“The population doubles every 40 years. In 100 years there will be 100 times as may people living on the earth.”
The main problem appears to be that Dr. Ray of FSU has run out of functional brain cells, assuming he ever had any.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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Ehrlich must be nervous about being knocked from the top of the list of looney doomsayers.
Maybe Ray is just a pseudonym for him?
Ray has looked at what Ehrlich has achieved with 40 years of failed predictions and figured, “Hey, I can do that – all I have to do is arc up the doom and the left will love me, pay me, fete me, and give me the Presidential Medal of Freedon.”
And you know what? Sadly, he’s probably right.
Unfortunately, Professor Ray exhibits the qualities needed for academic advancement under a totalitarian government that uses academic institutions to retain totalitarian control of the public.
I hear Lysenko chuckling.
Would you buy a used car from this guy while looking at that face? He looks overly eager to pounce before you even get a word into the conversation. He also sounds like a raving lunatic.
He’s from FSU. What more do you need to know?
The only thing he forgot to predict is cats and dogs living together.
My great fear is that North Pole Polar bears and South Pole Polar Bears will somehow meet and stick together like magnets.
🙂
I want a pair for my garage fridge. Are they reversible?
Good one Jason : he probably thinks there are Polar Bears at South Pole & Penguins at the North Pole… that should be a test to validate Scientists; seriously…
Progressives have to scare the general public enough so that they demand to be saved. He’s just lining up “doomsday” scenarios so that he, and his fellow progressives, will have an opportunity to act as our saviors by saving us from a phantom “fate worse than death”. The more money you give them, the worse the fate in store for the public. Typical of progressives, his thinking is very linear.
I don’t know what it was but he’s had too much of it.
+1
Hitler said, “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.” We have now witnessed the evolution of AGW Doom-saying ; white lies to all out fraud onto bias fantasy.
Next phase is “The Inmates Are Running the Asylum”,, a real game changer with no limits !!
I thought the Inmates Are Running the Asylum.
The only solution to the problems is for Peter Ray and his fellow Progressives to off themselves.
Problem solved.
They don’t know how.
We earthlings can grow plenty of food: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution
Gasoline in Phoenix area: $1.83 a gallon thanks to a petroleum glut.
70% of the planet is water.
There is no shortage of anything. https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/there-is-no-shortage-of-stuff/
His ideas are simply insane.
Staggeringly good article, thanks.
Also his articles on energy & food.
🙂
He says, “The population doubles every 40 years. In 100 years there will be 100 times as may people living on the earth.” So he’s obviously not a math professor.
Hmmm… I looked him up, and he’s apparently seventy years old. So it could be Alzheimer’s. That seems consistent with the descriptions of his teaching on his RateMyProfessors page:
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1418627
(“easy. better than taking a real class for a science credit.”)
Note that, even though his CV lists him as also teaching Atmospheric Physics, nearly all of his student ratings at RateMyProfessors were for MET1010, “Introduction to the Atmosphere” — the lowest level course in the department. He has no ratings for any upper-level courses. It appears that he is routinely assigned the drudgework courses.
But how could someone so innumerate have gotten a degree in meteorology, int he first place, and how could he ever have taught Atmospheric Physics?
There are some strange things on his CV, too. It says that he got his MS in meteorology 40 years after he got his PhD in the same field, from the same school. It also shows that in three decades as a professor at FSU, he’s been on only two students’ doctoral committees.
Also, in all that time he’s apparently coauthored just 16 papers, and he’s listed as the first author on just two of them, neither of which was published in the last decade. I guess “publish or perish” doesn’t apply at FSU?
According to this article, he used to be chairman of the meteorology department! But he lost that position after he got caught banging a 19yo FSU student:
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20021103/NEWS/211030740
That seems consistent with a couple of the comments at RateMyProfessors (“He tends to favor female students in the class, so if you are a guy you’re screwed.” “He flirts with cute sorority girls.”), and the multiple accusations against him for sexual harassment.
Excellent work daveburton.
His ideas are screwball. You mention innumeracy. You are onto something; personally and as of late, I have been using innumeracy as an explanation to myself how people can swallow fabulations like Man-Made Climate Change without a shred of evidence. Warmest year ever (Pick any year…)? By how much? How was it measured? Error margins? It was hot so what? These questions are my first ones – the innumerate not only don’t ask; they don’t even conceive the significance of the questions.
I’d be harassing Kelly Stevens from FSU, myself 😉
For some odd reason, some “reviewers” were having difficulty determining that Kelly is a woman.
On further inspection, it appears they had trouble finding the right professor to review; I doubt she has ever taught music.
Of course Professor Ray is innumerate, but that’s not the critical point. I can imagine him saying “All right, it will take 266 years for the world’s population to increase 100 times, not 100 years. What’s the difference?” The critical point is the assumption that population is increasing exponentially, which is far from the truth.
Please don’t think I trust the U.N. estimates of either the present or the future; I don’t. I do say, though, that it’s very unlikely that these estimates are too low.
FSU = Feng Shui University, an real trip.
It’s time to jump off that bridge in Brookline.
http://youtu.be/YX1w1AXJj9k
I guess he learned “new math”, eh? It would double twice and then roughly half again in 100 years. So then, double in 40, double again at 80 = x4, then half again at 100 is about 6 times the current population. There won’t even be 100 billion, so where the heck did his “100” come from, other than his tailpipe?
You know the math is crazy when you can’t even begin to imagine what the math error was.
Panic and raise taxes.
KooKoo !!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8GwT7ZotCg
Kookoo: A feeling of disorientation or craziness caused by the excessive intake of disco biscuits, mexican speedballs, or wiffle dust.
They had a party somewhere, judging by the comments at the Tallahassee Democrat.
Meanwhile, back on the ranch :
hat4uk.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/fertility-rates-why-without-massive-change-the-human-race-will-be-extinct-by-at-the-latest-2055/
I commented.
forgot my www. ?
http://www.hat4uk.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/fertility-rates-why-without-massive-change-the-human-race-will-be-extinct-by-at-the-latest-2250/
He must have been the leading blocking dummy for the Oregon team.
He looks a bit like Jerry Lewis’ nutty professor – only significantly less grey matter !
wow is he ever depressing, probably needs his meds increased or something like that.