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Epic Fail: Seven Big Failed Environmentalist Predictions
The Federalist ^
| 04/24/2015
| Robert Tracinski
Posted on 04/25/2015 12:52:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Forgot to mention the Ozone Hole.
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posted on
04/25/2015 1:04:38 PM PDT
by
MNDude
To: sauropod
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posted on
04/25/2015 1:09:18 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(I am His and He is mine.)
To: MNDude
Forgot to mention the Ozone Hole. Weren't we also supposed to be killed by Acid Rain several years ago?
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posted on
04/25/2015 1:14:55 PM PDT
by
Bob
(No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
To: MNDude
Great article, forgot ozone and acid rain and a few other things.
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posted on
04/25/2015 1:17:16 PM PDT
by
Fungi
(So you think you know anything about evolution? Think again.)
To: SeekAndFind
Great read of all the nonsense fear mongering in my lifetime.
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posted on
04/25/2015 1:17:29 PM PDT
by
catbertz
To: Bob
...Acid Rain ...
Well, once volcanoes "became" the major source of acid rain, attempting to blame US industry/consumerism for it didn't poll well.
However, I heard a Canadian broadcast about a lake that was tested for pollutants, and then retested after a forest fire around it, and there was an increase in heavy metals.
Naturally, they blamed US industry for spewing all that stuff earlier in the 20th century when the trees were growing and picked it all up.
To: Bob
amazing the ozone layer healed after we stopped launching the shuttle every month to find out why the ozone layer had a hole.
was that budget maker there?
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posted on
04/25/2015 1:24:26 PM PDT
by
hadaclueonce
(It is not heaven, it is Iowa. Everyone gets a "Corn Check")
To: SeekAndFind
The great famines since the first Earth Day in 1970 were caused by war or deliberate political action--for example, the infamous famine in Ethiopia during the civil war there in the 1980's.
And at least in the Western world, we've made great strides in cleaning up the air, thanks to tighter controls on automobile and industrial emissions. (Indeed, it's very rare we get high-level smog alerts in the Los Angeles Basin anymore.)
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posted on
04/25/2015 1:29:02 PM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: Fungi
If you had read it to the end you’d have read he wrote how he purposely left those out.
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posted on
04/25/2015 1:29:05 PM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
To: SeekAndFind
I see much of the commentary at this point is telling us they did not read the entire article before posting.
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posted on
04/25/2015 1:33:06 PM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
To: SeekAndFind
Earth Day? I think he meant Lenin’s birthday, no?
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posted on
04/25/2015 1:33:27 PM PDT
by
hecticskeptic
(In life it's important to know what you believeÂ….but more more importantly, why you believe it.)
To: rockinqsranch
Yep, in third to the last paragraph.
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posted on
04/25/2015 1:51:46 PM PDT
by
Fungi
(So you think you know anything about evolution? Think again.)
To: Fungi
It was a bit light on the false predictions of widespread species prediction. From a Boston Globe article: "In 1979, Berkeley ecologist Norman Myers published a book called The Sinking Ark, which claimed 40,000 species were disappearing each year. The next decade, a biologist who worked for the World Wildlife Fund predicted up to 20 percent of all species would disappear by the turn of the millennium. That didnt happen, but the drumbeat of alarms continues: A much-publicized paper in 2004 warned that by 2050, climate change could put 1 million species at risk of extinction."
To: SeekAndFind
My favorite prediction from the early Earth Day’s was Icebergs in the Gulf of Mexico by 2000. But, was when the big bugaboo was Global Cooling.
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posted on
04/25/2015 1:56:01 PM PDT
by
Nip
(BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
To: SeekAndFind
Of course the bozos with PhD’s who made predictions back in the 1970s.
They were operating under the false premise that Marxism would prevail. If that premise had been correct, there would have been global crop failures, mass starvation, and utter resource depletion.
To: rockinqsranch
That’s the way it often works around here. I’ve been guilty of it a few times m’self.
GREAT article. Too bad nobody in the MSM will read it.
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posted on
04/25/2015 2:02:09 PM PDT
by
Walrus
(I love the America that used to be ---I hate the America that now IS!)
To: RayChuang88
By amazing coincidence, I’d peg that year as when this place started to go to hell. I don’t think that it caused it, but it was a symptom.
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posted on
04/25/2015 2:36:06 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
To: SeekAndFind
They even predicted women would stop hitting on me and just yesterday I couldn’t get rid of another pest.
Damned attractive too but, I was in the middle of something amd needed her to leave.
Threw her back into the pond...
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posted on
04/25/2015 2:39:17 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: Bob
I’m still waiting to freeze to death from the late 1970s ice age doom and gloom predictions.
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posted on
04/25/2015 2:41:34 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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