So Saturday’s “March for Science” was kind of a dud. Organizers had high hopes for the rallies, timed to coincide with Earth Day 2017 but, as William M. Briggs at the Stream relates ~

(They) lit the fuse of what they thought was going to be an enormous stick of dynamite. Wait until you hear the boom, honey! But what they got was tiny pop from a damp ladyfinger […]
 
In one of the satellite marches in Los Angeles, a good handful of people showed up, one carrying the sign, “Make wind, not warming.” Flatulence jokes in a science march? Where’s the respect?

Could the lack of enthusiasm mean that people realize that the hysteria over “climate change” really isn’t science? That the alarmism movement is factually-challenged? That today’s science settlers were yesterday’s prophets of environmental doom – Nostradamus wannabes, whose predictions completely failed to materialize?
 
At the very first Earth Day in 1970, we were assured the end of life as knew it was imminent. Lest anyone is tempted to fall for their hooey this time around, it’s worthwhile to recall the ridiculous claims of 47 years ago. Last year when Earth Day rolled around FEE (Foundation for Economic Education) reminded us just how far off the mark last century’s eco-fear mongers really were ~ 18 Spectacularly Wrong Prophecies from the First Earth Day.
 
There was Harvard biologist George Wald ~

“(C)ivilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”

 
Sen. Gaylord Nelson, paraphrasing the secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, Dr. S. Dillon Ripley ~

(I)n 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”

 
The perpetually-progressive New York Times ~

“Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”

And Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor ~

“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”

 
But by far the worst of the climate apocalypse prophets was Paul Ehrlich, author of the panic-inducing – and now roundly discredited – book, “The Population Bomb.” Written in 1968, he grimly proclaimed that human population would soon outstrip the ability of the Earth to support it. We were doomed! ~

The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate…

 

 
Nearly 50 years later, we’re still here – and the global population has more than doubled (from 3.5 to more than 7 billion). But with the Left it’s always SSDD. The narrative may vary, but the objective remains the same; keep the sheeple in the dark and preferably panicked, because they’re so much easier to corral and manipulate that way.

 
Don’t play along folks, just ignore the science settlers. Here’s the truth for non-sheeple – from some real rocket scientists ~ The Right Climate Stuff

 
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Related:
The March That Trampled Science ~

The march was never about science. It’s about political activism masquerading as science […]
 
If science were an academic popularity contest, then one side of this issue is currently winning. But science clearly isn’t that. At its heart science is radically undemocratic. It’s the pursuit of correct answers regardless of popularity.

 
What the NYT Didn’t Learn from Paul Ehrlich’s Failure ~

Stewart Brand, a former disciple of Ehrlich’s, asks: “How many years do you have to not have the world end to decide that it didn’t end because that reason was wrong?”

 
Phony climate-warming threats mask the real crisis: demographic winter
 
Love this headline – and pic – from the People’s Cube ~ The Popular Front at the Barricades for Science 😀 ~