Hysterical climate headlines — like the one below — do greenhouse gas reduction efforts no good

13 February 2017

Oh please

The Arctic News blog claims that humans might go extinct essentially tomorrow:

Warning of mass extinction of species, including humans, within one decade

The blurb's embedded RT America video claims that:

Humans could be extinct in 9 years

That's a pretty dramatic claim

Where is the evidence to back it up?

Nowhere.

A profound lack of analysis

Nowhere do the claimants provide mechanical or quantified evidence to support such a rapid extinction.

From my biological and medical perspectives, humans are like cockroaches. Climate change is not going to eliminate Homo sapiens, a resilient and highly mobile species, within a decade.

It is highly improbable that even blazingly fierce heat worldwide, or a combination of heat with episodic regional cold and killer storms, would "extinct-i-fy" all of us in such a geologically infinitesimal time period. Warming over the next decade is not going to so negatively impact the entire planet that all its geographic regions become almost instantly uninhabitable.

Nothing we know, or can infer from the geological record, indicates that global warming over the short term is going to be equivalent to the sun going nova or the Earth being blasted by a large cosmic object.

The moral? — Silly efforts at attention-getting do not substitute for credible scientific reasoning

Claims of such a rapid human extinction just make the claimants look dishonest or stupid.

And lack of credibility works against increasing public support for controlling humanity's greenhouse gas emissions.

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Hysterical climate headlines — like the one below — do greenhouse gas reduction efforts no good