There's lots of fun stuff in old newspapers. I remember reading an article from several years ago online about how we incorrectly assume that no one knew anything in the past and we're all discovering new things now, and how ancient civilizations were far more advanced than we give them credit for. It acted like this was a novel way of thinking. Then a few months later while working on a project with old newspapers, I found a newspaper from around 1900 (give or take 10 years, I don't remember the exact year) where someone was saying the exact same thing.
I know this will be a foreign concept to most on this site but let's try to use a critical thinking here.
Doomsday predictions such as this really have been around since the industrial revolution. Some people cannot cope with progress and always look for the dark side of everything. There is not nearly enough space here to list and refute even a fraction of the crazy predictions of yesteryear.
Let's just look at this one logically; If the alarmists have been yelping about global warming for more than a century and we are all still alive and nothing, and I mean NOTHING that they have said would happen in the last 100+ years has happened, dontcha think maybe there might NOT actually be something to it after all? What this is is more proof that global warming is bullshit.
How are you not feeling the effects of global warming and climate change though? We're going through the coldest winters and hottest summers the world has ever seen. Ice caps are melting, water levels are rising. Islands like the Maldives are already inhabitable. The effects we were supposed to see in centuries are already apparent and that should be alarming because global warming is affecting the climate at a much higher scale than we thought. Yet, there are people like you who sit inside the room while its raining outside and say 'it's not raining because I'm not wet.'
No guest, we are not going through the worst of any weather the world has seen. Weather and climate data has only been kept for a little more than a century, and we are not even seeing the worst in that short time frame. I mean, are you really thick enough to think the weather patterns today are worse than any of the previous ice ages or warming periods? Just how many of the once lush ecosystems in the world that are now barren deserts changed in the last hundred years because of industrialization? I'm sure you're far too young and indoctrinated to realize this but 40 years ago we were told we were experiencing global cooling and had ten years to fix whatever they claimed was causing it or we would be dead. 30 years ago we were told we had ten years to fix global warming. 20 years ago we were told we'd be dead in ten years. 10 years ago we were told we'd be dead in ten years. Guess what? Ain't nothin at all changed.
You can't compare ice ages or warming periods to global warming. Ice ages are mainly caused by the tilt of the Earth's axis. Same with warming periods. The weather we're experiencing is not due to a tilt of the axis. Also just because scientists in the past were wrong doesn't mean we shouldn't listen to todays scientists. That's what science is, you learn from your mistakes and if you're wrong you learn why and what the truth is. Sure I don't believe humans will be dead within 50 years if we keep using fossile fuels. However there will be a definite environmental change. One we're already seeing. Certain animals and plant species are dying because their environments are becoming more acidic due emissions. The polar caps are definitely melting, making the habitats for polar bears smaller. We won't burn to death, but we will be more crowded as water levels rise and starve as we kill off the crops and animals we feed on.
Spoken like a true moron. How in hell can you say that you can't compare climate change with climate change? The Earth's climate has changed many, many times in the past and will in the future. The earth rotates on it's axis. It's axis wobbles. The wobbly earth circles the sun. The sun's output goes through highs and lows. All of these things are empirical fact. All of these things effect climate. There is nothing that humans can do to cause or prevent these natural changes. The fact that you children have absolutely no concept of logic or reason, have no critical thinking skills, and blindly accept whatever pablum you are fed by those with an agenda while not only ignoring contrary facts, but actively fighting against them boggles my mind. And the fact that you are the future of this world, frankly, frightens the absolute fuck out of me.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/1912-article-global-warming/
Doomsday predictions such as this really have been around since the industrial revolution. Some people cannot cope with progress and always look for the dark side of everything. There is not nearly enough space here to list and refute even a fraction of the crazy predictions of yesteryear.
Let's just look at this one logically; If the alarmists have been yelping about global warming for more than a century and we are all still alive and nothing, and I mean NOTHING that they have said would happen in the last 100+ years has happened, dontcha think maybe there might NOT actually be something to it after all? What this is is more proof that global warming is bullshit.
I know it's just a YouTube video, but he cites all his sources so it's worth the watch.