THIS THREAD IS NOT ABOUT THE CLIMATE. IT IS ABOUT THE BIGGEST POLITICAL SCAM IN HISTORY.
In short, our liberal politicians in the US and around the world are running the biggest scam in history in order to bankrupt the US and transfer wealth to "developing" countries like China.
That's right, the biggest polluter on the planet by far, China, qualifies for the latest handout Biden announced this week. Please tell me the science behind that.
Please look at the MMGW Cult track record:
4 Catastrophic Climate Predictions That Never Came True
Current climate predictions can be terrifying if you don't know about the previous dire climate claims that amounted to nothing.
If you’re under 50, there’s a
good chance you’re expecting to see climate change create chaos and death in your lifetime. Scientists and pundits seem so certain we’re headed for global collapse and their predictions can be terrifying—especially if you’re young enough not to remember the last dozen times they predicted imminent collapse and were wrong. In each case, claims of impending environmental disaster were backed by allegedly irrefutable data and policymakers were encouraged to act before it was too late.
Global Cooling
The Prediction: Top climate specialists and environmental activists predicted that “global cooling trends” observed between WWII and 1970 would result in a world “eleven degrees colder in the year 2000 ... about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.” Bitter winters and floods from “delayed typhoons” would trigger massive drops in food production, followed by widespread famine.
The Prophecies:
- Newsweek Magazine’s "The Cooling World" Peter Gwynne April 28, 1975
- Time Magazine’s “A New Ice Age?” April 28, 1974
- BBC’s Nigel Calder International Wildlife magazine, 1975
- Betty Friedan in Harper’s magazine, 1958
- University of California at Davis professor Kenneth Watt, Earth Day 1974
What Actually Happened: Global cooling trends didn’t continue unabated, and temperatures stabilized. Within a few years, the same alarmists were predicting a life-threatening rise in temperatures, presaging many of the same dire effects on plant and animal life. Those new predictions were continually revised as their “near certainty” collided with the truth year after year, but prophets seem unchastened by their abysmal historical accuracy.
Newsweek issued a correction to the 1975 article in 2006.
The Great Die-Off
The Prediction: More women having babies in the developing world was expected to exceed the “carrying capacity” of the earth, experts were certain. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supply we make,” Ehrlich said. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years [1970-1980].” Ehrlich predicted that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.” This would lead to “an
utter breakdown of the capacity of the planet to support humanity.”
The Prophecies:
What Actually Happened: Motivated by the urgent call for population control and fears of famine, India and China performed millions of
forced abortions and sterilizations. But the number of people at risk of starvation dropped from 25 percent to 10 percent globally as genetically modified seeds and advances in irrigation improved crop yields. Far from the Great Die-Off, the global population nearly doubled while agricultural capacity soared and rates of starvation plummeted. Ehrlich’s star has continued to rise, though his signature predictions were nonsense, and now holds an endowed chair in Population Studies at Stanford. The millions scapegoated by his fear-mongering have not fared as well.
Pollution Particle Clouds
The Prediction: Ecologists and environmentalists claimed that the buildup of nitrogen, dust, fumes, and other forms of pollution would make the air unbreathable by the mid-1980s. They predicted all urban dwellers would have to don gas masks to survive, that particle clouds would block the majority of sunlight from reaching earth, and that farm yields would drop as dust blotted out the sun.
The Prophecies:
What Actually Happened: When these doomsayers were pronouncing the imminent death of our atmosphere, the rate of air pollution had already been falling for most of the world, usually in the absence of dedicated policy changes. Developments like air filtration, as well as an overall decline in household pollutants (like the smoke from cooking with coal or wood) greatly reduced the health risks of the particles that remained. Increased adoption of fossil fuels and electricity grids, rather than traditional stoves, accelerated the improvements.
Ecology is a biological science. Watt had no expertise in atmospheric science and Life Magazine is hardly a refereed science jounal. Pollution was a growing problem when that article came out and it was addressed by a number of "dedicated policy changes" such as the Clean Air Act (1963, amended with the National Ambient Air Quality Standards in 1965, the National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants from 1970-1990, the New Source Performance Standards from 1970-1977, the Acid Rain Program in 1990, Ozone Layer protection in 1990 and the increasingl;y stringent Mobile Source Program of 1965), the Clean Water Ac of 1972 and the creation of the EPA in late 1970. While moving from burning wood in open fires for heating and cooking to the use of gas and electricity generated primarily by fossil fuels was an improvement in particulates, it caused a major increase in GHG production, whose two primary components are ICE powered motor vehicles and energy generation, not cooking.
75 Percent of Species Will Go Extinct
The Prediction: Alleged experts in biology and zoology predicted that of all species of animals alive in 1970, at least 75 percent would be extinct by 1995. They blamed human activities like hunting and farming for shrinking wild habitats and cited pollution and climate change as key drivers of the new extinctions. Paul Ehrlich claimed “[By 1985] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct."
The Prophecies:
What Actually Happened: You may have noticed that earth has not lost three-quarters of its
8.7 million species
What is actually happening:
During the past 100–200 years, biodiversity loss and species extinction have accelerated
[11] to the point that most
conservation biologists now believe that
humankind has either entered a period of mass extinction,
[12][13] or is on the cusp of doing so.
[14][15]
Holocene and Anthropocene extinctions span numerous families of
bacteria,
fungi,
plants,
[16][17][18] and
animals, including
mammals,
birds,
reptiles,
amphibians,
fish,
invertebrates, and affecting not just terrestrial species but also large sectors of
marine life.
[19] With widespread degradation of
highly biodiverse habitats such as
coral reefs and
rainforests, as well as other areas, the vast majority of these extinctions are thought to be undocumented, as the species are undiscovered at the time of their extinction, which goes unrecorded. The current rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than
natural background extinction rates[8][11][20][21] and increasing.
[22]
The Holocene extinction includes the disappearance of large land animals known as
megafauna, starting at the end of the
last glacial period. Megafauna outside of the
African mainland, which did not evolve alongside humans, proved highly sensitive to the introduction of human
predation, and many died out shortly after early humans began spreading and hunting across the Earth.
[23][24] Many
African species have also gone extinct in the Holocene, along with species in North America, South America, and Australia, but – with some exceptions – the megafauna of the Eurasian mainland was largely unaffected until a few hundred years ago.
[25] These extinctions, occurring near the
Pleistocene–
Holocene boundary, are sometimes referred to as the
Quaternary extinction event.
The most popular theory is that human
overhunting of species added to existing stress conditions as the Holocene extinction coincides with
human colonization of many new areas around the world. Although there is debate regarding how much human
predation and
habitat loss affected their decline, certain population declines have been directly correlated with the onset of human activity, such as the extinction events of
New Zealand and
Hawaii. Aside from humans,
climate change may have been a driving factor in the megafaunal extinctions, especially at the end of the
Pleistocene.
In the
twentieth century, human numbers quadrupled, and the size of the global economy increased twenty-five-fold.
[26][27] This
Great Acceleration or Anthropocene Epoch has also accelerated species extinction.
[28][29] Ecologically, humanity is now an unprecedented "global superpredator"
[30] that consistently preys on the adults of other
apex predators, takes over other species' essential habitats and displaces them,
[31] and has
worldwide effects on
food webs.
[32] There have been extinctions of species on every
land mass and in every
ocean: there are many famous examples
within Africa,
Asia,
Europe,
Australia,
North and
South America, and on smaller islands.
Overall, the Holocene extinction can be linked to the
human impact on the environment. The Holocene extinction continues into the
21st century, with
human population growth,
increasing per capita consumption[11][33][34][35] and
meat production[7][36][37][38][39][40] being the primary drivers of mass extinction.
Deforestation,
[7] overfishing,
ocean acidification, the destruction of
wetlands,
[41] and the
decline in amphibian populations[42] are a few broader examples of global
biodiversity loss.
en.wikipedia.org
and indeed total biomass continues to grow.
Humans and their livestock now make up 96% of the planet's biomass. That is the reason it continues to grow. See:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1711842115
99 percent of all species that have ever existed are already extinct,
That is egregiously disingenuous. Current extinction rates are grossly higher than the natural background rate and have led biologists to assert we have entered the sixth great extinction. "What worries ecologists is that extinctions today are happening much faster than nature would predict. This has happened five times in the past: these are defined as mass extinction events and are aptly named the ‘Big Five’. In each extinction event the world lost more than 75% of its species in a short period of time (here we mean ‘short’ in its geological sense – less than two million years)."
Extinctions
and natural rates of extinction predict we might lose anywhere from 200 to 2,000 species per year without any human intervention. Since 2000, we’ve identified
fewer than 20.
That is absolute bullshit. "There’s a natural background rate to the timing and frequency of extinctions: 10% of species are lost every million years; 30% every 10 million years; and 65% every 100 million years." ibid. There are currently 8.7 million different species. Ten perecent of that would be 870,000 species. Over a million years that is 0.87 species per year, not "200 to 2,000". ibid
The language surrounding these various environmental disasters sounds much like Wednesday night’s town hall
The language surrounding this unsupported screed is sickeningly unconcerned about life on this planet.
and yet each thesis has faded from public consciousness
Perhaps because they were the unverified opinions of the unqualified and picked here to create a vulnerable strawman to attack
and the fear-mongers faced no accountability for their misplaced alarmism.
Just as you the author here will face no accountability for their irresponsible lies.
Before we make unprecedented sacrifices to fight a climate phantom, let’s review the credibility of claims that the end is near—but really, this time.
Yes, lets. Perhaps the UN could create an intergovernmental panel of experts on climate change to assess the peer reviewed science from around the world and tell us whether or not there is a real problem and a real threat.
Now for a prediction that will come true, leftists will come into this thread whining and crying about the source without being able to refute any of the facts contained in this OP.
I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was restricted to a single option. I seem to have done both.