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Irma ‘The Greatest’ Proved The
Fallacy Of Climate Change Theory


By Yoichi Shimatsu
Exclusive to Rense
9-11-17

 
The biggest city mauled by the huffing and puffing about Hurricane Irma is Bonn, Germany, which will host the UN COP 23 Climate Change conference starting November 6. Despite the best effort of major media to exaggerate that tropical storm as “The Greatest Hurricane Ever”, Irma landed on Florida’s shore like a whimpering wet rat, nowhere in the same league of the titanic storms of the distant past.
 
A Caribbean or Atlantic hurricane is neither record-setting nor even notable unless it maintains Category 5 force after final landfall on the U.S. mainland. Otherwise, short of that mark, a storm like Irma reveals a lack of endurance and therefore is not a contender for the Top Ten list. It’s like the Daytona 500. If your race car sputters to a crawl on the 200th and last lap, then it’s not winning the trophy or the aura of NASCAR glory, no matter how much your rowdy fans may  cheer.

Happy Ending to Hysterical Predictions

Due to the happy but unfulfilled ending, this much-touted hurricane has earned the nickname from online skeptics of “Irma La Douche”. To follow on the politically incorrect but spot-on analogy, the douche bags were major media channels like BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, Sky and the rest that pushed climate change propaganda. However much those aging media prostitutes hailed the many wonders of Irma, the mild dousing turned out to be the biggest diversion and greatest letdown since the invention of silicone implants.
 
Sad to say, a lot of evacuating John, Dick and Harrys fell for that clap trap (two words intended). As in the risk from the title character in the 1963 comedy film Irma la Douce, climate change theory is a socially transmitted disease, and it’s high time for the public to beware the come-ons from the global warming propaganda bureau.
 
Now, only after Tampa Bay is being spared a pummeling, do the sad tales from those poor little Caribbean resort islands start to leak out. Thousands of American tourists, trapped inside flooded hotels of shabby construction, were robbed at machete point by roving gangs of local thugs. Older ladies had to surrender their purses or their heads would have been chopped off like coconuts. St. Maarten is part of the EU, being a territory of France and Holland, which are much more worried about perpetuating the charade of climate change and the benefits of open immigration rather than the basic rights of their paying holiday customers who had to be evacuated aboard U.S. ships. So on board are more unsatisfied customers fleeced by Irma La Douche who won’t be giving a refund for services not rendered at St. Maarten.

Shabby Shacks by the Sea
 
The UK news media have been moaning nonstop over the damage to the mansions of British lords and shady tycoons on their former slave-plantation islets, which are no paradise for the locals. Helicopter video images show wreckage strewn like bowling pins, but closer examination reveals that much of the debris is from outdoor storage facilities, which discloses just how flimflam those expatriate businessmen really are. In Hurricane Alley, one should be expected to pay the expense of erecting bunker-like warehouses, even without the apparently nonexistent building codes.
 
In stark contrast, older colonial buildings were undamaged because their roof timbers were strongly anchored with bolts onto iron beams and their small windows were properly shuttered. What sweet Irma can teach those neo-colonials is the many benefits of the French louver (not the art museum but wooden storm shutters). On a reporting assignment in the French capital, I remember waking up to an explosion against the walls. In the darkness, I went to the window and timidly looked through the louver flaps to see a glorious dawn, so I unhooked the louvers and threw them open to announce the day with a clap, a pleasure more satisfying and a lot safer than an hour with Irma.
 
Louvers take the buffeting from powerful winds and moderate the barometric (air pressure) differential between outside (low) and indoors (high) to prevent the window-glass from blowing out. Most of the so-called “devastation” from Irma started with window rupturing, which then allows indoor flooding and short circuits. Despite the time-proven value of shutters, architects, developers and chic magazines insist on the installation of picture windows that let in tropical solar heat, squander air conditioning, and shatter when they’re most needed. Entire forests had to cut down to provide plywood to cover Florida windows, compounding the environmental toll.
 
The rich Western aid providers to the developing nations always insist on the planting of mangroves along shorelines to block storm-driven waves, yet hardly any of this same environmental effort is ever done on their own tropical territories or former colonial possessions. This is because the sea view of white beaches and big waves would be ruined by the introduction of shallow-water greenery. So, again, do as I say, not as I do: That is also the message from the climate change fanatics, now reserving business-class jetliner tickets to Bonn on the public budget.
 
While preaching low-tech sustainability and doing with less to impoverished societies, the westerners insist on huge suites with aircon and picture windows overlooking coastlines untainted by basic economic activity. As a result, the destitute locals even the scales of justice during times of disaster by prying open safety deposit boxes and committing armed robbery with machetes. Sophistication and savagery, both arise from the same wealth gap, which is being further perpetuated by the climate change crowd.

Rising Sea Claims Debunked
 
Irma was a disaster of junk architecture, lack of building codes and luxurious amenities inappropriate to tropical conditions. Instead, the major media put the entire blame on a climate change theory and global warming, even though they have yet to show  a single yacht harbor anywhere in the world being displaced by "rising seas". The contrary is happening: Landfill is shrinking the marine environment.
 
Once again the UN climate change propaganda crew will assemble on November 6 in Bonn to chant their crazed mantra for a global tax to fund more bogus “research”, which is about as useful as an ice hockey stick on a scuba diving trip to the Caribbean. It is high time to end this absurd charade and bury the myths from a discredited climate change theory. Thanks, Irma, for showing us what’s really under their perfumed bloomers. It stinks.
 
Science journalist Yoichi Shimatsu volunteered for the rescue effort during the 2004 Asian tsunami and served as lead field researcher for a major study on flawed architecture that multiplied the number of drownings..