Back in January 2007, we were admonished:
“…you should remember this moment when you learned about this feedback loop-it is an existencial turning point in your life. “
Yes, I remember, only too well. In fact, here’s a reminder:
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Get your life in order people. The big planet killing fart is coming, sometime in the next 52 days. I’ve sent an email to the editor using the contact page for this newspaper, asking if they’ll have live coverage.
h/t to The Daily Bayonet
Meanwhile, cooler heads are asking about whether climate change is dangerous at all.
Despite the warmistas apparent disgust with religion and reliance on science (and only consensus science will do, in this context), isn’t it amazing that most of their predictions of calamity or at least, tipping points from which there is no return, correspond to the “doom” point of an ancient religion?
Just sayin’ .
Anthony, did you personally write this? It does not appear to me as your style.
Whether it was you or a subby, take another look at the article quoted. It’s full of caveats. No news here – move on.
Can’t blame sprouts for this – contrary to popular myth, humans do not release much methane, if any. And since when did cow’s eat Christmas dinner?
“Nitrogen, the main constituent of air, is the primary gas released during flatulence, along with carbon dioxide. The lesser component gases methane and hydrogen are flammable, and so flatus containing adequate amounts of these can be ignited. However, not all humans produce flatus that contains methane. For example, in one study of the feces of nine adults, only five of the samples contained archaea capable of producing methane.[1] Similar results are found in samples of gas obtained from within the rectum.” (Wikipedia)
I genuinely struggled to read past “…local global warming…” wtf is that supposed to mean?
Mark says:
November 10, 2011 at 9:23 am
Mark – there’s not much difference between the headline above and this peer-reviewed paper by Hansen et al.
Hansen, J., Mki. Sato, P. Kharecha, G. Russell, D.W. Lea, and M. Siddall, 2007: Climate change and trace gases. Phil. Trans. Royal. Soc. A, 365, 1925-1954, doi:10.1098/rsta.2007.2052.
Paleoclimate data show that the Earth’s climate is remarkably sensitive to global forcings. Positive feedbacks predominate. This allows the entire planet to be whipsawed between climate states. One feedback, the “albedo flip” property of water substance, provides a powerful trigger mechanism. A climate forcing that “flips” the albedo of a sufficient portion of an ice sheet can spark a cataclysm. Ice sheet and ocean inertia provides only moderate delay to ice sheet disintegration and a burst of added global warming. Recent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions place the Earth perilously close to dramatic climate change that could run out of our control, with great dangers for humans and other creatures.
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Need I say more?
That’ll play havoc with the “sustainability” business.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-stokes/4/b22/836
The last time body count was of interest was Vietnam. Most people have moved on since then. Apparently not this publication.
This sounds like another attempted example of what I am calling ‘Fear-Forced (Post-Normal) Science.’
existencial?
I guess Gaia will do like everybody else and smell its own fart, then wonder what she ate…
I have discovered some magic beans that can be planted to revrarch this problem.
Caution: eating these magic beans could fart the earth off its orbit, giving new meaning to “internal combustion” and “off-gassing”…
In the “mean” time, it’s 52 days and counting…
Idiots.
The climate fail files has only one entry. This would make an excellent addition.
If that page is going to exist, it needs to have lots of entries, otherwise the implication is that few of the predictions have failed, which is certainly not the case.
No kidding. People really write and publish stuff like that?
Now that most scientists agree human activity is causing the Earth to warm…….
“The big planet killing fart is coming,”
Gru is going to use that fart gun that Dr. Nefario built. (Despicable Me)
Quick everyone, light a match.
The unsustainable debt-fueled spending by Greek and other socialists is far more likely to implode in the next 52 days than anything else.
It was only 29 deaths per second when the prediction started, now it needs 1001 per second since I know of no Hydrate related deaths having occured yet. Plenty of time, the extinction will coincide with the arrival of the great prophet Zarquon.
This is better evidence of personality type at play than anything related to climate or science.
Another candidate for the Climate FAIL tab in WUWT, but we have to wait a few days don’t we?
From the same newsblog: http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2011/05/27/03614.html
“Some “conspiracy theorists” claim that curent changes in Earth’s climate and weather havoc is substantively linked to the approaching of a Planet X. They and researchers like former CNN reporter Mashall Masters allege that elites have sought to exploit the environmental movement to cover-up Planet X as the actual primary cause of prevailing climate-oriented havoc on Earth.”
It’s like shooting fish in a barrel.
I’ve been under the doctor for a month now. I wondered why he went white when I explained. The only problem I have is that he gave me liquid parafin. That’s big oil isn’t it? OMG
I know my wife dies (of acute embarrassment) whenever I ‘fire on all cylinders’ in a public place…..
Mark says: “I really hope this isn’t the way people in Toronto think”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/toronto-the-least-liked-city-in-canada-especially-by-westerners/article2231236/
Resrarch: A neutral scientific test onto which people project their own unconscious expectations.