They would be laughable if they weren’t serious at the time. The Competitive Enterprise Institute lists just some of the failed predictions of global Armageddon over the last 50 years. The sunscreen industry will likely go bankrupt.Įvery Chicken Little prediction about the environment - from forecasts by scientific “experts” in the 1970s of a coming Ice Age in which we will all freeze to death to the current alarmists who have made various wrong predictions about us burning to death - has failed to deter those who want to increase government’s power over our lives. If this comes true, we might have to take many more vitamin D pills. Politico reports: “The White House offered measured support for the idea of studying how to block sunlight from hitting Earth’s surface as a way to limit global warming.” The delicious irony is that the Greens haven’t been able to get heat pumps working at their Berlin headquarters. Perhaps we could learn something from the Germans, or at least their socialist Green Party, which wants to ban fossil-fuel furnaces from every home and building in the country by forcing everyone to install heat pumps. Now they have gone too far by suggesting governments should regulate our cocktails. It’s not enough for the climate “experts” to demand that governments regulate light bulbs, meat, gas-powered stoves and the cars we drive. Consider this from a recent article in the respected journal Scientific American: “It takes a lot of water and energy to make negronis, manhattans and margaritas. The solutions to “climate change” have regressed from the quasi-serious to the ridiculous.
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