Showing posts with label famine. Show all posts
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Sunday, October 26, 2025

Some More Major Government and Political Lies Over The Decades - Part 2

 In our last post we discussed some major lies and myths that politicians and government politicians have dumped on Americans over the past couple of decades in areas of government health insurance, covid, global warming, and Tylenol. In the process of researching those lies I  came across a very interesting article on the Net, "Doomsday Addiction: Celebrating 50 Years of Failed Climate Predictions.” The writer Chris Bennett, did a great job of tracking down the failed predictions and/or climate lies of politicians and  other liberals over the past five decades.

The whole  article can be accessed at the following link:

https://www.agweb.com/opinion/doomsday-addiction-celebrating-50-years-failed-climate-predictions

Highlights of his research and article are summarized below:

1)Paul Erlich, Author, Part 1, author of the "Population Bomb” - 1968 - The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate…”

2)Paul Erlich, Part 2 - 1968 -  “We must realize that unless we are extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years.”

3)Paul Erlich, Part 3 - 1970 - “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.”

4)George Wald, Nobel Prize Winner - 1970 -  “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”

5)Kenneth Watt - 1970 - “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 11 degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”

6)James  Lodge,  Researcher - 1970 - “Air pollution may obliterate the sun and cause a new ice age in the first third of the next century if population continues to grow and earth’s resources are consumed at the present rate…”

7)The Guardian - 1974 - “Spy Satellites Show New Ice Age is Coming Fast.”

8)Newsweek - 1975 -  “The central fact is that after three quarters of a century of extraordinarily mild conditions, the Earth’s climate seems to be cooling down. Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend, as well as over its specific impact on local weather conditions. But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century. If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic.”

8)New York Times, 1978 - “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.”

Uh, never  mind, forget global  cooling, only one year later global warming became all  the trend:

9)New York Times - 1979 - “Climatologists Are Warned North Pole Might Melt.  There is a real possibility that some people now in their infancy will live to a time when the ice at the North Pole will have melted, a change that would cause swift and perhaps catastrophic changes in climate.”

10)Mostafa Tolba, executive director of the UN’s Environmental Program - 1980 - “An environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete, as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust.”

11)Associated Press - 1989 - “A senior UN environmental official (Noel Brown) says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.”

12)Al Gore - 2006 - If drastic measures were not taken in 2006 then by 2016, ten years later, the planet would experience an irreversible “point of no return.”

13)Laurent Fabius, French foreign  minister - 2014 - “We have 500 days to avoid climate chaos.”

14)Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Congresswoman with a business degree and absolutely no expertise on climate issues - 2019 - “Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it? And, like, this is the war—this is our World War ll.”

This is a short sample of what is in the article referenced above. But all of it can summarized as follows:

The world will end because of global  cooling, the world will end because of global  warming, hundreds of millions of people will starve to  death every year, we will all die in a puff of blue steam, entire nations will be  flooded into extinction by 2000, the North Pole is expanding, the  North Pole will melt, crops will not grow because of cooling, crops will not grow because of warming.

After  while, after the global cooling falsehoods, the global warming falsehoods, the global  famine falsehoods, the covid falsehoods, the Tylenol falsehoods, the government health insurance falsehoods, the Kennedy assassination coverups, the Biden dementia coverups, one cannot help but get a little skeptical about what anyone in the political class and government agencies, along with their so-called experts, have to say. Their track  record of honesty and accuracy speaks for itself: it stinks.

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Friday, March 27, 2020

March, 2020, Part 2, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer in Science: "Expert" Forecasts That Failed Miserably Over Time

Every month we have enough material to return to a continuing theme in this blog, namely that “I am a global warming doubter AND a believer in science.” This became of interest because of people like Al Gore who fanatically and verbosely claimed that you had to be an idiot to not believe in man made global warming. It has been my life belief that anyone that is that loud and that obnoxious is hiding something, that rather than argue facts and reality it is better to beat down and insult anyone who disagrees.

As we have waded through the whole issue of man made global warming, or its new rebranded title of climate change, we found that Al Gore and people like him were guilty of a number of things:
  • Ignoring science and realities that did not support their opinions and positions.
  • Rather than have an adult conversation about climate, these types of advocates like Gore sank to the level of insulting those who dared look at ALL science by calling them a variety of names including racists, homophobes, terrorists, flat earth believers, and other slanderous names.
  • Continuing to insist that politicians step up their intrusions into our lives with higher taxes, more regulations, and more control on our freedoms and standards of living based on a shaky theory at best.
To see the past posts and the multitude of evidence that we have compiled that showed it is perfectly okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, enter the phrase "global warming doubter” in the search box above or go through the monthly historical post listed on the right side of this page.

Thus, let’s see the latest facts and science that prove you can be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, regardless of what Al Gore proclaims.

Today we are going to focus on some environmental forecasts from long ago that were totally wrong, much like all of the major and minor global warming and climate change forecasts of more recent times have also been disastrously wrong. 

These failed forecasts from long ago come from the most recent issue of Reason magazine and an article written by Ronald Bailey. He talks about the first Earth Day event that was fifty years ago and the environmental disaster forecasts that were associated with that first Earth Day. 

The lesson to be learned is that blindly accepting any long term forecasts, even if done by so-called experts, should always be taken with a grain of salt. Many of these experts have books to sell, movies to promote, or egos to be stroked so saying something non controversial doesn't sell books, promote movies or stroke an ego.

Keep in mind that at this point in time fifty years ago, many, many people were just as agitated, concerned, frightened and playing Chicken Little as the latter global warming advocates are. And those advocates fifty years were as wrong as possible by abiding by and believing the forecasts of doom. Let’s see what forecasts went so wrong from five decades ago:

1) Some “experts” warned that cutting the world’s population in half and stopping all economic growth might still not be enough to avoid imminent and worldwide ecological disaster. Since this forecast, the world's population has about doubled without worldwide ecological disaster.

2) Paul Ehrlich, one of the more renowned and failed forecasters of the time predicted that there would be devastating famines around the world that would kill millions of people in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In a 1970 article he predicted that 100 to 200 million people would be dying every year within the next ten years. While there have been periodic famines since then, these mostly localized famines have come nowhere close to killing hundreds of millions of people every year as he predicted.

3) Ehrlich predicted that by the end of 1973, there would be smog crises in Los Angeles and New York that would kill 200,000 Americans. Did not happen.

4) Ehrlich also forecasted that, “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born” and that by 1975, “some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions.” Did not happen.

5) Other leading “experts” of the time were not as pessimistic as Ehrlich, predicted that the great food shortages and famines would not occur until the 1980s. Did not happen.

6) Harrison Brown, writing for the well regarded National Academy Of Sciences, published an article for Scientific American in September, 1970 that predicted the world would run out of copper in early in the year 2000, which was an optimistic forecast for copper since he predicted we would run out of lead, zinc, tin, gold, silver before the year 1990. Did not happen.

7) In the February 2, 1070 issue of Time magazine, ecologist Kenneth Watt confidently stated that, “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.” Did not happen.

8) In the January, 1970 issue of Life magazine, we were warned that, “In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution.” Did not happen.

So all these forecasts did not happen, whew! Otherwise we would all be sucking in poisonous air, groveling for food, and be out of most, if not all, valuable minerals. 

So what did happen and how wrong were these “expert” forecasts:

1) While the world’s population did double over the past fifty years, it did not rise as fast as the experts predicted and the fertility rate of humankind went from 4.8 children per woman in 1970 to 2.4 today. And that fertility rate continues to drop which will eventually cause the world’s population to level out naturally and without great famines.

2) Although the world’s population doubled, the world’s food production levels tripled and the average per capita calorie intake increased 25% from 2,400 calories a day to about 3,000 calories a day.

3) U.S. corn yields went from 60 bushels per acre in 1970 to 170 bushels per acre today.

4) We did not run out of crude oil with the U.S. Energy Information Administration now estimating there are about 3.4 trillion barrels of crude oil that could still be recovered, quite a difference from having no crude oil that Watt predicted.

5) Oh, by the way we did not run out of copper. In 1974 the U.S. Geological Survey predicted that there was 417 million tons of copper left in the world that Harrison Brown predicted would be gone by the year 2000. But in the year 2019, the U.S.Geological Survey now estimates there are 803 tons of copper in the world, 803 tons more than Brown predicted would be available. Estimates of zinc reserves went from 236 million in 1974 to 230 million tons in 2019, tin reserves went from 10 million to 4.7 million tons, gold reserves went from 41,000 tons to 54,000 tons and silver reserves went from 187,000 tons to 560,000 tons. Remember, all of these minerals were predicted to be used up by the 1990s.

6) Although the U.S. economy grew 275% from 1970 to 2018, the EPA estimates that the total emissions from six air pollutants dropped by 74%.

7) In 1972, the EPA reported that 30% of the tested waters in the country did not meet the “fishable standard” (i.e. provided fish that were safe to eat) while in 2014, despite population growth and economic growth, that 30% estimate fell by 50% to 15%.

You get the idea. Long term forecasting is not easy. And it is made more unreliable when those making the forecasts are selling books, making movies, stroking their ego or looking for grants and research money to continue their work. The squeaky wheel gets the grease so to speak and for a researcher or expert to stay everything is good and safe and don’t panic, well that does not get the same attention of world ending disaster forecasts.

This doesn't mean we should always reject the opinions of experts, especially when talking about shorter term, more immediate time frames and schedules. We just have to be sure to understand the underlying reasons for making such bombastic predictions, checking those predictions with other experts, and making sure to take them with a grain of salt.

Because while these predictions of disaster and the end of the world may seem real and accurate, they rarely are. And thirty years of failed global warming and climate change predictions and forecasts of doom and gloom prove this point.

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Thursday, October 22, 2015

October, 2015, Part 3, I Am A Global Warming Doubter and A Believer In Science:

Every month we have enough material to return to a continuing theme in this blog, namely that “I am a global warming doubter AND a believer in science.” This became of interest because of people like Al Gore who fanatically and verbosely claimed that you had to be an idiot to not believe in man made global warming. It has been my life belief that anyone that is that loud and that obnoxious is hiding something, that rather than argue facts and reality it is better to beat down and insult anyone who disagrees.

As we have dove into the whole issue of man made global warming, or its new rebranded title of climate change, we found that Al Gore and people like him were guilty of a number of things:
  • Ignoring science and realities that did not support their opinions and positions.
  • Rather than have an adult conversation about climate, these types of advocates like Gore sank to the level of insulting those who dared look at ALL science by calling them a variety of names including racists, homophobes, terrorists, flat earth believers, and other slanderous names.
  • Continuing to insist that politicians step up their intrusions into our lives with higher taxes, more regulations, and more control on our freedoms and standards of living based on a shaky theory at best.
To see the past posts and the multitude of evidence that we have compiled that showed it is perfectly okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, enter the phrase "global warming doubter” in the search box above or go through the monthly historical post listed on the right side of this page.

Thus, let’s see the latest facts and science that prove you can be a global warming doubter and a believer in science, regardless of what Al Gore proclaims.

1) As we have mentioned any number of times in this global warming series of posts over the years, the science is not settled when it comes to man made global warming and climate change impacts. Just this week we have talked about how the CERN Institute and a Nobel Laureate have disputed this “science is settled” deception from the likes of Al Gore, Barack, Obama and others.

Today, let’s add another noted scientist to that array of scientist that say not so fast, the science is not settled. Consider the following facts as it relates to a world famous scientist:
  • Dr. Freeman Dyson is supposedly one of the world’s most renowned and famous theoretical physicists.
  • He has worked at the Institute For Advanced Study with Einstein.
  • He has been an advisor to the U.S. Federal government on a whole range of different science based issues. 
  • In his opinion, Obama has backed the “wrong side” in the climate change “war.”
  • Dyson claims that the climate forecasting models used by certain climate scientists are getting worse over time in predicting climate realities and that carbon dioxide does far more good than harm.
  • In a recent interview conducted by writer Andrew Orlowski of The Register, Dyson “expressed his despair at the current scientific obsession with climate change which he says is “not a scientific mystery but a human mystery. How does it happen that a whole generation of scientific experts is blind to the obvious facts.”"
There you have it, another scientist that says it is okay to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science because man made global warming and climate change are not the reality of our times.

2) One nasty habit that global warming advocates have is that whenever something bad happens in the world, they somehow try to connect it to global warming. A typhoon in the Pacific - must be global warming even though there have been typhoons in the Pacific since the beginning of time. Forest fires in Canada - must be global warming even though there have been forest fires in Canada since the beginning of time. 

Never mind that they almost always have no data, no studies, or no proof that this is a true causal relationship, they just assume that bad news = man made global warming. Science and facts be damned.

And now the advocates have moved from blaming ordinary natural events on global warming to blaming political events on global warming. National Security Advisor Susan Rice recently gave a speech where she suggested that climate change was at least partially responsible for the civil war and refugee crisis in Syria.

In her opinion: “In the years prior to civil war breaking out in Syria, that country also experienced its worst drought on record. Farming families moved en masse into urban centers, increasing political unrest and further priming the country for conflict.”

Let’s step back and analyze her position:
  • First of all, she is not a scientist. She is a political appointee. She has no credibility in predicting cause and effect when it comes to climate science. 
  • To many Americans, she was a blatant liar in telling the world via five Sunday morning TV news shows that some obscure video caused the death of four Americans at the terrorist attack on our consulate at Benghazi. We now know that the whole video story was a cover up to protect Obama’s re-election rhetoric. Liar than, liar now?
  • She presents no scientific evidence that this cause and effect actually happened. 
Maybe some other factors were involved such as the Asaad family oppressing large segments of the Syrian populations for many decades, the chemical warfare that Asaad waged on the rebels, the crackdown on freedom protests, the fight for control of oil and natural gas transportation in the entire Middle East, the rise of ISIS once Obama abandoned Iraq, the centuries long fight of Shiite vs. Sunni Muslims in the Middle East, etc. 

Pure speculation and fear mongering on her part. Did I mention that she is not a scientist? In our first point above, Dr. Freeman Dyson, world renowned scientist says Obama is on the wrong side of the whole global warming debate. So who to believe: a real life scientist or a political appointee with no climate science background.

But no need to answer that question since Rice goes on in the same speech to completely kill her credibility, stating that: “Consider the impacts—to the global economy and to our shared security—when rising seas begin to swallow nations whole,” and that we will see rising sea levels of “as much as 20 feet.” Even most of the global warming advocate scientists do not predict that sea levels will go up anywhere near that high. 

And since the polar ice caps continue to expand and thus, reducing the possibility of any ocean rises in the near future, this is nothing more than speculative fear mongering backed up by NO facts.

3) Consider a recent scientific finding of epic proportions that was recently reviewed in the Canadian Free Press:

As world leaders get ready to head to Paris for the latest pact on cutting CO2 emissions, it has emerged that there isn’t as much urgency about the matter as had been thought. A team of top-level atmospheric chemistry boffins from France and Germany say they have identified a new process by which vast amounts of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are emitted into the atmosphere from the sea – a process which was unknown until now, meaning that existing climate models do not take account of it. The effect of VOCs in the air is to cool the climate down, and thus climate models used today predict more warming than can actually be expected. Indeed, global temperatures have actually been stable for more than fifteen years, a circumstance which was not predicted by climate models and which climate science is still struggling to assimilate.—Lewis Page, The Register, 30 September 2015

Much like Susan Rice, I am not a climate scientist. However, this discovery appears to be very significant in many ways but one that stands out relative to being a global warming doubter and believer in science: This phenomenon was never incorporated into any of the now defunct and failed climate forecast models over the years simply because no one knew about it.

Since VOCs reportedly cool the earth, is it not important to include them in any climate model in order to get a more accurate reading of what the future might hold? If this discovery holds, it should greatly mitigate the forecasted disasters that climate scientists’ forecast models tried to predict since it now appears the oceans of the world are producing an effect to cool the earth.

This is just another example showing that no matter how strongly a scientist or politician or a political appointee advocates for man made global warming and climate change, the reality is that they know very little about what is really going on. If they did know, then VOCs would be part of the discussion but it is not since no one knew about them until recently. Thus, doubting anything in this field of massive ignorance is not a bad thing to do.

That will do it for today. A recent discovery (VOCs) might prove why the doom and gloom climate forecasts models were always dreadfully inaccurate, why political appointees need to shut up when discussing climate change since they have zero background and credibility in the area, and another world renowned scientist comes down on the side of how rational it is to be a global warming doubter and a believer in science. More good stuff tomorrow.


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