A roundup of climate panic advocates’ recrods shows…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
…well, you know:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhile such predictions have been and continue to be enthusiastically reported by a media eager for sensational headlines, the failures are typically not revisited,\u201d they added.
Some examples:
1967 \u2014 Stanford University expert Paul Erlich predicted \u201ctime of famines\u201d in 1975.
1971 \u2014 A top NASA expert predicted an \u201cice age\u201d by 2021.
1988 \u2014 It was predicted that the Maldives [Ahem – usually referred to as “The Falklands” – Ed] would be under water by last year.
2008 \u2014 Gore said the Arctic would be free of ice by 2013.
2009 \u2014 Charles said there was just 96 months left to save the world.
Starting Friday, there is a global climate strike<\/a> set to last for a week. According to the organizers, \u201cOur house is on fire \u2014 let\u2019s act like it. We demand climate justice for everyone.\u201d
<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nAnd my favorite: 1988, Ted Danson predicting that the growing hole in the ozone would kill us all in 15 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My go-to response to the whole thing: let’s say for sake of argument that they get one right; let’s say that the climate is irreversibly warming due to human activity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why is the solution to turn the keys to the world’s economies over to the kind of people who gave us Srebrenica, or Chicago city politics or MN-LARS? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ll wait. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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