Pic Of The Moment: North-Eastern U.S. Hunkers Down For Historic Winter Storm

[AverageJoe90]

29. It's one thing to be validly concerned, however.....

....and quite another to be way over-the-top. And, I hate to say this, but this:

We could very well be on the verge of runaway positive feedback, leading to jet stream collapse and global desertification, perhaps even a loss of the oxygen supply.

, and this:

We may be facing global famine *this year*.

, are quite good examples of the latter.

I'm not discounting the possibility of widespread long-term food security problems in the future, but no, we aren't going to see "runaway" anything(this would have happened a long time ago if that was even possible, btw.), and I seriously doubt we'll see global famine this year; there's no real evidence to support this assertion, either.

This kind of thing is problematic because, frankly, the truth is, it makes EVERYBODY who understands global warming is a reality look wacky; just look what happens every time a major prediction fails to come to pass, btw: the deniers jump all over it and then try to use that as an excuse to pedal their "AGW is a hoax" B.S.....In fact, hell, they do this is in general, really.(Steven Goddard is one particularly notorious example that I can think of, though I'd rather not link to his site.).

By the bye, I'm not female but I did note your pejoratives are implicitly gender-specific. You probably shouldn't do that if you don't want to be considered conservative.

Well, looking back on it, I guess "coven" wasn't the best adjective to think of, but the only reason I did, is because the other word I thought of seemed far more offensive to me at the time, and might have been too over the top(hint: it rhymes with bolt.)