THe science is settled mob in 1970. Nothing has changed

'Just check the predictions made on Earth Day 1970:

“We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
• Kenneth Watt, ecologist

“Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
• George Wald, Harvard Biologist

“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, Washington University biologist

“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
• New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

“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.”
• Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

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

“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

“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

and even more for the comedy hour

;“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

“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.”'

Thanks Mr Bolt for drawing these false prophets to our attention. Unfortunately they are harder to shame than the Catholic church.

Didn't know the creationist was a follower of the neo-con shock-jock's sermons, but there you go.

And what did Revelations say again, runner?

Oops again:

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=10330#168793

I should have added "designer".

Geoff

I apologise if this thread seems to be drifting, but this is OLO.

People will believe what they want to believe, regardless of the truth.

Have you read the latest at AAAS, much to do with science and education?

"People will believe what they want to believe, regardless of the truth."

You got that right, Qanda.

So what is the truth, please ? Am I in the right ball-park:

* That sea-levels have risen two inches in fifty years ?

* That average world temperatures have risen 0.7 degrees C in fifty years, but have not risen significantly over the last fifteen ?

Of course, while we wait for clarification, air and water pollution, and general environmental degradation, deforestation and destruction of animal habitat, soil degradation and depletion of fish stocks continue at ever-greater rates.

Question: is AGW a scam of the nuclear industry, and to hell with the environment ?

Joe