Posted on 04/15/2017 8:08:27 AM PDT by rktman
A few years ago it was to save the Earth from freezing. Which is it?
The 10 years to save the earth crap is starting to remind me of the budget extensions that come every year. This is, I think, the 4th or 5th such 10 year extension to gloom and doom, whether by ice age or warming.
Didn’t Al Gore and Ted Danson say the same thing 10 or 12 years ago?
To put this nonsense in perspective, here are some predictions from the first Earth Day in 1970
The following predictions were made during the first Earth Day in 1970:
* Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for the first Earth Day, wrote, “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
* Senator Gaylord Nelson, the founder of Earth Day, stated, “Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
* Peter Gunter, a professor at North Texas State University, stated, “… by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions… By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
* Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb, predicted that between 1980 and 1989, 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would starve to death.
* Life Magazine wrote, “… by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half.”
* Ecologist Kenneth Watt stated, “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
* Watt also stated, “By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil.”
Cried wolf too many times. Yawn.
No science proving Man can affect the climate in any way that natural effects don’t overpower easily.
Cried wolf too many times. Yawn.
No science proving Man can affect the climate in any way that natural effects don’t overpower easily.
They love the ten year number. I remember when we had ten years to save the rainforest before we all died because the rainforest is the lungs of planet earth. I’m even old enough to remember when we had ten years to save the Ogallala Aquifer before we all starved to death. I was a little kid and I thought, I can’t pronounce it, I don’t know what an aquifer is and its going to kill me. But eventually I caught on.
Sounds like at least 10 years of good tomatoes .......
“when we had ten years to save the Ogallala Aquifer”
That doesn’t get brought up anymore now that the greenies are promoting ethanol from water-sucking corn. (I believe that the aquifer is still getting drawn down though - which does cause problems.)
Ten years?
Why, by that time we will have Fusion power...or so they say.
Piled higher and deeper.
Rush is always mentioning this fact:
The left will never take credit for any changes that might occur. Like the fact that CA had more rain than usual this year; after years and years of very little rain.
That is really weird.
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