https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4651742/2020-deadline-avert-climate-catastrophe.html
The original date of this article was June 29, 2017. A letter was signed by former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres, three "top" climate scientists, and two sustainability experts from the business sector’:
Why are 3 of the signatories all from the same Potsdam Institute?
Christiana Figueres
Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (founding director)
Gail Whiteman
Professor and Director of the Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business at Lancaster University
Johan Rockström
Chief Scientist at Conservation International and co-director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Anthony Hobley
Chief Executive Officer of the Carbon Tracker Initiative. Previously partner and Global Head of the Sustainability & Climate Finance Practice at global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. Formerly General Counsel to the Climate Change Capital Carbon Fund and Director of Legal Policy for Climate Change Capital
Stefan Rahmstorf
Professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam University, and co-founder of the blog Real Climate
Are they still ‘expert" climate scientists after that ridiculous wrong prediction
According to Niels Bohr, ”an expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field ... " Or perhaps an "expert" is anyone more than 20 miles from home and carrying a briefcase. Actually, an expert is someone who studies a subject ,gaining more and more knowledge in smaller and smaller detail, until they end up knowing absolutely everything about nothing. End of lame "expert" jokes.
ExtinctionClock.org tracks the more cataclysmic climate-related predictions.
Climate alarmists in government positions are well versed in how to "homogenize" and "adjust" temperature data to show even more warming. Usually cooling the past. That’s how they handled the 1998 to mid-2015 global warming ‘pause’ when it became a "problem". They "adjusted"it away !
Climate alarmists and other socialists stridently hector the rest of us about some unproven climate theory, and wrong prediction, ignoring any criticism when the prediction later proves to be completely wrong. ALL the predictions are WRONG, so i have to edit them -- here are some "losers":
1971:
‘New Ice Age Coming’ Dr. Paul Ehrlich -- oceans will be dead in less than a decade. America will be subject to water rationing by 1974 and food rationing by 1980
1971:
U.S. Scientist sees New Ice Age Coming. The world could be as little as 50 years away from a new ice age -- Washington Post July 9 quoting N.A.S.A.
New ice age by 2070. Oil will be gone in 10 years -- Dr. S. I. Rasool NASA & Columbia University & Dr. S. H. Schneider backed up by Dr. Gordon F. MacDonald “It may be necessary to stop all use of coal, oil, natural gas and automobile gasoline and switch in the main to nuclear energy".
1974:
‘New Ice Age Coming Fast’ -- Letter to the President from George J. Kukla & R.K. Matthews 1974:
1979:
Scientist predicts 15-25 foot rise in ocean levels should the West Antarctic ice sheet melt. Florida’s coastal cities would be submerged as would New Orleans, Galveston & Corpus Christie (Texas) …one fourth of Delaware plus parts of Washington D.C. Savannah & Charleston.
1988:
Maldives completely under water in 30 years -- James Hansen NASA
2000:
‘Children won’t know what snow is by 2010.’ -- Dr. David Viner a senior research scientist at the climate research unit CRU of the University of East Anglia “Within a few years winter snowfall will become a rare and exciting event. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”
2007:
NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally predicted that the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer in 2012.
2007:
Professor Wieslaw Maslowski from Dept. Oceanography of the US Navy predicted an ice-free Arctic Ocean in summer 2013, and said the prediction was conservative.
2008:
This drought may never Break. It may be time to stop describing SE Australia as gripped by drought and accept the extreme dry as permanent. “Perhaps we should call it our new climate” said Bureau of Meteorology Head of Climate Analysis, David Jones.
March 2009:
Prince Charles, 100 months to save the planet: (8 years 4 months, 2017)
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/mar/08/prince-charles-monarchy
“The Prince of Wales is to issue a warning that the world has only “100 months to act” before the damage caused by global warming becomes irreversible.”
October 2009:
Gordon Brown, Less than 50 days to save the planet (Just seven weeks!) https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/gordon-brown-we-have-fewer-than-fifty-days-to-save-our-planet-from-catastrophe-1805648.html
“In every era there are only one or two moments when nations come together and reach agreements that make history because they change the course of history. Copenhagen must be such a time.
There are now fewer than 50 days to set the course of the next 50 years and more. So, as we convene here, we carry great responsibilities, and the world is watching. If we do not reach a deal at this time, let us be in no doubt: once the damage from unchecked emissions growth is done, no retrospective global agreement, in some future period, can undo that choice. By then it will be irretrievably too late.”
November 2009:
Sir John Houghton says seven years to save the planet, (2016)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/nov/04/climate-change-faith-religion-justice
“Four thousand years ago Joseph had seven years to prepare for his climate crisis. Today, action is required just as urgently. Global carbon emissions are still rising rapidly. Within about seven years, well before 2020, global emissions need to peak and begin rapidly to reduce – an extremely challenging goal. The means to achieve it are available and the cost affordable. But is the will there to do it? In December, the world’s nations meet in Copenhagen to set targets and a timetable for action. People of faith are calling for worldwide prayer and many are saying it is the most important meeting the world has ever seen.”