UPDATE: January 1st, 2012 – still here, no reports of mass deaths at the last minute. – Anthony
Global warming may go on a last minute rampage. Maybe best to just stay at home and lock your doors, bar your windows, and turn your air conditioner on. If you live near the coast, head for high ground. Deaths due to drinking and driving will be nothing compared to this.
This story appeared in The Canadian January 8th, 2007, it’s been a countdown example of stupidity ever since. Unbelievably, it is still on their website. Note today’s date.
Over at the Daily Bayonet, where they’ve been following for this for years, they have encouraging news:
Assuming there is no last minute surprise attack by pesky methane clathrates, the Daily Bayonet wishes you a safe and happy 2012.
If it happens, it will be the gaia fart heard round the world.
Cut them some slack. They did say “could.”
Starting tomorrow they’ll just change the year.
Don’t you love these predictions coming back to bite them in the a**e?
Happy New Year to one and all.
Pfffffffffrt!
Oh yes, and Happy New Year!
May it be the Year of the Climate Realist!
“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.”
Fanforkingtastic! Look on the bright side. Over 4.5 billion people will no longer have to worry about global warming, er climate change, er climate disruption, er climate Armageddon, er the weather.
Gotta love that little blurb to the right which says “Help support investigative Journalism, and Democracy.”
Yes. Journalism this excellent really helps voters make such well informed decisions in a democracy.
Or as Chomsky called it, manufactured consent.
Anyhow, this is going to be quite something. Unless i just screwed up my mental arithmetic it looks like it will take about 13 million AGW related deaths per day to hit that prediction by the end of next year.
Not to mention the terrible toll on polar bears and lizards.
Happy New Year to all.
John Stokes is [SNIP: Language. But I think everyone gets your point. REP]. 5 Years ago I said these hyperbolic abusers of science for political purposes were inflating a theory…for money…tax money.
We have a conservative government now and all the lies are being undone.
In January 2007 you lied. Why don’t you just shut your you lying mouth. The grown-ups are in charge now and you are just freaked-out left wing noise.
Aha, so that’s what they mean with “Tipping Point”? The Great Gaia Fart? (GGF)
I guess you have to go fart and wide to find sanity out there. Barrie Harrop is still bleating about the courts putting Lisa Jackson on hold.
Why does “socially progressive” almost invariably coorelate with profound gullibility married to willful ignorance. Even the scientifically ignorant amongst us
should recognize that predictions like this are preposterous.
Oh, the HUMANITY!!!!
BUT…this was all supposed to happen BY 2012.
So given that we are 30 seconds away from 2011 being over this is just another example of Mann Made Global Warming ™ prophesy that hasnt come to pass!
Mailman
Well you know what they say. We often get the claim their ‘figures’ were on the conservative side.
They really wanted to say 6 billion could die.
Anyway Happy New Year to One and All.
Let’s hope 2012 will bring an end to this Utter Hyberbole of AGW/CC Doomsday nonsense. (OH I just remembered. 2012 is suppossed to be the end of the World according to some. 🙂 )
Its the old and completely stupid permafrost scenario.
Paul Westhaver,
Read this and chortle…a chortle is well deserved.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/12/canada_soars.html
Yes be careful. I clicked on their comments link which Firefpx blocked.
“Reported Attack Page!”
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/kevster1346/attack.png
Then how come everyone didn’t die during the Holocene Climate Optimum? That’s when we were discovering agriculture and inventing beer.
Firefox. grrr…
“The Canadian” seems to have died. The last articles are from 2009. Skimming the Environmental section shows it to be a left wing publication. RIP or something like that
The Canadian describes itself as “socially progressive.” Need I really say more?
Yawn. Twitter me when this actually happens.
Listen out for that Great Gaia Fart. Should be good! Love the new WUWT Heading too.
The Canadian is a left wing nut job newspaper. There latest has our Prime minister connected to Nazis intellectuals. Jeesh
Happy New Year everyone!
Best to stay home anyway.
Primary danger is amateur drunks though.