[3catsanadog]

“It’s the end of the world as we know it. And I feel fine” - REM

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Except that there is no global warming.

Sounds like a bunch of crackpots.

[Mamzelle]

Oh wow...A macroecologist at UNM!! Something tells me that he icky-shudders could be quieted with a nice government grant and a promise of tenure.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Percentage of CO2 in the earths atmpshere: 0.04%..zero point zero. Percentage of methane in the earths atmosphere: 0.00017% zero point zero zero zero. ‘Nuff said.

[supremedoctrine]

I remember one day I was standing out in the sun, and in a matter of minutes there was a sudden downpour.
I said to myself “The world “as I know it” has just ended”.

[ully2]

That would be James H. Brown, one of the alarmist’s paper published by Nature, fixed.

[Diggity]

Looking for grant money

[Wuli]

James Fallows has himself, writing in the Atlantic & in books, authored more “the U.S., or the world, as we know it is doomed” tomes in the last twenty years - and always scenarios that did not pan out - than any other author I can think of.

It's not surprising that he and the Atlantic have lent their names to this latest doomsday piece.

What Fallows has always missed, and what these writers miss is the resilience and adaptability of the U.S., and over time of humanity.

[redhead]

“Tipping Point...” Makes you kind of imagine the green, oozy letters they used on the old movie posters for “Vampires...”

[MARTIAL MONK]

Brown is not one of your everyday cranks predicting raptures and the end of days. He is a macroecologist at the University of New Mexico.

When civilization has collapsed, when all sense of the old orders has been hollowed out and is the stuff of lore and when barbarians rule the streets it will look like.....

New Mexico

[wardaddy]

The world as i knew it culturally has already ended in total degradation

[abigkahuna]

I would argue that the world as we know it ends every day and the world begins anew when the sun comes up (we hope) once again.

Perhaps we should emulate previous enlightened cultures and start cutting off the heads of our fellow villagers and toss their carcasses down the stairs. Maybe we can re-start that benign practice of tossing virgins into bottomless chasms to appease the earth gods...

If only we could reduce our footprint, perhaps return to binding our women’s feet will do the trick, eh? Maybe we should strap on “tiny shoes” on our overgrown feet to reduce our “footprint’?

No, you say? That’s not the answer? More money is the answer? Well the way I figure it, we have to rape the planet more to come up with the “Earth Rape Tax” filed twice monthly.

I guess I could keep going, but I got some Melvin Seals on the stereo and it has a much finer groove than worrying about how the world as we know it is all about to end, (only to be replaced with a new, improved, day)

[wastedyears]

I’d love to have these people in a situation in which they can’t run away, and have to answer my questions.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Your face is about to end. ;)

[Fresh Wind]

Some scientists are really frightened that Evil Republicans will take away their research grants.