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From: tunderbar on 12 Aug 2010 10:26
On Aug 12, 9:10 am, Igor <thoov...(a)excite.com> wrote:
> On Aug 10, 3:41 pm, tunderbar <tdcom...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Aug 10, 2:39 pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Greenland ice sheet faces 'tipping point in 10
> > > years'http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/10/greenland-ice-sheet...
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> > > "Sometime in the next decade we may pass that tipping point which would
> > > put us warmer than temperatures that Greenland can survive," Alley told
> > > a briefing in Congress, adding that a rise in the range of 2C to 7C
> > > would mean the obliteration of Greenland's ice sheet.
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> > > The fall-out would be felt thousands of miles away from the Arctic,
> > > unleashing a global sea level rise of 23ft (7 metres), Alley warned.
> > > Low-lying cities such as New Orleans would vanish.
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> > > "What is going on in the Arctic now is the biggest and fastest thing
> > > that nature has ever done," he said.
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> >http://www.ihatethemedia.com/earth-day-predictions-of-1970-the-reason...
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> > Here are some of the hilarious, spectacularly wrong predictions made
> > on the occasion of Earth Day 1970.
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> > “We have about five more years at the outside to do something.”
> > • Kenneth Watt, ecologist
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> > “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action
> > is taken against problems facing mankind.”
> > • George Wald, Harvard Biologist
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> > “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of
> > this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human
> > habitation.”
> > • Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist
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> > “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to
> > enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration
> > and possible extinction.”
> > • New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day
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> > “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small
> > increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until
> > at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death
> > during the next ten years.”
> > • Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
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> > “By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated
> > the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of
> > unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the
> > ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of
> > the 1980s.”
> > • Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
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> > “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”
> > • Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day
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> > “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim
> > timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will
> > spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near
> > East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and
> > Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000,
> > thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western
> > Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
> > • Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University
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> > “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to
> > support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will
> > have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution
> > will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one
> > half….”
> > • Life Magazine, January 1970
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> > “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time
> > before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our
> > land will be usable.”
> > • Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
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> > Stanford's Paul Ehrlich announces that the sky is falling.
> > “Air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of
> > lives in the next few years alone.”
> > • Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist
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> > “We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up
> > the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new
> > ones.”
> > • Martin Litton, Sierra Club director
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> > “By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up
> > crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil.
> > You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll
> > say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’”
> > • Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
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> > “Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute,
> > believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all
> > the species of living animals will be extinct.”
> > • Sen. Gaylord Nelson
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> > “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If
> > present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder
> > for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in
> > the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into
> > an ice age.”
> > • Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
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> > Keep these predictions in mind when you hear the same predictions made
> > today. They’ve been making the same predictions for 39 years. And
> > they’re going to continue making them until…well…forever.
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> > Here we are, 39 years later and the economy sucks, but the ecology’s
> > fine. In fact this planet is doing a lot better than the planet on
> > which those green lunatics live.
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> That's only because we took action to prevent disaster, meathead.  And
> the economy has absolutely nothing to do with your silly little
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What action? Specifically.
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