Pardon me while I rant a bit.
Circa 1965: The Population Bomb! By 2000 everyone will be starving! A scientist wrote a book about it! It has to be true! We’re all gonna die!
It didn’t happen and starvation as a percentage of the population has fallen. We produce more food and poverty and starvation are decreasing as a percentage of the population.
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Circa 1970-72: There is an ice age coming in 15 years! The environment will be ruined. Climatologists are sure of it! It was even on the cover of Time Magazine! We’re all gonna die!
It didn’t happen. Can we blame global warming?
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Circa 1975: There is a hole in the ozone layer. It’s caused by the propellant in hairspray! The science is incontrovertible! Radiation will kill everything by 1982! We’re all gonna die!
It didn’t work out that way despite lots more women with frizzy hair.
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Circa1977-1978: We’re going to run out of oil by 1990. Civilization will collapse! Jimmy Carter told us so in a speech from the Oval Office while wearing an ugly sweater! He said the science was infallible, peak oil and all that! We’re all gonna die!
It’s a good thing my Mazda runs on unicorn farts! Or, is that still gasoline I buy at the pump? Oh, and despite all the oil used since Jimmy told us we had 10 to 15 years of oil left, oil reserves today are greater than they were in 1978.
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Circa 1980: Reagan’s gonna cause a nuclear war. A group of Social scientists and other assorted academics told us it was inevitable. We’ll have a nuclear winter! We’re all gonna die!
I sort of felt the same way about Hillary Clinton being elected president but that didn’t happen either.
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Circa 1982: They’re cutting down the Amazon rain forest to make paper bags! It’ll be gone by 1992. They’re cutting down an area the size of Kansas every two weeks! Geologists and satellites tell us it is true! We’re all gonna die!
Whatever the subject this nonsense was spouted in every undergraduate class I took in the early 1980s. It didn’t happen and the environmental movement is, I think, partially responsible for the plague of plastic bag litter in the oceans. We stopped using paper bags because they begged us too for the environment!
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Circa 1980’s: Alar on apples! Oh my God! We fed it to our children! We’re all gonna die!
If you don’t remember this one look it up. It’s pretty funny stuff
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Circa 1990 -2005: Global Warming. By 2010 sea levels will be 40 higher! Lots of little islands will disappear and Manhatten and LA will be underwater. 1,000,000,000 climate refuges! We’re all gonna die!
I just recently moved from one of the islands that were listed as going to be underwater by 2010. It’s still there and the beaches are still lovely. I am not a refugee from Guam. I wish I were still living on that island several times a month.
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Circa 2019: Climate change! Because you boomers didn’t believe in it we’re all gonna die! We’ve got less than10 years before the end! Climate models told us so!
The environmental movement has been making predictions of death and doom as long as I can remember and they have never been right. We’re still here, we haven’t all died. In 2031 (11 years from now) I want a groveling apology from everyone that found this post offensive because they believed in apocalyptic climate change that was going to kill us in 10 years. (Greta Thornberg I’m looking at you) Maybe between now and then you should take an “Adulting” class as well.
P.S. There are lots of real environmental problems. But since we have less than 10 years to live, who cares about endangered species, polluted water, and air and why would you abandon fossil fuels?
For the climageddonists on your Christmas list:
1. Define the “correct” temperature range for the planet.
2. Define the “correct” humidity range for the planet.
3. Define the “correct” mean sea level for the planet.
4. Define the “correct” amount of precipitation for the planet.
5. Define the “correct” makeup of the atmosphere.
6. Define the “correct” amount of sea ice at the N/S poles.
7. Define/explain past glaciation and subsequent warming without any input from humans.
Al Gore's Doomsday Clock...Time's Up!
On Jan 27, 2006, Al Gore breathlessly howled and screamed that there would be an Armageddon type doomsday if we all didn't listen to him and promptly ban SUV's, hairspray, plastic Walmart bags and immediately implement his "Green" nonsense within the next 10 years, it was Earth's last chance. Well, according to the clock Rush Limbaugh put up on his site a decade ago, those desperate remaining 10 years have gone by and Earth's doom should've been sealed, as Gore's dire prediction expired at midnight tonight. And guess what Al? Time's up and we're all still here, as is the planet. Wrong again, you limousine liberal bonehead.....