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Documentary from 1978 about the upcoming Ice Age that was to hit by now
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:01 pm
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:01 pm
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:03 pm to stout
I have been trying to increase my beef consumption as much as possible.
The quicker we eat the cows, the less cow flatulence will destroy our planet.
#trustthescience
The quicker we eat the cows, the less cow flatulence will destroy our planet.
#trustthescience
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:05 pm to stout
Don't forget, our generation is always the most unique and special.... because it is us.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:06 pm to stout
Because the very next day, a local radio station had this contest to see who could correctly guess the number of molecules in Leonard Nimoy's butt
I was off by three
But I still won the grand prize
That's right, a first class one-way ticket to
Albuquerque
I was off by three
But I still won the grand prize
That's right, a first class one-way ticket to
Albuquerque
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:06 pm to stout
We are in the ice age. Unfortunately all the ice has melted and we are seeing it as rain.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:06 pm to stout
Global warming beat the ice age to it.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:08 pm to stout
AlGore tried to warn y’all about this.
But y’all wouldn’t listen.
Thank goodness the electric cars are here to save us!
But y’all wouldn’t listen.
Thank goodness the electric cars are here to save us!
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:09 pm to stout
The oceans were supposed to dead as well.
This post was edited on 7/14/21 at 1:11 pm
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:10 pm to stout
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Documentary from 1978 about the upcoming Ice Age that was to hit by now
We are currently in an ice age.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:11 pm to stout
How's the ozone hole doing?
Haven't heard about that in a while.
fricking hair spray, man.
Haven't heard about that in a while.
fricking hair spray, man.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:11 pm to stout
Too bad he didn't tell us when Jesus is returning. We have been waiting on that one for a while now.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:17 pm to stout
All I need to know is what did the documentary say about the Ice Age affecting crawfish prices
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:17 pm to stout
Growing up in the 70's I vividly remember the propaganda about the coming ice age. That quickly turned into overpopulation, then the ozone layer, then global warming. All communist scams with a different cover.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:18 pm to stout
Climate Scientist in 1970: be prepared an ice age is coming. Certain death is on the way.
Climate Scientist in the 1980's: We are destroying the Ozone layer. Certain death is on the way.
Climate Scientist in the 1990's: The super Volcano in Yellowstone will one day blow. Acid rain is happening. The Pacific ocean has floating islands of trash as big as California because you didn't recycle. Certain death is on the way.
Climate Scientist in the 2000's: The icecaps are melting and causing sea level rise. Certain death is on the way, even if you don't live near the ocean because the ocean currents will change.
Climate Scientist in the 2010's: We are in danger of a meteor strike similar to what killed the dinosaurs. Or if that is not scary enough the magnetic poles might flip. Oh still not scared think about Solar flares then. Certain death is on the way.
Climate Scientist in 2021: be prepared Death Valley just had the hottest temp ever recorded. Global Warming is happening because you pumped gas. Certain death is on the way.
Climate Scientist, the local weather guesser on the news, and college football preseason poll writers have to be the worst people at their jobs in the country. Yet they face no repercussions for being so wrong.
Climate Scientist in the 1980's: We are destroying the Ozone layer. Certain death is on the way.
Climate Scientist in the 1990's: The super Volcano in Yellowstone will one day blow. Acid rain is happening. The Pacific ocean has floating islands of trash as big as California because you didn't recycle. Certain death is on the way.
Climate Scientist in the 2000's: The icecaps are melting and causing sea level rise. Certain death is on the way, even if you don't live near the ocean because the ocean currents will change.
Climate Scientist in the 2010's: We are in danger of a meteor strike similar to what killed the dinosaurs. Or if that is not scary enough the magnetic poles might flip. Oh still not scared think about Solar flares then. Certain death is on the way.
Climate Scientist in 2021: be prepared Death Valley just had the hottest temp ever recorded. Global Warming is happening because you pumped gas. Certain death is on the way.
Climate Scientist, the local weather guesser on the news, and college football preseason poll writers have to be the worst people at their jobs in the country. Yet they face no repercussions for being so wrong.
This post was edited on 7/14/21 at 1:25 pm
Posted on 7/14/21 at 1:54 pm to stout
As hot as it is, I wouldn't mind an Ice Age about now.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 2:13 pm to stout
Hey, that ice storm in mid-February was no joke.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 2:36 pm to stout
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We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. I’m tired of this shite. I’m tired of f-ing Earth Day. I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shite about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.
I wish George Carlin were still alive to roast climate change nuts like Greta Thunberg.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 9:35 pm to stout
We were suppose to all be dead unless we did what they told us to do in the 70’s to save the planet.
Fix the landfills- done
Increase fuel efficiency for auto’s- done
Recycle- done
Stricter building codes-done
Incentivize solar-done
Disincentivized coal- done
They were all wrong! But
And where has any of it gotten us?
Fix the landfills- done
Increase fuel efficiency for auto’s- done
Recycle- done
Stricter building codes-done
Incentivize solar-done
Disincentivized coal- done
They were all wrong! But
And where has any of it gotten us?
Posted on 7/14/21 at 10:09 pm to stout
Predictions about the environment from earth day 1970.
1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
2. “We are in an environmental crisis that threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment.
3. The day after the first Earth Day, the New York Times editorial page warned, “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
4. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 issue of Mademoiselle. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
5. “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,” wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled “Eco-Catastrophe! “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.”
6. Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.”
7. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.
8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “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.”
9. In January 1970, Life reported, “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….”
10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, “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.”
11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.
12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in 1970 that “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles.
13. Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons “may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945.” Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946…now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980 when it might level out. (Note: According to the most recent CDC report, life expectancy in the US is 78.6 years).
14. Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, “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.’” (Note: Global production of crude oil last year at 82.275M barrels per day (bpd) was just slightly below the record output in 2018 of 82.9M bpd, and about 50% higher than the global output of 55.7M bpd around the time of the first Earth Day).
15. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated the humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990.
16. Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look that, “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.”
17. In 1975, Paul Ehrlich predicted that “since more than nine-tenths of the original tropical rainforests will be removed in most areas within the next 30 years or so, it is expected that half of the organisms in these areas will vanish with it.”
18. Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he declared. “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.”
1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
2. “We are in an environmental crisis that threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment.
3. The day after the first Earth Day, the New York Times editorial page warned, “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
4. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 issue of Mademoiselle. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
5. “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,” wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled “Eco-Catastrophe! “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.”
6. Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.”
7. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.
8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “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.”
9. In January 1970, Life reported, “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….”
10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, “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.”
11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.
12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in 1970 that “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles.
13. Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons “may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945.” Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946…now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980 when it might level out. (Note: According to the most recent CDC report, life expectancy in the US is 78.6 years).
14. Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, “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.’” (Note: Global production of crude oil last year at 82.275M barrels per day (bpd) was just slightly below the record output in 2018 of 82.9M bpd, and about 50% higher than the global output of 55.7M bpd around the time of the first Earth Day).
15. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated the humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990.
16. Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look that, “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.”
17. In 1975, Paul Ehrlich predicted that “since more than nine-tenths of the original tropical rainforests will be removed in most areas within the next 30 years or so, it is expected that half of the organisms in these areas will vanish with it.”
18. Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he declared. “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.”
Posted on 7/14/21 at 11:03 pm to stout
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Documentary from 1978 about the upcoming Ice Age that was to hit by now
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