Coming Climate Change Catastrophe Cult (5C) predictions.
Prediction failure rate
= 100% over the past 40 years.
Note: 5C predictions, scarier than ever,
and just as wrong, continue at an accelerating pace.
(1) 5C Prediction:
Global warming every year, or almost every year, after 1940, from manmade CO2 being added to the atmosphere:
What really happened:
- Global cooling from 1940 to 1976
(non-global surface measurements)
(non-global surface measurements)
- Global warming in late 1990s and early 2000s
- No global warming for past 12 to 18 years
(more accurate global satellite measurements)
(more accurate global satellite measurements)
(2) 5C Prediction:
Greenhouse gas warming causes rising temperatures with altitude in the troposphere, reaching the hottest point about six miles up.
What really happened:
No "signature" mid-troposphere "hot spot" has ever been found with weather satellites, or weather balloons, after decades of searching.
(3) 5C Prediction:
Increasing storms, floods, droughts and heat waves.
What really happened:
All remain within historical limits.
Some examples of milder weather:
Worldwide data:
2014 was near a 30-year low in worldwide hurricane energy (measured by “accumulated cyclone energy,” or the ACE index).
US only (based on data collected since 1900):
Landfalling hurricanes have been in a downtrend since 1945.
2005 to 2015 is the record longest stretch with no Category 3 or stronger hurricane hitting the US mainland (last time was in 2005). The second longest stretch was more than three years shorter.
2014's Atlantic hurricane season was the least active in 30 years.
(4) 5C Prediction:
Melting Arctic and Antarctic sea ice.
What really happened:
Northern Hemisphere sea ice declining, but within historical limits.
Southern Hemisphere sea ice increasing, and setting records.
Based on satellite data collection since the 1970s:
(a) 2014 had the greatest Southern Hemisphere sea ice extent so far
( sea area with 15% or more ice coverage )
(b) 2014 had Northern Hemisphere sea ice extent rebound back to a normal level.
(c) 2015 Antarctic sea ice extent hit new record highs in some months.
(5) 5C Prediction:
Rate of sea level rise will accelerate.
What really happened:
No evidence of sea level rise acceleration.
Note: Sea level has been rising since the peak of the last ice age, about 15,000 years ago, and has risen by over 400 feet so far.
(6) 5C Prediction:
Winter snow cover will decrease.
What really happened:
2014 had the greatest snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere since data collection began in 1968
(Rutgers University Global Snow Lab).
SUMMARY of failed 5C predictions:
(A) polar ice projections wrong,
(B) global temperature projections wrong,
(C) ocean “acidification” projections wrong,
(D) water vapor projections wrong,
(E) severe weather projections wrong,
(F) sea level rise projections wrong,
(G) world crop projections wrong,
(H) ocean temperature projections wrong,
(I) global precipitation projections wrong, and
(J) their beloved "Hockey Stick Chart" was busted as a fraud, and the IPCC dropped it like a hot potato, with no apology!