I may just divert to Toronto from Chicago and pay this writer a visit so I can tell him to his face what an idiot he is, or have my two new Canadian friends, Guy and Stuart, do it for me. He deserves it. How do the publishers of this newspaper reconcile printing such blatant idiocy based on what the writer calls “weeks old” science? How does such a headline get published? At first I thought maybe it was just the copy editor at fault, making a dumb headline, but then I read this in the body of the story:
Over 4.5 billion people could die from Global Warming related causes by 2012, as planet Earth accelarates [sic] into a greed-driven horrific catastrophe.
6.7 billion people in the world today, and 4.5 billion will die in less than two years due to a temperature rise that will be less in magnitude than our regularly experienced variance? There’s a link at the end, feel free to sound off. We need to remind this newspaper of this in 2012 – Anthony
Over 4.5 Billion people could die from Global Warming-related causes by 2012
Hydrate hypothesis illuminates growing climate change alarm
Compiled by John Stokes
A recent scientific theory called the “hydrate hypothesis” says that historical global warming cycles have been caused by a feedback loop, where melting permafrost methane clathrates (also known as “hydrates”) spur local global warming, leading to further melting of clathrates and bacterial growth.
In other words, like western Siberia, the 400 billion tons of methane in permafrost hydrate will gradually melt, and the released methane will speed the melting. The effect of even a couple of billion tons of methane being emitted into the atmosphere each year would be catastrophic.
The “hydrate hypothesis” (if validated) spells the rapid onset of runaway catastrophic global warming. In fact, you should remember this moment when you learned about this feedback loop-it is an existencial turning point in your life.
By the way, the “hydrate hypothesis” is a weeks old scientific theory, and is only now being discussed by global warming scientists. I suggest you Google the term.
Now that most scientists agree human activity is causing the Earth to warm, the central debate has shifted to when we will pass the tipping point and be helpless to stop the runaway Global Warming.
There are enormous quantities of methane trapped in permafrost and under the oceans in ice-like structures called clathrates. The methane in Arctic permafrost clathrates is estimated at 400 billion tons.
Methane is more than 20 times as strong a greenhouse gas as CO2, and the atmosphere currently contains about 3.5 billion tons of the gas.
The highest temperature increase from global warming is occurring in the arctic regions-an area rich in these unstable clathrates. Simulations from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) show that over half the permafrost will thaw by 2050, and as much as 90 percent by 2100.
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Western Siberia is heating up faster than anywhere else in the world, having experienced a rise of some 3C in the past 40 years. The west Siberian peat bog could hold some 70 billion tonnes of methane. Local atmospheric levels of methane on the Siberian shelf are now 25 times higher than global concentrations.
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Runaway Global Warming promises to literally burn-up agricultural areas into dust worldwide by 2012, causing global famine, anarchy, diseases, and war on a global scale as military powers including the U.S., Russia, and China, fight for control of the Earth’s remaining resources.
Over 4.5 billion people could die from Global Warming related causes by 2012, as planet Earth accelarates into a greed-driven horrific catastrophe.
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UPDATE: To further illustrate just how bad this newspaper is, they have what appears to be a current date for the story right above the headline:
Yet when you look at the footer:
The automatic current date inserter gives the false impression of fresh news. It certainly fooled me and other readers. It appears this is an old article from 2007, still no less stupid, and to be proven false within 18 months. Readers that are visiting the blog page link provided by The Canadian are reporting AV software saying it to be an “attack site”. I’ve verified this, Visiting not recommended. Just make a date in your appointment calendar to drop a line to the editors (assuming this paper is still in existence in 2012) to remind them you and 4.5 billion other people aren’t dead. – A
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I get “Reported Attack Page!” when I clcik the link to the blog.
Advocate of the Georgia Guidestones by any chance?
The link at the end to “The Canadian Blog” is producing a “Reported Attack Page” Google Advisory warning
OK, these people are idiots. But it appears to be a “new socially progressive” outlet – these people thrive on generating hysteria – and all you are really doing is giving them free publicity and driving traffic to their site. (At least you would be, if Firefox didn’t tell me that their page has been blocked because it is an “attack page”).
“By the way, the “hydrate hypothesis” is a weeks old scientific theory, and is only now being discussed by global warming scientists. I suggest you Google the term.”
I suggest you google ‘common sense’, take two weeks to read up on it and then apply it!
Another point is that the piece seems to have been written in 2007, then giving many of us five rather than two years to survive. And I doubt the “hydrate hypothesis” was then only a few weeks old; I think I recall it in the early 1990s.
This is what you get from the link to the Canadian blog, with Firefox!
Reported Attack Page!
This web page at http://www.blog.agoracosmopolitan.com has been reported as an attack page and has been blocked based on your security preferences.
Attack pages try to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to attack others, or damage your system.
Some attack pages intentionally distribute harmful software, but many are compromised without the knowledge or permission of their owners.
Reading this was indeed an existencial [sic] experience.
I ignored the attack warning and saw this at the base of the blog page:
“This entry was posted on Monday, January 8th, 2007 at 12:57 pm and is filed under Environment.”
Is it an old blog post that’s been recycled?
Pure propaganda of the most devious kind aimed to alarm the public and serve the political agenda. It’s a scam, it’s a scam, it’s a scam.
It would appear that this idiocy has been around for a while.
http://www.panicwatch.org/article.pl?title=Hydrate%20Hypothesis
I don’t know where they get the idea that the “hydrate hypothesis” is only a ‘weeks old’ theory comes from, as I saw a documentary on that very subject about 5 years ago. It was suggested that this was the cause of the earth’s greatest ever greenhouse warming caused extinction 250 million years ago.
What these people have utterly failed to explain is why these hydrates did not “re-gassify” at all during much warmer periods (than current) in our recent past (during the last 12,000 years)
As soon as I clicked the link,AVG booted me out as a virus attack site. Good thing,too.Don’t think I could take anymore of this AGW crap this week (sigh..and it’s only Monday)
The only methane Mr Stokes needs to worry about is that produced by his brain flatulence…
We might almost laugh at this crap, but it is designed as part of the Neurolinguistic Programming of our minds. A bombardment of slogans which subtley will bias the population.
If you tell enough jokes, absurb anacedotes, stories, whatever, where you make the colour blue out to be bad, negative, evil, wrong, just keep reenforcing a negative connotation to the colour Blue, then people will start to consider blue to be negative.
A seemingly exact number 4.5 billion, with no indication of how it was derived, no references, and no specification of what “GW-related causes” will kill all those people. It’s all very specific and totally unsubstantiated. A bit worse than usual, I guess. 😉
A cursory search shows that this article was published in 2007. Still mind-bendingly stupid, but it’s best to get this right – 2012 was 5 years hence at the time of publication.
Oddly enough, we probably need more of these loonies. The more and the louder they shriek, the more people will realise what a crock it really is, especially when shovelling all that ‘hidden warming’ from their driveways.
According to the Website this article was posted back in 2007, well we are 1/2 way from 2007 to 2012 so 2.25Bn people should have died by now. Oh and yes I did not experience the worst local winter in living memory, did not have to order extra oil for the central heating and the Artic Sea ice did not return to the long term average extent.
This entry was posted on Monday, January 8th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Why is everyone worried about food? It is just a luxury as has been clearly demonstrated by this chap:
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/1046232/man-hasnt-eaten-drunk-in-70-years
Seemed an appropriate response given the scientific robustness of the original article…
Astonishing in their ignorance. “Runaway global warming” in the absence of any evidence beyond one standard deviation of the past 50 year mean.
So, over the last 600,000 years the previous FOUR interglacials (Lord Monkton, SPPI) have been significantly warmer than today. So, howcome WAGTD so soon at a lower temperature! Now that temperature rate of increase would be truly amazing, & one for the Phil JonesMichael Mann diary! BTW, how is good old Michael’s (I feel I can call him Michael as I have got to know him so well on this interweb thingy) attack on his critics going these days? OTOH, why are they so worried & concerned, isn’t global population reduction the untimate goal of the greenie-socialists anyhow? Afterall, won’t they just be the hungry, weak, sickly, poor old Johnny forgeiners living in the poor countires that they want to keep poor, hungry, sick, weak, down at heel? I suggest that those 4.5 billion move to the Isle of Wight where there is plenty of room for them, considering that 6 billion could fit comfortably! Hang about, might this report just be a load of weeks old C%$P?
Interestingly, Firefox gives the Blog as an attack page but IE allows access.
Maybe Firefox understands that the content is rubbish and wants to protect us from being contaminated.
“Bibliographic reference courtesy of Brad Arnold who has an extensive resrarch background on Global Warming.”
Brad’s own website (http://www.myspace.com/dobermanmacleod) gives a disturbing insight into the ‘science’ and the agenda behind this article…..
The serious point about this article is that we seem to have increasing numbers of people in our society who unquestioningly believe what they are told, whether it is Health: Bse, Sars, Swine flu will kill millions, Financial-pre 2007: ‘there is no limit t0 credit and the world economy will grow strongly’ and AGW; always ‘catastrophic’.
This has a nihilistic effect on some parts of the more gullible of our population. In that I would certainly include those taking extreme action at such as the Kingsnorth power station protest (what on earth do they think we will use for power) through to the youngest of our school children who are fed unbalanced propaganda and as a result increasingly believe we are heading for a melt down of their world before properly entering it.
We need to counter these calls with good science, facts, reason, and not with hand waving or claims that are as equally suspect as the science we deride, as in turn they will get derided.
WUWT and others do a service in pointing out climate contradictions to a wider audience, but the people we really need to influence aren’t listening.
Tonyb