We're All Gonna Die! Pt. 17
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Energy and the Environment
Al Gore, still trying to top his invention of the internet, wants to invent a new .eco top level domain.
I call dibs on wereallgonnadie.eco!
Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem.
Saturday
March 2009
COMMENTS
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Energy and the Environment
Al Gore, still trying to top his invention of the internet, wants to invent a new .eco top level domain.
I call dibs on wereallgonnadie.eco!
Sunday
February 2009
COMMENTS
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Energy and the Environment, Media Bias
We’re all gonna die even faster than we thought:
The pace of global warming is likely to be much faster than recent predictions, because industrial greenhouse gas emissions have increased more quickly than expected and higher temperatures are triggering self-reinforcing feedback mechanisms in global ecosystems, scientists said Saturday.
“We are basically looking now at a future climate that’s beyond anything we’ve considered seriously in climate model simulations,” Christopher Field, founding director of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University, said at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
This increase in doom-mongering and hysteria wouldn’t have anything to do with the public’s decreasing receptiveness to massive environmental regulation of the economy following the economic downturn, now would it?
It’s also worth pointing how how misleading the WaPo headline is. The headlines states, “Scientists: Pace of Climate Change Exceeds Estimates.” This is deliberately misleading. No one actually measured “climate change” and found that it “exceeds estimates.” All they did was change the data input, which does nothing to address the faults in their models.
Wednesday
February 2009
COMMENTS
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Energy and the Environment
If global warming doesn’t kill us, the fear of it will drive us all crazy!
Last year, an anxious, depressed 17-year-old boy was admitted to the psychiatric unit at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. He was refusing to drink water. Worried about drought related to climate change, the young man was convinced that if he drank, millions of people would die. The Australian doctors wrote the case up as the first known instance of “climate change delusion.”
Robert Salo, the psychiatrist who runs the inpatient unit where the boy was treated, has now seen several more patients with psychosis or anxiety disorders focused on climate change, as well as children who are having nightmares about global-warming-related natural disasters.
Not to let you think it’s all in our heads, the author dutifully reminded us that we really are all going to die:
Over this century, the average global temperature is expected to rise between 1 degrees and 6 degrees Celsius. Glaciers will melt, seas will rise, extremes in precipitation will occur, according to scientists’ predictions.
Hat tip: Right Wing News
Monday
February 2009
COMMENTS
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Energy and the Environment
We’re all going to die. The end of human civilization. At least, that’s what 23% of Americans think is likely within the next century.
For once, I have nothing sarcastic to say to that. Some things just speak for themselves.
Thursday
February 2009
COMMENTS
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in Energy and the Environment
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu thinks we need more gut gripping panic!
Reporting from Washington — California’s farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said Tuesday.
…Chu warned of water shortages plaguing the West and Upper Midwest and particularly dire consequences for California, his home state, the nation’s leading agricultural producer.
In a worst case, Chu said, up to 90% of the Sierra snowpack could disappear, all but eliminating a natural storage system for water vital to agriculture.
“I don’t think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen,” he said. “We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California.” And, he added, “I don’t actually see how they can keep their cities going” either.
Climate hysteria is now firmly entrentched in the highest offices of government. So say it with him now: “We. Are. All. Going. To. Die.”
Monday
January 2009
COMMENTS
Written by Brian Garst, Posted in General/Misc.
A New Cigarette Hazard: ‘Third-Hand Smoke’
Third-hand smoke is what one smells when a smoker gets in an elevator after going outside for a cigarette, he said, or in a hotel room where people were smoking. “Your nose isn’t lying,” he said. “The stuff is so toxic that your brain is telling you: ’Get away.’”
Funny, that pounding sensation in my head when I read the New York Times tells me something similar. I wonder, if I walk into a room and see a copy of the New York Times that someone has recently read, will I get dumber too?
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