Some days you just have to laugh.
The map, is quite something; perhaps it is the product of a bender or a psychotic episode of some sorts. Maybe its a lame attempt at satire, maybe the person actually believes what they wrote. It is hard to determine.
This person (“anonymous coward” per Slashdot) writes at a place called “Humanist Cafe”, which seems more anti-human than pro-human:
Jehovah God punishes only the deniers and saves the believers. Isn’t that the way these things go. Only this time, it’s science we’re talking about. When JG is done, the country will look something like this:
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That’s the Lower 28 1/2. Isn’t it beautiful.
That’s the country if climate change affects only the states whose representatives in the House and the Senate deny global warming.
Now, some states get a little lucky – they are saved by rather hefty mountain ranges. A few progressive cities in denier states are saved too – like San Antonio and Austin. But, Red ‘Merica gets hit hard.
Source: http://humanistcafe.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/teapocalypse-the-map-of-denier-states-under-the-sea/
This reminds me of the sort of rants “Forecast the Facts” Brad Johnson has made about the states with conservative public representatives:
California’s Central Valley, where about 40% of our crops grow, would have to go under.
Eli Rabett says:
August 4, 2013 at 3:45 pm
Basically what you get when the ice caps melt, this is more or less the North American Inland Sea during Cretaceous, when, of course, as WUWT has been telling us CO2 was 10 X pre-industrial. Of course, it does take a while to melt the ice caps.
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I missed the point about the willingness of CAGW Disciples and Priesthood to accept that Man is Doomed for his Sins and to suspend their disbelief when supporting ‘one of their side’
This RoyFOMR thanks Eli for the reminder (and the chuckle)
Wow, he managed to wipe out about 2/3 of the agriculture of the US. I’d hate to live in the rest after this happened although I live in one of the areas that is “saved”.
William McClenney says: “From the Open Minds Department, we have these recently deleted long posts…”
Great, William, but I skip anything that takes more than two screens to display.
Pretty standard revenge fantasy.
Interesting to note: Johnathan Edwards was “voted out” by his congregation, within a few years after the “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”.(This is the NATURE of “Congregational” churches, no heirarchy per see. I might quip: “Nothing as dire a fate as bad sermons in the hands of actual saints!”
I think it’s not a joke but a kind of warmist wankery.
Eli Rabett says:
August 4, 2013 at 3:45 pm
“Basically what you get when the ice caps melt, this is more or less the North American Inland Sea during Cretaceous, when, of course, as WUWT has been telling us CO2 was 10 X pre-industrial. Of course, it does take a while to melt the ice caps.”
He’s proving my point. “More or less”, only of an entirely different shape, so it’s not really that, but good enough to spin a warmist yarn; good enough for government work. Hey, rodent, you should now rewrite the history of science, “adjust” it, so that the reconstruction of that American Inland Sea so that it better fits your phantasies. Start with the wikipedia so that the Humanist Café is vindicated. Let a student of yours write a computer program that pretends to predict it. Should be easy as cake and make you immortal in the new faux science you’re creating.
The Cretaceous inland sea in North America was the result of the new Atlantic Ocean, which being a newly developed ocean, was relatively shallow and had not sunk into the mantle yet.
The average depth of the World’s oceans was higher as a result and all that water had to go somewhere. Onto the land in North America, Europe and The Middle East is where it went. Much of our oil comes from this period of shallow oceans covering the continents.
The average sea level was more than 250 metres higher than today. It had nothing to do with CO2 or a lack of ice at all. It was geology and plate tectonics.
Got it. When someone takes the same position they always take against people they disapprove of, in language similar to but exaggerated (or the same), that’s “satire,” and it must be judged in a vacuum.
Or not.
If the entire site is Satire they need to break character a few times, because it’s hard to tell them from the rest of the “progressive” movement, which is apparently also “satire.”
I think you’re taking the joke too far, guys. We get it, you can stop now.
PS William McClenney, appreciate the nice big chewy posts!
William McClenney says:
August 4, 2013 at 4:20 pm
Update. I think I just got blocked over there ??????
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At the Humanist Cafe? Yeh, he doesn’t seem interested in an exchange of thoughts. Nor, apparently, a discussion on the meaning of the word “empirical”.
Any of the humans over at the Humanist Cafe are free to come here and debate. However, no debate is to be seen at that place. Apparently they’re above debate… would that explain it?
Did they get the call ? Noah !! You must build an ark … http://youtu.be/bputeFGXEjA
Dodgy Geezer says:
August 4, 2013 at 3:56 pm
@Doug Huffman says:
“Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing.”
From this mustard seed sprang my Faith, justified sola fide, no words, works or rites required.
I’ve often wondered about that argument. How do you decide WHICH God? There are a fair number to chose from, and they mostly (with slight variations) promise all THEIR followers eternal bliss and the unbelievers eternal damnation…
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Does it not say in your own scriptures, “ye are gods”?
(little g)
The certainty is a little terrifying coming from people who should know better.
Religion – or a desire to believe in a big idea – does seem to be hard wired, even in people with the education to recognize this susceptibility of ours.
…as a fisherman who lives in the Chicago region, I’m excited! Can’t wait to start trolling in the “Montanian Sea”!! Maybe extinct species will return, I’d love to put a hook into an ichthyosaur!
In a tweet Canadian Paul Beckwith was rejoicing that 20% Brasilian sugar crops got nixed by frost, helping obesity… Not kidding… part time professor at University of Ottawa about the recent cold wave in South America and its consequences:
“Paul Beckwith
Frost damages 20% of Brazil’s sugar crop. A positive from #climatechange+higher food prices; lower #obesity levels. http://t.co/TCoeeJ6vtS”
A POSITIVE? Really sick!
So the laws of high school physics will change so that high areas become flooded and low areas get spared? According to my Bible, it seems as if the basic laws of science have been fixed for a long time.
Jeremiah 33:25
Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
25 The Lord says, “If my agreement with day and night does not continue, and if I had not made the laws for the sky and earth, maybe I would leave those people.
Eli Rabett says:
August 4, 2013 at 3:45 pm
“Basically what you get when the ice caps melt, this is more or less the North American Inland Sea during Cretaceous, when, of course, as WUWT has been telling us CO2 was 10 X pre-industrial. Of course, it does take a while to melt the ice caps.”
Just exactly how long does it take for the ice caps to melt? Given that this is the shortest summer on record for the Arctic (less than half of the usual 90 days above freezing, not that sea ice matters for sea level) and the Antarctic ice is growing quite nicely. Just how long in geologic terms will it take for St. George, Utah to sink below the surface of the ‘Gulf of Arizona’ while the Communist bastions of Boston, NYC, DC, Miami, LA, San Francisco and Seattle mysteriously remain safe?
Fishing for the fools much are ye? Nah
Perhaps the installation of gills will be covered under obamacare. Problem solved.
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Our future under Obama’s care.
Laughable map. Maybe if the Mid Continent Rift system reactivates in conjunction with the Reel foot rift… and you run it out a few million years.
And there is no manifestation of the Rio Grande Rift. I’ve heard tale that it will eventually eat the Rockies (and Colorado).
Yep… quite laughable.
How are ancient ocean levels determined when parts of continents are undergoing uplift and/or subduction?
Cool – NYC at sea level is still there. Calgary, home of the “eeeeevil” oil companies and architects of the even more “eeeeevil” Keystone XL pipeline, is safe and sound at 3500 ft.
All of the left coast “progressive” cities are still there and healthy and, presumably, choking on their overdose of Smug.
This kind of stuff is hilarious… the people who “deny” millions of years of history calling those who disagree with their ridiculous little “climate change” scam “deniers”… while wanting to see them all dead and/or gone… you can’t help but laugh.