The “last” time around with this comet hysteria, people latched onto asteroid yu55 and claimed that it was comet elenin.
(This was after elenin broke up into tiny giblets.)
I suspect that when nothing happens, some other unrelated object will be labeled as being Ison and we’ll be told again how we have to be terrified of “something” all over again.
Because that’s what happened last time.
:-/
Phony doomsday crap can’t help but remind one of the largest pseudoscientific movement of our time — pushing the AGW hoax. Earth not warming? It’s because the depths of the oceans are sequestering the heat, and it will eventually pop back up and bite us in the ass. Oceans not warming at depth? Most of the warming is going to happen nearer the end of the 21st c, when all or most of us are dead. Some years have gone by? Revive the ridiculous claim that the oceans are warming at depth. Even if we were wrong, we’d better do something about AGW, because then we’re covered either way, blah blah blah.
ZetaTalk: Whiplash
ZetaTalk | written Apr 14, 2004 | Nancy Lieder
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1549609/posts
[snip] The Sweeping Arm effect only became noticeable in the Summer of 2003, when the Earth began rounding the backside of the Sun and moving toward Planet X, which was inbound from the outer solar system regions toward the orbit of Earth where it encountered the Earth on Dec 25, 2003. The Sweeps then had a different pace, as rebounding away from Planet X or standing still or backing up under pressure, the Earth encounters the sweeps more often as it is not running ahead of them as a normal orbit would allow. [/snip]