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Inconvenient Truth, indeed
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Originally posted by Spanky
The majority of climatologists and "environmental" scientists. In 1986 I took a public policy course where the professor was obsessed with Global Warming. We were forced to study the subject in depth. The overwhelming general consensus among climatologists in the late 80s was drastic temperature increases and drastic climate changes were going to occur by the year 2000. My parents have been involved in the environmental movement (and the Sierra Club) for over forty years, and all their colleagues have been warning of impending environmental disasters as long as I have been alive. Some of the signs of impending disaster I have been forced to listen to: Global Cooling, disappearance of amphibians leading to all sorts of environmental calamities, all human males were going sterile, gulf war smoke was going to bring about the end of the world, population explosion, mathematical and statistical certainty that we will have at least four nuclear meltdowns in the US by the year 2000, the Global 2000 report etc. etc. etc.
When I was a kid, I still naively bought this B.S. and forced Less to listen to all these predictions of gloom. It would be one thing if they environmental disaster predictors had been right about just one prediction - but as far as I know not one of these predictions of disaster has ever materialized.
Extradordinary claims require extradordinary evidence.
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Man. Good thing Malthus wasn't around when Spanky was in college.
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