Ridiculous loaded gun analogy: '…staring down the barrel of climate change'

“The world is staring down the barrel of climate change that is faster than at any time in the last 65 million years, says climate expert Chris Field.”
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“Stanford Associate Professor of Environmental Earth System Science Noah Diffenbaugh, Field will describe what analysis of 27 climate models revealed about the pace of climate change and what risks and emerging challenges we should expect”.
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Statements like the above from so called climate scientists are arguably amongst the most destructive means possible that is leading to the destroying of the image and respect for science of every type.
It also reminds me that about one half of the population is below the average IQ levels.
I am now coming to the conclusion that based on their continuing and clearly demonstrated ability to continually mouth of utter rubbish and total nonsense about how climate models are predicting the End Times for Homo sapiens unless we “do something” like give up our dirty habits of enjoying being warm or cool or driving to the supermarket for food or give up reading about climate scientists flying off for thousands of kilometres to exotic locations for their “conferences”, that the greater majority of climate warming scientists are definitely drawn from the bottom half of the population’s average IQ levels,
And they even seem have this incredible almost super human like ability to be able to continue this spouting off of complete and utter nonsense about how climate models are predicting the End Times despite mounting evidence that climate models are nothing more than an extension of the modellers own opinions and are little more than and endless sink hole for the public’s hard earned
And the climate warming scientists do this mouthing off of model predicted imminent climate disasters without any evidence of shame or doubt despite apparently not even bothering to even look out of the ivory tower’s windows just to check if it is even daylight outside let alone what else might be happening in the real world.
Note to real scientists;
Start cleaning up science’s act and fast before you all go down the gurgler of public opinion .
And don’t blame us, the public, if you find your funding shut off and any lingering respect for science disappearing down the rat hole of public opinion.
You will have brought this entirely on yourselves alone through your outright stupidity in allowing this non stop, continual spouting off of complete and utter nonsense from what is a so called and now steadily becoming a completely discredited and badly misnamed branch of science called “climate science”.
A branch of science where “astrology” would have been a far more appropiate description and even that would have been high praise for what passes as climate science today..

john robertson says: @ur momisugly February 13, 2014 at 12:01 pm
… The kind of rage I feel toward the persons involved, will not fade gently away…. My tolerance for the petty corruptions, the minor power abuses and bureaucratic over step is gone….
Any clue as to how one negotiates with a parasite?.
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We can always use the examples from history: Image 1 or Image 2

rgbatduke says: @ur momisugly February 13, 2014 at 12:19 pm
….The problem is that I would bet that most climate scientists have not read chapter 9 of AR5, and if they did their eyes glazed right over the part where it basically admitted that the models in CMIP5 could not be used to make predictions with any statistically defensible confidence at best, nor did they critically examine the figures that more or less directly demonstrate their inability to hindcast even the immediate “past” prior to the first reference year, 1961 or the immediate “future” of the last reference year, 1990.
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This guy is going to “discuss state of climate science, coming risks” and his talk “is based on a paper he co-authored with Stanford Associate Professor of Environmental Earth System Science Noah Diffenbaugh, Field will describe what analysis of 27 climate models revealed about the pace of climate change and what risks and emerging challenges we should expect.”
In other words he darn well KNOW chapter 9 of AR5 backwards and forwards and be able to quote it blindfolded. This is not some brain dead reporter… well at least he is not a reporter… well… I think he may be human.
He really has no excuse. He is a paid propagandist.

Jimbo says:
February 13, 2014 at 12:56 pm
WHAT: The world is staring down the barrel of climate change that is faster than at any time in the last 65 million years, says climate expert Chris Field…..
The abrupt climate change of the Younger Dryas occured over a decade or so.
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“Abrupt Climate Change – Inevitable Surprises”, Committee on Abrupt Climate Change, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, 2002, ISBN: 0-309-51284-0, 244 pages, Richard B. Alley, chair : http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309074347
From the opening paragraph in the executive summary:

Recent scientific evidence shows that major and widespread climate changes have occurred with startling speed. For example, roughly half the north Atlantic warming since the last ice age was achieved in only a decade, and it was accompanied by significant climatic changes across most of the globe. Similar events, including local warmings as large as 16°C, occurred repeatedly during the slide into and climb out of the last ice age….

In the book, The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future Richard Alley, one of the world’s leading climate researchers, tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. In the 1990s he and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years….
(wwwDOT)amazon.com/Two-Mile-Time-Machine-Abrupt-Climate/dp/0691102961

“Research Challenges in Managed and Natural Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change”
“…Managed Ecosystem…”
Or, as I like to think of it, “Playing God.”

John Lennon said happiness is a warm gun, mama. Unless you just shot yourself in the foot.
Speaking of old songs about climate change, mustn’t forget Dylan’s classic:

The science is settled, the debate it is done.
Earth’s warming is caused by mankind not the sun,
And deniers must not be allowed to have fun,
Exposing our lies and evasions.
Let’s string up the skeptics and cut out their tongues,
‘fore the climate reverses its changin’!

Gary Pearse says:
February 13, 2014 at 12:26 pm
What makes a “professor of interdisciplinary environmental studies” a climate expert. A sewage expert, or landfill expert, perhaps, but doesn’t he know this climate science requires a knowledge of physics, chemistry and geology (paleoclimate). “Staring down the barrel of a gun” is one of those subliminal images that probably all alarmist clisci types are feeling these days.
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You forgot the most important one – Thermodynamics.

Don’t worry too much, folks. If our recent experience in the UK is anything to go by, the “gun” is just a Super Soaker.

So, let me get this right, CO2 increases, traps infrared radiation (IR), and we all fry, right? But, what if the CO2 does not trap IR? Who would know if it does? How about a scientist who uses IR to look at the stars, they would have to know if the IR they were looking at was being blocked by the atmosphere, right? So lets see what one says:
IR Expert Speaks Out After 40 Years Of Silence : “IT’S THE WATER VAPOR STUPID and not the CO2″
I’m a professional infrared astronomer who spent his life trying to observe space through the atmosphere’s back-radiation that the environmental activists claim is caused by CO2 and guess what? In all the bands that are responsible for back radiation in the brightness temperatures (color temperatures) related to earth’s surface temperature (between 9 microns and 13 microns for temps of 220K to 320 K) there is no absorption of radiation by CO2 at all. In all the bands between 9 and 9.5 there is mild absorption by H2O, from 9.5 to 10 microns (300 K) the atmosphere is perfectly clear except around 9.6 is a big ozone band that the warmists never mention for some reason. From 10 to 13 microns there is more absorption by H2O. Starting at 13 we get CO2 absorption but that wavelength corresponds to temperatures below even that of the south pole. Nowhere from 9 to 13 microns do we see appreciable absorption bands of CO2. This means the greenhouse effect is way over 95% caused by water vapor and probably less than 3% from CO2.
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/ir-expert-speaks-out-after-40-years-of-silence-its-the-water-vapor-stupid-and-not-the-co2/
Simply put, this says that “the science of radiative transfer” is falsified. Since that is the very heart of CAGW, then the whole “science” falls apart. If “radiative transfer” simply doesn’t work with the IR at the frequency the earth gives it off, then CO2 cannot heat the planet.
If this is true, then the expected increase in temperature of the air at 12 Km altitude in the tropics that “radiative transfer” from CO2 should be causing would also not be present, and guess what, it isn’t. That is now two absolute proofs that “the science of radiative transfer’, without which Global Warming cannot happen, is false.
Science, make a guess, make a prediction, with numbers, about that guess, then see if reality, observed through experiment or observation matches your prediction. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t matter how wonderful and true the idea seems, how many scientists are said to believe it, how great those scientists are said to be, or anything else, if your prediction is wrong, drop the idea.
The “science of radiative transfer”, by CO2 at least, has now been shown false, falsified, twice, by actual observation. It is now time to drop it entirely.
This is the heart of the matter, everything else you see, on this site or any other, is just dancing around on the edges.

As James Taranto would put it: Metaphor Alert.
“The world is staring down the barrel of climate change that is faster than at any time in the last 65 million years”

WHAT: The world is staring down the barrel of climate change that is faster than at any time in the last 65 million years, says climate expert Chris Field…..

Really?
WUWT – On “Trap-Speed”, ACC and the SNR
January 5, 2011
http://tinyurl.com/onxy2wq

Abstract
Richard B. Alley
Ice-core evidence of abrupt climate changes
…..As the world slid into and out of the last ice age, the general cooling and warming trends were punctuated by abrupt changes. Climate shifts up to half as large as the entire difference
between ice age and modern conditions occurred over hemispheric or broader regions in mere years to decades…….
http://www.pnas.org/content/97/4/1331.full
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Abstract
Pierre Deschamps et al
…Our results, based on corals drilled offshore from Tahiti during Integrated Ocean Drilling Project Expedition 310, reveal that the increase in sea level at Tahiti was between 12 and 22 metres,
with a most probable value between 14 and 18 metres, establishing a significant meltwater contribution from the Southern Hemisphere. This implies that the rate of eustatic sea-level rise exceeded
40 millimetres per year during MWP-1A….
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v483/n7391/full/nature10902.html
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Abstract
Reef drowning during the last deglaciation: Evidence for catastrophic sea-level rise and ice-sheet collapse
Elevations and ages of drowned Acropora palmata reefs from the Caribbean-Atlanticregion document three catastrophic, metre-scale sea-level-rise events during the lastdeglaciation…..
[paper]
…. Such drowning eventsmust have been truly catastrophic, involv-ing—to our knowledge—the fastest rates of glacio-eustatic sea-level rise yet reported…..The exact duration of the CREs is
unknown but, given that the mini-mum rate of sea-level rise was >45 mm/yr,the duration of the 14.2 ka event must have been…..
http://www.academia.edu/200254/Reef_drowning_during_the_last_deglaciation_Evidence_for_catastrophic_sea-level_rise_and_ice-sheet_collapse