# Conservatism, evolution, global warming, and the truth.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatism-evolution-global-warming-and-the-truth/524326>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 9, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatism-evolution-global-warming-and-the-truth/524326 "2010-01-09T21:04:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 9, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conservatism-evolution-global-warming-and-the-truth/524326/4 "2010-01-09T22:51:51Z")

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> Conservatives are skeptical about global warming because it’s coming from the same crowd that 40 years ago claimed we were running out of trees;

Deforestation is still a major problem. This has not changed.

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> 30 years ago claimed we were running out of oil;

Oil is a finite resource, and while we may get better at extracting oil, we will eventually run out.

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> 25 years ago claimed we were headed for an ice age;

Several thousand peer reviewed journal articles on AGW versus maybe one or two and a Newsweek article on the ice age. Any attempt to avtually draw an equivalence is deliberately deceptive.

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> and 20 years ago claimed that all the ozone was being depleted.

You forgot the order of events here. First, the ozone layer was being depleted. Then corrective action was taken. Then, the ozone layer recovered.

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> The predicted outcome of each of these was that we were all going to die - just like now with global warming.

Nobody with any sense is predicting that we are all going to die.

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