Over 4.5 Billion people could die from Global Warming-related causes by 2012
UPDATE: January 1st, 2012 – still here, no reports of mass deaths at the last minute. – Anthony
Global warming may go on a last minute rampage. Maybe best to just stay at home and lock your doors, bar your windows, and turn your air conditioner on. If you live near the coast, head for high ground. Deaths due to drinking and driving will be nothing compared to this.
This story appeared in The Canadian January 8th, 2007, it’s been a countdown example of stupidity ever since. Unbelievably, it is still on their website. Note today’s date.
Over at the Daily Bayonet, where they’ve been following for this for years, they have encouraging news:
Assuming there is no last minute surprise attack by pesky methane clathrates, the Daily Bayonet wishes you a safe and happy 2012.
If it happens, it will be the gaia fart heard round the world.
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Climate-Change-Theory on January 30, 2012 at 2:36 pm
Let’s see now: 4.5 billion out of 7 billion – well at least that gets rid of 64.3% of the warmists.
Paxmax on February 11, 2012 at 4:04 pm
I gotta hand it to you guys and gals, pretty funny!
John Hendry on February 18, 2012 at 4:53 am
One mistake does make an issue true. But like I said in another post, regardless of manmade warming or no warming we have gone through 200 million years of stored carbon and must slow down to conserve the last half of it for future generations. We must conserve our resources for what matters most and that’s not some crackhead driving a car to deliver drugs that says the Moon landing was a hoax too just because of 911. Let em walk. Finding balance and learning to tune rather than change scales is what needs to be done. We have a violent past that shows us the future if we do not change our ways and the unfortunate fact is that takes time and many people will remain stuck in the past habits. The new religion is physics and because it wears a strait jacket and reveals only truth arguments over it will be resolved. We are making progress and should help with the tuning established, not try to change the age old song that made it though. You can accomplish a lot with tuning if you do it right, but you must accept the strings as they are as cutting them will get you nowhere except involved in endless arguments . In other words what matters is we stop the greed and their lack of balance.
John^^
Mick on March 10, 2012 at 11:55 am
you can’t always get what you want,
but if you try, sometimes you get what you need.
Simon on April 3, 2012 at 5:50 am
John – I suggest you get yourself a copy of “The Deep Hot Biosphere” by Thomas Gold and/or look up J F Kenney. – plenty of info on scribed.
Wayne on April 11, 2012 at 8:29 am
John: Take your meds!
Morganne on April 19, 2012 at 3:47 pm
Global warming is not an issue. It’s the way of life. After global warming, there will be global cooling. Then it’ll start all over again. I don’t see the point in panicking over a fact of life.
Mike on May 6, 2012 at 10:02 am
I take it flying 1800 miles to the East and driving my new ride back to its Western home was not what these folks had in mind. But it was a good way to get familiar with my Escalade.
Leo Smith on May 11, 2012 at 4:36 am
Several million will die as a result of crazy policies adopted by politcians who believed (or asserted that they believed) in AGW.
Andy Wilkins on May 14, 2012 at 3:30 pm
I’ll ‘fess up:
I couldn’t help myself and just had to email Nick and remind him about this prediction wholly failing to come true. I also noted that he was still calling it ‘Global Warming’ back then, but is now calling it ‘Climate Change’ (probably because of the current lack of warming). I went on to ask him when he was going to start calling it ‘Climate Disruption’ so that he could blame any weather event on our level of CO2 production.
Naughty of me, I know, but it always does me good to a have bit of levity in my day!
Andy Wilkins on May 14, 2012 at 3:36 pm
Sorry!
I meant John not Nick!
It’s late and I’m tired!
custom written dissertation on May 23, 2012 at 3:36 am
Well, that is definitely sad news, but at least now they have stopped talking about the end of the world…
rodney porter on July 12, 2012 at 5:30 am
Simply amazing, carbon an essential gas, as without it we would not be here, the planet as we know it would not support life as we know it, but would be a snowball. To grow some sort of food that we could eat to live we need Carbon”, now we have in Australia” a tax mainly on the air we breathe, great, not only do we have death taxes but now a right to live tax. Economically this country is now on the way out, be interesting when the liberals get back in, how long it will take to reverse this damage that is about to be lumped on to us.
One can only hope it will not be to bad..
Rod P.
Little Joe on July 14, 2012 at 5:46 am
Carbon is not a gas until the temperature reaches 4098K.
Charles Johnson on July 19, 2012 at 10:45 pm
I too, have contacted them and demanded a retraction and apology for publishing garbage.
yadontwannano on July 22, 2012 at 9:18 am
Everybody says ” global warming ” it’s the side effect of noticular clouds seem to play a role in warming the morning temperatures especialy in highly populated areas where low level air pollution and calories sources abound such as body heat , merthane production internal copmbustion engines etc are concentrated . The sun has the biggest effect apon global temperatures varying it’s out put bewteen cycles . Then comes the cloud covers made up of water hellium , and dust paarticles from many sources . The problem is that the atmosphere suffers from ionic pollution
G_Grady@gmail.com on August 8, 2012 at 8:17 pm
You guys are all shills right?
Bondi Climate Realist on August 12, 2012 at 12:25 am
Here in Australia, our carbon price is raising electricity prices even higher. We have been incurring huge increases (to subsidize “green” energy) for several years and they are set to jump again now we have the world’s highest price on carbon. The Greens would like to raise it from $23 per ton to $200 per ton. I can forsee deaths from starvation and other poverty related mortality to fund this insane tax. I personally know pensioners who simply will not use heating anymore(and thus are cold during winter) and go to bed early to avoid using lights.They are paranoid about how big the electricity bill is going to be. We are going back to the stone age. Perhaps this is the TRUE intention of the ultra green movement.
steve on August 14, 2012 at 3:30 pm
@Bondi
you need heating in Australia?
on a serious note, I am a former climatologist (lowly postdoc) and climate skeptic. but I also agree with carbon taxes. I genuinely like wind turbines and other ‘renewables’. In the UK it is more about energy security than climate chaos though.
grumpydenier on August 17, 2012 at 10:43 am
@steve
“In the UK it is more about energy security than climate chaos though.”
Please explain in words of one syllable, how wind turbines and solar panels ensure our energy security.
A simple answer to the problem is nuclear energy, shale gas, newer coal extraction/conversion techniques and, possibly, thorium.
Everything else is pure vanity to placate the greens and make the politicians look as if they’re doing something to solve a non-problem.
Morpheus on August 26, 2012 at 9:23 am
The human body generates more bio- electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 B.T.U.’s of body heat.
ace nurnette on September 1, 2012 at 9:04 am
in america we can build our own electrical systems and make the providers pay us…a wind turbine, water wheel, solar panals and batteries, all home made. your government IS the problem.
psychopigeon on September 2, 2012 at 4:08 pm
All you have to do is look at the United Nations Climate Alarmists to see they’re in it for power and money. Carbon Credits is simply a permit to pollute, all that will end up happening if energy companies will increase their prices to pay for it and we’ll pay that increase because we need energy. It’s a god damn scam. On top of that the ‘climate treaties’ require more power given to the Communist United Nations. I don’t want these corrupt people gaining more control over my life.
Industrial Hemp can replace all our wood, paper, fuel, food, plastic needs, why isn’t that at the forefront of the agenda for these so-called saviors of the world? BECAUSE THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT.
MShea on September 19, 2012 at 12:09 pm
On the positive side, if the estimate is correct, then the over population problem will be solved…..
Dajake on October 2, 2012 at 6:34 pm
We must conserve the remaining half of carbon for future generations? Future generations are a purely abstract hypothetical.
Billy on October 16, 2012 at 8:16 am
It seems like the Canadian is a lunatic blog with no readers or advertisers. All of the posts are idiotic.
Mick on October 18, 2012 at 2:45 pm
HAHAHAHA they obviously ran out of ideas of thing to write about and just wrote something in a desperate attempt to get some visitors….!!
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Anthony Siebenthaler on November 25, 2012 at 9:10 am
Time should have resolved this issue by now, but you still hear people making the same old statements and repeating the same old gloom laden prophecies despite, like the one in the headline story, not materialising.
was watching the EU parliament the other day…. they go on as if there has been no caution raised at all. Even one Dutch MEP saying that even if shale oil/gas could sort out all of Europe’s problems overnight she would still rather leave it in the ground… so save ‘mother Earth’
Keith on January 8, 2013 at 12:23 am
Most of the over populated and agrarian based nations on the planet had better be hoping for “warming” because if it starts to cool the food supply will disappear real quick.
Stew Green on January 8, 2013 at 3:55 am
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/12/071212-AP-arctic-melt.html
from 2007 ‘Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?
Seth Borenstein in Washington
Associated Press
December 12, 2007′
Stew Green on January 8, 2013 at 8:38 am
- note the weasel words like “UPTO” & “COULD” to cover any eventuality that are used in the body but often omıtted from the headlines
- It would seem much easier to compile a list of the predictions that CAGW supporters have correctly made ..There is nothing wrong with giving them credit when they are right.
Below is a link to a good analysis of the 2012 UK Met Office (mis-)forecasts
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/hcubed/comment.html?entrynum=282
Andrew Fernie on January 28, 2013 at 8:26 am
As far as I can see, Raymond Samuels pretty much IS the Canadian ‘newpaper’ and he’s a certified (and certifiable) tin-foil hat wearer of the Mayans/UFOs/NWO/Gnostic-Archons-are-aliens-from-another-dimension/giant-spaceships-near-the-sun variety. Combine that with his amazing journalistic prowess and it’s not a big surprise…
Equorial on February 4, 2013 at 12:13 pm
This is something I read about nearly 20 years ago. The scientists during that time period ultimately decided that “Cow Farts” were releasing methane into the atmosphere at 1000 times the rate that anything in the process of melting was. So, if you have cows, please refrain from feeding them beans and other known sources of ‘gaseous emissions’ so that we’ll all live longer, healthier lives. Besides, the president of the USA wants these people to kill for himself, and who are we to take away his ambitions?
Stew Green on May 3, 2013
Ice Free Forecasts a few coming up this year
- I see you have a longer list
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/07/16/i-need-your-help-for-a-short-research-project/
- but here from teve Goddard’s long list
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/ice-free-arctic-forecasts/
2000 New Scientist in 1960
2000 AP in 1972
2008 Olav Orheim, the head of the Norwegian International Polar Year Secretariat in 2008 ! yes
2010-2015 Articnet Canada in 2007
2012 NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally
2012 Seth Borenstein in Washington Associated Press &N Geographic December 12, 2007
2013 Jonathan Amos Science reporter, BBC News, San Francisco in 2007
2013-2019 Richard Black BBC News 2011 WOLF WOLF says BBC
2013 niagarafallsreview.ca in 2011 they removed it now
2014-2016 Al Gore December 15, 2009
2015 Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment Report in 2009
2020 UK Met office old forecast, updated to 2060-80 their 2009 forecast
2030 Joe Rommm quoting NSIDC Serreze in 2011
- some claims it’s partially due to a strange definition : when the Arctic sea-ice extent in September is below 1 million sq km (“ice free”).
- It seems it has low years then recovers, but pessimists never predicted any recoveries hence their way off calculations.
Rachel Shaffer on July 6, 2013 at 7:21 am
Well, not in 2012.
Igor Karlić on August 14, 2013 at 12:17 pm
Do not be sad. Never lose hope. If not in AD 2013 try AD 2014! You never now. But be aware. After 4,5 billion years you must change paranoia reason from CO2 to Sun explosion.