Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben joins Jennifer Granholm in Al Gore’s CURRENT TV “The War Room” to talk about the impact that climate change will have during the president’s second term and just how much we’re affecting our planet. McKibben explains, “If 1 degree melts the Arctic, we’re in a world of hurt. This is an emergency now.”
Only one problem…..
Nobody is listening…zzzz. He’ll be lucky to get to 350 views on his own.
Now the views count of his YouTube video will be mostly from WUWT viewers. Oh the ironing!
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Raving religion.
Otter says:
November 10, 2012 at 8:52 am
Why did I immediately see him in priest’s robs, worshipping Cthulhu?
I was thinking more like Vorbis worshipping the great God Om.
I wonder how much further you can escalate the language beyond “emergency?” How much time do they spend figuring out a way to make it sound more dire than the last time? Will the day ever come that they run out of adjectives and they just give up?
well all and all bill you are nuts it’s -18 in central Alberta this morn and friends working up north have been in the -20 all month so really ? melting melting MELTING !!!! really you need help.
Wow -18 c in central Alberta this morning friend’s working up north where it has been no warmer then – 20 c for about 2 month’s and the ice is melting ? You are a full of B.S. Get out of you office and go look for yourself and after you come back out of the cold try again. ;>)
That piece could be used to explain to foreign language students how the term “boob tube” came into existence to describe the television.
Since the 1960’s Arctic temperatures have risen 4c, yet we still have plenty of it around the minimum in early Autumn.
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/7617/arctictempstrend.png
Note – Since the 1930’s Arctic temperatures declined 4c until the 1960’s.
Meanwhile Arctic temperatures are far below freezing expected at this time of year, so what ever happens during the summer will freeze always later. (even a ice free Arctic)
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak/geomet/meteo/winfos/arcisoTTPPWW.gif
For those, like me, in the U.K. it can be viewed here:
http://current.com/shows/the-war-room/videos/bill-mckibben-on-climate-change-its-a-planetary-emergency
Keep a sick bag handy for when you view it. Jennifer Granholm’s brown-nosing is truly nauseating.
I seem to have lost my iron, probably just as well, as it only adds to the heat.
RE: Stephen Wilde says:
November 10, 2012 at 8:27 am
“…..A pity, though, that so many of them will be able to retire with huge bank balances and secure pension funds.”
That’s where their thought process goes, however what they fail to consider is what hyper-inflation will do to huge bank balances. The melt-down that hit Zimbabwe and resulted in billion-dollar bills can, in theory, become a world-wide phenomenom. Of course, governments will use the mess they have created as an excuse to dictate wage and price controls, however that tends to generate riots and revolutions. There is no such thing as a secure pension when the world is in chaos.
Hold onto your hats, boys. We are in for one heck of a ride.
lorne50 says:
November 10, 2012 at 9:59 am
well all and all bill you are nuts it’s -18 in central Alberta this morn and friends working up north have been in the -20 all month so really ? melting melting MELTING !!!! really you need help.
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Yeah I am in the “warm” southeast (mid NC) and freezing! (28F for the last two mornings) I had to scrape the ice off the windshield in bloody OCTOBER! Normally the lows are around 42F this time of year.
It is a tad hard to sell the Arctic is melting when you are scraping ice in the mid-atlantic state of North Carolina. We would have broken several low temp records the last couple of weeks if the raw data I saw in the morning was used instead of the adjusted up by 3F final figure.
On and it is REAL hard to believe that adjustment, saying the temperature is ABOVE freezing, is correct when my waterbuckets are iced over.
It was ironing that lead to the Mayan empires downfall.
I think I have explained before that Bill McKibben and his 350.org are affiliated with the New Economics Institute, formerly known as the Schumacher Society as in Small is Beautiful. For those of you wanting to appreciate what kind of economy we are talking about to go with these erased from facts temp models, here is a sample from one of NEI’s directors, Neva Goodwin.
http://neweconomicsinstitute.org/content/new-economics-21st-century
NEI’s affiliate in the UK, the new economics foundation, is heavily involved with helping to achieve the Club of Rome’s vision for a rather oligarchical future based on Green Energy.
Mostly it is a case of cha-ching at our expense to political insiders. Globally.
“Sceptic Tank (@sceptic_tank) says:
November 10, 2012 at 8:35 am
Not viewable from the UK :-(”
Nor Ireland… 🙁
If 1 degree melts the Arctic, we’re in a world of hurt.
Obviously all kinds of assumptions need to be made to calculate exactly how much ice will melt for a rise of 1 degree in air temperature, not the least of which is whether he was talking C or F. In addition, the wind and rate of ice melt need to be considered. I have done some rough calculations assuming we are using degrees C and that the density of air stays the same for 10 km. I asked myself how much ice will melt if we take a square meter of ice at 0 C and if the temperature of the air were to decrease by 1 degree C for a column of air 10 km high.
The heat in this much air is mct, so for 1 C, we get 1.29 kg/m3 x 1 m x 1 m x 10,000 m x 1.006 kJ/kgC x 1 C = 13,000 kJ.
The heat of fusion of ice is 334 kJ/kg, so 13,000 kJ would melt 39 kg of ice. With the density of ice being 920 kg/m3, that means 39 kg/920 kg/m3 = 0.042 m3 of ice will melt. So starting with our 1.00 m2 area of ice, 0.042 m or 4.2 cm would melt and thereby lower the air temperature by 1 C for 10 km above it.
Well at least one of the views was mine…..
Chuck says:
November 10, 2012 at 9:57 am
I wonder how much further you can escalate the language beyond “emergency?” How much time do they spend figuring out a way to make it sound more dire than the last time? Will the day ever come that they run out of adjectives and they just give up?
Just wait for AR5 and we will see just how far they can go. !!!
He says, “This is the warmest year in American history, almost for sure….”
Almost, for sure?? What the heck is that?
These guys are so obviously jumping for every little blip on the weather screen to help their ’cause’ that it is plain to even the most causual observer that they are getting desperate,
Very sad indeed!
What will it be like when McKibben completely loses it?
Officer: Mr. McKibben, we need you to…
McKibben: No! Penn State awarded me a degree when I received the Michael E. Mann Award for Excellence in Climatological Communication. It’s Doctor McKibben!
O: Okay, Dr. McKibben. We need you to put that down now…
McK: No! They are using wasteful incandescent lighting! Either they install LED’s or the polar bear cub gets it!
O: Why would you want to hurt…
McK: Climate change will condemn all the polar bears to a miserable death from starvation once they lose their habitat. I’ll be doing this one a favor by making it quick!
O: Dr. McKibben, just put it back on the shelf and leave the toy store.
McK: No! The crisis is too great! The fate of the planet rests on my shoulders!
O: Look, you don’t even have a real weapon. You said you’ll let loose some gas.
McK: Yes! I have methane, twenty five times deadlier than carbon dioxide! Once I release it, the entire climate system will irrevocably tip over into runaway warming. Everyone will perish from the unimaginably horrific weather extremes to come! Do not test me, I am the instructor! I am serious!
O: Okay, Dr. McKibben, you win. I’m sending someone to find some small LED light bulbs for that display. Meanwhile I need you to first put the cub back on the shelf, then slowly hand me the bean burrito.
“Oh the ironing!” Ha ha ha ha ha ha love it!
If America were a foreign country, we’d level ourselves.
There may have been a fiscally incontinent left / liberal drift since WW2
Deficits tend to rise under Republicans, and drop under Democrats. Reagan and Bush Junior blew them out, but Clinton reduced them.
There has been both a drift to the left and towards unwise deficits, but they aren’t remotely linked.
I feel the need to remind some readers here that it’s never okay to make fun of people for the way they look.
Certainly laugh at them for what they say and do (or in certain instances, what they choose to wear), but ridiculing their physical appearance only makes you (and by extension, the rest of us) appear juvenile.
Send in Darth Vader! Send in the Daleks! send for Star Trek Enterprise! Planetary emergency!
Actually, sarcasm aside, there’s a great science fiction movie in the making there somewhere
This makes you wonder planet McKitten is from, with his melting Arctic scenario.
Checking the data from Summitt Camp, Central Greenland gives the present outside temperature of minus 52deg C, or minus 62 deg F, ,
Which I suppose proves to him, the new meme of “Cooling is the new Warming”.