When it comes to wrong predictions, Dr. Erlich leads the class. For instance:<\/p>\n
Dr. Erlich warned in his 1981 book \u201cExtinction,\u201d was that all rainforest species would likely soon go extinct due to environmental destruction. \u201cHalf of the populations and species in tropical moist forests would be extinct early in the next century [the 2000s] and none would be left by 2025,\u201d he warns on page 291 (In his book Extinction). He added that that his model indicated that, on the upper bound, complete extinction would occur as soon as 2010. <\/i><\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the book, he also wrote that his model\u2019s assumptions were \u201cmore realistic\u201d than those typically used and that \u201cunless appropriate steps are taken soon\u2026 humanity faces a catastrophe fully as serious as an all-out thermonuclear war.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
Last I checked, not only were the rain forest species not going extinct, they\u2019ve been finding more and more new species. Erlich is what is known as a Malthusean ((Malthusianism<\/span><\/a>)). Basically, he believes that unless we significantly reduce the number of people on the planet, we\u2019re ALL DOOMED! I haven\u2019t read anything by him in decades and don\u2019t remember much. I suspect it was something I was assigned to read in school by a moonbat teacher. If I do recall correctly, people like him want draconian population controls that make China\u2019s one child policy look mild in comparison. I seem to recall another person who had ideas regarding population controls and determining who would be a valued member of society.<\/p>\n Then we have a Student and Teacher\u2019s guide from Pennsylvania. According to this document:<\/p>\n \u201cSome estimates of the oil reserves suggest that by the year 2015 we will have used all of our accessible oil supply.\u201d <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Funny, I seem to recall that the price if oil is plummeting due to massive new finds and technologies to get it out of the ground.<\/p>\n Yet the Earth still has oil: at least 1.6 trillion gallons of proven reserves, according to the Energy Information Administration, a US government agency. In fact, proven reserves have more than doubled over the last couple decades, as technological innovation made more oil accessible. <\/i><\/p>\n The guide is on the website of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. Department spokesman Eric Shirk told FoxNews.com that the prediction was \u201cobviously wrong\u201d but added that the guide mostly consists of practical information on how to recycle oil that is still current. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well gee whiz batbrain, don\u2019t you think you should update it to match the known facts? And then we have this gem that\u2019s was touted by Al Gore.<\/p>\n \u201cPeter Wadhams, who heads the Polar Ocean Physics Group at the University of Cambridge\u2026 believes that the Arctic is likely to become ice-free before 2020 and possibly as early as 2015,\u201d Yale Environment 360 reported in 2012. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yeah, right, and how\u2019s that working out?<\/p>\n Yet government data<\/a> shows that arctic sea ice has increased since then. At its lowest point during 2014, sea ice covered about 1.7 million square miles — an area nearly half the size of the United States. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n And what did Mr. Wadhams have to say regarding his predictions?<\/p>\n Wadhams did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday morning. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n I suspect he\u2019s snowed in at his new beach front bungalow in Point Barrow, Alaska. And speaking of moonbats, we have this prediction by the White House Director of the Offices of Science and Technology Policy, Dr. John Holdren.<\/p>\n Paul Ehrlich cites Holdren in his 1987 book \u201cThe Machinery of Nature\u201d, noting that: \u201cAs University of California physicist John Holdren has said, it is possible that carbon dioxide climate-induced famines could kill as many as a billion people before the year 2020.\u201d <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Oh, that\u2019s right. Holdren and Erlich are \u201cBirds of a feather\u201d when it comes to hating humanity. When contacted, Holdren had this to say:<\/p>\n Holdren told FoxNews.com that he does not view that as a prediction. \u201cAs accurately reflected in the quoted passage, my statement in the 1980s about potential impacts of climate change on food production by 2020 was not a \u2018prediction\u2019 or a \u2018forecast.\u2019 It was, precisely, a statement about what \u2018is possible,\u2019 \u201d he wrote in an email to FoxNews.com. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Funny, it looks like a prediction to me. And to show just how incompetent and stupid this guy is. Do you know what CO2 is? It\u2019s plant food. Trees, bushes and all those vegetables that we eat love Carbon Dioxide. They convert it into food for themselves and oxygen for us to breathe. I guess his degrees in physics make him very qualified in things like botany and farming.<\/p>\n Besides these \u201cmisstatements,\u201d we have the big one known as \u201cGlobal Warming.\u201d As you recall, 10-15 years ago, it was predicted that if we didn\u2019t basically end modern civilization and eliminate 90% of the human race, the planet would look like Venus right about now. When that didn\u2019t happen, the moonbats renamed Global Warming into \u201cClimate Change.\u201d They still wanted modern civilization destroyed and the remaining humans, those that were selected to survive the pogroms, to live like the cavemen did. Only the ruling elites would be allowed modern conveniences like electricity and medicine.<\/p>\n One of the interesting things about these groups and people, besides being dead wrong, is that their answers to nonexistent problems generally involve totalitarian government with rule by the educated elites, (themselves of course), and with everyone else reduced to abject poverty and serfdom. Funny about that isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n It\u2019s freezing cold out there, and there are snow storms in Southern California. Snow? Not in the mountains out there? Ok, lets see you explain your way out of that one Al Gore.<\/p>\n May you all have a prosperous new year, unless you believe all the crap being dished out by the idiots above. Then I would recommend crawling into your underground lair and waiting out the end of the world. Meantime, I think I\u2019m going to Denny\u2019s for a nice turkey dinner.<\/p>\n Thatisall<\/p>\n ~The Angry Webmaster~<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n [yasr_visitor_votes size=”medium”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good day all and welcome to 2015. I hope you all had a good time at the parties you no doubt attended. I did, for the first time in years. As you might expect, I slept later than usual, especially since I didn’t get home until close to 1am. Mrs. Webmaster had to work last night and was out cold when I returned. Continue reading ![\"Epic_Facepalm_by_RJTH\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Epic_Facepalm_by_RJTH-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\")
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