Apocalypse Not: Science, Economics, and Environmentalism

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Debunks numerous environmental myths and alleged global threats to mankind.

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Is There Really an Environmental Crisis?.......2001-08-04

Is the planet earth headed for disaster? Are we depleting the ozone level too quickly? Are chemicals and pesticides going to kill us all? What about acid rain and nuclear power? Environmentalists claim that greenhouse gases are going to warm the earth so much that the polar ice caps will melt and there will be coastal flooding and mass hysteria. But is all of this really true? Is there really an environmental crisis that mankind has caused, or is this all just another fallicy created by environmental extremists and power- hungry politicians in order to scare the public and push their respective agendas on the people?

According to the authors, Ben Bolch and Harold Lyons, the entire environmental movement is, for the most part, a poliical hoax! With global warming, for instance, the public has been scared into believing that the earth is going to get so warm that the ocean levels will rise and cities like Miami and New York will be submerged under water. The authors don't deny that the actual surface temperature of the earth has increased over the past 50 years. Scientific studies do, indeed, show that it has increased. What the authors argue is that the slight warming of the earth is natural and has occurred many times in the past, when the earth has gone through periods of cooling and warming. The contribution of mankind, to the warming process, is too miniscule to make any significant difference and we don't really have enough weather records, from far enough back, to draw any definite conclusions.

The authors show some examples of how chemical phobia has been touted by environmentalists as a serious threat and that all Americans "live in peril". Alar is one such chemical and so is dioxin. Then, there's the continuous scare over asbestos. Corporations are usually blamed for all of these problems. No one ever bothers to point out how chemicals have helped mankind over the years. Why corporations and economic activity are always made to take the blame, I'm not sure. I assume it's because corporations have money, and are therefore a good target to go after, by both environmentalists and their political allies in Washington. The type of politician who engages in this type of game is always the type who wants more regulation, and more taxes. Chemical phobia provides a means to scare people into submission, making ordinary Americans think that more government control is necessary to save their lives.

There are other issues, too, that the authors mention, to make their point. Remember the radon gas scare a few years ago? People across the nation were worried that they were going to die in their sleep from radioactive gas poisoning. Overzealous government officials seized the opportunity to call for more regulations of individuals and businesses, and expand government control and power. They did the same thing with other concerns, too, like acid rain and ozone depletion.

"Apocalypse Not" is a 140 page paperback book that's quick and easy to read. It will help to dispell the myths of the global warming scare, chemical phobia, nuclear power, and other concerns. You will sleep better at night once you realize that the earth is not going to be destroyed by toxic gases, acid rain, ozone depletion, or any other of the usual environmental concerns.

Exposes various environmental panics........1997-07-04

Modern environmentalism is thoroughly polluted by junk science and cynical hysterics. As Ben Bolch and Harold Lyons detail in their new book Apocalypse Not, a vast portion of what passes for environmentalism is little more than scare-mongering.

Unfortunately, environmental groups have sometimes found that donors and members are more responsive to (dubious) claims about environmental problems that supposedly put the donor's health at risk, and are insufficiently interested in genuine environmental problems that do not pose a threat to the donor.

Take global warming, for instance. The theory is that increasing carbon buildup in the atmosphere, as the result of the burning of fossil fuels such as oil and coal, traps heat, and is raising the earth's temperature, with catastrophic consequences.

Much of the environmental media takes global warming as an accepted scientific fact. Vice-President Gore argues that newspapers shouldn't even quote scientists who doubt global warming. The only question seems to be how high we should raise taxes on fuels and increase regulation of every phase of people's lives in order to coerce them into using less carbon.

But, as Bloch and Lyons point out, it's not really so clear-cut. In a survey of climatologists (the folks with actual expertise), about half of them doubted whether global warming was actually taking place, and many of the rest thought that any warming would be quite small, with possibly benign effects on the environment (e.g. making is easier to grow food on the Canadian prairie). Of the rest, many thought that were no need to take drastic action at the present time.

It's well-established that global temperatures rise and fall in cycles lasting hundreds and thousands of years. World temperatures have risen slightly in the last 500 years -- but almost all of that increase was took place before the 19th century, which was the time when fossil fuel burning began to increase rapidly.

The difficulty of proclaiming global warming as a certainty is highlighted by the difficulty that the world's best climatologists using the most advanced computers have in predicting temperatures 90 days in the future. If asked to predict whether the temperature 90 days hence will be higher than the historical norm, lower, or about the same, the best scientists are right only about 2% more often than would be someone who was guessing randomly.

The computer models which predict future global warming suffer from a serious flaw: when fed data about conditions a hundred years ago, they "predict" temperatures several degrees hotter than the temperatures which historically occurred. If the models can't even describe the past accurately, how can they be the basis for drastically expanding the future role of government?

Unfortunately, the catastrophic "global warming" theory appears to have much in common with "nuclear winter," a now-discredited theory that nuclear warfare would (besides all the other damage inflicted) cause catastrophic global cooling. In retrospect, "nuclear winter" had less to do with realistic science than with the desires of anti-nuclear groups to frighten the public into supporting their cause.

Junk science pervades not only large issues such as global warming/cooling, but smaller ones such as the alleged dangers in your basement. Radon is a natural gas emitted from uranium. Small quantities of radon exist almost everywhere, with the greater concentrations being found in areas where gases from natural rocks accumulate most, such as mines and basements. Radon gas decays naturally, and some of the isotopes resulting from the decay can cause lung cancer at high doses.

The high-dose carcinogenic effect has been demonstrated beyond doubt by studies of miners who have suffered long-term, high-level radon exposures. Radon appeared to be particularly carcinogenic when it interacted synergistically with tobacco smoke.

If high levels of radon can cause lung cancer (especially in smokers), are low or minute doses also carcinogenic? Well, not necessarily. After all, salt or alcohol can kill at high doses, and can promote better health at lower doses.

In 1980, a massive study of 140,000 Chinese, half of whom lived in an area with high natural levels of radon, and half of whom lived in an area with much lower levels, found no statistically discernable adverse affects.

Thus, the carcinogenic effect of radon appears to be non-linear. Very high levels of exposure cause cancer, but more moderate levels appear to have no effect at all. The studies of uranium miners found no adverse health effects at all when radon exposure was smaller than 12,000 picocuries per liter of air.

In the face of all this evidence, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that exposure to radon at a dosage of greater than 4 picocuries per liter of air could cause cancer. EPA then determined that a residence would require remediation to reduce radon levels if the 4 picocurie level were exceeded in the home's basement. In setting the 4 picocurie level, EPA assumed that people spend at least 70% of their total lives inside their home, and spend most of their home time in the basement, where radon exposures are greatest.

Having built a mountain of regulations on a molehill of science, EPA then proceeded to terrify America with misleading advertising. One TV commercial showed a child receiving an X-ray every few seconds, and implied that living in a home with radon above the EPA levels was equivalent to being continuously bombarded with chest x-rays.

The total costs of modifying homes and schools to meet EPA's criteria ranges from 10 billion dollars to 100 billion, almost all of it wasted. Money that could have gone to improve education, or to make people happy through spending their own money as they best saw fit, has been spent making EPA bureaucrats happy and expanding the already overgrown federal government

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My Second Favorite Book! The Bible is #1........2000-09-05

I was brought up a dispensationalist without knowing it but this book changed my belief. Today I have a much more optimistic outlook in regard to the plan the Lord has for the church and earth. I have been freed, no more confusion or fear of the end times. Thank the Lord! I never knew there was any other interpretation of end times things until this book. I would recommend to all christians that they look at other possible views on this before they choose. The Word even tells us " My people perish for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6.

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I this book John Noe did not overwhelm me with terms I did not understand such as preterism, dispensationalism, postmillennial, eschatology, etc. and this helped me embrace the teaching more easily. But what really changed me was the scripture reference . The book was not the complete answer to all the questions it raised in me, but a more in depth study of the Bible finalized the change. I recommend finding this book (not real likely) or better yet go to John Noe's web site and keep watching for him to reprint this which was mentioned would happen next year. His site is at www.prophecyrefi.org.

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My Second Favorite Book! The Bible is #1........2000-09-01

I read this book quite a number of years ago and it changed everything I thought I knew about the end-times. It set me free, no more fear or confusion. Now I read the bible with a much better understand and I have more victory and joy in my life. I am not waiting for some future victory of Jesus, He has already won the victory at the cross! His blood was enough! I have yet to read a book that addresses the end-times as this one does. It was the use of scripture that allowed me to study this out for myself and I finally understand and agree with most of what he addresses in this book.

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