Originally posted by gaweidert Easy as ever. Being an old fart I have heard so many horror stories about when we are going to run out of this or that I ignore all of them as the so called experts turned out not to be so expert after all. In the US the greatest consumer of petroleum is the plastics industry. You never hear anyone predicting the end of the Plastics Age.
I have survived a lot including the Ice Age of the 1990's. Something that climate "experts" were predicting in the 1970's. If the experts predicted it it must have happened and since I am still kicking I must have survived it.
"Experts" at anything rarely have their predictions come true yet we flock to them like the Oracles of Delphi.
For your viewing pleasure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQRqr9_jw5I In the 1970s they were forecasting the next ice age.
Now, some 50 years later they are forecasting global warming.
A little background.
As a young lad I was pursuing a career in civil engineering, and learned about weather patterns, knowledge required for designing stormwater collection systems. Major storm frequencies are used to determine sizing for catch basins, manholes, underground pipe, and stormwater retention ponds.
Weather follows an ebb and flow, sort of like the tides (although I don’t know if it is influenced by the lunar cycles). Historical data shows weather follows 50 and 100 year cycles. Those 50 and 100 year cyclic extremes are used to determine the size of the stormwater systems.
So, back to the ice age and global warming.
The “ice age” predicted 50 years ago, and the “global warming” of today are nothing more than the typical weather swings proven out through a couple hundred years of weather record keeping.
Enjoy the warmer weather we’ve been having, as there will be some colder, more snowy years coming along soon.