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2019-12-08 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Climate crisis is 'challenge of civilisation', says pope

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-08 02:32|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Sad to see the oldest Western institution disintegrating.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-08 03:16|| 2019-12-08 03:16|| Front Page Top

#2 The climate emergency is a "challenge of civilisation" requiring sweeping changes to economic systems

And here I thought it had something to do with the weather. Silly me!

The number of people and organizations actively promoting this scam is appalling. Makes me want to root for the coming Ice Age just to shut them up.

Posted by SteveS 2019-12-08 06:32|| 2019-12-08 06:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone to the courtesy phone.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-08 06:54|| 2019-12-08 06:54|| Front Page Top

#4 The best way to counteract this nonsense is to go back and read The Limits to Growth, published in 1975 (or thereabouts) by the Club of Rome, which predicted dates when the world would run out of just about everything. It was terrifying in 1975 but hilarious in 2019, when all of their deadlines have long since passed. Fool me once, you know...

Posted by Tom 2019-12-08 11:34|| 2019-12-08 11:34|| Front Page Top

#5 This Pope has totally lost it.

His only job was to cleanse the church of the child molesters.

It is not his job to re-write the Bible or make up sins from whole cloth. This is how you got into trouble in the first place.

Posted by newc 2019-12-08 11:46|| 2019-12-08 11:46|| Front Page Top

#6 It's a second Avignon Papacy

Our Global Grifters are playing the role of Philip IV.
Greta's leading the new Children's Crusade.

Good times.

Posted by Lex 2019-12-08 11:54|| 2019-12-08 11:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Progressive pope for establishment welfare state and keeping the kiddy-fiddlers fiddling.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-12-08 13:59|| 2019-12-08 13:59|| Front Page Top

#8 For Tom: The Limits of Growth, 1974.

There is also, for additional amusement, a 30-years-later update from the original authors using the same modelling approach on faster computers: Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. It should be subtitled NOW WITH IMPROVED PANICKING!!!. Even the book blurb at the link is laughable.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-08 14:42|| 2019-12-08 14:42|| Front Page Top

#9 My career included 20 yrs of system auditing in one form or another.

Until I see a valid audit done of all these "models" I don't believe a word from their pushers.

The few code fragments in the climate gate fiasco that was the University of East Anglia included 3 screaming, flashing, warning lights of fraud that were never addressed, yes I can read Fortran.

Posted by AlanC 2019-12-08 16:30|| 2019-12-08 16:30|| Front Page Top

#10 The few code fragments in the climate gate fiasco that was the University of East Anglia included 3 screaming, flashing, warning lights of fraud that were never addressed, yes I can read Fortran.

I saw some of that janky code. Big arrays of temperatures being "adjusted" for no obvious reason and not a code comment in sight.

Posted by SteveS 2019-12-08 20:20|| 2019-12-08 20:20|| Front Page Top

#11 The Pope sounds like a left wing Dim.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-12-08 22:11|| 2019-12-08 22:11|| Front Page Top

#12 #9, #10 - Shitshow, Climate Edition

Posted by Lex 2019-12-08 22:58|| 2019-12-08 22:58|| Front Page Top

#13 Big arrays of temperatures being "adjusted" for no obvious reason and not a code comment in sight.

I’ve read that trying to get the code to run properly after the fact drove the programmer nearly to suicide before he walked away from the project.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-08 23:52|| 2019-12-08 23:52|| Front Page Top

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