Posted on 06/18/2010 11:45:44 AM PDT by marthemaria
FRANK Fenner doesn't engage in the skirmishes of the climate wars. To him, the evidence of global warming is in. Our fate is sealed.
"We're going to become extinct," the eminent scientist says. "Whatever we do now is too late."
Fenner is an authority on extinction. The emeritus professor in microbiology at the Australian National University played a leading role in sending one species into oblivion: the variola virus that causes smallpox. .
Fenner, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and of the Royal Society, has received many awards and honours. He has published hundreds of scientific papers and written or co-written 22 books.
Fenner says the real trouble is the population explosion and "unbridled consumption".
The number of Homo sapiens is projected to exceed 6.9 billion this year, according to the UN. With delays in firm action on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, Fenner is pessimistic.
"We'll undergo the same fate as the people on Easter Island," he says. "Climate change is just at the very beginning. But we're seeing remarkable changes in the weather already.
"The Aborigines showed that without science and the production of carbon dioxide and global warming, they could survive for 40,000 or 50,000 years. But the world can't. The human species is likely to go the same way as many of the species that we've seen disappear.
"Homo sapiens will become extinct, perhaps within 100 years," he says. "A lot of other animals will, too. It's an irreversible situation. I think it's too late. I try not to express that because people are trying to do something, but they keep putting it off.
"Mitigation would slow things down a bit, but there are too many people here already."
(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.com.au ...
Somebody send this guy on an Alaskan Cruise. I just returned from one and had plenty of opportunities to freeze to death. How many generations does he believe are left?
I’ll make a prediction that will certainly come to pass. Both he and I will both be dead within fifty years and neither one will be from global warming.
***Paul Ehrlich(sp?) in his book The Population Bomb. (He was spectacularly wrong in his projections, every one of them if I’m not mistaken.)***
Just as accurate as THE AMAZING CRISWELL of Criswell Predicts.
Idiocy and Fenner go hand-in-hand.
Then why don’t you just go ahead and off yourself, jerk.
I hope he goes first.
Yeah, sure.
Like deluded visionaries of old they predict the apocalypse and gather to the mountains to greet the Lord at precisely 1:03 pm on the first Wednesday of the first month following the summer equinox.
According to these “experts” we should have run out of oil some 30 years ago. And the world population is supposed to have exploded and massive food shortages and famines were to have detonated wars all across the planet (that was to have happened about 15 years ago). And it was predicted at least 35 years ago that we would be sitting in the beginning of the next ice age by now.
What malarkey.
Oh good Lord, another “Population Bomb” nut bar. These clowns seem to come out of the woodwork every few years.
He doesn't have any grift, no scam to pull on the marks.
Fenner should make a little cash on the side selling VEHMT bumper stickers and pens.
Troll dolls that look loike the “We’re all doomed” guy from the Gulliver’s Travels cartoon
“Since it’s too late to do anything and we’re all going to die anyway he can just relax and enjoy his idiot life.”
“Party on, Garth!”
“Party on, Frank!”
“Frank’s End of World, party on, excellent!!”
** “”Listen to me, I’m the expert so I’m ‘credible’.”
Fenner is an expert on microbiology.
About climate he knows nothing. **
“It’s at least 10 billion times worse than we think it is.
¡¡¡Yippie!!!”
* * Good! Since we now have it on high authority that we’re doomed and nothing can be done, can we junk Kyoto, IPCC, cap and tax and all that nonsense??? * *
Good point!!
“Psst, hey Leftist greenie...
You know what? That Fenner guy is right!!
Now you can shut up and make up a fantasy about how the gnomes and unicorns are going to attack us.
Work closely with Al “millions of degrees” Gore to find out how to profit from such a scam.*
Yeah, that’s the ticket! Gnomes”
*prophesy flashed into my head. Al Gore doing infomercials on how to makes millions of dollars inventing doomsday scams.
“I made over $100 millions on scamming, and you can too!
Come to my seminar just $249.99!!! At the Raddison July 12 to 14.
8:00am-6:00am”
~Al Gore Cable channel AGW, June 3, 2013
We are making the environment so unlivable that our population is exploding.
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