One of the main propaganda weapons of the climate change cult, as seen in groups such as Extinction Rebellion, has been to capitalise on doomsday predictions by the UN/IPCC. This has usually taken the form of "10 years to save the planet," with the time always being10 years, even after the prophecy has failed. Others do not give a doomsday date. After we review some of this nonsense, we take one recent prediction apart:
"Australia's top climate scientist says "we are already deep into the trajectory towards collapse" of civilisation, which may now be inevitable because 9 of the 15 known global climate tipping points that regulate the state of the planet have been activated.
Australian National University emeritus professor Will Steffen (pictured) told Voice of Action that there was already a chance we have triggered a "global tipping cascade" that would take us to a less habitable "Hothouse Earth" climate, regardless of whether we reduced emissions.
Steffen says it would take 30 years at best (more likely 40-60 years) to transition to net zero emissions, but when it comes to tipping points such as Arctic Sea ice we could have already run out of time.
Evidence shows we will also lose control of the tipping points for the Amazon rainforest, the West Antarctic ice sheet, and the Greenland ice sheet in much less time than it's going to take us to get to net zero emissions, Steffen says.
"Given the momentum in both the Earth and human systems, and the growing difference between the 'reaction time' needed to steer humanity towards a more sustainable future, and the 'intervention time' left to avert a range of catastrophes in both the physical climate system (e.g., melting of Arctic sea ice) and the biosphere (e.g., loss of the Great Barrier Reef), we are already deep into the trajectory towards collapse," said Steffen.
"That is, the intervention time we have left has, in many cases, shrunk to levels that are shorter than the time it would take to transition to a more sustainable system.
"The fact that many of the features of the Earth System that are being damaged or lost constitute 'tipping points' that could well link to form a 'tipping cascade' raises the ultimate question: Have we already lost control of the system? Is collapse now inevitable?"
This is not a unique view – leading Stanford University biologists, who were first to reveal that we are already experiencing the sixth mass extinction on Earth, released new research this week showing species extinctions are accelerating in an unprecedented manner, which may be a tipping point for the collapse of human civilisation."
Needless to say each of these points made by Professor Steffen is wide open to debate, with much good critical work appearing at the Daily Sceptic.org.
Still other climate change alarmists have even given the date of collapse:
https://medium.com/@mjtrac/civilization-to-end-october-22-2031-say-scientists-c67e42a4cf9a
"The consensus of a team of climate scientists is that in late October, 2031, the great Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets will shear off, raising sea level worldwide by tens of feet and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) will stop, ending the nutrient and heat circulatory system on which current civilization depends.
The scientists, calling themselves the "Whatever Works" group, propose that people worldwide withdraw all cooperation from any government that does not immediately join a world collaboration to beat this deadline, saying the alternative is effectively the end of civilization as we know it.
Asked how his group reached consensus around the exact date, James Smith, group spokesperson and Professor of Atmospheric Science at Oxford University explained "it was science, sort of."
Flushing a bit, Smith went on to say "Some group members felt uncertain with the specificity, but we all agreed as a group that these events are happening sooner rather than later, and concluded that October 22, 2031 was as reasonable as any other date for the establishment of a 'Hail Mary' deadline," Smith said, adding "Scientists saying 'soon' has failed to create the necessary movement that an exact deadline might. Even if we're wrong, this might wake the world up to our imminent danger in a way nothing else has. Tipping points mean the end."
However there is the fine print. A footnote in the article gives an error range of +/- 150,000 days for the selected date! So what is that in years? Well, it is 410.9 years! That makes absurdity of the prediction, as much could happen in such a long-time frame. But we suppose the headline is what matters for emotional impact. We see it as shonky.