Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor 2:48 PM 11/19/2018 | Energy
The New York Times suggested future global warming would be worse than the plagues unleashed on Egypt in the Bible’s Old Testament.
“In Exodus, the plagues came one at a time. In the future, climate crises might arrive in packs,” The NYT’s climate team tweeted Monday, promoting an article about a global warming study.
In Exodus, the plagues came one at a time. In the future, climate crises might arrive in packs. https://t.co/j0oTDdUDIs
— NYT Climate (@nytclimate) November 19, 2018
In the book of Exodus, God unleashed 10 plagues upon Egypt until the pharaoh agreed to Moses’ demand he let the enslaved Israelites leave. The plagues included locusts, turning water into blood and death to first-born Egyptian sons.
The NYT’s Twitter account was promoting an article published Monday on a study that claimed “some tropical coastal areas of the planet, like the Atlantic coast of South and Central America, could be hit by as many as six crises at a time” by 2100.
Lead author Camilo Mora and 22 fellow researchers found claim to have found “traceable evidence for 467 pathways by which human health, water, food, economy, infrastructure and security have been recently impacted by climate hazards,” including heat waves, droughts and storms.
Mora’s study claims “the world’s population will be exposed concurrently to the equivalent of the largest magnitude in one of these hazards if emissions are aggressively reduced,” but “three if they are not.”
Mora told The NYT it’s “like a terror movie that is real.” (RELATED: Jerry Brown Is ‘Not Correct’ About California Wildfires, Scientist Says)
The study’s alarming claims are only made possible with the help of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s controversial “business as usual” scenario.
RCP8.5 is the IPCC’s “nightmare” scenario where warming reaches more than 8 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century. It’s with this scenario, and pretty much only this scenario, that scientists are able to make alarming future projections about natural disasters.
However, scientists are becoming increasingly skeptical of using RCP8.5 as a “business as usual” scenario.
Two University of British Columbia scientists published a study in 2017 calling into question scientists’ use of RCP 8.5. The scientists found that RCP 8.5 modeled a future in which historical trends reverse, and the world switches to using more coal.
This “indicates RCP8.5 and other ‘business-as-usual scenarios’ consistent with high CO2 forcing from vast future coal combustion are exceptionally unlikely,” they wrote in their study.
This isn’t the first time TheNYT has alluded to the Bible when it comes to global warming. A June 2017 NYT article likened a collapse of Antarctica’s ice sheet to the story of Noah’s ark.
“In the Epic of Gilgamesh, waters so overwhelm the mortals that the gods grow frightened, too,” reporter Justin Gillis wrote. “In India’s version, Lord Vishnu warns a man to take refuge in a boat, carrying seeds. In the Bible, God orders Noah to carry two of every living creature on his ark.”
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” 467 pathways by which human health, water, food, economy, infrastructure and security have been recently impacted by climate hazards,” including heat waves, droughts and storms.”
467 x worse than we thought
lol. Why not 666 pathways. And presumably “traceable evidence” is somehow better than any other kind of traditional evidence?
Honestly. Where do we get these people? Or perhaps I should say, “Where does the NYT get these people?”
I hear what they say but can someone tell me when this CAGW is actually going to start. I’m getting tired of waiting. I’d even be happy if someone could tell me when AGW is going to start.
It has already started and we are already dead. AGW destroyed the planet and killed all of us long time ago, which means none of this is real. Atleast that’s what the media and politicians have been saying for years, and they are never wrong.
It strikes me that you resemble the Global Warming enthusiast of the world, all you on this blog who have no idea what you are talking about but have opinions about it anyway!
Even old writings must be approached in an academic manner and their meaning and purpose at the time they were written taken into considerations whether they are Caesar’s Gallic War or the Book of Isaiah or the Iliad.
A bit of intellectual rigour would not go amiss.
Try a bit of logic now and then or you’ll end up as bad as politicians who put together two things which happen concurrently and tell us one caused the other!
My background being in Archaeology with some Ancient History and Geomorphology at a Scottish University What kind of background do you Science graduates have?
It strikes me that you are committing the logical of fallacy of “Appeal to Authority”, in this case, your own.
(If remember correctly, it was some kid with no background in fashion that declared “The Emperor has no clothes”.
I don’t think so! It is common to think so ,though
The interpretation of any Scripture ( Jewish or Christian or Moslem ) or Classical literature has been the business of many minds .
What is wrong with taking heed of their opinions? If you want to counter them write your own opinions backed up instances where they are proved to be wrong.
Consult any professional and he will speak with authority. You do so , no doubt, on matters on which you have
more firsthand knowledge than most. Greens don’t do these things , they conform to an agreed opinion or risk
exclusion from the group. IMHO. I think we should not copy them
Frost and snow will not leave New York in November.
“Might” “Could” “Maybe”. The worthless language of climate non science touted as somehow authoratitive science.
The book of Exodus was/is myth. Does the NYT believe otherwise?
By equating global warming to the book of Exodus, NYT are implying that global warming is also a myth. I’m OK with that.
But it has left me wondering if the NYT are smarter/dumber than I thought they were. (And I have never thought they were very bright)
Well, you gotta get those readers somehow.
So the NY Slimes now thinks they are Moses? And they are on a “mission from the 97%” to intimidate the public into blind submission to the divine climate models, or face the wrath of post-menopausal Gaia.
Someone better check the quality of the drugs these guys are on. Just because the label says Vicodin, doesn’t mean that is what you are getting, when you buy it in the alley next to the pharmacy.
“The New York Times suggested future global warming would be worse than the plagues unleashed on Egypt in the Bible’s Old Testament.
“In Exodus, the plagues came one at a time.”
And that’s the problem with, the nuisance of NYT:
The New York Times suggested future global warming would be worse than the plagues unleashed on Egypt in the Bible’s Old Testament.
In Exodus, the plagues came one at a time. But Exodus was a single occurrence in time.
The NYT gets into print every new day.
/ the reason it’s called ‘new york timES’ /
Someday NYT will find it’s own ‘tipping point ‘.