The idea that everything we know will be swept away has a strange and long-standing tradition. In the Bible, you see it in the story of Noa, where all of creation (in the limited cosmology of the time) was swept away by a huge flood. We see it again in The Revelation of John, a version of a story that was very popular at the time . The vision is still popular among fundamentalist Christians. It is central to Islam, in particular to the world view of ISIS . A particularly alarming version of "Happy Doomsday" is emerging surrounding climate change. Essentially, the doomsayers cherry pick and interpret more or less "Scientific" evidence to show that not only will the world experience catastrophe as a result of climate change, but that climate change spells the end of civilization or possibly the human species. At the extreme end, claims are made that climate change will wipe out all life on Earth . The facts of climate change are indisputable. The claims of the doomsa