Isn't it just loverly when predictions from 40 years ago come back?

“If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but 11 degrees colder by the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age.” -- ecology professor Kenneth E.F. Watt, University of California, 1970.

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/political-climate

(Watt has an out, though. “If present trends continue…” Always hedge predictive statements. Of course, global warming climate change believers would say trends got worse. Or maybe not, since things kind of stumbled along as always, although fear mongers and pushers of big government don’t subscribe to the “stumble along as always” theory of civilization.)

Then there is Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich, who said while pushing The Population Bomb: “By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people. If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000 and give ten to one that the life of the average Briton would be of distinctly lower quality than it is today.”

(I hope he knew when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em.)

Lots of “He said what?” quotes.

Link at maggiesfarm.