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.
Two cures:
1) Everybody breathe through your mouth and fan the air with a magazine
2) Everybody light a match and then blow it out. The smoke will mask the odor
Bravenewclimate has another catchy headline:
Will global warming cause a mass extinction event?
http://bravenewclimate.com/2008/08/14/will-global-warming-cause-a-mass-extinction-event/
The proper way to celebrate global warming tipping day is to congregate at your local Irish pub New Year’s eve and tip a draft of warm dark beer. No refrigeration required and you would be consuming CO2. Now that’s what I call proper global warming!
Why can’t we award “I’m stupid” signs to those stupid people?
It’s gonna be like all the horses that ever lived were all fed beef stroganoff all at once, and we’re all riding in the carriage behind them. It’s gonna be bad.
The first time I heard of marine methane as a possible cause of accelerated warming was in reference to the massive Siberian trap volcanic eruptions leading to the Permian-Triassic extinction event, about 250 million years ago. It is a bit of a stretch to say man has done anything equivalent to the most massive volcanic eruptive event in the last 500 million years.
Siberian Traps
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [with maps]
“The Siberian Traps (Russian: Сибирские траппы Sibirskie trappi) form a large region of volcanic rock, known as a large igneous province, in the Russian region of Siberia. The massive eruptive event which formed the traps, one of the largest known volcanic events of the last 500 million years of Earth’s geological history, continued for a million years and spanned the Permian–Triassic boundary, about 251 to 250 million years ago.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Traps
Won’t all fossil fuel be eventually be burned by magma as its containing part of Earth’s crust is subducted?
OOps, too many be’s.
@Michael Palmer
> And all these decaying corpses will release even MORE methane! And without first paying for carbon credits, too.
You’re a genius! This is the sure way to immortality. If I don’t pay for the carbon credits first, they’ll never let me die. I’ll just have to keep on living. 😀
I remember this news story quite well. It is the one that put me on the path that I am on now. When I read this story it was quite alarming and if true made sense on a logical level. If the methane was a huge heat trapping gas then I could see how this could turn into a snowball situation. I was ready to champion the cause and spread the word of the impending doom. Fortunately I am also level headed. Before I go spouting off I like to know all the ins and outs of a situation. I really don’t like to be caught sounding like an idiot so having all the facts straight before I hit the go button is a requirement of mine. First as I started to research this very scary situation I began to notice a common theme that prickled my warning bells. At the end of every scary story was a statement that we need to do much more research. But wait! Didn’t they just get done telling us with complete certainty that very bad things were going to happen? If they were so certain of the impending doom then why the need for so much more research. As I scanned article after article my distrust kept growing. I could see where much of this seemed to be all about getting another round from the money wagon. Then I started finding the opposing views and they were actually made up with much more logic that the alarming stories. Eventually I found out about our surface stations and got to see the laughable state of the data at its source (thanks Anthony). It was then that I became skeptical about the validity of AGW. I may not be an expert on climate but I can tell you that aside from this blog I know more about it than anyone I have met. I do carry some amount of pride knowing that I was smart enough not to become a mindless sheep like so many around me. I have changed many minds and work to educate at every opportunity. Thank you Anthony and thank all of you who post here. I feel I learn as much if not more reading the discussions that go on here.
Cheers,
William Mason
I have said it before: this huge scam will only end when the public finally force the polititians to stop the funding. No funding = no AGW The polititians(national, EU and UN) still think more power can be gained and more taxes can be levied. Dictatorships are not involved, except where they can extort money.
Man, that’s going to be a terrific blow to somebody’ plans to get re-elected!
Pointing out their foolishness is bad enough… but sending it via a ‘low priority’ email? Anthony, you are a cruel, cruel man…
next we will be told obama is elgible to be POTUS and that he is a Christian!
this is fan[SNIP: the site policy forbids profanity. Please. -REP]tastic news!
I’m planning a December vacation to Barrow alaska and I was wondering if I should pack my bathing suit
sweet. might get some swimming pool time
PS: charles johnson is an idiot
@ur momisugly Jackstraw, who wrote:
“The jest of the story ”
I didn’t get the jest. Maybe I just don’t have much of a sense of humor.
But I did skim the story, so I got the gist of it.