‘The Quote of the Millenium’
To paraphrase Barack Obama’s bête noire, if the Global Warming / Cooling / Climate Change / Climate Chaos Empire should last for a Thousand Years, let them know that this, their finest hour of banning everything, rearranging the average consumer’s lifestyle and breathing deep wacky geothermic engineering fantasies might or might not have paid off.
Here’s Anthony Watts of the Watts Up With That science blog on Australian journalist Andrew Bolt scoring “the Quote of the Millennium” — almost literally so, on MTR-1377, Melbourne’s talk radio station:
Our regular feature, “Quote of the Week” just doesn’t work here. Neither does decade or century. No, a whole new category all by itself is reserved for this quote from the newly appointed Climate Commissioner of Australia, Tim Flannery, noted zoologist and author of the book The Weather Makers.Here it is, brace yourself:
If we cut emissions today, global temperatures are not likely to drop for about a thousand years.
Lest you think that is an errant remark out of context, here’s the follow up from Flannery:
Just let me finish and say this. If the world as a whole cut all emissions tomorrow the average temperature of the planet is not going to drop in several hundred years, perhaps as much as a thousand years because the system is overburdened with CO2 that has to be absorbed and that only happens slowly.
Crikey! So much for the “think of the grandchildren” argument used by Dr. James Hansen.
Not to mention this badgering fellow’s botched ambush interview.
So why does AP still insist on running annual Dr. Strangelove-esque articles such as this?
Old time religion: Waiting for Jesus to come again.
New fervor for the new faithful: Waiting for the temps to drop again.
I propose we run with this version to shut the GW whack jobs up. Since we’re already doomed, why would this guy give a frick if I want to continue driving my SUV and running my AC? Once upon a time, the whack job world-Enders just qietly built their bunkers, stocked their ammo and foodstuffs, and left everybody alone. At least they had a sense of proportion. The current crop of world-Enders, not so much.
A civilization without a shame mechanism or rational ostracism has little way to regulate itself. Today, even those on the Right who should know better, begin their condemnation of the recent Muslim atrocities in Afghanistan over the Koran burning, with an oit-of-place condemnation of pastor Terry Jones first. No sense of proportion or the proper order of things.
As to our lack of shame, whether it was Clinton performing cunnilingus in the Oval Office, or Barak Hussein Obama saying the “this is the moment the oceans stop their rise and the earth begins to heal”, the liars, charlatans, and evil crackpots know no censure that will affect their behavior or social standing – and they remain full-fledged citizens with all privileges intact as long as they don’t violate the overarching Leftist orthodoxy/tyranny which is now almost universal in the Western World. These dangerous clowns can even become and remain first citizens of entire nations without fear of censure or the dangers of social ostracism. Whack job Algore is on his way to becoming a billionaire thru this whack job hoax of HAGW.
“Once upon a time, the whack job world-Enders just qietly built their bunkers, stocked their ammo and foodstuffs, and left everybody alone.”
Hmmm, you’ve given me an idea…eco-friendly “Green” ammunition! No carbon emissions from its gunfire.
This is gonna be BIG!
Let’s go through the football field analogy, again
The first 78 yards of this measurement is 78%Nitrogen of our hundred yards.
the next 21 yards are 21% Oxygen.
We’ve got one yard to go, to fill up the atmosphere.
This final yard of miscellaneous gases is over-whelming-ly filled with the inert gas, Argon.
We’re now first and inches from the goal post now.
CO2 is involved at this point but 95% of it is dissolved into the earths oceans.
CO2 is food, Carbon, for plants, and the byproduct of plant metabolism is O2, for the atmosphere.
The atmosphere was once 29% oxygen, and that was when dinosaurs were about to become extinct, because dinosaurs don’t have a diaphragm, and when the Oxygen level started falling below 29%, it started finishing them off, and creatures with diaphragms could adjust and adapt to the change.
So, dinosaurs couldn’t survive in Jurassic Park now, because the Oxygen content is to low, 21%, for the survival of dinosaurad reptiles.
If Oxygen levels increase, we’re talking maybe, a serious maybe.
How to Predict Anything About Climate Change
John: Northern Hemisphere temperatures have been rising rapidly for 4 months!
Mike: You need to get out more often. It’s Summer.
01/14/10 – WattsUpWithThat by Roy Spencer, PhD.
Spencer [edited]: We are uncertain about what is causing current warming, so researchers may tune their models to produce almost any amount of future global warming. It is difficult to prove them wrong, because there is no certain interpretation of the satellite data. When they assume that there are no natural causes of climate change, they conclude that our climate system is balanced on a knife edge.
AMG: An analogy. You are having dinner at a friend’s home when you suddenly feel warm and uncomfortable. You are happy to find out that your friend’s child has set the thermostat up by 5 degrees. You thought you were sick when you assumed that there was no external cause for your personal warming.
Warming data is uncertain and any cause is uncertain. Climate scientists should not be saying that “the science is settled” in the face of these uncertainties. That is not science, but only alarmist charting and extrapolation. We are not upset by the rapid warming during Summer because we know what causes Summer, and that Winter will follow.
Not Just One Rotten Climate Apple
The climate scientists will have to prove their work, as they should have from the beginning. They must reveal their data, theories, methods, and computer codes. There must be no more splicing of different data series to get a graph showing what is politically correct.