Here comes the Apocolypse- again.

Here comes the Apocolypse- again. Environmentalist Nigel Calder morbidly predicted in 1969 “the threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery.” C. C. Wallen of the World Meteorlogical Organization agreed.

The year before Professor Paul Ehrlich, hero and mentor of D-science student Al Gore predicted worldwide starvation in the 1970s including 65 million American deaths and a U. S. population of only 22 million by 1999, and gave only a 50-50 chance England would not exist by 2000.

In his 1970 “The Doomsday Book” said America would use all the Earth’s resources by 2000. in 1970 the Club of Rome predicted gold, tin, mercury, oil copper, and natural gas would be gone by 1992, Harvard biologist George Wald warned of civilizations’s end in 15-20 years. U. S. Senator Gaylord Nelson said 75-85 percent of all species would be extinct by 1995.

A century ago the U. S. Geological Survey announced oil would never be found in California, Kansas or Texas. In 1939 the US Department of Interior said American oil could only last 13 more years; in 1974 the Survey said gas supplies would be exhausted by 1980s. Each pronosticator called for sweeping government action.

April 2008 was one of the coldest months in a century and a decade long cold snap is expected to be followed by catastrophic warming. There is now compelling evidence that 95% of the greenhouse effect results from water vapor in earth’s atmosphere and solar activity. Without that vapor and itsgreenhouse effect earth’s average temperature would be zero degrees Fahrenheit.

Notwithstanding Al Gore’s Styrofoam iceberg claptrap, and laughable non-science the political correct hysteria begs the question of what would have happened by all the other harebrained predictions been heeded like spraying soot on the arctic ice to avert the ice age predicted in the 1970s. Plus, what of the new finding that wetlands produce many more times carbon dioxide that all of human acvitiy.