Posted on 04/16/2017 10:34:59 AM PDT by Hojczyk
In the latest in radical climate doomsaying, a new report warns that fossil fuel consumption will need to be reduced “below a quarter of primary energy supply by 2100” to avoid possibly disastrous effects on global temperatures.
In their report, titled “Pathways for balancing CO2 emissions and sinks,” a team of eight scientists warns that “anthropogenic emissions need to peak within the next 10 years, to maintain realistic pathways to meeting the COP21 emissions and warming targets.”
The statement was immediately repackaged by environmentalists to read: “Scientists say we have ten years to save the earth.”
As is always the case in studies of this sort, the scientists juggle dozens of variables, none of which is entirely predictable and which taken together tell us virtually nothing about the future of the environment.
Although the scientists admit that “there are significant uncertainties associated with projecting energy consumption several decades into the future,” they fail to acknowledge a number of even greater uncertainties implicit in their calculations.
Despite their valiant efforts to produce trustworthy projections, the scientists rely on basic presumptions that are contested by extremely capable minds within their own field.
Dr. Duane Thresher, a climate scientist with a Ph.D. from Columbia University and NASA GISS, has stated bluntly that it is “mathematically impossible for climate models to predict climate.”
Appealing to corollaries of the well-known “Butterfly Effect,” Thresher said that long-term climate forecasting is “a quintessential example of this phenomenon” because of the elevated number of variables playing into climate phenomena.
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Broken record! Keeps taking 10 year skips!
BTTT!
What they really meant was “10 Years before folks see through us and our grant money stops.”
I remember in the 1970s we were all to be dead by the year 2000 due to the “population bomb”. I guess the population bomb was as big a fizzle as North Korea’s rocket.
TEN years?? Didn’t Ted Danson said in 1990 that we only had ten years to save the planet? Does liberals have a different calendar than REAL AMERICANS?
I see a picture of Chelsea Hubbell.
Is that by “Fry The Science Guy”?
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