B.P. Terpstra
Let’s revisit the year 1993 – or the year when Greenpeace hysterics launched their evil dinosaur car adverts. Not they were trying to scare the shit out of kids. But Rod Frey reported:
The picture opens on a fog, with a disembodied voice whispering, “It’s coming... Prepare yourself for the most significant event in automotive history.” Then, to the grating sound of twisting metal and coughing engines, a giant dinosaur constructed entirely of wrecked cars roars to its feet. Soon it begins to hack and cough, and eventually crashes to the ground and dies. “It’s coming,” concludes the voice, “The end of the automotive age.”
This promotional ad is the brainchild of John Bennett, transportation campaigner for Greenpeace Canada in Toronto. According to Mr. Bennett, the ad, which cost only $8,000 due to extensive volunteer involvement, is intended to change attitudes about cars. Greenpeace would prefer that people walk or ride bicycles, or, as a last resort, take buses. “We want to drive home the metaphor that the car is going the same way as the dinosaur: like the dinosaur, it will disappear almost overnight.”
Perhaps climate will kill the car like it did some dinosaurs. Frey again:
Whether auto exhaust really is warming up the atmosphere is not, however, established. The climatological forecasts of organizations like Greenpeace are being questioned, largely because they rely on complex computer calculations rather than empirical evidence. In fact, according to Tim Ball, a professor of climatology at the University of Winnipeg, groups like Greenpeace are detached from reality. “One lady was approached by Greenpeace and told to give money because sheep in New Zealand were going blind because of ultraviolet rays,” he says. “They’re crazy.” Less amusing, he thinks, is their effort to influence public policy based on shaky science. “Their report on global warming is so full of holes it’s not worth reading,” he asserts. “But they want the government to base public policy on it.”
Fruitcakes, anyone? Nuts? Nutty fruitcakes, my guess:
In 1980, for example, GW alarmists were predicting a 25-foot rise in sea level; in 1991 that was revised to less than one foot. And temperature rise predictions shrank from 6 degrees C to 1.8 degrees C in the same period.
(Source: A whimsical prophecy from Greenpeace. By: Frey, Rod; Alberta Report / Newsmagazine, 2/1/93, Vol. 20, Issue 7.)