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I think we just might have a winner for the most unhinged alarmist story of the month (via Tom Nelson)

Planet Earth is on the verge of disaster, economist warns

Wait, I thought we weren’t supposed to listen to non-climate scientists…..oh, sorry, I forgot, that only applies to those who do not believe in anthropogenic global warming, er, climate wiffle waffle

There is no doubt Earth is on the verge of disaster, as our fossil-fuelled civilization pushes the planet toward one of the greatest extinctions of the past 450 million years.

Humans have the tools to lessen the damage and transform society within the next 30 years, but we are already too late to prevent some of the damage as a warming atmosphere creates more unstable weather, and more species go extinct, economist and futurist Jeremy Rifkin told the Emissions Reduction Summit Monday.

Say, I wonder how much fossil fuel was used to get people to that summit? How’d Rifkin get there from the Maryland area?

“We are monsters, we are devouring this special experiment in the universe, and this is not sustainable.”

Does that bit of unhinged moonbattery need comment?

“That climate will put us back to the climate of 3 million years ago, when there was a much different ecosystem. For every one degree of temperature rise on this planet, the atmosphere absorbs about seven per cent more precipitation from the ground, with more floods, wild fires, droughts … and mass extinction of 70 per cent (of the biological diversity) in your kid’s lifetime,” said Rifkin.

So…..the climate was warmer not that far in Earth’s past? This has all happened before and will happen again? Could that possibly mean that it is all just part of nature’s natural cycle? Oh, sorry, forgot, we are monsters.