Burn, Baby, Burn (NASA Inferno)

Has "global warming" come for Los Angeles?

NASA has come out saying that 2024 was the hottest year on record. They should know, since they invented global warming and announced it before congress in 1988. Sure, the proverbial dog may have eaten their space homework, but at least they can still collect and manipulate data in such a way as to prove that the sky is falling.

I’m old enough to remember when the Scientists (TM) screamed that weather isn’t climate every time it snowed. That’s back when they still called it Global Warming, before inexplicably obfuscating their thesis by redubbing it “Climate Change”. Ironically, they renamed it precisely so they could start associating weather with climate and crying wolf over every hurricane. This kind of devious tomfuckery, euphemistically known as “science communication” (a strategy whereby you tell petty lies to nudge the rednecks), was one of the first things that made me lose confidence in the scientific and journalistic establishments.

The firestorm currently surrounding Los Angeles had its genesis in a Santa Ana wind event that saw gusts in excess of 100 MPH. You don’t need space lasers when you have winds like that; all you need is a dude with a lighter (or a conveniently self sparking PG&E powerline). This kind of wind event is the weather sold as climate change when people blame climate change for these fires. Does (or would) global warming cause increasingly violent weather? Possibly, but certain elements of mankind also have a vested interest in fostering violent weather, and the organization at the forefront of such research has always been your local friendly moon golfers at NASA.

Lyndon B. Johnson explicitly pitched the utility of weather warfare when he lobbied Congress to create NASA in 1957, saying “From space one could control the earth's weather, cause drought and floods, change the tides and raise the levels of the sea, make temperate climates frigid.” In a 1962 commencement speech he boasted that because of NASA, America would be “no longer second in space and science”. He boasted of “the development of a weather satellite that will permit man to determine the world’s cloud layer, and ultimately to control the weather. And he who controls the weather will control the world”. Putting a man on the moon is actually an afterthought to LBJ’s weather warfare gig. See the speech clip here.

Incidentally, the L.A. area has only gotten about 10% of its average rainfall this season.

So pardon me, NASA, if beg you to fuck off with your global warming climate change alarmism horseshit as your own former stomping grounds get turned into an ash pile for Blackrock. I think I’ll go reread my Dave McGowan and imagine little Stanley Kubrick locked up in Lookout Mountain Laboratory putting his 2001: A Space Odyssey experience to more profitable use. Don’t you meatheads literally have a wheel to reinvent? Several of them, in fact? Surely AI can now deliver a sequel to 1969.

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Don’t worry, Elon Musk is on it.