Mature adults should already know how inaccurate predictions of the future are.
People who make predictions are often trying to get attention.
If the predictions are of a coming disaster, followed by telling people how to prevent that disaster, the people making the predictions are often trying to get attention and power.
Predictions of a coming climate catastrophe, whether warming or cooling, are made by people seeking attention and power -- people who have no idea what the future will be, but they know how to use a centuries old strategy to scare and control the general public.
"Certain signs, some of them visible to the layman as well as the scientist, indicate that we have been watching an ice age approach for some time without realizing what we are seeing."
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Betty Friedan, HARPERS
September 1958
"The Coming Ice Age"
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"The world's climatologists are agreed … Once the freeze starts, it will be too late."
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Douglas ColliganSCIENCE DIGEST
1975
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"Giving society cheap, abundant energy … would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun."
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Paul Ehrlich Federation of American Scientists Public Issue Report,
1978
"An Ecologist's Perspective on Nuclear Power"
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"To capture the public imagination, we have to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified dramatic statements and little mention of any doubts one may have. Each of has to decide the right balance between being effective, and being honest."
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Stephen Schneider, climate alarmist
DISCOVER magazine
October 1989
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"No matter if the science is all phony, there are still collateral environmental benefits" (to global warming policies) … "Climate change (provides) the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world."
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Christine StewartCanada Environment Minister
comments at a meeting with editorial board of Calgary Herald
published in the FINANCIAL POST
December 26, 1998
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Al Gore's poor grades in the only two undergraduate college science courses:
Natural Sciences 6 (Man's Place in Nature)
= Al's grade was a D
Natural Sciences 118
= Al's grade was a C+
Reported by the WASHINGTON POST,
in 2000
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Climate change "will claim hundreds of thousands of lives."
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Stephen Tindale, Greenpeace Executive Director
THE GUARDIAN
March 3, 2006