Total Pageviews

Sunday, February 21, 2021

50 years of dire climate forecasts -- not one came true !

 Sources: 
 
 

50 Years Of Dire Climate Forecasts

  1. 1967 Salt Lake Tribune: Dire Famine Forecast by 1975, Already Too Late

 

  1. 1969 NYT: "Unless we are extremely lucky, everyone will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years. The situation will get worse unless we change our behavior."

 

  1. 1970 Boston Globe: Scientist Predicts New Ice Age by 21st Century said James P. Lodge, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. 

 

  1. 1971 Washington Post: Disastrous New Ice Age Coming says S.I. Rasool at NASA. 

 

  1. 1972 Brown University Letter to President Nixon: Warning on Global Cooling 

 

  1. 1974 The Guardian: Space Satellites Show Ice Age Coming Fast

 

  1. 1974 Time Magazine: Another Ice Age "Telling signs everywhere.  Since the 1940s mean global temperatures have dropped 2.7 degrees F."

 

  1. 1974 "Ozone Depletion a Great Peril to Life" University of Michigan Scientist

 

  1. 1976 NYT The Cooling: University of Wisconsin climatologist Stephen Schneider laments about the "deaf ear his warnings received."

 

  1. 1988 Agence France Press: Maldives will be Completely Under Water in 30 Years. 

 

  1. 1989 Associated Press: UN Official Says Rising Seas to 'Obliterate Nations' by 2000.

 

  1. 1989 Salon: New York City’s West Side Highway underwater by 2019 said Jim Hansen the scientist who lectured Congress in 1988 about the greenhouse effect.

 

  1. 2000 The Independent: "Snowfalls are a thing of the past. Our children will not know what snow is," says senior climate researcher.

 

  1. 2004 The Guardian:  The Pentagon Tells Bush Climate Change Will Destroy Us. "Britain will be Siberian in less than 20 years," the Pentagon told Bush.

 

  1. 2008 Associated Press: NASA Scientist says "We're Toast. In 5-10 years the Arctic will be Ice Free"

 

  1. 2008 Al Gore: Al Gore warns of ice-free Arctic by 2013.

 

  1. 2009 The Independent: Prince Charles says Just 96 Months to Save the World. "The price of capitalism is too high."

 

  1. 2009 The Independent: Gordon Brown says "We have fewer than 50 days  to save our planet from catastrophe."

 

  1.  2013 The Guardian: The Arctic will be Ice Free in Two Years. "The release of a 50 gigaton of methane pulse" will destabilize the planet.

 

  1. 2013 The Guardian: US Navy Predicts Ice Free Arctic by 2016. "The US Navy's department of Oceanography uses complex modeling to makes its forecast more accurate than others.

 

  1. 2014 John Kerry: "We have 500 days to Avoid Climate Chaos" discussed Sec of State John Kerry and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabious at a joint meeting.