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- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -4/+6Were you to compile a list of predictions from all these self-anointed environmental "experts" (like Al Gore, who is not a scientist), you would find their predictions to be 100% wrong. Really. Do it. It's fun.
I used to be a TV weatherman, so that gives me more climatology experience than Al Gore. I predict the end of the world will come at 6:16 pm next Wednesday (eastern time). If I'm wrong, no problem, all these Chicken Littles will just forget about it and focus on the next flim flam man like Al Gore or Jeremy Rifkin, who claim to be able to predict the End Times. Oh, and let me add immeasurably to my credibility and scientific credentials: I am not a Republican and have never voted for George W. Bush. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I caught a bit on the news the other day about children suffering sleeplessness and nightmares because they're afraid the entire world will soon be under water. This doomsday grandstanding is child abuse. Liberal policies ALWAYS have destructive, unintended consequences.
- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -4/+51) Well it's good to know that Newsweek and other publications are not "scientific journals". Does that mean that we can now all disregard all of the "global warming" hype from all of the publications today that are not scientific journals? By the way, Al Gore isn't a scientist either.
2) According to the Newsweek article at the time, the scientific community was "nearly unanimous" in 1975 about a coming ice age.
3) Of course all of this does not "invalidate" or confirm anything. It only illustrates how scientists have gotten it dead wrong in the past, and past performance is the best predictor of future results, as they say. - 5urr3al5am, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1Al Gore is a tool
- gronne, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Exactly.
- StingingNettle, on 12/12/2008, -0/+1I think what we are seeing now is the ice age colliding with global warming. Thank God it seems to be canceling each other out. ;)
- 5urr3al5am, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1yeah.. where is the report on that?
- ldrager, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Time and Newsweek are not scientific journals.
1. The scientific community did not predict an ice age.
2. Even if they had, that would not undermine the evidence
and logic behind 2007 climate science.
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/01/the-global-cooling-myth/
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/10/global-cooling-again/
http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/02/they-predicted-cooling-in-1970s.html - 5urr3al5am, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1gee nice glob links you have there... very credible
- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1Holy *#&%!, This man is going to single handedly melt the polar ice caps: Al Gore’s mansion, located in the posh Belle Meade area of Nashville, consumes more electricity every month than the average American household uses in an entire year, according to the Nashville Electric Service (NES). The average household in America consumes 10,656 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year, according to the Department of Energy. In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh—more than 20 times the national average. Last August alone, Gore burned through 22,619 kWh—guzzling more than twice the electricity in one month than an average American family uses in an entire year. As a result of his energy consumption, Gore’s average monthly electric bill topped $1,359. Since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, Gore’s energy consumption has increased from an average of 16,200 kWh per month in 2005, to 18,400 kWh per month in 2006. Gore’s extravagant energy use does not stop at his electric bill. Natural gas bills for Gore’s mansion and guest house averaged $1,080 per month last year. In total, Gore paid nearly $30,000 in combined electricity and natural gas bills for his Nashville estate in 2006.
- 5urr3al5am, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1... and "victims".. don't forget the "can't-ignore-them-cause-if-you-do-you're-a-bastard victims"
- yoda715, on 11/06/2007, -4/+4Of Course Al Gore is a scientist....because he invented the Internets!
- ThisBoyTV1, on 05/16/2009, -0/+0Suzuki claims he never takes money from any government. Odd since he is paid by the CBC in Canada and it is fully Government funded. He should have stuck to talking about frogs and different kinds of plants. The man is a lunatic.
- doctechnical, on 11/06/2007, -4/+4I couldn't agree more. Having grown up in the 60s and 70s I'm more than a little jaundiced when it comes to the Next Great Doom Scenario, having seen so many come and go. I believe it was Paul Erlich (sp?) who predicted in the 70s that because of over population that by the year 2000 half the peiople on the earth would have already died of starvation, and the other half would be starving. SWING and a miss!
And this sort of stuff is *dangerous*, that's what so many people don't understand Erlich was advaocting the cessation of food and economic aid to other counties because they were "beyond hope". "Silent Spring" caused the banning of DDT which doomed thousands to death by malaria, all because we were afraid it was dangerous to the birdies (it wasn't).
Don't kid yourself, it's very possible that thirty years from now your grandkids will look at you in wide-eyed wonder as you tell them how everybody had their own car, electricity wasn't rationed, everyone had a computer connected to the internet just to play games, and unemployment was in single digits - and then when they hear that you gave all that up because you were afraid it was going to get a tiny bit warmer...
..they'll probably kick you in the nuts. - inactive, on 03/16/2008, -0/+0Al Gore and David Suzuki are and always will be hypocrites.
- inactive, on 11/06/2007, -1/+1You guys are absolutely right, if one Newsweek article from 1972 is the same as 982 modern climatology scientists agreeing on the facts.
Personally I don't like to believe in the round Earth theory, because there was an article in 1200 from a psychic. - eastinlet, on 11/06/2007, -1/+1Exactly.
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