Some people believe that the Madonna will reappear and save all humanity from sin.
Other people believe that Donald Trump would be a fine President.
If even half of these predictions proved true, predictions would be unnecessary now. It would have happened. It's pretty boring, if illuminating that people continue to be continuously wrong on this crap.
I have lived my entire life with these predictions. They started getting really popular with that asshole Amory Lovins, back in 1976 who said that Americans would have 25 exajoules (he called them "quads"
of solar power by the year 2000.
Where was it? Where is it?
It's now widely reported, except in fantasy land, that it's 2016. There aren't 25 exajoules of solar energy on the entire planet, never mind the United States.
That asshole Lovins now "consults" for oil sands companies.
In fact, back when I joined this website in 2003, we were hearing the same bull, except "by 2035" was "by 2023." At that time the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was increasing, on average, at roughly 2.00 ppm a year.
2023 is seven years from now. Surely there would be one city that formerly burned as much gas as San Francisco and San Diego burn that is 100% renewable. Name one. Name one that's close.
In 2015, we saw our first year where the increase in the dangerous fossil fuel waste went above 3.00 ppm in a single year. The data for 2016, despite a more than 2 trillion dollar investment in so called "renewable energy" in the last ten years, we are routinely seeing data points close to 4.00 ppm a year, sometimes exceeding them significantly.
And what is the response?
"By 2035...by 2045...by 2030..."
All these claims are reported by journalists who have obviously, not once, taken a science or engineering course.
How is that these "by 2035...by...2045...by 2030" people are so sure that future generations will do what they themselves have been incompetent and unwilling to do themselves.
Is there one person in this delusional set who recognizes that they are destroying the future of these children they expect to do great things.
I'll be dead in 2045, for sure. Since I will be dead by then, I will spend the rest of my disappearing life apologizing to the young people who must live with future generations because people in my generation possessed such ethical indifference were allowed to destroy the planet while whispering the same insipid science fiction platitudes year after year, decade after decade with no result.
The generation that will live then will live on a planet with close to 500 ppm of carbon dioxide in its atmosphere, be desperately impoverished, suffering greatly and cursing the assholes who spewed this appalling nonsense that led them there.
I am happy I won't be here to face them. Neither will the assholes who stood around muttering that San Diego will convert to 100% of so called "renewable energy" by 2030. What will be San Diego by 2050 will be a desiccated desert, no water, a set of largely uninhabited ruins baking in an unrelenting sun.
The fact is that "350.org," Bill McKibben's set of crazy wild eyed anti-nuke "renewables will save us" assholes need to become 450.org, and do so pretty damn quickly. Even then they have little chance of being any more realistic then they were 20 years ago, when we were still well below 400 ppm, although we can now never expect to be so again.
The definition of a fool is a person who keeps doing the same thing again and again expecting a different result. The two trillion dollar so called "renewable energy" scam didn't work, isn't working and ten times as many trillions won't work.
Enjoy the rest of the week, as we chug along, inexorably and tragically to 2045. May you avoid having to face whoever might survive then.
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