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
You people all make way to much sense but you are all, shall we say misdirected. The issue here is not and has never had anything to do with physical reality. It is and has never had any other purpose then to finance the life style journalists and other alarmists desire. No alarm bells no reason other then to wrap fish to buy the Guardian or pay the people manning the Met Office.
Michael Palmer says:
November 12, 2011 at 6:24 am
The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam is a curious piece of work. It was written by a Sufi, a mystical sect which people think is Muslim but which predates Islam. As do most Sufi works, it contains a number of levels of meaning.
Regarding the rhyme, you’ll have to take that up with the translator, as he decided to use an A-A-B-A rhyme scheme, in which the “B” line doesn’t rhyme with anything.
My favorite line from the Rubaiyyat?
“I wonder what it is the vintner buys,
One half so precious as the stuff he sells.”
The original translation was done by a man named Edward FitzGerald, who was good, but didn’t understand all of the underlying traditional Sufi symbolism regarding wine and flowers and the potter and the “Niche” and the like.
However, it is powerfully translated, and has remained the standard.
w.
The IEA….
James Hansen and Michale Mann hokey schtick true believers who are set on getting a kick back for killing millions..
do these people have any honor or moral fiber? believing the lie even when the truth has exposed it.. pathetic..
Maria van der Hoeven, the head of the IEA, has a pro-nuclear agenda. It’s not too surprising, considering how many IEA board members are heavily invested in uranium stocks.
Another alarmist in action;
http://www.scotsman.com/news/brown_fifty_days_to_save_the_world_1_779582
The Guardian appears to think this article is rubbish as they don’t allow comments.
On December 2, 1988 Suzuki wrote, “We no longer have the luxury of time … we only have a decade to turn things around.”
Whatever David.
Ref: “The man who cries wolf.” Harrowsmith, 1989.
A correction to my previous comment. I found a formula error in the projections of the anthropogenic contribution and have corrected it. Instead of peaking at about 500 ppm around 2080,my previous comment should be expected to peak near 450 ppm around 2062. I’ll be gone by then but my grand children will see if this pans out as a good prediction.
@Sera,
Always some gems in Rocky and Bullwinkle.
“We should march on Washington”.
“Shucks, he’s been dead for years”.
Finntastic says:
November 12, 2011 at 2:30 am
Of course it’s real–but do you have any evidence besides a bad case of huffing and puffing and I’ll blow your house down that man has caused it and that man can do anything about it? Specifically, I mean can you come up with anything that disproves the null hypothesis?
I’m actually glad…GLAD I tell you, that the earth is warming. We’re still coming out of the Little Ice Age yet as a geologist I’m warning you that what we’re facing sometime in the future (nobody knows when, but it isn’t a matter of if, but when) is the next Ice Age. Now that scares the socks off me ’cause it will be extremely difficult for this planet to support the current population when that happens–in fact, it simply can’t. You couldn’t grow a turnip where I currently live in those conditions, and it will be a thousand times more likely it will happen than your bellyaching about impending doom that only computer models generate.
so how do I know another Ice Age is guaranteed? The past is the key to the future–we’ve had so many of ’em (at about 100,000 years duration each) with a very short warming period in between (from 10-12,000 yrs) that it comes around like clockwork. And as much as the CAGW crowd think they know about “global warming” or “climate change” or “climate change disruption” or “weather wierding” (my head is spinning), the next Ice Age is going to be like a Fargo winter–you know what’s coming and that information does you no good whatsoever.
It’s OK for you guys and gals in America; you still have a relatively rational federal government. Australia is now run by the fascist Left, which has not only pushed through parliament a carbon dioxide tax, but also is determined to silence dissent and has a judiciary “inquiry” (witchhunt) underway into conservative media critical of the Greens to achieve that objective.
Can someone let the Australian Greens know that they have to raise their rhetoric level and reduce their goal by half. The fools still think we have ten years to change the world.
Australia: Greens set 100 percent-renewable goal
10. November 2011 | Markets & Trends, Global PV markets | By: Jonathan Gifford
Just days after helping the historic carbon tax to pass the Senate of the Australian Parliament, the Australian Green party has said it believes a goal of 100 percent renewables can be realized within a decade.
“We’ve got five years, stuck on my eyes,
We’ve got five years, what a surprise,
We’ve got five years, my brain hurts a lot,
We’ve got five years, that’s all we’ve got.”
David Bowie
Willis Eschenbach says:
November 12, 2011 at 9:38 am
“a mystical sect which people think is Muslim but which predates Islam”
Willis, I spent a little time looking into this as I’d never heard of Sufism. Man that is some wild stuff. The earliest reference I could find to it was 8th Century while 632 was when the Prophet passed. Another wild read is “The Siege of Mecca” which chronicles the prophesied appearance of the Muslim savior (they thought they found him). An indestructible being who unites with Jesus behind the walls of Damascus to wipe out the Jewish race, or maybe it was just their 10,000 strong army. They turned them into puddles of something nasty. Whoever came up with that one had to be trippin HARD. I guess they just don’t make it like they used to:)
Tom:
There is nothing rational about the USA current government. You should be thankful that Australia passed the carbon tax. Your economy should boom with all the new green jobs that are going to be created using your money so you can’t spend it on lightbulbs.
Maybe “The Pied Piper” is a better analogy?
“I read that book! Boy cries wolf, has a few laughs. I forget how it ends”- Bart Simpson
Clive says:
November 12, 2011 at 11:19 am
Use that one myself Clive !! It was around that time that he started to refer to my father as a “D-ord” .
Oops, ……. Should read “D-word”. Boy, if he had called my father a “D-ord”, it would be “on” !!!
“David Corcoran says:
November 12, 2011 at 8:18 am
“Hoser says:
November 12, 2011 at 1:04 am
In five years they’ll say they were wrong, but just five more years and it will be too late. By then they can crank up the new ice age hysteria.”
They never, ever, ever admit they were wrong.”
You’re right about that even if Climate change means another “Ice Age”. They will still blame it on CO2.
If I remember correctly, Hansen claimed that Obama had 5 years to ‘save the planet’. This was in late 2009 or early 2010. He’ll have his Harold Camping moment sooner than many of the other prominent Warmistas.
When that auspicious moment arrives, we should all have a TEOTWAWKI party to celebrate. Carbonated beverages mandatory.
That scrubbed steam coming from those ‘smoke’ stacks is just that, harmless steam.
“World headed for irreversible climate change in five years …”
Wooooo… the ‘seers’ have spoken!
These evil, stealing, lying, cheating, manipulative demons spewing such lies are just that to me, demons. And I can see the vile green foam of words coming from their mouths in response to such blasphemy to their “beliefs”. Be gone. You will hurt my heart no more!
… and I hear there is going to be yet another demon fest in Durban soon.
Excuse me, but going through Wikipedia for definitions, demon was the closest description found to accurately portray their actions to me in the light that the mass-media has taken on in these modern times a “super”natural reach, so to speak, of words from a very select small group of people propping themselves as “seers” of the future.
What a circus!
(but more seriously, I do agree that primarily China and India do need to clean up their ‘smoke’ stacks and we need to turn our attention to the real pollution occurring on this planet, and people, it’s not CO2)
Where do these A-holes come up with this crap? There is absolutely no evidence in the current research that anything of the kind is going to happen in 10 years or 100 years. If anything, the world is heading to the next ice age cycle which means colder, dryer climate. The only things we know cause sudden climate change are asteroids, comets, extreme volcanism; not emissions from vehicles. I pitty these people that actually believe climate crisis theory because they are beknighted fools being led by unscrupulous bas___rds like Al Gore
Is there a consensus as to what the tipping point is? Maybe it’s the tipping points that need to be worked out.
My how they fear the Obama fail, and Sarkozy fail, and Kyoto fail, and EU fail, and OECD fail, and unsustainable socialist fail! Better to get the lock in on spending before the budget cuts and insolvency come to bear on budgets in the manipulated states of the U.S. and EU. They know that new spending commitments will be axed first and the big fight will be over what to cut among current obligations.
Peridot says:
November 12, 2011 at 2:10 am
“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!’
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I think they lost it when they went from the Ice Age cometh to Global Warming and finally…. CLIMATE CHANGE!!!!
With it being cooler for the last couple of years, I am hearing “So much for Global Warming” from the people freezing there rears off here in the “Sunny South”
At this point adrenal exhaustion has set in and people are more concerned with finding or keeping their jobs.