REMEMBER I HAVE 4 OPEN BETS WHICH HAVE BEEN PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED:
I’ve bet $5,000 that glaciers will still exist in Glacier National Park in 2030. (At present, the film shown at the St. Mary Visitor Center says they’ll all be gone. GNP formerly had several large signs up telling visitors the glaciers would be gone by 2030. A couple signs even said the glaciers would be melted by 2020!) No one has taken me up on this bet.
I have a friendly bet (for a steak dinner) with my friend Ted Kocienzski III of Minnesota that by the end of harvest 2028, major U.S. commodity crops will produce yields no lower than those of 10 years earlier. The US government–in it’s 2018 “Climate Assessment”–predicted crops would decline due to “climate change” within a decade.
I have extended an offer of a $500 bet to Extinction Rebellion and Just-Stop-Oil founder Roger Hallam that 12 percent of the population of Phoenix, Arizona (thus some 180,000 residents) will NOT die during the 2030s from climate change. Note that Mr. Hallam recently had to check into a British prison to serve a 5-year sentence because in July 2024, he was convicted of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance by blocking major motorways. (For the record I believe this is an unjustly long sentence.)
Mr. Hallam predicted in 2024 that “12 per cent of the population of Phoenix, Arizona will die of extreme heat in the 2030s.” Hallam calculated that “climate” will kill 180,000 Phoenix residents during the 2030s. “Phoenix will experience social collapse at some point in the 2030s, along with the rest of the world’s cities in the new death zones of the planet.” Mr. Hallam has not accepted my offer to bet regarding his predictions. (Note that for the record, Phoenix continues to grow as Americans continue to flee colder areas to the Arizona city.)
I also have extended a $100 bet that that rhinos, orangutans, cheetahs, and blue whales will still exist among living species on May 3, 2034. An X poster named Little Grey Mouse lamented that he or she expected to see the extinction of “dozens” or cherished iconic animals “such as” the four described above, on May 3, 2024.
Little Grey Mouse (whoever that is) has not accepted my offer as of now.
