I Was a Futurist, Until I Realized There May Not Be a Future

The Huffington Post's Green The Blog ^ | June 5, 2015 | Schuyler Brown

[Theophilus]

They are so sincere, thoughtful, and outspoken about their religion with no good news. When they run up the black flag against the infidels and try to force abortions on us, we ought to have no trouble helping them reduce their carbon output to zero.

[TalBlack]

“When Italy entered the First World War in 1915, many Futurists enlisted.”

Can’t beat that for irony.

[abclily]

OK!! Everybody pay attention!

Lesson for today:

1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.

2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.

3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.

4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.

5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.

Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?

[P.O.E.]

I, I, I, I....Ay yai yai

[DiogenesLamp]

The clock has run out on the climate change debate. It's time for predictions to give way to radical action.

Yes. It's time we started punching these Nazi wannabees in the mouth until they have no teeth left. It's time to beat the living dog sh*t out of them and explain to them that their kooky non proven faith based religion, is not going to be imposed on us against our will.

[Sherman Logan]

Not only is she a nut-nut, she's a flat out liar.

Here's what she says the IPCC says:

According to the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and others, the current estimate for the earth's temperature rise by 2100 is 3-5 degrees Celsius

Here's what the IPCC (2013) actually says:

Relative to the average from year 1850 to 1900, global surface temperature change by the end of the 21st century is projected to likely exceed 1.5°C for RCP4.5, RCP6.0 and RCP8.5 (high confidence). Warming is likely to exceed 2°C for RCP6.0 and RCP8.5 (high confidence), more likely than not to exceed 2°C for RCP4.5 (high confidence), but unlikely to exceed 2°C for RCP2.6 (medium confidence). Warming is unlikely to exceed 4°C for RCP2.6, RCP4.5 and RCP6.0 (high confidence) and is about as likely as not to exceed 4°C for RCP8.5 (medium confidence).

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_SPM_FINAL.pdf

We can argue from here to eternity about whether IPCC is right, but they simply did not say what she says they did.