Sentences with phrase «history of failed predictions»

As this short history of failed predictions reveals, prominent environmentalists have been using fears of famine and ecological disaster to promote a population - control agenda for many years.

Professor Paul Ehrlich (a futurist with a rich history of failed predictions, Stanford) is campaigning for a divestment from the fossil fuel industry.

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The Yahoo! Labs scientist and author explains why the «law of the few» is bunk, why history is full of failed hedgehogs, and why we can't make good predictions about just those things we most want to predict

From the oracles of ancient Rome to modern shows like Doomsday Preppers, history is littered with failed predictions about The End Of The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI, in prepper parlanceof ancient Rome to modern shows like Doomsday Preppers, history is littered with failed predictions about The End Of The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI, in prepper parlanceOf The World As We Know It (TEOTWAWKI, in prepper parlance).

2) CAGW movement type models never reconstruct any lengthy past history accurately without creative and unique adjustment of aerosol values used as a fudge factor; that is why models of widely varying sensitivities supposedly all accurately reconstruct the past (different made - up assumed historical values used for each) but fail in future prediction, like they didn't predict how global average temperatures have been flat to declining over the past 15 years.