In a comment on one of Ranger Rick’s columns on climate change, a reader asked, “Do ‘common sense conservatives’ who share the author’s views on global climate change ask their doctors about the subject prior to being treated?”  Well yes, we do.

He/she went on to ask if we ask questions of a pharmacist when filling a prescription.  Well yes, we do, at least I do. The point was that global climate change is settled science and we should not question it, like we must not question our doctors. Really?

So as I have a habit of doing, I started to research past predictions of climate catastrophes. Let it suffice to say since the first “Earth Day” in 1970, we have seen the number of predictions of the end of the Earth/mankind or personkind come and go. The predictions were irrefutable, since no thinking person should question them. Folks, you can’t make this stuff up.

During a hypersensitive period in the early 1970s the concern was mass global starvation the bestselling book “Famine 1975! America’s decision who will survive?” predicted a mass famine by 1975. Global cooling and population increase would cause the famine.  The world’s population in 1975 was 4.068 Billion, in 2017 it was 7.547 billion and we have not had mass starvation, oops.

The word’s population is growing by some 85 million per year. The new environmental movement would have us believe we not only can, but must feed the world without petrochemicals, we must use organic farming, or the world will end. Research tells me organic farming will reduce food production by at least 25% with costs increasing accordingly.

United Nations official Noel Brown stated in 1989 that shifting climate patterns would cause a 1930s style dust bowl in the great plains in  the U.S. and Canada by the year 2000. Oops again.

Global cooling was once a horror to many, such as University of California at Davis professor Kenneth Watt, who warned that present trends would make the world “eleven degrees colder in the year 2000… about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.” Maps were printed in News Week with permafrost (the ground being frozen year-round a few inches below the top) as far south as middle Tennessee.

George Mason University economist Professor Walter E. Williams, who argues that there are so many apocalyptic predictions because “they have an agenda for more government control… fear about the environment is a way to gain government control. Communism and socialism have lost respectability, so it’s been repackaged as environmentalism.” Please note American socialism has wrapped itself in the Green New Deal.

In 2006, while promoting his movie “An Inconvenient Truth”, Former Vice President Gore said that humanity had only 10 years left before the world would reach a point of no return. In 2019 Representative Ocasio-Cortez said it will be in 12 more years. Oops times three.

Vice President Gore’s movie also featured animations of water inundating Manhattan and Florida by now, yet Mr. Gore bought an 8 million dollar beach-front property near Los Angeles a few years later? Go figure.

In 1970, Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-Wisc., – often considered the “father of Earth Day” – cited the secretary of the Smithsonian, who “believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.” That date has passed by 25 years.

Global cooling, global warming, acid rain, the hole in the ozone layer, global climate change, global famine, AIDS changing to a heterosexual disease, Swine flu jumping species, and more? So, to the folks who maintain global climate change is settled and cannot be challenged, perhaps you are incorrect?

In a debate with the members of the New York side of our family in 1987 they insisted global cooling was settled science and with modern advancements in science and discoveries we can’t question it. Ok, they now maintain the same thing when it comes to climate change.

Only in a totalitarian state are people not allowed to ask questions of those in power; we are going in that direction in reference to global climate change. Never question why or how, just trust those in power and let them socialize our nation in the name of climate change. Got it.