-The DDT crisis
-The population bomb
-The threat of nuclear power
-Acid rain
-The Club of Rome resource depletion crisis
-The hole in the ozone layer
-Anthropogenic global warming
The truth is that the earth's climate has been warming since the end of the Younger Dryas. There is a real shortage of credible evidence that humans, presumably mammoth hunters idling their SUVs on the Siberian step and lighting their yurts with incandescent bulbs, had anything to do with it. Furthermore there is a shortage of evidence that humans CAN effect the climate in a global sense.
There was an excellent podcast from Den of Lore that was in two parts, each three hours with “...Dr. Gerald Dickens joins us to discuss the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), which occurred around 56 million years ago. It is the most recent naturally occurring Earth warming event that we can compare today’s warming to. During this time, global temperatures rose at least 5°C (9°F), and the PETM warmth lasted 200,000 years before the Earth system was able to remove the extra CO2 from the atmosphere.”
http://www.denoflore.com/ep-035-petm-ancient-hell-on-earth-w-dr-gerald-r-dickens-part-2/
It is a very detailed explanation regarding carbon 12 and carbon 13. The Carbon cycle has to be understood even before one can begin to think about climate.
Climate does change and is probably changing now as carbon levels are rising. That is both a good and not so good thing. Why are carbon levels rising? That is the question and after listening to Dr. Gerald Dickens I gather that at this point its a bit of a mystery to him and he’s been studying the carbon cycle for decades now.
I suggest to members of FR to download both episodes as well as the pdfs which detail the slides being described within the podcast. For the scientifically minded here, as well as the lay person, I think you will come away with a better understanding of how our Earth works. It’s heady and sometimes tedious, but worth the effort.
-The DDT crisis
-The population bomb
-The threat of nuclear power
-Acid rain
-The Club of Rome resource depletion crisis
-The hole in the ozone layer
-Anthropogenic global warming
You forgot one.... remember Carl Sagan’s
Nuclear Winter
All true. Plus GMO hysteria (some GMO may be harmful, but not saying, as both sides have motivation). If dupes are spreading it, check for any hard evidence. Plus ask: who benefits?
Plus it distracts from certain corporate issues. Example: who owns the water that fills all those bottled water bottles, and how’d they get title?
What happens when the last guano deposit is mined out? True Bats gotta s**t, but farms use more than we can replace. We’re good for nitrogen, but not for phosphates.
Why doesn’t somebody dump a bit of iron into the ocean? When fish populations double, starvation will drop for a bunch of years. And why not solar power satellites? Sunshine 24/7 up high enough, and infrared less harmful to birds than windmills. Need a new Moon Treaty, and Earth would get a bit warmer, but no technical issues.
Answer, of course, is money. The CAGW “concern” lobby gets tens of billions a year, and wants to ratchet that up up hundreds of billions a year. A Rached business.
Nuclear power is a threat to mankind and all other life on Earth. Fukushima is still dumping waste water into the Pacific Ocean, part of the containment vessel was found in Europe. Nuclear power must either move to a safer less polluting method, or be put out to pasture.
Y2k. Ozone layer.