Five years ago today.
Even the most generous interpretation, that by not ending fossil fuel use by this date we are locked into a destructive future, past the tipping points, and our inevitable doom, is as absurd as the non-generous interpretation of the above tweet, which is now deleted:
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As many as eight billion people will die before the end of this century if we don’t, by the end of the week, curtail every activity that supports human society. And if we do those 8 billion won’t make it past Christmas.
After a few days of a certain relative staying, I am inclined to believe that headline…
Well, we didn’t stop with fossil fuels, we haven’t succeeded in reducing any emissions so we’re all doomed and on our way to glory any day now. Can I have all the taxes and green subsidies that I have been forced to pay for the last 30 years back please?
Hey Greta, welcome to the club of false predictors of the end of the world, joining the likes of Paul Ehrlich, Al Gore, Michael Mann, AOC, and the “boy who cried wolf”. After 40+ years of false dire predictions that never happen, people stop listening.
Some still haven’t figured it out, and are still listening.
I figure the COVID shutdowns gave a couple of extra days.
Even under an EXTREMELY generous interpretation, it’s wrong.
If we equate ‘Climate Change’ with ‘Gradual Heat Death of the Universe’ [hey, they both have something to do with temperature changing!], then yes: humanity (or whatever we have evolved/devolved into) will definitely be ‘wiped out by climate change’ withing 1×10^106 years from now (assuming we make it out of our solar system and eventually out of our galaxy).
If we remain stuck on earth, and call ‘climate change’ the ‘gradual change of the sun into a red giant cooking the earth’ we only have about 500M-1B years left above ground… and another 4B-5B years in subterranean dwellings powered by fusion/geothermal. Doesn’t sound like much fun, but maybe our technology will have advanced far enough for us to enjoy virtual living on what Earth used to be like. By that time, evolution/genetic drift will definitely make us different enough to be another species entirely (although we might still call ourselves ‘humans’). 500M years ago trilobites were the most advanced species. Who knows what it will be in another 500M years.
None of this, however, has anything to whether or not we stopped using fossil fuels between the years 2018 and 2023.
Long live Us All!
Uh, I wouldn’t say all.
Oh I should be nice. I left out confirmation bias. As a excuse for dangerously stupid people and their movements
I’m dead? I hardly noticed it.
Trust me; with current economics you are.
But AOC said we had (I forget how many years) left!
WHICH EXPERT SHOULD I BELIEVE!
winning an argument with a child with a strawman is lame
doing it with sarcasm, the lowest form of humor, is below lame.
anyway
Even the most generous interpretation, that by not ending fossil fuel use by this date we are locked into a destructive future
well thats exactly what the article she cited argued. so its not a generous interpretation
its an accurate one.
We are way beyond “winning an argument”. This is a state of war and ridicule is an effective tool. She is no longer a child. And when a young person is put forward as a spokesperson for a huge political movement, they forfeit the right to hide behind “being a child”.
She can charge exorbitant speaking fees wherever she goes with her degree in truancy. She deserves no quarter.
Leftists always play the victim card when they have no other options.
Something to think about.
I thought “Racist” was the main card.
Maybe it’s just the same card in a different suit?
The problem is that an alarmist comment or misquote gets promoted hugely.
Greta was told of an article on GritPost no longer available but saved in Web Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180501150731/https://gritpost.com/humans-extinct-climate-change/
The article misquoted James Anderson — a professor of atmospheric chemistry at Harvard University — who did not say anything about humanity being wiped out.
So Greta didn’t even read the article but tweeted inaccurate information without fact-checking it. She isn’t a reliable source and should not be treated as such. She should not speak at important venues because she has no clue.
What James Anderson actually said is even more laughable:
“The chance that there will be any permanent ice left in the Arctic after 2022 is essentially zero,” Anderson said.
Quite a top climate scientist. Most cli-sci we hear about are like him, even more zero than Arctic ice.
Mosher – all we have to do is wait. As a species, we will outlive all these lies and stupidity. The world will not burn and the madness will sink into history as an object lesson and warning for all future generations.
If that’s really the case, it might be a good thing because it will finally shut up all the climate alarmists, Greta Thunberg among others.
I seem awfully lively for a corpse.
Water vapour is by far the largest identified cause of global warming yet it is insufficiently measured, considered, planned for or even reported. Yet some say that water vapour is i reality the compensating mechanism that moderates the earth’s temperature down to the minor cyclical nature that has existed for the last 1000 years.
We don’t really need to measure it. We can see it. As soon as the relative humidity exceeds 100%, clouds form….immediately reflecting 50% of incoming sunlight to outer space…thus reducing the Sun’s energy striking the surface. Wherever Sun does strikes the ocean or other wetted surfaces, about 80% of its energy goes into making water vapor, which random hours later and a random windblown distance away…..again creates clouds in a never ending randomized energy balance.
The end of the world went well then, didn’t it……(22nd June)
Dunno. It was a dismal cold day here.
So now we are the walking dead ?
I like the picture of Greta.
She seems to be thinking, “Damn! We’re still alive. NOW what do I claim?”
Nothing pisses warmistas faster or more completely than having their forecasts of doom fail.
Which is really very strange: One might suppose that the people who are the most worried and fearful of Bad Things Coming Soon, would be relieved to learn that their fears and concerns were overblown, or better yet, completely wrong.
But no, no…on the contrary, they absolutely hate it when nothing bad happens…again.
I do not think it is a sign of a healthy mind to be certain that something bad is going to happen, and to be very upset about this belief…and to then be even MORE upset when the thing that was feared, does NOT happen.
I am fairly certain that it is actually pathological to think and behave this way.
Well to Greta’s credit I did wake up this am with a scratchy throat. Another victim of AGWosis!
I hope they have her on suicide watch. It’s a common reaction for someone, especially a young person, when he’s publicly shown himself to be a horse’s ass.
Obviously, just another failed prophet. You know what God said to do with failed prophets …