Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Professor-emeritus Guy McPherson of University of Arizona, speaking in New Zealand, thinks we don’t have to worry about climate change, because the “6th mass extinction” will finish us all off in the next 10 years.
Humans ‘don’t have 10 years’ left thanks to climate change – scientist
There’s no point trying to fight climate change – we’ll all be dead in the next decade and there’s nothing we can do to stop it, a visiting scientist claims.
Guy McPherson, a biology professor at the University of Arizona, says the human destruction of our own habitat is leading towards the world’s sixth mass extinction.
Instead of fighting, he says we should just embrace it and live life while we can.
“It’s locked down, it’s been locked in for a long time – we’re in the midst of our sixth mass extinction,” he told Paul Henry on Thursday.
But Professor James Renwick, a climate scientist at Victoria University, says people should not use his words more as an excuse to give up.
While he agrees that climate change is possibly the “biggest issue humanity has ever faced”, he says “giving up is not really helpful”.
Instead, Prof Renwick says he hopes Prof McPherson’s 10-year claim will encourage people to take action.
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Read more (includes video): http://www.newshub.co.nz/world/humans-dont-have-10-years-left-thanks-to-climate-change—scientist-2016112408
It is difficult to see why “its locked in, we’re all going to die” should be construed as a call to action.
On the other hand there might be a silver lining to this mass extinction business. With any luck the mass extinction event will take out all the mosquitoes and other annoying pest species first, giving us a last few happy years of bug free outdoor BBQs.
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When Stephen Leacock became Professor emeritus, he commented that “e” meant “out”, and “meritus” meant “so he should be”.
Sorry but I can’t take climate science seriously as anything but a threat to humanity as long as it persists in the line of it is proven beyond question.
In my book every statement gives rise to a single question of can you prove it beyond any doubt to a highly questioning and sceptical audience?
This in turn gives rise to questions like :-
“Has the data measurement been validated by an external moderator in both the instrumentation and more importantly in the environment of that instrumentation?”
“Have you made any subsequent modifications to this data and if so have these been highlighted to the external moderator with full justification of these changes?”
“Since the differences are from predictions of what is the norm was the prediction of the norm done using all the best available analysis methods on reconstruction the data particularly regarding the search for any cyclic elements.” We have cycles for weather based on positional factors so unless proved otherwise we should be assuming cyclic climate factors based on the moon’s position relative to earth and the earth’s position relative to the sun and other planets.
Climate science needs to get away from the case is proven by a prosecuting counsel pre-tested to a guilt proven mindset, with a judge and jury also pre tested to total belief the client is guilty with a defence excluded as they are not qualified because we pre test for a belief that the client is guilty so any defence is not qualified to be heard.
This afternoon I was walking next to Town hall Station[Sydney, Australia],and passed a small group of serious faced people in red shirts.
The sign in capitals stated
‘THE END IS NIGH
It would appear that these were part of an international group of acclaimed Climate Scientists.
Laughing families were stopping and taking selfies with the sign.
Passing through I ran into a couple of amiable police walking behind a crowd calling,
What do we want..
When do we want it…
I did not catch the issue.
Now if both groups joined hands we might just END a little NIGHER.
While I think he is a full six pack , he is missing the plastic thingy that holds it all together .
In ten years’ time, if nothing has happened (and nothing will happen!), will he shut up? Please?
” With any luck the mass extinction event will take out all the mosquitoes and other annoying pest species first, giving us a last few happy years of bug free outdoor BBQs.”
Sorry but it’s very unlikely. Insects are virtually immune to mass extinctions. The last one (K/Pg) is practically invisible in the insect fossil record. It is a sort of biological version of the First Law of Computer Programming: “There are always some more bugs”.
Mosquitos will survive 4-5 degree increase, you wont.
Quote *Mosquitos will survive 4-5 degree increase, you wont*
Why not?
Do you know where the worst malaria outbreak was?
Is this what climate scientists have been reduced to?
Standing around in pairs talking bollocks in the hope of attracting the interest of a passing journalist…
If the sixth mass extinction was real there would be a list of 50,000+ species that have become extinct within the past 100 years. No such list exists. Such a list would not include species that were hunted to extinction (like the Dodo) or were lost to habitat destruction (both causes being unrelated to climate change).
Can’t forget endangered desert tortoises (being trampled to death by ranchers’ cattle) that get food and water from bovine poop. Only about 100,000 of these ninja T’s left according to the USFWS. Somehow they survived the great buffalo herds. (The buffalos…not so much, but they’re still around.) Last check paleontologists estimate 90% of all animal-types preceding now extinct. Ancients must have had the hunting thing down to an art.
The real catastrophic extinction event will be when we run out of CO2.
And mark my words, if mankind goes carbon-less, we will run out.
It’s interesting to contemplate the intersection of two sets of people: those who decry “climate deniers” and accuse them of ignoring the data; and those who claimed that the data irrefutably supported their assertion that Mrs. Clinton would win the 2016 presidential election in a landslide.
The science is settled.
“No one here gets out alive” – Jim Morrison
He probably has a terminal illness and knows he wont be around in 10 years.
“We’re heading for a temperature within that span that is at or near the highest temperature experienced on Earth in the last 2 billion years.”
Just shows that this biologist knows very little about the planets history and should stick to their own field.
How does the planet warm over the next decade by about 10c? It’s really not even worth brothering with how stupid and ridiculous the reasons for this apparent claim for human extinction is.
It shames me to think that is my alma mater. He and Overpeck are why I no longer donate money to UofA
Time we have is limited. (as always)
My proposal is to store our history as human mankind and what we know of our planet Earth on a stable planet before it is all gone.
Already contacted NASA and Smithsonian about this proposal but no reply as expected.
One of my grandnieces was worried about what was going to happen Jan 1, 2013. According to her the Mayan calendar was going end and so were we. I asked her to look at the calendar and told her there is no more room on the stone to record or predict events. No “Hot Spot”. No problem. .
Here’s a link to Ric Werme’s list of 38 WUWT articles on extinctions. The last one, by Willis E., is his memorable “Where are the Corpses?”
http://wermenh.com/wuwt/categories.html
You can go directly to the category by using http://wermenh.com/wuwt/cat_extinction.html
For the PBs, use http://wermenh.com/wuwt/cat_polarbeargate.html
Here’s a link to Ric Werme’s list of 35 articles on polarbeargate:
http://wermenh.com/wuwt/categories.html
I think you lot have been too harsh on Em Prof McPherson At least he has thought big by prophesying the end of planet earth no less.
Our academics down here in Oz are small- time thinkers by comparison with one only being prepared to prophesy in the Fairfax Melbourne Age that all the ice in Antarctica would be melted in ten years (same period -funny about that)
I tried to reassure his readers but the alarmist Age refused to run my response letter,
My calculations were that if current rates of melting (of only a small part of the Antarctic ice sheet )
were to apply to all the ice sheet it would take 150.000 years to melt the lot.- a little bit more than the decade forecast.
Its worth mentioning that Antarctica is 1.7 times the size of Australia (which itself is about the same size as continental USA ie minus Alaska and Hawaii) and the Antarctic ice sheet averages 3 kilometres deep
That’s a lot of ice cubes .
Climate Alarmist from the Al Gore School of complete BS . The truly sad part is students and their parents actually pay money to listen to losers like this .
Can we expect a book at Christmas ?
Another Climate Clown looking for attention…. so the bigger the whopper the better .
There is always a market to cater to those that like to sit around a camp fire and tell
scary stories .
Drain The Swamp so the world can focus on improving the environment and the overall
quality of life on earth .
Dump the Doomsayers who are never held accountable for anything .
The good news is that this clown is only 56 years old (a retired professor at only 56? – seems lacking in professionalism to me), so he stands a very good chance of living to see himself humiliated by a reality check.
Thank you Eric: always good to read your comments about these bedwetters.
Strange isn’t it: that SINCE the 9th. November 2016, there has been quite a severe rash of bedwetter “research studies” and “alarmist professor-type” statements. (I wonder why ?). $$$
Their Great Global Warming Gravy Train will be hitting the buffers very soon if Mr. Ebell has anything to do with it.
The arrogance of this so-called professor (retired) is bewildering and don’t ya know; it always seems to be in “ten (10) years” that doom will occur: why ten years I question ? Why not eleven (years) and thirty-one days ?
Hey ho. At least we now know that WUWT is read by important decision makers, so we can expect to see and hear the rats as they try to leave their sinking ship.
The comments above are very entertaining, more so than usual. Many thanks again.
Regards,
WL
Well, he obviously has gone emeritus.
See definition of “emeritus” in “Languages of Pao” by Jack Vance.
“There are none so blind as those who do not want to see!”