Saturday, December 08, 2012
Mayan apocalypse vs Gaian apocalypse
NASA has provided a slightly tongue-in-cheek but remarkably sensible defense against Mayan 12/12/12 worriers.
Question (Q): Are there any threats to the Earth in 2012? Many Internet websites say the world will end in December 2012.
Answer (A):The world will not end in 2012. Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012.
Unfortunately, NASA is not giving a secular objective answer. It's defending NASA's own apocalyptic beliefs:
Doug Morton with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland presented these findings about the future of wildfires in America. The analysis of future wildfire trends had been based on greenhouse gas emissions, as well as current wildfire trends. “Climate models project an increase in fire risk across the US by 2050, based on a trend toward drier conditions that favor fire activity and an increase in the frequency of extreme events,” said Morton ... “With the climate change forecast for the region, this trend likely will continue as the western US gets warmer and drier on average.”So it's not really 2012 vs sanity. It's 2012 vs 2050, Maya vs Gaia. = = = = = Along the same lines: The Doha conference has decided to run a continuing resolution, just like Congress. So the Kyoto suicide pact stays in place, while sane countries continue to drop out. At this point it's basically an agreement among wacko US, superhyperultrawacko EU, and superwacko AU, comprising 15% of the world's economies. Sane China and Sane India were always excluded by design, because Sane China and Sane India wrote the original agreement for their own benefit. Sane Canada, Sane Russia and [semi]Sane Japan sanely pulled out of the suicide pact last year. At some point a suicide pact is no longer a pact. "I'll commit suicide if you'll do it at the same time" has a sexual appeal to the blood-fetish psychopaths who infest Western governments, but "I'll commit suicide by myself" doesn't have the same ring. When the pact is reduced to one member, everyone else says "Well? Go ahead. Who's stopping you?"
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