UPDATE: January 1st, 2012 – still here, no reports of mass deaths at the last minute. – Anthony
Global warming may go on a last minute rampage. Maybe best to just stay at home and lock your doors, bar your windows, and turn your air conditioner on. If you live near the coast, head for high ground. Deaths due to drinking and driving will be nothing compared to this.
This story appeared in The Canadian January 8th, 2007, it’s been a countdown example of stupidity ever since. Unbelievably, it is still on their website. Note today’s date.
Over at the Daily Bayonet, where they’ve been following for this for years, they have encouraging news:
Assuming there is no last minute surprise attack by pesky methane clathrates, the Daily Bayonet wishes you a safe and happy 2012.
If it happens, it will be the gaia fart heard round the world.
“…If it happens, it will be the gaia fart heard round the world…”
Nobody light a match – the thrust may move us into a new orbit, farther away from the sun.
Sure would make it cooler.
If you don’t read newspapers then you will probably be uninformed.
If you do read newspapers, then you will probably be misinformed..
Twain
Who cut the cheese?
He who smelt it delta it.
Happy New Year, everybody!
I’ll check in tomorrow to see if we’ve all survived this gaia fart …
Hi Anthony, Mods and readers. Have a Happy New Year!
I can’t access the tips and notes page for some reason, just wanted to point out that Prof. Nir J. Shaviv has a pole up on his site.
The results are encouraging 🙂
What is your expertise, and what is the cause of 20th century climate change?
http://www.sciencebits.com/ClimateChangePoll
Global warming causes everything … by this point in the season, we should have had nearly 37″ of snow but this year we’ve only had 3.8″ … it’s global warming, fer sure.
And tomorrow, climate change kicks in and delivers 4″ to 8″ of global warming over the course of a day and a half.
A much better Canadian.
http://drtimball.com/2011/canada-quit-kyoto-must-now-quit-ipcc/
Anthony, didn’t you solicit comments of doom some time ago? You said you were going to do a report with them? Is it still on your schedule?
Thanks. Love your site.
I just hope I don’t get one of those hangovers, that start out with the feeling you are going to die, and progress into the stage where death would be a blessing 🙂
Happy New Year everyone.
So now do I do with all the cases of canned food in my bomb shelt… er basement?
If methane clathrates present that much of a threat, the proper thing to do is harvest them as the energy resource they are.
Thanks God…Al Baby is not in charge..so the world is OK. ! Happy New Year!
Al Gored says: “…Yes. Journalism this excellent really helps voters make such well informed decisions in a democracy. Or as Chomsky called it, manufactured consent.”
You may enjoy the following “Chomskybot:”
http://rubberducky.org/cgi-bin/chomsky.pl
Funny there are people (Socialist/ warmers) and the rest of us. Canada is well represented with both. Thank god for the rest of us!
December 31, 2011
Canada Soars
A.M. Mora y Leon
As America’s economy struggles, a funny thing happened on the way to the next-door neighbor nation that has up until now always been considered a dogleg off our economy. Canada’s economy is soaring.
It’s that they did anything particularly unusual. And it’s definitely not that they are what economists casually dismiss as “a commodity economy” experiencing a temporary boom.
In reality, Canada has genuinely gone its own way, getting itself out from the shadow of the US economic picture at just the right time. The government of conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has embraced free markets, not just one or two things, but a whole banquet of all the things that make economies grow – smaller government, free trade, one tax cut after another, and energy development and security. Net result? Same as what Chile got when it tried the same kinds of reforms – a booming economy.
IBD wonders what the heck the U.S. would look like if it just followed the tax-cutting, government slashing model that has made even the dullest nation turn into the Canadian puma state. What really would it look like?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/12/canada_soars.html
Remember that 2012 doesn’t end for a year. It could still happen… and I also have some swamp land for sale
His Lordship may be having a word with them.
Monckton: ‘I have begun drafting a memorandum for prosecuting authorities…to establish…the existence of numerous specific instances of scientific or economic fraud in relation to the official ‘global warming’ storyline…they will act, for that is what the law requires them to do’
http://www.climatedepot.com/a/14156/Fmr-Thatcher-advisor-Lord-Monckton-to-pursue-fraud-charges-against-Climategate-scientists-Will-present-to-police-the-case-for-numerous-specific-instances-of-scientific-or-economic-fraud#.Tur1pAOVr7Z
Happy New Year all.
Seen this quite often on Buffalo Doppler
http://www.yorku.ca/pat/research/ELBOW/cmosbull.htm
“Ages 3-6. Not intended for use except on pre-schoolers, kindergarteners, and Hollywood actors and actresses.”
Well its 2012 here and I haven’t noticed anything other than a need for an aspirin – maybe that’s it ?
Farewell CAGW! Now for the Mayan apocalypse! Is it possible that we genetically programmed to groove on doom?
Mr Watts, can I suggest a post sometime by a psychologist on the endless appeal of ‘apres moi le deluge’,
Happy New Year to you and all.
Frank Lee MeiDere says:
December 31, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Cut them some slack. They did say “could.”
But that wasn’t true. Somethings are so unlikely that they really couldn’t happen, and this was one of the things that simply could not have happend.
Dave N says:
December 31, 2011 at 3:14 pm
Remember that 2012 doesn’t end for a year. It could still happen… and I also have some swamp land for sale
I second what Dave says. You all are celebrating too early, we have a year left for the whole planet to die. Bwahahaha! Or the Mayan thing could kick in just before then. I recommend drinking to excess tonight to kill the pain of thinking about our potential demise. Wait, that happens every year!
We are so doomed!
It says ‘by 2012’. That’s ‘prior to’. No need to mangle the English language just because some of us are pished!