{"id":3902,"date":"2019-05-05T02:05:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T08:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3902"},"modified":"2019-05-05T02:05:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-05T08:05:02","slug":"fifty-years-of-apocalyptic-global-warming-predictions-and-why-people-believe-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3902","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Years of Apocalyptic Global Warming Predictions and Why People Believe Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/fifty-years-of-apocalyptic-global-warming-predictions-and-why-people-believe-them\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/world-earth-day.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"contents\">You may have noticed that nearly all of the doomsday theories seem to begin with the phrase, \u201cif current trends continue.\u201d But, as I have just reviewed, current trends don\u2019t continue. Global temperatures go down, then up, then stay flat. Population growth tapers off, new oil reserves are discovered, agricultural yields increase at even higher rates. Doomsday forecasters always overestimate gloomy trends and underestimate human ingenuity in problem solving.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/article\/fifty-years-of-apocalyptic-global-warming-predictions-and-why-people-believe-them\/\">Fifty Years of Apocalyptic Global Warming Predictions and Why People Believe Them<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that nearly all of the doomsday theories seem to begin with the phrase, \u201cif current trends continue.\u201d But, as I have just reviewed, current trends don\u2019t continue. Global temperatures go down, then up, then stay flat. Population growth tapers off, new oil reserves are discovered, agricultural yields increase at even higher &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3902\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fifty Years of Apocalyptic Global Warming Predictions and Why People Believe Them<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,25,129,101,110,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climateastrology","category-education","category-global-warming","category-science-environmental","category-war-on-reality","category-war-on-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}