I may just divert to Toronto from Chicago and pay this writer a visit so I can tell him to his face what an idiot he is, or have my two new Canadian friends, Guy and Stuart, do it for me. He deserves it. How do the publishers of this newspaper reconcile printing such blatant idiocy based on what the writer calls “weeks old” science? How does such a headline get published? At first I thought maybe it was just the copy editor at fault, making a dumb headline, but then I read this in the body of the story:
Over 4.5 billion people could die from Global Warming related causes by 2012, as planet Earth accelarates [sic] into a greed-driven horrific catastrophe.
6.7 billion people in the world today, and 4.5 billion will die in less than two years due to a temperature rise that will be less in magnitude than our regularly experienced variance? There’s a link at the end, feel free to sound off. We need to remind this newspaper of this in 2012 – Anthony
Over 4.5 Billion people could die from Global Warming-related causes by 2012
Hydrate hypothesis illuminates growing climate change alarm
Compiled by John Stokes
A recent scientific theory called the “hydrate hypothesis” says that historical global warming cycles have been caused by a feedback loop, where melting permafrost methane clathrates (also known as “hydrates”) spur local global warming, leading to further melting of clathrates and bacterial growth.
In other words, like western Siberia, the 400 billion tons of methane in permafrost hydrate will gradually melt, and the released methane will speed the melting. The effect of even a couple of billion tons of methane being emitted into the atmosphere each year would be catastrophic.
The “hydrate hypothesis” (if validated) spells the rapid onset of runaway catastrophic global warming. In fact, you should remember this moment when you learned about this feedback loop-it is an existencial turning point in your life.
By the way, the “hydrate hypothesis” is a weeks old scientific theory, and is only now being discussed by global warming scientists. I suggest you Google the term.
Now that most scientists agree human activity is causing the Earth to warm, the central debate has shifted to when we will pass the tipping point and be helpless to stop the runaway Global Warming.
There are enormous quantities of methane trapped in permafrost and under the oceans in ice-like structures called clathrates. The methane in Arctic permafrost clathrates is estimated at 400 billion tons.
Methane is more than 20 times as strong a greenhouse gas as CO2, and the atmosphere currently contains about 3.5 billion tons of the gas.
The highest temperature increase from global warming is occurring in the arctic regions-an area rich in these unstable clathrates. Simulations from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) show that over half the permafrost will thaw by 2050, and as much as 90 percent by 2100.
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Western Siberia is heating up faster than anywhere else in the world, having experienced a rise of some 3C in the past 40 years. The west Siberian peat bog could hold some 70 billion tonnes of methane. Local atmospheric levels of methane on the Siberian shelf are now 25 times higher than global concentrations.
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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.
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Make comments about this article in The Canadian Blog.
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Contact page for The Canadian here
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UPDATE: To further illustrate just how bad this newspaper is, they have what appears to be a current date for the story right above the headline:
Yet when you look at the footer:
The automatic current date inserter gives the false impression of fresh news. It certainly fooled me and other readers. It appears this is an old article from 2007, still no less stupid, and to be proven false within 18 months. Readers that are visiting the blog page link provided by The Canadian are reporting AV software saying it to be an “attack site”. I’ve verified this, Visiting not recommended. Just make a date in your appointment calendar to drop a line to the editors (assuming this paper is still in existence in 2012) to remind them you and 4.5 billion other people aren’t dead. – A
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this buffoon should go and show the pola bears what crap he has published thay will let him know what they think of it thay will have him for lunch
The whole site is filled with conspiracy drivel.
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2010/04/15/03169.html
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2009/01/26/03059.html
They’re nutjobs.
Other headlines….
“Dissident Scientists reveal that intelligent life has been on Mars”
“United Airlines employees witness Alien Spacecraft in Chicago”
The original version:
“Over 4.5 billion people could die laughing from Global Warming headlines by 2012, as media accelerates into a hysteria-driven articles to increase revenue.”
It’s a look at me I’m an idiot headline don’t encourage them.
But why stop at 4.5 billion? Why not say everybody will die. That would make this headline and article the most alarmist yet. Perhaps by doing so the writer thinks he might loose some credibility.
You sure Spencer hasn’t inspired this with his Eco-Enquirer? I’m going back to bed.
I was unable to view the website as my security suite reported it as a phishing attack site. My current configuration includes (but is not limited to) Norton, AVG, Zone Alarm and Spybot Search and Destroy. Did anyone elase have that problem?
I was able to post a comment but we shall see if it ever gets published. But with the mega-power plants South Africa and India plan to bring online? If this guy was anywhere near right,…. oh, forget it. Guessing he’s another like algore, who tried to tie agw to the Faux Mayan 2012 ‘prediction.’
Last line of my comment: were you born stupid, or did your mother beat you with a brick?
Not only “accelarates” but “existencial” too. I fear that the remaining two years of life on Earth are not enough for Mr Stokes to become proficient in the English language.
“Socially progressive” and “cross cultural” are code words for a readership of losers and lefties of the unemployable and government sector variety.
Doubtless this publication will soon go the way of all flesh.
However, this thought does occur: if there is so much of this methane clathrate, why is no one exploiting it? I suspect a couple of zeroes have been added to the size estimate – helps to make the concept a lot more scary and that, of course, is a typical alarmist tactic.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the author purposely chose the 2012 date in order to coincide with the Mayan end of the world prophecy. Most of these “progressive” kooks are obsessed with ancient Mayan prophecies, Nostradamus predictions, Astrology charts, and Eastern mysticism. The religion of AGW ties into these themes rather handily.
Well, the great thing about this one is we can all relax. No need to limit emissions or worry about Kyoto or Copenhagen. This is either going to happen in two years or it is not, but in any case, there is nothing we can do about it now. I mean, even if we started some giant global cooling project to try to refreeze the permafrost, it would take us 10-20 years to get the stuff built and into place and powered on. By then we would all, or most of us, be dead of heatstroke.
It was really a great relief to understand from this article just how bad it really is, and just how powerless we really are. Yes, its all down to greed, but never mind, if it had been down to the Sermon on the Mount, the result would have been the same.
Enjoy it while we can, is the only sensible conclusion, if they are right.
“How do the publishers of this newspaper reconcile printing such blatant idiocy based on what the writer calls “weeks old” science? How does such a headline get published?!
Because they are dirty commie rats.
Although the article in the Canadian is preposterous scaremongering, I wonder if it may actually help destroy the AGW Theory by contributing to Armageddon Fatigue in the populace. If Joe Public’s reaction to warmist hysteria is a little chuckle and a theatrical yawn, the politicians will eventually see warmism as a vote-loser. Currently, in our risk-averse culture, politicians would rather fritter away public resource on this great hoax than be seen to question the wisdom of windmills and carbon taxes.
This silly newspaper is using the Tipping Point argument (also known as the Positive Feedback argument and the Unstable Equilibrium argument). Of course it’s poppycock, but it has a grain of plausibleness. I guess that the notion of a Tipping Point is borrowed from marine engineering. Imagine the (mad) captain of a ferry announcing over the Tannoy: “Will passengers please refrain from congregating in large numbers at the starboard side.” Most passengers would shuffle to port, because the scare story has a grain of plausibleness. Only a minority would sneer, “I’m no marine engineer, and he is the captain, but this is undue alarmism and I’m going to ignore it”.
The assumption that climate is governed by unstable equilibrium needs to be debunked. The other major assumption – that greenhouse gases drive temperature vastly more than solar or volcanic activity – also needs debunking. Flip away these two cards and the entire AGW house of cards topples down. In the words of Alex in Clockwork Orange: “Let’s get ’em, boys!”
Weeks old theory?
Is that like the so-called ‘rotten ice’ theory?
Ya know? All I can think of is that the weasels who keep coming up with those hideous machinations must either be getting paid a bundle, or they’ve been told they’ll get a bundle when it’s all over but the shouting, the crying, and the dying.
The Cardinal of AGW says: nonsense (risking loss of title here).
I only got as far as the phrase ‘local global warming’ before giving up.
The ‘clathrate gun’ idea has been around for years. Not much has been seen of it since the mid 2000’s though. An irony is when BP tried their suction hood thing it immediately bogged up with clathrate crystals, caused by the methane reacting with the sea water, which suggests the ocean floor clathrate ice is pretty stable.
“By the way, the “hydrate hypothesis” is a weeks old scientific theory, and is only now being discussed by global warming scientists. I suggest you Google the term.”
Weeks old…just like phrenology is “weeks old.”
I could view thestory,could not view the blog link,got thesecurity warning.To comment on the blog would be like posting on Huff post.The Canadian bills itself as not for profit,and asks for donations.Their banner reads
Canada’s new socially progressive and cross-cultural national newspaper.
Waste of time reading it.
Well, folks… I think this is wonderful! At last a prediction that not only exceeds all others on the scale of stupidity, but with an outcome actually only 2 years in the future! What a pleasure! If all the other global warming nonsense had such a short horizon, we could all get back to normal in two ticks… of course after the laughter has died down… Drat… for all the other rubbish we have to wait at least 50 years. Don’t think I’ll make it.. my 63rd birthday today…
This is nothing compared to what the BBC showed last night on British TV. You must watch it. Persevere with the slow build up at the start, then be mesmerised by what you are being told.
As a precursor to their 3 week ‘Spring Watch’ programme, Chris Packham (one of their presenters) delivered a lengthy factual documentary lasting 60 minutes. Almost every other paragraph after the first 20 minutes included his strong belief on the ‘serious threat of man-made global warming’ and ‘with Springs now arriving much earlier’. My wife and I sat on the edge of our sofa venting our anger at this rediculous propaganda – especially as it’s still so cold outside in May!! We thought very highly of Chris Packham before this onsluaght – as we wholly agree with his views on conservation and pollution. We’ve enjoyed every episode of the BBC’s Spring Watch over the past years – but not any more. We’ve also bought every edition of the BBC’s ‘Countryfile’ magazine to date – but not any more. How could they waste licence fee payers money on this scaremongering rubbish.
We’re suprised none of Anthony’s UK followers haven’t already made everyone aware of this crazy programme.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00shcl6/Springwatch_2010_Signs_of_Change_with_Chris_Packham/
Been browsing the paper,under exopolitics,some very funny stories
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/exopolitics.html
My favourite is
Manipulative Extraterrestrials appear to use religion and capitalism to control humanity
tonyb says: (May 18, 2010 at 1:20 am) The serious point about this article is that we seem to have increasing numbers of people in our society who unquestioningly believe what they are told …
I disagree, Tony. Panic can spread more rapidly today, but even back when your grandma was a baby in the olden days there were weird and wonderful amazements. Just think of The Children’s Crusade:
In my own grandmother’s childhood one could buy a piano for sixpence as the end of the world was nigh.
With catastrophic gloam warming just over the hill I would sell you my piano for the price of a drink right now; except I think one of my grandchildren shows promise as a pianist and I want to pass it on to her…