A new ice age would begin! Wrong

Tuesday, November 29, 2016 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

TAGS: ECONOMICS, POLITICS

The track record on doom, Matt Ridley

I said that one reason to be skeptical about dangerous climate change is that environmental predictions of doom are always wrong.
Here’s a list of predictions made with much fanfare and extensive coverage in the media in the 1970s, when I was young and green, in both senses of the word:

• the population explosion would be unstoppable;
• global famine would be inevitable;
• crop yields would fall;
• a cancer epidemic caused by pesticides would shorten lifespan;
• the desert would advance at two miles a year;
• rainforests would disappear;
• acid rain would destroy forests;
• oil spills would worsen;
• oil and gas would run out;
• and so would copper, zinc, chrome and many other natural resources;
• the Great Lakes would die;
• dozens of bird and mammal species would become extinct each year;
• and a new ice age would begin;

All these were trumpeted loudly in the mainstream media. Not one of them has come even close to meeting the apocalyptic expectations of their promoters. Sometimes this was because we took action to avert the danger. Sometimes it is because the jury is still out. More often it was because the scare was exaggerated in the first place.

I took this from

http://www.thegwpf.org/matt-ridley-global-warming-versus-global-greening/

I remember clearly the mad cow disease and the new ice age. Now is the global warming. of course at the end people don't know enough about the future and are always wrong or society corrects and change habits.

2 things are really stupid for sure

To run cars with Ethanol! you need huge amounts of water to grow corn to power the cars. it would need huge size. it's inefficient.

Biologic produce is something for the very rich, why? if all the world would chose to eat bio since the yields are 20 or 30% than modified crops or normal agriculture with potassium (Potassium (K) is an essential nutrient for plant growth). If you don't add potassium after year 3 or 4 yields would be almost zero.

If everybody did what the green movement wants we could not feed the earth and we would exhaust the soils. too bad it's stupid to do things that don't work. Bio agriculture doesn't work.