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LEFT WING LOONS Title: Science Advances ‘One Funeral at a Time’ How long does it take for an expert who has, year upon year after year, made predictions of unrealized doom, an expert hailed heeded and hearkened to by the whole world, to admit error? Answer: forever. He never will, and neither will most of his admirers. This is important to understand let this sink into your bones because this sad but true fact about the human condition tells us how long global warming will be with us. Answer: forever. It will last until the last of it proponents die. Which, given improvements in medical practice, will be at least several more decades. No one said this pithier than Max Planck: Science advances one funeral at a time. The increased and increasing longevity of our species thus partly accounts for the deceleration in scientific knowledge which many have remarked. Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you the New York Times. The New York Times! No publication is more progressive or as detached from reality, no group of writers more convinced of their secularly divine destiny. Yet, somehow, they brought themselves to publish the piece The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion. Watch the video at the top. Ill wait here. Back? Fascinating, aint it? Paul Ehrlich has been as wrong, wronger even, than Jim Hansen or Al Gore, yet no number of failed predictions has so much as put a crease in the mans unwavering support of himself. And wasnt he as a younger man convincing! The sheer authority in his voice, the utter believability! How many times did he say he was on The Tonight Show? Dr. Ehrlich was so sure of himself that he warned in 1970 that sometime in the next 15 years, the end will come. By the end, he meant an utter breakdown of the capacity of the planet to support humanity. As far as I can tell, though I havent done a systematic count, not one of Ehrlichs predictions has come true. Does it matter? Not to him, and not to the many, many grant- and award-awarding bodies who, to this very day, fete the man. The Weekly Standard: In 1990 the same year he lost his bet with Julian Simon Ehrlich was awarded a million dollar MacArthur genius grant and was simultaneously feted across the Atlantic with Swedens Crafoord Prize, which was worth just about half a million. In 1993 the Heinz Family Foundation bestowed on him its first Heinz Award. This little trinket came with $100,000 in cash and the most delusional praise possible, claiming that Ehrlichs perspective, uncommon among scientists, has made [him and his wife] the target of often harsh criticismcriticism they accept with grace as the price of their forthrightness. Which is a peculiar way of explaining that Ehrlich was completely wrong and that he responded to all such evidence with ad hominem attacks. Five years later, in 1998, he was awarded the Tyler Prize, which comes with $200,000. The money train kept on rolling. Now dont make the same mistake this magazine did and call Ehrlich insanely dangerous. He is not. He is a harmless old man, who was wrong about, as far as I can tell, absolutely everything. It is a world class blunder to focus on Ehrlich and not on the political scum who leveraged Ehrlichs preposterous predictions to push their anti-human agenda. It was the one-worlders who deserve all the discredit, not poor Ehrlich. Forced sterilizations! They happened. Forced population planning. It happened. Not because Ehrlich said they must, and not even because this deluded and delusional man desired them, but because the powerful progressives who used Ehrlich as a front-man wanted them. They were content to let Ehrlich and others create panic and then to use that panic to their benefit. Headlines shouted Science Says
!, Scientists Agree
!, Science Science Science! Sound familiar? Increased population was going to bring only ills. Every bad thing that happened was because of increased population. There were no possible benefits to increased population. Why, increased population was going to cause so much pollution that the globe was going to be plunged into another ice age! The only solution that any right-thinking person could conceive of was to cede more power to governments. Only governments, and preferably world government, could get us out of the mess. Sound familiar? It is long past the point where anybody, scientist or not, can seriously consider climate models worthy of attention. They are wrong as Ehrlich was, or wronger. But it doesnt matter. Their inaccuracy is not the root malady. Incidentally, Bill McKibben is not todays Ehrlich, at the least because he is not nearly as intelligent, but this essay of his shows certain parallels. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest
#1. To: cranky (#0)
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The name of the public attitude manipulation and control game is to refer to supporting advocates exclusively in the media and classroom as authorities and fund them big time while censoring out differing opinions. It doesn't need to be true, but if you do this you can sell it as true.
In middle school (7th grade) I had a teacher who was I think that he considered it a good thing that we Certainly some of my graduating class died in car That teacher was severely manically depressed IMO...
I had several. In fact, one got special permission just to subject me (and my classmates) to the first Earth Day. Funny how harmless that seemed back then. There are three kinds of people in the world: those that can add and those that can't
I remember that.
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