Here’s the view of the future in a new science museum according to the Telegraph. No mention if NYC’s West Side Highway will be underwater or not. They call it the “Day after tomorrow map”.
The article by Louise Gray says:
The apocalyptic map was launched by Government ministers at the opening of a new exhibition at the Science Museum.
‘Prove it – everything you need to know to believe in climate change’ is aimed at educating the public about the dangers of uncontrollable global warming.
The ‘Day After Tomorrow’ map shows what the world will look like if temperatures rise beyond four degrees C (7 degrees F). It was produced by the Met Office, that predicts temperature rises may reach the dangerous tipping point by 2060 unless more is done to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The map is designed to get the public behind a global deal on climate change to be agreed in Copenhagen this December. It will also be used by the Foreign Office to persuade other countries to sign up to a deal that will see all major economies forced to cut their emissions.
It shows the threat of global warming around the world. In the UK temperatures could rise above 40 degrees C (104 degrees F) in the summer, droughts will threaten crops in the South East, sea levels rises will affect coastal areas and floods will be commonplace in the winter.
The Government has recently been criticised for “scaremongering” the public in a £6 million advertising campaign that warns man-made climate change will risk the future of our children unless action is taken.
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Can mother earth read this map of her future?
Ron de Haan (09:45:54) :
As I said before, Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot would turn red from envy if would have known about this scheme.
hahaha Indeed, I wonder who’s getting the blame when all this fairytale ends.
This Science Museum support for human based global warming has no basis in fact. all four world temperature tracking outlets, (hadley UK, Nasa Goddard Instiute space Studies, University of alabama-huntsville and Santa Rosa California sensing Systems ) data all show 2007 to have shown a temperature drop of 0.65C to 0.75C enough to wipe out theentire global warming over the last 100 years! The earth has been cooling since 1998 thus proving that human CO2 cannot be the cause of previous global warming. The US has been blanketed with snow last week, with the last two winters showing minus 60C! The Alfred Wenger Institute for Polar Research radar expedition results show polar ice in the Arctic is thickening! Also this is confirmed by US Army buoys showing a thickening of second and third year ice in the Arctic. The North West Passage has been crossed many times in the past. This whole theory of man made global warming has no scientific proof. It is a total fraud
IanM (09:28:24) :
Wonderful “ifs”
I agree; that chart is TOTALLY iffed up.
Even their own colleagues protest on occasions:
In 2007, Professor Lenny Smith, a statistician at the London School of Economics, warned about the “naïve realism” of current climate modelling.
“Our models are being over-interpreted and misinterpreted,” he said. Over-interpretation of models is already leading to poor financial decision-making, Smith says. “We need to drop the pretence that they are nearly perfect.”
He singled out for criticism the British government’s UK Climate Impacts Programme and Met Office. He accused both of making detailed climate projections for regions of the UK when global climate models disagree strongly about how climate change will affect the British Isles. (New Scientist magazine, 16 August 2007.)
The UK scares have ramped up considerably lately. The problem is that the government have covered all bases. The only “experts” that MP’s talk to about climate are from the Hadley Centre and the Tyndall Centre, who are the source of the scares in the first place, especially the socially reconstructive Tyndall Centre. Messages have become more extreme since former IPCC chairman Bob Watson took charge of strategy and it was he who started this 4 degree nonsense last year.
We now have the Climate Change Committee set up as a statutory body that can tell the government what CO2 emission targets to adopt. They are drawn from Lord Stern’s colleagues at the Grantham Institutes at the London School of Economics and Imperial College, funded by US hedge fund billionaire, Jeremy Grantham, with WWF and Environmental Defense on the Management board.
Lord Stern also works for a company called Ideacarbon, whose CEO is a member of the LSE Grantham Institute and the Climate Change Committee
http://www.ideacarbon.com/strategic/index.html.
They are marketing a carbon trading consultancy called CARBONfirst, which offers a “premier strategic advice service …. created to give senior decision makers tailored intelligence about key developments in climate change policy and the evolution of the carbon markets.”
The CARBONfirst network includes, and I quote:
“Lord Stern, Advisor, IDEAGlobal and author of the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change”
The UK Opposition is in thrall to WWF, Greenpeace and FoE, several of their team are involved with subsidised “green” technologies, so there is no political opposition, they are all trying to outgreen each other.
Al Gore is very pleased with the UK, he wrote this on his blog a couple of years ago: http://blog.algore.com/2007/03/
“Chancellor Brown has introduced a package of binding CO2 reductions in the United Kingdom that represent real leadership. The same day I met with the leader of the Conservative Party, David Cameron, and 80 of his fellow Tory Members of Parliament.
They were unanimous in their determination to propose meaningful solutions to the climate crisis. There has been a revolution in British politics, with the two largest parties now wholeheartedly committed to CO2 reductions and international leadership to solve the climate crisis.”
The UK at the moment appears to be a hopeless basket case, lets hope the US doesn’t go much further down the same road than it already has.
If this is the “Day after Tomorrow Map”, where is all the SNOW? I mean I saw the movie. Global Warmers can’t have it both ways – or can they?
However if Rudd, Obama and Brown, get their way at Copenhagen then just like the movie, the citizens of the USA may have to move to Mexico to raise their standard of living, here in Aust we could move to Papua/New Guinea. Not sure about where the Brits can move to as Europe will be stuffed.
The modern equivalent of the “burning of the witches” has already started. One major pointer is that dissent is not met with reasoned argument but with no toleration of an opposing point of view. What is worrying is, “What is the next fad” ?
My Dear Trevor
If various nonsenses continue, including AGW and a number of off-topic foolishnesses, Europe will indeed be stuffed.
I went onto the Science Museum at http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/proveit/sendgov.aspx?action=out and entered my name and email and clicked COUNT ME OUT. I got a message thanking me for contributing to Positive Action!!! We are definitely run by morons. There are still some intelligent skeptics around in the UK, but the political elites seem to be very impervious to this one so far.
I’ve never bought into conspiracy theories – incompetence and stupidity have always been enough for me – but it’s getting hard to avoid the conclusion that this is one. Thanks for the internet.
@ur momisugly Robinson. I would wish I could write things like that – that are not in line with the general line of the blog – on sites like Realclimate or Climate progress. Unfortunately I get moderated out even if I only recall some cold figures that are not in line with the particular blog entry. Think about that and about at which place you will have a chance to get closer to the truth through honest debate…
oh sorry I see you were pulling legs
If I understand these comments correctly (be patient with me; I’m not a scientist), then AGW is a heap of hooey. I’m good with that, as my world view tells me that I can do anything to the planet without recourse (it’s an effin big place after all!!).
But I do stress about the polar bears… not because they’ve gone missing (never seen any around here!) but because I hear that they taste real good!! Is that right??? Am I evil??? And do I care!!!???
This would be funny except that our children are being taught this stuff in school as fact and science without a contrary point of view. And it must be right because teachers know everything whilst parents don’t. My son’s weekly school newsletter was highlighting the dangerous carbon footprint of some popular lunch snacks and suggesting we buy local produce or grow our own food to lessen the impact.
Never underestimate the power of propaganda. Dare I mention where scaremongering about WMD’s has led us? There was “proof” and “evidence” there too and we took swift and decisive action! History shows that it works and politics today shows the power it carries. AGW has gone beyond a cult – it really does look like its drifting into a new dictatorship with all the trappings of self interested parties including the MSM collaborating. To quote the Vogon in Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy – “Resistance is Useless” endlessly repeated! As compared to “The Science is Settled” repeated endlessly.
This is not conspiracy theory – its just ignorant or willing compliance by people who ask the simple question “does it affect me”? When the answer is “not really”, the result is ignore it and move on.
The backlash will come when people see that their lives will be radically affected. I wouldn’t want to be a climate scientist when that happens. They will be the whipping boys sacrificed to the baying crowd by the very people who exploit them. So Gavin, James, Keith and Phil – don’t say you weren’t warned
How do they estimate rice yields will fall by 30% in Asia and maize/wheat 40% in Africa? With increased CO2, most published studies on increased CO2 crop yield enhancement would be closer to raising yields by similar figures. No, thats not the right message. Plants dont understand whats good for them. We do, for we are government ministers in the science museum, where all the children go to look round at the exhibits and take notes and leaflets back to school. And they have to know why they will pay dearly for their parents wanton fecklessness.
“Met Office, that predicts temperature rises may reach the dangerous tipping point by 2060”
What happened to tipping points being so close we have to act in 50 days according to the British PM?
I think the last word in your article is misspelled. Shouldn’t “m” be “cr”?
And on that theme, shouldn’t the great intelligences that made the cr^H^Hmap be able to spell? (See top dead centre.)
Computer models may be useful for gaining some insight into the climate system, but they should never be used for policy decisions, at least not in their present state.
Meanwhile here is an interesting paper on 50,000 years of climate in British Columbia, Canada as deduced by pollen and chironomid studies. The actual data indicate a very interesting picture of climate change over this huge slice of time. Our present climate does not appear special, but seems downright warm compared to where we were. Also if interest is that it seems to have been cooling overall for the last 4000 years.
http://www.biodiversitybc.org/assets/Default/BBC Biodiversity and Geological History.pdf
There is no climate model that predicts +4.0C globally or +16.0C for the Arctic by 2060.
They are even exagerating their exagerated climate models now.
What scientists would allow this / help this to be produced? We already have one poster thinking it is accurate. That must be the only reason to distort things by so much.
If the British Government were to stop all monies being wasted on “Green” projects we would be on our way to recovery. That and suspending any Carbon Offset/Claptrap trading.
May there be much real snow in Copenhagen in December and little political “Snow”.
Gary Pearse (10:57:12) :
We’re still alive & kicking. Sadly tho’ the msm & influential elements within society, Met Office, Royal Society, have all been infiltrated by the green left sefl-serving intellectual elite. You know the sort of people, do as I say not as I do. A highly efficient piece of corporate take over. Hopefully over time the tide will once again return to reason, logic, science, oh & that most useful of tools, common sense!
Peter Plail (10:42:44) :
The UK also has a history of glorious failures, and Eddy the Eagle is perhaps the silliest and Pen Hadow a close second.
Hey, leave Eddie alone, least he didn’t nearly earn a Darwin!
DaveE.
Yes they both did their things because they believed in it, although one was more delusional than the other and was close to earning a Darwin Award. Whereas Eddie is the best ski jumper in the United Kingdom, setting a British record of 73.5m in one of his Calgary jumps in 1988 (wich still stands and is unlikely of ever being broken) and ended up with a degree in law at De Montfort University in Leicester after/during civil actions against his trustees.
“Affects on the UK”? Effing people are illiterate.
The trouble with the Science Museum these days is it is directed by Professor Chris Rapley. I first met him at British Antartic Survey (BAS) some 12 years ago when he became BAS Director.
His first act was to shut down all areas that were not willing or able to show science that supported Global Warming.
He is no longer a scientist, but a political opportunist- as this “display” shows