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’
As I posted on the Fox News comments about her, I think the career Democrats are encouraging her to make these announcements so that when the next election roles around they won’t look so scary liberal compared to her and be more acceptable to the average person. So we can all have a good laugh for now and enjoy the show. Of course unless this backfires in the face of those Democrats. (but that will be fun too)
Tom in Florida
Sacrificial cow.
(Was that rude?)
The problem is that most of the Democratic field that has announced so far have been moving their positions leftward in order to avoid being labeled the moderate of the group.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/elizabeth-warren-tax-plan-is-asset-forfeiture/
Rumors have it that Howard Schultz, former CEO of Starbucks is going to take his billions and run as an independent. Politically he’s not as far left as AOC, but the difference isn’t great.
forgot the second URL
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/howard-schultzs-independent-run-could-help-trump/581374/
Those saved by their faith will be reincarnated on the planet Zog and become Avatars.
How’s that not attractive?
You forgot the 42 virgins.
you forget some of them are 89 years old, that there is a reason that they died virgins….
(as an aside, recent study has come to light that suggests that due to misinterpretation/translation, you don’t actually get virgins … you get grapes. Where do I sign up?)
oh dear, it worse than I thought
the stupid. it never ends, does it
does this UN warning come with a footnote? “we really,really mean it this time!”
Canada has a complete nitwit in the Prime Ministers office and the US is madly trying to follow suit? How do these dimwits gain such popularity? Clearly all you need is vacuous charm to get a lot of votes which is an extremely sad comment on the populace. I find it very sad for us as a group that this continues.
Vote ugly.
Ubfortunately it was the other way around. Canadians swooned over Obomber and so elected their VERY OWN nitwit. Unfortunately, one controlled by a dark evil man, Gerald Butts, former Canadian president of the WWF I believe. So, you can imagine how well it is going for industry in Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Butts
I think he’s a follower of another evil Canadian, Maurice Strong.
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2015/12/discovering-maurice-strong/
Her parents couldn’t even settle on a single name, what did you expect?
She’s a very ignorant twit. I bet Henry Ford knew more about weather and reality than she does.
NuestraDumbAss
There was a funny/ironical poem I heard n the sixties in Britain. One of it’s lines, the chorus I believe, was “The world will end at noon today” but instead of having sex with the girl next to him in the bus going to work the narrator waxes philoshical or something. I cannot find a reference to this darkly humous poem.
She’s a neophyte, wait till she gets her legs under her.
Listen to the loud cheers and clapping that erupt when AOC announces that the world is going to end in 12 years. Who cheers their own demise? Are Democrats that suicidal? Or is it that they’re not worried because they know it is a lie, but they’re thrilled that AOC is willing to lie for the cause? I have yet to meet a Democrat who gets upset when their leaders lie to promote their agenda.
The only thing they care about is how much free stuff can the get from the government.
Conservatives get mad when you lie to them. Liberals get mad when you tell them the truth.
It’s a very simple ploy the liberals use… they take reality, flip it on its head, and state with utter feigned sincerity that this upside-down world is actually rightside-up.
The gullible yokels out there who have trouble discerning reality in the first place have more trouble distinguishing the liberal ‘upside-down’ world from reality, so they buy into the liberal lie. That’s why the liberals attract and retain the stupid. They cater to the lowest common denominator, those who are so brain-damaged that they can’t live without Mother Government telling them what to think, say and do.
That’s why you have to discount what liberals *say*, and rely exclusively upon what they *do*.
One would think this sort of unctuous duplicity would be self-limiting, but the stupidity seems to be plumbless.
At the risk of posting it too often, one Mr. Einstein is reputed to have said,
“Only two things are infinite: the Universe, and human stupidity.
And, I am not certain of the former.”
Headline: “N.A.S.A., Hot Air From A.O.C’s Head Tied to Catastrophic Global Warming”.
I put it through my Calamity Climate Code Calculator Model™ and found that A.O.C.’s hot air contributed 0.0009℉ to Climate Change in the Bronx. I know that is correct because it came out to 4 decimal places.
If AOC and her friends are all so sure the world will end why are they paying in a pension plan?
It is funny/tragic that all these doom sayers only tell us that we have to “address and act” on climate change. They don’t say anything of eventual real actions to prevent it.
With the urgent need to do something, i would have expected some clues on what to do first and most.
I suggest that all futurists/energy predictors/environmental activists, should have to disclose the following material information:
1. Disclose if, where, how much and from whom they received funds if it relates to their predictions;
2. Disclose the general and specific sources of information used to formulate their prediction;
3. Disclose an accounting of their previous predictions much like Wall Streeters do: 1-5-10 year’s results of their prediction;
4. Disclose their new prediction(s) with a future timeframe.
You first.
Oh! Oh! Can I go first?
1. I don’t receive a cent related to my predictions. You get what you pay for.
2. The little known facts of science I use in my predictions are so little known because I make them up.
3. All but one of my previous predictions have not panned out, but I’m bound to hit on one of the others sooner or later just by blind luck. You can write that one down.
4. My prediction is that there will be free beer tomorrow. That prediction has stood the test of time, as many here can confirm.
Move over AOC. There’s a new
idiotsheriff in town.Over the last 20 years, my work on Broadband, Internet, and energy is pretty solid. A search on any of these issues and me can be found on Google. That said, I ain’t no Steve Jobs.
Ed Davey and Tim Yeo, former UK energy ministers, have both had financial involvement in the wind and solar sector. Somehow this was allowed, even though it typically would not be in similar cases of business interests likely to affect policies.
As I started to pay attention to this whole global warming scare, being at first quite convinced of its reality, I became increasingly amazed at how very many publicly proclaimed predictions of the end of the world were being been made – and how many were failing — to whit, every single one of them.
During the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s I lived through a number of end-of-the-world predictions both religious (Hal Lindsey was quite popular at the time) and political in nature (many treated the Doomsday Clock as an actual, objective measurement of how close we were to nuclear catastrophe because – well, SCIENTISTS!). And of course, there was the growing belief that the human population was outpacing the ability of the Earth to sustain it, mixed also with the growing belief that we had polluted the planet so badly that we were wiping out species by the hundreds every day (take a bow Paul Ehrlich and Rachel Carson).
And yet, throughout these decades I could probably count actual predictive dates on the fingers of one hand – that is, predictions that such-and-such disaster would happen in this-many-years. Yes, there was Erlich’s spectacular failure made in 1968 of mass starvation in the ’70s and ’80s. But by and large we seemed content to have one or two failed predictions per decade, and those coming from different sources concerning variously different causes.
Since starting to pay attention in 2008, however, I’ve lost count of the number of “we only have X years before disaster” or “we will be extinct in X years” all of which times have been anywhere from 10 months to a decade, and all of which have been hilariously incorrect. And all of these from one cause – increasing CO2. It’s like all of a sudden there was a a crying need for doomsday predictions and every scientist and his lab assistant were doing their level best to meet it.
Astonishing. But not half so astonishing as the fact that despite this outpouring of failed predictions, the public reacts to each one as though it were the Word of God (or Neil deGrasse Tyson – same thing).
You just told my story, Christopher Simpson and it was also about 2008 when I started paying attention. The solution was to tax our way to salvation and that had the effect of taking the bloom off the ruse.
“It’s like all of a sudden there was a a crying need for doomsday predictions and every scientist and his lab assistant were doing their level best to meet it.”
Yeah, well the limitless need for funding and the intense competition for funding tends to drive such behavior.
“Never underestimate the power of incentives.” – Charlie Munger
Fortunately I never bought into CAGW. I remembered the 70s and the “coming ice age” too well when GW started to be hyped. The “cause” was the same (It’s all man’s fault) and the solutions were the same (curb population growth, reduce western industry, ignore democracy) even some of the players were the same (Stephen Schneider for example) the only thing that changed was the direction temperatures were said to be going.
+100
The apocalyptic claptrap being confused with science and statesmanship is pathetic, wrong, and destructive.
Look how it destroys weak minded gullibles like Macron, HRH Prince of Wales, AOC, Merkel, Obama, Kerry, Hansen, Gore, etc.
This is to be sung to the tune of “If I Only Had a Brain” from “The Wizard of OZ”
I could while away the hours,
With my congressional powers,
Oh, the things I could attain.
I could make the world better,
I could be a real go-getter,
If I only had a brain.
Could be a leader among the Young,
If I could just control my tongue,
Oh, the things I could explain.
Like socialism is not the answer,
That it works just like a cancer,
If I Only Had a Brain.
And that Progressive ideology,
Is nothing but mythology,
I could tell it to ’em plain.
It’s just a way to control the masses,
And divide them into classes,
If I Only Had a Brain.
And that a higher tax upon the rich,
Is just a liberal pitch,
We could never sustain.
And that tax cuts really work,
And that my party’s gone berserk.
If I Only Had a Brain.
I would tell them socialism,
Is a kin to Communism,
And the source of so much pain.
Hear the voices of those that cried,
From the millions that have died,
Oh, If I Only Had a Brain.
All the things that I could do,
If I only had a clue,
But alas it’s all in vain.
Cuz it’s just as I have said,
There is nothing in my head,
Cuz I haven’t got a brain!
Ocasio Scarecrow Cortez
+ many!
+42
“Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men (and women) go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven’t got: a diploma.”
Ocasio Scarecrow Cortez has a diploma which just goes to prove a diploma is no guarantee that the person holding it has any brains.
In the great global game of Rugby football ecopolitics, Cortez is just a thick forward whose job is simple: when passed the ball to make any yards she can before being brought down by the opposition. Why this ball at this time is not her problem. Just carrying it forward is what she has to do.
12 years sounds good – Bowie said we only had 5 years….
I have to say that the reaction of the regular citizens with whom I engage on the topic of repeated 10 to 12 year warnings and deadlines is truly mind blowing for me. They usually tell me that I am fabricating these warnings or they demand that I cite the exact document and provide them with a link. On the ones I am able to meet their demands I can always count on them to either change the subject or they believe that I have somehow altered them. They can never be provided with evidence to change their minds. I just cannot not abide such dishonesty. So many of these people seem so rational and reasonable when discussing other topics.
True to her moniker, Occasional-Cortex is only half paying attention. She heard “12 years” someplace, and she heard about catastrophic outcomes somewhere. She’s just connecting the dots.
All that is settled is not science.
Maybe she should be assigned as the ambassador to Venezuela.
She could have eye witness accounts of what she’s asking for.
Her every word is directly out of the playbook.
If she had an original thought in her life, it would be beaten to death by all the fascist/conformist thoughts that dominate her tiny little mind.
Thing is, I actually went and read the report, and that isn’t even what it says. That is just what the reporters say it says. The report says “12-30 years to limit warming to 1.5 degrees by 2100” and “that if it overshoots shortly it might be okay, that 1.5 is a sort of guardrail. even 2 degrees C would probably be okay, but past that they aren’t sure what the effects might be.
There is no “12 years till doom”.
All NY politicos are really thinking of unsustainable finances when they carry on with the scare theme. They are really searching for Super Storm Sandy 1000X money floodgates to fix all of their problems.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mayrarodriguezvalladares/2019/01/29/americas-largest-cities-are-practically-broke/#38e99a2a2ebb