Experts Suck at Predicting the Future
Being an expert in a particular field doesn't make you smart about the big picture.
Being an expert in a particular field doesn't make you smart about the big picture.
The claim that human activity is triggering a climate apocalypse is based on expert opinion and best estimates.
Only 40% of Obama's electric cars are on the road. None meet the 150-mile-per gallon standard he promised.
Activists have predicted environmental catastrophe for decades. In addition to a poor track record, they share similar arguments, language, and metaphors.
Al Gore has been threatening us with environmental apocalypse for more than a quarter-century. Why should we believe him this time?
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele became an IPCC official in 2002. Two years later he got into bed with Greenpeace. Part 2 of 2.
The alleged climate crisis is just one more idiotic prediction about the future.
A chief scientist, a statesman, and an heir to a throne all say climate disaster is imminent. But their schedules don't agree.
From 1948 to the present, environmental activists have declared that the sky is falling.