membership is down in Rev. Al's travelin circus show
Posted on 05/26/2011 1:04:11 PM PDT by neverdem
While Harold Camping spends this week trying to wipe egg off his face after real-world events spectacularly falsified his prediction that the Christian rapture would occur on May 21, global warming alarmists are similarly trying to wipe egg off their faces after real-world events spectacularly falsified their predictions of an imminent polar ice rapture.
This week, a 1979 Palm Beach Post article resurfaced in which Steven Schneider, who for the past 30 years was one of the most prominent global warming alarmists, claimed the west Antarctic ice sheet could melt before the year 2000 and inundate American coastlines with up to 25 feet of sea level rise. Obviously, the west Antarctic ice sheet was not raptured away last century, and New Yorkers can still drive rather than swim to work.
If Steven Schneider was the only alarmist making spectacular – and spectacularly wrong – predictions about global warming and polar ice melt, then perhaps we could simply write it off as a single person who walked a little too far off the deep end. But spectacularly wrong global warming predictions, about polar ice and many other global warming-related issues, is par for the course for global warming alarmists.
Mark Serreze, a researcher with the federally funded National Snow and Ice Data Center, frightened the masses in June 2008 by claiming there was a 50-50 chance the North Pole would be ice-free in the upcoming summer. The media reported Serreze's prediction with a frenzy rarely equaled even among media-created global warming scares. Adding fuel to the fire, global warming alarmists lined up in droves to add their John Hancock to Serreze's claim. Many prominent alarmists even claimed Serreze was too conservative with his prediction.
For example, Peter Wadhams, head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group...
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Love it! bttt
Ted Danson, that pre-eminent scientist, said we’d all be dead by 2005.
membership is down in Rev. Al's travelin circus show
The Christian Al Gore
The eternal appeal of doomsday cults.
By JAMES TARANTO
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304520804576341310352792784.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion#
and Paul Ehrlich said 2000...”Population Bomb”
That skier has a good turn working!
Wish he would have put this out there Sunday.
Even if these idiots were right in their guessing that the ice caps would melt. Would coastal areas REALLY get flooded with 25 FEET of water? I tend to doubt it. I’m sure the water would rise some, but we probably wouldn’t see a dramatic effect. I believe what would help mitigate such a thing would be the ‘excess’ water flooding into large deserts that sit at or below sea level. For example, the Sahara Desert is rather massive, and it could take on huge amounts of ocean water, and return to what it was thousands of years ago as an inland sea. Just thinking out loud here...I could be full of it, but no more full of it than the morons that made those predictions.
I think he meant his career.
You have to give Gore his due. Not too many divinity school flunk outs have gone on to create their own religion. Even fewer have gotten filthy rich from it.
Even if these idiots were right in their guessing that the ice caps would melt. Would coastal areas REALLY get flooded with 25 FEET of water? I tend to doubt it. I’m sure the water would rise some . . .
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Maybe I’m an idiot but isn’t ice denser than water? Wouldn’t the water level DROP if the ice melted??
He had to avoid running into Algores butt!...............
If ALL the ice in the Arctic melted tomorrow the ocean wouldn’t come up. Why? The ice is already floating!
BM
I’m pretty sure ice is less dense than water, which is why it floats.
Ted Danson said in 1992 we only had 12 years left.
I think he meant his career.
“Becker” went off the air in 2004.
How very prescient of him!
A Greenpeace member predicted a summer ice-free Arctic Ocean around 2030. He based it on ice thickness information released by our government’s submarine surveys. What was the basis for these much earlier predictions? If it does melt, the danger is not of raising the water level, but that lack of reflective surface could increase the absorption of solar radiant heat.
Too bad there’s no Julian Simon around to show up these clowns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager
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