In the last 100 years the NYT has predicted, in order, the following:

1. The Earth is warming, millions could die
2. The Earth is cooling, millions could die
3. The Earth is warming, millions could die

and, you guessed it

4. The Earth is warming, millions could die.

Just Google, “Newsweek Cooling Earth” and follow the links

Thu, 12/27/2007 – 21:39 — thetruthhurts [in comments on Lindorff's site]

Each time the prediction continued: “Women and minorities hardest hit.”

Then I found that the whole left side of their page here:

http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2007/122407Lindorff.shtml

Is devoted to pieces with titles that would be worthy of the San Francisco Chronicle.

Thus, it is not worth it. I don’t think my email would get through to anyone with a brain in their head.

thirteen28 on December 27, 2007 at 1:19 PM

That would be the foothills of the two major mountian ranges.

Also due to global warming the climate will change thereby causing any long range forcasts to be worthless.

technically nothing, because we are still in the present ice age. The last advance of the glaciers was the shortest ever in geologic history. therefore it is more likely that we are in a warming period between ice advances. Question: when Ny city and philly is covered in ICE can we down in the South gerrymander those refugees in so we no longer have to hear the nutcases and all their PC crap??

Quisp on December 27, 2007 at 2:31 PM

Oh God.

Practically every commenter… Even those that identify themselves as liberals are tearing Lindorff a new one. This is funny as heck.

As a matter of fact, I think I’m going to register and post something too.

Thanks for the link Quisp.

Dave Lindorff has a nearly perfect pedigree as a liberal journalist. He’s a 1975 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, a two-time Fulbright Scholar, and a contributor to the New York Times, The Nation, Salon.com, and the…..

And let’s not even get into the fact that the major “blue” population centers are on the coasts–as if that is even something to actually worry about in the first place.

DaveS on December 27, 2007 at 1:37 PM

That’s what I thought. At first I thought he was a crazy apocalyptic Christian guy preaching hellfire for liberal environmentalists, like that church in Kansas that was protesting at military funerals.
All I have to say is “wow,” just “wow.”

Remember those bumperstickers?

SPLIT WOOD, NOT ATOMS

But now: the atom is our friend, and the CO2 in wood, coal, oil, gas, soda pop, and cow farts is our enemy. Instead of apocalyptic global cooling, we have apocalyptic global warming!

I believe that after 9/11, people went in one of either two directions. One group, the realists, delved deeper into Islam and realised that we have a decades long war going on with bloodthirsty savages that want us infidels dead.

The second group seized upon global warming as the most dire threat to humanity.
Canadian Infidel on December 27, 2007

There is always that inevitable third group of pessimists like me who see that we are faced with two disasters, a religious one and an environmental one, Scylla and Charybdis, Islam and out of control species loss due to human overpopulation. The sooner we deal with the evil that is Islam, the sooner we can deal honestly with the environment. I fear there is little hope for serious discussion of the environment until Islam is confronted.

And yes to a large extent, global warming is just a silly way to avoid dealing with any real issue.

Quisp on December 27, 2007 at 2:31 PM

Hey that link was fun to read Quisp. Thanks!

Can we get him to use is scientific reasoning to tell us exactly where the new coastline will be? I’d like to get a head start on buying some beachfront property.

thirteen28 on December 27, 2007 at 1:19 PM

Personally, I’d buy on the coast now and when the flood comes and takes it, I’ll just move into a nice cushy hotel room in another city (paid for by all the liberals). Maybe I can be his neighbor just to annoy him.

Refugee Troglodytes Unite!!

About the author: Philadelphia journalist Dave Lindorff is a 34-year veteran, an award-winning journalist, a former New York Times contributor, a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, a two-time Journalism Fulbright Scholar, and the co-author, with Barbara Olshansky, of a well-regarded book on impeachment, The Case for Impeachment.

Fact-checking is not in Lindorff’s job description.

Putting his flawed concepts of engineering aside for a moment, it is too bad his geographic and demographic beliefs are as poorly based as his climate change belief, otherwise his point might actually fit rather well relative to his community-based reality.

As for his trust that his compatriots will build his dikes — 75′+ high if, as he suggests, most of LA and half of AL are flooded — before his cats die, well, how’s New Orleans coming along, Dude? Me, I’m thinking his future would have troglodite overlords.

Serve them well, chump, and maybe we’ll sell you some waders.