nuclear winter. (so '80s). check out...
Posted on 10/21/2007 11:58:11 AM PDT by Bulldaddy
The History Channel...has been running a popular series on so-called mega-disasters that threaten to do serious damage to life on earth. From super volcanoes to super asteroids, to exotic space phenomena and more mundane, down-to-earth threats, we count down the top ten mega disasters and tell you which ones to worry about.
Number 10: Global Warming
No phenomenon in recent memory has been more over-hyped than global warming...
Number 9: Pole Shift
Pole shift is so far “out there” as a credible disaster scenario that it just barely straddles the line between science fiction and science. The fact that we put it at number 9 on this list speaks volumes about our feelings regarding global warming!...
Number 10: Global Warming
Number: 9: Pole Shift
Number 8: Atlantic Super Tsunami (Tie)
Number 8: Volcano (Tie)
Number 6: Yellowstone Supervolcano
Number 5: Mystery Pandemic (Tie)
Number 5: "The Big One" California Earthquake (Tie)
Number 3: Gamma Ray Burst
Number 2: Killer Asteroid
Number 1: World War
Gamma ray burst is some scary stuff.
Makes you glad the universe is really big.
You think Gamma Ray is bad, you should meet Papa Ray!
Hillary Clinton 2008 gets my vote.
Mine, too. bttt
I see no evidence the list was done by "scientists", and it makes zero sense whatsoever.
9) Pole shift doesn't exist and doesn't happen, in terms of a sudden disaster (I mean actual pole shift, not magnetic reversal, and not as a result of a giant asteroid impact, which would be so bad the pole shift in addition would be irrelevant.)
8) Atlantic Super Tsunami has been discredited by the vast majority of tsunami scientists. The wave wouldn't be big enough from a collapse of La Palma to damage the East Coast. Unfortunately, the media and bad documentary makers got so jazzed and excited by the initial claims they failed to notice all the scientist later saying the claims were overinflated.
5) It's just silly for "The Big One" California earthquake to be on this list. A rupture of a major segment of the San Andreas isn't even the most dangerous possible quake in California (A smaller quake from one of the thrust faults under LA, or a complete rupture of the Hayward Fault in the East Bay, would do more damage and kill more people than a rupture of the Southern San Andreas.) And a megathrust subduction quake of Cascadia would again be worse than the so-called "Big One."
And there are numerous faults around the world far more dangerous than the San Andreas. At most from a major San Andreas rupture you'd get perhaps 10,000 dead - there are quite overdue faults in the Himalyan thrust capable of killing a million in India. A rupture of the North Anatolian fault under Istanbul could kill hundreds of thousands, and if anything that's as imminent as the Southern San Andreas rupturing.
Might be big, but they travel incredibly fast.
They don’t list the largest possible volcanic events, large flood basalt eruptions, which, although less explosive, can dwarf the outflows of something like Yellowstone and which can have geologic durations. The Siberian Traps was an awesomely bad thing in its time. Fortunately only tiny ones, in Iceland, have occurred in historic times.
nuclear winter. (so '80s). check out...
ditto
Unfortunately, scientists and others who are skeptics of the disaster scenarios have endured scathing attacks in the pro-global warming press, with some going so far as to invoke the Holocaust in referring to climate change skeptics as deniers. Moreover, the issue has been used as leverage in an ongoing campaign to give the United Nations authority over carbon emissions.That's right - there is a serious Global Warming threat - and it's a man made at that! It's the thread of a One World Government, of United Nations control over all the means of production, using the Global Warming hoax as the justification.Ultimately, if that were to happen, it would give the UN de facto planning and regulatory control over private industrial businesses the world over, essentially transferring control over the “means of production” to the world body. That would be an economic and political disaster of nearly unprecedented proportion – and it’s enough to ensure that global warming makes number ten on this list.
Actually, I might put that threat a bit higher up on this list.
Ultimately, if that were to happen, it would give the UN de facto planning and regulatory control over private industrial businesses the world over, essentially transferring control over the “means of production” to the world body. That would be an economic and political disaster of nearly unprecedented proportion.************
That’s it in a nutshell!!
Good post Bulldaddy and good comment “Cow”.
Gamma ray bursts are nothing to kid about.
I heard about this dude, Dr. Banner who was belted by gamma rays ...
... wasn't pretty.
Considering I live about 10 miles south of the Cajon-Tejon section of the San Andreas Fault I worry a lot. A rupture on this fault section would devastate Western San Bernardo County and North Eastern LA County along the mountains closing Interstates 5 and 15. Since much of Western SB County rests on ancient river beds it would sink out of sight.
I don't agree ... but their position seems clear.
Shouldn't that be:
You think Gamma Ray is bad, you should meet Grampa Ray!
Hmmm?
Oh, THEM!???
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