Earth day is coming up. It is a good time
to remind the public what the predictions
were 52 years ago

My too OP. I remember being indoctrinated about the coming ice age in elementary school...how people were going to have to live in underground shelters and talk to other communities around the world with short wave radios...I remember thinking it sounded like a fun adventure.

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary." (H.L.Mencken) The only thing Mencken never anticipated was the lickspittle media without whose willing complicity these "practical politicians" would have no power at all.

Looking forward to celebrating in our usuaL way - dancing around a couple of tires iburning n the fire pit in my back yard.

Between nuclear war and the coming Ice Age I spent most of my childhood in fear. I hate them for that. I was the kind of kid who took all of these things to heart and my biggest fear was for my family. Luckily, I went to a Catholic school where our teachers reminded us the God was the one in charge and His creation had already survived millions of years, and that He gave humanbeings the skill to figure it all out. I'm sure there are still kids who hear these horrible predictions, and, since they are a daily occurrence, I'm sure that there are many kids who are worriers like I was. I wish those who do everything "for the children" would realize that teaching and preaching all of this gloom, doom and hopelessness does as much, if not more harm, to kids than "Transphobia" or bullying. The constant fearmongering about everything is just cruel.

Ice age, acid rain, globull warming - now climate change, SARs, the rain forest, the whales, running out of oil, mad cow disease, duck and cover, AIDs, Covid, housing meltdown ... I'm sure there's a few I've missed.

I always make a effort to wish everybody “A Happy Ira Einhorn Day”. Ira Einhorn organized the very first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, in Boston, Ma. He was an early advocate of composting ( he went to prison for composting his girlfriend ).

Article left out all the families we survived. And the oceans rising. I remember when Denver was beach front property. And all that acid rain. Too bad we ran out of oil back in the 80s.

What happened to all the CO2 and terrible gasses from the volcanoes? Did they just dissipate into outer space? How did our earliest ancestors survive without air scrubbers on their millions of campfires? Cmon the global warming ruse has now been surpassed by the Covid scam.

#2 "Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one" HL Mencken I wonder what he would opine about sites such as this #4 see Environmentalist Michael Schellenberger's books. He had a course adjustment after seeing what the Climate Change alarmism was doing to his kids and their friends.

I still remember the Newsweek cover. Current environmental studies point to a cool down of earth's temps. According to recent studies of earth temperatures from ice core samples and other evidence, the earth is technically in an ice age right now. It's not of course like the ice age like the one hundreds of thousands of years ago, but in the overall history of earth's temps, it's cooler now than the earth has usually been in the past. The term climate change used by the environmental wackos, implies the earth is warming and is caused by man. Those in the know, believe earth's current cooler temps are caused by the lower output of the sun, and not by humans.

And everyone is dead now.

I was in college in 1970 for the first earth day. My science class talked about overpopulation. I see it as a time to plant trees and other plants. We need to be good stewards of the earth.....

I seem to remember a prediction by Algore that cities would flood, and fish would be swimming in the water on sidewalks.

#5 could write a Bob Dylan lyric! :)

Oh, yes, #5! The rainforests! Now the envirowackos don’t seem to care that the rainforests are being torn down so that the lithium in the ground below them can be mined for electric cars in order to “save the planet”. The ignorance of the left never fails to stun me.

Seems like stupidity survives like a cockroach. Like many others, I grew up in those halcyon days when a buck was still silver and the Commies were going to bomb us, etc. It was all bullsh-tuff. Being a cynic, I knew it was, too. #2 has the right quote - but forgets that Mencken was part of another era of lickspittle media, mainly newspapers. The antidote is to question, or at least be cynical. He thought that individual journalists would interpret events in a responsible way to "entertain" as well as inform. Well, isn't that what we have today? Lacking "responsibility", of course.

The only prediction that seems to be approaching reality is driving up to a pump and ordering a fill up, only to be told there isn't any left. But only for entirely different reasons.

The sunspot activity runs in 11 year cycles. The last four cycles have had fewer and fewer sunspots, fairly dramatically down. It is very clear if you look at the data plots. I had started paying attention to this more than 40 years ago, so I have seen this decrease in activity developing. And I have had decades to study what fewer sunspots might mean....as I watched it develop relentlessly. And, sunspots is one of the very, very few observations of the sun or any other natural phenomena that we have thousands of years of reliable records about. In many different countries, over the last thousand and more years, various scientifically minded people decided that it was interesting to write down how many of these "spots" appeared on the sun each year. And, if some local leader started recording these observations, many times he was able to enlist assistants that carried on the work, often for several lifetimes or more in an individual record before that observing record "petered out". Some of the different records overlap in time, and where they do, correlate well, validating that the observations were pretty accurate. Because of these overlapping records from various different countries and cultures over a period of around 1000 years, it is our most legitimate "long term", accurate record of any sort of earth or astronomical observation. Temperature measurement only became possible a few hundred years ago, the thermometer was invented in the early 1700s. Prior to that....only "freezing weather" could be accurately noted as a temperature. "Hot weather" or "cold weather"....couldn't be measured in any real way. Only above and below freezing of water. In the middle 1600s up to the early 1700s, observations show that sunspots became extremely rare. This is called the Maunder Minimum, and is extremely well documented as factual. At that same time, the weather, at least in Europe and North America, where it was well recorded, turned very decidedly colder than it had been. Remember that Leif Ericson put a colony on Greenland, and called it that because it was all green and lush when he visited in about the year 1000. Viking farmer/herders lived there for hundreds of years. But by the late 1600s, it was no longer possible to survive on Greenland with the simple herding lifestyle of that times. Greenland was so cold as to be nearly uninhabitable. There were "Frost Fairs" on the frozen solid Thames River in London, with vendor's huts out on the ice for a month or two. The Thames almost has never frozen in the 20th century, and certainly not enough to support vendors and recreation for months. The sunspots are telling us that we may well be in for a cooling cycle, perhaps like the Little Ice Age which caused crop failures across northern Europe, and starvation in many countries. In the winter of 1740-41, between 13% and 20% of the people in Ireland died due to the cold weather wiping out their crops. The LIA didn't really end until about the late 1700 or so. Things have been recovering since then. We may be better able to adapt to this possible coming cold cycle now than we were 200 - 300 years ago, but I wonder. Global warming would be a good thing, more green plants, better crop yields, less energy needed for heating. If we get a serious cooling cycle like the Little Ice Age (note that I said "IF"), things may be a lot more unpleasant than now, as they were in the Little Ice Age. The LIA stopped Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and did a lot of other historic things, if you look at the history, and note what the weather was doing to affect it.

Earth Day? I think I'll gas up my car, an SUV, natch, and drive aimlessly around the beautiful sites in my state until I use up the whole tank.

Tell you what I’ve learned. We have two seasons. Climate change (use to be winter) Global warming ( use to be summer). And if you give all your money to democrats we can change these “seasons”. I have yet to be told what new seasons we would get