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by Guest Author Andrew Butter

As the Durban Climate Change conference wheezes into obscurity with memories of a bunch of what the neo-cons call “balding ex-hippies” on one side; and a stack full of conveniently newly-leaked e-mails on the other…and America conspicuously absent, I am reminded of previous catastrophes.

Of other times when all the world’s wise men assured us that there was a less than a 1% probability of disaster.

According to the hippies that’s the chance that within the next 100-years, (a) small increases in global temperature might trigger the melting of the permafrost, which (b) would create a feedback loop by releasing frozen methane, a greenhouse-gas much worse than CO2, which (c) would dramatically increase global warming which (d) would melt the on-land ice-caps, which (e) would mean that sea-levels rose 10-meters, which (f) would mean that all of where 35% of the world’s GDP is created was underwater, and that’s not counting that 95% of the ports in the world would be underwater, so world-trade would stop.

But don’t worry, that’s just stoned hippies and UN officials talking; everyone knows that’s never going to happen, and in any-case we all know that the UN is where non-democratic governments and crony-dictatorships send their fool-nephews to learn how to steal…they send the smart ones to do internships at Goldman Sachs and Moody’s.

Except…hang-on, just a second, now where did I hear that word “underwater” before?

I got it…it’s coming…oh yeah…I remember!! Continue reading →