From the you’ve got to be effing kidding me department come this dead serious essay from “The Conversation”, that hotbed of climate alarmism in Australia which somehow got past bullshit detectors at phys.org.
The money quote sort of tries to talk down the headline, but they leave it wide open as a possibility.
David Waltham writes:
So why don’t we see advanced civilisations swarming across the universe? One problem may be climate change. It is not that advanced civilisations always destroy themselves by over-heating their biospheres (although that is a possibility). Instead, because stars become brighter as they age, most planets with an initially life-friendly climate will become uninhabitably hot long before intelligent life emerges.
The Earth has had 4 billion years of good weather despite our sun burning a lot more fuel than when Earth was formed. We can estimate the amount of warming this should have produced thanks to the scientific effort to predict the consequences of man-made greenhouse-gas emissions.
These models predict that our planet should warm by a few degrees centigrade for each percentage increase in heating at Earth’s surface. This is roughly the increased heating produced by carbon dioxide at the levels expected for the end of the 21st century. (Incidentally, that is where the IPCC prediction of global warming of around 3°C centigrade comes from.)
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-06-climate-contact-alien-civilisations.html#jCp
Is there anything climate change can’t do? I predict effects on black holes next.
On the plus side, Michael Mann must be relieved that the Green Lizards aren’t coming after him.
h/t to Marc Morano and Leif Svalgaard
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…I thought it was because we’re too stupid
Are you kidding me? CAGW devotees ARE aliens!
It sounds like they are admitting that solar activity is the true culprit everywhere
Since the election of the Abbot government, who’s very first act was to abolish the Climate Commission, the climate establishment here in Aus has been under blitzkrieg type assault…they may well be suffering from shell-shock!
ROFLMAO! Really? I don’t really know what to say at this point.
Back in the ’60’s I had a pimple on my nose. Was the climate changing that long ago?
Can I sue somebody?
I dunno. 3,2,1 go.
Co2 is a magical gas.
I didn’t know we were trying. I really need to get my head out of the sand.
Wait…
Does that mean climate change will stave off the alien invasion caused by climate change?
I wish they’d make up their minds.
Add it to the list-
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/globalwarming2.html
Wasn’t there a story a couple of years back that suggested aliens might not bother to contact us because they can somehow detect, from many, many light years away, that we’re contributing too much CO2 to our atmosphere?
Is it any kookier than claiming that a few degrees of heating would turn Earth into a Venusian inferno?
Once again, WUWT helps expose the lunatics who believe we are all going to melt into a pile of burning, stinking flesh if we don’t stop driving our cars, powering our homes, industry and world. Ludicrous nonsense.
Bollocks. Why look at 4 billion years of ‘weather’ when you really should be saying climate? Weather is not climate.
Why not look at the last 2 million years? In the last few million years the normal state of the Earth is ice ages (good ‘weather’?). Most of the recent interglacials have been HOTTER than the Holocene. Should aliens conclude that we humans are cooling the Earth during interglacials??? The Holocene is STILL on a cooling trend. It’s worse than we thought!
Nothing to see here, move along folks.
These models predict that our planet should warm by a few degrees centigrade for each percentage increase in heating … ???
If you can bring yourself to believe that the output of unverified computer models is evidence, the sky is not the limit. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/10/why-a-compelling-theory-is-not-enough/
Thank God… So all this time letting my truck idle in the driveway overnight has protected us from the Brain Sucking Aliens. I suddenly feel even better than I felt before, which was already pretty good!
Would that be a retroactive prediction? LOL.
Global warming is like tulip mania. It will soon fizzle out as people slowly come to their senses. As the Earth slowly defies their garbage and does NOT WARM. Shame on Hansen and his ship of fools.
But…..aren’t they already here???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOAvL1O3DyM
Oh, I dunno– seems to me we’ve been here awhile, climate change hasn’t stopped us yet.
mjmsprt40, undocumented space alien.
I am now thinking that the human civilization should probably disappear from the Universe before we embarrass ourselves even more. If other intelligent life forms elsewhere get wind of the nonsense that our alleged intelligent leaders and scientists are telling us, they will surely laugh themselves to death.
The climate has been achanging and no aliens. QED
Same as garlic prevents vampires. I eat garlic and have had really minimal vampire problems.
@ur momisugly Jimbo, June 10, 2014 at 4:43 pm
Ah, but that’s how we stop the anti-AGW invasion.We use climate change to shut down the interstellar worm holes.
Keep it coming. This is how the GOP destroyed itself with the help of the media. Again the media is helping but I don’t think they realize who/what side. AGW proponents don’t even realize this is the caricature they have become.
“Remarkably, biological and geological evolution have generally produced cooling and this has compensated for the warming effect of our ageing sun. There have been times when compensation was too slow or too fast, and the Earth warmed or cooled, but not once since life first emerged has liquid water completely disappeared from the surface.”
Wait…what? Earth’s compensation has at TIMES (plural) been “too slow or to fast, and the Earth warmed or cooled…” On it’s OWN??? No way….”too fast” is unprecedented. Ask Mann.