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Tim Blair writes in his column, Monday, October 27, 2014 about yet another climate prediction by a government scientist that seems sure to fail. You can add it to the list of failed predictions, such as Al Gore’s Arctic ice cap disappearing trick that never happened.
Doomsday draws near:
The planet has just five years to avoid disastrous global warming, says the Federal Government’s chief scientist.
Prof Penny Sackett yesterday urged all Australians to reduce their carbon footprint.
Sackett – now the former chief scientist – issued her five-year warning four years, 10 months and 24 days ago. Meanwhile, previous claims that global warming would cause hotter European winters may now be disregarded, because global warming has decided to make things colder instead:
The risk of severe winters in Europe and northern Asia has been doubled by global warming, according to new research.
The science is unsettled, as usual.
Such short-term predictions like “in 5 years” were bound to easy falsification and embarrassment to the doomsayer’s reputation.
Because of that now obvious problem for the Alarmists, the IPCC is now using 2050 as the date for all things CO2 related climate catastrophes. By then the doomsayers will either be dead or forgotten when the predictions fail to come true.
Using 2050 as a catastrophe date also has the possible advantage of having the PDO and AMO cycles on the upswing.
Make no mistake, the Progressives now see this as a multi-generational battle for control of the people. They are altering the education systems to brainwash our children into accepting whatever fabrications the environmentalists put forward. In the US we see it in Common Core, and even their attempts to indoctrinate Girl Scouts into Climate Alarmism.
Typos corrected;
The sin is not the lies and conspiracy to lie from the warmists. For mine, they can prattle on with their belief systems ad nauseum The sin is the public being forced by taxes and grants to pay them and the resultant sheer folly of worthless alternative energy campaigns.
Hey, let’s not get premature here and jump the gun. Her prediction still has 40 days in which to be realized.
I mean, give the noodlehead a break, for Christ’s sake. She also may have meant five leap years. Or five Jupiter years.
Maybe it was 5 dog years.
Reblogged this on Catholic Glasses and commented:
Another one flies over the coo coo’s nest.
This is consistent with a marketing scheme to sell something quickly to a person or people. That can work well if:
1.They are selling based on an authentic representation of the product and/or
2. Their sales pitch is so convincing, that it causes the person or people they are are targeting, to buy immediately(fall for it)
With CAGW, #2 has been getting all the weight. The strategy has been to exaggerate and scare those that they are selling the idea/product to.
The problem has been 2 fold for them. First, #2 was pretty darn effective and has had good success in many realms but there was enough resistance from those that understood science enough to see that #1 was not being met and that their resources were focused on #2, at any cost that it obstructed the mission of #2 from being fully implemented.
The biggest problem now is that they are on record with exaggerated projections about the future and as the future always unfolds with time it alone determines authenticity.
But all is not lost. #3 has entered the picture.
3. Move the goal posts and create a reality/world in which extreme weather is actually happening all around us right now, just as predicted. Every abnormality in the world offers a new opportunity to provide a climate change causation spin. Now, even the increase of extreme cold is caused by greenhouse gas warming. The spread of Ebola………there is almost nothing that can’t be blamed on climate change.
The truth about CO2?
Sunshine +H2O +CO2 = Sugars/Food +O2
And after this prediction fails, don’t forget about the “Only 500 Days Left To Prevent Climate Chaos” that began on May 13, 2014!
http://undertheradarmedia.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/a-collection-of-ridiculous-over-the-top-fear-mongering-articles-on-global-warming/?preview=true&preview_id=2656&preview_nonce=ba57128636
Knowing that its already too late is actually quite a relief. It’s a good thing to be able to scratch an item off one’s “to-do” list without ever having to do anything.
I wonder if there are any left of those cold war nuclear shelters in the suburbs of the USA, complete with stocks of baked beans and coca-cola? Could they be sold at a high price to the true believers?
There MUST be a market for this.
To quote Ashley Brilliant (yes, that is his real name), “The nicest thing about being too late is that you no longer have to hurry.”
Thanks for this timely reminder of the upcomng climate disaster.
We should really have a comprehensive overview of all the predictions of doom made by climate scientists, politicians and media, as a reference page, so that we could confront them with all their failed warnings. As it is now, we see that they are trying to slip away from their responsibilities, hoping to get away by means of the public’s utter exhaustion with climate matters.
We need to have a documentation of their wayward warnings, and this could be a data base which was fed by readers in all countries.
Thank you, I so needed a good laugh! Who needs comedy TV when we’ve got climate alarmists?
Hence the mass migration to 30 year predictions
So is the predictor Penny Sackett preparing her scientifically professional apology for her naïve misapplication of reasoning about climate focused science?
What is her ‘belief’ now? Does she insist we now have certain doom in the future based on the past 4 years of fossil fuel use? Or will she now hedge and say we have another 4 years to do something or have certain future doom?
Penny Sackett, where are you now? Please finish the story. Tell us the actual outcome versus the prediction you believed in.
John
We had a parade of potential DOOM this week too!
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/graphics/alerts_timeline_4509.png
There is an article from 2006 in Media Matters that said Al Gore’s quote in Grist magazine from that year of
it is “appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it [global warming] is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are.”
The writer of the article denied this was advocating exaggeration of scientific facts, saying this:
In fact, as the website News Hounds noted, Gore’s use of the term “over-representation” referred to the amount of time spent informing people about the dangers posed by global warming (at the expense of discussing possible solutions to the problem); it did not amount to an endorsement of exaggerating those dangers.
All I can say to that is bullshot!
Just 37 days left to PARTY like its (pick a year)
The best thing about doomsday predictions is that they all come with a credibility expiration date.
Some kind of 37 day advent calendar?
Who has more plausible integrity: (a) the author of the Homer Simpson comic; or (b) the politically / publically paid Penny Sackett, the professional scientist who alarmingly predicted doom that cannot be observed?
I will go with the author of the Homer Simpson comic.
John
I would like to have a “End of the World” Predictions in Bullet Format so as to demonstrate, The Man – made Climate Change Cult are Soothsayers, doing THEREFORES BASED ON THE AVERAGE CONSCIENCES OF A MODEL BUILT ON FALSE STANDARDS. 1954 – PRESENT
Bunions-to-barnacles, odds are that competitive private-sector employment would have Mde. Sackett professing “Would you like fries with that?”
“The risk of severe winters in Europe and northern Asia has been doubled by global warming, according to new research.”
Decades and centuries ago it must have been warmer globally then because there were colder winters. The risk of severe winters occurred more frequently back then in Europe. (Who would have thought, or that’s right the problem is they don’t)
Since the 1960’s I’ve been waiting the “big one” San Andreas earthquake in Southern California that is “going to happen within the next 30 years”, said every few years since 1960.
Still waiting. Predictions are a bitch.
“Children just aren’t going to know what hot weather is.” /sarc
Winter is coming.
The science is always settled – it’s just that the nature of the settlement changes from time to time. It’s like serial monogamists are always faithful to their woman, until they dump them to become faithful to another one.
We should shame these people by sending them anniversary cards. Each one a countown to 0 then going back up again.