"Ten climate fear stories that failed"

Source:

https://www.cfact.org/2021/03/23/ten-climate-fear-stories-that-failed/

... "I will supply you with 10 stories that were projected to come to pass in 2020.

... So why do we even pay attention to predictions relating to weather and climate (normally considered a 30 year composite of weather) years, decades and even centuries into the future.

We evidently evolved from prehistoric man when fear of everything was likely to extend life by protecting it from vicious animals and starvation.

It has been bread into our DNA and todays alarmists know it only too well.

... 1- In 1987 a former NASA scientist was quoted in nearly all US newspapers that by 2020 the world’s temperature would increase by 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit. The actual increase was less than a single degree Fahrenheit.

2- The Vermont Sun, in 1978 quoted multiple scientists predicting that by 2020 the Earth’s CO2 concentration would double from its then current level of 330 parts per million. It actually increased by only about 27% to 420.

3- in 2009 it was predicted that China would decrease their CO2 emissions by 40 to 45% and India by 20 to 25%. Instead their emissions have increase in the past 11 years.

4- In 2008 Al Gore and most of his friends predicted the snow on Mount Kilimanjaro would have disappeared. There has been little change at all in its snow cap.

5- In 1986 US EPA predicted a two foot sea level rise for Florida in 2020. It has risen about one inch, a rate which has been experienced for 800 years. An additional apparent rise of 3 inches has been the result of land subsidence.

6- In March of 2000 at Britain”s Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, scientist David Parker told the English newspaper The Independent that British children will soon experience snow only virtually on the internet. When it does snow 20 years hence (2020) it will cause chaos due to its rarity. England has not been short of normal snow.

7- In 2000 it was reported by the Tarawa, Kiribati newspaper that a study by Greenpeace indicated that Global Warming will ruin Pacific Island Nations economies by 2020 with Tuvalu considered most critical. Tuvalu’s 2019 budget report stated that Tuvalu had enjoyed an unprecedented six consecutive years of economic growth.

8- A secret Pentagon report in 2004 reported to President Bush that climate change-caused resource shortages may cause a global war by 2020. It said that shortages of water and energy will become increasingly harder to overcome plunging the planet into war as it is carrying a higher population than it can sustain. Enough said.

9- USA Today reported in 2013 that the Arctic should be free of ice in the summer by 2020. The prediction was off by 3.9 million square kilometers, which was the amount of remaining ice in September of 2020.

10- In 2009 the Los Angeles Times reported from a number of government reports that it was expected that all glaciers in Glacier National Park would be gone by 2020. The Park officials posted signs warning visitors that the end of glaciers in the Park was near. In 2020 no glaciers were gone but the signs were removed.

The left, which has now taken power will continue to come up with more predictions to scare you.

Their past failures will not deter them a bit."