OPINION:
On Jan. 27 President Biden said the following about climate change: “It’s about coming to the moment to deal with this maximum threat that’s now facing us — climate change — with a greater sense of urgency. In my view, we’ve already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis and we can’t wait any longer. We see it with our own eyes, we feel it, we know it in our bones, and it’s time to act.” Is Biden correct about climate change being “the maximum threat” to our nation?
In his 2007 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech Al Gore claimed that there is “a 75 percent chance the entire polar ice cap will melt in summer within the next five to seven years.” But seven years after his doomsday prediction it was reported that the Arctic ice cap was far from vanishing; in fact, it actually grew between 43% and 63% percent since 2012.
John Kerry, Mr. Biden’s new climate czar, took his private jet to Iceland in 2019 to receive the Arctic Circle Award for his climate ’leadership.’
There have been 50 years of failed eco-apocalyptic predictions. The first: “[E]veryone will disappear in a cloud of blue steam by 1989.” This claim was predicted by Professor Paul R. Ehrlich on Aug. 5, 1969, at Stanford University. The population biologist went on to say that “the trouble with almost all environmental problems is that by the time we have enough evidence to convince people, you’re dead. We must realize that unless we are extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a blue steam in 20 years.” In 1970 the Boston Globe predicted an “[i]ce age by 2000.” In 1971, the Washington Post proclaimed, “New Ice Age Coming.” In 1989 the Associated Press had a headline reading “Rising seas to ’obliterate’ nations by 2000.” And in 2004 the Guardian ran “Britain to have Siberian climate by 2020.”
I will start believing that climate change is the most dangerous threat to our country and the world when liberal Democratic politicians’ actions match their words and when so-called experts’ predictions come true.
MICHAEL HART
Kokomo, Ind.
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