Not again! Another 10-year climate ‘tipping point’ warning issued — Despite fact that UN began 10-Year ‘Climate Tipping Point’ in 1989!

Once again, the world is being warned of a climate “tipping point.” The latest bout of stern warnings comes from the UK Met Office.

‘World has only ten years to control global warming, warns Met Office – UK Telegraph – November 15, 2009

Excerpt: Pollution needs to be brought under control within ten years to stop runaway climate change, according to the latest Met Office predictions. […] “To limit global mean temperature [increases] to below 2C, implied emissions of CO2 to the atmosphere at the end of the century fall close to zero in most cases.”

Inconvenient History of Climate ‘Tipping Point’ Warnings

As early as 1989, the UN was already trying to sell their “tipping point” rhetoric on the public. See: U.N. Warning of 10-Year ‘Climate Tipping Point’ Began in 1989 – Excerpt: According to July 5, 1989, article in the Miami Herald, the then-director of the New York office of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Noel Brown, warned of a “10-year window of opportunity to solve” global warming. According to the 1989 article, “A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ‘eco-refugees,’ threatening political chaos.” (LINK) & (LINK)

NASA scientist James Hansen has been warning of a “tipping point” for years now. See: Earth’s Climate Approaches Dangerous Tipping Point – June 1, 2007 – Excerpt: A stern warning that global warming is nearing an irreversible tipping point was issued today” by James Hansen.

Former Vice President Al Gore invented his own “tipping point” clock a few years ago. Excerpt: Former Vice-President Al Gore came to Washington on July 17, 2008, to deliver yet another speech warning of the “climate crisis.” “The leading experts predict that we have less than 10 years to make dramatic changes in our global warming pollution lest we lose our ability to ever recover from this environmental crisis,” Gore stated.

Prince Charles claimed a 96-month tipping point in July 2009. Excerpt: The heir to the throne told an audience of industrialists and environmentalists at St James’s Palace last night that he had calculated that we have just 96 months left to save the world. And in a searing indictment on capitalist society, Charles said

Climate of Nuttiness: Climate Depot News Round Up on Global Warming and Psychological Claims

Round Up of Global Warming/Mental Links – Updated November 12, 2009 (Also see Climate Depot’s report on ‘Climate Astrology’)

Cracking Up: Psychologists urge Congress to pass climate bill ‘to prevent severe mental health harms’

Flashback: Public Needs Reprogramming? Shrinks Issue Report: ‘Psychological barriers…mistrust and denial keep most Americans from acting to fight global warming’

Psychologists Claim: Most people in denial over global warming — ‘Only way to make people change their behavior is to ‘ramp up the fear factor’

Psychologist: ‘What Makes Climate Skeptics Tick? Denial is a powerful impediment to constructive action on climate change’

Comic Relief: Prof. Running invented ‘The 5 Stages of Climate Grief’ — ‘Summarizes how people deal differentially with shocking news’

Claim: Global warming harms mental health…increases risk of ‘post traumatic stress disorder and depression’

Claim: ‘From living in virtual darkness to minutely measuring their water-use, greens’ fixation with carbon counting is verging on a mental illness’

Climate Fear Promoter Conducts ‘Psycho Analysis of Climate Skeptics’

Flashback: Shepard Smith of Fox News : Global Warming Skeptics Are ‘A Little Crazy’

Flashback: Psychiatrist declares ‘lethal global overheating…is happening now!’ – Calls on mental health professionals to take a stand

Columnist: Putting the ‘mental’ in environmental