Political Quotes

“Those who disagree with us and our colleagues point to the wisdom of the experts on the potential impacts of climate change, but we know that many of the so-called experts have historically been wrong, often significantly wrong. In 1986, John Holdren, a senior adviser to President Obama on science and technology issues, predicted: ``carbon dioxide, climate-induced famines could kill as many as a billion people before the year 2020.'' Since then, we have added almost 2\1/2\ billion people to the planet, an increase of almost 50 percent, and we aren't seeing a billion people dying from famine. We continue to make significant progress with improved technology, and we are feeding more people than ever, and people are living healthier and longer. We could not have done this without accessing abundant, affordable, and consistent energy. Paul Ehrlich, another so-called expert on this issue, predicted in 1970, that: ``By the year 2000, the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people . . . If I were a gambler, I would take even more money that England will not exist in the year 2000.'' Well, England still exists, and it is doing better than ever.…”