When have their predictions ever been right? Back in the 80s Jacques Cousteau was saying the oceans would be dead in 10 years. Al Gore was saying the polar ice caps would be completely gone in 5 years...in 2007. Can these people point to a single global warming prediction that has actually come true?
AND HE CAUSED IT....
Unfortunately, the Cousteau Oceanographic Museum is now also world-famous as the alleged (see below) originator of one of greatest environmental disasters of modern times: Caulerpa taxifolia. If you go swimming in the Larvotto you may notice patches of bright green seaweed on the sea floor.
This seaweed, Caulerpa taxifolia, is not native to the Mediterranean. If what you read on the internet is to be believed, it is alleged to be a genetically-modified strain of a tropical seaweed developed by the curator of Wilhelmina Zoo in Stuttgart in the 1980s. However, we have no way of checking this information. It's said it is inedible or toxic to Mediterranean fish but was quickly adopted by aquariums around the world because it is brightly coloured and difficult to kill…
In 1984, a diver allegedly noticed a one-square-metre patch of the distinctive tropical algae under the windows of the Monaco Oceanographic Museum, which was then under the stewardship of le Capitaine Cousteau himself. Five years later it was allegedly noted in a survey that the weed had spread to cover one hectare.
Yes, you've guessed it. The allegation - which French courts have ruled unfounded on three occasions - was that the Oceanographic Museum, in a not terribly ecologically friendly procedure, used to clean out its tanks straight into the sea below. This would have been slightly ironic since Captain Cousteau, bless him, built a whole career out of documenting ecological disasters around the world. The alleged taxifolia contained in the Museum's effluent would have had no problem adapting to the Mediterranean waters it would now have found itself in. Whatever the origin, it allegedly spread rapidly and prolifically eliminating all other seaweeds in its path and with them the ecosystems they contained.
Now twenty years have passed and "the killer weed" has colonised coastlines as far west as Spain and as far east as Greece. And nobody can stop it. It has now even been spotted in Californian waters, quite possibly spread in the bilge water and anchor chains of the megayachts that frequent the Mediterranean.
Soon the illegals from North Africa will be able to walk to Europe on the massed seaweed.
As someone pointed out, it’s not about being right, it’s about being righteous. Liberals don’t give a damned about results as long as they feel good about it.