Last week was the 45th anniversary of
Earth Day. Back in 1970, at the very first Earth Day, this is what the
scientific experts were predicting: “Demographers agree almost unanimously on
the following grim timetable: ... By the year 2000…South and Central America
will exist under famine conditions…and the entire world, with the exception of
Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.” –Professor Peter
Gunter, North Texas State University.
“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 what take to put us into an
ice age.” –Professor Kenneth Watt, Univ. California, Davis.
Wait. What?! Ice age? The entire world
in famine? I guess I wasn’t paying attention during the last couple decades and
I missed all the ice-encrusted carnage. Now, the experts are warning (and they “agree
almost unanimously,” of course) that the earth is getting too hot, and it’s
being caused by human activity. But maybe before we turn over total control of
the world economy to a bunch of power-hungry bureaucrats and meekly agree to
revert to an 18th century standard of living, we might want to pause and consider
how incredibly WRONG the experts were with their Chicken Little predictions in
1970. Just sayin’.
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