Never mind the threat of nuclear war, asteroid and comet impacts, a super volcanic eruption, robot overlords, or a global pandemic…no these aren’t all that threatening according to Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert of Oxford, one of the founders of “Real Climate”. No, it’s “climate change”.
Climate Challenge is “Humanity’s Final Exam”
From the description of the interview:
After a couple of decades of studying climate change and teaching at the University of Chicago, Raymond Pierrehumbert has been named the new Halley Professor of Physics at Oxford University. On a recent visit to The New York Times, he capped a fascinating interview with this sobering thought.
It is instructive to view the list of 12 biggest threats to humanity from this story at the Washington Post
They give just a 0.01 percent chance of extreme climate change happening in next 200 years. they rank Artificial Intelligence, Unknown consequences, and Synthetic Biology higher.
I’d say humanity has a lot of “final exams”, and climate change is the least of our worries.
And who can forget this story about Raymond Pierrehumbert?
The wit and wisdom of ‘Real’ Climate scientist Dr. Ray Pierrehumbert
![RayPierhumbert[1]](https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/raypierhumbert1.jpg?quality=83)
Or how about this one, where he calls coal “Satan’s Rock”
But it’s the climate skeptics who are labeled the crazy people, not esteemed paragons of “sensibility” like Dr. Pierrehumbert.
Perhaps Pierrehumbert should simply have studied climate…
This is a man that has never been off the public teet.
Worse yet, he’s protected and put on a pedestal.
Just like a stopped clock, he too can be right once a day.
24 hr clock OK.
Humanity’s Final Exam.
For sure, if we do not shake off this wave of mass hysteria, we may be done for.
Collapsing civilization,tribalism and civil war
A society of takers where no maker survives.….
The parasites have swollen to the point where they believe they run the world.
The truly useless and clueless infest every office of our civic institutions.
Delusions of adequacy proliferate.
So Pierrehumert is correct, unless we cure the blind worms gnawing upon the foundations of our society, we will fall.
CAGW is indeed an omen of doom, the freeloading segment of our society, have institutionalized their theft into generational robbery.
Having gotten away with this systemic looting for so long, they now believe their activities are necessary for society to function.
You and I need wall to wall regulation, pointless oversight,random destruction and robbery to live our lives.
Must be true cause that is all the likes of this parasite ever offer.
CAGW had its final exam and it failed miserably.
It got ALL the answers wrong on: warming trends, severe weather trends, sea level rise, ocean “acidification”, falling crop yields, pandemics, precipitation projections, Antarctice land ice loss, etc.,…
It’s time for CAGW to go to O’Mally’s Bar, get sloppy drunk, puke its guts out, pass out in the gutter, and after sobering up, call uncle Bob to see if he needs another waiter at his restaurant…..
He’s talking about a modelled planet based on unobserved but assumed factors resulting a modelled climate.
Like all alarmists he suffers from Panglossian pessimism believing the current global average temperature is (almost) the best of all possible temperatures, the current climate
(almost) the best of all possible climates — the best of all possible worlds, although things have deteriorated since around mid ‘70s when the global CO2 concentration was ~ 340 ppm.
And the global dire poverty rate was five times higher:
http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/worldpoverty1.jpg
The greatest threat to humanity is Global Ingratitude. No amount of bad hair or worse beard can disguise Pierre’s utter dependence on the fossil fuels and heavy development he disdains. Just another superficial bourgeois bohemian who will rush back to the grid and grab at the countless amenities provided by heavy industry as soon as Earth Hour is up. (In fact, he’ll likely chew up more fossil fuel during Earth Hour…but that’s show biz.)
Does he not have Internet access, or did he just forget that the problem was solved at the Paris conference?
Phil, I think the pigeon carrying the message for him got shredded in a wind turbine on the way home from Paris. He’ll find out eventually as word-of-mouth from Paris spreads his way.
Dr. Pierrehumbert “Look Ma NO Brains”.
This Liberal Socialist cancer that afflicts all the world had it’s origin at Oxford in the writings of Thomas More and his “wonderful” book “Utopia” The bible of the Elite that is driven to Rule us all…pg
Don’t forget those pervert commie spies that ran away to Moscow that came from Oxford.
I guess the Moscow of today is Washington D.C.
They were mostly, if not all, from Cambridge – hence “the Cambridge Spy Ring”
Now! Now! They were Cambridge spies, all 5 of them
There is nothing literally liberal in socialism. Socialists want to take your freedom away. A true liberal believes in liberty. Socialist wants to tax you and then decide for you, what to do with the money. A true liberal lets you do decide as long as it does not harm anybody.
The difference between a conservative and a socialist is that the socialist takes your money and then tells you do things, where the conservative just tells you to do things even you haven’t any money to do it.
I believe in setting liberty as a value, and that is the best thing to learn from the United States. It is not the same as being a conservative.
Maybe I need to duck now?
Liberal Socialist and Liberal Progressive are buzz words for International Socialist or Communist.
Today Classical Liberals are considered Conservatives.
It appears to me that Trump represents a more National Socialist point of view. In the old days that was Fascist or Nazi, but we don’t say those things today.
I am a conservative democrat and want the government to be small and follow the Constitutional contract that was devised and agreed to by my Classical Liberal thinking Ancestors…pg
“True” certainly doesn’t define “liberal” in current US politics, then. Maybe libertarian. Liberals want freedom only for their agenda. They promote indoctrination and defy freedom for those whose views they disagree with.
Alarmists Lives Matter
I don’t get it ???
How come all these intellects, who consider themselves knowing more than everyone else, look as though they have just crawled out of a hollow log ??
North Korea has just launched a missile that can carry a nuclear warhead (They claim they have a nuclear device. If true it can be delivered with this missile which has a range of ~1000kms). More ISIS gun fights in Belgium (Heh! Saw that coming in the 80’s). And this guy thinks climate change is a real problem. Well, its now autumn in Australia and it’s quite a bit cooler now than it was in February. Oh, but THAT is just WEATHER eh? But the 36 days above 26c in to the 2nd week of March is proof of AGW, if you believe alarmists of course! Did they forget what happens when after an El Nino peak?
Clearly he has had too much of that red stuff in the glass on the left. Stay off the turps, get a haircut, a shave and a job…and learn to play something that is not a gas bag!
Now, now, if he plays a button box rather than a piano key one ha can’t be ALL bad.
he not ha. Stupid computer still can’t spell.
Anything that needs to be squeezed to allow wind to pass through it that makes no better “sound” than a whoopie cushion should be left alone!
It has been long known Oxford city hates cars (As demonstrated by TopGear). Loves hairy people who ride bikes and eat bio-fuel raw materials (Veg). I guess this guy has and will lead a very comfortable life, and I am sure he has a car, lives in an old listed cottage, with gas fired central heating no doubt (Yes it DOES get cold in the UK). And, he’s been doing this for “decades” apparently. Nice little earner (Sc@m) there!
Is there anything so stupid that people with bad hair or a PhD are not willing to speak it? Seems not.
The biggest threat to our planet is our sun, it always has been. it happens in ways such as when plants don’t receive enough UV, bees and other insects react to this, they hibernate, the biosphere becomes unhealthy, disease and as a consequence famine becomes widespread.
Another way is plague! such as the one that occurred during a very warm period in Earths recent history that allowed parasites (fleas) to thrive and spread across Europe infecting and wiping out much of the human population.
In case no one from the dummy camp of “climate” meme knows how much of a role our star actually has, it produces vitamins, UV radiation affects all life living on the surface, it causes deficiencies when it is low and surplus when it is high.
Thanks to engineering and science we have the ability bypass these natural cycles, but this takes us to have affordable energy, the rest of nature can not chose another source of energy, our biosphere is locked into cycles.
I’d love to hear from these “Cycle-mania” freaks who for some reason don’t accept that natural cycles exist and point their uneducated finger at those of us who spend a lot of time trying to understand and explain them.
Oh those tenured neo climate change professors,
never subject to Hammurarbi rules, never having
to sleep under their own bridges.
They give just a 0.01 percent chance of extreme climate change happening in next 200 years.
Well, no.
That’s the chance of it causing “Famines, mass deaths, social collapse and mass migration ignite global conflict. Civilization crumbles.”
That sounds like every day in most African nations. And the world turns a blind-eye…unless one of those despots blames something on climate change, in which case the world lines-up to line his pockets.
Why don’t you take up that cause instead of the 0.01 percent possible future one?
Who is the examiner?
If the ‘climate challenge’ is to be humanities final exam exam it is logical to assume we are going to fail, otherwise it wouldn’t be our final exam.
Humanities current exam which is very real and much scarier than AGW, is antibiotic resistance and it is happening now. Interestingly it isn’t on the list from The Washington Post. So ok I agree it isn’t going to be global killer like an asteroid impact, but a truly post antibiotic world won’t be the same world we live in now and there will be fewer people living in it.
I promise I haven’t watched the clip but I bet the professor cannot pronounce his ‘r’s.
Learned folk from Oxford and Cambridge have great difficulty with this and appear to wear it as a badge of pride.
I was wrong but the guy is American. We’ll call it a draw.
The guy is a complete caricature of a bearded weirdy, lefty CND supporting anti-capitalist dork.
These people are well intended, although often sanctimonious. But that goes both ways. They have, essentially, been led astray. They listened to the wrong people, i.e., the ones that argued against dispassionately considering all sides.
Entire classes of professions are swayed in this manner. This is inevitable. It is human nature. It is the human condition. We get a lot of net gain out of it (though not always in flavors to everyone’s liking). Other times, not so much. But the intellectual class is indispensable, the problem being that they have forgotten that the rest of us are indispensable, too. Intellectually indispensable. It’s the difference between peer and independent review.
No lying thief is well intended. Another guy said no crook is willingly externally policed.
When someone sides with people who confess misleading the entire global scientific community by making up fraudulent data
he sided with the criminal thieves of the world. No matter how ”well intentioned” that lying criminal thievery.
There is no evidence he thinks the data is wrong. Siding with someone who is wrong does not make one dishonest.
For that matter, from what I can tell, having made the rounds extensively, the people he is relying on do not believe they are wrong. They believe we are wrong.
What you are saying about them is exactly what they are saying about us. Both sides think they are right. Misplaced accusations of dishonesty abound. Never ascribe to dishonesty that which can be attributed to confirmation bias. And we all have that. All of us. You, me, everyone.
“Never ascribe to dishonesty that which can be attributed to confirmation bias. And we all have that. All of us. You, me, everyone.”
Indeed, we all benefit from the help of an objective observer.
All we need to know about Raymondo is there in the pictures we have of him, the size of him and the glass of wine.
His size tells us he likes his food and what lays down fat on any mammalian animal is the consumption of carbohydrate. It enters the bloodstream as glucose, initially triggering the release of Dopamaine (makes you happy and feel-good) Glucose MUST be got rid of, that’s what insulin is for.
But it is a depressant in the pure sense of the word, it slows mental and physical activity – hence we all feel sleepy (typically 2 hours) after a ‘large’ meal.
And the alcohol goes without saying.
After years and years of eating carbs washed down with grog, one becomes tolerant to a point, in that you don’t notice how stupefied you actually are – you are chronically depressed.
This leads right on to feelings of guilt, endless worry and destroys your attention-span. This is obviously important for learning new things, about climate change for example.
Where depressants are normally encountered (via alcohol and dope) people imagine it enhances their self-confidence.
NOTHING is further from the truth. Climate models and warming theory are up there also but not in the same league of wrongness.
Self confidence is needed to question the consensus, to dare to be different and also to have the quick wittedness to respond quickly & logically to challenges. If quick wittedness cannot deliver, what do drunks do if not call on their mates and then start throwing insults and their fists around. 97%, consensus and Ad-homs – anyone?
Also it gives the ability to admit you may have been wrong on some or other point(s) – The Science is Settled- anyone?
Does any of that sound familiar in The Climate Debate?
I was born and raised in Oxford. When American tourists first started asking me, “Which way to the University?” I might ask “Which college” or try to explain that it was all around them. After a while I simply directed them to the Bodleian.
I don’t actually believe that this bloke exists.
I think Pierrehumbert is what they call a ‘black flag’ operation.
In a reality contest between conspiracy and silly, silly wins 97 times out of a hundred. Or maybe 99.9 out of a hundred.
This is not conspiracy. This is class action behavior. Inevitable, ubiquitous.
Of course there have been a few silly conspiracies. (The plot to assassinate Castro’s beard springs to mind.)