"Here is a very simple question for all of you upset over the fact that I do not believe in Climate Change: How many scientific doomsday prophecies do I have to see debunked before I am allowed to be skeptical of the next one?How many?
Give me a number.
How about if I give you a number: Thirteen. Thirteen, y’all.
...This is how old I am. … Old enough to remember being told that by now…
- We would be living through a new Ice Age by the year 2000.
- We would all die when the ozone layer disappeared.
- The oceans would be dead.
- Global Cooling would destroy the world.
- Acid rain would destroy our forests.
- Overpopulation would result in worldwide famine.
- We would deplete our natural resources.
- We would run out of oil.
- The polar ice caps would melt.
- Manhattan would be underwater.
- People who live in cities will have to wear gas masks.
- Nitrogen buildup will make the land unusable.
- “Decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.”
And that is just the Big Stuff, the world-shaking predictions the oh-so holy scientific consensus got horribly wrong during my lifetime.
Yes, that science was also declared settled..."
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If Alfred Noble had lived, he'd have personally lit the fuse on the stick of dynamite under the butt of Al Gore. The event would be spectacular, and I would gladly pay the fee to watch it on pay for view.
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