uneducated radicals said the Arctic would melt by 1995, and Greenland’s melting would raise oceans 20 feet in 2010. I prefer listening to the astronomers and geologists that were taught before the current fallacies of “computer modelling.”
Stuart Walker
Central Saanich
