Last week we covered the announcement during an interview from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that the “…the world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change”.
Augusta Chronicle Cartoonist and friend of WUWT Rick McKee encapsulated that inanity in an editorial cartoon he placed on Facebook Saturday.
Of course, there’s just one small problem; this isn’t an original thought from AOC, it is from the UN, and of course that purveyor of “everything about climate change is bad”, and favorite of leftists everywhere, the Guardian:
We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN
Urgent changes needed to cut risk of extreme heat, drought, floods and poverty, says IPCC
The world’s leading climate scientists have warned there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C, beyond which even half a degree will significantly worsen the risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people.
The authors of the landmark report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released on Monday say urgent and unprecedented changes are needed to reach the target, which they say is affordable and feasible although it lies at the most ambitious end of the Paris agreement pledge to keep temperatures between 1.5C and 2C.
The half-degree difference could also prevent corals from being completely eradicated and ease pressure on the Arctic, according to the 1.5C study, which was launched after approval at a final plenary of all 195 countries in Incheon in South Korea that saw delegates hugging one another, with some in tears.
We’ve been told for years that there’s a deadline to solve climate change before it kills us all, and those deadlines come and go, then get pushed ahead. Here’s another cartoon from McKee:
It all reminds me of the religious cult inspired by Harold Camping:
Camping predicted that Jesus Christ would return to Earth on May 21, 2011, whereupon the saved would be taken up to heaven in the rapture, and that there would follow five months of fire, brimstone and plagues on Earth, with millions of people dying each day, culminating on October 21, 2011, with the final destruction of the world. He had previously predicted that Judgment Day would occur on or about September 6, 1994.
Further reading:
- Great moments in doomsday countdowns
- Apocalypse Not: I love the smell of skepticism in the morning
- 25 YEARS OF PREDICTING THE GLOBAL WARMING ‘TIPPING POINT’
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Nailed!
Would like to make t shirts using the cartoon you show.
Can you put me on to the owner?
Cheers
Roger
Roger, if you get that done I would like to buy several. Where do you live…am in Australia myself and could see these things being sold here. Have often had this thought over the years.
How many times have we been told with breathless hysteria that we only have two more years to act!! Or ten, twelve…whatever…however we have no industries left in Australia as we are far too smart to protect our industries from competition involving slave labour….in Australia we believe in the “level playing field.” Code for ‘we are going to go bust real soon, have no political will and so therefore need this excuse,’ and so we have no T shirt manufacturing in 3rd world Australia, cheers, irritable Bill.
Roger, you can produce your own cartoon t-shirts with
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-samsung&ei=XYxPXMjWIeiBrwS-_73QDQ&q=computer+graphics+programs&oq=computer+graphics+programs&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.
The cartoon showing the dead lines I mean. Not the one of AOC.
Cheers
Roger
I have a friend who’s company prints T shirts and have had him do several for my wife and I. At £12 a go I think they’re a bargain.
James Bull
World will end in 12 years and one day, we don’t want to rush into it, do we?
The world will end in 11 years, Vukcevic.
New Data !
From a computer,
so it must be right.
Will be published tomorrow.
You’re living in the past,
if you think we’ve got 11 years!
End of the world “science” moves fast !
Old fogies can’t keep up.
I’ve seen predictions that
the 11 years to doom will change to
10 years, 4 months, and 9 hours, soon.
Wrong! As of now the world ends in just over 7 years …
Watch “Guy McPherson – Human Extinction Within 10 Years” on YouTube
https://youtu.be/zqIt93dDG1M
(Note: This very important announcement was made in 2016 so do the math and then kiss your asses goodbye).
World ends at 10:00…film at 11:00
Women and children hardest hit.
With Covington high school we know they don’t care about children any more. Throw them to the wolves if it fits the narrative.
so Women and Minorities hardest hit.
Think of the transgenders!
It’s worse than we thought.
Ken
It used to be worse than we thought.
Now its even worse than worse than we thought.
Now it’s even worse than we thought we thought!
Worser?
worserest !!
Can’t get any worserer.
Models say they world will end anywhere from 10,000 years ago to 10,000 years from now. We MUST do something!
I just hope that in 12 years time, when the world ends, it will be in the afternoon.
I am scheduled to be playing golf that morning.
The world has already ended!
The fact that AOC could get elected to even dog catcher proves it.
Explain Bernie Sanders.
He’s a socialist who makes a million dollars a year and owns three house. I’m still waiting for him to redistribute his wealth, but I’m not holding my breath.
Let’s see. 2019 + 12 = 2031 She is 29 can’t be president until 2028
2020 30
2024 34
2028 38
So it will happen at the end of her first term as president. Most likely nuclear war when she has nothing to lose anymore.
When the IPCC says it, it is settled science. When AOC repeats it, does it become silly? Let’s direct our ridicule where it belongs.
They said are different things. I agree with you that the IPCC should be ridiculed, but read what she said
argggg!!!
Yes, AGW is preached with a religious fervor. Nay, a CULTISH religious fervor. Nay, an Eschatological CULTISH fervor. Alright … with an INSANE, UNHINGED, MENTALLY UNSTABLE fervor.
And AOC is the PERFECT preacher for this traveling tent revival. Please give generously in the collection plate … and YOU will be SAVED!
More likely snakebit.
An Occasional Cortex provides proof positive that this is pure fact-free political theater.
Best enjoyed with a pint of mead.
Autumnal?
Since she is a graduate in international relations I think that president Trump should appointment AOC as the USA climate change ambassador to the UN.
She really has no reported real-world experience other than bartending. How long did she actually have this bartending job? Was it her only job?
She went to Boston U – does she talk like she’s educated at that level?
A look through the first 250 or so links in a search for her work history since 2011 resulted in this hard data from ‘starsinformer’, that she had “started a publishing firm, Brook Avenue Press”.
A web search for Brook Avenue Press shows no phone number or address for it, and a twitter account with one tweet from 2012, and less than a dozen followers. Big accomplishment for the phony Bronx girl. The voters from the 14th district must’ve been easily impressed by that one.
The story of her winning a second place award in high school from the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, with a microbiology research project on the effect of antioxidants on C. elegans’ lifespan sounds mighty suspicious in retrospect. Has the media ever asked her the details of the science? How did she get lab access at that age? What happened to all that science potential?
How can someone supposedly so smart, according to recent youtube video titles uploaded by her fans, she’s a ‘genius’, spend her first years after college with a prestigious degree, just bartending?
The whole media sensation craze started because she was selected out to run by Justice Democrats, who are now targeting other 2020 election races similarly.
This individual is a cult of personality figure groomed to use manipulative illogical rhetoric – she’s a scold and a narcissistic abuser hiding behind lipstick – perfect for the Democrats, she fits right in
with her religious ferver to impose her economic and feminist ‘morality’ through law.
Can someone please ask her why her 12 year climate change prediction is any different or better than prior failed climate predictions from both wrong-headed scientists and politicians?
First of all, she grew up in Yorktown, NY which is in suburban northern Westchester County. I grew up not too far from there and houses go for 400K and that is for one that is 50 years old. In order to live there and pay a mortgage and taxes, you need to make six figures unless you are Section 8. She is the biggest phony around. Her calling herself a “Bronx girl” is laughable at best.
Ocasio-Cortez ‘poor woman of the people’ … NOT
see:
‘Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the ‘girl from the Bronx,’ raised in one of wealthiest US counties
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/06/30/report-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-girl-from-the-bronx-raised-in-one-of-wealthiest-us-counties
and
‘Girl from the Bronx’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who beat high-ranking Democrat Joe Crowley, faces questions over her ‘working class’ background after it’s revealed she grew up in a wealthy suburb north of New York City’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5905247/Girl-Bronx-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-actually-grew-wealthy-Westchester-County.html
actually, bartender is one of the better jobs out there for newly minted liberal arts degrees
Is a college degree worth the cost?
Peter Schiff
https://youtu.be/kXpwAOHJsxg
Don’t you recognize Obama v2.0 when you see it?
Oh, BTW, this version is still in beta testing, so you have accept a few bugs along the way . . . send you complaints and suggested improvements to “Stretch” Pelosi, US House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515.
Exactly
Methinks ambassador to Antarctica.
Or Santa’s workshop.
All of these predictions should have names attached so we can see what rock they are hiding under.
After decades of more of the same when do the people start calling out these outrageous proclamations as pure fantasy and scaremongering? Or are they already and the MSM is suppressing it?
I’m willing to give odds that the world will not end in 10 years. Big odds!
If I’m on the wrong side, you won’t collect anyway – If I’m right, I and my colleagues will live like Kings!
Of course it won’t..it can’t…it already ended on 12-21-12 when Planet X (Nibiru) passed and turned the Earth Upside down on its rotational axis.
Earth is flat, it doesn’t rotate, have you looked recently at the sun or moon or even night sky?
It rotates, it rotates more like a tossed pizza.
If that’s true, the God must be Italian !
AH SO, ….. the Mayan Doomsday date.
I had forgotten we had already perished.
LOL it is the “Age of Aquarius”
Oh good grief! We DownUnder must now be UpOver.
You are. First time in Oz I beheld the nighttime sky and was puzzled. Then it struck me – Orion was in the northern sky, and standing on his head. Furthermore, he moved backwards across the sky (right to left) when facing him, as did the daytime sun. But few tourists are even vaguely aware of the bass-ackwardness of your sky.
I dunno.
If OCD became President, anything could happen !!
Climate heretics unite! Take the sword of truth from
Jeanne d’Arc.
I should have added, a few we know are still beating the drum but many have sort of disappeared.
“Truth never dies, but it lives a wretched existence, “ Jewish Proverb,
“And it is often painfully underfunded.” Anonymous Heins
That’s a good Proverb. I’m going to use that.
So when instances that happened during the last Ice Age 15K to 13K years ago and Paleo humans were not driving SUV’s around, how does AOC et al account for the recession of glaciers and some of massive topographical changes made due to non AGW? http://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/the-great-flood-of-new-york
I thought the last post on the diminishing climate/weather induced death rate would assuage Alexandria Occasionally Coherent’s climate-troubled mind. Perhaps the root cause runs deeper.
I’m feeling kinda choked up inside too. I think I’m going to be sick.
As they sulked in their private jets on the way home? 😜
Slept, like babies.
Note that is a half a degree change in average global air temperature that will totally eradicate corals living underwater.
There is no face validity to these claims. Are there any alarmists willing to justify them?
Violins scraping away mournfully to accompany all the (crocodile?) tears?
(y) Ha ha. 🙂
It will take civilization the better part of 100 years from now to switch from fossil fuels to whatever we discover to replace then.
This isn’t due to lack of will. It is simply the reality of the capital expenditures required. The only exception that we see in human history is during times of warfare, when massive sacrifice is forced upon the population.
The risk of climate change is not that the climate will change. Rather that in trying to do good we will accomplish great evil. Good and evil, yin and yang, light and darkness. These cannot exist in isolation.
When you take break to feed a hungry child, where did the bread come from? You can be sure it did not come from the kings table. He has an army to protect his treasure.
Rather the bread came from someone with no army and no protection. From the hand of another hungry child.
Well said.
“Rather the bread came from someone with no army and no protection. From the hand of another hungry child.”
Nonsense.
I made the bread myself and gave the other half of the bread to the hungry child.
Cute. Where’d the flour come from? Wars have been fought over flour.
Some interesting thoughts, but I would take exception to the thought “This isn’t due to lack of will. It is simply the reality of the capital expenditures required. ” Having consulted extensively on replacement liquid biofuel mostly for transportation over the last 19 years I have witnessed huge investments that all failed to provide any useful replacement for crude oil. The rise and demise has been in less than 2 decades with little or zero contribution, except more mandated ethanol which was widely used in the very early days for vehicle transport. The limits and time frame for development of renewable, affordable replacement fuels is not money, but the laws of physics, chemistry, materials limitations, etc. None of the current alternatives on the table are capable of providing sufficient affordable energy and we are just wasting time and money. There is no gurantee that an affordable replacement will even be available in 100 years.
If you’re AOC, the only thing that really matters is that your millions of Twitter followers are dumber than you are.
I guess we will soon have the systematic of “culling” just like in “Logan’s Run”. ‘ Plankton, Sea Greens, Proteins from the Sea!!!! ” – BOX
Always remember: Half the population is dumber than the average person.
Dumber, and freer with their money. Think she doesn’t rake in the campaign donations?
Indeed. smart people tend to be wiser about how they spend their hard earned money.
I would rather the world end in 12 years than live under their Marxist tyranny.
Millions will be affected by the polar vortex, but AOC appears to be afflicted with a polar cortex whereby no actual intellectual thought can escape from the inside and no knowledge can penetrate from the outside due to the frozen conditon.
I agree, the earth is flat. It is not a rotating ball. If it was, we’d all fly off. I think it’s called the law of conservation of angular momentum or something. In any case, I’m 85 years old. My life expectancy is 5 1/2 years so I’m good with 12 years. In the words of Alfred E. Newman, “What, me worry?“
Would a reporter be kind to ask her, it’s 12 years plus / minus what error margin ? I mean it’s science after all or isn’t it ?
The Climate Catastrophe is just like controlled fusion power. It’s 15 years away…. always has been… always will be.
As mentioned we now need to have names attached to this latest nonsense. So we should ask all of our leaders and persons such as the experts” if they too say that the world will end because of just a .5 C increase.
Some of the replies will be amusing., lots of running for cover, with ifs and buts. ”
Walk across a room and you will get a .5 C increase or decrease, its tiny, but sufficient to end the world ? But who can say that all the giant sized computers have got it wrong.
MJE
All of the commotion surrounding O crazy-Cortex is due to her young sexy appeal. Imagine if she looked like Amy Shumer, Lena Dunham or Meghacow McCain how much attention she’d get.
Cute cartoon, but I think portraying OAC as dump/silly/stupid simply sets a low bar for AOC to reach. Remember, she has plenty of power and authority regardless of when her critics say. That low bar means that as long as she shows up without tripping over her own feet, her supporters can say she’s exceeding expectations. The fight must be against her ideas, not her delivery.
Oops, type-o: AOC not OAC
Yeah boy, that’s exactly how the neo-Marxists play.
Never the less, AOC, Appellation Origine Controlée, Nah not really it’s the wine again. AOC might be stupid and she does appear that way BUT she has a massive following in her constuency. That makes a dangerously stupid woman. BEWARE
Another Maxine Waters.
Can’t agree. Listen to Maxine Waters and you come away thinking she’s despicable, and an idiot. AOC is likeable, and an idiot. Major difference.