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.
Forget about it being televised worldwide: They couldn’t even get a national alert 30 second blurb right. Forget, also, about snails pace Global Warming killing 4.5 billion people by Dec. 31. It’s much more likely to happen if somebody panics and hits the red button, launching a full nuclear exchange. The current crop of fearless leaders don’t know jack about how to play Cold War.
Aaaaaaargh!
We’re all going to die because “The Canadian” can’t spell “existential”.
We’re doomed!
Maybe that Harold Campling guy is going to cut a big cheese in 52 days time.
steveta_UK: “… 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.”
Now you got me curious. Who did this study? And why? Was it a wife with a PhD or MD whose husband continuously farted and she was working on some cure? Was it some ex-jock(s) with a PhD or MD who wanted to impress his friends? Was it a male with a PhD or MD who thought he was inferior because he could not light his farts? It had to be someone really motivated by something to do this kind of study. And I don’t think money was the main motivator!
I love sensationalist “journalism”.
Over 4.5 Billion people COULD die from Global Warming-related causes by 2012.
Or, you know, it COULD be none.
Thank you WUWT. The most entertaining blog on the planet, at least while it (the planet) lasts!
I could not go without my daily WUWT LOL !
This was one of the best…..
That bit about it being a “weeks old theory” is bollocks. I remember a sci-fi novel from the early Noughties which dealt with the subject. Wish I could remember which one.
Was this “theory” devised by the same idiot who keeps telling us that the world will end on a certain date and then moving the date forward when it doesn’t?
AdderW says:
November 10, 2011 at 9:20 am
What is a “resrarch” ??
What people do at an “existencial” turning point.
Dermot asks about feedback.
No, feedback is only one way, this is what NSIDC has to day about it:
“The surface of snow and ice is white, so it reflects most solar energy back into space. But a small change in temperature can be enough to start melting the snow and ice. When it melts, the ground or ocean is exposed. The ground and the ocean surface are dark-colored, so they absorb more solar energy. The change from white, reflecting surfaces to dark, absorbing surfaces means a big change in heat. So warming can happen faster in the Arctic than in warmer regions.”
/sarc
Reminds me of the technique for making “blue angels”. Take one kid ready to cut loose, have him bend over with appropriate orifice exposed, light match a few inches away, and FIRE!
They only said people “could” die by 2012….they didn’t say they definitely would!
/sarc
Could the website be trolling for people to infect with malware using wacko its stories? See what Google says about the safety of the site, in 3 pages scanned they found 3 malware attempts:
http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-US&site=http://www.blog.agoracosmopolitan.com/?p=56
Nothing seems to stop them:
“World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns: If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly changed, the world will ‘lose for ever’ the chance to avoid dangerous climate change” by Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 9 November 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/09/fossil-fuel-infrastructure-climate-change?newsfeed=true
Here is some free advice. If you are predicting the end of the world, don’t make it so close, that when it doesn’t happen, people will mock you.
Kick it out there 30, 50, 100 years. That way, everyone will have forgotten.
@David L
The article says:
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Why only 4.5 billion deaths? Would have been more scarey if they had said the entire life on the planet! (apart from the methane consuming microbes).
Nice one Anthony. I will spend my time as I do at the date of every other ‘End Of The World’ scare. Do a bit of browsing on the internet and have a bottle of red wine. (Not necessarily in that order).
“World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns: If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly changed, the world will ‘lose for ever’ the chance to avoid dangerous climate change” by Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 9 November 2011
They must think all their “made in China” goods means made of ‘China’. Amazing stuff. Really good. It’d be so sad to lose it for ever.
Although we do have influence in the matter, I think we humans give ourselves too much credit. I read somewhere that one burst of a volcano puts more CO2 in the atmosphere than the entire world in a year.
We will probably die earlier from sickness, something worse than aids. Also, most humans die of hunger and other to-be-prevented situations (like war). Let us focus on that first.
Oh, and oil/fossil fuel will run out, thats for sure. Its a finite resource and the definition of finite says it all. So it does matter that we keep re-inventing. Just not for the same reasons.
Gad you reminded me. Good excuse to buy that Porsche I’ve always wanted. Now I won’t have to be bothered with paying for it.
How can anyone disagree?? Runaway global warming will do that “if validated”. Was this pre- babies, polar bears, and frogs??
Never under estimate the damage potential of a planetary fart. Plus he has one more year. And he ties in nicely with the Mayan calender.Loving this great post
It is the feedback loop of more hot air from the believers. Well, it’s on some sort of loop at least…