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.
The following comment was posted on the Reuters.com site given. It is becoming increasingly typical of people’s attitude toward the subject, one that will only increase as the “message” becomes ever more shrill.
“More global warming scam scare talk!
I’m bored of this crisis. Can I please have a different one?”
Another reader commented: “This article says much more about the unbridled narcissism of the author than anything about humans as a species…This feeling you have is just your fear of your own death, and you’re such a pathetic solipsist that you must think the entire species is going to end just because you are one day you pathetic fool.”
Ah, but,,,
Tilting at the sun will melt your spear.
How did the Pope miss this?
“Hon?”
“Yes, dear?”
“Says here we’re doomed.”
(yawn) “Again?”
“Yup. This time they’re super super serial.”
“That’s nice. More coffee?”
“Yes, please.”
So lets “Eat, Drink and Be Merry for Tomorrow We Die (+36,524 more tomorrows )”.
Sorry anti-humans. We will almost certainly out survive all but the most basic life on this planet.
Hey, in 100 years all the people alive today will no doubt be “gone”. Maybe a few who live 100 years + will still be alive… I would say that 99% of the people today will be “extinct”.
“Mankind will be extinct in 100 years because climate”
If we are lucky, loudmouthed alarmist jerks will be extinct in 100 years because people will have had their fill of the crap they spew.
Sadly, humans never seem to tire of “end is nigh” alarmist crap.
In every age, we recycle this obsession under a new banner.
And beware of the dangerous conceit that, “this time it’s different”.
It’s illuminating to read about the similar bullcrap that was circulating 1000 years ago.
As described here:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Pursuit-Millennium-Revolutionary-Millenarians/dp/0195004566
What was that preacher who predicted the end of the world a few years ago? Oh yeah, Harold Camping. He died at age 92, recently. He was dumb. He picked a date that was right around the corner. The date came and went. Then he equivocated a bit, picked a new date, and that didn’t work either, AND STILL HIS FLOCK didn’t spurn him for an idiot. These guys are smart, they’re gonna live their entire lives before they’re proven to be idiots.
Several major cults predicted the end of the world over and over. The dates came and went, some people left the faith, but the cults lived on and even grew. I read that when people’s belief systems are challenged, they often reject new evidence and double-down on their faith.
The Maltheusian cultists will march across this false prophet’s date with gritted teeth, just like they have all those others.
Wow. They gave these guys advanced academic degrees? The most adaptive species on the planet cannot survive an non-existent change in temperature and CO2’s greening of the planet and more food and more plants and more animals? WOW. They, not we, are doomed. Let’s give them their own desert island so that they can live out their dreams all by themselves.
The day I’ll confess that CO2 is a threat is, when my coffee turns into sparkling coffee, enriched from atmospheric CO2.
Of course we’re all gonna die.
Life is a fatal sexually-transmitted disease.
I think it’s about time we had a decent war. It’s just about 70 years since the last major war.
It will enable this generation to thoroughly demonstrate its stupidity to all (if any) following generations.
It’s the only thing I can think of which will give that prediction any chance of being right. Another Dinosaur Redactor is too far away to make the timing.
So Fenner is extinct?
Climate Change got to him.
Country Joe knew it….
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7Y0ekr-3So ]
If Alfred Hitchcock had lived today, the “Birds” would certainly have attacked due to global warming.
If the Titantic had sunk this year, the iceberg would have been said to have broken off due to global warming.
The 20s dust bowl, Hurricanes Camile and Betsy, the Edsel and the Donny and Marie Show, all disaster caused by global warming! Wake up, people! Embrace communism!
The confused mind of the modern eco-doom-monger nitwit:
Many vertebrate species on planet earth are threatened with extinction due to the impact of humans.
The increasing impact of humans is a result of the ability of humans to adapt and thrive in a wide range of conditions.
As a result of our tendency to adapt and thrive we have become very numerous.
We are also a vertebrate species. Therefore we should worry that we too may become extinct.
In conclusion, we will become extinct because we can adapt and are thriving.
Yes, I expect that to an eco-doom-monger, this argument makes complete sense.
Doesn’t seem to worry Coca Cola. They are still polluting their drink with CO2 (sarc).
“We believe in the importance and power of ‘informed choice,’ and continue to support fact based nutrition labeling and education and initiatives that encourage people to live active, healthy lifestyles.”
http://www.coca-colacompany.com/brands/soft-drinks
We have to endure the ” Harold Campings ” of “scientific study ” world doom every few weeks and it gets more intense at capital expenditure , grant time.
The insects will inherit the earth then?
Let’s presume that all of the catastrophic claims about climate come true in the next 100 years. Mankind would still not be driven extinct.
Man is the most adaptable of all major organisms. Before the first major civilizations arose, mankind had spread to every continent save Antarctica. We inhabited every conceivable environment, including plains, desert, deciduous forest, taiga, tundra, jungle, alpine, swamp, archipelago, everywhere.
rabbit – Let’s presume that all of the catastrophic claims about climate come true in the next 100 years. Mankind would still not be driven extinct.
Worst case scenario not even bacteria survive. Perforating the floor of Arctic ocean might be a way this gets set in motion.
I imagine that Carl Sagan, were he still alive might comment something like this: Elementary planetary hygiene dictates that at a minimum we do not accidentally exterminate all known life in the universe.
Worst case scenario not even bacteria survive.
Nonsense on stilts.
He would have been a climate contrarian, and a huge thorn in the side of “the consensus”.
So we’ll be extinct in 100 years because we waited 50 years to find out the CAGW models are wrong but kept doing cr*p to stop “climate change” anyway?
Homo Sapiens Sapiens is already extinct. The extant human populace is Homo Sapiens Stultus.
The last holdouts will have their taxpayer funded energy systems working for a few years before the inverters burn out.
mod, OT
one day I was interested in the equation living / death.
did the math on an excel spread sheet.
given the fertility rate 1.2 – a pair of 2 starts 2.4 descendents –
the SUM of buried / since anthrops started / is always HALF of actually living.
that’s good news I think.
Physicians will do the math better than me, I’m sure.
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shines a new light on every armageddonism.
maybe some pope starts to think of thinking.
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ain’t interested to find me under comments.
Hans
I should hope I am personally extinct in 100 years. I’m already 66, and there can’t be much fun left after 120 or so.