In 1950, the consensus was global warming
In 1961, the unanimous consensus was global cooling. (Don’t tell Nuttercelli about this. It upsets his delicate disposition)
Global warming and cooling may appear contradictory at first, but there are two common threads.
- Scientists always need to secure funding for next year
- Scientists understand that journalists are too stupid to call them on their BS
Politicians also too stupid to understand the correlation/causation conundrum, but love to pontificate about “saving the planet for our children and grandchildren”
People in general never stop and realize that science is not a popularity contest. You don’t find answers to questions by popular vote. NEVER
At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, “The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.” C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said, “The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed.” In 1968, Professor Paul Ehrlich, Vice President Gore’s hero and mentor, predicted there would be a major food shortage in the U.S. and “in the 1970s … hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.” Ehrlich forecasted that 65 million Americans would die of starvation between 1980 and 1989, and by 1999 the U.S. population would have declined to 22.6 million. Ehrlich’s predictions about England were gloomier: “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”
In 1972, a report was written for the Club of Rome warning the world would run out of gold by 1981, mercury and silver by 1985, tin by 1987 and petroleum, copper, lead and natural gas by 1992. Gordon Taylor, in his 1970 book “The Doomsday Book,” said Americans were using 50 percent of the world’s resources and “by 2000 they [Americans] will, if permitted, be using all of them.” In 1975, the Environmental Fund took out full-page ads warning, “The World as we know it will likely be ruined by the year 2000.”
Harvard University biologist George Wald in 1970 warned, “… civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” That was the same year that Sen. Gaylord Nelson warned, in Look Magazine, that by 1995 “… somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
It’s not just latter-day doomsayers who have been wrong; doomsayers have always been wrong. In 1885, the U.S. Geological Survey announced there was “little or no chance” of oil being discovered in California, and a few years later they said the same about Kansas and Texas. In 1939, the U.S. Department of the Interior said American oil supplies would last only another 13 years. In 1949, the Secretary of the Interior said the end of U.S. oil supplies was in sight. Having learned nothing from its earlier erroneous claims, in 1974 the U.S. Geological Survey advised us that the U.S. had only a 10-year supply of natural gas. The fact of the matter, according to the American Gas Association, there’s a 1,000 to 2,500 year supply.
Here are my questions: In 1970, when environmentalists were making predictions of manmade global cooling and the threat of an ice age and millions of Americans starving to death, what kind of government policy should we have undertaken to prevent such a calamity? When Ehrlich predicted that England would not exist in the year 2000, what steps should the British Parliament have taken in 1970 to prevent such a dire outcome? In 1939, when the U.S. Department of the Interior warned that we only had oil supplies for another 13 years, what actions should President Roosevelt have taken? Finally, what makes us think that environmental alarmism is any more correct now that they have switched their tune to manmade global warming?
Here are a few facts: Over 95 percent of the greenhouse effect is the result of water vapor in Earth’s atmosphere. Without the greenhouse effect, Earth’s average temperature would be zero degrees Fahrenheit. Most climate change is a result of the orbital eccentricities of Earth and variations in the sun’s output. On top of that, natural wetlands produce more greenhouse gas contributions annually than all human sources combined.
The Violent Scare Mongers
I’m seeing a pattern in the modern day Chicken Littles that spout the false notion that they are backed by an overwhelming consensus. The pattern: violence or thuggery. Look first at Ben Santer. Wuwt is reporting that Santer is upset about bloggers… which Santer describes with words like harassment, frivolous, nonsense, hatred, bullies, forces of unreason, abuse, and McCarthyism. Much worse though, as reported by ConfusedPhoton in the wuwt thread, is that this is the same Ben Santer that emailed Phil Jones on 9/10/2009 and stated: “Next time I see Pat Michaels at a scientific meeting, I’ll be tempted to beat the crap out of him.Very tempted.” Charming – resort to violence when your arguments fail. Ben Santer also said: “I looked at some of the stuff on the Climate Audit web site. I’d like to talk to a few of these ‘Auditors’ in a dark alley.” Also, the rabid warmist and leftist nutcase Steve Zwick in A Tennessee Fireman’s Solution to Climate Change called for burning down the houses of skeptics.
And yesterday we had the loonatick Michael Mann suggesting skeptics be reported to the Dept of Homeland Security as a national security threat. Mann said he wants Obama to do something about skeptics. What, sick Obama’s goons or “security force” on skeptics? The real threat, Michael Mann, is from crazy leftists and unhinged climate “scientists” that want to resort to violence and advocate a communist takeover of the United States and globe. Seriously: http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/15/un-climate-chief-communism-is-best-to-fight-global-warming/
Quotes from the warmists thugs calling for violence:
“We should have war crimes trials for these bastards (agw skeptics) — some sort of climate Nuremberg.” -David Roberts, Grist Magazine
“[Skeptics should be exposed] to high concentrations of either carbon dioxide or some other colourless, odourless gas – say, carbon monoxide.” -Jill Singer, Australian Green
“Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.” -George Monbiot, UK Ecojournalist
“Is it not our responsibility to ensure that this collapse [of industrial civilization] happens?” -Maurice Strong, ex UNEP Director
“It’s time for climate change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies.” -leftist journalist Richard Glove
“Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs.” -John Davis, Earth First!
“People are the cause of all the problems..we need to get rid of some of them.” -Charles Wurster, Environmental Defense Fund
“A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer.” -Paul Ehrlich [seems to be suggesting mass murder]
“An ecocatastrophe is taking place on earth.. prohibition, enforcement and oppression are the only solution. Those most responsible..will be sent to the mountains for re-education in eco-gulags. The sole glimmer of hope lies in a centralised government and the tireless control of citizens.” -Pentti Linkola, Ecologist
“The life of all mankind is in danger because of global warming.” -Osama Bin Laden
These nut jobs want our guns for a reason.
The 1960-1961 winter in NYC was very cold and snowy. Thus at that moment in time, global cooling was an easy sell.
But…but…but…