Global Warming is so Over
Remember when unstoppable anthropogenic global warming was an imminent threat to our civilization? Now, in the wake of widespread public awareness of scientific fraud in the ClimateGate scandal and record cold winter weather worldwide, the scientific-government complex has retooled at least one computer model, delaying Armageddon a wee bit and therefore pushing further embarrassment beyond the event horizon. Despite the way this weather forecast reads, the study is published in Nature Geoscience not Analog Science Fiction.
Global Warming: Dire Prediction for the Year 3000
Even if humans stop producing excess carbon dioxide in 2100, the lingering effects of global warming could span the next millennia. The results? By the year 3000, global warming would be more than a hot topic - the West Antarctic ice sheet could collapse, and global sea levels would rise by about 13 feet (4 meters), according to a new study.
Using a computer model, researchers looked at two scenarios - an end to humans' industrial carbon dioxide emissions by 2010 and by 2100 - stretched out to the year 3000.
Even if humans were to stop emitting excess carbon dioxide - or if they figured out a way to completely capture it - the effects of global warming would continue to accumulate. That's because previously emitted carbon dioxide lingers in the atmosphere and the oceans, unlike land, warm only gradually, according to one of the study researchers, Shawn Marshall, an associate professor of geography at the University of Calgary.
So Al Gore isn't wrong, just early. See?
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Oct '10
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Global warming will be looked at a kitschy cultural phenomenon some twenty years from now, particularly in light of films like The Day After Tomorrow. It will be much the same way as we now consider global cooling and movies like Quintet from thirty years ago. Regarding the latter film, it's still endlessly amusing to see Paul Newman playing the role of a New Ice Age-type Max Rockatansky.
Edited on Jan 15, 2011 at 3:46pmJul '10
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Whew.... they give Us more time to "evolve."
Jun '10
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Question: What would happen if humans today tried to send a colonization mission to the distant stars?
Answer: They would arrive to find humans already there. You see, the technology available now would be overtaken by the advancing technologies of the future. A second mission a hundred years from now would pass the first attempt en route and arrive ahead of them.
Same goes for global warming. We don't need to do anything until technology advances to the point where we actually can do something. I'm betting that a thousand years from now we'll have mastered weather control. The global warming scare of today will be to our progeny a story equivalent to what Jules Verne's tales are to us today.
May '10
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By 3000 we should be able to flee planet Earth and colonize the Moon or Mars if need be. My cryogenically stored body will be revived by then, unleashing that lovable douchebaggery so familiar here unto the new world.
Edited on Jan 15, 2011 at 4:06pmJul '10
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Michael Labeit: By 3000 we should be able to flee planet Earth and colonize the Moon or Mars if need be. My cryogenically stored body will be revived by then. · Jan 15 at 4:04pm
Just back from 3011, where cryogenically stored bodies are the latest delicacy in the court Albertus Goricus XXVII. Sorry to break the news. Think I'm going with cremation, personally.
Oct '10
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But in the year 2525, will man still be alive? If not, the year 3000 won't matter.
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Ah, science! It is pretty hard to prove false a prediction the accuracy of which one cannot test for another 990 years.
Jul '10
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Please also bear in mind that none of these computer models has ever predicted squat, that the variability between the 400-fold greater effects of water vapor in the air as a green house gas over carbon dioxide, the ridiculously chaotic variability of white cloud cover, which creates major variances in heat absorption versus reflection, the ghastly corruption and incompetence of the IPCC, longer growing seasons and healthier plants in the carbon dioxide rich environment, and the overdue threat of the next ice age where longer growing season and healthier plants will no longer threaten the Green Socialists for Tyranny movement.
Al Gore promised rising sea levels, resulting in my home becoming beach front property at triple current value. I am not amused by his performance failure.
Aug '10
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Well, I'm convinced.
Aug '10
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Good Lord, the future's gonna be exciting.
Jul '10
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Prove it.
Aug '10
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No; I think it will not be looked at at all. Just like Amazonian deforestation - the pop-invention, not the non-fact - it will just go away.
Now I do think that, oh, five years from now, the subject may be revived briefly and indirectly: crop yields were expected to be high because the U.N. Agricultural High Command thought the Earth's atmosphere would be 85% CO<sub>2</sub>, only they and it weren't, so the U.S. needs to pay crop subsidies to Moslem farmers in Indonesia, et cetera...you get the idea. But that too will blow over.
But blow it will. I'd say that environmentalism is simply what stepped up to the plate after communism struck out, these -isms do bat around, and we will see them both again, in turn many times over, advocating something freshly nasty.
May '10
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Sisyphus: Please also bear in mind that none of these computer models has ever predicted squat....
Likewise an earlier incarnation of the computer model fraud: Anybody remember the notorious Limits to Growth? It was based on utterly worthless computer models, but since it served as a justification for all sorts of crackpot schemes it enjoyed a period of great popularity among the "intellectual" classes.
May '10
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There, you've hit on the Left's fundamental environmental principle: misanthropy.
Global warming was Armageddon for the faithless. Before that, it was nuclear holocaust. Before that, it was war on a global scale. Environmental destruction will remain the Left's preferred cataclysm theory until we cycle back to World War fears, triggered by America's next foray into a regional conflict... or the Left's usual predictions of immoderate retaliation following the next major terrorist strike against the U.S.
May '10
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Environmentalism, in concert with statist medical care, is the perfect vehicle for totalitarianism.
Jun '10
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Ok, so may I suggest we begin the dismantling of the government-sponsored green energy programs and return them to the private sector where they belong? I want to go after Rob's big blue dot and this is a darn good start.
And yes, I see the irony of believing in a computer model that supports my views. Isn't that interesting?
Oct '10
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Dang it. I just put down a nonrefundable deposit on a 2035 summer beach vacation in the Himalayas.
Oct '10
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Sisyphus
Just back from 3011, where cryogenically stored bodies are the latest delicacy in the court Albertus Goricus XXVII. Sorry to break the news. Think I'm going with cremation, personally. · Jan 15 at 4:10pm
Is Hugh Hefner still married?
Jul '10
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dittoheadadt
Sisyphus
Just back from 3011, where cryogenically stored bodies are the latest delicacy in the court Albertus Goricus XXVII. Sorry to break the news. Think I'm going with cremation, personally. · Jan 15 at 4:10pm
Is Hugh Hefner still married? · Jan 15 at 8:54pm
Sadly, Hugh does not make it to 3011, but a biography of Hugh is (was/will be) discovered by archeologists in 2932 and he is worshiped as the one true prophet in the fertile crescent. As a result in 3008 the Tunisian women's volley ball team took the gold at the summer Olympics. Get your bets down now, before the rush.
Oct '10
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So, when is america going to start drilling for oil in ANWR?