Er, 'urug' is 'guru' spelled backwards which is how you have to put it when the owner of the title completes a 180 degree turnabout. The particular 'urug' I am referring to is not just a leading HAF (Hot Air Fanatic) but virtually the movement's High Priest. From his pulpit over the years he has thundered dire warning of 'Apocalypse Now'. For example, as WUWT reminds us, he told The Independent in 2006:
“billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable” by the end of the 21st century.
And has been quoted in The Guardian:
80% of humans will perish by 2100 AD, and this climate change will last 100,000 years. According to James Lovelock, by 2040, the world population of more than six billion will have been culled by floods, drought and famine. Indeed “[t]he people of Southern Europe, as well as South-East Asia, will be fighting their way into countries such as Canada, Australia and Britain”.
Yes, it is everyone's favourite looney HAF, the inventer of the 'Gaia theory', James Lovelock, who like many of us has grown old and is now beginning to learn something even if, at 92 years of age it has taken him a while - I mean there are late developers and then there are way-past-their-bedtime developers!
“The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened,” Lovelock said.
“The world has not warmed up very much since the millennium. Twelve years is a reasonable time… it (the temperature) has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising — carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.”
Poor little 'Georgie Moonbat' will probably burst into tears - so it's good news all round, really!
All quotes from What's Up With That
Do you mean I have to sell my retirement flat in Greenland?
Posted by: Whyaxye | Tuesday, 24 April 2012 at 09:51
A retirement flat in Greenland?
Can I interest you in this very fine, one-owner Morris Marina which I can promise you will be a collector's piece in years to come . . . very cheap, needless to say . . . ?
Posted by: David Duff | Tuesday, 24 April 2012 at 10:31
Buy in Morroco: The Ice will soon return.
Posted by: dearieme | Tuesday, 24 April 2012 at 10:35
"80% of humans will perish by 2100 AD"
Hah.
Didn't the Club of Rome (in 1974) predict widespread starvation in the US by the 1990's? (Due to overpopulation iirc)
Why does anyone believe any of these charlatans, ever?
Is it that every generation has to learn anew how to spot snake-oil salesmen?
Posted by: Andrew Duffin | Tuesday, 24 April 2012 at 12:28
You mean that gloomy old sod, O'Neill, was right, DM, "The Ice Man Cometh"!
Posted by: David Duff | Tuesday, 24 April 2012 at 12:29
It is odd, Andrew, how each generation seems to actually *need* an apocalyptic story to cling to.
Posted by: David Duff | Tuesday, 24 April 2012 at 12:38
At least we can be pretty confident that The Ice will return. It might be in the next 50 years or perhaps a thousand years hence. But it'll probably be pretty quick when it happens. Maybe it's been delayed by all that Global Warming.
Posted by: dearieme | Tuesday, 24 April 2012 at 14:23
Well I won't be around to see it, DM, and where I'm going it is likely to be extremely warm!
Posted by: David Duff | Tuesday, 24 April 2012 at 15:11