Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
As reported in the Guardian (so it must be true), we are treated to some great news:
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
Figure 1. Ominous looking clouds coming from smokestacks symbolize our uncertain future … or some nonsense like that. Photo from the Guardian article.
So … why is this good news?
Well, think about it. If the world “loses for ever” the chance to avoid dangerous climate change, then at least we’ll be rid of the thousands of people clutching their pearls and whining because of the understandable lack of action in response to the Boy Who Cried Wolf. Plus, we’ll be rid of the eponymous Boy himself, I’ll be glad to see his back.
And we’ll be rid of people wanting to pick our pockets to further their anti-development agenda under the guise of worrying about climate. If we get to where it’s “irreversible”, we won’t be bothered by them trying to take our bucks to reverse it.
Think about how peaceful that will be without that alarmism … bliss.
Then we can get back to the job we should have been doing all this time, which is trying to protect people now from climate disasters now. That way, whether or not CO2 turns out to be “teh eevil”, we will be protecting people as much as we can, and as soon as we can.
Only five more years until peace breaks out! I can hardly wait!
w.
PS—The headline itself was a howler too. Any climate change is indeed irreversible … to mangle the Rubaiyat,
The moving finger writes, and having writ, Moves on, nor all your piety nor wit, Can call it back to cancel half a clime Nor all your tears wipe out a word of it ...
Not only is any climate change irreversible, climate change is also inevitable … but please, don’t tell the IEA. They’re on a good path, we just have to stay schtumm for five years and we’re there.
PPS – I don’t think Willis will mind my pointing out that the deadline when Copenhagen COP16 was going on in 2009 was 10 years according to the Met Office:
Click image for story.
It seems that between 2009 and now, 3 years went missing. It must be worse than we thought.
I also made a screencap of the Guardian story for posterity, should it disappear.
– Anthony
Willis,
You have the right to remain silent, but any prediction you make, may be used against you in the court of public opinion.
Thats only my opinion though and is not a prediction.
More please
I really don’t understand why people are accusing gases for ‘climate change’. Scientifically considering the fluid properties, convection method of heat transmission, physical properties of our climatic atmosphere, making of ‘green house’ and ‘green house effect’ as has been explained etc ‘Global Warming’ due to gases is impossible. And, no gases can be green house gases and they have no role in the ‘Rain cycle’. We have CC because we have disturbed the ‘rain cycle’, the most effective cooling system of Nature.
Please visit the blog for details.
And about power crisis, I would like to point out that applying the properties of standing water column in the running water condition has been a blunder in the hydropower engineering. Correction of the mistake can give us unlimited hydropower by installing turbines in series. Please visit the blog for details and video clip of the experimental demo. Discussion is going on in http://us.mg40.mail.yahoo.com/neo/launch
Irreversible climate change is also IMPOSSIBLE.
[I’ve removed your blog link and email address – people can access your blog by clicking on your name and email you via the blog ~ jove, moderator]
Is there a climate conference coming up soon in some nice warm sunny place then?
I guess there must be, or there wouldn’t need to be this sudden scare story.
I guess I’d better stop travelling, using electricity and stop using my oil-fired boiler.
“The boy who cried Wolf” is becoming their biggest problem. The warmists were on to a loser as soon as the change was made from ‘disaster in 100 years ‘ to ‘disaster … any time now!’
The man who made this statement is the IEA’s senior economist. And we know what they are like, a bunch of know it all power freaks. Take Stern (Lord) for one, his report only highlighted his lack of knowledge and understanding of science the rest of it was alarmist rubbish.
The world would be better off without these monsters.
Haven’t the IEA ever heard of ice records re. CO2 levels, or more generally that crucial item that the alarmists are so intent on ignoring, namely, evidence?
It beggars belief that the alarmists still cling so desperately to their belief that the current level of CO2 is bad, increases even worse, and, by inference, that the previous CO2 value before the Industrial Age was somehow the right and proper concentration. It is truly a new religion.
Where are the scientists among them? Perhaps now is the time for the climate change equivalent of the Dover trial of 2005: science, reason and rational thought versus AGW and related nonsense.
5 years should see most of their unis etc feeling rather nippy, and hopefuly theyre snowed under and can’t dig out to rave more drivel.
ok I can dream can’t I?
Does anyone actually know what they are talking about here? This is the IEA, propped up by fossil fuel money, which has previously been found to have downplayed the risk of peak oil.
This closely follows the study of 1.6 billion temperature records over two years by Richard Muller, a climate sceptic, funded by the Koch brothers for crying out loud, that found that global warming is real. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204422404576594872796327348.html
So, even the fossil fuel lobby realise what is happening. These aren’t ‘warmists.’ Rejecting all evidence simply because you don’t agree with it is moronic.
Sticking your fingers in your eyes and going ‘la la la la’ won’t change the fact that it has got to the point that even vested interests can’t drum up credible scientific backing to the countless climate denial straw men theories. Doesn’t that tell you anything?
As for the idea that the only thing the world will ‘lose’ is ‘climate alarmism’ with a 4-5 degree rise, I’m glad you are happy that, as countless studies have shown, we will be on course to lose a great deal of the world’s wonders. Beyond that, if any trip to Bangladesh will show you, there will be many millions of people who will lose their homes, livelihoods, food, the lot.
But, hey, you’re in your nice comfy room with your flood barrier and your head in the sand blog. Humanity will doff its cap to you in the future.
The irony here is that those smoke stacks are either spewing out harmless steam or particulate carbon and hydrocarbons, generally referred to as aerosols in climate science.
Reductions in particulate aerosols are responsible for somewhere between 60% and 80% of the observed warming over the last 30 years.
http://www.iac.ethz.ch/people/wild/2006GL028031.pdf
The scientific evidence says more smokestacks will reduce global warming (in the sense of reducing the global land temperature derived from minimum and maximum temperatures).
So how long do people think it will be before the IEA decided that ‘5 years’ actual means some other higher figure that pushes the ‘day of doom’ further ahead or are they going to resort to saying they never made the claim in the first place ?
Again?
Irreversible tipping point, forcing factors, lock-in effect,…. What next? 2012 the year of Armageddon? Maybe not, that’s been done. There’s even a film about it. Still, the devout followers of the AGW religion will think of some new pseudo science buzzword or phrase before too long. Anything to keep their voices shrill and the money flowing from the long-suffering taxpayers.
This reminds me of the joke about the man who was given six months to live by his doctor. “But I’ll not be able to pay the bill for your treatment in that time” says the patient. “In that case”, says the doctor “I’ll give you another six months”
I thought we’d just about exhausted our last ’60 months to save the Planet’. Now we’ve got to start over?
Fiona you dolt, you are officially jumping the shark and the whole world gets to see it. Fonzie is ROTFLHAO. Wow! Meme much? Obviously yes, since the same AGW catastrophic phrasing appears in every paragraph. To compare this propaganda piece to some phoned-in high school level homework essay would be an insult to the kids. You are a pod person, an anonymous clone with a meaningless life. Erich Von Daniken is laughing at you. AOL says ‘you’ve got nothing’. Your friends and family avoid your emails. Your dog prefers to walk himself … [NB: other old-timers might remember the days of USENET epic fail rants :-)]
In all seriousness though, that is the biggest steaming pile of poo seen in one place in a while. It could be an Onion article or even an April Fools joke. It’s so bad that there are no comments there at the Guardian that I can find.
If this embarrassing article is any indication, it shouldn’t be long now. First there is the futile charge of the decimated regiment at their superior, unyielding and merciless opposition. Then we get to see what their death throes look like.
Oh yes- the ruby yacht of Omar Khayyam…
LOL!
The problem with this is, it’s a bit like the sign in the pub saying FREE BEER TOMORROW
tomorrow’s always just around the corner, but never quite gets here!
The Guardian is an absolute joke when it comes to global warming alarmism. What happened to Charles Windsor’s 100 months before we reach a tipping point. Panorama put out a very good programme on the green subsidies that were adding to the cost of uk energy. In steps censor in chief Damian Carrington to rubbish the programme however they did allow the programme maker to respond. I post a comment praising the programme and what happens. The censor in chief removes it. Comment is Free if you Agree.
Could someone tell the IEA to stop winter? I’m cold. Thank you.
Climate change is irreversible. Once it changes, you can’t go back and change it unless you have a dog named Mr. Peabody.
The USSR always had five year plans, As did Harold Wilson’s Labour Government in the UK. The EU has come up with a few as well. Isn’t it time that we grew bureaucrats with more than five fingers?
If the game didn’t make sense to begin with, it won’t have to make sense to continue playing after “game over”. Many of the players are professionals with no other sources of fame and fortune. “Play on”, they’ll cry! “Win just one for the Gipper!”
Is that finally final or just a maybe finally final. 🙂
The Guardian, (or Grauniad as it is affectionately known to those who occasionally disagree with it) does put out some wacky stuff, especially as Monbiot is one of the blue-eyed boys up there. But it is still a fine newspaper, one of the best in the world, so please don’t condemn it totally. Just use liberal pinches of salt, skeptoscopic glasses and common sense.
Too late already. The earth has been experiencing irreversable climate change ever since its matter started condensing into a planet. The climate state of the earth can’t go back to where it was one second ago, and that’s true for every second of all of earth’s existence.
I’m waiting for the alarmists amongst us to get real and start predicting when we’ll all turn into zombies; something a little more specific and less obvious than “climate will change.”