Happy Earth Day 2010

1. In 1968, Professor Paul Ehrlich, Vice President Gore's hero and mentor, predicted there would be a major food shortage in the U.S. and "in the 1970s ... hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death." Ehrlich forecasted that 65 million Americans would die of starvation between 1980 and 1989, and by 1999 the U.S. population would have declined to 22.6 million. Ehrlich's predictions about England were gloomier: "If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000." World-wide “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.” FALSE!

2. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.” Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day 1970. FALSE!

3. “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, 1970. FALSE!

4. “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. FALSE!

5. “Air pollution is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone,” Paul Ehrlich in an interview in Mademoiselle Magazine, April 1970. FALSE!

6. Harvard University biologist George Wald in 1970 warned, "... civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind." That was the same year that Sen. Gaylord Nelson warned, in Look Magazine, that by 1995 "... somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct." FALSE!

7. “By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half,” Life Magazine, January 1970. FALSE!

8. “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from the intolerable deteriorations and possible extinction,” The New York Times editorial, April 20, 1970. FALSE!.

9. At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind." FALSE!

10. C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said, "The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed." FALSE!

11. “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” biologist Barry Commoner, University of Washington, writing in the journal Environment, April 1970. FALSE!

12. In 1972, a report was written for the Club of Rome warning the world would run out of gold by 1981, mercury and silver by 1985, tin by 1987 and petroleum, copper, lead and natural gas by 1992. FALSE, FALSE, FALSE and FALSE!

13. Gordon Taylor, in his 1970 book "The Doomsday Book," said Americans were using 50 percent of the world's resources and "by 2000 they [Americans] will, if permitted, be using all of them." FALSE!

14. “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, 1970. FALSE!

15. In 1975, the Environmental Fund took out full-page ads warning, "The World as we know it will likely be ruined by the year 2000." “We have about five more years at the outside to do something.” Kenneth Watt, ecologist. FALSE!

16. “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, 1970 FALSE!

17. “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, 1970. FALSE!

18. “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, 1970. FALSE!

19. “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, 1970. FALSE!

20. "The Sky is falling" said Chicken Little, undated. FALSE!



Let's not forget the man-made global warming hoax of the last decade with the poster boy Al Gore who has already has made about $500 million promoting and investing in "green energy" schemes and betting on carbon trading.

Many of the false predictions about man-made global warming by film producer, Nobel Prize winner and profiteer Al Gore and by the corrupt climatologists who have promoted this hoax have been exposed.
1. 1995 was the warmest year in the past 15 years, cooling has occurred over the last decade.
2. Prof Phil Jones, the coordinator of the global warming prediction admitted his record keeping was "not as good as it should be" and he "may have lost" (conveniently)the data from around the globe used to show the infamous "hockey stick" curve that showed temperature flat for hundreds of years and recently rising sharply. (This curve is what Al Gore and numerous climatologists used to reach the so-called "overwhelming consensus" that man-made warming was occurring),
3. Prof. Phil Jones admitted that the Earth was warmer in medieval times than it is now (not previously admitted by man-made warming advocates and not shown in the hockey stick plot)
4. Prof. Phil Jones admitted that the Earth has gone through "natural heating periods"
5. The two latest warming periods, 1910 to 1940 and 1975 to 1998, could be explained by naturally occurring events and man may have had nothing to do with it (like solar flares affecting cloud formation),:
6. The U.N.'s IPCC 2007 Nobel Prize prize winning report made false claims that the Himalayan glaciers are melting (the claims were traced to media hype, false quotes attributed to the scientist who studied the Himalayan glaciers and no actual data,
7. The IPCC made false claims about sea levels rising in the Netherlands, now refuted by scientists in the Netherlands
8. The IPCC used faulty data from China to "prove" global warming.
9. Last week, the president of the Royal Statistical Society in England, said that the graph shaped like an ice hockey stick that has been used to represent the recent rise in global temperatures had been compiled using “inappropriate” (statistical) methods. “It used a particular statistical technique that exaggerated the effect [of recent warming]”.

Again, Happy Earth Day; it's good for a few laughs.