Not like he will still be around in 2100 when his math gets graded.
I’m sure he will apologize when 2100 comes and goes and nothing happens.
Barley over a month ago these people couldn’t predict Hurricane Irma or Maria, how the hell are going to predict something 80 years from now?
Let me guess, it’s Al Gore using a pen name.
Of course it could be someone who wants to grow up to be just like him.
And I’ll be a spry 140 years old.
We’ve survived Sept. 23rd so far, 2100 I’ll be 158, can’t wait.
Man made globul warming, a complete hoax, and those thay promote it are the snake oil salesmen of our times.
Not like he will still be around in 2100 when his math gets graded.
Mass extinction? How?
Nonetheless; I’ll start stocking up on stuff now. I’m getting ice. A new filter for my AC..... And...what else?
That gives me just enough time to perfect my time machine...
Guess they leaned that trick from Al Gore's failures - his 'mistakes' and drama bits about us being underwater by this time...
Grant whore.
In that case I want to spend my money on a good time not carbon offsets that won’t reduce carbon emissions by a single molecule.
Paul Ehrlich, who predicted in his ridiculous “population bomb” BS that hundreds of millions of people would die of starvation in the 70s, didn’t keel over and die himself of massive professional embarrassment because he’s totally shameless. These people are equally shameless (and will be proven equally wrong).
I would LOVE to make it beyond another 83 years (live to a “biblical” age) - just so I could remind those living then of all the predictions being made now.
not going to happen....its today the world ends so I am told....
Meh. We had a good run.
“Mass global extinction that wipes out human civilization...”
... Common Sense will be the first thing to go.
Those who ignore history repeat its mistakes... or something like that.
We really need to educate ourselves on this specious propaganda.
Here’s a good beginning.
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-earth-major-mass-extinction-events.html
Most scientists agree that a “mass extinction” event is underway with the Earth’s wildlife disappearing at an alarming rate, mainly due to human activity.
But this is not the first time: over the last half-billion years there have been five major wipeouts in which well over half of living creatures disappeared within a geological blink of the eye. All told, more than 90 percent of organisms that have ever strode, swam, soared or slithered on Earth are now gone.
Here are the biggest die-offs, each showing up in the fossil record at the boundary between two geological periods:
Ordovician extinction
When: about 445 million years ago
Species lost: 60-70 percent
Likely cause: Short but intense ice age
Most life at this time was in the oceans. It is thought that the rapid, planet-wide formation of glaciers froze much of the world’s water, causing sea levels to fall sharply. Marine organisms such as sponges and algae, along with primitive snails, clams, cephalopods and jawless fish called ostracoderms, all suffered as a consequence.
Devonian extinction
When: about 375-360 million years ago
Species lost: up to 75 percent
Likely cause: oxygen depletion in the ocean
Again, ocean organisms were hardest hit. Fluctuations in sea level, climate change, and asteroid strikes are all suspects. One theory holds that the massive expansion of plant life on land released compounds that caused oxygen depletion in shallow waters. Armoured, bottom-dwelling marine creatures called trilobites were among the many victims, though some species survived.
Permian extinction
When: about 252 million years ago
Species lost: 95 percent
Possible causes: asteroid impact, volcanic activity
The mother of all extinctions, the “Great Dying” devastated ocean and land life alike, and is the only event to have nearly wiped out insects as well. Some scientists say the die-off occurred over millions of years, while others argue it was highly concentrated in a 200,000-year period.
In the sea, trilobites that had survived the last two wipeouts finally succumbed, along with some sharks and bony fishes. On land, massive reptiles known as moschops met their demise. Asteroid impacts, methane release and sea level fluctuations have all been blamed.
Triassic extinction
When: about 200 million years ago
Species lost: 70-80 percent
Likely causes: multiple, still debated
The mysterious Triassic die-out eliminated a vast menagerie of large land animals, including most archosaurs, a diverse group that gave rise to dinosaurs, and whose living relatives today are birds and crocodiles. Most big amphibians were also eliminated.
One theory points to massive lava eruptions during the breakup of the super-continent Pangea, which might have released huge amounts of carbon dioxide, causing runaway global warming. Other scientists suspect asteroid strikes are to blame, but matching craters have yet to be found.
Cretaceous extinction
When: about 66 million years ago
Species lost: 75 percent
Likely cause: asteroid strike
An space rock impact is Suspect No. 1 for the extinction event that wiped out the world’s non-avian dinosaurs, from T-Rex to the three-horned Triceratops. A huge crater off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula supports the asteroid hypothesis.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-earth-major-mass-extinction-events.html#jCp