Only Five Years Left

Ho hum. Once again we're told that the Earth has only a few years left:

Our planet is just five years away from climate change catastrophe - but can still be saved, according to a new report.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) warns governments have until 2012 to "plant the seeds of change" and make positive moves to limit carbon emissions.

If they fail to do so, the WWF's Vision For 2050 warns "generations to come will have to live with the compromises and hardships caused by their inability to act".

"We have a small window of time in which we can plant the seeds of change, and that is the next five years," James Leape, from the WWF, said.

"We cannot afford to waste them. This is not something that governments can put off until the future."

This is so typical of the global warming hype from the activist groups. We're out of time, we have to act now even though we don't really know what's going on or what's causing it, if we don't make radical changes today it'll be too late to reverse course, blah...blah...blah.

Baloney.

I still remember Ted Danson standing on the shore of Santa Monica Bay telling us the oceans only had 10 years left to survive. That was in the late 80's. Last I looked the ocean still lives and I'm not aware that anybody followed the radical course of action that Danson demanded.

What groups like the WWF want is the end of capitalism, and they want government control over all aspects of our lives. They're not going to get it. And they're not alone in this nonsense:

Environmental activists are building a replica of Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat—where the biblical vessel is said to have landed after the great flood—in an appeal for action on global warming, Greenpeace said Wednesday.

Turkish and German volunteer carpenters are making the wooden ship on the mountain in eastern Turkey, bordering Iran. The ark will be revealed in a ceremony on May 31, a day after Greenpeace activists climb the mountain and call on world leaders to take action to tackle climate change, Greenpeace said.

"Climate change is real, it's happening now and unless world leaders take urgent, decisive and far-reaching action, the next decades will see human misery on a scale not experienced in modern times," said Greenpeace activist Hilal Atici. "Those leaders have a mandate from the people ... to massively cut greenhouse gas emissions and to do it now."

It's like dealing with a bunch of children. But, what's this??

The average temperature in April 2007 was 51.7 F. This was -0.3 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average, the 47th coolest April in 113 years. The temperature trend for the period of record (1895 to present) is 0.1 degrees Fahrenheit per decade.

Mother Nature is laughing at these people.