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.
“existancial”… ? He must be from the spanish Stokeses, that Juan 🙂
From The Canadian link:
“Bibliographic reference courtesy of Brad Arnold who has an extensive resrarch background on Global Warming.”
bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaahhahahahahhha!!!!
Oh dear, looks like a case of the blind being led by the illiterate here, but that’s ok in their world, isn’t it? *”existencial”…?***sheepish grin :-/*
Happy 2012 to whoever’s left, there’s beer at my place 😀 *hic*
Nothing like starting off 2012 with a good belly laugh…
😀
it was not much of a er, um, big stink!! Happy New Year.
Happy New Year!!!
As you can see via this post – I wasn’t one of the billions 🙂
Approved foolishness is the worst sort of foolishness.
And, sadly, this is the approved brand of foolishness.
And we’re not through with it yet.
Probably never will be.
(blows flappy holiday horn)
Since methane hydrate decomposition is an endothermic reaction (absorbing heat) it is self-quenching. This should have been a question that was asked and answered when it was first proposed. It’s a testament to the lack of scientific knowledge that the AGW fear-mongers bring to the discussion.
It’s 2012 now, if I just died due to climate change and this is heaven, I certainly can live with it =)
Yawn… it’s 2012… Australia, you still there? UK?
is worse than we thought!
YouTube – NASA Predicts Arctic Ocean ice melt down and disaster- 2012.flv
be worry. very worry…
“Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?
Seth Borenstein in Washington
Associated Press
December 12, 2007
An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer—a sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point.
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071212-AP-arctic-melt.html
The editor probably feels he was a Mayan in a previous existence.
Thanks to global warming, we only have 6 billion, can you imagine the crowding.
@Gary Cooke: Why bring that general thermodynamic stuff into a climate discussion? Don’t you realize that climate science has its own set of natural laws?
This methane clathrate thing has been around for years. Sometimes it’s from permafrost melt or seafloor melt. These folks are true environmentalists, they keep recycling the same old skeers.
It’s now 2012. I’m still here.
Everybody else OK? ;o)
Be generous – give them until the end of 2012!!!
World is full of BS… the trick in life is to wise up to it if you’re honest, and use it to your advantage if you’re dishonest.
Recently my mother (bless her) bought some shoes that were on sale. “They’re usualy 150 pounds, I got them for 80. Bargain!”
Too bad they look like they’re worth about 10, and made by children in a sweatshop. Oh dear.
Pinches Self….. OUCH
Still alive and still here….
we have a much greater chance of Yellowstone going boom than global warming killing us.. shoot the 20mm rise in 5 days at Yellowstone Lakes should be sending off alarm bells with all the quake activity world wide……
Happy New Year everyone…. (no need for tinfoil hats… i have one 🙂 )
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/gps/YellowstoneContin/velocities/
Isn’t it illegal to shout “fire” in a crowded theatre when there is clearly no fire?
“Progressives” love Humanity. It’s humans they don’t like.
Well to misquote the immortal words of Tom Lehrer, “We will all go together when we go.”
I see brain dead people…. and they don’t even know they’re brain dead! They just ‘believe in Man Made Global Warming’. 4.5 Billion…. Yeah. That’s about right….
Did you not know: “Now that most scientists agree human activity is causing the Earth to warm”???
The killer odorless fumes of doom crept as we crapped are way to the crypt.
4.5 billion times 150 lbs of rotting flesh. A fly paradise.
“…If it happens, it will be the gaia fart heard round the world….”
Let’s do the math on this fart:
Earth’s atmospheric mass (per Wikipedia): 5 x 10*18 kg
The Fart: 400 x 10*9 tons = 400 x 10*9 tons x 907.2 kg/ton = 3.63 x 10*14 kg methane
Addition to extant Atmosphere: 3.63 x 10*14 kg / 5 x 10*18 kg = 0.007%
New Fart compared to extant CO2 (ooh! Evil):
5 x 10*18 (Atmos. Mass) kg x .039% CO2 = 1.95 x 10*15 kg CO2
3.63 x 10*14 kg / 1.95 x 10*15 kg = .186 = 18%
As my old Canadian boss used to say: “That doesn’t amount to a popcorn fart.” I never asked him to expand on this colorful but derogatory remark, I’m sad to relate, but it seems appropriate. {I know, some CAGW true believer will come back with: CH4 is x times the GH gas that CO2 is, so we’re doomed! My reply: take a nap.}