India Sets New Wheat Production Record: ‘Contrary to what Paul Ehrlich predicted, India now produces 10 times more wheat today than it did in 1965 when its population was 65% smaller’
https://www.humanprogress.org/india-sets-new-wheat-production-record/ By Gale Pooley This article originally appeared in Gale Pooley’s Gale Winds Substack. Before agronomist Norman Borlaug showed up in the 1960s, India was only producing 10 million tons of wheat a year. In 2023, it expects to produce 112 million tons. Thanks to Borlaug and other scientists and innovators, India’s wheat production has increased by 1,020 percent […]
Watch: Morano on OAN TV: Talks about Paul Ehrlich’s claim ‘If I’m always wrong, so is science’ claim – & the NYT seeking shorter people and racist science
Broadcast January 5, 2023 – In Focus W/ Addison Smith Paul Ehrlich claims "Sure I've made some mistakes, but no basic ones" (!!!) Here are 3:1. Opposing cheap electricity, an essential of modern life, in the 1970s2. Predicting the UK and US would collapse long ago3. Claiming up to 1B people would already be dead […]
Watch: Morano on The First TV talks Paul Ehrlich’s lifetime of scientific failure
Video here: https://www.thefirsttv.com/watch/doomsday-scientist-has-never-been-right/ Broadcast Jan 4, 2023 – The First TV – I’m Right w/Jesse Kelly Paul Ehrlich has been making grim global predictions for practically 8 decades and has been right a total of…. zero times. ClimateDepot’s Marc Morano goes down the list of some of Ehrlich’s most ridiculous and flat-out wrong predictions, from […]
Serially Wrong Paul Ehrlich Is Wrong, Again. We Are Not on The Brink of a 6th Mass Extinction Event
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/05/serially-wrong-paul-ehrlich-is-wrong-again-we-are-not-on-the-brink-of-a-6th-mass-extinction-event/ by Chris Talgo On January 1, CBS News’ “60 Minutes” rang in the new year by airing a segment in which several scientists, including Dr. Paul Ehrlich, predicted that we are on the cusp of a sixth mass extinction event and that “the next few decades will be the end of the kind of civilization we’re […]
Morano: ’60 Minutes could not have found a more thoroughly discredited doomsday preacher than Paul Ehrlich’
https://afn.net/science-tech/2023/01/04/network-taken-to-task-for-showcasing-reliably-wrong-prognosticator/ By Chris Woodward Excerpt: On Sunday, January 1 the CBS “news magazine” featured Paul Ehrlich in a segment claiming the planet is in the midst of a sixth mass extinction and that wildlife is running out of places to live. The 90-year-old Stanford University biologist renowned for his inaccurate doomsday predictions over past decades stated: […]
Watch: Paul Ehrlich in 1970 urging the govt should use FCC to force negative depictions of large families & ‘throw you in jail if you have too many’ children
Here’s Paul Ehrlich in 1970 saying that the government needs to become increasingly tyrannical to stop child birth. Says the gov’t should use the FCC to force negative depictions of large families and eventually “throw you in jail if you have too many” children. pic.twitter.com/R7iOB2PBbO — Vince Coglianese (@VinceCoglianese) January 3, 2023 "You oughta make […]
‘Is CBS really this stupid???’ Features failed doomsday preacher Paul Ehrlich making more dire predictions
Is this archive footage from the 70s or is Ehrlich still around? Is CBS really this stupid??? https://t.co/FZt4tNJJLU — Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) January 2, 2023 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1609730451584782336.html Is this archive footage from the 70s or is Ehrlich still around? Is CBS really this stupid??? Here’s a straight news story unironically promoting the predictions of a man […]
Watch: In 2023, CBS ’60 Minutes’ Promotes Paul Ehrlich Warning of Doom for Earth- But in 1970s, Ehrlich Claimed Billions Would Die From Global Cooling
https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/cbs-60-minutes-promotes-scientist?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=279400&post_id=94486650&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email By Michael Shellenberger On Sunday night, CBS’s flagship news program, “60 Minutes,” highlighted warnings from a Stanford University biologist named Paul Ehrlich. In the broadcast, Ehrlich claimed, “humanity is not sustainable… for the entire planet, you’d need five more Earths.” But that claim was debunked in the peer-reviewed scientific journal, Plos Biology, by leading scientists, including the Chief Scientist of […]
No, Humans Are NOT Causing A ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’ – CBS ’60 Minutes’ sacrifices its credibility in selling apocalyptic pseudoscience
https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/no-humans-are-not-causing-a-sixth?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=279400&post_id=94314582&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email By Michael Shellenberger On CBS “60 Minutes” last night, scientists claimed that humans are causing a “sixth mass extinction” and that we would need the equivalent of five planet earths for all humans to live at current Western levels. “No, humanity is not sustainable to maintain our lifestyle — yours and mine,” claimed Stanford University biologist […]
There is no overpopulation crisis
https://thefederalist.com/2023/01/02/60-minutes-exhumes-enviro-cult-leader-for-a-new-round-of-scaremongering/?mc_cid=31685cb856&mc_eid=0b1369f9f8 BY: DAVID HARSANYI Earth is headed for a sixth extinction, warned biologist Paul Ehrlich on “60 Minutes” this Sunday. And since Ehrlich has predicted about 20 extinctions over the past 60 years, he’s a leading expert on the issue. Couldn’t “60 Minutes” find a fresh-faced, yet-to-be-discredited neo-Malthusian to hyperventilate about the end of the world? Why […]