No Need to Worry: Record Tornadoes, Raging Fires, Mega Floods, & Crop-Killing Droughts Are NOT What Climatologists Predicted

Tue, 2011-05-24 11:00Bill McKibben
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This op-ed originally appeared in the Washington Post.








Bill McKibben is founder of the global climate campaign and a distinguished scholar at Middlebury College in Vermont.


is not even on the G8’s Agenda, meeting in France in a few days.
That the economy/poverty/democracy/climate are simply not related, no connection.

Its not on the G8 agenda because in every country except Australia and perhaps New Zealand, climate change is the kiss of death for politicians. They didn’t bring it up at last years G8 in canada, and they won’t this year. Any politician who mentions the word gets killed in th polls or in the next election. Only Australia is still debating it, its’ like OZ is stuck in 2008. The rest of the world has moved on.

Wow. You definitely presented all of that very cohesively. It’s pretty scary when you see it all together like that.

Its supposed to be scary, if it wasn’t scary then climate change never would have been a topic of discussion ever.

Says the denier who SCREAMSIT WILL COST TOO MUCH!!!!”.

Yet it will cost less than 1% of GDP to change our way completely.

But if they didn’t scream so loud, there’d be nobody caring about the cost.

And 1% of GDP is roughly $450 for every person in the country every year, that is until there is a new fabricated scare and it is bumped to 2%, then 3%, then…In truth only the lowest income people will be hurt by $450 per person per year. I make good living, $1600 for my family of four is no biggy, but for a family making poverty income it will hurt. I never understood why the greenies hate poor people so much but what can you do? Cheers

The old weather is Climate nonsense again?

So predictable.

The climate is the baseline for weather, weather changes the values upon that.

So predictable that a denier has nothing other than a vague snit.

I think it is now time to go back under the rock before I get pummeled by common sense and logic. Can’t we make all these bad facts go away?

Prove its not H.A.R.R.P., where are sat images. What do the H.A.R.R.P. hunters have to say?

all from .7 degrees? really? poor eaarth.

Well done.

Now, what happens when ice gets warmer, rum?

after that then the sky falls. don’t you know?

Odd how you don’t even know what the air is, isn’t it.

Actually that is merely the alarmist’s accepted value after the real numbers are “Adjusted” but jimmy and his quacks.

With the recent revelations about the true effects of UHI, the actual value is likely closer to .3 degrees.

That is too small to measure. It has to be teased out of the error bars with clever statistics.

so yea… they actaully want us to believe all that happened because of an un-measurable increase in temperatures.

Some people will believe pretty much anything.

And it accords to the models. Those IPCC models. Those models that say that we need to stop before we get to 2C warming.

You see, there’s this little thing called “keeping on going the same way”.

Do you know what that means?

If we continue to go BAU, we see MORE WARMING.

Do you know what happens with enough MORE WARMING?


Lots of it.

You’re like the bloke falling off the Empire State and heard going past the third floor: So far, so good!

What a pantywaisting moron you are.

Can you imagine the destruction which happened when the average temperature changed +7 degrees at the end of the last ice age. Thats ten times the increase so the destruction would have been over 1000 times higher, based on equivelent IPCC alarmist projections. Cool.

And it’s much better to keep our heads up the collective exhaust pipes of North Americar…

They have catalytic converters so its ok.

As usual, the alarmists are embellishing just a bit… !

It sure would be nice if the anti-AGW “anonymous” and the pro-AGW “anonymous” would start to use unique avatars. Be creative. It won’t hurt.

Just respond to the message.

Doesn’t matter if it’s “anonymous” or “anonymous”. The words are still the same.

Wont hurt?

I beg to differ. Seems anyone that uses a name and posts non cult supporting comments just dissapears somehow…

Wonder how that happens.

Can we say censorship boys and girls?

someone seem terrified of the truth.

Yes, which is why you hear them squeal about a government conspiracy when the truth about the science is shown on this site.

They much prefer to go to, for example, WUWT, where inconvenient truths are thrown out summarily by Anthony Watts (where, for example, you’ll never hear complaints about censorship).

look at the industry that has the most to gain. they’re the ones who are sowing the seeds of doubt. of course people will deny climate change. it’s inconvenient. who would come up with a theory like this if it weren’t true? why do so many scientists verify this? there’s not really any money in it. you want to figure out who’s lying, just follow the money. look at who has the most to gain. also, accepting scientific consensus helps. to deny climate change is foolish.

Hmmmmmm. The industry with the most to gain.

Would that be the multi billion dollar AGW industry?

The chineese curly light bulb people.
The scammers like Al Bore….

Etc Etc…..

Soros…. Suzuki…

As in their product is the major cause of AGW and they want to see it continue.

Multi billion?

All amounts in millions except per share amounts.

Operating Revenue:

12/2010 12/2009 12/2008 12/2007
297,107.00 239,272.00 361,143.00 284,365.00

Just one company. Not even the biggest. $300 billion a year.

Gloomy outlook as General Electric’s light bulb flickers
By Damian Reece, Head of Business 12:01AM BST 12 Apr 2008

(that’s 2008, people. 29 years after “the great conspiracy to plump GE’s coffers” started)

By the way, how much profit extra did GE make from their lightbulbs? Do you have ANY figures for that?

The average rated life of a CFL is between 8 and 15 times that of incandescents. CFLs typically have a rated lifespan of between 6,000 and 15,000 hours, whereas incandescent lamps are usually manufactured to have a lifespan of 750 hours or 1,000 hours.

So a CFL would have to cost more than 11x as much as an incandescent

While the purchase price of an integrated CFL is typically 3 to 10 times greater than that of an equivalent incandescent lamp, the extended lifetime and lower energy use will more than compensate for the higher initial cost. A U.S. article stated “A household that invested $90 in changing 30 fixtures to CFLs would save $440 to $1,500 over the five-year life of the bulbs, depending on your cost of electricity. Look at your utility bill and imagine a 12% discount to estimate the savings.”

Oh, but electric companies won’t make as much profit, since they won’t be selling as much electricity to light homes.

Electric companies like…. General Electric…

Hmmm. I don’t think this barnpot has worked out his conspiracy theory.

LED bulbs are better! More efficient and no harmful gasses ;)

I still buy the incandescent bulbs. The curly ones never pay for themselves and they are too toxic for the environment. Cheers.

Of course you have to pay for the incandescents too. Just like you have to pay for the fluorescents. Neither buy themselves.

The fossil fuel industry has billions of dollars of future profits at stake if “business as usual” is not maintained!

Why you and other climate denier bloggers chose to shill for the fossil fuel industry is a mystery to me.

Like most clinmate denial bloggers, your political ideology blinds you to reality.

You and your cohorts are being played like fiddles by the likes of the Koch brothers and Ruppert Murdoch.





I dont shill for anyone.
I simply point out that the AGW theory failed.

The oil industry will do fine no matter what happens, they dont need my help.
The AGW industry is still doing fine despite the theory being dead.

Money will still be wasted on dumb crap like Carbon offsets and emmission reduction even though both are totally useless scams.

I just think everyone should get informed and stop believeing in silly doomsday myths.

You can point it out all you like but you’re wrong.

That’s OK, you can be wrong.

Just don’t keep being wrong, because that’s what makes you a brainless idiot.

Plus, as you pointed out, you make absolutely no difference to anything.

Anonymous boldly proclaims: “AGW theory has failed!”

The disappearing Arctic sea ice did not get the memo.

The melting Greenland ice sheet did not get the memo.

Melting alpine glaciers did not get the memo.

The warming troposphere did not get the memo.

The melting permafrost in Canada, Alaska, and Siberia did not get the memo.

There are numerous other lines of evidence corroborating the reality of AGW that are being documented and experienced on a daily basis by scientists and ordinary people throughout the world.

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