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Failed climate change predictions (view source)
Revision as of 14:46, October 9, 2022
, 14:46, October 9, 2022added more facts, see also, rearranged to create famine/apocalypse predictions section from migrated facts
*In 1974, a scientist tells congress that ozone depletion will cause "great peril" and that rates of skin cancer could increase to 8,000 extra people per year by 1990.<ref>https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/69651456/</ref>
*In 1974, a scientist tells congress that ozone depletion will cause "great peril" and that rates of skin cancer could increase to 8,000 extra people per year by 1990.<ref>https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/69651456/</ref>
*In 1990, the [[Denver Post]] predicted that the [[Great Plains]] would turn into desert.<ref>https://denverpost.newsbank.com/doc/news/0EB1D1A1602882D9?pdate=1990-04-18</ref>
*In 1990, the [[Denver Post]] predicted that the [[Great Plains]] would turn into desert.<ref>https://denverpost.newsbank.com/doc/news/0EB1D1A1602882D9?pdate=1990-04-18</ref>
*In 1990, Bill Kurtis of PBS predicted that the rainforests of Madagascar would be gone by 2000.<ref>https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1990-01-15-2734810-story.html</ref>
*In 1990, Bill Kurtis of PBS predicted that the rainforests of Madagascar would be gone by 2000.<ref>https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1990-01-15-2734810-story.html</ref>
*In 1969, the New York Times publishes "Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989".<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1969/08/10/archives/foe-of-pollution-sees-lack-of-time-asserts-environmental-ills.html</ref>
*In 1969, the New York Times publishes "Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989".<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1969/08/10/archives/foe-of-pollution-sees-lack-of-time-asserts-environmental-ills.html</ref>
*In 1970, Life magazine predicted that all urban city dwellers would need to wear gas masks in order to survive in an air polluted climate by the year 1980, and that sunlight would only penetrate half as hard as it did due to particles in the air.<ref>https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/jarrett-stepman/5-dire-climate-predictions-never-came-true</ref>
*In 1970, Life magazine predicted that all urban city dwellers would need to wear gas masks in order to survive in an air polluted climate by the year 1980, and that sunlight would only penetrate half as hard as it did due to particles in the air.<ref>https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/jarrett-stepman/5-dire-climate-predictions-never-came-true</ref>
*In 1970, biochemist [[George Wald]] claimed that pollution, among other things, would bring the demise of civilization by the year 2000.<ref>https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46817327/wald-forecast-end-of-mankind-within-15/</ref>
*In 1970, the New York Times said that man must conserve resources to "save the [human] race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction".<ref>https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110984014/if-the-fad-dies/</ref>
*In 1980, [[acid rain]] is called a "front page concern" over the possible mass extinction events involving aquatic life.<ref>https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110819943/acid-rain/</ref>
*In 1980, [[acid rain]] is called a "front page concern" over the possible mass extinction events involving aquatic life.<ref>https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110819943/acid-rain/</ref>
== Global cooling ==
== Global cooling ==
*In addition to that, they "Population Bomb" by Paul Ehrlich claimed that 65 million Americans would starve to death in the 1980s.<ref>https://www.gazettenet.com/Charles-LaPiene-recalls-predictions-made-on-first-Earth-Day-in-1970-9560742</ref>
*In addition to that, they "Population Bomb" by Paul Ehrlich claimed that 65 million Americans would starve to death in the 1980s.<ref>https://www.gazettenet.com/Charles-LaPiene-recalls-predictions-made-on-first-Earth-Day-in-1970-9560742</ref>
*In 2004, [[the Guardian]] leaked a Bush intelligence document that predicted that Great Britain would be plunged into a [[Siberia|Siberian]]-like climate by 2020.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver</ref>
*In 2004, [[the Guardian]] leaked a Bush intelligence document that predicted that Great Britain would be plunged into a [[Siberia|Siberian]]-like climate by 2020.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver</ref>
== Famine/Apocalypse ==
*In 1969, Paul Ehrlich claimed that “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born." <ref>https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110984144/greatest-cataclysm/</ref>
*In 1988, NASA scientists warn of mass droughts in the 1990s.<ref>https://realclimatescience.com/2019/05/hansen-got-everything-wrong-alarmists-claim-victory/</ref>
*In 1990, IPCC author Michael Oppenheimer predicted that the North American continent would be overwhelmed by famine and crop failures by 1995. <ref>https://www.newsmax.com/MarcMorano/Michael-Oppenheimer-U-NIPCC/2011/01/05/id/381916/</ref>
*In 2009, [[Prince Charles]] predicted that humanity had 96 months (8 years) to save the world from severe ecological damage.<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/just-96-months-to-save-world-says-prince-charles-1738049.html</ref>
== See also ==
== See also ==
*[https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/02/the-big-list-of-failed-climate-predictions/ Watts Up With That? - 107 Failed Climate Change Predictions]
*[https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/02/the-big-list-of-failed-climate-predictions/ Watts Up With That? - 107 Failed Climate Change Predictions]
*[https://www.use-due-diligence-on-climate.org/home/climate-change/sea-level-rise/ Use Due Diligence on Climate]
*[https://www.use-due-diligence-on-climate.org/home/climate-change/sea-level-rise/ Use Due Diligence on Climate]
*[https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/18-spectacularly-wrong-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year-3/ AEI - 18 Spectacularly Wrong Predictions: Earth Day, 1970]
==References==
==References==