PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Shot:

In the late 1980s the U.N. was already claiming the world had only a decade to solve global warming or face the consequences.

The San Jose Mercury News reported on June 30, 1989 that a “senior environmental official at the United Nations, Noel Brown, says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000.”

That prediction didn’t come true 15 years ago, and the U.N. is sounding the same alarm today.

—“25 Years Of Predicting The Global Warming ‘Tipping Point,’” Michael Bastach, the Daily Caller, May 4, 2015.

● Chaser:

The Merc used to be one of the largest daily newspapers in the industry with upward of 400 reporters and editors, according to the Media Guild. After the latest round of buyouts and layoffs, the number of union-represented newsroom staff in the South Bay is down to 41. The East Bay papers are left with 65.

—“Bay Area News Group Hammered by More Layoffs, Resignations,” San Jose Inside, yesterday.

When we lived in the Bay Area, I recall getting telemarketing calls from the Merc’s boiler room begging us to subscribe on a seemingly daily basis. We invariably told them we get all our news online to fight global warming. I’d be more sympathetic to its current feeble state, if it wasn’t for the Mercury’s leftwing bias, its 1990s series of articles, that as Mona Charen wrote last month, asserted that “the crack epidemic in African-American neighborhoods was a plot orchestrated by the CIA,” and its 2010 involvement in the infamous Righthaven copyright troll of mom and pop bloggers.