Time Mag: ‘Climate Change Could Cause the Next Great Famine’ – – Time Mag’s Bryan Walsh ‘Hoping to Be The Next Paul Ehrlich’

Bryan Walsh Hoping to Be The Next Paul Ehrlich

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Forty years ago, we had the great prophet Ehrlich telling us that we were going to starve The Sydney Morning Herald  Now we have the prophet Walsh. Climate Change Could Cause the Next Great Famine | TIME.com By shutting down our industries and ability to produce food, these people hope to make their prophesies self-fulfilling.…

World Agricultural Output Continues to Rise, Despite Predictions of Decline

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports that world rice harvests for 2012/2013 were a record 469 million metric tons. Corn and wheat harvests were also strong, following record harvests for both grains during the 2011/2012 season. The USDA is now projecting world record harvests for corn, wheat, and rice for 2013/2014.

These numbers cap a 50-year trend of remarkable growth in world grain production. Since 1960, global wheat and rice production has tripled, and corn production is almost five times higher.
For decades, doomsayers predicted that food production would fail to keep up with the needs of humanity. In 1972, Donella Meadows and others of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published The Limits to Growth, which asked the question, “Do these rather dismal statistics mean that the limits of food production on the earth have already been reached?” Paul Ehrlich wrote in The End of Affluence in 1974, “Due to a combination of ignorance, greed and callousness, a situation has been created that could lead to a billion or more people starving to death.”

CNN features a Paul Ehrlich impersonator who says population control is the only way to control the weather

CNN features a Paul Ehrlich impersonator who says population control is the only way to control the weather

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Paul Ehrlich impersonator claims climate is being damaged since the “world’s poor masses, increasingly living in cities, manage to get cell phones. Whether the power is pirated or not, they plug in their chargers nightly.”
We don’t need another billion people

By Alan Weisman, Special to CNN
updated 3:42 PM EDT, Tue October 15, 2013

But first, check out the final minute of this CNN video explaining “where all the [climate] skepticism comes from” on the IPCC AR5. 

Weisman says the fastest and easiest way to limit carbon emissions is population control

Editor’s note: Alan Weisman’s new book is “Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?” (Little, Brown and Co). He is also the author of “The World Without Us,” a 2007 New York Times and international best-seller translated into 34 languages.

(CNN) — Charles Darwin once said that we can understand some parts of nature and the universe, but we can’t comprehend them.

For instance, take the fact that in the next 12 years, we’re projected to add another billion people. Since a billion seconds equal 31.7 years, at the rate people are arriving, we can’t even count them.

Or that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change now says that if we want to stay below a 2-degree Celsius (3.6-degree Fahrenheit) increase in average global temperature, we can’t emit any more carbon dioxide than what’s released by burning 1 trillion tons of carbon. But we’ve already used more than half our allotment.

Alan Weisman

There’s a direct link between those two hard-to-grasp figures — the more humans, the more carbon.

Every mile we drive, ours cars emit about a pound of carbon dioxide. The average U.S. driver clocks 12,000 miles per year, pushing six tons of carbon up his auto’s tailpipe. The quarter-billion cars in the United States expel 150 million tons a year. In the whole world, there are now well over 1 billion cars.

Those numbers are mind-boggling, even before we add the exhaust from our industries, power plants, and home heating and cooling. No, we can’t easily comprehend the sheer scale of the problem, let alone imagine what we can do about it. But maybe this helps to frame it.

According to the World Resources Institute, to stay on the safe side of a …

Oh No! ’2047 Is The New 2012!’ A new Mayan Calendar Deadline! ‘A climate plague affecting every living thing’ — AP: ‘Temps Go Off the Charts Around 2047′ – Climate Depot Round Up

[Update: Global warming activist scientists may not be the first to proclaim a doomsday year of 2047 as the end of time! — 2047 is the new 2012 — but global warming activists were beaten to Armageddon!]

Oh No! A new Mayan Calendar Deadline! ’2047 Is The New 2012!’ AP: ‘Temperatures Go Off the Charts Around 2047′ — ‘Starting in about a decade, Kingston, Jamaica, will probably be off-the-charts hot — permanently’ — ‘And eventually the whole world in 2047′ — AP’s Seth Borenstein: ‘To arrive at their projections, the researchers used weather observations, computer models and other data to calculate the point at which every year from then on will be warmer than the hottest year ever recorded over the last 150 years.’ — Doomsday dates for American cities: ‘By 2043, 147 cities — more than half of those studied — will have shifted to a hotter temperature regime that is beyond historical records…The 2047 date for the whole world is based on continually increasing emissions of greenhouse gases from the burning of coal, oil and natural gases. If the world manages to reduce its emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases, that would be pushed to as late as 2069, according to Mora.’ (So, if the world manages to reduce carbon emissions, we’d only gain 22 years before the world ends.)

World to roast by 2047, film at 11: ‘A new Vinerism has emerged: “Within my generation, whatever climate we were used to will be a thing of the past’

Real Science Quips: Borenstein : 2047 Is The New 2012

Did Bob Geldof get advance copy of 2047 end of times study!? Musician-turned-activist Bob Geldof: ‘All humans will die before 2030′ due to global warming! ‘We may not get to 2030. We need to address the problem of climate change urgently’

Meet Prof. Camilo Mora, the man who uses climate models to warn you of ‘The Coming Plague’ — ‘A climate plague affecting every living thing will likely start in 2020 in southern Indonesia, scientists warned Wednesday in the journal Nature’ — 

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Prof. Camilo Mora: ‘Within my generation, whatever climate we were used to will be a thing of the past.’

Camilo Mora

‘We don’t know what the impacts will be. If someone is about to fall off a three-story building you can’t predict their exact injuries but you know there will be injuries,” said Camilo

Paul Ehrlich to Congress in 1974: ‘If bad weather continues in the Midwest this year, and if the monsoon should fail this year in India, as it might, then I think you’re going to see the age of scarcity and many of the changes I’m talking about coming on next winter’

Here is areview from Amazon.com by Glenn Gallagher that typifies the book’s reviews:

I read the Population Bomb when it first came out, and believed it. Paul Ehrlich envisioned a horrific future with mass starvation of millions, if not billions of people by 1995. As we now know, Ehrlich was a Malthusian of the worst order, and almost single-handedly gave environmentalists a bad name. He is the epitome of an alarmist who has significantly harmed the ability of reasonable environmentalists to be taken seriously (The Boy Who Cried Wolf Syndrome). I’m sure Dr. Ehrlich meant well, but boy, was he wrong. This book should rest in peace, never to be read again. Or, perhaps it could be read as a lesson learned in how to avoid making extremist statements that make you and your colleagues look stupid.