From the Right: the religion of climate change has several false prophets

Russ Sloan
Guest columnist

As the Biden administration planners would like to spend billions of dollars to address climate change, it might be wise to look at the climate predictions over the past 50 years. 

For the man-made climate change believers, let's examine some of their past prophets. The Boston Globe reported in April 1970 that air pollution may obliterate the Sun creating a new ice age in the first third of the next century, the time frame in which we are now living. This dire prediction was made by James P. Lodge Jr. who was a scientist at the national center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. He also warned if the rate of electric power generation continued at the rate then, the demands for cooling water will boil dry the entire flow of the rivers and streams of the continental United States. Don't believe he'll make it into the Climate Change Hall of Fame. 

Our next climate change prophet is Paul Ehrlich, a Stanford University biologist who stated that the “time of famines” is upon us and will be at its worst by 1975. Ehrlich, speaking at a science symposium at the University of Texas, said it was too late to stop the upcoming famine or control population growth. He also hoped that world's famines would not lead to nuclear war and the extinction of the human race. Ehrlich becomes the next climate change zealot who won't make it into the hall of fame. 

Continuing with our climate change prophets, we have Dr. S.I. Rasool of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, who also predicted in the early 1970s that a new ice age was coming. He predicted that if fossil fuels were continued to be used it could create enough dust to diminish the sunlight to the point that a new ice age could be triggered. 

Now this is truly amazing. We are three for three of hearing from distinguished climate change prophets who weren't just wrong, they were off the charts wrong. Getting harder to fill that hall of fame. 

Maybe Al Gore will be a shoo-in choice. The former vice president has made millions of dollars tied to his dire climate change predictions such as, "the North Pole would be completely free of ice in five years." Gore stated this in 2009. To my knowledge, Gore never had a scientific background, but neither does billionaire Bill Gates and it hasn't stopped him from making dire climate change predictions. 

As we've watched the experts go from "global cooling" to "global warming," to climate change the latter selection gives all kinds of room for being wrong and attributing every earthquake, forest fire, drought, freeze, hurricane, flood, crop failure, and Central American country’s failing itsr people in economic growth due to climate change. It's like Silly Putty, just mold it into the shape you need. 

But my favorite illustration for the man-made climate change believers is the history of hottest days on record of our 50 states, from Alaska to the Florida Keys and Hawaii to Maine. The United States has approximately 3.8 million square miles, a pretty good-sized portion of our Earth. Here is what the data shows for the hottest day on record for our 50 states: Three of our states set their record before 1900, one occurred between 1900-1910, seven more by 1920, three more by 1929, a whooping 24 more by 1939, none in the 1940s, three in the 1950s, none in the 1960s, two in the 1970s, three in the 1980s and 1990s, and one from 2000 to now. 

Yes, only one in the last 21 years. By 1950 we had 38 of our 50 states achieve their hottest day on record. Over the past 70 years, only 12 states have reached their hottest day on record. Darn, global warming. 

Our Climate Change Hall of Fame candidates has been dramatically wrong, including Al Gore. But don't give up, President Joe Biden believes that climate change is an existential threat to the world and only green energy will save our planet costing the U.S. perhaps a trillion plus dollars. 

Oh, I forgot one small problem, China and India. They represent one third of the world's population and they are not about to join us on a suicide mission to join the Biden Administration in destroying their economies to please the Green New Deal. Their staunch belief in man-made climate change is no longer a cause full of erroneous predictions but has now evolved into an alarmist religion.