World’s End
As May 21, 2011 passed without any eschatological events taking place, you could detect subtle hints of intellectual superiority mixed with pity from the skeptics of Christianity. Most Christians familiar with the Bible knew that these predictions were unscriptural and unsound. Oddly enough, erroneous scientific predictions of global cataclysm issuing from the radical environmentalist faithful seem to never elicit any of the same contempt or scrutiny. In his book, “The Population Bomb”, Paul Erlich, Ph D, a dean of the environmental movement, used his esteemed scientific knowledge and elaborate calculations to predict: “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.” But wait! There’s more! On Earth Day, 1970, he warned that “[i]n ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.” Well there certainly is a stench, but I think it comes from the manure this expert was spreading.
One does not have to venture far back to hear similar pronouncements from current eco-prophets. On September 28, 2005, the Los Angeles Times reported that National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration meteorologists were predicting 10 to 40 more years of powerful tropical storms. Result so far: The 2006 thru 2010 hurricane seasons were rather tame. In February 2009 the Snow and Ice Center that measures Polar Ice admitted “sensor drift” caused them to under report an area of Arctic ice the size of California. That’s a big mistake. In April 2009 “Polar 5″, a research aircraft, ended an Arctic expedition, during which scientists measured ice thickness in regions that had never been overflown before. The result: the sea ice was thicker than the scientists had suspected. Under normal conditions, the ice is formed within two years and ends up being slightly above 2 meters of thickness. But actual measurements found the ice to be as thick as four meters. According to the scientists, this conclusion seemed to contradict the warming of the ocean water. Yet in December 2009, Al Gore said that computer modeling suggested the Arctic Ocean may be nearly ice-free in the summertime by 2014. GIGO anyone?
Gore is more Abbott and Costello than Paul Revere. His discussion of geo-thermal energy on the Conan O’Brien’s show was a litany of scientific inaccuracy and fabrication. He talks about impending polar bear extinction even while their numbers are stable. His supporters are like parrots who apparently know nothing about the carbonate-silicate geochemical cycle, plant respiration, or albedo. Ignoring the windfall profit Al was set to make on “cap and trade” legislation, “warmists” accuse man-made climate change skeptics of being lackeys of “big oil”. Are they referring to Dr William M. Gray, the world’s leading expert in tropical storms and John Coleman, the founder of The Weather Channel, who believe anthropogenic global warming is a hoax.
Greenpeace founding member Patrick Moore stated in 2009, “To a considerable extent the environmental movement was hijacked by political and social activists who learned to use green language to cloak agendas that had more to do with anti-capitalism and anti-globalization than with science or ecology.” Often green science is actually red politics and dissent is not tolerated. A prime example of climate McCarthyism is documented in the beautiful, fascinating and poignant 52 minute, six part documentary called “Cloud Mystery” posted on YouTube. It is worth the time.