Yeah, we’ll, all those previous doomsday predictions may have been wrong, but we’re much smarter than they were 20 years ago — and we know that AGW will end the world. After all, Jim says so.
Or is that just one of his “paranoid fantasies”?
Just a word to the wise. Never call into work sick and tell your boss you think you got SARS. Just not as good as excuse as one might think.
The Ozone hole in the Antarctic seems particularly stupid. Active volcano and long periods without sunlight would seem to explain everything…..
What amazes me is how eager some people seem to be for an apocalypse. They seize on the latest scare-monger with a passion. It’s like they long for disaster. I can’t imagine why.
Nature tends to go through cycles. Throughout geologic time, it has warmed and cooled. Volcanos, earthquakes, hurricanes and all sorts of other natural disasters come and go. It’s just the way it is. Throughout the past 100,000 years or so, humans have adapted to it all. Who is to say we can’t adapt again to changes? With all our technology, are we less capable of surviving a changing climate than the cave people at the end of the last ice age?
I forgot to add, that first comment over there is terrific.
I nominate that commenter for President Romney’s press secretary.
I think, THEY think, it will be exciting, like a movie or TV show. For the same reason people slow down at a wreck.
Morbid fascination with death and destruction.
Here’s an interesting aside, start asking them IF they are in any way prepared for an apocalyptic ending. Or will they just kill their neighbors for food and water?
Some may think that it’d be exciting until they look at their own prospects of dying a miserable death. Consider a mass catastrophe that left millions dead – just disposing of the bodies would be a major undertaking essential for public health. How long before the food ran out? How long could most of us survive if thrown back into the 1800s (or earlier)?
There are some who hate humanity and believe Earth would be a paradise if most of us were dead. I don’t know if they think they’ll still be around or not to enjoy this fanciful paradise. If they think they’d survive, they’re seriously deluding themselves.
I know that I could survive but I am not so sure about the rest of you…
But on a serious note, just look at how hard a time OWS had. Disease was rampant in their encampments after just a month or two. We could expect that to be very common in a collapse of civilization scenario. Knocking us back to 1800’s technology would mean we face a lot of health concerns that we haven’t had to deal with much in centuries.
OWS might choose not to wash their hands or bathe but in some situations that choice might be taken away for an extended period of time.
One small, little bit of an issue with the Mayan’s that isn’t discussed too much is that they didn’t have any idea about Leap Year and its affect on our ‘modern’ calendar. We won’t perish until sometime in 2013 (;-).
Wikipedia seems to disagree. The long count calendar is just a day count, so you figure the number of days represented by the count, add some offset to get a Julian day number, and convert that to a regular date. There looks to be some argument about just what offset to use, but 584,283 seems to be the current winner.
Yeah, we’ll, all those previous doomsday predictions may have been wrong, but we’re much smarter than they were 20 years ago — and we know that AGW will end the world. After all, Jim says so.
Or is that just one of his “paranoid fantasies”?
Just a word to the wise. Never call into work sick and tell your boss you think you got SARS. Just not as good as excuse as one might think.
The Ozone hole in the Antarctic seems particularly stupid. Active volcano and long periods without sunlight would seem to explain everything…..
What amazes me is how eager some people seem to be for an apocalypse. They seize on the latest scare-monger with a passion. It’s like they long for disaster. I can’t imagine why.
Nature tends to go through cycles. Throughout geologic time, it has warmed and cooled. Volcanos, earthquakes, hurricanes and all sorts of other natural disasters come and go. It’s just the way it is. Throughout the past 100,000 years or so, humans have adapted to it all. Who is to say we can’t adapt again to changes? With all our technology, are we less capable of surviving a changing climate than the cave people at the end of the last ice age?
I forgot to add, that first comment over there is terrific.
I nominate that commenter for President Romney’s press secretary.
I think, THEY think, it will be exciting, like a movie or TV show. For the same reason people slow down at a wreck.
Morbid fascination with death and destruction.
Here’s an interesting aside, start asking them IF they are in any way prepared for an apocalyptic ending. Or will they just kill their neighbors for food and water?
Some may think that it’d be exciting until they look at their own prospects of dying a miserable death. Consider a mass catastrophe that left millions dead – just disposing of the bodies would be a major undertaking essential for public health. How long before the food ran out? How long could most of us survive if thrown back into the 1800s (or earlier)?
There are some who hate humanity and believe Earth would be a paradise if most of us were dead. I don’t know if they think they’ll still be around or not to enjoy this fanciful paradise. If they think they’d survive, they’re seriously deluding themselves.
I know that I could survive but I am not so sure about the rest of you…
But on a serious note, just look at how hard a time OWS had. Disease was rampant in their encampments after just a month or two. We could expect that to be very common in a collapse of civilization scenario. Knocking us back to 1800’s technology would mean we face a lot of health concerns that we haven’t had to deal with much in centuries.
OWS might choose not to wash their hands or bathe but in some situations that choice might be taken away for an extended period of time.
One small, little bit of an issue with the Mayan’s that isn’t discussed too much is that they didn’t have any idea about Leap Year and its affect on our ‘modern’ calendar. We won’t perish until sometime in 2013 (;-).
Wikipedia seems to disagree. The long count calendar is just a day count, so you figure the number of days represented by the count, add some offset to get a Julian day number, and convert that to a regular date. There looks to be some argument about just what offset to use, but 584,283 seems to be the current winner.