By charles the moderator
I have no other comment.
From congress.org
Global Warming could make Humans EXTINCT within 50 years
Kill mechanisms list
Global Warming could make the human race EXTINCT. The #1 kill mechanism is famine. See “The Long Summer” by Brian Fagan and “Collapse” by Jared Diamond. Shifting winds and warmer oceans have already created a weird moving checkerboard of drought and flood that has interfered with agriculture here and elsewhere.
The extra heat has caused heat related deaths already.
The book “Six Degrees” by Mark Lynas says: “If the global warming is 6 degrees centigrade, we humans go extinct.” The book lists several kill mechanisms, the most important being famine and methane fuel-air explosions. Other mechanisms include fire storms.
“Under a Green Sky” by Peter D. Ward, Ph.D., 2007 says H2S bubbling out of hot oceans is the final blow at 6 degrees C warming.
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read the rest at congress.org
re kim, – “kim says:
June 29, 2010 at 2:55 am
More cowbell.”
Best comment so far!!!
I suggest a cowbell watermark for the cover of the next UN CAGW report, the IPCC 5AR summary for policymakers.
Edward Greisch is an expert on tobacco toxicology too…
Smoking tobacco causes cancer because the radioactive gas radon seeps out of the ground and sticks to tobacco leaves. This radon gets into the lungs with the tobacco smoke. The radiation from radon causes cancer. [There has always been background radiation. All rocks contain uranium, usually a few parts per million. The radioactive decay of uranium produces radon.]
I may be an absolute, and total idiot… but I can make an accurate prediction. If we make no major changes in health care, all humans currently living will be dead within 150 years.
Meh. People live and they die. I find it ironic that a lot of people talking about the extinction of the human race… also advocate for wiping it down to an ‘acceptable’ level in their philosophy to prevent that extinction. Leaving themselves, of course, as the ‘enlightened’, in control.
It’s fascinating watching the mental moral gymnastics involved in this. It makes the best gymnast and contortionists seem like boards. “It’s OK if I do X, after all, if I don’t, DOOM is coming! The end of the world is Nigh if you don’t do what I say! You must sacrifice your SUVs, your children, other people’s children on the altar of WARMING or the sun won’t come up tomorrow!” “If you don’t stop having children, your children will burn/drown/die/starve, and so will mine! No, I won’t stop, has to be you!!”
And it’s always their perceived ‘inferiors’ they want to die or stop breeding.. morally inferior, biologically inferior. It’s an extension of that same old bigotry, taking another form.
The Xhosa learned that lesson in a painful fashion.
I agree with Kim, MORE COWBELL! Also, it had my vote for dumbest until I saw the post about Mann thinking he is an icon.
@ur momisugly Gail Combs says:
June 29, 2010 at 5:22 am
Well said. I can only echo your thoughts. I’ve long lamented the demise of critical thinking in our society. While much blame can be laid at Dewey’s feet, there’s plenty more blame to spread around. Not the least of which is our educational leaders of today. What happened when we noticed student’s SAT and ITBS scores were dropping? We lowered the standards and revised the tests so the scores wouldn’t drop. Nice. No one should be surprised by this vapid letter to congress. Nor should we be surprised by the blatherings of career students and their instructors. What I’m surprised by is the fact that a large amount of the American populous lack of willingness to engage with and confront the “experts”. Throughout our history, we’ve always challenged “authority”. Today? Not so much. I’ve still great faith the American people will turn the corner, but the faith gets tested every day.
Your quote of Dewey is spot on. If one removes God from education, this is the results.
One of the greatest minds in the history of the world: “Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion. God governs all things and knows all that is or can be done.”, and “Such a wonderful uniformity in the planetary system must be allowed the effect of choice”.———–Isaac Newton. Sadly, we can teach his gravitational theories and credit him for his discoveries and scientific contributions, but we mustn’t mention his thoughts regarding his scientific contributions. It might confuse the children.
Your congress.org is a little different than mine, I hadn’t seen that one. Did you see where there’s other climate bills to slip in around the Kerry, Lieberman?
http://www.congress.org/news/2010/06/24/delays_plague_climate_bill
Also, how come you do so much editing of my posts? I don’t take sides, I just examine… You Rush Limbaugh lover!
Rush Limbaugh Falsifies The 1979 Hurricane Record
http://www.accuweather.com/m/News/Story/33229/rush_limbaugh_falsifies_the_1979_hurricane_record.aspx
I’m just waiting for one of these wackjobs (or a concerted group of them) to ‘Rainbow Six’ the rest of us stupid consuming breathing eating planet destroyers. I’ve spoken to many ‘believers’ in my scientific field and they, to a one, think a massive pandemic that wiped out billions of people would be a *good* thing. ‘But think how good it would be for the environment!’. In relation to a smallpox epidemic in an unvaccinated population.
Even the most hardened dictators of the 20th century are pikers compared to the human destruction these people seek. Stalin, Mao and Hitler only killed millions. These wackjobs want 6B+ dead. Pronto!
I’m drawing a blank on any other religion that seeks to kill *everyone* else but the current adherents. Even conversion isn’t good enough for these people.
The AGW crowd jumped the shark a long time ago, but this is jumping the whale.
Meanwhile, we’re now witnessing the beginnings of the real CAGW (movement) caused catastrophe:
“Power rationed on ‘green island’ Eigg after mild weather causes drought
It was hailed as Britain’s first “green” island and a glimpse of the what the future could hold for the rest of the country.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/hydro_electricenergy/7858960/Power-rationed-on-green-island-Eigg-after-mild-weather-causes-drought.html
I think they’re right. The other day, our air conditioning was out and the temperature in the office rose a horrifying 11 degrees… needless to say, everyone inside died.
The horror. My God, the horror.
Get your massages while you can, people.
That’s not an “article,” it’s a “soapbox post” by a random nobody on some site called “congress.org.”
C’mon Charles. Anybody can find ten things as stupid posted from the other perspective – or on ANY subject – in some obscure corner of the interwebs. This doesn’t even rise to the level of cherry-picking.
Aah, I could write some shaggy dog tales like this, it would be well funny to see who ran with the bait!!
A quick search of Edward Greisch on Google reveals a self-loathing athiest. A few selected quotes from a post March 31, 2007:
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and typical left-wing projection
It wouldn’t really matter what this guy thinks except that he is just the sort of person that has the ear of the Democrat Party leaders and Democrats are in the majority. God help us.
Thank goodness we’ll all die soon, we’ve got to SAVE the planet somehow!
Henry Galt says:
June 29, 2010 at 6:04 am
“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.
……… There is no peak-anything – except human idiocy it would seem.”
Has it peaked, yet? I doubt it. OTOH, we have discovered something the CAGW crowd gave us to be alarmed about. As you put it, human idiocy——- it’s worse than we thought!
My advice to the authors: Try cutting the Prozac in half.
Pretty certain this was one of those Scifi channel flicks with bad CGI and actors unknown to their own parents.
I’m tired of hearing references to this. I recently spent several weeks with a scientist who is extremely hardcore on global warming. He discusses it with people at literally every meal (at least every meal I had with him during those 3 weeks…somewhere around 40 meals). Early on in the 3 weeks, he totally went off on Michael Crichton complaining that we should only pay attention to solid, proven science. Literally the next thing he started talking about then was this Six Degrees book and how it’s so good and true. Um…a little hypocrisy here?
-Scott
i have heard this sort of thing before , and i have only one comment on it.
Armageddon sick of it!
tallbloke says:
June 29, 2010 at 6:58 am
Edward Greisch is an expert on tobacco toxicology too…
“Smoking tobacco causes cancer because the radioactive gas radon seeps out of the ground and sticks to tobacco leaves. This radon gets into the lungs with the tobacco smoke. The radiation from radon causes cancer. [There has always been background radiation. All rocks contain uranium, usually a few parts per million. The radioactive decay of uranium produces radon.]
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Oh Boy does this guy have his head (fill in the blank) The actual information he is twisting up side down and backwards is:
“…The radiation hormesis model explains why residents of radon spa areas (in Japan, Germany, and central Europe) and people who live in homes that have high radon levels also have a decreased incidence of cancer. But perhaps the most impressive study that shows just how good low dose radiation can be for you is one just published in the (Spring 2004) Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. ” click
Edward Greisch is a shinning example of the results of John Dewey’s experiment in education.
“methane fuel-air explosions”
Really!?! Natural methane explosions? ROFLMAO.
Peter D. Ward is kookie. I heard him on Coast to Coast AM with Noory making all manner of fanciful climate claims.
Wow, that’s an incredibly silly statement.
Good news for misanthropes!
Physics of the ‘bends’: New study helps explain decompression sickness – Mozilla Firefox
Moon Dirt Mystery Piled Up Over Billions of Years – Space.com – Yahoo! Buzz
Both these podcasts contain NITROGEN & its strangeness. The Moon’s unusual nitrogen out numbers solar type 10 to 1. Earthlings have decompression sickness due to the strange fact that nitrogen exists in tissue in opposition to principals of physics which says body pure nitrogen should collapse in face of nitrogen/ox mix outside of body & doesn’t.
What makes this so much weirder is that in the absence of all frame of reference our body has a 25 hour cycle like—–the Moon’s.