Rather than reconsider their outlandish deadlines for doom in the wake of predictions of catastrophe failing to show up — remember the infamous "End of Snow" headline (below)? — global warming doomsters amp up the level of devastation they forecast and shorten the time horizon.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gives us 12 years before the world will end now, at which point she will be 41 years old. New York Times, Feb. 7, 2014. doom, only to have it exposed as ridiculous.  Andrew Bolt of the Herald-Sun in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia offers the prediction and its exposure as poppycock: 2012: Griffith [University] associate professor Catherine Pickering says snow is rapidly disappearing because of global warming and by 2020 Australia may not have any left. "We've predicted by 2020 to lose something like 60 per cent of the snow cover of the Australian Alps," Professor Pickering, from the Griffith...(Read Full Post)