July 26, 2017 – 8:28 am
Because there’s no better way to get people behind a political movement than to have Chicken Little as the spokesperson Why Hope Is Dangerous When It Comes to Climate Change Global warming discussions need apocalyptic thinking. This is from Tommy Lynch at Slate, which is trying to go Full Salon, as he finally has his […]
July 25, 2017 – 10:30 am
The Washington Post’s resident climahysteric, Chris Mooney, takes a shot at some more fear-mongering We may have even less time to stop global warming than we thought At least since 2013, one of the biggest concerns in the climate change debate has been the so-called carbon budget — a fixed limit to the volume of carbon […]
July 24, 2017 – 7:15 am
It’s time for yet another in a long line of scary doom-predictions from the Cult of Climastrology Climate change brings one-in-three chance of record rainfall, warns Met Office There is now a one-in-three chance of record rainfall hitting part of England and Wales each winter, according to new Met Office study which highlights the risk […]
July 17, 2017 – 10:58 am
Extreme weather is not getting worse. In fact, many events linked to climate have decreased. But, that never stops a good talking point Scientists are getting better at linking extreme events, such as wildfires, to climate change The largest B.C. city between Kamloops and Prince George has been evacuated because of wildfires. As people have […]
July 16, 2017 – 3:40 pm
Today’s bit of scaremongering from the Cult Of Climastrology, because they haven’t pulled this food crops are doomed story recently Maize, rice, wheat: alarm at rising climate risk to vital crops Governments may be seriously underestimating the risks of crop disasters occurring in major farming regions around the world, a study by British researchers has […]
July 11, 2017 – 4:24 pm
The fallout from the scaremongering NY Magazine article on the Earth soon being to hot to support human life continues. Some, like Grist (which usually does a good job with the fear mongering) says the story was too much fearmongering (even though they do some themselves) The worst-case climate scenario is very bad indeed. The […]
July 10, 2017 – 4:34 pm
A bit of a follow up to the earlier post on the Earth becoming utterly unable to sustain life, we find (Esquire)Â But for every doomsday scenario, there’s a more measured take. Climatologist Michael Mann, who said he was interviewed but not quoted for the New York story, shared why he disagreed with some of its […]
July 10, 2017 – 8:49 am
There’s climate alarmist scaremongering, and then there’s climate alarmist SCAREMONGERING OMG WE’RE ALL DOOOOOOOOOMED! https://twitter.com/drvox/status/884256911926755330 Don’t you just love that graphic? The bones of a human hand made to look like preserved dinosaur bones. They have several more in the screed, like From the doomry (doom story) It is, I promise, worse than you think. […]
July 7, 2017 – 10:30 am
More fear-mongering Really?: "UN estimates that the oceans will rise at least four feet in the next eight decades" https://t.co/qoSi89avLt — Tom Nelson (@TomANelson) July 7, 2017 Well, I guess all those Caribbean countries/properties should stop allowing fossil fueled flights to their nations for tourism. And fossil fueled boats for tourism and fishing expeditions. And […]
July 3, 2017 – 5:38 pm
Today’s “maybe sorta we think possibly you’re getting scared from our doomy prognostications’ story California Submerged: Rising Seas are claiming its famed coast faster than scientists imagined A slow-moving emergency is lapping at California’s shores— climate-driven sea-level rise that experts now predict could elevate the water in coastal areas up to 10 feet in just […]
