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To: locogringo who wrote (931605)	4/23/2016 9:17:51 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574237

You " budding planet wreckers are not very bright. " Shouldn't come as news to anybody. What WUWT and the anti-world movement doesn't know - Earth Day 2016 Sou \| 12:45 PM This Earth Day, leaders from 175 nations signed the Paris Climate Agreement, which was a record for a one-day signing, according to the UN. On this day each year there's also a tradition, if you can call it that yet, that anti-environment blogs like WUWT publish a list of unsourced quote-mines purportedly from the first Earth Day. Anti-environmentalists say that predictions didn't come to pass. The unspoken message is that therefore they will never come to pass and all their anti-environment fans can therefore feel free to continue to destroy the planet. It's an unspoken plea to " bring back smog". What it also shows is that these budding planet wreckers are not very bright. They don't know that because of the actions of environmentalists: Clean air regulations have been put in place to reduce the smog and pollution that threatened the world The contraceptive pill and family planning education programs helped people limit the size of families Agricultural research and education vastly increased crop yields, which allowed the world to continue to feed the hugely increasing human population Developing countries, in many cases with the assistance of foreign aid from developed countries, improved their social and economic well-being There have been huge improvements in fuel efficiency, often driven by regulation, which together with new discoveries and alternative sources of energy, has meant that there are still oil and gas reserves left. Despite these actions, the natural world is still being degraded at a great rate through deforestation, CO2 emissions, smog and other pollution, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, and more. Anthony Watts was so excited to show that none of this had anything to do with environment lovers, that he wrote not one but two articles about it. The first one (archived here) was a copy and paste from a zillion articles from anti-environment blogs all over the internet. He got his copy from the Benny Peiser of the UK group that lobbies to increase global warming, appropriately called the Global Warming Policy Foundation. The second one (archived here) was an email he got from someone who *did* know that none of this has come to pass yet only because of the response of millions of people the world over, who heeded the call of environmental activists, and prompted their governments to take action. For the second article, Anthony declared his bullying side, and not only published the email but dug up an old web page that was possibly the author. (He's no longer at that institution, he has moved on to the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics.) Nature-wreckers are a sorry lot. Did I say that not a single of Anthony's quotes had a link to a source? Yes, that's typical of the anti-environment movement. blog.hotwhopper.com