Posted on 05/11/2008 10:20:45 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
If there were a Society of Global Warming Alarmists, Bill McKibben might get kicked out for being too much of a worry wart . . .
You've probably seen those phone-message forms with boxes to be checked in ascending order of urgency ranging from "FYI—no need to return call" all the way up to "the future of Western civilization hangs in the balance." We might see that last category as light-hearted exaggeration, but it's no laughing matter to McKibben. In his jeremiad in today's LA Times literally entitled "Civilization's last chance," McKibben solemnly declares that "the world looks a little terminal right now" and "it isn't morning in America, it's dusk on planet Earth." OK. Just so long as it's nothing serious.
McKibben's lament is based in important part on a paper that James Hansen and several co-authors have submitted to Science magazine which concludes that "if humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm."
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Repent, the end is near ping to Today show list.
I see the possible end of civilization because of belief in global warming. We’ll never get the warming, but the hallucinatory belief may get us the same results.
I’ll agree that civilisation is threatened, but it is because we are victims of our own success.
Western civilisation has been so successful at creating across-the-board wealth that we are rotting from within. We have the luxury of tolerating non-productive, cowardly academics and “journalists” like this little pasty face.
Why don’t you go BUILD something, Mr. McKibben? Build a shelf for your office, or buy one of those leather wallet kits....
Make no mistake - the longer they hold sway over how we live our lives, the more difficult it will become to have abundant energy in any form.
If Civilization nears an end due to global warming, I will create my own undersea home and will invite Sandy Cheeks, Karl Stromberg and Captain Nemo to join me.
I am so sick of these people. I see them as being in the “look at me, look at me” mode, same as the people with purple and green hair that you see ever once in a while.
F-n idiot. He needs a punch in the nose on a cold morning.
1. Average surface temperatures around the globe have not increased in the last 10 years.
2. Ocean temperatures have decreased in the most recently measured 5 years.
3. WATER VAPOR comprises over 90% of all “greenhouse gases”, and ALL attempts to ACURATELY model causes in variations in water vapor in the atmosphere have FAILED!
4. CO2 is a LAGGING component in global temperature cycles.
(NOT a leading indicator!)
5. Human behavior is NOT a factor in global climate change!
6. If you’re serious about controlling global atmospheric pollution, talk to India and China and leave me alone until that mess is cleaned up.
7. 11 of 13 Polar Bear populations have thrived over the last 25 years, so quit USING them as some kind of tear jerk, political pawn.
I guess the fact that CO2 concentrations and the global average temp have both been much higher in the past than now, coupled with the fact that life seemed to endure pretty well, coupled with the fact that were no major exctinctions during the most recent example of warming and higher CO2 levels (which happen AFTER warming begins, not before) seem to have escaped these clowns. They probably laugh at the religious zealots who predict the end of the world, whilst doing virtually the same thing. Sigh. Oh well, science is for the few. Politics, “education”, and journalism are also for the few. I leave it to you to decide which side of the curve each set of “few” exists on.
He will be worm food for a long time while earth goes merrily along.
the article posred about the oldest settlement in the Americas from 14,000 yrs ago says the sea level was 200 feet lower then. That would be a linear rise of 1.5 ft. per century.
I say he should immediately go out to a gun store, buy a Glock and put an end to his misery.
Or, just smear himself in bacon grease and pitch a tent on a well used Bear trail in Bristol Bay Alaska. (The most popular greenie way to go.)
They don't see the end of civilization.
They demand it.
This guy’s predictions of doom are *almost* as convincing as those of the “Planet X” crowd.
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• “…civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind,” biologist George Wald, Harvard University, April 19, 1970.
• By 1995, “…somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.” Sen. Gaylord Nelson, quoting Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, Look magazine, April 1970.
• Because of increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor “…the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born,” Newsweek magazine, January 26, 1970.
• The world will be “…eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age,” Kenneth Watt, speaking at Swarthmore University, April 19, 1970.
• “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” biologist Barry Commoner, University of Washington, writing in the journal Environment, April 1970.
• “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from the intolerable deteriorations and possible extinction,” The New York Times editorial, April 20, 1970.
• “By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half…” Life magazine, January 1970.
• “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich, interview in Mademoiselle magazine, April 1970.
• “…air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone,” Paul Ehrlich, interview in Mademoiselle magazine, April 1970.
• Ehrlich also predicted that in 1973, 200,000 Americans would die from air pollution, and that by 1980 the life expectancy of Americans would be 42 years.
• “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” Earth Day organizer Denis Hayes, The Living Wilderness, Spring 1970.
• “By the year 2000…the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America and Australia, will be in famine,” Peter Gunter, North Texas State University, The Living Wilderness, Spring 1970.
Beware the one world religion of man made global warming. It is a cult. The high priest, Al Gore is a repackaged Jim Jones with a better suit and a larger audience. They are in a panic because the weather is not behaving as their oracles, aka the computer models have predicted. That is when they are the most dangerous.
I have no problem with higher mileage cars, cleaner fuels, reducing what goes in a landfill, etc. But when it comes to forcing us to use proven flops like ethanol, CFL bulbs, etc... it has passed into foolishness. Carbon credits is one of the largest scams in the history of human existence.
“Al Gore is a repackaged Jim Jones with a better suit.”
Shouldn’t that be “bigger” suit? ;-)
I am so glad I was not drinking my tea when I read that... I would have fried my laptop. LOL
I can’t help but wonder if every early religious figure didn’t make the very same claim.
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Mr. McKibben doesn't build things. He writes...fiction disguised as politically correct "fact"...and goes on walks "for the environment" that make him feel special.
Is he still working for the Federal Government (NASA)?
Does he ever spend time at the job he's being paid to do?
What's up with that?
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