We’re doomed. We’re all doomed (via Junk Science)
(SMH) A leading Australian disease expert says prompt action on climate change is paramount to our survival on earth.
See? Told you we were doomed.
Epidemiologist Tony McMichael has conducted a historical study that suggests natural climate change over thousands of years has destabilised civilisations via food shortages, disease and unrest.
Beyond doomed. And all because you, my dear readers, refuse to modify your lives and live like……hey, wait, did he just say “natural climate change?”
“We haven’t really grasped the fact that a change in climate presents a quite fundamental threat to the foundations of population health,” Professor McMichael, from the Australian National University, said.
Like has happened many, many times before? Like the Black Plague at the beginning of the last mini-ice age? The inability to grow grains? Starvation? Pestilence? Before SUVs and the ability to take unnecessary fossil fueled flights halfway around the world to exotic vacation spots to tell people to stop taking fossil fueled flights?
“These things have happened before in response to fairly modest changes to climate.
The implication is that this warm period is not modest, or, at least, won’t be 88 years from now when it is 2100, the favorite date the Warmists use when they look in their crystal balls, er, computers.
“Let’s be aware that we really must take early action if we are going to maintain this planet as a liveable habitat for humans.”
And, yeah, McMichael goes on to suggest that this warm period is abnormal and caused by Mankind, so, we need to Do Something, despite
In a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Professor McMichael argued the world faced extreme climate change “without precedent” over the past 10,000 years.
Basically, that was the time when the climate shifted into an inter-glacial one, with wide swings between warmer and cooler. But no SUVs, iPhones, and ice makers. How could the climate change without them. Natural variables, you say? Volcanoes and solar radiance were the primary causes? Well, damn. Perhaps they are the primary reasons now, like over the past 4.5 billion years. And perhaps most of the perceived warming today is caused by localized conditions.
