They're always predicting.
With great confidence.
And they're always wrong !
Here are the "Greatest Hits"
from the past 80 Years,
of Failed "Eco-pocalyptic"
Predictions:
1939
The U.S. Department
of the Interior predicted
that American oil supplies
would last for only
another 13 years.
1949
The U.S. Secretary
of the Interior said
the end of U.S.
oil supplies
was in sight.
August 1969
Stanford
University
biologist
Paul Erhlich
warned:
"The trouble
with almost all
environmental
problems
is that by the time
we have
enough evidence
to convince people,
you're dead.
We must realize
that unless we're
extremely lucky,
everybody
will disappear
in a cloud of
blue steam
in 20 years."
Spring 1970
Peter Gunter,
professor at
North Texas
State University,
predicted in
the spring 1970
issue of The
Living Wilderness:
"Demographers agree
almost unanimously
on the following grim
timetable:
by 1975
widespread famines
will begin in India;
these will spread by 1990
to include all of India,
Pakistan, China and
the Near East, Africa.
By the year 2000,
or conceivably sooner,
South and Central
America will exist
under famine conditions
... By the year 2000,
thirty years from now,
the entire world,
with the exception
of Western Europe,
North America,
and Australia,
will be in famine."
1970
Ecologist
Kenneth Watt's
prediction was,
"If present
trends continue,
the world will be about
four degrees colder
for the global mean
temperature in 1990,
but eleven
degrees colder
in the year 2000."
He added,
"This is about twice
what it would take
to put us into an ice age."
1974
The U.S. Geological
Survey said that the
U.S. had only a 10-year
supply of natural gas.
43 years later,
the U.S. Energy
Information
Administration
estimated that,
as of January 2017,
there were about
2,459 trillion cubic feet
of dry natural gas
in the United States
-- enough to last us
for nearly a century.
The United States
is the largest producer
of natural gas worldwide.
2000
Dr. David Viner,
a senior research
scientist at
the University of
East Anglia's
climate
research unit,
predicted that
in a few years
winter snowfall
would become
"a very rare
and exciting event.
Children just aren't
going to know
what snow is."
2004
The U.S. Pentagon
warned President
George W. Bush that
major European cities
would be beneath
rising seas.
Britain will be plunged
into a Siberian climate
by 2020.
2008
Al Gore predicted
that the polar ice cap
would be gone
in a mere 10 years.
A U.S. Department
of Energy study
led by the U.S. Navy
predicted the Arctic
Ocean would experience
an ice-free summer
by 2016.
May 2014
French Foreign Minister
Laurent Fabius declared
during a joint appearance
with Secretary of State
John Kerry that
"we have 500 days
to avoid climate chaos."
Today's wild guess
predictions about
the future climate,
are just as likely
to be 100% wrong,
as yesterday's
wild guess
predictions !
Yet, even after
so many decades
of very wrong
predictions,
Americans are
more gullible
than ever.
Many people
are willing to spend
tens of trillions of dollars
"fighting" global warming,
that has been increasing
at only +1 degree C.
per century, which is
harmless.