Western Standard - Climate alarmists are cheering on the drought

00:00:00.000 So let's talk. Alberta, it's been in a drought for a couple of years, and it's been bad.

00:00:05.120 I mean, last fall, the normally smooth-flowing creek that bounds my property out by Prittis,

00:00:09.880 it's been reduced to a trickle. I've never seen anything like it. The reservoirs around the

00:00:13.600 province, they were getting low, and last winter was relatively dry. And if things remain dry,

00:00:18.320 you know, the province could be facing another rough year for agricultural producers and with

00:00:22.440 the forest fires. But things appear to be turning around. According to data, actually, from Environment

00:00:28.120 and Natural Resources Canada, Alberta's precipitation has been above average since March.

00:00:34.460 Let's look at the numbers. Cumulatively, from March 1st until the end of May in 2023,

00:00:39.000 Alberta had 55.6 millimeters of precipitation over those three months, so that's not very much for

00:00:43.640 spring. Now, this year, from March 1st until May 20th was when I took the last update from it,

00:00:49.060 Alberta's had 145 millimeters of precipitation, and there were still 11 days left to go,

00:00:53.780 and they're raining right now. So, precipitation's on track to have tripled in the last three months

00:00:59.500 versus last year. Now, when we were even talking about it back then, when the snow and rains began

00:01:05.400 in March, the doomsayers were quick to warn us it's just a one-off, you know. But when the precipitation

00:01:09.840 continued into April, the climate hysterics point out this needs to be sustained, though, to moisturize

00:01:15.080 the ground. It's not fixing anything. Well, as the rains kept falling into May, they're now howling,

00:01:20.040 the reservoirs are still below average capacity. Is it ever enough? Will the climate alarmists ever

00:01:25.660 be able to bring themselves to celebrate good weather? No, actually, they can't, because climate

00:01:31.540 alarmists are cultists. They've wrapped their world around the perception that they're always living in

00:01:36.900 a state of emergency, and they enjoy it. It makes them feel that they're special, and they're living

00:01:41.740 in singular times. It's no coincidence that climate alarmists tend to be the same ones who never wanted

00:01:46.960 the COVID-19 state of emergency to end. I mean, you can still see them today. They're walking around

00:01:50.980 with their masks. They're driving alone with them, if they have a car. Politicians, they're on a

00:01:55.540 different part, but they still love using the climate alarmism to impose restrictive policies.

00:02:00.040 Calgary Mayor Yodi Gondek declared a climate emergency as soon as she took office. She then proposed an

00:02:05.660 insane $87 billion plan to deal with it for a city. Strangely, the cure for climate change is always

00:02:12.360 some form of high-spending socialism. It's almost as if socialists are trying to use the perception

00:02:17.060 of emergencies as a means to impose their ideology, since the democratic efforts to impose it aren't

00:02:23.480 working fast enough. Now, last weekend, I had to make a quick trip out to the mountains to

00:02:28.540 take care of some business, and I couldn't help but notice how high the streams and rivers are right

00:02:33.160 now. I was also happy to see there's still a lot of heavy snowpack remaining on top of the mountains.

00:02:37.760 This means the melt that's going to be coming in June is going to continue to fill

00:02:42.000 Alberta's reservoirs with the runoff all the way out to Saskatchewan. And I posted a picture of

00:02:46.500 those mountains on X, and I celebrated what appeared to be weather patterns shifting away

00:02:50.620 from a drought. It was just a positive and happy posting. Well, the response I got was swift and

00:02:55.500 visceral. Climate alarmists were furious that I dared to question the state of emergency with

00:03:00.620 mere anecdotal evidence. When I posted the data proving my assertions were based on more than just

00:03:07.140 my observations on a drive, they howled that I'm not an expert or a scientist. Should be noted that

00:03:12.120 the experts and scientists were predicting a hot, dry spring in Alberta, so they missed that mark

00:03:17.380 rather dramatically. In reality, weather forecasters can't predict the weather very accurately beyond a

00:03:22.980 couple of weeks. They can make broad, long-term speculations, but as we can see this year, those tend

00:03:27.860 not to be much more accurate than what you would get from shaking a magic eight ball or asking a

00:03:32.300 groundhog on February 2nd. Canada might be in for years of drought, years of flooding, or years of

00:03:38.360 moderate weather. I don't know, and I'll tell you what, the experts don't bloody well know either.

00:03:42.800 And thanks to the massive size of the country, alarmists can cherry-pick the regions to try and

00:03:47.100 make their case while ignoring weather predictions that were inaccurate in other areas.

00:03:51.880 Alberta isn't poised to be needing severe water use restrictions, even though we were warned

00:03:56.120 dramatically constantly of this for the last couple of months. And the spring wildfire season,

00:04:00.700 it appears to have already come to an end. Soil's hydrated, and farmers could be in for some

00:04:05.440 excellent crops this year. We should always plan for the worst, but we can't live in constant fear

00:04:10.300 of it. So dismiss those morose, miserable climate zealots who want to bring us all down with their

00:04:15.820 dire predictions. They're never going to be content. When we get good weather, we should enjoy it and

00:04:21.060 celebrate it. I know I will, at least until I got to mow that ever-growing lawn I've got that's just

00:04:25.960 sprouting up in this drought right now.

Western Standard - May 23, 2024

Climate alarmists are cheering on the drought

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