By charles the moderator
I have no other comment.
From congress.org
Global Warming could make Humans EXTINCT within 50 years
Kill mechanisms list
Global Warming could make the human race EXTINCT. The #1 kill mechanism is famine. See “The Long Summer” by Brian Fagan and “Collapse” by Jared Diamond. Shifting winds and warmer oceans have already created a weird moving checkerboard of drought and flood that has interfered with agriculture here and elsewhere.
The extra heat has caused heat related deaths already.
The book “Six Degrees” by Mark Lynas says: “If the global warming is 6 degrees centigrade, we humans go extinct.” The book lists several kill mechanisms, the most important being famine and methane fuel-air explosions. Other mechanisms include fire storms.
“Under a Green Sky” by Peter D. Ward, Ph.D., 2007 says H2S bubbling out of hot oceans is the final blow at 6 degrees C warming.
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read the rest at congress.org
Aren’t they getting frantic all of a sudden?
It couldn’t have anything to do with the Profit’s human failings recently uncovered, could it?
If so many other species would go celebrating.
They left out the most catastrophic consequence, the fact that all that extra CO2 will make the atmosphere so heavy it will squish us flat, like bugs!
Talk about hyperventilating alarmism…
Ok…..
“methane fuel-air explosions”
What, we’re going to be getting jihadi cows?
More cowbell.
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“Storms of My Grandchildren” by James Hansen, chief of NASA-GISS paints the bleakest picture: Earth goes Venus, becoming a completely dead hot rock at 800 degrees F and our Mars colonies cannot survive because Mars has been a dead planet for too long.
So, we’re going to colonize Mars by 2050? Edward Greisch (the author) hangs out at UnReal Climate and is evidently a firm believer that a Gaia-Induced Zombie Apocalypse is at hand, based on his latest comment there:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/06/what-do-climate-scientists-think/comment-page-6/#comment-179214
There’s a link for reporting abuse. I followed it. One of the options is “Offensive”. I selected that one with the following explanation:
“This article is offensive for the human intelligence”.
The final act of desperation of tell even bigger lies. More crap, more scare tactics. Sorry, but the gig is up to the AGW alarmists. You might as well give it a break for a few years as it all collapses.
Ian
It’s worse than the headline, the last sentence is:
“We HUMANS could be EXTINCT by 2050 because politicians are not considering sufficiently strong action.”
Oh no only 40 years left!
Impossible to take articles like this seriously.
Ignorance, lies and hype? This stuff reads like the Doomsday fiction of the 1960s, straight out of stories like “The wind from Nowehere” or “Day of the Triffids”…
Are these guys scientists or fiction writers?
Peer Approved, so it must be 100% accurate.
I notice that the web site has no way to comment on their articles. A good thing or I might have said something rude.
I disagree try this
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7859009/Inventor-paints-mountains-white-to-combat-climate-change.html
Why does it matter? The oil-rain will kill us way before then.
“The extra heat has caused heat related deaths already”
Puhlease. How many compared to cold related deaths last winter?
I thoroughly enjoyed reading “The Day of The Triffids” years ago, my disbelief was suspended nicely as the book was well written and constructed and we still refer to rapidly-growing plants as being similar to Triffids. The article in question is beyond stupid as it has neither scientific, literary or dramatic worth.
This is good news! The more ridiculous the warmists get (and the more that nature refuses to cooperate) the more sceptical the public will get at these crazy scenarios.
“The extra heat has caused heat related deaths already.”
(op cit)
Yup.
“He [Byrd] died in hospital in Fairfax, Va., after becoming ill late last week from heat exhaustion and severe dehydration as temperatures in the Washington area soared to 37 Celsius.”
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“Longest-serving U.S. senator was former member of KKK
Robert Byrd dies after 57 years in congress”
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Longest+serving+senator+former+member/3214147/story.html
This is actually a good sign. It’s been my experience that when someone starts hopping up and down screeching hysterically that WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! that they’re pretty much consigning themselves to actual irrelevancy. And a straitjacket.
Oh damn. It’s a blue tablet day today, I have already taken it and now I read this. My sleep will be a nightmare until red tablet day tomorrow. Last night God told me that He had selected his chosen for the future and my name was not on the List. I’m trying to find money for PNAS paywalls so I can help God to look more closely.
Oh! the worry! the fear!
Perhaps the author should adopt the Precautionary Principle and start getting accustomed to bigger and bigger doses of H2S by daily snorts. (Nah. That’s unsafe. Rotten egg gas is really quite toxic and not for jokes.)
It’s a resurgence of feudalism with its mystical pseudoscience and pseudothinking.
Picture Hansen parading around the streets of New York with a sandwich board sign, proclaiming that, “The End is Coming!!”
Keep it up guys — you’ll soon become fodder for late night comedy skits.
After reading that collection of — stuff — that the article contains, all I have to say is – what a load of horsefeathers.
Well I guess that’s it. We humans have had a good run of it, but like all things, we must end some day. I’m just surprised it’s 2050 because the Maya predicted 2012. I’m glad I have basically the rest of my life.
“The book “Six Degrees” by Mark Lynas”
Sure, it’s fat, stupid, and sings nonsense twice as loud as Shirley Porter and friends.
Gorebull Watch:
“Pat Baker, of Arlington, Va., said, “I thought the speech was awesome. It was over my head a little bit when he talked about global warming and some of the other issues, but as an HR professional, I think it’s key that we stay enlightened with all of the subjects.””
“Gore left the Convention Center without taking questions from the media.”
“Former Vice President Gore Visits San Diego
Gore Makes Speech At Convention Center”
http://www.10news.com/news/24072757/detail.html
Nylo says:
June 29, 2010 at 3:10 am
There’s a link for reporting abuse. I followed it. One of the options is “Offensive”. I selected that one with the following explanation:
“This article is offensive for the human intelligence”.
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Thanks, I used it. It is cold that kills as the French Aristocrats found out the hard way. Seems there are those who forgot their history lessons and are therefore doomed to repeat it.—– OH, I forgot that part of the history is never taught in schools.