{"id":144,"date":"2008-05-20T13:07:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T17:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/2008\/05\/20\/the-sky-is-still-falling\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T13:07:31","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T17:07:31","slug":"the-sky-is-still-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/the-sky-is-still-falling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sky is Still Falling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are being warned by an environmentalist that climate change &#8220;must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 A representative of the World Metrological Organization warns that climate change can not be reversed.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the darlings of the environmental movement predicts world wide food shortages.\u00c2\u00a0 In ten years, he insists, there will be a massive food shortage in the US, causing the starvation deaths of hundreds of millions of people.\u00c2\u00a0 In twenty years the US population will be a mere 22.6 million, and England will not exist.<\/p>\n<p>Another organization of experts predicts that the world will run out of gold, mercury and silver in fifteen years and petroleum copper, lead and natural gas in twenty.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Yet another pontificator tells us that we only have fifteen years before 75-85% of &#8220;All living animals will be extinct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Are you thinking of global warming?\u00c2\u00a0 Nope.\u00c2\u00a0 These were all global <em>cooling <\/em>scares from the late sixties and early seventies.\u00c2\u00a0 The food shortage expert was Dr. Paul Erlich who has a perfect record: <em>every <\/em>prediction he&#8217;s ever made has been wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s never even been <em>close<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet he still remains a hero of radical environmentalists.<\/p>\n<p>Want more details?\u00c2\u00a0 All these quotes and facts came from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/WalterEWilliams\/2008\/05\/07\/environmentalists_wild_predictions\" target=\"_blank\">recent column<\/a> by Walter Williams.\u00c2\u00a0 He goes on to point that that the experts were wrong then, wrong before that, and wrong before that.\u00c2\u00a0 With their almost perfect record of wrong predictions in the past, what would a reasonable person conclude about our more modern doomsayers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are being warned by an environmentalist that climate change &#8220;must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 A representative of the World Metrological Organization warns that climate change can not be reversed.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the darlings of the environmental movement predicts world wide food shortages.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}