I don’t see why some of you kids aren’t more worried about this.

Act now, while there is yet time!

Goodness Gordon,

Chicken Little WAS right !

Thanks for the link - I have already rushed off an urgent email to the prime minister. And I am happy to report that an automatic generated response from the PM’s office assures me that an enquiry will be held as soon as appropriate. And that this think-tank ( on behalf of all ‘working families’ ) will indeed be called “Peak Earth”.

I’m out of here to enjoy sunny Sydney on a sunny Saturday - before it gets obliterated by falling rocks.

There was a “Space-guard” program for Australia once, but we cut funding for it.

However, it’s not like us Western consumers are hurling rocks at the earth. On the other hand, global warming and peak oil are self induced, and will most likely harm the poor more than the rich. But us Christians wouldn’t have anything to say bout that hey?

Onya Dave, I knew you wouldn’t disappoint! ;-)

If it was a megatronic rock of clean coal, it would wipe out huge sections of our population, blast us back to the stone age, and provide a heap of fuel for future needs of a reduced population, all in one.

It would solve so many problems in one hit that we could all sleep easy once again.

The remaining population could drive Hummers, guilt free.

(Actually I saw one of those suckers last night, on the drive back from Austinmer. It looked like a stretch Hummer. Very cool indeed)

What colour was it? Were the windows tinted — could you see who was driving?

I so much wanted to! It was kind of beige—perhaps they were trying to look inconspicuous. And yes, the windows were tinted. But it’s better in some ways to leave such things to the imagination. At first I was imagining Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then Cate Blanchett. Then I thought it might have been Kevin Rudd attempting a disguise. Who knows, perhaps all three sharing a quiet drive in the burbs of Sydney.

But they were heading south, so I am thinking it was probably some Shire resident feeling the need for protection outside their native environs, and heading back for home.

Beige! Eeewwwwww, that’s not right.... I mean, can anything BEIGE actually be cool?

Then I thought it might have been Kevin Rudd attempting a disguise.

Now my worthy opponent on all things doomsdayerish, that was actually funny! LOL!

‘Scuxe me!
A little bit of decorum needs to be brung into play… and I am just that man to do it!
The end is nigh indeed. In fact asteroids, meteors and wayward comets aint the half of it.
Our real doom lies at our very feet.
That’s right, carpets!
They are full of bugs’b’bacteria ‘n’ all sorts of evolving and dangerous nasties.
One day, soon, the entire human race will wake up dead cos of carpets. And what are you doing about it?
Nothing!
You are making jolly at asteroids or androids or thyroids or something!
Wake up and smell the rugs people! Danger is all around and vinyl floor covering will not help you!

Wake up and smell the rugs people! Danger is all around and vinyl floor covering will not help you!

Smell the rugs? That’s not advisable in my house — I’m sure I need to put up a sign, like, “Do not bend down and smell the rugs”.

But don’t worry Owen, the marketplace will fix it! Why, just a few years ago I read the solution in a Greg Bear science fiction book. (Called “Slant"). Nano-carpets that digest dust and other organic particles.

Indeed, real wealth was seen in the ability to afford an old carpet rug, because nano-rugs were ubiquitous, along with toilets that studies your “Samples” and told you when you were sick.

Slant was a murder mystery, and involved cops having to quickly seal off an apartment to FREEZE it so that any biological or genetic clues were not digested by the carpet! I don’t think the carpets ever digested furniture or ....whole people, but milk spills and other horrible “organic” messes were slowly digested into the house garbage disposal.

Now, what was that about caring for the poor again?

Owen,

Actually I have no trouble imagining you in a dark hessian cloak, tramping down the middle of George Street, bearing a placard with the words:
‘Ware! The End is Nigh’

But carpets? Whould’a guessed.

And Dave - I suspect Gordon is being coy. The beige, stretched, Hummer is undoubtedly his new form of transport; complete with specially fitted bullbar to knock over pesky atheists…

especially if they’re on a bike.

Rob

Speaking of bikes, have you heard of Velib?

It’s great, because I don’t want to lug a bike around on trains and buses… I just want it to “magically” be there when I need it for a km or 2 in town… then I want to hand the thing back to someone else to service and be done with it. Velib is exactly that… with bike stations everywhere, computer GPS that tell the company running it how the bikes are doing, etc.

Vélib’ is a bike hire service (“vélo libre” or “vélo liberté”, English: free bicycle or bicycle freedom) is a public bicycle rental programme in Paris, France. Launched on July 15, 2007, 10,000 bicycles were introduced to the city with 750 hire points each with 15 or more bikes/spaces. This number has grown to 20,000 bicycles and 1,450 automated stations.

I needed a good laugh.This was just released 10 minutes ago :

Climate plan could change sky colour

Article from: AAP May 19, 2008 07:01pm

AUSTRALIAN scientist Tim Flannery has proposed a radical solution for climate change that would change the colour of the sky.

He says climate change is happening so quickly that mankind may need to pump sulphur into the atmosphere to survive.

Australia’s best-known expert on global warming is calling for a radical suite of emergency measures to be put in place, possibly within five years.

Professor Flannery says the gas sulphur could be inserted into the earth’s stratosphere to keep out the sun’s rays and slow global warming - a process called global dimming.

The 2007 Australian of the Year says the sulphur could be dispersed above the earth’s surface by adding it to jet fuel.

But he concedes there are unknown risks to global dimming.

I told you that Chicken Little WAS right. At least he’s the right colour to blend in with the new sky.

Oh no! Not Flannery as well! I’ve been following this idea for a while… since Rolling Stone did an article “Can Dr Evil Save the world?” (Really worth a read if you want a good laugh… or cry… I’m not sure which).

If Flannery is supporting this, either things are more serious than even I imagined or else the world is madder than I thought.

I thought Biochar could deal with global warming once and for all. See CNN’s recent piece on it. If we scaled the “after crop” Biochar process up beyond an area the size of France, we’d not only prevent any further Co2 rises but would start to soak up previous emissions.

The man’s gone completely bonkers, or this is a leg pull.

Here he is a few years ago predicting that Sydney’s dams might be dry by now. (They’re 65.2% full)

Perhaps instead of being warmened, we’re being floodened. We’re rooned, I tell ye, rooned!

I guess you’re back to arguing Christians can’t work in the insurance business?

Isn’t there a difference between a prophetic prediction that fails (requiring stoning), and a scientific scenario for risk mitigation that if it fails requires us to thank God for gracious extra time, repent of our carelessness, and then get cracking on the solution anyway. Please note the terminology Flannery used:

“The worst case scenario for Sydney is that the climate that’s existed for the last seven years continues for another two years,” he said.

”In that case, Sydney will be facing extreme difficulties with water.

Try to be consistent. Either forbid Christians from working in climate science, insurance companies, and doing horrible things like manufacturing safety goggles, locks, alarms, lights — and other safety devices based on that most dreadful sin of risk mitigation — or just leave it be.

Gordon Cheng - 19 May 2008 11:09 PM

Here he is a few years ago predicting that Sydney’s dams might be dry by now.

well - to be fair to him, they might have been dry now - if water consumption had not been reduced, and if it hadn’t rained.

dang - I just jumped into an environmental thread.  The end is nigh.

Mike