[steveegg]

Where's the next ice age that these same <expletive deleted>s were predicting 25 years ago?

[Asclepius]

The loss of the ice cap will open up the Northwest Passage and enable ships to save thousands of kilometres on journeys between Europe and the Far East.

Yes! Thank you, all you SUV operators.

[GOPmember]

Where's the next ice age that these same s were predicting 25 years ago?

Exactly. The sky is perpetually falling. Just to remind all what a bunch of Nostradami these sages are, the following are quotes from the first Earth Day in 1970:

"It is already too late to avoid mass starvation." Dennis Hayes, chief organizer--Earth Day 1

"At least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years." Paul Ehrlich

"By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine." Prof. Peter Gunter, North Texas State University

"In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution... by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half..." `Life' Magazine, January 1970

"Air pollution... is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone." Paul Ehrlich

"By the year 2000... there won't be any more crude oil." Ecologist Kenneth Watt

"In 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct." Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary, Smithsonian Institute

"The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years... the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age." Kenneth Watt

"In the 1970s and 1980s, hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash program embarked upon now." Paul Ehrlich, "The Population Bomb" (1968)

[DWSUWF]

"...Where's the next ice age that these same s were predicting 25 years ago?..."

We've got dweebs pushing policy and setting agendas who weren't even born when that equally fanciful theory was being advanced.

Getting older means having a front row seat at the 'Special Olympics' that is the human condition, doesn't it?

[JZoback]

bump.

[Jhoffa_]

Where's the next ice age that these same s were predicting 25 years ago?

Now THAT is an excellent question.

I was at my parents house watching TV not too long ago and they had one of the "in search of" (the one hosted by spock, you remember?) episodes on some satellite channel.

Commander Spock was talking ominously about how we were all doomed to die in another "ice age" that would certainly overtake and destroy us, just like the dinosaurs.. Oh my.. OH MY!

I couldn't stop laughing.. I snickered all the way through it, especially when he said "scientists predict"

LOL!

[Lael]

Where's the next ice age that these same s were predicting 25 years ago?

It starts when the Arctic is ICE FREE.

[Porterville]

Time to buy that ocean front property in Arizona. Thank God, the LA basin is such a mess, it needs a good washing.