Josh writes: There is a hilarious transcript which was posted on BishopHill of a BBC Radio programme on the Lancet’s latest Alarm fest – all, no doubt, part of the run up to Paris in December. Dr Hugh says
If one’s looking at the estimates that have been produced in this piece of research, we’re looking at billions of events, so billions of individual people being exposed to – let’s just say extreme heat-wave events, on their own, over the next decades. And of course this plays out, whilst we emphasise the climate effects, it’s playing out on a pretty stressed world system, as well, with reductions in water supplies and in topsoil, and so forth. And these things are coming together in a, in a – excusing the bad, sort of, pun or analogy – a perfect storm, really.
I was not sure a cartoon would be quite as entertaining so I went for more of a portrait.
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we will go down in history as the “coddled culture”..
I’d like to see this compared to all the genocides that are/have taken place.
I think its worse than coddled …there are no men…. just little boys with little toys …no principles… no back bone… no testosterone…
Probably.
“[b]illions of events” – wow, how many per day? How many per hour?
Jim, I’m working on a model for that, it will indicate many catastrophic outcomes with a fair amount of uncertainty, could you pony up 200 grand to study it further.
Mark
Sterling – or Yen?
Not Zim dollars; I assume
A quadrillion does buy a de-ballasting event in a publicly operated urinal!
Old Turkish Lire . . .
My boy is a millionaire in Old Turkish Lire – saved my teeth from a can of Cola, in the ‘Oughties’ . . . .
Auto
The article makes it clear that these heat-waves are personal : “billions of individual people being exposed to – let’s just say extreme heat-wave events, on their own“.
Yeah, I am too looking forward to the next Jessica Alba’s movie. I also suffer from a extreme heat-wave event on my own every time she is on the screen.
urederra:
On your own what?
At one event per second for the next 85 years, you could probably get to a couple of billion events.
Well… if my house is hit by, say, a hailstorm, and my neighbour’s house is hit by a hailstorm… that’s two hailstorms already.
Right ? So ….
You’re on the right track, but what really matters is how many individual hailstones affected you personally. Then multiply by the number of people who could possibly be exposed to hailstones,,,
well, when we started all this stuff it wasn’t supposed to turn out like this.
(confused face )
billions of……$$$$$$ perhaps
That pretty much covers it.
There’s good reasons for eating vegetables, but I wonder if the good professor has studied the ratio of methane produced by beef eaters to that producee by bean eaters.
Won’t less coronary disease and strokes lead to longer human lifetimes and related GHG emissions?
That’s what I figure so I’m gulping down those methane belchers as much as I can so it’s win win for these Greenies who don’t want either of us around messing up Gaia.
It’s the considerate kinda guy I am trying to please everyone all the time.
And onions, leeks, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, turnips, parsnips, and all those other gas producing vegies.
Do not f@rt or you die. 🙂
In my case, the “event” will be wiping the sweat from my brow one extra time every four days. This will be equal to 0.642 * butterfly wing flaps.
Pointman
No-one does doom like John Laurie.
Of course, John Laurie knew a thing or two about doom. He served in the artillery in WW1, and saw that there were worse things than bread that didn’t rise properly.
Anyone reading these comments needs to follow the link to the transcript of that Montgomery clown. Be very afraid as they walk among us.
We are Doomed! Doomed as Doomed can be!
Doom Sayers have been around for a long time. The entire CO2 will kill us all thing has been a crazed doomsday scenario from the get-go. There has been no science. The very idea of CO2 warming the planet rather than a warmed ocean releasing more CO2 did not pass the smell test from the beginning.
We would be better off if it did warm up some more. Then maybe all those Ohio folk would stay put and stop moving to south to Florida. (and the rest of the snow birds to boot)
We are Doomed! Doomed as Doomed can be!
Doom Sayers have been around for a long time.
Here’s a classic https://landshape.wordpress.com/2015/06/13/flashback-abcs-08-prediction-nyc-under-water-from-climate-change-by-june-2015/
We are even more doomed than that.
And we are very, very doomed indeed! Mainly by things they can’t tax,( so they don’t mention them much.)
Like a big Space Rock collision, a huge super – volcano eruption, maybe gamma-ray bursts and supernovae. There’s also the possibility of false vacuum collapse; or how about a good old global pandemic? Not to mention a global famine – and oh, did I forget – a Nuclear Winter? (We must also remember those damned, unpredictable Tectonic Plates.)
Doomsayers, so tiresome and boring you wish you could tune them out…
Josh seems to be developing a style.
I think it is important to bear in mind the possibility that there might be a Jesus.
When I was younger I used to behave in consideration of some magical overseer would look at me and see if I made some error in my interactions with other people and my thoughts.
spookily when those thoughts were so pure Jesus made my life successful by happy co-incidence
I am not saying that this proof
I am saying that belief in Jesus might help good things to happen in your life.
did anybody read that first Iaan Banks book ” the wasp factory” ?
In male child there is no remorse, no affinity with another’s pain
Is remorseless inquiry into ( what the fvck is all this about )
as it all seems to be unknowable why not believe in Jesus
“as it all seems to be unknowable why not believe in Jesus”
No good reason to.
Whether or not it makes good things happen in your life, it makes good things happen in other lives.
“Yeah, there’s no shortage of money – easy to fix that”.
With that attitude he should have it “fixed” in no time. 😉
I hear the British Jousting Association are going to publish a peer reviewed research article in “Lance It” proving that Medical Practitioners not mentioning climate change in their articles leads to fatal consequences at peer review.
Wouldn’t be surprised if they have the Black Knight from the Holy Grail as their champion
Senior Author – Ivor Boyle ?
What about the Leeches????
Wow! Just Wow! Open the hatch, here comes another load. How long till that bs show in Paris ? I can hardly wait.
We have a doctor in Australia that follows this warmist line. He was so clever he fooled himself, so he went quiet for some time .
We should be making efforts to clean water and we can do that by 3 ways, treating it after the event, stop putting rubbish into the water and by using top soil as a filter rather than sediment washing into river systems.
CLean water and energy lift people out of poverty, not smarmy words.
Talking of doomists, the SMH here in Australia carried no less than 6 articles concerning climate change. There were about 5 the day before. Then the ABC and SBS continued repeating them almost every hour.
It may be a scurrilous rumour, but I heard the doomster doctor got this way when he was a patient in his own hospital. His notes said ‘prick his boil’, but nurse spooner got it back to front.
Now that was a cunning stunt …
+1
What’s a “poil”?
Among the gibberish Hughs spouts is the following word salad-esque gem, which I’ve divided by the commas used;
“There are no,
kind of,
of all the scientists whom I know,
that any will believe at all that climate change is not,
in this circumstance,
due to humans producing greenhouse gases.”
Alarmists appear to be mentally ill.
and contagious
and incoherent
Let’s all sing “The Doom Song”!
https://youtu.be/sY278K4ljWs
Damn! You beat me to it!
Oh dear… There were so many holes in his ‘steps’ we can take – talk about going around in a cotnradictory loop!
COLD front hits Washington D.C. in June, proving CO2 heat causes Climate Change, only solution more redistribution of wealth.
Comedy Central.
Al Gore effect doubles down.
A Pope in Paris in December for a meet up with these climate change nut jobs.
Just love to have a real big freeze hit town the same time.
Please, Please Al Gore effect do you stuff on time.
In the good old days these nutters had to make do with sandwich boards.
I saw in London a sad looking fellow in a raincoat wandering about with a board front and back upon which was written, ‘Too much protein is the work of the devil – Repent the end is nigh”….. and at the time I thought that the exemplar of pathos. The good Dr. has surpassed himself…finally, where pathos meets bathos.
Manfred, was that back in the mid-1970s? He used to include, “Less cheese, less lust…” Oxford Street wasn’t the same without him.
…..”we’re looking at billions of events, so billions of individual people being exposed to – let’s just say extreme heat-wave events, on their own, over the next decades”
If he were honest…..
It would read
…….”we’re looking at billions of measurements, so billions of individual people being exposed to – let’s just say extreme adjustments, over the next decades”
The cartoon should have shown the body of a chicken, with flapping wings instead of arms.
what do you have against such a noble bird as the chicken?
Is there a resemblance to Al Gore???