Posted on 10/20/2009 2:37:43 PM PDT by MNDude
Today is Earth Day 1990...
What will happen 20 years in the future if we don't take strong measures now ...?
By 2010, the Earth's temperature will increase five to seven degrees, he said. Even that seemingly small rise will cause a chain reaction of catastrophic proportions that will begin with the melting of the polar icecaps, said Steger, who also led the international trans-Antarctica expedition that monitored damage caused by ozone depletion. Ocean waters will rise from melting ice, endangering coastal regions.... Much of the West Coast - ...- and the Eastern seaboard will be flooded, and parts of the Soviet Union, Denmark and the Amazon deltas will be underwater.
Miami Beach will not be the vacation spot of choice... As temperatures soar in Florida, vacationers and retirees may flock to New York for the year-round sunshine and balmy breezes. And snow? Forget it. That white, frosty blanket that has traditionally covered large parts of the Midwest and East in the winter will be something you only see in picture books - or maybe in the mountains.
The Midwest, the nation's farm belt will become a dust bowl, Steger said. "It'll be like a parched desert," Steger said. "This will not only affect our food but the food supply of other countries...People will starve. It will be a disaster."
Most of the mighty lakes, such as Lake Michigan, and the Mississippi and other rivers will turn into giant mud flats. The Earth's rising temperature would also turn forests into grasslands. And 50 to 90 percent of America's salt marshes, swamps and bayous will be destroyed because of the flooding, Steger said.
Soto compares society in 2010 to the movie "Blade Runner. where acid rain is a way of life,...and the world is dark and gray.
(Excerpt) Read more at nl.newsbank.com ...
Dr. Paul Ehrlich
Need I say more?
Rachel Carson
Need I say more?
Whew!!! Glad I died back in 2004 when the Atlantic flooded upstate NY after all the polar ice caps melted. Wouldn’t want to be alive today to see anymore of these predictions of horror come true.
The earth ain’t goin’ nowhere.
Mankind,...who knows...
The only way I survived the famine of the 1980s was by eating remaindered copies of The Population Bomb.
What will happen 20 years in the future if we don't take strong measures now ...?
Oh no. We only have 10 years left to destroy egoism, independence, and individualism, and form a worldwide global central planning authority to organize mankind into a collective unit that acts as one, just as the socialists want.
I haven't had this much fun with prophecies gone bad since reading Criswell Predicts!
I’m not on earth anymore. I left with the Hale-Bopp comet.
Uh does anyone know where you can buy printer cartridges out here?
A more apt comparison, given the status of "Health Care Legislation," would be to "Logan's Run," in which everyone must report to "Carousel."
Well this was reality in south Texas this year, but then it rained and now it's all green again.
Record-breaking cold this morning, widespread frost; Charlotte Oobserver 10/19/2009
Freeze warning for Northwest Georgia; Rome News-Tribune 10/18/09
Low Temp Sets a Record; Expect Another; Lakeland (FL) Ledger 10/18/2009
Record snow at Penn State; Baltimore Weather Examiner 10/17/09
Las Vegas ski resort opens really early (earliest opening ever); UPI 10/09/2009
When I was a boy, anyone preaching that the world was about to come to an end was generally some sort of Seventh Day Adventist or something.
Now it’s the global warming freaks.
As G. K. Chesterton prophetically said, “When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing they believe in anything.”
LOL!
I’ve always wanted to enjoy a silent spring in my deck lounge chair but the birds are too dang noisy.
Has this guy changed his name or offed himself yet?
Being an AGW cultist means never having to admit being wrong. It’s just like being a liberal, only better.
This was kept sealed in a Mason jar on Funk & Wagnalls’ back porch. Unfortunately, the porch is in Yuma, AZ, which the Pacific inundated a year ago.
I can’t even read it - we lost all communication in the Y2K disaster....
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