It's a planetary emergency!

Well, if it’s a planetary emergency, then maybe it’s time to call the whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaambulance for Gore, McKibben and Mann?

Temperatures in the Arctic are currently 32F/0C and one more degree will melt it all? Okayyyy……

I’m not clicking on the video… he won’t get my view.

Dammit, I shouldn’t have clicked on the link… sorry, that’s one vote that stats will count on its favour when it really is AGAINST it. Stats, if they were true, I’d be dead many years ago from cancer, cholesterol and many other diseases…..

….and the rest of the dirty laundry…..

Looks like Nosferatu.

For the life of me, I can’t understand why any rational adult takes this charlatan seriously. He’s truly an embarrassment, but the gullible (and habitually lazy) “mainstream” presstitutes take him seriously. They were made for each other.
With sagging readership and audiences, the establishment media has latched onto the climate change bogeyman as a convenient way to boost their declining bottom lines.

Am surprised it warrants posting on the site here…

The elves in the trailer that preceded this ‘interview’ were more believable. And note that he has it every way. The interviewer virtually swooned at his brilliance in predicting a serious drought, or hurricane, or flood, or something. Sheeeesh. Obama voter for sure.

Never take advice from an idiot.
Never!
(Oh the ironing!)? Ok–I can see that–hot press, ice melts, we all die. *Snort*.

Raving religion.

I wonder how much further you can escalate the language beyond “emergency?” How much time do they spend figuring out a way to make it sound more dire than the last time? Will the day ever come that they run out of adjectives and they just give up?

Wow -18 c in central Alberta this morning friend’s working up north where it has been no warmer then – 20 c for about 2 month’s and the ice is melting ? You are a full of B.S. Get out of you office and go look for yourself and after you come back out of the cold try again. ;>)

I seem to have lost my iron, probably just as well, as it only adds to the heat.

lorne50 says:
November 10, 2012 at 9:59 am
well all and all bill you are nuts it’s -18 in central Alberta this morn and friends working up north have been in the -20 all month so really ? melting melting MELTING !!!! really you need help.
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Yeah I am in the “warm” southeast (mid NC) and freezing! (28F for the last two mornings) I had to scrape the ice off the windshield in bloody OCTOBER! Normally the lows are around 42F this time of year.
It is a tad hard to sell the Arctic is melting when you are scraping ice in the mid-atlantic state of North Carolina. We would have broken several low temp records the last couple of weeks if the raw data I saw in the morning was used instead of the adjusted up by 3F final figure.
On and it is REAL hard to believe that adjustment, saying the temperature is ABOVE freezing, is correct when my waterbuckets are iced over.

I think I have explained before that Bill McKibben and his 350.org are affiliated with the New Economics Institute, formerly known as the Schumacher Society as in Small is Beautiful. For those of you wanting to appreciate what kind of economy we are talking about to go with these erased from facts temp models, here is a sample from one of NEI’s directors, Neva Goodwin.
http://neweconomicsinstitute.org/content/new-economics-21st-century
NEI’s affiliate in the UK, the new economics foundation, is heavily involved with helping to achieve the Club of Rome’s vision for a rather oligarchical future based on Green Energy.
Mostly it is a case of cha-ching at our expense to political insiders. Globally.

If 1 degree melts the Arctic, we’re in a world of hurt.
Obviously all kinds of assumptions need to be made to calculate exactly how much ice will melt for a rise of 1 degree in air temperature, not the least of which is whether he was talking C or F. In addition, the wind and rate of ice melt need to be considered. I have done some rough calculations assuming we are using degrees C and that the density of air stays the same for 10 km. I asked myself how much ice will melt if we take a square meter of ice at 0 C and if the temperature of the air were to decrease by 1 degree C for a column of air 10 km high.
The heat in this much air is mct, so for 1 C, we get 1.29 kg/m3 x 1 m x 1 m x 10,000 m x 1.006 kJ/kgC x 1 C = 13,000 kJ.
The heat of fusion of ice is 334 kJ/kg, so 13,000 kJ would melt 39 kg of ice. With the density of ice being 920 kg/m3, that means 39 kg/920 kg/m3 = 0.042 m3 of ice will melt. So starting with our 1.00 m2 area of ice, 0.042 m or 4.2 cm would melt and thereby lower the air temperature by 1 C for 10 km above it.

Chuck says:
November 10, 2012 at 9:57 am
I wonder how much further you can escalate the language beyond “emergency?” How much time do they spend figuring out a way to make it sound more dire than the last time? Will the day ever come that they run out of adjectives and they just give up?
Just wait for AR5 and we will see just how far they can go. !!!

What will it be like when McKibben completely loses it?
Officer: Mr. McKibben, we need you to…
McKibben: No! Penn State awarded me a degree when I received the Michael E. Mann Award for Excellence in Climatological Communication. It’s Doctor McKibben!
O: Okay, Dr. McKibben. We need you to put that down now…
McK: No! They are using wasteful incandescent lighting! Either they install LED’s or the polar bear cub gets it!
O: Why would you want to hurt…
McK: Climate change will condemn all the polar bears to a miserable death from starvation once they lose their habitat. I’ll be doing this one a favor by making it quick!
O: Dr. McKibben, just put it back on the shelf and leave the toy store.
McK: No! The crisis is too great! The fate of the planet rests on my shoulders!
O: Look, you don’t even have a real weapon. You said you’ll let loose some gas.
McK: Yes! I have methane, twenty five times deadlier than carbon dioxide! Once I release it, the entire climate system will irrevocably tip over into runaway warming. Everyone will perish from the unimaginably horrific weather extremes to come! Do not test me, I am the instructor! I am serious!
O: Okay, Dr. McKibben, you win. I’m sending someone to find some small LED light bulbs for that display. Meanwhile I need you to first put the cub back on the shelf, then slowly hand me the bean burrito.

If America were a foreign country, we’d level ourselves.

I feel the need to remind some readers here that it’s never okay to make fun of people for the way they look.
Certainly laugh at them for what they say and do (or in certain instances, what they choose to wear), but ridiculing their physical appearance only makes you (and by extension, the rest of us) appear juvenile.

This makes you wonder planet McKitten is from, with his melting Arctic scenario.
Checking the data from Summitt Camp, Central Greenland gives the present outside temperature of minus 52deg C, or minus 62 deg F, ,
Which I suppose proves to him, the new meme of “Cooling is the new Warming”.

“I feel the need to remind some readers here that it’s never okay to make fun of people for the way they look.”
I feel the need to point out that political corectness has killed much of the humor in the West. There were a lot of Polish and Irish folks where I grew up, and they all told Polish and Irish jokes. I don’t recall anyone taking it personally. The Poles would tell a Polish joke and laugh harder than anyone.
One of the worst aspects of the Left is that they have no sense of humor. How could they? They use jokes as a “gotcha”. The are so annoying. Who wants to be scolded for having a sense of humor? I’d tell them, “Lighten up!” But they can’t.
BTW, get a load of this guy! He looks pretty funny to me.☺

bill mckibben,
I just went through all the comments again, and no one has made fun of your looks. So, you just have a martyr complex; you want someone to make fun of you. You crave it in order to be the martyr. It’s a fact that martyrs die to be right.
The problem isn’t your looks. The problem is either that you’re so deluded that you believe your nonsense [and I must point out that there exists no testable, empirical evidence verifying AGW], or you have sold your soul for money and status.
I sincerely hope it’s only that you are deluded. A few folks around here sincerely believe, despite all evidence to the contrary, and despite having no corroborating evidence to support their belief system, that human activity causes global warming. With zero evidence, all you have is your belief, and your ugly noble cause corruption that is destroying the credibility of climate science.

bill mckibben says:
November 10, 2012 at 6:21 pm
“actually, fine to make fun of me for the way i look. am used to it.”
No one is making fun of how you look, I’m sure you are very appealing to your species.
lol see what I did there?

Where you been, Bill??? You’re like 75 years late to the party, budro…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b21g-5YBLs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzo9wtXfHGk&sns=em
https://m.youtube.com/?client=mv-google&tab=w1

Check the historical records of “The Daily Bayonet” – skewering the clueless since 1996 – under Humor/Satire in the RH sidebar for the souce of “Oh the ironing”. Sadly,TDB is still in suspenders.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ium31et6rd8&sns=em
This is kinda interesting, stuff you can find if you bother to actually look. What says you?

CBS Sunday Morning had an article about climate change this morning. The author (David Pogue from the NY Times…ugh) said at the outset of the article he was going to get opinions from both sides of the argument. I thought surely Dr. McKibben would be the first face they’d show on the AGW side of things, but he was not on that program. But just guess who their “skeptic” representatives were…………The Mullers. Seriously.
At this point, if some MSM program actually does a fair article regarding this whole debate I might just weep.

If this is a planetary emergency then long term solutions like emission reduction are already too late. Is he advocating geo-engineering I wonder?

Is a planetary emergency something like a Linux kernel panic?

Mr McKibben,
One thing I like about true scientists is their modesty — they are prepared to admit that they may be wrong. It is a tendency that should be encouraged in all walks of life, but I appreciate that in a job like yours, which depends on presenting a case which the facts don’t always support, this ideal cannot always be reached. You do make the odd minor concession to the truth, but then you continue as if that truth does not matter.
I’m what is dubbed a lukewarmer, sure that global temperature is rising — or was rising until recently — but unsure as to the cause. I look at the graphs which enable us to see the CO2 signature. That signature shows from 1975, so the experts say. But it has warmed since 1910 and there was another similar rise in the 1880s. I see the ‘human isotope signal’ which appears in 1850 and notice that in fact the isotope balance began to change in 1720. I see predictions of sea level and temperature rise which are simply wrong, assertions that a weather event like Sandy is a symptom of climate change while the ’30s dustbowl was merely weather. Where are the deadlines of yesteryear, where are the ‘three years to save the planet’ doomsters?
I am not entirely averse to you, and people like you, making yourself a laughing stock, but I do object most strongly to the results of your failed scaremongering. Each foolish extrapolation, each ludicrous and forced connection to climate change by you (collective you, all of you disaster mavens who are doing very nicely thank you with your doom-laden articles and lucrative consultancies) is setting back the cause of conservation by decades. When I protest about wetland depletion of the coast, or object to a hedge being grubbed up because that is detrimental to local wildlife I will be met by blank incomprehension. Hedge plants vanishing — oh, yes, like global warming, ho ho, pull the other one. Anyone who loves the natural world is being set up to look like a fool by you — you personally — and those like you who do not care what they say or write as long as they can make a point, can keep the gravy-train rolling for a few more months.
I’ve been here before, watched foolish people achieve exactly the opposite of what they have set out to do. Then it was CND, convinced they were right, convinced that all they had to do was make the West disarm: the sun would then shine on a thousand smiley flowers as totalitarian regimes around the world saw how wrong they were with their vast armies and thousands of nuclear weapons and immediately followed suit. Starry-eyed and wooly-brained nonsense of course, but by making the East think that the West was divided it extended the Cold War by a decade. Well done the wooly-minded, millions held in poverty, fear and slavery because they couldn’t imagine that they might be wrong.
You, individual you, are making that error. Because of you the world will be a worse place for decades. Each lie you tell, each truth you fudge, is entered into the account against you. But it won’t matter, you’ll be retired and living on your investments by the time the science is settled while the true conservationists will be out there sweeping up the debris you’ve left behind, explaining to people grown weary of doom-mongering false prophets, tired of being cold in winter, tired of lectures and lies, that this time, yes, it really matters, this time the science is not overhyped or twisted.
I live in East Anglia, a region that knows about fanaticism in a good cause. You can still see the work of the Puritans in our churches, the coloured glass smashed, the wall paintings whitewashed, the statues overthrown and defaced. De-faced, the faces broken, beaten with hammers. No love there, no religion. Those hammers were powered by envy and hatred, by a sanctimonious certainty. Read the comments below your article in the Guardian, look in the mirror. Are you really happy with what you see? Can you not see the Puritan, the fanatic, the envy, the hate?
Look closer.
JF