GUEST POST from Don – We Believed You…Now What?

WE BELIEVED YOU … NOW WHAT?

40 years ago Americans were being told that the earth was warming (bad thing) caused by humans.

We believed you and we began to make fewer babies.  

Twenty years ago only 20% of actual women, age 30, were childless.  The most recent survey shows that 40% are childless now.

We figured you would be celebrating this!  Isn’t this what you wanted?

Nope!  You want us to change to all-electric homes instead.  Non-electric homes are not the cause of global warming, people are.  You didn’t call it “Man Made Global Warming” for nothing!  You’ve moved the goalposts!

We believed you that coal, oil, and wood to heat and cool our homes and travel the roads were bad.  So, we bought e-cars, upgraded to solar cells on our roofs, and changed to heat pump technology to cool and heat our homes … but you’re allowing (and encouraging) data centers which use more water and electric than thousands of homes ever did.  You’ve moved the goalposts!

We’re wondering if this wasn’t your goal all along!  We were trying to appease the MMGW gods, while the MMGW gods were investing in “fuel credit” schemes, solar schemes, e-car production schemes using government dollars, and building data centers.  Are you trying to transfer wealth or save the world?  Saving the world seemed to be your goal (according to your words).  Now we aren’t so sure.

We cooperated and spent huge wads of moolah, but now you say “do more” while you do less.  Your “seminars” are in remote locations and you have to build roads and landing strips through established forests to get your “leaders” there.  Meanwhile, we’re stuck to a travel zone that cannot exceed a 200 mile radius because our cars can’t be “refilled” easily.  You claim that hurricanes are increasing due to “global warming,” but this year (for some odd reason) you blame the lack of hurricanes on “global warming.”  (I don’t think it works both ways, really!)

We believed you, but you keep changing directions and moving goalposts.  Meanwhile you’ve never really defined “success.”  How high do we need to jump?  It is just like those bad parents for whom a child can never be good enough.  We submit, and submit, and submit to your demands, but you never have to show us the actual goal.  A government study of 4 years ago showed that IF Americans did EVERYTHING the government was asking of them to curb “MMGW” we still wouldn’t reach safe harbor.  It is an impossible, and costly, goal … just at the time of other high costs.  We have to choose between feeding our families OR heating our homes.  Americans are understanding the issue (even if they blame the wrong people).  If you read between the lines you see that alcohol sales have plummeted to the lowest per capita number EVER.  People have come to realize that they can’t afford that e-car, the heat pump, and that “affordable” medical insurance … and still buy booze.

Soon enough the number of folk who believe “the boy who cried ‘wolf’” will dwindle.  You squandered your believability.  We believed you ONCE, TWICE, but no more!

DID IT HAPPEN? (part II)

An article in Popular Science:  “In 1960, scientists predicted the world would end on November 13, 2026”
Mack DeGeurin
Tue, October 13, 2026

The story is about a scientific community’s agreement in 1960 that the world cannot survive humanity.  Those “scientists” published an article 66 years ago claiming to know when the world, for humanity, would end.

Since then we’ve had many more scientists come forward declaring that we would reach “the point of no return” by such-n-such date.  Most of those dates have passed, by the way, and the world seems to be just fine.  (My proof:  Soil temperatures at 18 feet have not changed in over 50 years.  Why 18 feet?  We have the records for that due to the thousands of gasoline storage tanks all over the world which are temperature monitored and recorded.)  The cause those newer scientists pointed to was greenhouse gases.  Now they don’t care about greenhouse gases very much.  They wanted us to stop using coal, fuel oil, and sawdust to fire up electric generation.  But NOW they all seem to be OK with the massive use of electricity (even from fuel oil) as long as it powers data centers.  I have seen not a single article by scientists decrying data centers.

Anyway, we will know on November 14 this year (less than a month) whether those scientific gurus in 1960 were correct.  I’m not waiting until then to call the prophecy erroneous (partly because if it comes true I won’t have the opportunity to write about it).  However, I want you to CIRCLE the date on your calendar (or put a note on your electronic calendar app).  Look at the circle or note on Saturday, November 14, 2026 and remind yourself that scientists are not very good prophets.

Copyright 2026 Donald Whelpley

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