Climate Tricks 79, Alarmism on 'Earth Day'

Hi environmentalists, planet saviours, tree huggers, fossil fuel haters, subsidize renewables lobbyists, etc. -- your batting average for correct prediction of climate gloom and doom for the past half century is zero. Time to calm down, ok? Cheers

Earth Day: Not a Single Environmental Prediction of the Last 50 Years Has Come True

Anthony Watts / 21 hours ago April 22, 2019

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/04/22/earth-day-not-a-single-environmental-prediction-of-the-last-50-years-has-come-true/

The original article was published here,

On Earth Day, gloomy predictions haven’t come to pass

By Nicolas Loris, Tribune News Service • April 20, 2019 10:00 am

https://bangordailynews.com/2019/04/20/opinion/contributors/on-earth-day-gloomy-predictions-havent-come-to-pass/

Population crisis, oil crisis/peak oil, food crisis/peak food, none. Population keeps expanding, but also oil, gas, coal, food production (and beer, hamburger, bacon,...) keeps expanding. We experienced global cooling, global warming, more flood, no flood, more storms, few storms, and we are fine.

Three more interesting papers:

18 spectacularly wrong predictions made around the time of first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year

Mark J. Perry April 21, 2019 12:47 pm | AEIdeas

https://www.aei.org/publication/18-spectacularly-wrong-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year-3/

Mark J. Perry is a scholar at AEI and a professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan's Flint campus. He is best known as the creator and editor of the popular economics blog Carpe Diem.

Ending climate change requires the end of capitalism. Have we got the stomach for it?

Phil McDuff  Mon 18 Mar 2019 12.09 GMT Last modified on Mon 18 Mar 2019 12.11 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/18/ending-climate-change-end-capitalism

And a satire from Babylon Bee :-)

Al Gore Commemorates Earth Day By Using Private Jet To Write 'Save The Planet' In The Sky

April 22nd, 2019

https://babylonbee.com/news/al-gore-commemorates-earth-day-by-using-private-jet-to-write-save-the-planet-in-the-sky

Climate alarmism simply wants more government, more UN, more taxes, more regulations (environment, energy, transportation, agriculture, etc.). More global ecological central planning.

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See also:

Climate Tricks 76, Greenpeace deception model, December 23, 2018 

Climate Tricks 77, Stop human reproduction to 'fight' CC, March 05, 2019 

Climate Tricks 78, Catastrophe... Not, since 19 years ago, March 31, 2019