January 12, 2005 by Dennis T. Avery I recently was warned that
the eco-movement would blame the tsunami disaster on global
warming. I laughed. How could they blame an earthquake event
that hits the region about once every 200 years on modern CO2
emissions? I didn't have long to wonder. The very next day,
Stephen Tindale, executive director of Greenpeace UK, told an
interviewer, "No one can ignore the relentless increase in
extreme weather events and so-called natural disasters, which in
reality are no more natural than a plastic Christmas tree." The
last transoceanic tsunami in Southeast Asia occurred in 1883,
after the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa blew up. The resulting
killer wave drowned 36,000 people, while darkened skies lowered
world temperatures for five years. But no one blamed the
eruption of Krakatoa on humans burning coal oil lamps.
Greenpeace's "relentless increase in extreme weather events" has
never happened. "Storminess" in North America has been declining
for the past 50 years-not despite warme