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Failed climate change predictions (view source)
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== Warming climate ==
== Warming climate ==
*In 1855, newspapers warned of the warming climate, as rivers like the Rhine and the Tiber were no longer consistently frozen over.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1855-01-20 |title=Cause of Changes in Climate |pages=3 |work=Thibodaux Minerva |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/thibodaux-minerva-climate-changes-from-t/115841296/ |access-date=2023-06-16}}</ref> Despite the fact that 1963 saw the coldest German winter of the 20th century, freezing over the Rhine,<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Rhine River Froze Over |url=https://legacystories.org/storyboard/entry/the-rhine-river-froze-over-1 |access-date=2023-06-16 |website=legacystories.org |language=en-gb}}</ref> modern scientists have discovered that the freezing and non-freezing of the Rhine were most likely linked to solar magnetism and sunspot activity, and not a permanently changing climate.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mainz |first=Johannes Gutenberg University |date=2012-08-27 |title=International team of researchers finds a link between cold European winters and solar activity - Press and Public Relations |url=https://press.uni-mainz.de/international-team-of-researchers-finds-a-link-between-cold-european-winters-and-solar-activity/ |access-date=2023-06-16 |website=Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |language=en-US}}</ref>
*In 1934, the Daily News of New York claimed that the climate of New York City would become warm enough to support plants and animals of a tropical climate. Nearly 90 years later, this remains untrue.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1934-09-24 |title=Captures Recall theory of Climate Change |pages=207 |work=Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news/103068728/ |access-date=2023-06-16}}</ref>
*In 1934, the Daily News of New York claimed that the climate of New York City would become warm enough to support plants and animals of a tropical climate. Nearly 90 years later, this remains untrue.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1934-09-24 |title=Captures Recall theory of Climate Change |pages=207 |work=Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news/103068728/ |access-date=2023-06-16}}</ref>
*In 1934, the Vancouver Sun stated that the climate of British Columbia had been getting milder since the 1880s.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1934-12-29 |title=Shift in Weather of Whole Dominion: Warm and Cold Years in Cycles - Records of Half Century |pages=5 |work=The Vancouver Sun |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-vancouver-sun-canada-w/112534461/ |access-date=2023-06-16}}</ref> In 1968, Vancouver's temperature reached a low of -18.3 C (-0.9 F), the lowest ever recorded temperature in the city.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Canada |first=Environment and Climate Change |date=2011-10-31 |title=Daily Data Report for December 1968 - Climate - Environment and Climate Change Canada |url=https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_data/daily_data_e.html?hlyRange=%7C&dlyRange=1957-09-01%7C1995-06-30&mlyRange=1957-01-01%7C1995-06-01&StationID=903&Prov=BC&urlExtension=_e.html&searchType=stnName&optLimit=yearRange&StartYear=1840&EndYear=1970&selRowPerPage=25&Line=42&searchMethod=contains&Month=12&Day=1&txtStationName=vancouver&timeframe=2&Year=1968 |access-date=2023-06-16 |website=climate.weather.gc.ca |language=en}}</ref>
*In 1934, the Vancouver Sun stated that the climate of British Columbia had been getting milder since the 1880s.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1934-12-29 |title=Shift in Weather of Whole Dominion: Warm and Cold Years in Cycles - Records of Half Century |pages=5 |work=The Vancouver Sun |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-vancouver-sun-canada-w/112534461/ |access-date=2023-06-16}}</ref> In 1968, Vancouver's temperature reached a low of -18.3 C (-0.9 F), the lowest ever recorded temperature in the city.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Canada |first=Environment and Climate Change |date=2011-10-31 |title=Daily Data Report for December 1968 - Climate - Environment and Climate Change Canada |url=https://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_data/daily_data_e.html?hlyRange=%7C&dlyRange=1957-09-01%7C1995-06-30&mlyRange=1957-01-01%7C1995-06-01&StationID=903&Prov=BC&urlExtension=_e.html&searchType=stnName&optLimit=yearRange&StartYear=1840&EndYear=1970&selRowPerPage=25&Line=42&searchMethod=contains&Month=12&Day=1&txtStationName=vancouver&timeframe=2&Year=1968 |access-date=2023-06-16 |website=climate.weather.gc.ca |language=en}}</ref>