The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto reports a deadline before “climate chaos,” which apparently is not Wisconsin spring:

Uh-oh. “In two languages, French Foreign Minister Lauren Fabius started the countdown Tuesday to climate change disaster, speaking in Washington before a meeting with American counterpart Secretary of State John Kerry,” reports TheBlaze.com:

“We have 500 days to avoid the climate chaos,” Fabius said in French. . . .

Speaking then in English, Fabius touched on Iran, Syria, and Ukraine, but then quickly returned to climate change.

“And very important issues, issue of climate change, climate chaos,” the foreign minister said. “And we have–as I said, we have 500 days to avoid climate chaos, and I know that President Obama and John Kerry himself are committed on this subject and I’m sure that with them, with a lot of other friends, we shall be able to reach success on this very important matter.”

Taranto reports the deadline before whatever “climate chaos” is is Sept. 25, 2015.

My favorite online meteorologist, Mike Smith, anticipated all this last year by repeating Taranto’s list of climate “tipping points”:

• “Global Warming Tipping Point Close?”–headline, ClimateArk.com, Jan. 27, 2004
• “Warming Hits ‘Tipping Point’ “–headline, Guardian, Aug. 11, 2005
• “Earth at the Tipping Point: Global Warming Heats Up”–headline, Time, March 26, 2006
• “Global Warming ‘Tipping Points’ Reached, Scientist Says”–headline,NationalGeographic.com, Dec. 14, 2007
• “Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near on Global Warming”–headline, Puffington Host, June 23, 2008
• “Global Warming: Those Tipping Points Are Closer Than You Think”–headline, WSJ.com, April 29, 2009
• “Have We Reached the Tipping Point for Planet Earth?”–video title, StudioTalk.tv, May 11, 2010
• “Must-Read Hansen and Sato Paper: We Are at a Climate Tipping Point That, Once Crossed, Enables Multi-Meter Sea Level Rise This Century”–headline, ThinkProgress.org, Jan. 20, 2011
• “Earth: Have We Reached an Environmental Tipping Point?”–headline, BBC website, June 15, 2012
• “In spite of the continued released [sic] of 90 million tons of global warming pollution every day into the atmosphere, as if it’s an open sewer, we are now seeing the approach of a global political tipping point.”–Al Gore, interview with Washington Post, Aug. 21, 2013

Smith added:

As far as I know, the earliest reference to global warming “tipping points” was in 1989. I did Google and Bing searches yesterday evening and there are more than one hundred alleged tipping points over the last 20 years.

Take, for example, the December, 2007, tipping point reference from National Geographic. Here are world temperatures (the same ones used by Al Gore’s friends at the IPCC) since 2000:

See any accelerating upward trend since January, 2008?

Plus, there is no upward temperature trend (actually, it is downward) since we passed 400 ppm in CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. It, too, was supposed to produce an acceleration in the rate of warming.

This is ridiculous. 

By any definition of the scientific method of advancing a hypothesis (i.e., a given tipping point exists) and measuring the results (lack of the predicted acceleration of warming) the tipping point hypothesis is falsified. 

Global warming, more and more, has become a matter of ‘faith,’ not science.

I bring this up only to keep readers abreast of one of my favorite subjects, end-of-the-world predictions. Remember when the world ended in December 2012 as predicted by the Mayans?