By Mychal Massie: Nedra Pickler, writing for the AP wrote, "[Al] Gore...testified before House and Senate panels about a 'true planetary emergency' if Congress fails to act. He [added that] addressing the problem is a moral issue and should not be partisan or political." (Gore Implores Congress to Save Planet; 3/21/07). I may not be endowed with auditory enablers the size of a certain liberal presidential candidate from Illinois, but I know "hooey" when I hear it.I remember hearing the over-the-top prognosticators of doom and gloom dating back to my college days and before. I remember hearing the environmentalists predict a global drop in temperature was going to occur and create a new ice age. We are still waiting for Newsweek's 1975 article about the impending ice age entitled "The Cooling World" by Peter Gwynne, to become a reality – the article predicted the world could expect same to happen within 10 years of its date of writing. There was the acid rain scare, predictions of forest death in Central Europe, and other apocalyptic predictions, not the least of which were those outlined in William and Paul Paddock's book entitled "Famine-1975." They argued that, "by 1975, a disaster of unprecedented magnitude [would] face the world and famines greater than any in history [would] ravage the undeveloped nations." . . . [Read More]
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