From Watts Up With That?
Essay by Eric Worrall
Are failed climate doomsday prophecies are coming home to roost?
Back in 2016, Professor Guy McPherson predicted we’d all be dead in the next decade.
Since then most of us have quite plainly not died, and even Michael Mann has been forced to downgrade his doomsday prophecies.
Democrats and globalists are abandoning climate doomsday predictions and embracing the new scare, artificial intelligence.
The inventor of the Gaea hypothesis James Lovelock recanted his climate alarmism.
Pope Leo’s first encyclical all but ignored the fake climate crisis, and focussed instead on AI.
2012 wasn’t the first doomsday Professor Guy McPherson predicted. Back in 2007 Guy McPherson predicted peak oil would cause permanent blackouts starting in 2012.
The end of civilization and the extinction of humanity
By Guy McPherson, originally published by Nature Bats Last (blog)
August 29, 2007…
Many experts who write about simply one of these issues — Peak Oil — predict complete economic collapse within a decade, followed shortly thereafter by utter chaos and the subsequent death of more than 80% of the world’s population. After all, the exponential curve of human population growth matches perfectly the exponential growth of world energy supply, suggesting that the downturn of the energy curve will cause a large-scale die-off of human beings. And if you think chaos can’t descend on this country, you weren’t paying attention to New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina. Horrible as that event was, nearly everybody involved knew it was a temporary inconvenience; I’m concerned how people might act when they recognize Peak Oil as a long emergency.
One by one, starting in 2012, the world’s cities will experience permanent blackouts; and once we enter the Dark Age, the Stone Age won’t be too far behind. Bear in mind, I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I know the current culture — the culture of make believe, or the culture of death, depending on how deeply you care to think about it — is the worst possible route for most of the planet’s species; as a conservation biologist, I realize the faster and more complete the collapse of Empire, the greater our biological legacy. On the other hand, the paralyzing hand of fear grips me every time I think about Peak Oil; a life in the ivory tower is damned poor preparation for Stone-Age living. Fortunately, I only think about it a few thousand times each day.
…Read more: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2007-08-29/end-civilization-and-extinction-humanity/
So what is Professor Guy McPherson up to these days? You’re be glad to know that to date he has not been claimed by the mass extinction. A few weeks ago he gave an interview discussing the dangers of microplastics and the destabilisation of the global magnetosphere – and explained how we’re actually in the 9th mass extinction – or maybe the 10th or 12th.
Perhaps I’m not being fair – we still have a few months until November, the 10 year anniversary of Guy McPherson’s global warming mass extinction prophecy. Don’t forget, the science is settled folks.
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