Ever since the beginning of the earth, global warming and ice ages have been going on and off. At first, it was just a wasteland, while the tectonic plates moved over a period of time, volcanoes began to form a spew heat, a.k.a. carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. As the heat built up, it eventually condensed so much, that it began, to rain. It rained, and rained, and rained for hundreds of thousands of years. It rained so much, that the deepest crevices in the earth's surface filled with water completely.

With all the greenhouse gases gone, only a fraction of the heat trapped in the thick layer of the gases actually stayed near the earth. The sudden cold quickly froze and plunged the entire world into an ice age. Over another long period, volcanoes again added gases to the earth's atmosphere. You can guess what happened...

Currently, we don't get huge rains, or entire world ice-ages, but we do get ice-ages. Ice-ages these past centuries have been very small and quite unnoticable. Global warming, unfortunately, is a bit of the opposite. Though global warming is very uncomfortable and irritating, it is in no way humans' fault. We produce about .25% of the greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere each year. That's not even one percent. Even if we did stop polluting altogether, (though there is no need to), global warming would not stop in any way, shape, or form. It wouldn't even slow down. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, we can do as humans will ever stop one of the most ancient cycles in the history of the universe.

The bulk of the liberal intellectual community automatically favors any expansion of government power so long as it is advertised as a way to protect individuals from big bad corporations, relieve poverty, protect the environment or promote "equality". Increasingly, each of these elements in present in most environmentalist rhetoric.

In the early 20th century environmentalists predicted global starvation due to drought and global cooling by the 1980s.

A good solution, such as nuclear and hydro-electric power, is opposed by environmentalists.

Another prediction made in 1969: "Hundreds of millions of people will perish in smog diasters in New York and Los Angeles, the oceans will die of DDT poisoning by 1979 and the US life expectancy will drop to 42 years due to cancer epidemics)
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