…and I only used that title because my original thought (“Just. Fuck. Off.”) may have been judged as a little intemperate.
Once more unto the hysterical breach, my friends:
The planet is grappling with a “new reality” as it reaches the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible climate tipping points: the widespread death of coral reefs, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists across the world.
As humans burn fossil fuels and ratchet up temperatures, it’s already driving more severe heat waves, floods, droughts, and wildfires. But there are even bigger impacts on the horizon. Climate change may also be pushing Earth’s crucial systems — from the Amazon rainforest to polar ice sheets — so far out of balance they collapse, sending catastrophic ripples across the planet.
“We are rapidly approaching multiple Earth system tipping points that could transform our world, with devastating consequences for people and nature,” said Tim Lenton, a professor at the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter and an author of the report published Sunday.
In other words:
Sorry, but nobody with any form of humanoid brain should give any credence to these hysterical “Do this NOW or we’re all gonna dieeeeeee!” doomsayings anymore.
In the first place, “climate change” is not the major consequence of human activity. Considering that almost every “landmark study” — from Mann’s infamous (and debunked) “hockey stick” graph onwards — has been based on flawed, incorrect or fraudulent data manipulation, not least in predictive climate models, there is no reason to suggest that there is anything we as humans can do to somehow affect any form of climate change, let alone reverse it. (Even assuming that mankind — and I’m looking at you, China and the other Third World nations — can actually act in concert, the entire activity could be reversed simply by the Sun doing one thing instead of another.)
In other words, there are greater forces in play here, and it doesn’t appear that people can do anything to affect them, even if they wanted to — and that’s a big if. Try telling the people who own these seafront properties in Hawaii, for example, to abandon them because the properties’ existence may be harming the offshore reefs:
They’ll tell you to fuck right off, and I can’t say I blame them.
Now tell China and India to stop the pollutant-heavy flow of the Yangtze and Ganges rivers (to name but two) into the ocean, and the response will be “fuck right off, squared“.
As for the statement: “…multiple Earth system tipping points that could transform our world, with devastating consequences for people and nature”, what’s happening here is the old extension of Murphy’s Law (If something can go wrong, it will) which states: “If a number of things can go wrong, they will either go wrong simultaneously or else in the order best designed to create the maximum damage.”
It’s a humorous take on failure, but like “strange women lying in ponds distributing swords” is not a good basis for government, basing ecological policy on Murphy’s Extended Law is just as foolish.
Of course, the greater the preponderance of factors pointing to massive failure, the greater the need for panic and precipitous action to prevent it. Hence the grouping of ocean current weakening, coral reef disintegration and cataclysmic weather events into one Great Big Disaster. (They left Donald Trump out of the list of calamities, but that’s probably just an oversight.)
Sorry, but we’ve seen, and recently, the dolorous consequences of precipitous, fear-driven action as a response to perceived calamity (#Covid). The same attitude (“we won’t be fooled again”) should apply equally to these climate loons’ dire predictions.
By the way: if you really want to worry about something occurring in nature, try this one. And there’s not a single thing we can do about it. Not even selling our evil SUVs or eliminating plastics.
How green are Electric vehicles? Either poor people in foreign countries get the materials using slave labor or a diesel excavator is used. Liberals love those two means of gathering raw materials for their beloved electric cars. They say they don’t but they don’t care where it comes from.
Now comes the fun part. The idiots, I mean liberals, say the batteries are sort of clean once they are produced because there is zero emissions. And the car runs off of electricity.
So then, where does electricity come from? Out of thin air? Liberals think so. Just like they think money comes from thin air.
In reality there is wind, solar, coal burning, oil and many other means of electricity production. Not all are as clean as the liberals want it. “Dirty jobs”. But if we want a modern society “thems the breaks”
The biggest question I have is what the fuck is going to happen in 15 to 20 years when many many (did I mention many) electric vehicles and their batteries are scrapped for the next round of electric vehicles? Where will we put this waste?
I saw a YouTube video where a factory recycles electric batteries from cars, phones, electronics. I didn’t see any but I’m sure lesbians dildo batteries might be in there too. At any rate, the plant ran on natural gas.
I am all about choice. Free market. You want an electric car go ahead. Buy one. Just don’t force everyone else into this.
I personally think all this fucking horseshit is to make vehicles and driving so expensive that only the rich elite will own a vehicle and drive. But who the fuck knows what the NWO is up to Really. If it even exists.
We do know the politicians are making tons of money off of this fucking scam of global catastrophe. Fuck you Al Gore.
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has allegedly been dying every year for the last 50 years or so.
Untold millions of dollars have been grifted from taxpayers to fund hordes of “marine scientists” to travel north every Australian winter and stay in luxurious five star resorts while they conduct their “research” into the dying (!) coral reef.
Needless to say these scientists are always accompanied by a bevy of glamorous young female research assistants and state of the art dive boats equipped with all the latest and most expensive scuba and tech gear.
Nice work if you can get it.
Climate change, huh? I recently read, just in time for Columbus Day, that the water level at Plymouth Rock has not changed in 402 years. Global warming? Melting ice caps? Other catastrophic disaster?
I think not.
The linked article about the earth’s shifting magnetic fields says “…South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), the …, and it is also slowly shifting westward toward Africa,…”
Besides the whole article being disjointed, how does something in the Atlantic Ocean move westward towards Africa?
The writer is either geographically ignorant or needs an editor very badly.
I’d guess both, given the subject is part of Doom Goblin’s genre.
I remember reading science magazines in my high school’s library, back in the mid-late 70’s about the coming ICE AGE!!! The Earth was cooling and we were doomed! Then it got flipped. The thing is this time the politicians glommed onto Global Warming/Climate Change(!) and then the hype really went throught the roof. My take back then was that when politicians get on the bandwagon they tell the band what to play and take over steering the wagon. Yup! But after decades of hype and doom and gloom headlines, regular folk are just sick and tired of predictions that don’t come true and are ignoring the hype. Slowly it’s gonna go away. Of course, then the “Powers That Be” will come up with some other damn thing, but I think we’ve reached an actual tipping point and aren’t going to pay attention any more. thank God.