QUADRANT
When Smart People Get the Climate Crazies
"the UN's Special Envoy for Climate Action... made the perils of soaking the brain in green piffle obvious to all...
Changes in the weather were once attributed to gods or demons, but no longer.
Changes in the weather were once attributed to gods or demons, but no longer.
Many folk now assert ad nauseum the developed world is the primary cause of most – if not all – atmospheric variability...
Yes, we can be saved from the sin of diurnal emissions... if we have faith, change our values and get with ... Together For Our Planet evangelists, Extinction Rebellion zealots, Joe Biden and possibly some of NASA’s brainwashed climate kids..."
In a 2009 Quadrant essay, Kile told readers that Aztec climatologists grew wheat and sacrificed wooly mammoths to the sun:
" The most comprehensive Aztec data set yet found... detail annual sacrificial numbers over the entire empire and relate them to crop harvests—predominantly maize, wheat and barley. The data set extends over 300 years, from the Early to Late Post-Classic Period.
Second, the remarkable second section contains nine depictions of sacrificial rituals involving mammoths. It establishes for the first time that Aztec awareness of climate change and its relationship to solar irradiance extends much further back than previously thought, possibly several thousand years"
