A Blooming Pity

Bloomberg News is a finance and business publication headquartered in New York City. It is owned by Bloomberg LP, of which Michael Bloomberg owns 88%. So if Michael Bloomberg wants to write an exceedingly partisan and opinioned op-ed (opposite the editorial page), who, in the company, is going to question it or him?

Bloomberg, for the majority of his business and political career, was a Democrat, who deceptively, in 2002, turned Republican to run in the mayoralty race for the City of New York. This party defection was done on the heels of his very successful and strong Republican predecessor, Rudy Giuliani. In his second term, Bloomberg premeditatively went back to being a Democrat.

Admittedly, Bloomberg was a relatively accomplished mayor, unlike his successors, Bill de Blasio from 2014 to 2021, and the current mayor, Eric Adams, who is running as an Independent in the next election. The recent Democratic mayoral primary was won by Uganda-born Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist heavily committed to Marxist ideals.

Back to Bloomberg and his op-ed entitled, “The Texas Floods Were Made Worse by Climate Denialism”. This is a partisan political spiel on climate change, placing responsibility for recent, tragic weather events in the hands of conservative politicians and those refuting catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW). He cites the Gaudalupe River flood, the fires in Los Angeles and the 2024 flooding from Hurricane Helene in North Carolina as evidence.

So let’s take a truthful look at these three disasters:

1. Major flooding of the Guadalupe River has a long recorded history starting in 1883. I cover these catastrophic floods in an article entitled “Texas Tragedy”. The hill country of Texas is repeatedly susceptible to heavy flooding. Improved warning systems are vital.

2. The fires in Los Angeles during January of 2025 are the most hideous of all political blunders, as I cover in the articles California's Climate Cure and Returning to the Scene of the Political Crime.

3. I write in Propaganda Supersedes History about the history of hurricane flooding in the Asheville, North Carolina area, illustrating how prone this area is to historical hurricane-induced flooding and natural destruction.

So, in almost all cases, historical data shows continuing reoccurrences of disastrous natural events and, as in the case of the LA fires, human senselessness blinded by dreadful political ideology. s

Bloomberg further writes, “The scientific evidence is clear that the more frequent extreme weather we are experiencing is being driven by climate change — and that it’s only going to get worse. As the director of the Texas Center for Extreme Weather at Texas A&M University put it, the storms and flooding in central Texas are “exactly what the future is going to hold.”

Bloomberg uses this single unnamed person to uphold his climate change allegations, yet like all proponent climate change fear-mongers, this person makes predictions and prophesies into the future.

The director of the Texas Center for Extreme Weather at Texas A&M University is Andrew Dessler. He previously served as a Senior Policy Analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Clinton administration. His biography says he studies both the science and politics of climate change. Judging from his articles and interviews, his science side ensures that his political side is victorious.

Bloomberg also writes, “The new budget repeals tax credits for clean energy production, electric vehicles and clean manufacturing while also eliminating the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which Congress created to help increase private-sector investment in clean energy.”

Well, here is a graph reflecting tax credits and subsidies for clean energy:

Renewable energies have become dependent on tax credits and large government subsidies in every nation that employs them. When one is a virtue-signaling billionaire, taxpayer subsidies are not so concerning.

Bloomberg’s arguments make no scientific substantiation of his climate change beliefs, but merely produce a sectarian chastisement of his political foes.