Re: letter by R. Dabrusin, March 12 Gazette
We recently looked at several failed global warming predictions. Here are more:
"By 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots. By 1996 the Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on Interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers." Michael Oppenheimer, published in Dead Heat, St. Martin's Press, 1990.
"Using computer models, researchers concluded that global warming would raise average annual temperatures nationwide 2 degrees by 2010." Associated Press, May 15, 1989. According to NASA, global temps did increase, but only by 0.7 F. since 1989.
"In 2007, U.S. climate scientists reported the Arctic would be ice-free in summer by 2013. In fact, Arctic ice that summer increased by 60 per cent, compared to a record low in 2012. Critics say there is evidence Arctic ice behaves in cyclical patterns and is not primarily driven by man-made climate change."
In 2007, the IPCC, after initially defending the claim was forced to withdraw an unscientific prediction that all the glaciers in the Himalayas would disappear by 2035.
The president of the Seychelle Islands was on TV recently pleading with the world to stop "climate change," since rising sea levels were starting to inundate his territory. Since sea levels don't seem to be rising anywhere else around the world, I would suggest that instead of sea levels rising, the Seychelles are subsiding. Earth is a very dynamic sphere; changes are constant.
Apparently, England is sinking while Scotland is rising. In this area we only have to look to the Rockies where ancient seabeds are now thousands of feet above sea level.
Now I must apologize if I offended anyone by calling environmentalists a "mob," but the last anti-Trans Mountain Pipeline demonstration looked like mob action to me. Paid protesters scuffling with police, police arresting protesters (along with Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party, who has aspirations of being prime minister one day, or at least a senator). That should look good on her resume.
I would like to stress that I'm not denying that the climate is changing (it has been warming for several thousand years), but that humans have much to do with it. Blame natural sources, like your nearest volcano or forest fire.
In closing, some words of wisdom from Al Gore, the guru of the environmental movement. He summed it up very simply: "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in the air and water that are doing it."
By all means plan your driving trips, don't leave your vehicle idling, reduce, recycle and reuse, but don't give me this garbage that the sky is falling.
– Barry Brace,
Crossfield
