{"id":327792,"date":"2024-05-11T10:02:01","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T08:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=327792"},"modified":"2024-05-11T10:02:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T08:02:03","slug":"alarmism-now-and-then-modern-malthusianism-in-its-6th-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=327792","title":{"rendered":"Alarmism Now \u2013 and Then (Modern Malthusianism in its 6th Decade)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"482\" data-attachment-id=\"327794\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=327794\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0CR-17.jpg?fit=1778%2C1184&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1778,1184\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Michael Goetz&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1536013791&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0CR-17\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0CR-17.jpg?fit=723%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0CR-17.jpg?resize=723%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-327794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0CR-17.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0CR-17.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0CR-17.jpg?resize=768%2C511&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0CR-17.jpg?resize=1536%2C1023&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0CR-17.jpg?resize=1200%2C799&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0CR-17.jpg?w=1778&amp;ssl=1 1778w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/0CR-17.jpg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/climate-exaggeration\/alarmism-now-and-a-half-century-ago\/\">Master Resource<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Robert Bradley Jr.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMany people think that the threat of \u2018global warming\u2019 arose only towards the end of the twentieth century\u2026. Climate change, either natural or anthropogenic, has been discussed from the classical age onwards, evolving from the expected benefits of climate engineering to today\u2019s fear of global disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 Hans von Storch and Nico Stehr, \u201cClimate Change in Perspective,\u201d&nbsp;<em>Nature<\/em>, June 8, 2000, p. 615<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is all gloom, what Michael Mann cautioned against as \u201cdoomism.\u201d<strong>[1]&nbsp;<\/strong>Such alarm has been the mainstream narrative\u2014and wrong\u2014since the 1960s. And warnings about how exaggeration can backfire (<em>New York Times<\/em>: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.masterresource.org\/climate-exaggeration\/in-climate-debate-exaggeration-is-a-pitfall-nyt-article-revisited\/\">In Climate Debate, Exaggeration Is a Pitfall<\/a>\u201c) have been thrown to the wind in the futile, costly pursuit of Net Zero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This post presents the climate alarm quotations of today with the quotations from Paul Ehrlich and the Club of Rome in the late 1960s\/early 1970s for historical perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Guardian (May 8, 2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We begin with&nbsp;<em>The Guardian US<\/em>&nbsp;story by environmental editor Damian Carrington, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/ng-interactive\/2024\/may\/08\/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair\">We Asked 380 Top Climate Scientists What They Felt about the Future \u2026 They Are Terrified, but Determined to Keep Fighting. Here\u2019s What They Said<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/article\/2024\/may\/08\/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature\">An exclusive Guardian survey of hundreds of the world\u2019s leading climate experts<\/a>&nbsp;has found that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>77% of respondents believe global temperatures will reach at least 2.5C above pre-industrial levels, a devastating degree of heating;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>almost half \u2013 42% \u2013 think it will be more than 3C;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>only 6% think the 1.5C limit will be achieved.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So the Guardian contacted every available lead author or review editor of all IPCC reports since 2018. Almost half replied \u2013 380 out of 843, a very high response rate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quotations in Article<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSometimes it is almost impossible not to feel hopeless and broken. After all the flooding, fires, and droughts of the last three years worldwide, all related to climate change, and after the fury of Hurricane Otis in Mexico, my country, I really thought governments were ready to listen to the science, to act in the people\u2019s best interest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have seen these extreme events happening everywhere. There is not a safe place for anyone. I find it infuriating, distressing, overwhelming\u2026. I got a depression.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2013 Ruth Cerezo-Mota (National Autonomous University of Mexico)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m relieved that I do not have children, knowing what the future holds.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anonymous expert<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt looks really bleak, but I think it\u2019s realistic. It\u2019s just the fact that we\u2019re not taking the action that we need to.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cScientists are human: we are also people living on this Earth, who are also experiencing the impacts of climate change, who also have children, and who also have worries about the future. We did our science, we put this really good report together and \u2013 wow \u2013 it really didn\u2019t make a difference on the policy. It\u2019s very difficult to see that, every time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lisa Schipper, University of Bonn<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the global south. The world\u2019s response to date is reprehensible \u2013 we live in an age of fools.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">African scientist (anonymous)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRunning away from [unescapable reality] is impossible and will only increase the challenges of dealing with the consequences and implementing solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joeri Rogelj, Imperial College, London<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHumanity is heading towards destruction. We\u2019ve got to appreciate, help and love each other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scientist, Pacific Island nation (anonymous)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is the biggest threat humanity has faced, with the potential to wreck our social fabric and way of life. It has the potential to kill millions, if not billions, through starvation, war over resources, displacement. None of us will be unaffected by the devastation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James Renwick, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am scared mightily \u2013 I don\u2019t see how we are able to get out of this mess.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tim Benton, Chatham House<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMost people do not realise how big these [tipping point] risks are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wolfgang Cramer, Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Ecology.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c[Climate change] is an existential threat to humanity and [lack of] political will and vested corporate interests are preventing us addressing it. I do worry about the future my children are inheriting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lorraine Whitmarsh, University of Bath, UK<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe tacit calculus of decision-makers, particularly in the Anglosphere \u2013 US, Canada, UK, Australia \u2013 but also Russia and the major fossil fuel producers in the Middle East, is driving us into a world in which the vulnerable will suffer, while the well-heeled will hope to stay safe above the waterline\u2026. Civil disobedience [is the next step].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stephen Humphreys, London School of Economics<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe enormity of the problem is not well understood. So there will be environmental refugees by the millions, extreme weather events escalating, food and water shortages, before the majority accept the urgency in reducing emissions \u2013 by which time it will be too late.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ralph Sims, Massey University, New Zealand<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI feel resigned to disaster as we cannot separate our love of bigger, better, faster, more, from what will help the greatest number of people survive and thrive. Capitalism has trained us well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US scientist (anonymous)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2026 our societies will be forced to change and the suffering and damage to lives and livelihoods will be severe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael Meredith, at the British Antarctic Survey<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Paul Ehrlich: 1960s Forward<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A half century ago,&nbsp;<em>the Malthusian mainstream, the establishment, was equally alarmed<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAt the moment we cannot predict what the overall climatic results will be of our using the atmosphere as a garbage dump. We do know that very small changes in either direction in the average temperature of the Earth could be very serious. With a few degrees of cooling, a new ice age might be upon us, with rapid and drastic effects on the agricultural productivity of the temperature regions.&nbsp; With a few degrees of heating, the Greenland and Antarctic ice caps would melt, perhaps raising ocean levels 250 feet. . . .&nbsp; In short, when we pollute, we tamper with the energy balance of the Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul Ehrlich,&nbsp;<em>The Population Bomb<\/em>&nbsp;(Cutchogue, New York:&nbsp; Buccaneer Books, 1968, 1971), p. 39.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs University of California physicist John Holdren has said, it is possible that carbon-dioxide climate-induced famines could kill as many as a billion people before the year 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul Ehrlich,&nbsp;<em>The Machinery of Nature<\/em>, Simon &amp; Schuster, New York, 1986, p.&nbsp;274<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MIT\/Club of Rome (1972)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf all the policies instituted in 1975 in the previous figure are delayed until the year 2000, the equilibrium state is no longer sustainable. Population and industrial capital reach levels high enough to create food and resource shortages before the year 2000.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Donella Meadows et al.,\u00a0<em>The Limits to Growth<\/em>\u00a0(New York: Universe Books, 1972), p.\u00a0169.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAlthough we have many reservations about the approximations and simplifications in the present world model, it has led us to one conclusion that appears to be justified under all the assumptions we have tested so far. The basic behavior mode of the world system is exponential growth of population and capital, followed by collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Donella Meadows et al.\u00a0<em>The Limits to Growth<\/em>, p. 142.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<em>Limits to Growth<\/em>&nbsp;\u2026 \u2018astonishingly young\u2019 (the oldest was 30) authors were true believers. Dennis and Donella Meadows retreated to a New Hampshire farm after completing the book \u2018to learn about homesteading and wait for the coming collapse.\u2019 \u2018We definitely felt like Cassandras,\u2019 Donella Meadows added, \u2018especially as we watched the world react to our work\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Quoted in Robert Bradley,\u00a0<em>Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy<\/em>\u00a0(2009), p. 234.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>And older \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cClimate apprehension did not begin in 1988 or in 1957, or even in 1896.&nbsp; There were colonial, early modern, and even ancient precedents. . . .&nbsp; We have arrived, late in the twentieth century, at a climate discourse that is again saturated with metaphor, values, and apprehensions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>James Rodger Fleming,\u00a0<em>Historical Perspectives on Climate Change<\/em>\u00a0(New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 136.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018Something is wrong with the weather\u2019 is the title of a recent article in&nbsp;<em>U.S. News and World Report<\/em>, and an article in&nbsp;<em>Saturday Review<\/em>&nbsp;asks, \u2018Is man changing the climate of the earth?\u2019&nbsp; The layman, and the nonspecialist on reading these articles and the many others in the newspapers will probably be convinced that the climate&nbsp;<em>is<\/em>&nbsp;changing, for the accumulating evidence is considerable. He will probably be confused also, for the reasons given for the change are as varied as the authors.&nbsp;One author will blame the change on sunspots, another on the consumption of fossil fuels producing an increase in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere.&nbsp;Still another author will suggest air pollution as a significant cause, and another maintains that a complicated feedback of energy between sea and air is sufficient to produce irregular climate fluctuations. . . .&nbsp;&nbsp; Who is right?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reid Bryson, \u201c\u2018All Other Factors Being Constant . . . \u2019 A Reconciliation of Several Theories of Climate Change,\u201d\u00a0<em>Weatherwise<\/em>, April 1968; reprinted in John Holdren and Paul Ehrlich,\u00a0<em>Global Ecology: Readings Toward a Rational Strategy for Man<\/em>\u00a0(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1971), pp. 78-79.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe debate over climate change, both from natural causes and human activity, is not new.&nbsp; Although the Baron C.-L. de Montesquieu is undoubtedly the best known Enlightenment thinker on the topic of climate determinism, others, notably the Abbe Du Bos, David Hume, and Thomas Jefferson, observed that climatic changes exerted a direct influence on individuals and society and that human agency was directly involved in changing the climate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>James Rodger Fleming,\u00a0<em>Historical Perspectives on Climate Change<\/em>\u00a0(New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 11.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs public awareness of global warming reached an early peak in the mid-1950s, the popular press began to carry articles on climate cooling.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Fortune<\/em>&nbsp;published an article in 1954 entitled \u2018Climate: The Heat May Be Off,\u2019 and in 1958, just as the IGY was winding down, journalist Betty Friedan wrote an article for&nbsp;<em>Harper\u2019s Magazine<\/em>&nbsp;on the coming of a new ice age.&nbsp; Her article was a review of a recent theory by Maurice Ewing and William Donn which held that climate warming could lead to a breakup of the Arctic ice pack.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>James Rodger Fleming,\u00a0<em>Historical Perspectives on Climate Change<\/em>\u00a0(New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 131-32.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>[1]<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aps.org\/publications\/apsnews\/202310\/backpage.cfm\">States<\/a>\u00a0Mann, \u201chot takes, hyperbole, and polarizing commentary best generate clicks, shares, and retweets. I often encounter, especially on social media, individuals who are convinced that the latest extreme weather event is confirmation that the climate crisis is far worse than we thought\u2026. increasingly today we see it with climate doomists\u2026. 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