Australian professor forecasts extinction of humanity (Because of Global Warming)

[EmperorScorpious]

[QUOTE]We humans are about to be wiped out in a few decades. The grandchildren of many of us will not live to old age.

Hear it from Frank Fenner, emeritus professor of microbiology at the Australian National University and the man who helped eradicate smallpox.

"Homo sapiens will become extinct, perhaps within 100 years," he told The Australian this week.

"It's an irreversible situation." Blame global warming.

But here's the odd thing. Just three paragraphs into this report announcing the - Oh My God! - end of the world, the reporter and Fenner were off talking about rabbits, Fenner's writing habits, his bookshelves, his student days, his war service and the weight of the book he wrote on smallpox - 3.5kg, actually.

Oh, and did he ever tell how he used to study skulls with Norman Tindale?

Now, you'd think when a reporter had just been told that thousands of years of human history were about to come to a screaming halt - with their own loved ones among the dead - that rabbits and recollections of Norm would be the last thing they'd want to discuss.

Back up a bit, they'd cry. Run that by me again: you mean, all human life on this planet is going to be exterminated? But, no. So used are we to sandwich-board doom-mongering from global warmists that we hurry them on to cheerier topics, like tales of old Norm and his skulls.

It's not that Fenner is a joke. He may now be 95, but he's a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Royal Society. And his views on the end of the world, however boring, were still deemed serious enough to publish in The Australian's prestigious Higher Education supplement.

This curious disconnect between prediction and reception happens relatively often now. Four years ago another warmist, Prof James Lovelock, creator of the influential Gaia theory of an interconnected Earth, was every bit as apocalyptic as Fenner.

We'd passed the point of no return, he groaned. The world was heating catastrophically. "Before this century is over, billions of us will die, and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable."

All that was left to do was to prepare "a guidebook for global warming survivors ... on durable paper with long-lasting print".

That should put a damper on any conversation. Yet when ABC warmist Phillip Adams soon afterwards interviewed Lovelock for Late Night Live, they first talked of walks in the country, horses, the absence of TVs back when they were lads and how people used to believe in ghosts.

Only after half an hour did they finally get on to Lovelock's prediction of the abrupt deaths of billions of people within just eight or nine decades.

It was like they'd left the boring bit until last. The bit where everyone dies.

Strange. It's like we privately agree that when these scientists say the end of the world is nigh, they don't mean it, not literally, but are just scaring us for our own good. Or that they do mean it, but are frankly batty.

After all, it's not as if even Dark Greens have resolved never to breed, to thus spare their child the horror of spending their shortened life in terror at the doom to come.

Yet we're still meant to treat everything else these scientists say as the gospel truth. As in: sure, they're way out there about the end of human life, but on the small stuff they are bang on.

Meanwhile, life goes on. We laugh. We plan. We invent. We build. We adapt.

And we talk of other things than the end of the world, and luckily so, because we'll be around a lot longer yet, if we keep our heads - and our hope.[/QUOTE]

Source: [url]http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/our-own-extinction-is-forecast-but-hes-going-by-dead-reckoning/story-e6frfhqf-1225881064383[/url]

Australia now bans global warming.

Rate disagree if you think this guy is an idiot.

[wizlord]

that guys retarded

[Kade]

we will all soon be down under...

[Brillmedal]

[quote=emperor scorpious ii;22737559]

[b]Australia now bans global warming[/b].[/quote]

ahahahahaha XD wtf>!? it doesnt work like that XD

whoever rated me dumb... is dumb. :smug:
you don't just 'ban global warming'

[RoflKawpter]

[QUOTE=Kade;22737632]we will all soon be down under...[/QUOTE]

Travelling in a fried out combie...

[Master117]

I think this guy is on crack. Humans have an extreme capability for surviving even the most hostile environments.

[Brillmedal]

in any case, i really dont think we willl be extinct for quite some time, although i dont think things are going to get much better with our Oil limit expiring. We will find some way to survive.

[Henry Townshend]

[QUOTE=Brillmedal;22737679]ahahahahaha XD wtf>!? it doesnt work like that XD[/QUOTE]
omfg ya ur rite rofl lmao XDXDXD!!!!!!!!!!!

[Zeke129]

[quote]"Homo sapiens will become extinct, perhaps within 100 years"[/quote]

I could hear a million scientists agreeing on this and, for some reason, I just couldn't muster up the care today.

Not sure why.

[BaconDioxide]

[QUOTE=source]Meanwhile, life goes on. We laugh. We plan. We invent. We build. We adapt.[/QUOTE]

Damn fucking straight.

[Brillmedal]

[QUOTE=Henry Townshend;22737765]omfg ya ur rite rofl lmao XDXDXD!!!!!!!!!!![/QUOTE]

I hope i don't smell sarcasm here. :colbert:

[Raxas]

Eh, humans are too stubborn to die off that fast.

[Nyaos]

[QUOTE=Brillmedal;22737679]ahahahahaha XD wtf>!? it doesnt work like that XD

whoever rated me dumb... is dumb. :smug:
you don't just 'ban global warming'[/QUOTE]

there are so many things about this post that makes me rage

[Soderholm]

:cawg:

[Brillmedal]

[QUOTE=Nyaos;22738243]there are so many things about this post that makes me rage[/QUOTE]

let it out.

[Clanrat]

[QUOTE=Brillmedal;22737679]ahahahahaha XD wtf>!? it doesnt work like that XD

whoever rated me dumb... is dumb. :smug:
you don't just 'ban global warming'[/QUOTE]

I don't know why, but as soon as I see the XD thing I rage.

[21657319]

This is the kinda thing that keeps Al Gore rich

[Brillmedal]

[QUOTE=clanratc;22738466]I don't know why, but as soon as I see the XD thing I rage.[/QUOTE]

Right... and that's it? lovely.

[Køleskab]

Australia bans Frank Fenner for :downs:.

[abcpea]

im fucking freezing my nuts off and this cunt says were all gonna die of global warming

[Biggins]

Maybe if we can all click our heels together twice we can all go to oz!
(I hope someone gets what oz stands for)

[Ori Child]

[QUOTE=abcpea;22738537]im fucking freezing my nuts off and this cunt says were all gonna die of global warming[/QUOTE]
Well then in 100 years you'll have warm nuts.

[d3450]

Australia, whats next!?

[abcpea]

[QUOTE=Biggins;22738699]Maybe if we can all click our heels together twice we can all go to oz!
(I hope someone gets what oz stands for)[/QUOTE]

i think so brain, but what does weight have to do with anything?

[Upgrade123]

Australia bans humans.

[editline]05:51PM[/editline]

Also rated OP rainbow because of Homo Sapiens.

[Applecrap]

Derp, Australia. Everyone knows the world is going to end in two years.

[TH89]

I don't blame him. It's already fucking hot in Australia and he'll probably be dead soon.

[hehe]

[QUOTE=TH89;22739268]I don't blame him. It's already fucking hot in Australia and he'll probably be dead soon.[/QUOTE]

No its not, its a crisp 12°C (54F) today. We are going to die of heat for a good 5 months.

[Sodisna]

I wonder how many "professors" have said the exact same thing.

[Baldr]

Who cares, I'm sure I will be dead by then.