Are you ready for yet another climate tipping point article fable?
(Washington Post) Locations around the globe will soon reach climatic tipping points, with some in tropical regions — home to most of the world’s biodiversity — feeling the first impacts of unprecedented eras of elevated temperatures as soon as seven years from now, according to a study released Wednesday.
On average, locations worldwide will leave behind the climates that have existed from the middle of the 19th century through the beginning of the 21st century by 2047 if no progress is made in curbing emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, said researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa who sought to project the timing of that event for 54,000 locations.
I bet you’re thinking “computer models” right now
Researchers said at a news briefing that their estimates are “conservative,†based on mountains of data from 39 models and accurate within five years in either direction for any of the locations they studied.
They say some will hit this point earlier, some later. All are decades in the future, when people will have forgotten about another scary prognostication. Remember this?
According to July 5, 1989, article in the Miami Herald, the then-director of the New York office of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Noel Brown, warned of a “10-year window of opportunity to solve†global warming. According to the 1989 article, “A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ‘eco-refugees,’ threatening political chaos.†(LINK) & (LINK)
We’ve heard about these “tipping points” ever since. Yet, they don’t ever actually happen, at least as prognosticated. Remember when they grew great wine grapes in England during the Medieval Climate Optimum? Well before fossil fueled vehicles and when CO2 was “safe” below 350ppm. They can’t do that now, not without gen modification. It was warmer then than now.
Anthony Watts catches something funny from lead author of the scary fable, Camilo Mora
A new Vinerism has emerged:
“Within my generation, whatever climate we were used to will be a thing of the past.â€.
That “Vinerism” is the “snowfalls are a thing of the past” insanity, which included “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is”, which is where the meme “schoolkids won’t know what X (unplowed roads, oranges after a heavy frost, standing roofs) looks like” comes from, meant to denigrate these Warmists. Which leads to my next point.
A few days ago James Delingpole wrote that we have to stop indulging the poisonous fantasies of Warmists
But what I really don’t think we should be doing at this stage in the game is allowing it to be our problem too. As I argued here the other week, there is more than enough solid evidence now to demonstrate to any neutral party prepared to cast half an eye over it that the doomsday prognostications the warmist establishment has been trying to frighten us with these last two decades are a nonsense. The man-made global warming scare story has not a shred of scientific credibility. It’s over. And while I don’t expect the alarmists to admit this any time soon, I do think the rest of us should stop indulging them in their poisonous fantasy.
It’s also time to stop treating them as anything other than bat-shit insane fear mongers and hysterics. Time to stop treating them with any sort of deference and kid-gloves. These nuts are dangerous and insane, living in fantasy worlds meant to push their far left politics. Anyone who believes in “climate change”, and, let’s be clear, I mean the folks who think that small amounts of CO2 released by Mankind is causing every weather even, hot, cold, wet, dry, snow, ice, etc, plus volcanoes and earthquakes and everything else, should be treated as the wackjobs they are. Beaten into submission. Treated with derision.
Read: Bummer: D.C. Climate Will Hit Tipping Point In 2047 »
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