Posted on 05/11/2008 10:20:45 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
If there were a Society of Global Warming Alarmists, Bill McKibben might get kicked out for being too much of a worry wart . . .
You've probably seen those phone-message forms with boxes to be checked in ascending order of urgency ranging from "FYI—no need to return call" all the way up to "the future of Western civilization hangs in the balance." We might see that last category as light-hearted exaggeration, but it's no laughing matter to McKibben. In his jeremiad in today's LA Times literally entitled "Civilization's last chance," McKibben solemnly declares that "the world looks a little terminal right now" and "it isn't morning in America, it's dusk on planet Earth." OK. Just so long as it's nothing serious.
McKibben's lament is based in important part on a paper that James Hansen and several co-authors have submitted to Science magazine which concludes that "if humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm."
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Repent, the end is near ping to Today show list.
I see the possible end of civilization because of belief in global warming. We’ll never get the warming, but the hallucinatory belief may get us the same results.
I’ll agree that civilisation is threatened, but it is because we are victims of our own success.
Western civilisation has been so successful at creating across-the-board wealth that we are rotting from within. We have the luxury of tolerating non-productive, cowardly academics and “journalists” like this little pasty face.
Why don’t you go BUILD something, Mr. McKibben? Build a shelf for your office, or buy one of those leather wallet kits....
Make no mistake - the longer they hold sway over how we live our lives, the more difficult it will become to have abundant energy in any form.
If Civilization nears an end due to global warming, I will create my own undersea home and will invite Sandy Cheeks, Karl Stromberg and Captain Nemo to join me.
I am so sick of these people. I see them as being in the “look at me, look at me” mode, same as the people with purple and green hair that you see ever once in a while.
F-n idiot. He needs a punch in the nose on a cold morning.
1. Average surface temperatures around the globe have not increased in the last 10 years.
2. Ocean temperatures have decreased in the most recently measured 5 years.
3. WATER VAPOR comprises over 90% of all “greenhouse gases”, and ALL attempts to ACURATELY model causes in variations in water vapor in the atmosphere have FAILED!
4. CO2 is a LAGGING component in global temperature cycles.
(NOT a leading indicator!)
5. Human behavior is NOT a factor in global climate change!
6. If you’re serious about controlling global atmospheric pollution, talk to India and China and leave me alone until that mess is cleaned up.
7. 11 of 13 Polar Bear populations have thrived over the last 25 years, so quit USING them as some kind of tear jerk, political pawn.
I guess the fact that CO2 concentrations and the global average temp have both been much higher in the past than now, coupled with the fact that life seemed to endure pretty well, coupled with the fact that were no major exctinctions during the most recent example of warming and higher CO2 levels (which happen AFTER warming begins, not before) seem to have escaped these clowns. They probably laugh at the religious zealots who predict the end of the world, whilst doing virtually the same thing. Sigh. Oh well, science is for the few. Politics, “education”, and journalism are also for the few. I leave it to you to decide which side of the curve each set of “few” exists on.
He will be worm food for a long time while earth goes merrily along.
the article posred about the oldest settlement in the Americas from 14,000 yrs ago says the sea level was 200 feet lower then. That would be a linear rise of 1.5 ft. per century.
I say he should immediately go out to a gun store, buy a Glock and put an end to his misery.
Or, just smear himself in bacon grease and pitch a tent on a well used Bear trail in Bristol Bay Alaska. (The most popular greenie way to go.)
They don't see the end of civilization.
They demand it.
This guy’s predictions of doom are *almost* as convincing as those of the “Planet X” crowd.
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