American Thinker:
By Alexander G. Markovsky
Jonathan Overpeck, Ph.D., a professor and dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan is the author of an article titled “Whatever it Takes,” posted on The Hill recently.
In his article, Professor Overpeck made a torrent of apocalyptic predictions and delineated a host of “inexorable and accelerating” calamities attributed to Global Warming. “I care about future generations, who stand to inherit either an unimaginable climate change disaster or a world transformed that is free of climate change, toxic air pollution, mass extinction, and the terrible economic and health burdens that massive climate change is sure to create,” he wrote.
The author insists that “Success in our battle against climate change requires the deliberate and strategic spending.” He authoritatively concluded that “warming and associated climate disasters become inevitable and largely irreversible.” (Emphasis mine.)
Haven’t we danced to this dance before? In the mid-1970s, scientists and the media overwhelmingly supported global cooling with the same vigor and urgency as Professor Overpeck supports global warming today. The cover of the April 28, 1975, issue of Newsweek proclaimed “The Coming Ice Age.” In the article “The Cooling World,” the magazine suggested the disasters similar to those predicted in the article “Whatever it Takes.” On June 24, 1974, issue of Time magazine, the article “Another Ice Age” painted a bleak picture for the future of our planet: “When meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe, they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. “The trend shows no indication of reversing.” (Emphasis mine.) more
h/t NAAC.
I’m experiencing some sunny,mild and breezy climate change right now!
FJB
It’s spelled GLOBULL!
jonathan-overpeck is an indoctrinated tool. He’s bought into the postulate that others have been pushing and writing about. And they based their bull shit on others bull shit. Justified by even more bull shit. It’s amazing.
The ice sheets aren’t melting, it’s all shit cause you say so.
I wanna know how they’re gonna tax volcanos.
Also, If we ban private jets we can eliminate a significant portion of the carbon problem. It’s a reasonable solution but I know it’ll never happen because… just because that’s why.
Someone should remind Johnny of the signs they just had to remove at the Glacial National Park in Montana. They’ve never been right about a single damn thing.
Teaching AGW is a slacker paradise job. No hard science involved. Only theory.
As I glance at the chyron in the upper righthand corner I’m reminded to give a fuck about glowbull warming right after the next nuclear war.
I remember the first Earth Day, everyone was really excited. The doomsayers were just starting to get cranked up. The global cooling hysteria started later, then died down in time for the global warming hysteria to pick up. They had to do an overpopulation interlude to allow people to get over the global cooling, it wouldn’t do to just flip on a dime back then. Nowadays they probably could. I was listening to the frogs the other night, remembering fondly AlGore and science saying they’d all be dead by somewhere in the 2000 oughts, ought 5 maybe? I like watching the big frogs hunt the little ones but I feel bad when one gets caught.
The environmental movement is a watermelon. Green on the outside and Marxist/communist red on the inside. They had to go somewhere when the ideology collapsed and that’s where they went.
Now I burn a tire (PR35/75-14 or equivalent) on Earth Day in honor of the necklaces the ruling stooge elite deserves to wear for their malicious destruction of our entire underlying economic system, partly, even largely, based on their pet climate scientists paid for hysterics.
Moron. From time to time I’m embarrassed to be an alumnus.
Back when the Sierra Club was ranting about how Americans were consuming a disproportionate share of the earths resources, I told an acquaintance who was a member of the Sierra Club, why, then isn’t the SC opposed to immigration (legal and illegal)? After all, more Americans means more plundering of the earths precious resources, right? He had no answer. The last time I looked, the Sierra Club did not oppose immigration.
Walter Johnson,
“necklacing” – not a lot of liberals know what that means, but they sure do in South Africa.
CrackerFJBbaby – Ditto in the Denver area almost 60 (it was snowing on Monday)
Professor Overpeck: A dwarf standing on the shoulders of other dwarfs.
“Whatever it Takes”…yeah, like killing off 3 or 4 billion of us. Biden just said get used to food shortages.
I wonder if even FDR said anything as panic-mongering as that during the Great Depression.
Someone please tell me how taking a dump contributes to globull warming. I call bullshit and every other kind of shit as well on these stupid globull warming peckerheads.
@Tony R
Sierra Club used to take a stand against uncontrolled immigration. Then, someone slipped them a check for $25 million and that was enough to easily change their minds. Now they probably think huge mounds of garbage and dope growing in Yosemite Nat’l Park is great for the environment.
Are liberals fucked up in the head? Yes, criminally fucked up.
He’s a fucking liar.
Explain the Penultimate Glacial Period in terms of “greenhouse” gasses.
Explain the Last Glacial Maximum in terms of anthropocentrism.
Explain the Medieval Warm Period in terms of emissions.
If he can’t do these three simple things, he’s a liar, a charlatan, and a snake-oil salesman.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
@Geoff
No food, no bowel movements. Problem solved.
Darn, I for one will not participate in the no food equals no (bowel) movement. Does anyone besides me ever wonder how much shit the average person puts out in a lifetime?
“A world transformed that is free of climate change” – what the hell is this guy smoking, the climate is always changing.
WTF Roosevelt administration ‘make-work’ kinda project is this?! “School for Environment and Sustainability”
Scientists have recently determined that the boundry between the troposphere and the stratosphere is measureably closer to the earth’s surface. In layman’s terms, the sky is, in fact, falling.
They could save a lot of rebranding by just calling it “Global Whatever”.
How did the earth ever manage an ice age without the help of man?
@Geoff
Let’s apply a math formula to the question of how much poop a person produces in a lifetime.
Assumptions:
Avg. life span 70 years
Avg. nbr of BMs per day – 2
Avg. weight of a BM – 1/4 lb
70x365x2x1/4: 12,775 lbs. ThatsaLottaPoop.