Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The end of chocolate, the end of coffee, the end of beer left us unmoved. Even bundling the chocolate, beer and coffee scares into one article didn’t raise a flicker. So desperate alarmists have recycled the ultimate scare story.
Science writer David Auerbach reminds us that in 2010, famous Australian Microbiologist Frank Fenner, who once helped eradicate Smallpox, predicted that climate change would lead to the extinction of mankind.
According to Auerbach;
Humans will be extinct in 100 years because the planet will be uninhabitable, according to Australian microbiologist Frank Fenner, one of the leaders of the effort to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s. He blames overcrowding, denuded resources and climate change.
Fenner’s prediction is not a sure bet, but he is correct that there is no way emissions reductions will be enough to save us from our trend toward doom. And there doesn’t seem to be any big global rush to reduce emissions, anyway. When the G7 called on Monday for all countries to reduce carbon emissions to zero in the next 85 years, the scientific reaction was unanimous: That’s far too late.
And no possible treaty that emerges from the current United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany, in preparation for November’s United Nations climate conference in Paris, will be sufficient. At this point, lowering emissions is just half the story — the easy half. The harder half will be an aggressive effort to find the technologies needed to reverse the climate apocalypse that has already begun.
The end of Mankind has got to be worse than no more beer or chocolate, right? I mean its the most emotive scare story alarmists can imagine, except maybe James Hansen’s excruciating refinement of the extinction scare, that not only will we all die, but we’ll all be boiled to death.
Fenner sadly passed away shortly after presenting his doom laden prophecy. We can only speculate whether he would have maintained such an extreme position, in the face of strong evidence that high climate sensitivity estimates are untenable.
Probably no more hot chocolate either..
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You’ll have a hard time finding a piece of military equipment that has been in service longer than the canteen cup. http://olive-drab.com/od_soldiers_gear_canteen_cup.php
Even when I was in during the 80’s I had and used one of the original designed cups. Much preferred the type handle the dough boys and WW II GIs used the newer ones. Didn’t rattle and was more comfortable to hold.
Obviously hot chocolate is already being rationed, going by that comparison pic.
The photos fail to show the 1943 rucksack vs. the 2013 man purse.
Soldiers now are carrying every bit as much as those that came before them did. Fact is that the better the load carrying systems get, the more they will pile into them. Doesn’t matter what they’re doing. The rucks these guys are jumping looks to be about the same size as what we jumped in the 80s: http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/images/Green-Berets-06-2015.jpg
Or vs. the far more shameful 1983 fanny pack.
*shudder*
Oh yea, we called it the “Butt Pack”.
All this is is an effort to line the sheep up, bleating at a “common enemy” projected on a screen.
I am literally the only person I know who even thinks about AGW; with the exception of a few neighbors who’ve slapped solar cells on their roofs in the name of PC, for most it seems these predictions and pontifications are right up there with Jurassic Park. A few too many also remember “The Ice Age Is Coming!” Chalk it up as just one more way to seek attention.
Speaking of neighbours, I also thought I was the only one around ever thinking about AGW. Then in April, my neighbour came up to me, after the most viciously cold winter in memory in Quebec and said “this AGW stuff is complete hogwash. The folly can’t be stopped now, because of vested interests”. We’ve been friends ever since …
These people need psychiatric help for their doom-filled prophesies and catastrophist thoughts (or their never ending compulsion to try to instill such fears in others).
Piping the chirrun right out of their minds;
They were paid grossly, lavishly fine.
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No they don’t. They know they are lying, they know it’s a pile of dung but they also know it’ a pile of money.
No mercy for Mr. Pied
Who took the money and ran
With the innocent fried.
He does it because he can.
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Well, here’s part of a great comment from RadicalRodent at BH (can’t link directly to it, apparently):
“Now, we can have “scientific” explanations – in this case, rising CO2. And what causes the CO2 to rise? Let’s face it, not only do we have to find a cause, we have to find a cause that can be blamed on someone (not the accusers, of course, but appeasement of the gods does require a culprit), and we have to find a cause that has a solution. Well, “science” has determined that it is the human burning of “fossil” fuels that is the cause, as it can find no other reason, utterly ignoring the fact that they haven’t actually looked for any other reason. Quite why the fact that, while burning of fossil-fuels has risen exponentially, the rise in CO2 has been more or less steady seems to have passed by those who determine what is “valid” and what is not has to be a mystery, but questioning of The Cause is something that now cannot be tolerated. And Science – /True/ Science – is the sad victim of such intolerance, broken and bleeding as it is bludgeoned by ideologues, the collateral damage being the individuals, families and communities for whom Science has been the greatest protector and benefactor in history, who are to be forced to remain or return to subsistence living.“
+1!
“Claim: Mankind will be extinct in 100 years because climate”
Gee, remember back in the day when the climate wasn’t changing and we were doing so well.
Man, those were the days.
/humor attempt
It has been less than a hundred years that man could predict weather at all. Yet, now, we can predict it a hundred years into the future.
How far we have come.
There is going to be an immense flurry of false doom and gloom messages and questionable science papers like this one released between now and the Paris conference later in the year . At stake is not the extinction of the human race but the possible loss of $100 billion a year of free money to the United Nations and yet even more free money grants to all the alarmist universities, alarmist environmental groups, . alarmist scientists and the free subsidies to foreign solar panel and wind turbine suppliers and contractors ..It seems that the only news coming out of these groups is doom and gloom . The liberal press and media will love the new alarmist headlines and media coverage as they have nothing else of news worthy to report. Global warming is the biggest money maker since the use of paper money without the gold standard backing was introduced.
Julian Simon, in his “The Ultimate Resource 2” introduction, says, in summary, the higher the population,
the higher, in general, the standard of living. These peaks in population tend to be in the warm periods.
The increase in life expectancy belies the claim of a dirtier, more polluted planet.
The worst missteps I see are increases in the price of energy and some starvation caused by burning food in our cars, causing some privation.
So if Climate Change is about destroy the world where do Climate Change alarmists invest their money
A song might be appropriate.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=end+of+the+world+as+we+know+it+youtube&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=XWqFVbbOCIX2UvyQspgG
Here is a little song that Holdren, Ehrlich, Auerbach, Fenner, Romm, and more will sing non-stop between now and the Paris summit:
The world will be enchanted by their skills.
The older highly accredited scientists that have commented on climate change like Freeman and Linden always seem so calm and assured that nothing bad is going to happen. I see a 90 year old guy who is a giant in Science basically laughing at climate change claims. Any old guy who is a huge scientific mind that is soo calm and collected about something that is so nasty. I wish those two were given more air time and the respect they deserve. This bs is getting way out of hand.
The standard climate-obsessed doomers’ response to this is, “Well, they’re old and won’t live to see the catastrophe, so they don’t care.” Or, “They’re old and senile, so their non-concern is to be dismissed.”
Motion passed by the Tweed River Liberal Party Branch Thursday 18 June:-
“The Tweed River Branch of the Liberal Party of Australia (NSW Division) notes that the objective of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNCCC) to be held in Paris November/December 2015 is to achieve a legally binding and universal agreement on climate, from all the nations of the world. As part of this process, nations are expected to submit their Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) to reducing Carbon Dioxide emissions with a view to reducing an expected Global Temperature Rise to no more than two degrees Celsius.
Accordingly the Tweed River Branch of the Liberal Party of Australia (NSW Division) considers that the Australian government must ensure that important safeguards are contained in the proposed agreement. These are:
(a) that each nation shall determine its own proposed reduction in Carbon Dioxide emissions;
(b) that the agreement shall not come into force until ratified by nations which emit in total not less than 75% of the global carbon dioxide emissions;
(c) that each nation may, subsequent to the coming into force of the agreement, abrogate its ratification;
(d) that abrogation shall be effective immediately upon receipt by the UNCCC Secretariat;
(e) that no nation shall be required to provide finance to any other nation to assist such nation in reaching that nation’s proposed reduction;
(f) that no distinction shall be made between so-called “Developed” and “Developing” and “Less Developed” countries;
(g) that each nation may, subsequent to the coming into force of the agreement, modify its reduction target in the light of economic circumstances and new advances in scientific knowledge;
(h) that the agreement provide for scientific investigation into the benefits of a global temperature rise of two degrees Celsius or more, noting that overall more deaths are due to excessive cold than to excessive heat;
(i) that the agreement provide for scientific investigation into the benefits of increased carbon dioxide emissions for agriculture, noting that carbon dioxide is necessary together with water and photosynthesis for the growth of plants on which all life depends.”
All members of political parties are welcome to copy and submit to their own party branches, in whole or in part – suitably amended as regards branch and party name of course.
Hey, that’s sensible !!!
good start.
A cartoon is needed with David Auerbach and Fenner outfitted in white robes and sandals, each holding signs “The End is Near”
…or outfitted in the white garb of an insane asylum patient as in Burt Reynolds’ many botched attempts at suicide in the 1978 movie, “The End.”
But, but, but… if mankind goes extinct then there will be plenty of coffee, chocolate, and beer for the unicorns. These things have a way of working themselves out.
If the human race becomes extinct, who will care?
Obviously, no caring can occur after extinction, so all the caring must be done in anticipation of it.
Since a good deal of anticipation of doom has gone on through history, we have observations to base an answer on and my guess is that, of the final ten humans on the eve of extinction, six will be panic-stricken, three will be pretty bummed and one will be sanguine.
one of the leaders of the effort to eradicate smallpox in the 1970s
This looks like the old I’m a nobel prize gaff.
well fine…I’ll just stop evolving for the next 95 years
Somehow, between now and November’s climate jamboree, they need to raise the “threat” level to
CLIMCON1.
Do not lie easily in the dying light,
Wage, wage war against the lying and the fright.
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Women and minorities hardest hit.
Not this woman.
For some reason I suspect your hit can be harder than their’s. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Phys.org links to Fenner’s article at The Australian from which it seems they base their story:
Frank Fenner sees no hope for humans
Maybe Fenner’s converted to Malthusianism.
Maybe he seeks re-incarnation as a virus.
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Prince Philip of the UK?
Maybe he has hung out far too long with misanthropic freaks.
What did we do before genius climatologists came along? How in the world were we able to avoid extinction?? GK
What I wish would go extinct is the faux credibility of all purveyors of apocalyptic claptrap.
Ehrlich, Holdren, Romm, Auerbach, etc. are all pompous clowns who have never been right yet are treated with respect and credibility. Instead of the derision they deserve.
Don’t worry, their niche is unsustainable.
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The biggest, wild*** proclamation of global warming I have heard is a rise of 8C by 2100. I could move 2,000 miles south, and see that TODAY. 8C would bring on changes, but extinction is bizarre.
There are too many people in positions of power who cannot accept that they are insignificant players in natural processes.
For them, life is not worth living unless they can delude themselves into thinking there is something unique about themselves and their times. They are a danger to us and to the natural world.
Unlike animals, humans do improve their environment and reduce breeding below replacement when they can afford to do so.
The end of chocolate,
Coffee and beer?
Now it’s getting serious,
Now I really care.
http://rhymeafterrhyme.net/the-ghost-of-real-science/
My taxi driver tonight told me to sell slums and orphanages and to buy a crematorium. I think he might be on to something.
Why would you want to make cream?
Hum, isn’t that the BOMB! The POPULATION BOMB, the POLLUTION BOMB, the PESTICIDE BOMB, THE LACK OF RESOURCES BOMB…nah nah nah. Another RECYCLED HIPPIE from the ’70’s. You know, he’s right about one thing…I think the hippies from the ’70s are going to be extinct, soon, hopefully.
Pretty much what i said here last week. Leftover hippie culture.Yoga loving, dope smoking, grow your own lettuce in the backyard goofballs. Maybe we should go back to the era before oil and gas made our lives too cushie, almost a reset button. The only reason that we have time to worry about such trivial nonsense is mostly due to the fact that “fossil” fuels have made us soft and totally vulnerable. I especially see this in young adults. When this hippie generation has finally died off we will be left with a new crop of apathetic soma eating hip hop star wannabees. Humans require tragedy to move ahead. Most of our greatest technological advancements came during or just after major world wars. We need a major catastrophy to put things back into perspective.
AGW alarm has nothing to do with hippie culture. It has everything to do with Progressive culture. That culture goes right back to the early 20th century, and has its roots in Marxist new-socialist-man theorizing. Hippies had their faults (too much layabout), but they were not about totalitarianism disguised as eco-saving.
Hey Mick, I’m a “Leftover hippie culture.Yoga loving, dope smoking, grow your own lettuce in the backyard goofballs.”, and I’m sure there are plenty like me who believe like most of you. More alarmist propaganda to get the masses to do as they want. The biggest threat in our world in any time, IGNORANCE!