The world’s leading non-scientist explains the benefits of climate change.
One swallow does not make a spring.
Nor do the months of rain and storms which can only sarcastically be described as “summer” in Sydney provide irrefutable proof that climate change is a-happenin’.
But the wacky weather patterns we’ve been witnessing around the globe of late sure do give most pause to ponder.
Unless, of course, you are the tangerine-tinged former leader of the free world.
While it may be difficult to top ex-president Donald Trump’s musings on ingesting bleach to combat covid on the barking-moonbat-bonkers-ometer, comments made by The Donald last Saturday are running a close second.
Speaking to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, the world’s leading alternative-fact spruiker was at pains to dismiss climate change as a liberal hobby-horse with minimal consequences for right-thinking folks.
Far from being an existential threat to life as we know it, developments such as rising sea levels would have a positive impact because, according to Trump, that would result in “giving you slightly more seafront property”.
Now your Back Page correspondent makes no claims to be a wizard at geography, but you don’t have to be a genius to realise just how plainly wrong that statement is.
As in, more of the sea ultimately equates to less of the coastline.
(Unless you are a property salesperson, in which case standing on the toilet and looking out the window at a sliver of water in the far distance can be described as “sweeping waterfront views”.)
A more sober assessment of the impact of rising sea levels on human health and wellbeing was released earlier this week by the United Nations and the take home message from that report is truly dire. Read it and weep.
So while our world leaders dither and deny, the smartest thing we plebs can do is invest in a natty pair of gumboots.
If you see something that steams your spleen, whistle it on over to felicity@medicalrepublic.com.au
