From 2008:
If global warming isn’t stemmed, “we’ll be 8 degrees hotter in 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow,” Turner said during PBS’ “Charlie Rose.”
“Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals,” said Turner, 69. “Civilization will have broken down. The few people left will be living in a failed state…living conditions will be intolerable.”
DB2
If most of the people will be gone already why the heck would the rest need to be cannibals? Moron
Wow, I thought he was dead. But he is turning 86. I also understand he said he wanted the kids to get off his lawn!
JimA
I think Mr. Turner was believing that “basically none of the crops will grow”. I suspect that without people there would be plenty of deer… But maybe not in the city remnants.
DB2
The people in the cities would be the first to die!
JimA
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I think Mr. Turner was believing that “basically none of the crops will grow”. I suspect that without people there would be plenty of deer… But maybe not in the city remnants.
DB2 [/quote]
Not only that but people know HOW TO grow things. But it requires wor*k. Which esteemed rich people don’t do.
I admire the sheer mental energy of waiting 14 years in order to prove an obscure Ted Turner comment wrong.
They understand how to grow things NOW. However, if the weather is consistently much hotter, the entire northern hemisphere’s “food belt” will shift NORTH quite a ways–so, hello CANADA and the northern tier of US states along the border. Significantly smaller growing area in total, so how do you make up the difference? Plus, given the hotter weather, plants will have lower nutritional value because they use up some of those nutrients to try to keep themselves cool enough to reproduce. No reproduction = NO FOOD. Similarly, the southern hemisphere’s food belt will move south–for the same reason.
Also 1977 America Cup winner know as The Mouth that Roared
Robert "Ted" Edward Turner - The Sailing Museum & National Sailing Hall of Fame.
Is anyone fact checking these disinformation sources? Ted Turner is 11 days my senior.
The Captain
Y2K, I remember the Russian nukes being launched in the WSJ.
Conjecture completely on the order of a 1950’s sci-fi movie. And we all know how silly those look today. Just like most episodes of The Twilight Zone. How hot would that have to be? The kind of hot we aren’t going to see. Settled science fact: Historically humanity has prospered during warming phases. Mass die-offs and extinctions have only occurred during cooling phases. And what makes you (and I mean people who are proposing what you said here) that we will just sit around and do nothing? Not adapt? Not compensate? And when it gets really bad, become cannibals? And what makes you think your stick figure analysis of climate change will actually 1) occur like that and B) Have exactly those effects? That is not scientific thinking. It’s public relations work. Believe whatever you want. I insist on it
Not much required. I was active on the Climate Change board since its inception and saved a bunch of threads when the board was deep-sized.
Here’s something from 20 years ago…
A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ‘Siberian’ climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.
- By 2007 violent storms smash coastal barriers rendering large parts of the Netherlands uninhabitable. Cities like The Hague are abandoned. In California the delta island levees in the Sacramento river area are breached, disrupting the aqueduct system transporting water from north to south…
- Between 2010 and 2020 Europe is hardest hit by climatic change with an average annual temperature drop of 6F. Climate in Britain becomes colder and drier as weather patterns begin to resemble Siberia…
- Mega-droughts affect the world’s major breadbaskets, including America’s Midwest, where strong winds bring soil loss…
DB2
Then so was the US Dust Bowl of the 1930s. They “went elsewhere” in large numbers. So much for your “sci-fi movie”.
Unfortunately you are thinking way too small. My statement had nothing to do with what happened in the 1930’s which is genetically irrelevant to this discussion. It had to do with what was implied by Ted Turner’s ignorance of how things work in this world. Ergo, you must have a nice day. I am expecting it so don’t drop the ball. Period. Got it?