The End Is Near

NY Times on the fate of the Earth!!!!:

In the end, there won’t even be fragments.

Omg, what is Al the Goracle doing about this!!!!:

If nature is left to its own devices...Earth will be dragged from its orbit by an engorged red Sun and spiral to a rapid vaporous death. That is the forecast according to new calculations by a pair of astronomers, Klaus-Peter Schroeder of the University of Guanajuato in Mexico and Robert Connon Smith of the University of Sussex in England.

Their report, to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, is the latest and gloomiest installment yet in a long-running debate about the ultimate fate of our planet. Only last year, the discovery of a giant planet orbiting the faint burned-out cinder of a star in Pegasus had suggested that Earth could survive the Sun’s death.

But no, and the Himalayas are just a passing thought, according to some callous Brit scientist. But wait--this happens in 7.59 billion years. The NY Times thought you might want to know now. Because they're peddling global warming fears to gin up votes for Democrats.

The Canadians want to sell us their oil, but the Dems won't let us buy it--they'd rather we take our chances buying from murderous thugs who will use the money to visit destruction upon us.

Heartland Institute's conference presents scientist skeptics of man-made climate change. Opening remarks here. One excerpt:

These scientists and economists deserve to be heard. They have stood up to political correctness and defended the scientific method at a time when doing so threatens their research grants, tenure, and ability to get published. Some of them have even faced death threats for daring to speak out against what can only be called the mass delusion of our time.

And they must be heard, because the stakes are enormous.

George Will, in an October Newsweek column commenting on Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize, wrote that if nations impose the reductions in energy use that Al Gore and the folks at RealClimate call for, they will cause “more preventable death and suffering than was caused in the last century by Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot combined.”

Think about that. Is the end near? Man-made?

"Skepticism, as T.H. Huxley said, is the highest calling of a true scientist."

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