Environmental Says Blizzard Consistent with 'Global Warming' Trend

Wrong Again

The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population. -- Reid Bryson, "Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man", (1971)

The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. Population control is the only answer -- Paul Ehrlich - The Population Bomb (1968)

I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000 -- Paul Ehrlich in (1969)

In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. -- Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)

Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity . . . in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion -- Paul Ehrlich in (1976)

This [cooling] trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century -- Peter Gwynne, Newsweek 1976

There are ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production - with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon... The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologist are hard-pressed to keep up with it. -- Newsweek, April 28, (1975)

This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000. -- Lowell Ponte "The Cooling", 1976

If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000...This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age. -- Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day (1970)

Melissa Carey, a climate change policy specialist with the Environmental Defense Fund

Who, other than the Almighty is able to set Climate Change Policy??!!

"Last Summer was too warm, so we are changing our climate change policy to keep temperatures down this year."

And how the heck do you get to be a Freepin' specialist in that field?

Just another egghead who doesn't actually produce anything.

Here is how I feel about it. Global "warming" may be real---but I hardly consider .5 of a degree or even a degree rise over 50 years warrants all the hoop-lah, especially when I as a tax payer and utility user will have to help foot the bills for all the "supposed" needed changes to co2 emissions.

I pay enough in taxes and utlity bills now! (No too much!)and I would very much like to see my family continue to be able to work and provide for their family members! Will be hard for them to do so when decreasing co2 emissions put employers out of business! (Just so you will know, I don't own any business).

What good is living life if all you make is paid out in taxes and utility bills? Or worse yet, if families are foced to take government handouts because there are no jobs? That is enough "science" for me. Cold hard facts.

Yesterday I was reading an article were two well known scientists are coming out with a new book (so forgot their names and the name of their book, but they had a previous one). In this book they are prediciting another Ice Age......so who is right???

William D. Ruckelshaus, who today wastes taxpayers' money on salmon spending in Washington State.

From the DDT FAQ:

William Ruckelshaus, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who made the ultimate decision to ban DDT in 1972, was a member of the Environmental Defense Fund. Ruckelshaus solicited donations for EDF on his personal stationery that read "EDF's scientists blew the whistle on DDT by showing it to be a cancer hazard, and three years later, when the dust had cleared, EDF had won."

But as an assistant attorney general, William Ruckelshaus stated on August 31, 1970 in a U.S. Court of Appeals that "DDT has an amazing an exemplary record of safe use, does not cause a toxic response in man or other animals, and is not harmful. Carcinogenic claims regarding DDT are unproven speculation." But in a May 2, 1971 address to the Audubon Society, Ruckelshaus stated, "As a member of the Society, myself, I was highly suspicious of this compound, to put it mildly. But I was compelled by the facts to temper my emotions ... because the best scientific evidence available did not warrant such a precipitate action. However, we in the EPA have streamlined our administrative procedures so we can now suspend registration of DDT and the other persistent pesticides at any time during the period of review." Ruckelshaus later explained his ambivalence by stating that as assistant attorney general he was an advocate for the government, but as head of the EPA he was "a maker of policy."
[Barrons, 10 November 1975]

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