Posted on 07/15/2017 9:15:18 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
One of the hallmarks of the “Ugly American” is the habit of thinking foreigners will understand what you’re saying if you just shout it louder and louder.
The Ugly Environmentalist does something similar. He exaggerates the challenge of global warming by using ever more hysterical rhetoric, thinking that if the last doomsday prediction didn’t work, this one will.
For instance, Stephen Hawking, the famous astrophysicist, recently said that the consequences of Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate accord were monumental: “Trump’s action could push the Earth over the brink, to become like Venus, with a temperature of 250 degrees [Celsius] and raining sulfuric acid.”
As Nathan Cofnas notes in The Weekly Standard, this is nuts. The share of the atmosphere taken up by that vile gas carbon dioxide (which just happens to sustain all plant life) is 400 parts per million. It’s been much higher than that in the past without boiling the oceans or raining acid from the sky.
Cofnas also mentions that Venus is nearly 26 million miles closer to the sun, and that the share of carbon dioxide in the Venusian atmosphere is 965,000 parts per million, or about 2,412 times greater than Earth’s.
And that’s Hawking, a serious scientist (at least in his own field). Journalists, always looking for novelty and drama, can be worse.
A recent New York magazine cover story on climate change assured readers that all of the previous climate-change alarmism was too tepid. Basically, by the end of the century, the living will envy the dead and much of the planet will be uninhabitable or a re-enactment of a “Mad Max” movie.
To the credit of some journalists and climate scientists, the New York magazine article got considerable pushback, even from normally alarmist Penn State professor Michael Mann.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I’m still waiting for The Mann to be locked up in the State Penn.
“unhinged” is the right word.
These people are indeed crazy or think we are, if they expect us to believe this.
A never-Trumper has decided to rejoin the common folk? How about an apology Jonah? Nah.....
So why not just plant more trees, which absorb CO2 and release oxygen, as a result of photosynthesis.
Only for this one article.
Todays “Babblings from Jonah” at NRO are right back to the same old same old #neverTrump bullsquat.
Umm... Because it isn't about the CO2 at all.
Climate ChangeTM is just another thinly-veiled power grab, which is just what crisis-mongering leftists do.
Before Climate ChangeTM, it was The Ozone LayerTM.
SSDD.
These idiots can’t realize the fact trees and greenery turn CO2 into oxygen, that we need to live.
Laugh if you like but Venus thousands of years ago was probably like Earth is now and the climate change deniers got their way, kept using carbon based fuels setting it on fire.
250 degrees....LOL
Too much money at stake for Climate Frauds to let it go...
Before that.....”Acid Rain”
They (The Elite) want us dead. Period. Kill the competition.
Article is from last year. Excerpts:
... listen to the words of former United Nations climate official Ottmar Edenhofer:
“One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore...
So what is the goal of environmental policy?
“We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy,” said Edenhofer....”the next world climate summit in Cancun is actually an economy summit during which the distribution of the world’s resources will be negotiated.”
Last year, Christiana Figueres [2015], executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, made a similar statement.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said in anticipation of last year’s Paris climate summit.
“This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history.”
The plan is to allow Third World countries to emit as much carbon dioxide as they wish — because, as Edenhofer said, “in order to get rich one has to burn coal, oil or gas” — while at the same time restricting emissions in advanced nations. This will, of course, choke economic growth in developed nations, but they deserve that fate as they “have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community,” he said.
Don’t be so hard on Stephen Hawking. He hasn’t been the same since he fell out of that airplane and onto a cement truck.
Without anybody to pay taxes those dumb left wing sons of bitches won’t have a dollar coming in so screw them!
Unhinged? The door and its frame aren’t even in adjoining countries!
I saw what you did there! ;^)State Penn instead of Penn State
or freon, low flush toilets
Sad, didn’t Hawking used to be real scientist?
When I was, I don’t know 15 or 16 my mom took me to a lecture of is, I don’t think anyone understood a word he said, but a lot of people pretended to, nodding and laughing at his jokes.
LOL at Nye Quandrant.
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