From the Notable Quotables file, proof that the Boston Globe loves wild predictions of eco-gloom:

"In sports, tonight's game between the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago White Sox was called off when Chicago was blanketed with impenetrable smog....Meteorologist Yojio Matsuma says the smog originated 1,000 miles away in the Saskatchewan prairie fires, which have seared several thousand square miles since lightning storms sparked an area left tinder-dry by a three-week heat wave and an unusually dry spring....Meanwhile, the commissioner's office says it is not yet ready to consider a resumption of day games, which were eliminated 15 years ago following widespread increases in skin cancer and immune diseases due to the depletion of the ozone layer."
-- Reporter Ross Gelbspan's fake news story from 2030 in The Boston Globe's "Earth: Our Children's Peril" series, May 31, 1992.

Okay as a meteorolgist a lot of this stuff can be explained without throwing global warming junk out there.

First of all Australia has been a desert and will always be a desert as they are positioned about 30 S latitude. The same is the case around 30 N latitude where you get most of the Northern hemisphere deserts (Sahara, SW US). Drought begets drought.

I imagine the majority of the reason Beijing was so unbearable is because of the urban heat island effects caused by buildings and concrete.

...and while burning trees does increase carbon amount it does also introduce a lot of ash, dirt, and dust into the air which reflects the sun's rays and would cause cooling.

Well at least Mr. Epstein has gotten to the core of the issue hasn't he?  There is a problem, the problem needs a solution, the solution needs to be implimented and the implimentation requires leadership.  Which leadership?  Democrats of course.  So there we are, the continued justification for the existence of Democrats to exercise power, they have a problem to solve, and power must be wielded.  If there is no problem then who needs leadership??????? 

Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity

The real question about this Epstein is whether anyone will remember these wild predictions after they fail to materialize as predicted and if they do remember them, will anyone with authority take any action to reduce Dr. Epstein's influence?   My thought is no.  He, like Dr. James Hansen, will be allowed to continue to pollute young minds with this baseless trash.  Indeed, these gentlemen receive public funds to continue this service.

They think nothing of stifling opinions contrary to their own through the use of government coecrion.  It is a tragedy the same rules do not apply to them.

The politicization of science is impossible without the participation of some scientists in it. Politicians in both tyrannies and democracies are susceptible to scientists who say that they can show the way to manage nature without all the complicated baggage of ordinary science. How attractive the bright, adventurous, and brave individuals are who cast off the burdensome limitations of facts and theory that constrain the scientists who disagree with them.

A "people’s academic," Trofim Lysenko promised to revolutionize the laws of agriculture, just as his Communist masters were trying to revolutionize human society. 

TheSoviet Union forcibly collectivized agriculture in 1928 and forced peasants to surrender their land, livestock, and machinery and to join collective farms. All grain was confiscated from the peasants, even grain needed for planting the following year’s crops. Massive famines followed in 1929 and the early 1930s. Several million peasants starved to death in the Ukraine, and the Red Army was used to collect the grain harvest, such as it was, because whole villages had perished from hunger.

Lysenko declared that the genetics of Mendel’s peas and Morgan’s fruit flies was incorrect and simply a capitalist plot to exploit the peasants and working class.

Some brave Soviet biologists opposed Lysenko and many paid for this with their jobs or even their lives.

The above are exerps from the Harmful Politization of Science by William Happer. "I lost a federal position because of citing scientific research findings that undermined a politician’s rhetoric." The politician whose rhetoric was undermined was then vice president, Al Gore.

There are people who think they're the only ones who know the answers. They can be dangerous.

Unfortunately we're not in uncharted waters.

"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods but by perpetual repetition."
- Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of Meteorology, MIT

No wonder the left and the Dems don't want freedom of choice in education. They don't want anyone teaching people anything other than their preferred doctrines and points of view.

Just my $0.02