Clarion Content

Tornadoes ripped through New York last month killing thousands of trees. The Clarion Content was shocked at the bare minimum of ripple this caused in the American media. Tornadoes in New York felt to us like just the kind of thing that the global warming alarmists would seize upon to promote their legislative cause.

While the Clarion Content does not believe that global warming has the capacity to wipe out the planet and its ecosystems, it does have the power to radically reorient them, with the possibility of massive species extinctions in the process. Still the scale of time involved is geologic, this is one of the nexuses where we clash with the global warming lobby. If we had not been raised in the era of The Population Bomb, we might be able to be more sympathetic to the warming tribe's claims that the change is reaching a tipping point, that the time scale is exponential not linear, and we are at the really sharp point of the curve.

This debate aside, we can't believe more people are not howling about tornadoes in New York City. Maybe it was because there were no deaths? But to the Clarion Content's way of thinking, one of the single most effective tactics to convince the masses that urgent reorientation of humanity's treatment of the global ecosystem is necessary, is extreme weather. Extreme weather, volatile weather, atypical weather is among the most convincing of events to people who cannot observe ocean rise or conceptualize ice cap melting.

Tornadoes in New York City feels pretty extreme, pretty volatile to us. While in the same year, Los Angeles sets an all-time high in temperature?

Environmental change is self-evidently happening, but it is always happening. Is something epic or cataclysmic in progress? How fast is the train headed down the tracks? ¿Quién sabe?

Labels: ecology, science, thought, weather