Is this the latest example of environmental extremist doom-and-gloom?

Question

http://science.howstuffworks.com/us-desert-50-years.htm

About 30 or 40 years ago, they were telling us about a coming Ice Age. It didn't happen.

About 30 or 40 years ago, they were telling us that our rivers would be boiling, our air would be so dirty we would need gas masks, and our coastlines would be covered with the rotten bodies of dead fish. Yeah, right.

About 20 years ago, they were telling us that 20% of the world's animal species would be extinct by the year 2000. Not even close.

The environmentalist extremists have been flat-out wrong so many times, it's a wonder that anybody takes them seriously anymore.

Now they're saying that 40% of the USA could be a desert within the next 50 years.

Please.

Is it just me, or this just more enviro-whacko insanity?

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Answer 1

Finally, a woman I can agree with....sorry, not meaning to make that statement sound bad, but way too many are shrill on the idea of the world needs to be saved right NOW....when all it actually is are people that are so despirate to find a cause to belong to and make some sort of statement or be involved in something to make them feel special.

I'm guessing that they say 50 years now because they weren't too smart decades ago and made all these stupid predictions within someone's life span. 20 years ago we knew what things were like and we realized their predictions were ludicrous and wrong.

Now they aim for 50 thinking most people will either be dead or in nursing homes with more important things to worry about.

You go girl, keep the truth marching.

Answer 2

No, it's not just you. It's "enviro-whacko insanity."

It's a liberal scare tactic.

Vote Smart!

Consider Your Children and Grand-Children;

Their Future Is In Our Voting Hands!

United We Stand, Divided We Fall!

Answer 3

No, you're just smarter than the average bear...just don't ask how large of a carbon footprint was left due to the DNC, it will be deleted.

Answer 4

The simple fact of the matter is we really don't have a very good idea of how global climate works. There are historical records which indicate there have been great swings in global climate over time. The little ice age, which lasted from the late 16th to mid 19th century,  the medieval warm period of the 10th and 11th centuries, and a period of warming in th1 1st century A.D. are examples of this. Additionally, there are ice core samples which indicate the Earth has been much cooler, and much warmer in the past than it is now.

Truly accurate records about temperature and rain fall only go back about 150 years. And that's only for parts of Europe and North America. We have little accurate data about global conditions world wide, and nothing at all about the oceans (which cover 70% of the Earth's surface) more than a few decades old.

Upon this spotty data we are expected to be able to predict global climate changes over the next 10, 50, 100 or 1000 years? These doomsayers are making a lot of assumptions. It does make you wonder what their true agenda is.

Answer 5

These falsehoods have been around since the 1970's. First ice age then global warming, now ice age. Always just over the next few years. You can only cry wolf so many times. There is no wolf to warn about.

Answer 6

I'm afraid that enviro-whackos are wrong almost as often as the noe-cons. If you search long enough, you can find plenty that "they" are wrong about. The problem is that being wrong by being an enviro-whacko is a lot safer than being wrong by following the insane neo-cons.

Answer 7

It's just you exaggerating and distorting the facts.