Already the Climate Porn industry is using the ghastly death and destruction in Nepal to sell Net Zero and Socialism, even though landslides have always happened, and there was a far worse one in 1190AD.

"This is the cost of not acting in the face of the Climate Crisis", says Sunil Acharya, International Climate Policy and Just Transition Specialist in Kathmandu, whatever that is. But who could blame him. With a job title like that, he wouldn't be doing his job if he didn't put out a plea now in light of the awful events this week. I'd like to ask him just how many solar panels we need to install  to stop these catastrophes?

Meanwhile The Guardian says "Prepare for more Climate Linked Disasters", warning of impending doom that they know how to prevent, just as witchdoctors have for thousands of years. Their fortune-tellers can stop these tragedies if you give them enough grant money, pay a tithe to their pet solar and wind industries, and vote for their favourite politicians who Spend Bigly!

But sadly, landslides happen all the time

The thing is, Nepal is a country full of steep slopes and deep valleys covered with megatons of water, so sadly landslides are common in the Himalayas. They're so common that this, below, is a map of landslides in the region during 2024, and this is not all the landslides that year, only the fatal ones.  Blue dots mark ones that happened in winter, green in spring, yellow is late spring, orange and red are summer, and brown is autumn. It's not so much "climate change" as a seasonal thing. (Click to enlarge it.) And every dot is a human tragedy.

The worst catastrophe was 800 years ago

And naturally, bigger, more catastrophic landslides have happened before anyone built a coal plant. Around 1190 AD a monster size slip occurred on Anapurna IV. Researchers estimate a gargantuan 23 cubic kilometers of material fell in a cataclysm that the researchers described in 2023 as being "1,000 times greater than recent landslides."

A Massive Landslide Beheaded One of the World's Highest Peaks

Annapurna IV toppled in a Himalayan landslide, and scientists finally figured out when and how it happened.

"A landslide of this size is unheard of," said glacial geologist Ann Rowan from the University of Bergen. But the study laid out convincing evidence that such events shape the highest regions of Earth once every few hundred thousand years, she and other experts said.

Around 1190, the top of Annapurna IV came crashing down all at once, the researchers found. If the city of Pokhara—Nepal's second most populated metropolitan area—had existed at the time, it would have been decimated. Instead, the landslide created the flat surface that allowed people to settle in the region.