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:
This almost looks as if it comes from the wonderful site Eye of the Tiber. q,v
where lunatic reports in the press about the Church and other oddities on the U.S religious scene are satirised with hilarious “pseudo reports” almost everyday. If you can bring yourselves to look at it you are in for a cheerful time.
It doesn’t pay to mock the afflicted. Why? Because my sides are aching from laughing at so much concentrated stupidity crammed into this dehumanist virtual java emporium.
Early in the thread, the Robin pulls the mask off the villain.
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I keep looking for what’s funny about it. Sorry, but I don’t see it. If it’s meant as a joke, or as satire, it fails miserably.
Bruce Cobb, it’s not funny on its own, in fact it’s just stupid.
What I personally find funny about it is in the same vein as the 10:10 red button ads exploding the unbelievers. It’s a transparent view into the brains of someone who is probably educated, but unutterably stupid. It’s a demonstration that their idea of winning an argument is to kill all of their opponents. In an earlier age this might have been a glove slapped across the face.
It’s the same kind of funny as people who want terrorism stopped but complain that communications are being monitored, or complain about airport security. The same people who think terrorists needs to be “understood”, while marching in a gay pride parade.
It’s funny because it’s stupid. While I don’t laugh at stupid people, I laugh at some of the things they do.
Granted, California is a big ag state, how will this new US of A feed itself after much of the Southern and Northern High Plains are gone? Living off of grapes and almonds will get old after awhile. Subtract the lumber, cotton, peanuts, and live stock from the Southern States (not to mention the BMW and Mercedes factories located there), and the remaining Blue States will not only be hungrier but also poorer. Be careful for what you wish for.
This is just wishful thinking. They would love it if the heartland of America evil, tea-party votin’ red states were swallowed up by the sea.
Typically, they don’t think those things through. Who would do all the work if the Red States were gone?
This persons hate came before the object of his hatred. So wicked and petty that most anyone would do. Climate Skeptics are IT though.
“Jehovah God”
This is a new one on me.
I think it’s redundant.
If you expand the map and look at the St Louis region you will see that the Missouri River runs into then out of the new sea. Are we now to presume that global warming will also cause water to run uphill?
I left a comment that was censored/not posted, basically it read how I despaired at people who were not sufficiently disciplined emotionally to be able to allow logic to trump reason, I quoted Alexander Solzhenitsyn :
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes: we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
I then went on to ask why they malinged someone because they had an opposing view that might be proven correct.
The reason for debate is obviously lost on these people from the harsh and completely inaccurate description by other comments relating to Anthony and WUWT.
When you actually live in Spamelot, suddenly Monty Python skits stop seeming funny.
Strange but true.
I’m pretty sure that this is version of the ‘Edgar Cayce Flood Map’ based on his prediction of Atlantis rising.
A flood of stupidity has already engulfed the “believers”.
Maybe this is pushback for always being “wet”.
I have never seen such astounding, authoritative and convincing science. I am sure 95% of alarmists must agree with you. Alright I give in, you’ve convinced me, you have the consensus the science is settled. Run for the hills immediately!
This is going to create a whole lot of waterfront property in Canada along (what used to be) the US border. Lots of opportunity to get in early, though it is going to make it tougher to skoot over the border to get some cheap US gas.
Eli Rabett says:
August 4, 2013 at 3:45 pm
Of course, it does take a while to melt the ice caps.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_ice_sheet
The icing of Antarctica began with ice-rafting from middle Eocene times about 45.5 million years ago[3] and escalated inland widely during the Eocene–Oligocene extinction event about 34 million years ago. CO2 levels were then about 760 ppm[4] and had been decreasing from earlier levels in the thousands of ppm.
Its going to take a couple of weeks or more before we reach the 760ppm and Antarctica starts melting. After that we’ve probably only got 10 or 20 thousand years before things get serious. Best to move to higher ground now.