Five Hysterical Environmentalist Claims in Modern History
BartSimpson @ Tue Mar 12, 2019 2:03 pm
Full title: Here Are 5 Hysterical Environmentalist Claims in Modern History
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/03/11/ ... jZ3Rm5NcG1
It's a big article so I'm just posting a few juicy excerpts here. 
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Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: 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.
Ah, yes, all the scientists agree that the world will end by the year 2000.
Ah, yes, all the scientists agree that the world will end by the year 2000.
THEY HAD A CONSENSUS!!!!
Moving along...
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Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support … the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution [and] by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half.
Again, such remarkable accuracy from these all-knowing scientists.
Again, such remarkable accuracy from these all-knowing scientists.
Yup, we have the charts and graphs that portend DooM!!!
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A recently resurfaced report from the Associated Press shows how an almost identical, but more precise, prediction was once made by a high-ranking United Nations official in 1989.
AP reported: “A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.”
Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, claimed in 1989 that human beings had a mere 10 years to stop the effects of global warming.
Brown said: “Ecological refugees will become a major concern, and what’s worse is you may find that people can move to drier ground, but the soils and the natural resources may not support life. Africa doesn’t have to worry about land, but would you want to live in the Sahara?”
Brown pronounced doom for Canada and the United States, where the entire East Coast would be flooded and conditions would be like the 1930s Dust Bowl.
AP reported: “A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.”
Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, claimed in 1989 that human beings had a mere 10 years to stop the effects of global warming.
Brown said: “Ecological refugees will become a major concern, and what’s worse is you may find that people can move to drier ground, but the soils and the natural resources may not support life. Africa doesn’t have to worry about land, but would you want to live in the Sahara?”
Brown pronounced doom for Canada and the United States, where the entire East Coast would be flooded and conditions would be like the 1930s Dust Bowl.
Dammit, kids...we've only got until NINETEEN YEARS AGO TO SAVE THE EARTH!!!!
And here's a subject that keeps coming up here:
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Predictions about the polar ice caps melting have been common. Dramatic pictures of polar bears floating on tiny icebergs have been some of the iconic images of the climate change movement.
Former Vice President Al Gore said at a conference in 2009 that a scientist predicted a “75 percent chance that the entire polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice free within five to seven years.”
In 2014, the ice caps were still there. In fact, it’s 2019 and the ice caps are still there.
Gore wasn’t the only one to make such bold prognostications about the future of Arctic ice.
In his book “A Farewell to Ice,” Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at Cambridge University, predicted that polar ice in the Arctic would be gone by mid-decade.
Not only have the ice caps survived these predictions of doom, but they have occasionally grown in size. Between 2012 and 2016, Arctic ice increased from an average of 2.2 million square miles to 3.3 million square miles, according to The Telegraph.
Former Vice President Al Gore said at a conference in 2009 that a scientist predicted a “75 percent chance that the entire polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice free within five to seven years.”
In 2014, the ice caps were still there. In fact, it’s 2019 and the ice caps are still there.
Gore wasn’t the only one to make such bold prognostications about the future of Arctic ice.
In his book “A Farewell to Ice,” Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at Cambridge University, predicted that polar ice in the Arctic would be gone by mid-decade.
Not only have the ice caps survived these predictions of doom, but they have occasionally grown in size. Between 2012 and 2016, Arctic ice increased from an average of 2.2 million square miles to 3.3 million square miles, according to The Telegraph.
And the concurrence of leftards and climate doom has quite a history...
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In 1958, Betty Friedan, one of the leading thinkers of radical, modern feminism, wrote an article in Harper’s magazine describing the “coming ice age.”
It seems the mixing of climate science and radical left-wing politics is nothing new.
Friedan based her article on the work of two scientists, geophysicist Maurice Ewing, director of Columbia University’s Lamont Geological Observatory, and geologist-meteorologist William Donn.
She explained how these scientists foresaw American port cities being drowned by rising oceans, and how a giant glacier would cover Europe and North America. The scientists described conditions by which the earth would dramatically warm and then cool, sending us into another ice age.
These scientists were more cautious in their predictions than others, but this didn’t stop Friedan from speculating that, based on their calculations about the rate of warming, a layman could conclude that “the Arctic Ocean will be open and the Ice Age [will] begin in another twenty years.”
It seems the mixing of climate science and radical left-wing politics is nothing new.
Friedan based her article on the work of two scientists, geophysicist Maurice Ewing, director of Columbia University’s Lamont Geological Observatory, and geologist-meteorologist William Donn.
She explained how these scientists foresaw American port cities being drowned by rising oceans, and how a giant glacier would cover Europe and North America. The scientists described conditions by which the earth would dramatically warm and then cool, sending us into another ice age.
These scientists were more cautious in their predictions than others, but this didn’t stop Friedan from speculating that, based on their calculations about the rate of warming, a layman could conclude that “the Arctic Ocean will be open and the Ice Age [will] begin in another twenty years.”
So how's that continental ice sheet working out for Canada? Do you folks feel like Climate Deniers because your reality is in conflict with Betty Friedan's dogmatic prediction of disaster?
Well, now I have to wonder what new (or old) apocalypse the leftards will come up with next.
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raydan @ Tue Mar 12, 2019 2:25 pm
The Daily Signal...
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Overall, we rate the Daily Signal, Right Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that always favor the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to not aligning with the consensus of science regarding climate change.
peck420 @ Tue Mar 12, 2019 2:49 pm
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
Well, now I have to wonder what new (or old) apocalypse the leftards will come up with next.
A better question!
Each of those has cost the world billions to mitigate. You still haven't learned, so...when you donating the billions to trillions the next one will cost?
I guess they glossed over that bit in the right up....
PluggyRug @ Tue Mar 12, 2019 2:55 pm
raydan raydan:
The Daily Signal...
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Overall, we rate the Daily Signal, Right Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that always favor the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to not aligning with the consensus of science regarding climate change.
And?
raydan @ Tue Mar 12, 2019 2:57 pm
If you don't get it, there's no hope for you. 
N_Fiddledog @ Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:02 pm
PluggyRug PluggyRug:
raydan raydan:
The Daily Signal...
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Overall, we rate the Daily Signal, Right Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that always favor the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to not aligning with the consensus of science regarding climate change.
And?
Extreme right to the socialist wannabes of today's left is what used to be called mainstream.
BartSimpson @ Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:04 pm
raydan raydan:
The Daily Signal...
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Overall, we rate the Daily Signal, Right Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that always favor the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to not aligning with the consensus of science regarding climate change.
Whoopee doo. Doesn't change the fact that these predictions of disaster never came to fruition.
BartSimpson @ Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:07 pm
peck420 peck420:
Each of those has cost the world billions to mitigate.
Really? Tell me how Canada deals with fending off the continental ice sheet and the subsequent failure of the crops in the Prairie?
How much have you spent to stop the ice age?
raydan @ Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:29 pm
How much do you guys believe this story?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ate-change
As much as I consider the extreme right Daily Signal to be a rag, I don't give any credit to extreme left sites either. Even the Guardian, which is pretty much centre left, doesn't get many points from me.
PluggyRug @ Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:35 pm
raydan raydan:
If you don't get it, there's no hope for you.
Oh I get it, attack the source but not the facts from the source.
Next.
raydan @ Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:35 pm
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-clim ... SKCN1NS19D
BartSimpson @ Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:41 pm
raydan raydan:
How much do you guys believe this story?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ate-change
As much as I consider the extreme right Daily Signal to be a rag, I don't give any credit to extreme left sites either. Even the Guardian, which is pretty much centre left, doesn't get many points from me.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... ate-change
As much as I consider the extreme right Daily Signal to be a rag, I don't give any credit to extreme left sites either. Even the Guardian, which is pretty much centre left, doesn't get many points from me.
I really don't care what the source is so long as the story is supported by facts.
The Daily Signal may well be a POS but in this case they cited five readily verifiable facts and compiled them into a single frame of reference.
And here you are denouncing them because you think they're a rag but you still haven't said whether or not you disagree with their story and their sources...many of which are direct quotes from leftist doomsayers.
raydan @ Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:50 pm
I can find as many "facts" that prove that climate change will kill us in a few years in far left and not so far left news sites.
The ones you believe depend on your biases.
So... you want to attack the facts in the Reuters article I posted?
peck420 @ Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:53 pm
BartSimpson BartSimpson:
peck420 peck420:
Each of those has cost the world billions to mitigate.
Really? Tell me how Canada deals with fending off the continental ice sheet and the subsequent failure of the crops in the Prairie?
By doubling quadrupling (my bad) our fertilizer usages.
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How much have you spent to stop the ice age?
Conservatively? Around $47,500. Granted, that is for me alone...and just my food. So, $237,500 for a family of 5.
I guess that is really minimizing it though, as that ignores additional heating/cooling, transportation, etc...it would easily go into 7 digits.
We pay for it incrementally. It is one of the drivers behind ever increasing COG.
BartSimpson @ Tue Mar 12, 2019 4:02 pm
raydan raydan:
I can find as many "facts" that prove that climate change will kill us in a few years in far left and not so far left news sites.
The ones you believe depend on your biases.
So... you want to attack the facts in the Reuters article I posted?
The ones you believe depend on your biases.
So... you want to attack the facts in the Reuters article I posted?
Ray, try reading the article before you make an ass out of yourself. It isn't about the here-nor-there of global warming, it's about the hysterical predictions of doom that have been utter flops.
