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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart; According to Well + Good, an additional half a degree warming is already “baked in”, and is leading to disease, floods, storms, parabolic frogs, and anything else bad you can think of.
The Apocalypse Is Now: We Need Immediate Action Against Climate Change To Survive
Erin Bunch・September 23, 2020
“Oof, 2020 is the worst.” You’ve heard the refrain; you’ve seen the memes. There’s a good chance that you, yourself, have uttered something along the lines of “I can’t wait for this garbage fire of a year to end” under your breath while scrolling through apocalyptic headlines of rampant disease, wildfires, hazardous air quality, hurricane damage… shall I go on?
But the truth is, this unprecedented-in-our-lifetime global state of emergency is not an aberration, and it won’t end as the sun sets on 2020. This, too, shall not pass. Because the common denominator for so much of this death and destruction is climate change, and at this point, there is no avoiding the catastrophic effects caused by the warming of our planet—we are already experiencing them. As Anthony Leiserowitz, PhD, Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, puts it, for those born in 2020, this is, in some ways, the best of what’s to come.
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Right now, the majority of people around the globe are like the parabolic frogs sitting in a pot of boiling water. Things are heating up, but, heedless of the gradually worsening conditions around them, the frogs stay put. By the time full-blown disaster is upon them, it’s too late to hop out.
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In America, we have yet to significantly feel the effects of the type of climate-related food supply disruption that experts warn looms globally (as in, our populations aren’t starving for this particular reason, even if they are for others), but they are coming. And in the future, Dr. Klein Salamon says “resource wars” will inevitably result from weather-damaged crops. Research has already, in fact, connected climate-change-related drought in Syria to that country’s civil war this past decade, which displaced millions and led to a refugee crisis.
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Both Dr. Leiserowitz and Dr. Klein Salamon would like to have better news for us. “I wish I could tell you that the air quality is bad this year, but it’ll be better next year. But the truth is that this is accelerating,” Dr. Klein Salamon says. “We’re talking about the collapse of civilization, and I think it’s really important for people to hear that. I truly believe this is the apocalypse.”
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Read more: https://www.wellandgood.com/action-against-climate-change/
The experts interviewed are Anthony Leiserowitz, PhD, Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD, Climate psychologist
I’m really worried. I mean, I normally set my home thermostat to 23C (73F). Maybe I should superglue the control button, because if I accidentally adjust the temperature up half a degree, I might experience the end of civilisation.
I only have one question. What is a parabolic frog?
Now I think I understand exactly what a “hyperbolic frog” is. it is, I believe, a fictional frog, about which someone has woven a tale promoting certain moral values. Something like a fairy story. I have had this parable or myth presented to me at several change management training sessions over the years. My question is has any person anywhere actually performed this experiment? Is it even possible to perform this experiment. Obviously one can not use the same frog in both phases of the experiment. Do all frogs react the same? Can we see the data please?
“What is a parabolic frog”
I don’t know either, but apparently they’re delicious if you slow boil them.
Yes, but deep-fat fried with a beer bottle up their back side is better!
Boiling frog, n., 1. An anecdote describing a frog slowly being boiled alive. 2. Premise: if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out; but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not see the danger and will be cooked to death. 3. A metaphor for an inability or reluctance to react to alarmist prophecy; often used to support a slippery slope argument, with the frog replaced by a climate denier. Syn., boiling frog syndrome.
A frog that has had its brain removed will remain in slowly heated water, but an intact frog will attempt to escape when the temperature reaches 25C. (F Goltz, physiologist, Beitrage zur Lehre von den Functionen der Nervencentren des Frosches, 1869)
“If you put a frog in boiling water, it won’t jump out. It will die. If you put it in cold water, it will jump before it gets hot. They don’t sit still for you.” (Professor D Melton, Harvard University Biology, 1995)
Reference: Devil’s Dictionary of Climate Change (2018, Athena Books/Amazon, George Lexicon)
Western civilisation is pretty close to collapsing right now from the Covid nonsense, and the coming green mandates will finish it off. TKO. Shame, because it didn’t have to be this way.
Talk about a word salad of an article. Once again, doom and gloom and no relief, solution, or plan presented to mitigate all that doom and gloom.
Parabolic Frog indeed, along with Climate Psychologist–um….I can’t even touch that one, it’s just too ridiculous for words.
I’m going to equate articles like this are the TikTok of the mediocre academic in the university world. No substance to them, no articulation, just a 5 minute blurb to garner views and followers.
I think I found a useful way of describing a climate psychologist: someone who deals with control freaks, those who believe there is a real thermostat that controls the “temperature” (ambient or otherwise) on the planet and are in a tizzy over not being able to find it. They live in towers made of concrete/cement/whatever (may be shoeboxes, for all I know) and venture out only when they are wearing masks.
The climate psychologist is someone who is like them and understands their desperate need for control of everything, including which way the wind blows and what the outside temperature is for the day. There is no medication yet available for the climate control freaks, but the climate psychologist frequently recommends music therapy that includes such songs as “Hotel California” (you can get in, but you can’t get out) and “Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds”.
A parabolic frog believes that the sea level rise follows a parabola, which leads him to predict that sea levels will rise by over 1 meter by the year 2100. Never mind that the data fit better to a straight line, which would result in about a 20 cm rise.
But climate alarmist groups are full of parabolic frogs, which are not quite as extreme as exponential frogs.
People. Listen up. “We’re talking about the collapse of civilization, and I think it’s really important for people to hear that. I truly believe this is the apocalypse.”
You need to hear it. The Hotpocalypse is coming. Thermageddon. We’re way past the tipping point. It’s all over, Baby Blue. These are scienterrificals saying this. From Yale! That’s Ivy League.You just must trust the Science, people.
Fortunately, there are a few positive, proactive steps you can take to prepare for The End:
man the lifeboats
batten down the hatches
walk the plank
get a rope
pass the ammunition
double down
go for broke
go bananas
read ’em and weep
set your hair on fire
take a powder
fly the coop
run like heck
man the barricades
abandon hope
shoot the moon
duck and cover
drop the bomb
pray for rain
lose your marbles
flip your wig
call 911
burn the witches
eat more fruit
go on strike
quit the party
join the movement
hold your breath
wait for it
put your head between your legs
kiss your ass goodbye
Or you could, instead, do the following:
Make a list of good friends
Learn how to cook over an open fire
Learn how to cook on a wood-fired stove
Cook from scratch and get rid of the microwave
Stock your pantry shelves with raw materials for cooking
Learn how to make your own clothes, if you don’t already know
Learn to hunt in all seasons, and preserve the meat correctly
Find a really, really good fishing hole
Collect those old-fashioned kids’ games
Keep print books on the shelves, including cookbooks
Collect all those old-fashioned cookbooks, going back to the 1600
Stop whining and move ahead.
My Dear Sara,
I don’t think you fully grasp the concept of The End of Civilization via Thermageddon. There will be no fish, no game, no crops, no food, no trees, no firewood. They will all burn up in the sweltering mega heat. Instead, there will be roving bands of starving cannibals. The ammo will be used up the first week. After that it will be hand to hand to mouth. Think hellish dystopia, not bucolic pastoralism.
At least, that’s what the Scientists at Yale think. They aren’t mincing around about it. It’s Doomsday for Life As We Know It. Unless, of course, they are bat sh1t crazy loons with terminal paranoia, or just plain idiots, or paid terrorist swine. I vote for No. 3, but the other two are distinct possibilities.
“At least, that’s what the Scientists at Yale think”
they need to put down the book, “The Road” and start looking outside.