“Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the [twentieth] century.”
– John Holdren and Paul Ehrlich (1971) [1]
Doom and gloom—repeatedly falsified—hallmark the long career of John P. Holdren, neo-Malthusian and President Obama’s start-to-finish science advisor. Back at Harvard University, the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy has been been quiet. He avoided making specific, apocalyptic predictions during his Obama years (January 2009– January 2017) and has rarely made the news since. But his many written and spoken statements beginning in the 1970s, never disowned, remain for the record.
Today is a good time to refresh memories of the man who just might be the scariest man in Boston/Cape Cod on this day.
Read—but don’t be frightened.…
“If we can’t even use seismic to ‘see’ the vast majority of our underground prospects and resources, we cannot possibly estimate what is actually there. The one thing we can say is: Our current estimates of U.S. oil and gas resources are wrong, and are almost certainly much too low.”
“Producing ANWR’s oil riches represents hundreds of billions in state and federal royalties and corporate income taxes, over the life of the fields, plus billions more in lease sale revenues, plus thousands of direct and indirect jobs, in addition to numerous jobs created when all this money is reinvested in the USA.”
Paul Driessen is a indefatigable intellectual warrior for energy and climate realism. Propelled by a distain for crony environmentalism that promotes global poverty, he has produced weekly opinion-page editorials and written a full-scale book challenging climate alarmism and unmasking energy fantasies.…
“When it comes to climate change, the greens are a ‘do as I say and not as I do’ movement. Reducing energy use and living with less–that’s the sacrifice that the masses must make to save the planet, but not the elites.”
– Stephen Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White, Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2016), p. 229.
Al Gore is speaking tonight at Rice University. The rock-star-type event reflects a lot of institutional support, including several science-is-settled, climate-alarmist university professors.
Think Neal Lane, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice and science advisor in the Clinton/Gore White House, whose service as gatekeeper at Rice’s James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy included allowing the likes of John Holdren to come but not Bjorn Lomborg.…