Just Another Crackpot

[Billy_Kinetta]

Why do Democrats choose such ignorant people to lord over them?

“Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?'" Ocasio-Cortez said.

I heard precisely the same shit, at the first Earth Day in Washington DC, April 1970. A half-century ago.

Ocasio-Cortez calls climate change ‘our World War II,’ warns the world will end in 12 years

Predictions from 1970 -

“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
• Kenneth Watt, ecologist

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
• George Wald, Harvard Biologist

“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
• Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist

“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
• New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
• Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day

“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….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.”
• Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University

“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: 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

“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.”
• Martin Litton, Sierra Club director

“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.'”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
• Sen. Gaylord Nelson

“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, 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, Ecologist

 

[kyzr]

Thankfully the Earth has mechanisms to heal itself given a reasonable opportunity. I recall the "ozone hole" and then we outlawed CFCs. The ozone hole is getting better and will be fully healed inn 50-years.
Ozone layer hole will 'totally heal within 50 years' - CNN

Global warming is just starting to be recognized as a serious threat. As the oceans rise and we start losing significant land areas that's when the pols will start screaming. Its like the National Debt, its just a number until the system crashes.

I support renewable energy, and starting to impose a carbon tax. Aside from that there isn't much we in the US can do since the rest of the world needs to contribute also.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Why do Democrats choose such ignorant people to lord over them?

“Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?'" Ocasio-Cortez said.

I heard precisely the same shit, at the first Earth Day in Washington DC, April 1970. A half-century ago.

Ocasio-Cortez calls climate change ‘our World War II,’ warns the world will end in 12 years

Predictions from 1970 -

“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
• Kenneth Watt, ecologist

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
• George Wald, Harvard Biologist

“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
• Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist

“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
• New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
• Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day

“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….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.”
• Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University

“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: 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

“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.”
• Martin Litton, Sierra Club director

“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.'”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
• Sen. Gaylord Nelson

“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, 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, Ecologist

Seems back in the 70's people listened to the experts and we did something about pollution.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Thankfully the Earth has mechanisms to heal itself given a reasonable opportunity. I recall the "ozone hole" and then we outlawed CFCs. The ozone hole is getting better and will be fully healed inn 50-years.
Ozone layer hole will 'totally heal within 50 years' - CNN

Global warming is just starting to be recognized as a serious threat. As the oceans rise and we start losing significant land areas that's when the pols will start screaming. Its like the National Debt, its just a number until the system crashes.

I support renewable energy, and starting to impose a carbon tax. Aside from that there isn't much we in the US can do since the rest of the world needs to contribute also.

Even the ozone hole is BS. We finally got instruments to measure it and said, hey, there's not much ozone down here, must be a hole. That man caused.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Why do Democrats choose such ignorant people to lord over them?

“Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?'" Ocasio-Cortez said.

I heard precisely the same shit, at the first Earth Day in Washington DC, April 1970. A half-century ago.

Ocasio-Cortez calls climate change ‘our World War II,’ warns the world will end in 12 years

Predictions from 1970 -

“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
• Kenneth Watt, ecologist

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
• George Wald, Harvard Biologist

“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
• Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist

“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
• New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
• Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day

“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….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.”
• Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University

“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: 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

“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.”
• Martin Litton, Sierra Club director

“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.'”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
• Sen. Gaylord Nelson

“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, 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, Ecologist

Seems back in the 70's people listened to the experts and we did something about pollution.

That does not negate the generalized idiocy.

 

[Erinwltr]

Thankfully the Earth has mechanisms to heal itself given a reasonable opportunity. I recall the "ozone hole" and then we outlawed CFCs. The ozone hole is getting better and will be fully healed inn 50-years.
Ozone layer hole will 'totally heal within 50 years' - CNN

Global warming is just starting to be recognized as a serious threat. As the oceans rise and we start losing significant land areas that's when the pols will start screaming. Its like the National Debt, its just a number until the system crashes.

I support renewable energy, and starting to impose a carbon tax. Aside from that there isn't much we in the US can do since the rest of the world needs to contribute also.

Even the ozone hole is BS. We finally got instruments to measure it and said, hey, there's not much ozone down here, must be a hole. That man caused.

WTH?

 

[Weatherman2020]

Thankfully the Earth has mechanisms to heal itself given a reasonable opportunity. I recall the "ozone hole" and then we outlawed CFCs. The ozone hole is getting better and will be fully healed inn 50-years.
Ozone layer hole will 'totally heal within 50 years' - CNN

Global warming is just starting to be recognized as a serious threat. As the oceans rise and we start losing significant land areas that's when the pols will start screaming. Its like the National Debt, its just a number until the system crashes.

I support renewable energy, and starting to impose a carbon tax. Aside from that there isn't much we in the US can do since the rest of the world needs to contribute also.

Even the ozone hole is BS. We finally got instruments to measure it and said, hey, there's not much ozone down here, must be a hole. That man caused.

WTH?

What year was ozone layer measured over Antarctica?

 

[sparky]

For every prediction that turned out false, there's one that turned out true

So just what is the gain here?

Further ,does anyone doubt if this rock doubles in population , our problems will also increase ?

~S~

 

[sparky]

Why do Democrats choose such ignorant people to lord over them?

“Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?'" Ocasio-Cortez said.

I heard precisely the same shit, at the first Earth Day in Washington DC, April 1970. A half-century ago.

Ocasio-Cortez calls climate change ‘our World War II,’ warns the world will end in 12 years

Predictions from 1970 -

“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
• Kenneth Watt, ecologist

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
• George Wald, Harvard Biologist

“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
• Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist

“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
• New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
• Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day

“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….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.”
• Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University

“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: 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

“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.”
• Martin Litton, Sierra Club director

“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.'”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
• Sen. Gaylord Nelson

“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, 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, Ecologist

Seems back in the 70's people listened to the experts and we did something about pollution.

Remember this guy....?

~S~

 

[Weatherman2020]

For every prediction that turned out false, there's one that turned out true

So just what is the gain here?

Further ,does anyone doubt if this rock doubles in population , our problems will also increase ?

~S~

Name ONE prediction that came true.

Just one. Uno.

 

[Cellblock2429]

Why do Democrats choose such ignorant people to lord over them?

“Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?'" Ocasio-Cortez said.

I heard precisely the same shit, at the first Earth Day in Washington DC, April 1970. A half-century ago.

Ocasio-Cortez calls climate change ‘our World War II,’ warns the world will end in 12 years

Predictions from 1970 -

“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
• Kenneth Watt, ecologist

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
• George Wald, Harvard Biologist

“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
• Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist

“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
• New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
• Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day

“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….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.”
• Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University

“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: 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

“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.”
• Martin Litton, Sierra Club director

“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.'”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
• Sen. Gaylord Nelson

“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, 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, Ecologist

/———/ Will the banks still offer 30 year mortgages if the world ends in 12?

 

[sparky]

For every prediction that turned out false, there's one that turned out true

So just what is the gain here?

Further ,does anyone doubt if this rock doubles in population , our problems will also increase ?

~S~

Name ONE prediction that came true.

Just one. Uno.

No prob.....
Historical Predictions That Actually Came True | Reader's Digest

Ten 100-year predictions that came true

https://www.quora.com/What-were-the-most-accurate-predictions-of-all-time

On The Money: Farmers' Almanac Accuracy - Farmers’ Almanac

10 Predictions Made About the 21st Century From 50 Years Ago - Urban Ghosts Media

15 Times The Simpsons Accurately Predicted the Future

shall i ring up this guy too....?

~S~

 

[Weatherman2020]

For every prediction that turned out false, there's one that turned out true

So just what is the gain here?

Further ,does anyone doubt if this rock doubles in population , our problems will also increase ?

~S~

Name ONE prediction that came true.

Just one. Uno.

No prob.....
Historical Predictions That Actually Came True | Reader's Digest

Ten 100-year predictions that came true

https://www.quora.com/What-were-the-most-accurate-predictions-of-all-time

On The Money: Farmers' Almanac Accuracy - Farmers’ Almanac

10 Predictions Made About the 21st Century From 50 Years Ago - Urban Ghosts Media

15 Times The Simpsons Accurately Predicted the Future

shall i ring up this guy too....?

~S~

I didn't ask for scientific and technology. The topic is Leftist predictions and their success rate. And they are batting .000.

The left love hysteria.

Global starvation from overpopulation
Hetro HIV epidemic
Silicone breast implants
Freezing from global cooling
Drowning from global warming
Hundreds of thousands of women dying from anorexia nervosa
Smog will kill all trees
Patriot Act will kill liberty
Eating animals is like the holocaust.

 

[sparky]

I didn't ask for scientific and technology.

aaaaAAAAaaaand the goal posts move yet again......

~S~

 

[bullwinkle]

Why do Democrats choose such ignorant people to lord over them?

“Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?'" Ocasio-Cortez said.

I heard precisely the same shit, at the first Earth Day in Washington DC, April 1970. A half-century ago.

Ocasio-Cortez calls climate change ‘our World War II,’ warns the world will end in 12 years

Predictions from 1970 -

“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
• Kenneth Watt, ecologist

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
• George Wald, Harvard Biologist

“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
• Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist

“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
• New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
• Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day

“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….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.”
• Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University

“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: 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

“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.”
• Martin Litton, Sierra Club director

“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.'”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
• Sen. Gaylord Nelson

“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, 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, Ecologist

Seems back in the 70's people listened to the experts and we did something about pollution.

I guess you forgot actions taken back when the sciences took notice, like when Lake Erie (actually the Cayahuga (sp?) River) caught fire at Cleveland.
Billy, haven't you seen quizzical changes since you were a pup? I remember longer winters. As a teen, it was tradition to go ice skating on Thanksgiving morning, and there were no inside rinks in those days. Now we get random large dumps and cold snaps between warmings. This is our 3rd 'green' Christmas. Here it is January in SE Michigan and we have had under 2" snow, and that only in the last week. I've had my snow thrower out once and that was for snow I could have broomed just as easy. I'm not complaining exactly, but meager snowfall means a dry spring and a dryer hotter summer. Earth NEEDS that snow.
Any changes in your neck of the woods?

 

[sparky]

It's colder than an eskimo's instep here.....

~S~

 

[BluesLegend]

I remember longer winters. As a teen, it was tradition to go ice skating on Thanksgiving morning, and there were no inside rinks in those days. Now we get random large dumps and cold snaps between warmings. This is our 3rd 'green' Christmas. Here it is January in SE Michigan and we have had under 2" snow, and that only in the last week. I've had my snow thrower out once and that was for snow I could have broomed just as easy. I'm not complaining exactly, but meager snowfall means a dry spring and a dryer hotter summer. Earth NEEDS that snow.Any changes in your neck of the woods?

Well 3 winters out of 4 BILLION winters that's a trend?

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Why do Democrats choose such ignorant people to lord over them?

“Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?'" Ocasio-Cortez said.

I heard precisely the same shit, at the first Earth Day in Washington DC, April 1970. A half-century ago.

Ocasio-Cortez calls climate change ‘our World War II,’ warns the world will end in 12 years

Predictions from 1970 -

“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
• Kenneth Watt, ecologist

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
• George Wald, Harvard Biologist

“We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”
• Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist

“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
• New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

“Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
• Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day

“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….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.”
• Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University

“Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: 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

“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

“We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.”
• Martin Litton, Sierra Club director

“By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.'”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
• Sen. Gaylord Nelson

“The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, 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, Ecologist

Seems back in the 70's people listened to the experts and we did something about pollution.

I guess you forgot actions taken back when the sciences took notice, like when Lake Erie (actually the Cayahuga (sp?) River) caught fire at Cleveland.
Billy, haven't you seen quizzical changes since you were a pup? I remember longer winters. As a teen, it was tradition to go ice skating on Thanksgiving morning, and there were no inside rinks in those days. Now we get random large dumps and cold snaps between warmings. This is our 3rd 'green' Christmas. Here it is January in SE Michigan and we have had under 2" snow, and that only in the last week. I've had my snow thrower out once and that was for snow I could have broomed just as easy. I'm not complaining exactly, but meager snowfall means a dry spring and a dryer hotter summer. Earth NEEDS that snow.
Any changes in your neck of the woods?

0 -20 degrees this week. A foot of snow a few days ago, snow is still on the ground.

There have been natural cyclical climate changes affecting regional weather everywhere.

Volcanic eruptions wreak far more havoc than has any anthropogenic activity.

 

[BluesLegend]

The last people on earth we should listen to are leftwing idiots. Those are the morons who decided to 'save the trees' by banning paper grocery bags. Decades later when the environment is polluted with like 2 trillion of their damn plastic grocery bags now they are advocating for paper grocery bags again and banning plastic ones.

 

[bullwinkle]

I remember longer winters. As a teen, it was tradition to go ice skating on Thanksgiving morning, and there were no inside rinks in those days. Now we get random large dumps and cold snaps between warmings. This is our 3rd 'green' Christmas. Here it is January in SE Michigan and we have had under 2" snow, and that only in the last week. I've had my snow thrower out once and that was for snow I could have broomed just as easy. I'm not complaining exactly, but meager snowfall means a dry spring and a dryer hotter summer. Earth NEEDS that snow.Any changes in your neck of the woods?

Well 3 winters out of 4 BILLION winters that's a trend?

No, 3 'green' Christmases, but several winters starting late and leaving early.