[meteorite-list] Alarmists are not new.

From: GREG LINDH <geeg48_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:58:41 -0700
Message-ID: <BAY118-DAV25D4A9D2814C88F853C72C9190_at_phx.gbl>

       Hi Sterling,

    The posing of my question as to what happened to Ehrlich was only to
point out that his relevance as far as predicting apocalyptic scenarios was
and is nonexistent. The question was mostly rhetorical. I'm aware that his
specialty is butterflies. He would do well to stick to his area of
expertise. He should stay away from "end of days" stuff.
    "Learned people" are now painting similar dark scenarios concerning
global warming. Maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong....only time will
tell.
    My main gripe is that the "global warming intelligentsia", just like
Ehrlich, are only willing to consider their side. As a matter of fact, for
them, there is no other side. It's their way or the highway. The fact is,
there are other sides to this argument. There are scientists who doubt the
claims of the politically correct, "global warming is caused by man" people.
    If I'm to be convinced that man is the cause for a rise in current
temperatures, it will take a lot more than an "inconvenient crock" by Al
Gore.
    See, I readily admit that I don't have all the answers. I just happen
to hate to death political correctness like you wouldn't believe. I think
so much of today's science is driven by what happens to be "in" at the
moment and all contrary views need to be suppressed.
    That would seem to lead to really bad science.
    That's the way it seems to me as a nonscientist.


    Greg Lindh




----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net>
To: "GREG LINDH" <geeg48 at msn.com>; "meteorite-list"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Alarmists are not new.


> Hi, Greg,
>
> Dr. Ehrlich is alive and well and on the faculty
> of Stanford, which he has been since 1959. He is
> head of the Center for Conservation Biology there
> (he's a entomologist, you know, specializing in
> butterflies).
>
> Well, here. Check it out yourself...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich
>
> He could have been completely right when
> he wrote "The Population Bomb" in 1968. There
> were no great results coming from old or new
> food yield genetic technologies despite decades
> of promises, promises. Then it exploded in the
> 70's and continues to do so. Whoops!
>
> He did not believe that technology could get
> you out of all difficulties; some he thought, you
> were just stuck with; you had to accept limitations.
> Of course, he knew people didn't want to hear that,
> but he thought that was because it was an inconvenient
> truth people didn't want to face. In the case of his
> cause, it just appears simply to have not been true.
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "GREG LINDH" <geeg48 at msn.com>
> To: "meteorite-list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 9:12 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Alarmists are not new.
>
>
>
> To all,
>
> In view of all the talk about global warming, does anyone remember
> Paul
> Ehrlich? You know....the great "authority" who wrote the book, "The
> Population Bomb" in the late 1960s. The world was up in arms due to his
> book. There was going to be *mass famine* all over the earth by the late
> 1970s or by the mid-1980s at the latest because of the "inevitable"
> explosion of the world's population. According to Ehrlich, nothing could
> stop it.
> What happened to Ehrlich's vision of our planet?
> What ever happened to Ehrlich?
> Funny how the absolutely "fool proof science" of today is really not
> that fool proof at all.
>
> Greg Lindh
>
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