Wow, just wow. “He said:
“We are going to get climate chaos. Are we going to have geological havoc added to it? Climate change is already driving more earthquakes and giant landslides in some parts of the world.”
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What can you say when somebody goes off the rails like this?
h/t to Barry Woods
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The epitome of a deranged ‘Ministry of We Know Best’. Their clarion cry will become increasingly strident, increasing desperate and increasingly ‘Lost’.
[snip – OTT]
I can just about remember when government advisors actually gave sane advice. Here he is, http://www.billmcguire.co.uk/ Of course he isn’t actually a climate scientist, so why should we believe him!
Cue men in white coats.
McGuire is certifiable.
A psychiatric assessment is needed
He has gone from useful idiot to dangerous useful idiot. Off the rails? He’s in the field plowing up turf with the cow-catcher. He can’t back those statements up, he knows it and he doesn’t care. Dangerous!
Like the witterings of Pamela Anderson, this dross will only hurt the ‘Cause’. Twelve out of the twelve comments that I just read under the Telegraph article have pronounced it utter ‘b*ll*cks.
Maybe he’ll go so far as to say “the rapture” is coming due to CAGW.
Didn’t Danny Glover blame an earthquake a few years ago on global warming?
I think he is overlooking the zombie connection. Clearly, when zombies become active, they cause a lot of underground disturbances. I think I need a government grant to work on this theory…
…said that the speed of today’s climate change was unprecedented in the Earth’s history. There was already more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than at any time in the last 15 million years and melting of the Greenland ice sheet would become irreversible in ten to thirty years if present trends continued.
Yawn…. talk it up, Prof, talk it up. We’ve heard it all before.
Absolutely UNHINGED! This is completely ridiculous. I suppose 9,000 years ago the Earth must have just been one constant Earthquake considering temperatures were much higher than today. His advisory status should be immediately revoked and he should be referred to the NHS for evaluation.
Anthony Watts says: June 5, 2012 at 2:20 pm
Maybe Dr. McGuire, the TEAM, and all the rest of the good and great of climate science will be raptured first and leave the rest of us in peace?
Reminds me of the sex maniac squirrel…..
Anthony Watts says:
June 5, 2012 at 2:20 pm
Maybe he’ll go so far as to say “the rapture” is coming due to CAGW.
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One thing I know about “the rapture” is that neither Man nor Mann have anything to do with its timing.
(Those who have been incorporated into the Borg can not return to normal.) The purpose of the article is to (obviously) continue to pound the general public about the hazards of “climate change”. It doesn’t matter how outrageous the claim, the important thing is to keep pounding away. This strategy works….. don’t believe those polls showing otherwise. It WORKS. The argument that rational discourse can win the day is a false one. (Sorry readers of WUWT.).
When ice heats it cracks like glass. All solids do. You need to check your facts before you start lying to the public, unless your considering presenting real SOLUTIONS to climate change. Not to mention, I am positive the original creator is not giving you permission to use their work as you have here. Mr Anthony your not part of a game but a real industry of professionals that will sue you for doing this.
REPLY: Actually, its called “fair use”, which applies in the case of critical commentary… look it up. As for your other assertion of “When ice heats it cracks like glass. All solids do.” I’m assuming this is satire, and you simply forgot the /sarc tag, because it is too stupid a claim to be anything else. If that were true of “all solids”, concrete and steel would crack in the mid-day sun 😉 – Anthony
[Not to mention taffy and bubble gum.☺ ~dbs, mod.]
“What can you say when somebody goes off the rails like this?”
Usually I would presume they are one of those sad and damaged people associated with 350.org. But he’s a British official, they’re even loonier than the Australians. Remember the Lord Stern Report? It was so bad, even the craziest climate nuts ignore it.
“Maybe he’ll go so far as to say “the rapture” is coming due to CAGW.”
Gore already did Revelation in AIT. It truly is time for a sequel.
Changing loads on the crust from melting glaciers and rising sea levels actually could cause earthquakes. Such quakes would very likely be too rare and minor to be of any concern though.
It IS 2012 after all. Can you blame the guy?
(Do I need a sarc tag? Perhaps a h/t to the mayans.)
I can’t take much more of this! 🙁
Actually it is probably not quite correct to say that rising sea levels and melting glaciers could “cause” earthquakes. It would probalby only change the timing and distribution of them, without making them worse on average.
For the benefit of readers outside the UK, the “Hay Festival” originated as an annual get-together of authors and arty types in a sort of ‘bonding’ way (an opportunity to try to claw each other’s eyes out with decency).
Over the years it has expanded to include all sorts of leading experts on absolutely everything (and anyone who can escape without the nurse noticing their absence); these folk give freely of their time to pontificate to the assembled and adoring throng.
Yesterday, the Telegraph’s same Geoffrey Lean wrote faithfully of friend Bill McGibben’s bewailing that there is too little poetry, music or opera created to enlighten us all in the cause of AGW.
My case rests.
I take comfort by reading the comments under yet another cut and paste from Geoffrey Lean. Apart from the nutters like Mcguire trying to sell their books, the average person appears to treat Global Warming/ chaos/climate change or whatever it has morphed into with the informed contempt that it deserves. Problem is that getting the nutters off the gravy train is going to need a lot more than a whistle and a red flag.
Reblogged this on Public Secrets and commented:
And yet we’re the crazy ones for being skeptics.