U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked in 10 Years.

[mikewhitney]

The little glitch in this horrible rise of temperature is that the increased temperature is primarily based on city temperatures. Cities that have grown, since the earliest measurements, now have more cement and buildings. These materials cause higher temperatures in these limited regions (less than 1% of the land surface of the earth).

Corollary 1: If people hadn't consolidated into cities, from the rural areas, there wouldn't be any noticeable rise in temperature.
Corollary 2: We can solve the warming problem by moving people back to rural areas.

Please let the UN know this so that we can end their panic.

[Charles]

For instance?

"Being a public gay is to my view a civic responsibility. It's important to show that the width of the gay world cannot be described by a tired stereotype, but goes from leather gays on parade-wagons to suit-and-tie yuppies on the direction floor, as well as everything in between".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%..._ref-OBLS_58-0

[seer]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%..._ref-OBLS_58-0

I thought you were talking about the climate issue...

[Charles]

I though you were talking about the climate issue...

It seems I obviously was not.

[seer]

It seems I obviously was not.

Well no, there could be other topics that I agree with him on. And I could care less that he is gay.

[Leonhard]

The whole overplaying of the threat, i.e. "The world is gonna end in 10 years!," is why people are not taking global warming seriously, and even claiming it isn't happening at all. This article shows that they have been making the same doomsday prophesies for 30 years now. Just as we dismiss the Jehovah's Witnesses and other cults who keep predicting the Rapture every few years or whenever their is a blood moon or asteroid passing by, people dismiss the global warming alarmists.

I whole heartedly agree with this sentiment. I don't believe it excuses inaction though. I do wish people would just read the darned reports and take its conservative estimates as the working point, rather than running to obscure scenarios mentioned in the report because they're mentioned in one or two outlier articles as a possibility.

I don't believe outright hysteria is going to us any good. If anything it moves people to inaction, because they'll percieve the problem as something that can't be handled. Whereas if they actually read the reports and associated discussions they'd find that they talk about optimistic goals being a fasing out of fossil fuels in the US and Europe by 2050 and in China and India by 2100.

Today it is people like Alexandria Cortez who use the latest UN IPCC report that says that the point of no return is, yet again, a dozen years away.

What's Alexandria Cortez's name doing there? She's not the one making that prediction the IPCC is. And they're not saying "We have twelve years before the world is doomed" that's mostly the media hyping everything to destruction.

The original target was set at 1.2C temperature change. Politicians made a lot of grand standing, went to Copenhagen and all agreed to do stuff and then didn't. And Germany then decided to pull the plug on their nuclear power and turn to brown coal - because Fukushima. So that target was overshot, and we moved to 1.5C. We'll see if also overshoot 2C. But you get the idea, they update the goal to the next target.

[Bill the Cat]

This is the sort of fear mongering I am against.

[seer]

This is the sort of fear mongering I am against.

Some one needs to take that brat over their knee...

[mikewhitney]

This is the sort of fear mongering I am against.

She did say we should listen to the scientists. But I don't think she meant to include the scientists who don't find evidence of man-made global warming. She would just want us to ask the scientists who agree with her.

[seer]

She did say we should listen to the scientists. But I don't think she meant to include the scientists who don't find evidence of man-made global warming. She would just want us to ask the scientists who agree with her.

It is a shame, they are scaring the crap out of these kids. It reminds me of the duck and cover drills from the 60s.

[rogue06]

Some one needs to take that brat over their knee...

gluteal warming?

[seer]

gluteal warming?

Nothing like a little pain to focus the mind...

[mikewhitney]

It is a shame, they are scaring the crap out of these kids. It reminds me of the duck and cover drills from the 60s.

It is the same as always ... scare the flock into the loving hands of the hounds waiting to feed off their flesh.

[seer]

It is the same as always ... scare the flock into the loving hands of the hounds waiting to feed off their flesh.

Insidious...

[Leonhard]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...f40_story.html

Source: Michael E. Mann - Doomsday Scenarios Are As Harmful as Climate Change Denial

But there is also a danger in overstatement that presents the problem as unsolvable and future outcomes as inevitable.

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