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Sunday, October 13, 2019

Respected scientists + government officials = consistently wrong environmental predictions

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.