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.
Regarding the poll at this site: http://www.sciencebits.com/ClimateChangePoll
“What is your expertise, and what is the cause of 20th century climate change? ”
Ahem. To what “20th century climate change” are we referring to here?
Its a preloaded question, stating that 20th century climate change is a fact when theres no evidence of any such abnormal climate system behaviour.
Its all in the language fellas.
The word “Pollution” being one thats had its meaning perverted from meaning toxic or the contamination of air, water, or soil by substances that are harmful to living organisms to meaning a trace atmospheric gas by the warmistas and the media without people even noticing .
Its one of those techniques that falls into the category of deception, such as showing ice breaking off a glacier, or a fat overstuffed polar bear on an ice cube or my personal favourite; steam from a chimney when they do a report on climate change or co2. Its already loaded.
Billions may not die but from this day billions may pay:
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/india-to-protest-eu-carbon-taxairlines/460333/
http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=1800345
So once again in the field of human conflict, so much by so many depends on a daring few willing to stand up those who have devastated Europe and who now threaten to spread their misguided ideology to the rest of the free world.
Because, make no mistake, if these few fail “then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”
Airlines of America, China, India and the rest of the free world unite, brace yourselves and show us your finest hour.
This is an example of predictive programing. The sheep who believe what they read in the “dailymedia” are being cultivated for events to come. They always telegraph their work. Look up predictive programing.
I enjoy how our usual bands of trolls stay away in droves from this type of post.
Jim
Danny V says:
December 31, 2011 at 2:15 pm
“The Canadian” seems to have died. The last articles are from 2009.
The blog hasn’t been updated since then; it may have been replaced by a Facebook page. But the online newspaper itself seems to have had some stories added in 2011 (from the copyright dates); click on Home.
Happy New Year! I can hardly wait for 12/12/2012 to laugh that one off as well.
Here it is already 2012. Unlike last year my Champagne level has risen to the toncills. (must be due to CAGW, I guess) Perhaps it will fall away somewhat later this year
Dr Dave.
I read the article.. and thanks.. Chortle chortle…
Canadian banks are very conservative and their charters don’t allow them to pull the stunts that the progressives like Barney Frank et al forced them to do in 1995 when they forced banks to loan money to people who could not afford to borrow it. I lived in the NorthEast and watched the whole thing blow up and cave in over 15 years.
I can buy a house there for 1/2 I would have had to pay in 2005.
Progressives…. they Cr@ap everything up….John Stokes included.
To the REP… The snip WAS warranted… I agree… it made my language seem much worse than it was… which is OK with me!!! :’)
My family seem to have escaped the Apocalypse (although I can’t find the cat this morning).
Skeleton crews must be working at the power company and telephone monopoly, as services are normal, even as they struggle to bury their fallen comrades (about 3 dead for each survivor), and, miracles, a truck has just pulled up from the bakery with fresh bread! How do they do it, in the midst of such devastation and sorrow. My hat goes off to them.
Ah, and there’s the cat — must have smelt the food.
F…this stuff!
Happy New Year, Anthony 😉
Best Greetings from Germany
Yeah, in Canada, we have morons here too like Suzuki for example and Maurice Strong, just like Al Gore down there, or Harold Camping, or Jim Jones or Bill McKribben or ……………….
Maybe 2012 will be the year when all those Hidden Variables finally pop out of the woodwork and devour us all! Not just the Hidden Warmth, but Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Higgs Field, the Hidden Sea Level Rise, Core Inflation, and countless others. All of them have been trapped for years by mere insubstantial Facts and silly old Observed Reality; all have been champing at the bit, just waiting to emerge from the minds and computers of Real Scientists where Real Reality lives.
Better watch out!
The online Fox News site has already posted an article about the Mayan fearmongering. An interview with leading Mexican archaeologists set the record straight. Per the experts, the prediction of future events was not a part of Mayan culture, but rather that of westerners who never seriously studied the culture. It will be an interesting 11 months, 12 days in the new year, as people wail once again that we are doomed.
It makes me wonder if those at mag rag are the ones at the COP## are the one’s accepting the well deserved Fossil awards given to Canada, them Green Weenie Morons don’t deserve to take credit for them, what a bunch of publicity hogs they are!
I predict within 150 years, by 2162 at least 95% of the people alive today will be dead. This is a conservative estimate.
Governments should react decisively against the clear (and present?) danger.
Perhaps additional taxation will help.
“List your house for sale…
Over 4.5 billion could die!”
Well, that’s at least consistent. Sell the house before property prices fall through the floor. If you survive, you can buy it back later.
That headline looks like it is straight out of “The Onion” (if you haven’t read The Onion, google it & you will understand what I mean).
2012 the year of the “lifting of the veil” (the apocalypse), truth finally succeeds over the lies imposed by “consensus”.
Yes, Jeff L, you know there is even a movie out about the Onion News.
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b331/kevster1346/severe.jpg
This may have proved as accurate as Moonbat’s (George Monbiot’s affectionate nickname) ‘prediction’ in 1987 that in 10 years half the species on Earth will be extinct, and in 20 years they’ll ALL be gone!!
But what scares me is that every single science book or encyclopaedia I have seen here in the UK has this CC nonsense in it. Worse still, I have seen on the bookshelves of a museum bookshop, a slim, big print volume called ‘My First Science Book’ The CC stuff was very prominent. They start the indoctrination early now.
“The Canadian” seems to be moribund, which is just as well, since there’s nothing Canadian about “The Canadian”. A more apt title would have been “The Torontonian”, or better still “The Queen Streeter”. A perversely awful blog.
I’ve made my own doomsday predictions here in the past. For those who may have missed them I will repeat them here and now.
I claim that unless we immediately embrace all the wonderful planet saving plans and regulations demanded by the UN, the IPCC, various leftist government figures, enviro NGOs and sundry others, 8-10 billion people will die by 2100. Of course, if we choose to completely ignore all that nonsense and proceed forward in our normal semi-rational manner the number of dead will be pretty much the same. If, in addition, we actually expanded market based economics far and wide across the planet, the number of deaths might even be substantially reduced. I base that assertion on the fact that, as people are moved to middle class incomes, two things almost always occur. First, their birthrates decline dramatically, leaving a smaller future population for the normal deathrate to work on and second, their life expectancies advance, meaning that globally the percentage of that smaller total population that the deathrate represents, will likely decline as well.
” ‘prediction’ in 1987 that in 10 years half the species on Earth will be extinct, and in 20 years they’ll ALL be gone!!”
You might not have noticed, but the oceans are gone, too. Since 1998, in fact.
37 minutes till 4.5 billion dead for me.