[oh8eleven]

I surfed onto a Discovery Channel show last week and at first I thought it was a joke. It wasn't ...
"Wrapping Greenland - Dr. Jason Box, a glaciologist from Ohio State University, is on a mission to prevent glaciers from melting by covering them with blankets that will reflect the powerful rays of the sun."
After reading the descriptions of a few more shows listed on their website, it's obvious they need to change their name to The Chicken Little Channel:

• Greenland is melting. Find out why and what it means for the planet.
• Pesticides, heavy metals and other airborne contaminants are raining down on national parks across the West and Alaska.
• The icy north is disappearing faster than ever, report scientists.
• America's crown jewels are facing threats from human activity as never before.

[reformedliberal]

44 years ago, I worked in the library of American Appraisal. They had just received a huge book of beautiful maps of all sorts from Lester Brown, founder of World Watch.

http://www.earth-policy.org/About/Lester_bio.htm

These maps showed that we would run out EVERYTHING within 10 years, including arable soil. I was 21 and pregnant. Those maps terrified me.

Well, here we are today and we still have plenty of everything. When the Ozone Hole hysteria hit the media, my husband and I recalled (and you can check this) that National Geographic had shown the ozone hole in the IGY issue of January 1957. It was described as a natural phenomena. Of course, we all know it has closed significantly in recent years and it is doubtful the Montreal Protocol had a thing to do with it.

I keep wondering just how many erroneous valuations were made by American Appraisal of the value of things like gravel pits, metal mines, woodlands, et al, based on those maps and predictions? We have had many booms and busts in every commodity class since 1964. I also wonder how long it took to create those maps before computers, scanners and printers? The book, which took up an entire library table when opened, surely took at least two years to produce,back then, if not more.

Why can't the hysterics come up with anything new? Same old game plan, same old fabrications, same old agenda.