Hyberbole from the New York Post
By Ebony Bowden
June 3, 2019 | 6:29pm | Updated
A harrowing new climate change report warns we may be on the way to extinction, claiming there is a “high likelihood” human civilization will come to an end by 2050 unless action is taken on greenhouse gas emissions.
The dire paper, which predicts a biblical-like scenario of devastating floods, drought, famine and a breakdown in international order, has been endorsed by the former chief of Australia’s military.
The analysis, published May 30 by Australian think tank the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, calls for a new approach to climate change and paints a bleak picture of the world in 30 years if nothing is done to combat greenhouse emissions.
Assuming we stay on our current trajectory, emissions will lock in a 3 degree Celsius (37 degrees Fahrenheit) global warming, setting off a disastrous chain off events which the report’s authors claim will lead to “a high likelihood of human civilization coming to an end.”
According to the report’s central “2050 scenario,” one billion people will be forced to relocate from unlivable conditions while food production will become inadequate to feed the global population.
North America will suffer from devastating weather extremes including wildfires, heatwaves and drought — while other places in the world such as the Middle East and West Africa will become unlivable.
Meanwhile, 55% of the global population would be subjected to more than 20 days a year of lethal heat conditions, “beyond the threshold of human survivability.”
And even more hyperbole from Vice if you can hold your nose to go there.
And the full policy paper here, Existential climate-related security risk: A scenario approach.
HT/Alan T
This is clearly just a misprint. The intended message was:
“there is a “high likelihood” human civilization will come to an end by 2050 IF PROPOSED ACTIONS ARE taken on greenhouse gas emissions.”
Though readers might think this was meant as an ominous warning it was actually a promise to the deranged folks who think human society is a problem rather than a miraculous success.
Yes, well, Andy, Old Boy, I have a plan here, as a “just in case the World doesn’t end” thing.
I’m going to throw a yard party that everyone who doesn’t believe the World Is Ending can come to and party till the sun stops shining.
I figure that we can have some real fun until the deadline has passed, and then go home, fat and happy, and count the mopes who were waiting for The End of All Things, and are now disappointed. Should be a real good time, too.
Are you taking reservations?
Oh no!
I’ll add this to my list of potentially deadly threats to humankind. It contains now wrath of ancestors, bad sacrifice, war, famine, plague, overpopulation, nuclear accidents, artificial intelligence, aliens, antibiotic resistance, ice age, asteroid impact, and male facial hair in the sink. One of them is scary.
Irrational response to non-existent climate change is a real threat to civilisation.
..Or by 2030 if you follow what the mad Greenies want you to do.
Surprising that the New York Post would reprint this garbage. They have printed some climate “skeptic” articles in the past. This is more worthy of the New York Daily Snooze.
Nick, Loydo, ghalfrunt, where are you? Why aren’t you defending this fine piece of analysis?
Don’t forget griffy.
This is of course silly, but it is important to note that they quote Mr. Schellnhuber himself:
“The Emeritus Director of the Potsdam Institute,
Prof. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, warns that “climate
change is now reaching the end-game, where very
soon humanity must choose between taking
unprecedented action, or accepting that it has been
left too late and bear the consequences.” He says
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that if we continue down the present path “there is a
very big risk that we will just end our civilisation. The
human species will survive somehow but we will
destroy almost everything we have built up over the
last two thousand years.”
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Including a fair amount of climate science institutions , one may presume. That’s the kind of CAGW that I like.
There was something very true in Mr. Schellnhubers text.
This: “”climate change is now reaching the end-game””. Vice man.
Even Homer is less dumb than those clowns :
A boy was walking with his father on Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco.
Boy: Hey dad, how come they have all these gift shops selling junk?
Dad: Dunno son – I suppose it’s because people keep buying it.
Same with all the Climate Change junk.
For the thousandth time ( winking smiley face):
The proper expression for a change in temperature is as follows:
n Celsius degrees NOT n degrees Celsius;
Example: 3 C° NOT 3°C
One represents “change”, the other is just a temperature.
I encountered a similar issue with maps in a 1950 era textbook when the printer converted all the Degrees of Latitude to Degrees of Fahrenheit so that the Tropic of Cancer was labeled as 74.3°.
A retiring teacher gave me that book, and said to keep it, it was one of a kind.
I have it in a box, somewhere.
I wonder why a publisher would think Latitude was in degrees Celsius rather than Fahrenheit already?
I’ve taken the current rates of increases in Hurricanes, Floods, Droughts, Heatwaves, Tornadoes, and Sea Level Rise…and extrapolated out forever into the future…and assuming we’ll be able to rebuild coastal buildings 100 feet further on shore every 300-500 years or so, we will be OK for another 3 billion years when the sun will engulf the planet.
I’m planning to get off the planet before then.
Neglecting to read the article I will just agree,human civilization could fall in less than 30 years.
If we continue to tolerate the insipid idiocy of Gang Green.
If we allow these Fools and Bandits to continue to vandalize the foundations of our technologic marvel of a society, they will destroy it.
You cannot cure stupid.
Allowing the incredibly stupid and the utterly gullible to hold positions of responsibility, can and will bring about systemic collapse.
For nothing is more dangerous,than weapons grade stupid,totally certain of their righteousness.
Now,when we have elected representatives who assert that their feelings are more important than cold hard facts, we may well be in end times , of this luxurious civilization.
For this life of luxury we built up over generations runs not on Unicorn Farts and Feel Good Intentions.
2050 is the intersection of all Dems climate plans and these supposedly random media ad placements. The con jobs are all lining up.
A friend told me about this yesterday – I don’t follow anyone crazy enough to believe this, but she does. It’s so laughable it’s hard to believe anyone who thinks could take it seriously, yet she has friends crying over it.
I’ve come to the conclusion these people enjoy being frightened and angry, because five minutes of thinking would show them heating to this degree in our lifetimes is simply not possible even if we all are driving gas guzzlers.
Celsius (Swedish) original scale was inverse (0° for the boiling and 100° for the freezing points of water ?!) of the scale that is in use at present.
Frenchman Jean Pierre Christin, physicist, mathematician and astronomer, considered this highly illogical and proposed reversing the scale which was accepted, sadly Celsius died within a year.
I nominate this for a science fiction award.
Off to feed my pet unicorns now.
Assuming we stay on our current trajectory, emissions will lock in a 3 degree Celsius (37 degrees Fahrenheit) global warming, setting off a disastrous chain off events which the report’s authors claim will lead to “a high likelihood of human civilization coming to an end.”
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3 degrees Celsius chauffage gives ~ 3 degrees Fahrenheit chauffage!
Human extinction is a bad thing on even-numbered days, and a good thing on odd-numbered days. The planet needs it to happen, but we must prevent it by causing it. Now, convert that to Fahrenheit.
As an Australian I am embarrassed that this report comes from an Australian “think tank”.
What were they thinking (or drinking)?
I note that one of the authors once worked for Shell.
Shell has been using scenarios since the 1970s to explore a range of visions of the future. They include extreme possibilities. For example, search for Shell Scenarios and Shell Sky Scenario.
And good news, their scenarios extend to 2100, so no assumption of Armageddon in 2050.
Maybe they were drinking “screech” washed from the inside of oaken rum barrels?
Distill it three times, why, you’d have enough to run one of the Twilight Earth’s last remaining vehicles,
“the Mo-Ped she called Flame” — ?
(too early in the morning, mixing my sci fi horror with a cornball country song reference, sheesh..)
Here’s an accurate prediction of the future. There is a 99 percent chance that I will extinct by 2050
Their temperature converter seems to have gone on the blink…..
I’ll take my chances. BTW, it was 47 F last night. In the outskirts of NYC. In June.
Does a whole dumpster full of horsesh** trump a mere steaming basketfull? I doubt it! It’s all compost.
Two gasses come out of the tailpipe of an automobile: H2O and CO2! the first is a more effective greenhouse gas than the second yet nobody considers that fact! Ban the oceans!
Wow.
Having bothered to click the link and read this little report at two things immediately spring to mind.
First? That is 15minutes one will never get back.
Second is that this is utter bollocks that has been completely media managed by the usual suspects in the Love Media to put forward a message the report itself doesn’t even have the courage to claim.
Straight and foremost this is not a scientific study. This is, as the title openly states, ‘A Scenario Approach’.
They are not formally stating that if world as we know it will end in 2050, they are putting forward a scenario – with a few token references to Xu Y and Ramanathan V to impress the yokels – where the world COULD end in 2050.
Then, having devoted at best 3 pages to discussing this scenario, the 12 page booklet closes with a nice colour picture self promoting ‘Breakthrough Publications Download Discussion Paper Series’.
In other words, THIS IS AN AD!
I am not sure which is worse. The shamelessness of this group to attempt a publicity stunt like this, or the mindless feeding frenzy of the MSM who latched fully onto this ‘report’ in order to provide more proof to support their global cult.
Honestly this is utter garbage as a scientific paper. It is a thought experiment about as sound as using research based on radiation based mutation to ‘prove’ a giant radioactive lizard is going to destroy Tokyo and hence not only must all nuclear research be stopped – think of Tokyo and all the children that live there!!! – but also only Ishirō Honda “has unrivalled experience and capacity in such mobilisation, and can play a unique role in its development and implementation”.*
*(actual word salad from the 2050 paper)
(original creators of Godzilla used for example only. No deeper implications should be assumed.)
They don’t even claim that it’s a scientific paper. They call it a policy paper.
Did the bond market tremor?