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It's an old story. It wasn't that long ago that the same sort of people who currently tell us that we are on the verge of worldwide destruction due to "global-warming", were proclaiming that we were on the verge of worldwide destruction due to "global-cooling" and over-population. If you are old enough, you might remember some of these memorable quotes:
"After a week of discussions on the causes of climate change, an assembly of specialists from several continents seems to have reached unanimous agreement on only one point: it is getting colder."
[New York Times, Jan. 30, 1961] ".. civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind"
[George Wald, Biologist, Harvard University, April 10, 1970] Due to increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor: "the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born"
[Newsweek Magazine, January 26, 1970] By 1995: "..somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct."
[Senator Gaylord Nelson, quoting Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, Look Magazine, April, 1970] The world will be: "11 degrees colder in the year 2000 (this is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age)"
[Kenneth Watt, Ecologist, speaking at Swarthmore University, April 19, 1970] "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, Biologist at University of Washington, The journal Environment, January, 1970]"Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make"
[Paul Ehrlich, interview in Mademoiselle magazine, April, 1970]"air pollution ... is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone"
[Paul Ehrlich, interview in Mademoiselle magazine, April, 1970]"By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half ..."
[Life magazine, January, 1970]"It is already too late to avoid mass starvation"
[Denis Hayes, Earth Day organizer, The Living Wilderness, Spring, 1970]"By the year 2000 ... the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America and Australia, will be in famine"
[Peter Gunter, North Texas State University, The Living Wilderness, Spring, 1970]"By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people..." "If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000."
[Paul Ehrlich, Speech at British Institute For Biology, September, 1971] "Arctic specialist Bernt Balchen says a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000."
[Christian Science Monitor, June 8, 1972] "An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere."
[New York Times, Jan. 5, 1978] "The Cooling World: There are ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production... The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it... Last April, in the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars' worth of damage in thirteen U.S. states. ... The central fact is that ... the earth's climate seems to be cooling down." [emphasis added]
[Newsweek, April 28, 1985] "New York will probably be like Florida 15 years from now." [i.e., by 2004]
[St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sept. 17, 1989] "[By] 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots ... [By 1996] The Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers."
[Michael Oppenheimer, from his book "Dead Heat," 1990]
Whoops again! With over forty years to see these predictions realized, there was no worldwide famine. No end to civilization. No ice age. No mass species extinction. No American dust bowl. Britain is still intact. The North Pole still has a 3.82 million square mile ice mass. If New York sucks, its not due to its mimicing Florida. And there is still enough sunlight to require SPF 45. Yet, I don't remember getting an apology from any of these people, their sponsoring universities, or a retraction published in any of the major magazines.
And despite their utter failure at accurate predictions, every one of these purveyors of doom was being funded from the same government trough, and consequently, demanding exactly the same "solution" as is being proposed today: complete regulation over the behavior of every individual and businesses by government overseerers. If the true goal of these policies was human salvation, then the lessons of history and the Climategate facts should give one pause. But if the actual goal is gaining control as a means to increased power, then ignoring all these bothersome facts, as is being done, begins to make a perverted sort of sense.
