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Post by marchesarosa on Dec 29, 2009 11:23:14 GMT
Tales of imminent disaster ?
Ignore them. They’ll be wrong. We’re confident in saying that because they’ve always been wrong. And always will be.
Need proof? Here are some of the hilarious, spectacularly wrong predictions made in 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
Stanford's Paul Ehrlich announces that the sky is falling.
“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
Keep these predictions in mind when you hear the same predictions made today. They’ve been making the same predictions for 40 years. And they’re going to continue making them until…well…forever.
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Post by marchesarosa on Dec 30, 2009 12:02:20 GMT
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Post by marchesarosa on Dec 30, 2009 12:23:11 GMT
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Post by marchesarosa on Dec 31, 2009 18:01:53 GMT
Protesters Scream for Climate Change
12.30.2009
by Elizabeth Ziegler
(KCPW News)
Climate change activists will stage a “scream-in” today at the Gateway Mall in downtown Salt Lake City to vent their frustrations about the Copenhagen Accord adopted by global leaders two weeks ago. University of Utah student Cléa Major says the demonstration is intended to call attention to the fact that the accord doesn’t require countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“Basically we want your average shopper to go home tonight after work and say, ‘Man, you know, I was returning my Christmas gift and there were these people screaming on the sidewalk, you know, what’s that all about?’” Major says. “We wanted to make an impression on people and we wanted to maybe put it in a location where it wasn’t necessarily expected to get people out of the post-Christmas haze to just sort of listen.”
Major sees the Copenhagen Accord as a failure, akin to the cap and trade legislation, The American Clean Energy and Security Act, that activists had hoped would set the tone in Copenhagen. The bill has stalled in the Senate after garnering a narrow margin of support in the House of Representatives this summer. All three of Utah’s Congressmen voted against it.
Major says the scream-in will be cathartic for those participating, who see the Copenhagen Accord as a missed opportunity to reverse climate change.
“We just all felt so helpless, we felt betrayed by this,” Major says. “We felt helpless and we felt furious because it was like we had just been looking to this to be the big thing that could turn it around or at least be a major jumping off point. And it just kind of stalled and failed and now there’s kind of this feeling of we don’t really know where to go next.”
The scream-in takes place at 5:30 p.m. on the northwest corner of 400 West and 200 South at the Gateway Mall.
UPDATE
By Judy Fahys
The Salt Lake Tribune
12/30/2009 06:36:58 PM MST
A downtown [Salt Lake City] protest of the climate change talks in Copenhagen became a victim of Wednesday’s snowstorm.
“Not many people showed up because of the blizzard conditions,” said organizer Clea Major, an international studies student at the University of Utah.
It didn’t take long for the six friends to pack up a bullhorn and posters they’d planned to use for their “scream-in,” an outlet for their frustration about the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks earlier this month to curb the pollution blamed for climate change.
Still, they chatted with a few passers-by during the commuter-hour protest near the Gateway, and explained that, blizzard aside, climate change is expected to bring chaos to the global climate, said Major.
She called Wednesday evening’s effort a success and possibly the first in a series. As for the snow, it’s not entirely new; a protest she attended last year in Washington, D.C., suffered a similar fate.
“There is always the irony element,” Major said.
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Post by marchesarosa on Jan 6, 2010 20:18:21 GMT
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Post by marchesarosa on Jan 7, 2010 13:41:14 GMT
Marcus Brigstocke:
The Copenhagen Conference,
as seen by Dr Seuss
The delegates came and the delegates sat
And they talked and they talked till their bums all went flat
Then a delegate said of the country he knew
"We must do something quick but just what should we do
So they sat again thinking and there they stayed seated
Sitting and thinking "the planet's been heated"
"I think" said a delegate there from Peru
"That we all must agree on some things we could do
Like reducing emissions at least CO2"
So they nodded and noted then vetoed and voted
And one of them stood up and suddenly quoted
"It's the science you see, that's the thing that must guide us
When the leaders all get here they're certain to chide us"
So they sat again thinking about what to think
Then decided to ponder what colour of ink
To use on the paper when they’d all agreed
To be selfless not greedy McGreedy McGreed
"But how do we choose just what colour to use"
Said a delegate there who'd been having a snooze
"We need clear binding targets definitive action
We must all agree clearly without more distraction"
So they sat again thinking of targets for ink
But the ink in their thinking had started to stink
And they started to think that the ink was a kink
In the thinking about real things they should think
"If ze climate needs mending then zis is our chance"
Said the nuclear delegate sent there by France
"We need to agree on one thing to agree on
Something we all want a fixed guarantee on"
"Yes" said another who thought this made sense
Some value for carbon in dollars or pence
But the mention of money and thoughts of expense
Had stifled the progress and things became tense
The fella from China with a smile on his face
Said "Who put the carbon there in the first place"
"Wasn't us" said the U.S then Europe did too
Then a silence descended and no words were spoken
Till a delegate stood up, voice nervous and broken
"Is there nothing upon which we all can decide
Because on Wednesday my chicken laid eggs that were fried"
"We all like a sing song" said the bloke from Down Under
But then the great hall was all shouting and thunder
Policemen had entered and were wearing protesters
Who they'd beaten and flattened like bloodied sou'westers
The police had decided to downplay this crime
With prevention detention and beatings in rhyme
The Greenies who'd shouted and asked for a decision
Were now being battered with lethal precision
All sick of inaction and fed up of waiting
All tired of the endless debated placating
They'd risen up grating berating and hating
So the police had commenced the related abating
Ban Ki-moon put his head in another man's lap
And was last heard muttering something like "crap"
But the chap next to him said "It's more like it's poo"
So the great hall debated not what they should do
But how to decide between crap cack and poo
"It is poo" "It is cack" "It is crap" "We agree"
Which was written and labelled as document three
"I think if we all find one thing we agree on
Then maybe Brazil might be left with a tree on"
So they sat again thinking of trees and Brazil
And of glaciers which had retreated uphill
And they thought of the poor folks whose homes were in flood
But less of the protesters covered in blood
They pondered the species so nearly extinct
It's as if they all thought that these things might be linked
"We need a solution we need action please"
Said a lady who'd come from the sinking Maldives
The others all nodded and said it was fact
That the time must be now not to talk but to act
Then Obama arrived and said most rhetorical
"Action is action and not metaphorical"
"Wow" they all thought "he must mean arregorical [sic]"
"I love it when Barack goes all oratorical"
"But the problem I have is that Congress won’t pass it
"Bugger" said Ban Ki then "sorry" then "arse it"
Then Brown said "I've got it now how does this strike you?
It's simpler when voters already dislike you"
He suggested the EU should lead from the front
So The Mail and The Telegraph called him something very unpleasant indeed
So the delegates stared at the text with red marks on
Ignoring the gales of laughter from Clarkson
No-one was satisfied nobody won
Except the morons convinced it was really the sun
And they blew it and wasted the greatest of chances
Instead they all frolicked in diplomat dances
And decided decisively right there and then
That the best way to solve it's to meet up again
And decide on a future that's greener and greater
Not with action right now but with something else later
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Post by marchesarosa on Jan 11, 2010 21:02:23 GMT
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Post by marchesarosa on Jan 11, 2010 21:12:31 GMT
From the CRU post-Climategate, post-Copenhagen, post-Big Northern Hemisphere Freeze:
"Oh no! It’s worse than we thought! Anthropogenic Global Cooling! Give us some money to research it!"
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Post by marchesarosa on Jan 20, 2010 10:24:40 GMT
Jeremy 20 Jan 2010 WUWT
Porkomathics, a revolutionary new way of understanding the behaviour of climate science.
Just as the general relativity theory observed that government funding was not an absolute but depended on the researcher’s ability to exaggerate, and that exaggeration was not an absolute, but depended on the researcher’s government funding, so it is now realized that temperatures are not absolute, but depend on the researcher’s position in government funded institutions, such as the IPCC.
Further explanation of the theory behind Porkomathics:
The first nonabsolute number is the number of disasters that can be attributed to man-made global warming. This will vary during the course of several peer reviewed reports, and then bear no apparent relation to any thing that actually happens, or the number of disasters which are subsequently shown to have not happened, or to the number of new peer reviewed reports that prove that things are even worse than we thought.
The second nonabsolute number is the given time of arrival, which is now known to be one of those most bizarre mathematical concepts, a recipriversexcluson, a number whose existence can only be defined as being anything other than itself. In other words, the given time of arrival of a man-made climate catastrophe is the one moment of time at which it is impossible that any member of the researchers will not have comfortably retired already. Recipriversexclusons now play a vital part in many branches of science, including statistics and accountancy, and also form the basic equations used to gain large amounts of government funds.
The third and most mysterious piece of nonabsoluteness of all lies in the relationship between the number of taxpayers footing the bill, the cost of each item, the number of researchers at the trough and what they are each prepared to invent.
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Post by marchesarosa on Jan 27, 2010 23:17:21 GMT
CO2 is only dangerous when you put a plastic bag on your head.
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Post by marchesarosa on Jan 28, 2010 15:29:39 GMT
Adopt a Penguin today!www.wwf.org.uk/adoption/penguinhome/?pc=AFX001001What is the £5 per month for? The penguins or the Adoption Agency? What a con trick, parting the animal-lovers from their money. We have seen recently the sort of stuff the WWF funds. There was their wonderful bit of propaganda showing a hundred aeroplanes suicide bombing New York, wasn't there? What was that all about? creativity-online.com/work/wwf-tsunami-(tvc)/17193Why do I now look upon all these environmental "good cause" fund-raising bodies with such a jaundiced eye? I funded Greenpeace for twenty years. No longer.
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Post by marchesarosa on Jan 31, 2010 11:10:05 GMT
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Post by marchesarosa on Feb 1, 2010 21:38:17 GMT
Obama Laughed at After Calling Climate Change Evidence Overwhelming hootervillegazette.com Friday, January 29th, 2010 While giving a speech designed to show America that he is not out of touch, Obama delivered a real howler of a line that ultimately caused his audience, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, and even Obama himself to laugh. It’s taken him a year to understand that what concerns Americans the most is the economy. It remains to be seen how long it will take President Obama to realize that the manufactured evidence embraced by climate change alarmists has been crumbling for some time. The only thing overwhelming about it is the outrage one feels after learning the truth. I'm waiting for the same to happen to UK Warmer in Chief, Ed Miliband. "Uh? Do they know something I don't know?" YES WE DO! |
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Post by marchesarosa on Feb 8, 2010 1:01:37 GMT
Who’s for the Chop?Oh dear! As global warming fanaticism wanes in the Town of Titipu, Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, is on the warpath for likely customers. So, who then has Ko-Ko in mind for the chop? Here is his famous list: "As someday it may happen that a victim must be found" The tune is available HERE (courtesy of Boise State University) math.boisestate.edu/gas/mikado/webopera/mk_midi/105a.midKo-Ko As someday it may happen that global warmin’ bites the dust, I’ve got a little list - I’ve got a little list Of society offenders whom I’d really love to bust, And who never would be missed - who never would be missed! There’s the banker who sells carbon to any who will buy - All ranters who do lecture but then still go on to fly - And climate chiefs who drive a mile within their limousine - An’ politicos with heated pools, and Charles with train of steam - The marketers of CSC and windmills where they twist - They’d none of ‘em be missed - they’d none of ‘em be missed! Chorus He’s got ‘em on the list - he’s got ‘em on the list; And they’ll none of ‘em be missed - they’ll none of ‘em be missed! Ko-Ko Those dim and dingy light bulbs, with mercury at the core, And hempen spun for pants - I’ve got them on the list! And all self-righteous young’uns, who criticise your fridge, They never would be missed - they never would be missed! Then the idiot who discounts, with enthusiastic tone, Every form of energy we need to heat the home; The European Union with its love of biofuels, That votes for carbon capping, just like a ship of fools; And that singular anomaly, the eco-journalist - I don’t think he’d be missed - I’m sure he’d not be missed! Chorus He’s got him on the list - he’s got him on the list; And I don’t think he’ll be missed - I’m sure he’ll not be missed! Ko-Ko And the lazy TV luvvies who show us all the time Polar bears on melting ice - I’ve got them on the list! All smokin’ chimneys, hot exhausts, and weeping teddy bears - They’d none of ‘em be missed - they’d none of ‘em be missed. An’ all those interviewers of the snooty biased kind, Such as - “I’m so Green!” - “PC too!”, and likewise - “Never Mind!” And “Tut, Tut, Tut!” - “Your Carbon Foot”, an’ “Recycle-All-The-Time” - The Milibands, and Albert G., Ms Lucas, and the rest. But it really doesn’t matter whom you put upon the list, They’d none of ‘em be missed - they’d none of ‘em be missed! Chorus You may put ‘em on the list - you may put ‘em on the list; And they’ll none of ‘em be missed - they’ll none of ‘em be missed!” The End [With deep apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan] Sunday, 7 February 2010 web.mac.com/sinfonia1/Clamour_Of_The_Times/Clamour_Of_The_Times/Entries/2010/2/7_Who’s_for_the_Chop.html
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Post by marchesarosa on Feb 8, 2010 19:20:02 GMT
When adverts start to pick up on scepticism you know there's been a sea-change.
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