Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The coffee machine is running hot in Guardian Climate HQ.
The heat is on over the climate crisis. Only radical measures will work
Gaia Vince
Sun 19 May 2019 01.00 AESTDrowned cities; stagnant seas; intolerable heatwaves; entire nations uninhabitable… and more than 11 billion humans. A four-degree-warmer world is the stuff of nightmares and yet that’s where we’re heading in just decades.
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The good news is that humans won’t become extinct – the species can survive with just a few hundred individuals; the bad news is, we risk great loss of life and perhaps the end of our civilisations. Many of the places where people live and grow food will no longer be suitable for either. Higher sea levels will make today’s low-lying islands and many coastal regions, where nearly half the global population live, uninhabitable, generating an estimated 2 billion refugees by 2100. Bangladesh alone will lose one-third of its land area, including its main breadbasket.
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Rockström doesn’t like our chances. “It’s difficult to see how we could accommodate a billion people or even half of that,” he says. “There will be a rich minority of people who survive with modern lifestyles, no doubt, but it will be a turbulent, conflict-ridden world.”
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Others are more sanguine. “I don’t think that humans as a species or even industrial civilisation is seriously threatened,” says Ken Caldeira, climatologist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in California. “People live in Houston, Miami and Atlanta because they live in air conditioning through the hot summers. If people are rich enough to air-condition their lives, they can watch whatever is the successor to Game of Thrones on TV, as the natural world decays around them,” he says. But he points out that while richer people risk a loss to their quality of life, the poorer risk their actual lives.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/18/climate-crisis-heat-is-on-global-heating-four-degrees-2100-change-way-we-live
Good old Ken Caldeira.
I must say this climate communique is a little more garbled than the Guardian’s usual efforts, but I think we get the idea – if we don’t mend our wicked ways we might need to spend more time indoors basking in air conditioned comfort while the house robot weeds the garden. Or something like that.
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Does Beijing allow the distribution of a Mandarin version of the Guardian in China?
If what was printed was in any way probable, surely the solution lies not in our hands, but in those of China’s leaders.
Why does no one in the media or at the BBC acknowledge that fact, so constantly pointed out here and in similar sites?
Meanwhile, in the Dakotas and Nebraska over the last 2-3 days: https://www.facebook.com/1110kfab/photos/a.10150273547356327/10156979062581327/?type=3&theater
It’s been snowing all day (May 20th!) in San Juan foothills in Colorado, 15 miles from New Mexico.
Meanwhile … in California …
https://fox40.com/2019/05/20/sierra-visitors-may-need-to-rethink-memorial-day-plans-due-to-winter-like-conditions/amp/
Winter in JUNE!
PS … the snowmelt after a year that saw Squaw Valley collect 60 FEET of snow, hasn’t even gotten started. That’s not a misprint … 60 FEET of snow this season at Squaw. Hey! Jerry Brown! You. Are. A. Liar. A. Fool. And. A. Mo.Ron. There is NO “permanent drought” in CA. You just say shit to shill your FAKE eco-hysteric politics. So. Glad. You’re. Gone.
Meanwhile … here in CA … during Jerry Brown’s “permanent drought” …
https://fox40.com/2019/05/20/sierra-visitors-may-need-to-rethink-memorial-day-plans-due-to-winter-like-conditions/amp/
Snow, rain, “winter-like” conditions in CA … at the END OF MAY!!! After a winter that dumped 60 FEET !!! Yes … 60 FEET of snow on Squaw Valley.
Why do we listen to (and elect) Warmist Politicians? Why have we ceded total control of our lives to Warmist bureaucrats?
“Stagnant seas”? That can arise only with no wind, did she clear this with the wind power dept of Big Green HQ?
Ms Gaia Vince
“I was the news editor of the science journal Nature. I have been the opinion, analysis and features editor for the journal Nature Climate Change, which publishes the latest research in the field. And before that, I was an editor at New Scientist magazine.”
Sceance Fiction magazines , all of them
Catastrophic Climate Change is like Hell. It’s a fairy tale but it has staying power.
Katherine Hayhoe (at LSE) discusses propaganda techniques to proselytize the Alarmist Misanthropic Climate Faith
Changing the Climate Dialogue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvshtaBqBWQ&feature=youtu.be
http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/event/changing-the-climate-dialogue/
Hayhoe is a neurotic loonie. It’s not that she won’t debate, it’s that she emotionally cannot handle disagreement.
This utter dingbat will claim you are using ad hom, purely because you disagree. She’s a deranged evangelical loony who probably believes she is on a mission from god.
The emphasis is not on Evangelical, it’s on “loony”
How can you call her evangelical? Evangelicals preach what they feel is good news, she is preaching doom and gloom!!!!
So for the best part of 20 years the atmospheric CO2 levels continue to climb but the temperature fails to track it. Are we now only putting out weak and flaccid CO2? Or have they run out of historical records to cool?
Either way it’s still an epic enough failure of the CO2 supposition for me.
“… while the house robot weeds the garden. Or something like that.”
Not farfetched. I recently saw a highway mowing crew using an automated mowing robot (like a house robot floor vac) on a bank too steep for human operated mowers.
The good news is that Ms. Gaia is a moron. The bad news is that plenty of other morons will believe the nonsense she is spouting.
I’ve got news for Rockstrom. Not only are all his assumptions absurd, “rich minority” will not mean squat if billions are starving. It would, as in all history, devolve to the strongest and best able to assert dominance. Thankfully, his apocalypse will not occur until we descend into the next glaciation.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
– H. L. Mencken, 1918
Where are the Menckens of today? Oh, right – here.
Just bought a small window AC unit for a small corner sun room of the house to supplement that one room. The energy rating sticker showed to expect $53 per year in energy cost but we have lower than U.S. average electricity costs so it’s a little inflated. So deluded “researchers” in California and the UK think I’m rich based on that? And no, the natural world is only decaying in your mind. Get a life!
How can ANYONE take seriously an article under the pen name: Gaia Vince?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_Vince
What a JOKE!
Proof Positive of how make-believe this entire charade has been from the start. The Warmists have made cartoon characters of themselves. First crazed sex poodle Al (rub me there) Gore, then Bill Nye the Scienci Guy, and now Gaia Veni Vedi Veci … uggh what a complete JOKE!
Maybe I’m way too superficial, but just the first name, ‘Gaia”, sends up red flags.
And anybody who uses the word, “Anthropocene” gives me the first impression of an Anthropophobe.
These guys are just loyal Zombies.
We already are taking ‘radical’ action to fight the fake CAGW problem. Our actions concerning climate ‘change’ cannot get any more ‘radical’.
CAGW Radical action = Destroy economy, damage environment, hurt people in developing countries, lose more jobs to China, stop the normal process of science that leads to breakthroughs, and waste billions of dollars on green stuff that does not work, to fight a fake problem.
The sudden unexpected Greenland cooling is a big deal as the most amount of warming in the last 25 years occurring in the Greenland region.
This high latitude regional warming which does not match the signature of AGW, has occurred before and is cyclic.
https://notrickszone.com/2019/05/20/greenland-has-been-cooling-in-recent-years-26-of-its-47-largest-glaciers-now-stable-or-gaining-ice/
• Summer average temperatures for 2018 were lower than the 2008-2018 average by more than one standard deviation.
• In 2018, 26 of Greenland’s 47 largest glaciers were either stable or grew in size.
• Overall, the 47 glaciers advanced by +4.1 km² during 2018. Of the 6 largest glaciers, 4 grew while 2 retreated.
• Since 2012, ice loss has been “minor” to “modest” due to the dramatic melting slowdown.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-01451-7/figures/1
“We already are taking ‘radical’ action to fight the fake CAGW problem. Our actions concerning climate ‘change’ cannot get any more ‘radical’.
CAGW Radical action = Destroy economy, damage environment, hurt people in developing countries, lose more jobs to China, stop the normal process of science that leads to breakthroughs, and waste billions of dollars on green stuff that does not work, to fight a fake problem.”
^This.
Greentard says “whaddaya mean, ‘damage the environment’? We’re SAVING the environment, maaaaahhhnnn!”
Well then, you’ll want to take it up with these people:
http://www.epaw.org/
http://www.na-paw.org/
https://www.wind-watch.org/
https://www.nowind.org.uk/
https://mothersagainstturbines.com/
This of course represents only a tiny fraction of the orgs dedicated to keeping MAABs (Migratory Aerial Animal Blenders) out of their backyards. Here’s a resource for finding out about more:
https://quixoteslaststand.com/worldwide-anti-wind-groups/. Good one-stop shop for sharing with alarmists.
“…People live in Houston, Miami and Atlanta because they live in air conditioning through the hot summers…”
People lived there before A/C as well. But why didn’t he mention LA or San Diego? Lol
Are the Amazon warehouses that deliver the Author’s trinkets … in 48hr. … via a daisy chain of ICE vehicles, and jet airplanes … air conditioned?
Expletive. Really. No. This leaves me despaired at human stupidity. Somebody please store this **** for later times so that the latter day greens may be destroyed in 2100 with verbatim preaching from the true believers of this time of madness.
No matter how dire the climate alarmist predictions are, all the evidence points to the reality that neither governments nor consumers, industries and businesses intend to do anything close to what’s supposedly needed to arrest any future warming. Poll after poll shows more people claim to be aware of or concerned about a changing climate, but just as many other surveys show very few want or intend to pay the big taxes and/or make the lifestyle changes evidently needed to combat climate change. So it’s time everyone conceded this and started or continued building the type of infrastructure that would withstand the predicted weather events that ostensibly will be plaguing us.
Lots of people seem willing to do the hat-tip to CAGW as long as they don’t know the costs that are being proposed. As soon as you say, “Okay, now I’m going to need you to give me the keys to your car” they wake up a little bit.
And returning the planet to 18th century technology would be different how?
As the Guardian “news paper” recently came up with Newspeak instructions for how contributors should employ language when writing about global warming, I sometimes think that bolded upper-case red lettering above is insufficient to fully convey the climate-droning we are so used to these days.
Perhaps somebody needs to invent a new font which not only conveys the deluded hysterical screaming of the warmunist, but also the ennui and earache of those on the receiving end.
Love that desperate attempt to appear cool by name checking Game of Thrones.
Stick to the programme! GoT hasn’t been cool for weeks. Season Eight has been so big a Hero to Zero self destruction that it can be seen from space.
If you were remotely following anything apart from your own ego you would know that GoT is now to be mocked mercilessly, not name checked.
Does this mean the Guardian will disappear or will the bed wetters have moved onto scary global cooling ?
I think the Guardian just says stupid stuff to get its hit numbers up . They really can’t be that retarded .