Stolen from a forum:

Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth
Day predictions of 2009.
April 22, 2009, 4:00 am

Earth Day is past now, but this article is so popular we’re pinning it
at the top of the home page today so everyone looking for it can find
it.

Luckily, we haven't run out of oil, but we have exhausted our supply
of 70s fashion.
For the next 24 hours, the media will assault us with tales of
imminent disaster that always accompany the annual Earth Day Doom &
Gloom Extravaganza.

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 on the occasion of Earth Day 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 39 years. And
they’re going to continue making them until…well…forever.

On Apr 24, 1:30*pm, wrote:
Stolen from a forum:

Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth
Day predictions of 2009.
April 22, 2009, 4:00 am

Earth Day is past now, but this article is so popular we’re pinning it
at the top of the home page today so everyone looking for it can find
it.

Luckily, we haven't run out of oil, but we have exhausted our supply
of 70s fashion.
For the next 24 hours, the media will assault us with tales of
imminent disaster that always accompany the annual Earth Day Doom &
Gloom Extravaganza.

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 on the occasion of Earth Day 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 39 years. And
they’re going to continue making them until…well…forever.

Let me get this straight. You think that because some predictions made
in 1970 weren't correct that that means that the climatalogical
experts in 2009 aren't to be believed? Hmm, so then, everything that
was ever predicted that was wrong, negates any and all scientific data?

wrote in message
...
Stolen from a forum:

Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth
Day predictions of 2009.
April 22, 2009, 4:00 am

snip...

***************************************

Take your famine data to parts of Africa and ask them how they're doing.

Don't forget... a number of adjustments have been instigated that have given
us more time...more efficient vehicles... all the pollution controls, the
dismantling of the heavy industrial base in North America, on and on.
More will be required in the future as the population swells.

On Apr 24, 1:59*pm, wrote:
On Apr 24, 1:30*pm, wrote:





Stolen from a forum:

Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth
Day predictions of 2009.
April 22, 2009, 4:00 am

Earth Day is past now, but this article is so popular we’re pinning it
at the top of the home page today so everyone looking for it can find
it.

Luckily, we haven't run out of oil, but we have exhausted our supply
of 70s fashion.
For the next 24 hours, the media will assault us with tales of
imminent disaster that always accompany the annual Earth Day Doom &
Gloom Extravaganza.

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 on the occasion of Earth Day 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 39 years. And
they’re going to continue making them until…well…forever.

Let me get this straight. You think that because some predictions made
in 1970 weren't correct that that means that the climatalogical
experts in 2009 aren't to be believed? Hmm, so then, everything that
was ever predicted that was wrong, negates any and all scientific data?

I never said or implied that. The only words that were my own were
"Stolen from another forum."

But you do have to admit that these experts in their fields back in
1970 were pretty much all completely wrong. As they have been pretty
consistently over the years whenever they start making dire
predictions. If we don't learn from history we're doomed to repeat
it. Not all of the "climatalogical experts" today are in agreement,
and in fact a large growing number are disputing, with facts, the
assertions put forward by Gore and the UN council. It's now obvious
that the "experts", once again, don't really know the cause or extent
of any climate change that is taking place. Hell, they can't even
agree on the current direction of the change.

In any case it was, as the title said, some "unintended humor". Peace
out. :-)

On Apr 24, 3:18*pm, "Don White" wrote:
wrote in message

...
Stolen from a forum:

Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth
Day predictions of 2009.
April 22, 2009, 4:00 am

snip...

***************************************

Take your famine data to parts of Africa and ask them how they're doing.

They were already in famine back then. Besides, the quotes were like
this:

"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

“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

That's not just "parts" of Africa, and that's a Stanford biologist,
not some CNN hack. He's exactly the kind of person that some here
herald as having all the answers, and he (they) simply don't.


Don't forget... a number of adjustments have been instigated that have given
us more time...more efficient vehicles... all the pollution controls, the
dismantling of the heavy industrial base in North America, on and on.
More will be required in the future as the population swells.

There is no doubt that we've come a long way, and there have been
advances made on many fronts.

The article is merely pointing out that the hysterics spouted by
experts have historically been just that: Hysterics.

It's just one bit a data among many, but it doesn't make sense to
ignore it or try to shout it down. It's data.

wrote:
On Apr 24, 1:30 pm, wrote:
Stolen from a forum:

Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth
Day predictions of 2009.
April 22, 2009, 4:00 am

Earth Day is past now, but this article is so popular we’re pinning it
at the top of the home page today so everyone looking for it can find
it.

Luckily, we haven't run out of oil, but we have exhausted our supply
of 70s fashion.
For the next 24 hours, the media will assault us with tales of
imminent disaster that always accompany the annual Earth Day Doom &
Gloom Extravaganza.

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 on the occasion of Earth Day 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 39 years. And
they’re going to continue making them until…well…forever.

Let me get this straight. You think that because some predictions made
in 1970 weren't correct that that means that the climatalogical
experts in 2009 aren't to be believed? Hmm, so then, everything that
was ever predicted that was wrong, negates any and all scientific data?

Either your predictions and pronouncements have the weight of your
reputation behind them or you are pulling them out of your ass.

All of the supposed experts and learned persons have been proved to be
idiots.

You keep harping about scientific data. Where is the scientific data?
Where is the peer review of the scientific data. Contrary to Al Gore's
and your assertion the science is not settled. The "science" is being
refuted on a daily basis.

Carbon cap and trade is a tax: http://www.breitbart.tv/html/325633.html.
Why should the use of energy be taxed? If If I burn wood in my fire
place should I have to write a check to the government?

Why is CO2, which animals exhale and plants absorb, considered a
pollutant? Animals cannot stop exhaling CO2 and plants will die without
it. Animals exhale CO2, plants absorb CO2, plants expel O2 and animals
inhale O2. Seems to me that CO2 is critical to animal and plant life.

I think we should do all that we can to get rid of
di-hydrogen-mono-oxide, it is the most corrosive and deadly chemical on
the planet.

On Apr 24, 8:36*pm, BAR wrote:


I think we should do all that we can to get rid of
di-hydrogen-mono-oxide, it is the most corrosive and deadly chemical on
the planet.

Heh. Now you're being mean. You just *know* there are 3-4 regulars
fiercely googling away right to find out what that bad stuff is.

No, not you, Loogy.

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:30:31 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Stolen from a forum:

Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth
Day predictions of 2009.
April 22, 2009, 4:00 am

Earth Day is past now, but this article is so popular we’re pinning it
at the top of the home page today so everyone looking for it can find
it.

Luckily, we haven't run out of oil, but we have exhausted our supply
of 70s fashion.
For the next 24 hours, the media will assault us with tales of
imminent disaster that always accompany the annual Earth Day Doom &
Gloom Extravaganza.

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 on the occasion of Earth Day 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 39 years. And
they’re going to continue making them until…well…forever.

Lou Dobbs presented a bunch of those tonight on his CNN show. He did
so after the segment on Al Gore's fear mongering to Congress.

Funny.
--

John H

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much government."

Thomas Jefferson

On Apr 24, 9:34*pm, John H wrote:
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:30:31 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
Stolen from a forum:

Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth
Day predictions of 2009.
April 22, 2009, 4:00 am

Earth Day is past now, but this article is so popular we’re pinning it
at the top of the home page today so everyone looking for it can find
it.

Luckily, we haven't run out of oil, but we have exhausted our supply
of 70s fashion.
For the next 24 hours, the media will assault us with tales of
imminent disaster that always accompany the annual Earth Day Doom &
Gloom Extravaganza.

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 on the occasion of Earth Day 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 39 years. And
they’re going to continue making them until…well…forever.

Lou Dobbs presented a bunch of those tonight on his CNN show. He did
so after the segment on Al Gore's fear mongering to Congress.

Funny.
--

John H

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much government."

Thomas Jefferson- Hide quoted text -

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The other shoe is about to drop.. The connection between MSNBC, GE,
and Obama's cap and trade are coming out... GE who owns MSNBC and
others who have been solidly in the tank for Obama stand to make
Billions.. Yes, Billions with a B if cap and trade is passed.. In fact
the VP of CNBC who was doing some negative stories about Obama stated
he was told to stop by GE and sent to a "re-education camp" to help
him in his reporting... This makes Haliburton look like a mom and pop
down the street...

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:08:07 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

On Apr 24, 9:34*pm, John H wrote:
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:30:31 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
Stolen from a forum:

Earth Day predictions of 1970. The reason you shouldn’t believe Earth
Day predictions of 2009.
April 22, 2009, 4:00 am

Earth Day is past now, but this article is so popular we’re pinning it
at the top of the home page today so everyone looking for it can find
it.

Luckily, we haven't run out of oil, but we have exhausted our supply
of 70s fashion.
For the next 24 hours, the media will assault us with tales of
imminent disaster that always accompany the annual Earth Day Doom &
Gloom Extravaganza.

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 on the occasion of Earth Day 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 39 years. And
they’re going to continue making them until…well…forever.

Lou Dobbs presented a bunch of those tonight on his CNN show. He did
so after the segment on Al Gore's fear mongering to Congress.

Funny.
--

John H

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much government."

Thomas Jefferson- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

The other shoe is about to drop.. The connection between MSNBC, GE,
and Obama's cap and trade are coming out... GE who owns MSNBC and
others who have been solidly in the tank for Obama stand to make
Billions.. Yes, Billions with a B if cap and trade is passed.. In fact
the VP of CNBC who was doing some negative stories about Obama stated
he was told to stop by GE and sent to a "re-education camp" to help
him in his reporting... This makes Haliburton look like a mom and pop
down the street...

The liberals will think it's cool. Anything that smacks of a lack of
integrity or dishonesty seems to get a gleeful chuckle out of most
liberals. Don't you expect that William Jefferson has been given the
money taken from his freezer by now. Hell, it was probably replaced
with newly minted, crisp bills.

To me, that case all by itself shows the liberal mentality.
--

John H

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government
results from too much government."

Thomas Jefferson