Paul Ehrlich joins the Royal Society, rants on Twitter

How deeply ironic that “ehrlich” in German means “honest” !

A lot of people don’t think that highly of any organisation with ‘Royal’ in its name…so no surprises here!

He’s quite right on the record. Ehrlich simply retweeted @wunderground https://twitter.com/wunderground/status/300253893315661824 which copied the NOAA report
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SXUS71 KGYX 091832
RERPWM
RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAY ME
132 PM EST SAT FEB 09 2013
…RECORD STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL SET AT PORTLAND ME…
A RECORD SNOWFALL OF 31.9 INCHES HAS SET AT PORTLAND ME TODAY. THIS
BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 27.1 SET ON JANUARY 17 AND 18 1979. THIS
MAKES IT THE GREATEST SNOWSTORM ON RECORD AT PORTLAND ME…AND
ADDITIONAL ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/view/national.php?prod=RER
REPLY: I thought he was talking about Boston, which has no new record. Lots of expectations that Boston would set a new record the week leading up to it. – Anthony

“There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.” –Lord Acton.
Obviously I’m not talking about Ehrlich.

Apart from the Royal Society, you would find such spirit only in the lowest level discussions on the lowest level message boards. But nice to see them running our Societies.

Wattch CNN and get really stupid!
Asteroid caused by “Global Warming” ?

So Paul Ehrlich is pushing the idea of Foresight Intelligence on all of us as a way to plan and shape the future. All the while showing no interest in the lessons of the past. http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/all-that-is-solid-melts-into-air-but-does-it-really/
If you’ve ever wondered why the UN agencies keep talking about a Knowledge Society while simultaneously showing no respect for genuine knowledge, there’s your answer. It’s not a good sign I used one of Uncle Karl’s most famous hyperbolic passages to make the point.
And I would assert that the “unifying central cultural thought for humanity” is in fact Sustainability. We may not believe it but the betting is our kids will soon enough by making fostering these beliefs at a deep emotional level the focus of much of the curricula. And it will be online so it will be hard to see.
Great cartoon Josh especially as I have to read so much of this nonsense.
If we are remaking civilization based on new values, why on Earth should they be the Ehrlichs’ values?

Gad it is almost as bad as (gasp) 1978. We all know what the temperature anomaly was then.

You may dismiss Ehrlich all you want but as a long time associate and previous colleague of Obama’s science adviser John Holdren, his views have a direct hotline to the President.
When Obama says he will do what is necessary to save the planet for our children, you can rest assured that “those who know what’s best for us” have strong beliefs and will stop at nothing to achieve their ends.
Where planetary survival is concerned, the end justifies the means. The “morons” and “deniers” are likely to be the first to be swept aside in the coming “new order”.

Um, “morons” is a term NOT intended to describe the man’s supporters, who might qualify under my own (conventional) definition.

The man’s a raving lunatic.

I want some of what Paul Ehrlich is smoking. I read the tweets and he is a disgrace to the scientific community. How is it that such FAILURE in predictions about the future is rewarded?
CAGW is a scam. Paul Ehrlich puts Malthus to shame.

One of his many failures in prophecy was the prediction in 1980 that by 2000 50% of all species on earth would extinct and by 2015 ALL would be extinct (presumably including Erhlich himself).
2 years to go and just, ooo , say 10 million species to go.

I thinkwe have a new word in our lexicon. ehrlich (vrb.) ‘to; froth at the mouth over a written media form , e.g. What the hell was that twitter rant about, he erliched all over the net , it was disgusting’

Typo:
“Ehrlich has no shame…”

The disasters predicted have actually happened. Billions of people have led lives that were nasty, brutish and short. When humans were lucky to make it out of the womb and the womb was lucky to make it to a second fruition, people didn’t need to follow Ehrlich. They just lived with the low consumption and low resources that Ehrlich recommends. It’s not that they did not populate like crazy – only modern societies with with a dominant middle class neglect to populate – it’s just that everybody got to die early. Our Green Betters, so in love with easeful death, look away from this Great Contradiction: poverty is the populator.
Of course, Ehrlich and our Green Betters have emotional reasons to reject mass prosperity. People who can be grateful for prosperity will want it for others. Self-loathers are convinced that there is no point in prosperity because it has not served to gratify or fulfil them to the extent they wish to be gratified and fulfilled (which is like trying to fill the Grand Canyon with hen’s teeth).
Here’s an idea: Use Earth Hour to cultivate gratitude!
When the lights go down, contemplate the marvel of rooms and buildings and streets flooded with light at the flick of a switch. Contemplate the choices given to you by an era of abundant, controlled light and energy. Without noise or odour or fumes or hazard of fire. Available instantly through pressure applied by a fingertip.
Make it a private contemplation rather than an argument. For you can do little for those who cannot love the things they are unwilling to do without – beyond one hour of fashion-dictated deprivation. Use Earth Hour to cleanse your own little space of that great infection of our times: Global Ingratitude.

Jimbo, the Royal Society’s new motto is “screw you, peasants”.

John M says:
February 10, 2013 at 12:22 pm
Record snow in Portland, ME?
Whew, good thing.
Why, just last year…
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the good old BDN.
great for starting fires, liberal rags burn so well 🙂
glad I stopped paying for them years ago,

Let’s not be down on Royal Societies in general, the one here in NZ (of which I am a member) has very nice hard-working scientists and not a mad tweeter among them that I am aware of.

Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb opened with an anecdote of Ehrlich visiting India. He is aghast at the swarming poor, including so many children.
This is the hidden racism and classism of us liberals.
In Ehrlich’s view, and the view shared by many of us elitist intellectual white people, is that these countries with growing populatons of darker-skinned poor people need to be managed before they wreck evreything for those of us who are deserving.
This line of thinking has had a very big impact upon us educated Westerners. We have no problem with The U.S. and a few other Western, white countries jumping into the business of most every other coultry on the planet and pushing population control, tied as a necessary condition to international development assistance, such as intl development loans.
Here is the pattern of United Nations Population Fund, and Planned Parenthood International: jump in and advise a nation that economic prosperity requires nation-wide population control, then develop demography infrastructure, then tie economic aid to the country hitting population goals.
Once the country buys into this idealogy, they are hooked. They are part of the international society, and have over-ruled their local culture and sovereignty.
Now, many of these countries are seeing two unintended consequences. The first is a population deficit, where there are or will soon be too few working-age adults to support the aging population born before Ehrlich and his fellow meddlers (Hilary Clinton, etc.). Those born before this major population control push are in their golden years. The second is that in some cultures, the combination of male and female status/roles plus significant limits on naturally desired family size has led to sex-selective abortion and infanticide. A horrible unintended consequence. Yet we cannot see this as emerging from the internationally introduced population control efforts.
You can look back in the birth ratios of these countries and see clearly that, while these countries may have had quite clear entrenched gender roles, the birth ratio emerges only after we white, educated, liberal Westerners show up and start meddling.
This first began possibly in Japan, in the post-WWII occupation. MacArthur appointed William Draper to develop a census / develop nation-wide demography in Japan; our goal to have them control their population was part of that reconstruction.
Draper was a prominent Ehrlich-style population control advocate:
“I wear several hats: I am Honorary Chairman of the Population Crisis Committee here in Washington; I’m on the Governing Body of the International Planned Parenthood Federation; and am Honorary Vice-Chairman of the Planned Parenthood movement in this country; also by President Nixon’s appointment. I represent the United States each two years, or whenever meetings are held, of the United Nations Population Commission. Our last meeting was in November 1971 in Geneva, the first two weeks of November. In general, my work with the Population Crisis Committee, means dealing with our own Government, and other governments, and with private and international organizations interested and involved in the population problem. I travel a great deal.” -Draper, 1972.
Also in Japan at the time, at MacArthur’s request, was a young statistician trained under Shewhart, named Deming. Yes, the quality guru. Go google “MacArthur” and “Deming.”
Deming knew statistical sampling first to achieve quality control for Bell Labs as the telephone network was built, with far-flung and buried components that are difficult to replace when failure occurs, then in agricultural investigations. This smapling knowledge brought up Deming’s name when MacArthur wanted a statistician to help rebuild Japan in the image acceptable to us.
i have not yet located Deming’s views on that role. However, it is known that Deming drifted from his designated role as demographer (you cannot manage what you cannot count) to business developer, obviously the more fruitful path for post-WWII Japan to have followed. This quirk of fate may leadingly be responsible for Japan’s astounding post-WWII success.
We have succeeded in getting Japan, and many countries since, to follow our Western ideal of not having so many children. Japan has had very high abortion rates: http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/ab-japan.html
-Note at that link that records begin just post-WWI, and abortion rates spring upwards from that point.
Many other nations follow this pattern, witrh those organizations mentioned in the Draper quote showing up in some country, then demography getting established, then family size dropping, abortion rates rising, and often sex-selective abortion and infanticide appearing as unintended consequences.
This includes China, where International Planned Parenthood Federation was on the ground as China developed their late-1970s one-child policy, and the China Planned Parenthood Federation was formally established in the early 1980s.
Here is a good link: http://www.ewtn.com/library/PROLENC/ENCYC050.HTM
“One highly sensitive NSC document entitled “Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests” was written in 1974 and was only declassified in late 1990. This document served as the foundation for our country’s anti-natalist population philosophy.
The document states that “Commitment to population stabilization will only take place when leaders of less-developed countries (LDCs) clearly see the negative impact of unrestricted population growth and believe it is possible to deal with this question through governmental action.”
Much of this information is explored and published by Christian pro-life advocates who have unraveled this relatively unrecognized aspect of recent history. A great portion of WUWT readers likely are not devout Bible-believing Christians, and so can dismiss this argument that Ehrlich and his ilk led to China’s one-child policy and its gruesome sex-selective abortion emphasis.
But the truth is out there. Many of us educated people choose not to see this Western meddling imperialism, and we are happy to blame sex-selctive abortion and infanticide on those foreign cultures.
But the evidence is there. And there are people around who remember the old days, before the international poulation control efforts got rolling. As with abolition, it is devout Christians on the sharp end of this controversy. I point this out mainly to disarm critics who might be hesitant to explore this topic, when a fair portion of historical and factual information is from steeply Christian individuals and organizations, rather than from being exposed from some PhD’s dissertation.
This juxtaposition is uncomfortable for many of us educated, modern believers in “women’s rights,” and believers in the pro-choice point of view, and it can be difficult for some of us to hear that the “good guys” might actually be the “bad guys,” and that the religious-zealot “bad guys” might actually be the “good guys.”
I find it surprising that anyone listens to Ehrlich, but the overpopulation scam is still in full play, even as the global warming scam starts to unravel.

With all his failures, you’d think Ehrlich would pause and reflect a bit on his beliefs. I’m trying to work out why he listens to himself.

thelastdemocrat says:
February 10, 2013 at 7:38 pm
As with abolition, it is devout Christians on the sharp end of this controversy. I point this out mainly to disarm critics who might be hesitant to explore this topic, when a fair portion of historical and factual information is from steeply Christian individuals and organizations, rather than from being exposed from some PhD’s dissertation.
This juxtaposition is uncomfortable for many of us educated, modern believers in “women’s rights,” and believers in the pro-choice point of view, and it can be difficult for some of us to hear that the “good guys” might actually be the “bad guys,” and that the religious-zealot “bad guys” might actually be the “good guys.”
^ This.
Christians, while disliked by many these days, see many important things that the highly educated fail to see. Just remember that the majority of them are on our side against those who would like to take our freedoms and our last remnants of democracy away.

The huge amount of snow in Portland is being pointed to as a sign of global warming. Fine.

Paul Ehrlich tweet
#Climate disruption. Remember this when denier morons claim snow proves no warming. Just the opposite. #greed. http://bit.ly/Xiwu7G

My BIG problem with these people is that they point to record snow as a sign of global warming AND a lack of snow as a sign of global warming. Soooooo, if Scotland has record snow should we blame global warming? If yes, then what about a lack of snow? They want to have their cake and eat it, yet we are the morons.
FLASHBACK!

Climate Impacts on the Winter Tourism Economy in the United States
The winter sports industry is deeply dependent upon predictable, heavy snowfall, but climate change is expected to contribute to warmer winters, reduced snowfall, and shorter snow seasons. The estimated $12.2 billion U.S. ski and snowmobile winter sports industry has already felt the direct impact of decreased winter snowpack and rising average winter temperatures.
http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/climate-impacts-winter-tourism.asp

FLASHBACK!

The Spokesman-Review – Mar 8, 2006
Global warming could hurt Northwest skiing
Mount Hood Meadows outside of Portland could see rain instead of snow about seven times more often during the winter.
http://tinyurl.com/cbdr5g7

FLASHBACK!

VailDaily – December 3, 2009
Ski resorts fight global warming; Utah gov unsure
SALT LAKE CITY — Ski resorts across the country used the Thanksgiving weekend to jump start their winter seasons, but with every passing year comes a frightening realization: If global temperatures continue to rise, fewer and fewer resorts will be able to open for the traditional beginning of ski season.
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20091203/NEWS/912039984/1078&ParentProfile=1062

FLASHBACK!

npr – June 10, 201112
Thinning Snows In Rockies Tied To Global Warming
The snowpack in the Rocky Mountains has been gradually thinning over much of the past century, and a new study attributes much of that to global warming.
This year is a notable exception — unusually heavy snowfall throughout the Rockies this winter has caused a lot of flooding and water-management headaches downstream. But taking the long view, the trend is toward less and less snow.
http://www.npr.org/2011/06/10/137088287/thinning-snows-in-rockies-tied-to-global-warming

FLASHBACK!

CBS News – AP/ February 11, 2009
Global warming is threatening the world’s ski resorts, with melting at lower altitudes forcing the sport to move higher and higher up mountains, according to a new United Nations study.
Downhill skiing could disappear altogether at some resorts, while at others, a retreating snow line will cut off base villages from their ski runs as soon as 2030, warned the report by the U.N. Environment Program.
“Climate change is happening now. We can measure it,” said Klaus Toepfer, executive director of the U.N. program. “This study shows that it is not just the developing world that will suffer.”
The report, released Tuesday, focused on ski resorts in Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Australia, the United States and Canada, using temperature forecasts produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body of some 2,000 scientists.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/03/tech/main586554.shtml

Ahhhh, bonny Scotland

Guardian – 3 December 2003
On the rocks: the grim forecast for winter sports as global warming increases
Glencoe, Scotland’s oldest ski resort will be closed this winter after the company running the lifts suspended operations for commercial reasons brought about by a lack of snow. Warmer temperatures in recent winters have seen all of Scotland’s five ski areas struggle, but Glencoe, which was the first commercial centre of its kind in the UK, has suffered the most and many observers do not expect it to reopen.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/dec/03/research.sciencenews

But, what’s this about Glencoe?

Guardian – 26 February 2010
Glencoe tops ski resort snow charts
“Historically, Scottish resorts have sometimes struggled for snow, but the past three or four years have been exceptionally good with snow lasting well into the spring.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/26/skiing-snow-reports-glencoe

And so on…………………………Snowfall is now just a thing of the past.
They really, really do think we are stupid morons.