Perhaps the stupidest article I've ever seen

rc says:
June 29, 2010 at 3:19 am
It’s worse than the headline, the last sentence is:
“We HUMANS could be EXTINCT by 2050 because politicians are not considering sufficiently strong action.”
Oh no only 40 years left!
Impossible to take articles like this seriously.
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Take it very seriously.
This is NOT an article it is a pre-written Letter to your Congressman!
If a Congress Critter gets lots of these letters he is going to think he should vote for Cap and Tax because that is what the voters in his district wants. He does not care about science he cares about money and power.
Now think about the commenter David and his repeated sniping by the moderators at SEPP on the PNAS blacklist paper At his own website his first words on June 27th are “The United States of America is a nation which can, must and will fail …. What we are witnessing now is not merely the collapse of the USA but the terminal decline of technological civilization. The Earth cannot sustain the unhealthy appetites and pollution of 6.7 billion humans.”
So where did he get this hatred for the USA and “technological civilization?” – Where did he learn that “feelings” are more important than “evidence” He got it from John Dewey, father of “Modern Education”
Nikita Khrushchev stated:
“You Americans are so gullible! We don’t have to invade you! We will destroy you from within without firing a shot! We will bury you by the billions! We spoon feed you socialism until your Communists and don’t even know it! We assist your elected leaders in giving you small doses of Socialism until you suddenly awake to find you have Communism. the day will come when your grandchildren will live under communism!”
Unfortunately John Dewey and his successors (ala’ Bill Spady’s Outcome Based Education) have pretty much had their way for at least two generation and we are now dealing with the grandchildren Khrushchev was talking about. Critical thinking and even basic math, reading and writing are no longer taught in US schools and have not been since the seventies.
“The bulk of the responsibility for these massive, tragic declines in education can be laid at the feet of the leaders of the Humanist education community. Their obsessive meddling with the basic process and pedagogy of education, conducted in their zeal to make education more philosophically (e.g. “modern” Humanist) and politically correct, is the primary cause of the decline. John Dewey and his successors (ala’ Bill Spady’s Outcome Based Education) have pretty much had their way, but the excuses are wearing pretty thin….”
The demise of CRITICAL THINKING
“…. There is no God and there is no soul. Hence, there are no needs for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is also dead and buried. There is no room for fixed, natural law or moral absolutes.” – John Dewey (Rondald Nash, The Closing of the American Heart: What’s Really Wrong with America’s Schools, United States: Probe Books, 1990, 91)
The demise of READING and MATH and the substitution of “FEELINGS”
“….. It is almost an unquestioned assumption, of educational theory and practice both, that the first three years of a child’s school-life shall be mainly taken up with learning to read and write his own language. If we add to this the learning of a certain amount of numerical combinations, we have the pivot about which education swings…
It does not follow, however, that because this course was once wise it is so any longer. On the contrary, the fact, that this mode of education was adapted to past conditions, is in itself a reason why it should no longer hold supreme sway.
…The significant thing is that it is possible for the child at an early day to become acquainted with, and to use, in a personal and yet relatively controlled fashion, the methods by which truth is discovered and communicated, and to make his own speech a channel for the expression and communication of truth; thus putting the linguistic side where it belongs — subordinate to the appropriation and conveyance of what is genuinely and personally experienced …” John Dewey FEELINGS REIGNS SUPREME

this is not an unusual article at all.
CAGW is a social movement based on exactly the sort of apocalyptic claptrap this idiot article exemplifies.
It uses science to sell an apocalyptic story of man’s evil just like TV preachers use the Bible to sell the idea the world is coming to an end with a great rapture of believers teleporting away Star Trek style from their problems. And note how promoters of apocalyptic stories always need to sell books and give well paid lectures.
It is a nice listing extreme books that promote this amazingly wrong idea.
It is easily one of the stupidest articles ever. I feel sorry that the true believer who wrote it is probably sincerely thinking he is offering a sober rational analysis of a real threat. I feel even sorrier for anyone this article may convince.

Matthew Bergin says:
June 29, 2010 at 3:26 am
I notice that the web site has no way to comment on their articles. A good thing or I might have said something rude.
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You can comment on this Letter to Congress go to the bottom left of the written article and click on the red Report Abuse. On the next screen you can use the pull down box to click on your choice (I clicked offensive) and then write a short comment.

Paul Birch says:
June 29, 2010 at 4:37 am
It’s not an article, it’s a posted comment. Sure it’s stupid, but 87.3% of comment posts are stupid, and 76.9% of them use made up statistics….
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Sorry it is neither an Article or a Comment it is meant to be a pre-written Letter to Congress. Look at the top and bottom and you will see:
Write your elected officials about this issue!……Enter Your ZIP Code:…….GO
This allows the frightened alarmist to cut and past using it as their “letter” to their Congressman. It is worse than a form letter because many of the letters will be slightly different, reflecting a persons bias so it does not come across as a “form letter”

“”H2S bubbling out of hot oceans”” ????
Is that a prediction for the sun going nova in the next few years?

If Earth had a sense of humour it would now spring a surprise ice age. Just a little mini one, just to show who’s boss!

Unfortunately, this type of science fiction isn’t new. Some weeks ago I watched an old Twilight Zone episode where the Earth was quickly being cooked by the sun. People were desperately trying to escape to the poles before they turned into toast.
Last week, Dr. Frank Fenner predicted that humans will cause their extinction in 100 years (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1287643/Human-race-extinct-100-years-population-explosion.html). I like Fenner’s prediction because it gives me 50 more years to live.
Then there’s this from January 2009: “Billions Could Go Hungry From Global Warming by 2100” (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16384-billions-could-go-hungry-from-global-warming-by-2100.html).
And my absolute favorite: “Over 4.5 Billion People Could Die From Global-Warming Related Causes by 2012” (http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2007/01/08/01291.html)
Finally, here’s a classic from The Onion: “Christian Groups: Biblical Armageddon Must Be Taught Alongside Global Warming”
There seems to be a rash of these doomsday predictions lately, and that suits me fine. Enviromental radicals are moving farther and farther out to the lunatic fringe and those who defend their message are looking more and more ridiculous. It’s becoming a huge joke. Bring on more news articles like this. I need a good laugh.

The staggering stupidity of anyone believing that they are sooooo important that this world must end on their shift. Just like it never did before.
The French/Germans probably have a word for it but I can’t be bothered finding it.
The whole enchilada is broken. There is no CO2 induced thermageddon on our horizon. There is no big-bang. There is no event-horizon even. There is no peak oil. There is no peak-anything – except human idiocy it would seem.
The more I investigate “modern” science the more I am beginning to think that there may well be a God and He is jerking us all around by making these proud loonies produce theories that posit the exact reverse of His reality.
Henry, still waiting to be freed from my J(ust)O(ver)B(roke) by the oil company check.
I was assured it was in the post.

Finally Paul Erlich is vindicated. There are bigger idiots than him!

Fortunately for us, Mr. Greisch is already working on ideas to avoid the catastrophe, At this site (bottom of the page):

Cover the ice free Arctic Ocean and melted tundra peat bog lakes with white or aluminum coated ping pong balls.

He explains further (click on More):

This would return the albedo of those ice free areas to a value closer to the ice covered state, preventing the absorption of solar heat.

Mr. Greisch’s grasp of reality seems somewhat tenuous…

There’s a link for reporting abuse. I followed it.
Great idea. I did likewise.