Difference between revisions of "Failed climate change predictions"

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Throughout the years, the mainstream media has predicted major climate disasters many times over, with many being disproven by time simply passing. The goalpost has continued to move as they have been proven incorrect. They claim that manmade changes will help stunt the impending disasters, which seem to not end up happening anyways.

Ice caps

In 2009, former vice president of the United States Al Gore predicted that ice caps would be gone by 2014. ^[1]
In 2012, climate alarmist Peter Wadhams predicted the collapse of arctic sea ice by 2016.^[2]

Rising sea levels

In 1971, biologist Paul Ehrlich predicted that the United Kingdom would be an archipelago of hungry people by 2000.^[3]
In 1988, Climatologist James Hansen predicted that the West Side Highway in Manhattan would be submerged underwater by 2008. ^[4]
In 1989, UN environmental officials claims that entire nations would be "wiped off the face of the earth" if climate change went unchecked by 2000. Over 20 years later, this has yet to happen.^[5] Even liberal fact checkers admit fault with this statement.^[6]
In 2003, Pentagon scientists predicted that many parts of California would be completely underwater as part of a new delta by the year 2013.^[7]

Greenhouse gases

In 1990, IPCC author Michael Oppenheimer predicted that the North American continent would be overwhelmed by famine and crop failures by 1995. ^[8]
In 2000, climatologist David Viner stated that snow would soon become a rare event in England.^[9]
In 2005, the United Nations Environmental Programme predicted that there would be 50 million climate refugees by 2010.^[10]

Pollution

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.^[11]

Global cooling

In 1970, Kenneth Watts stated that by the year 2000, the globe will have cooled by 11 degrees.^[12]
In 1971, Dr. S. Ichtiaque Rasool predicted that the earth would enter into a new ice age within the coming decades.^[13] The Brown University Department of Geological Sciences predicted an ice age by 2070, which contrasts to new claims of heating crises by modern climate alarmists.
In 1975, Newsweek ran an article called "Cooling World", predicting that the climate was cooling at such a fast rate that there would be mass famine. Newsweek later retracted the claim in 2014.^[14]
In addition to that, they "Population Bomb" by Paul Ehrlich claimed that 65 million Americans would starve to death in the 1980s.^[15]
In 2004, the Guardian leaked a Bush intelligence document that predicted that Great Britain would be plunged into a Siberian-like climate by 2020.^[16]

References

[1] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsioIw4bvzI&ab_channel=FORA.tv

[2] ttps://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/lake-michigan-completely-frozen-over-192515315.html

[3] ttps://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/30/doomsday-prophets-who-never-say-theyre-sorry/

[4] ttps://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/22/a-little-known-but-failed-20-year-old-climate-change-prediction-by-dr-james-hansen/

[5] ttps://apnews.com/article/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0

[6] ttps://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nations-vanish-global-warming/

[7] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20160407042846/http://www.climate.org/PDF/clim_change_scenario.pdf

[8] ttps://www.newsmax.com/MarcMorano/Michael-Oppenheimer-U-NIPCC/2011/01/05/id/381916/

[9] ttps://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/steve-connor-don-t-believe-the-hype-over-climate-headlines-2180195.html

[10] ttps://newstalk1130.iheart.com/content/2017-04-24-a-brief-history-of-fantastically-wrong-climate-change-predictions/

[11] ttps://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/jarrett-stepman/5-dire-climate-predictions-never-came-true

[12] ttps://www.westernjournal.com/10-failed-global-warming-predictions/

[13] ttps://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/

[14] ttps://www.newsweek.com/newsweek-rewind-debunking-global-cooling-252326

[15] ttps://www.gazettenet.com/Charles-LaPiene-recalls-predictions-made-on-first-Earth-Day-in-1970-9560742

[16] ttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver

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 *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>
-== Global Cooling ==
+== Global cooling ==
 *In 1970, Kenneth Watts stated that by the year 2000, the globe will have cooled by 11 degrees.<ref>https://www.westernjournal.com/10-failed-global-warming-predictions/</ref>
+*In 1971, Dr. S. Ichtiaque Rasool predicted that the earth would enter into a new [[ice age]] within the coming decades.<ref>https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/</ref> The Brown University Department of Geological Sciences predicted an ice age by 2070, which contrasts to new claims of heating crises by modern climate alarmists.
 *In 1975, Newsweek ran an article called "Cooling World", predicting that the climate was cooling at such a fast rate that there would be mass famine. Newsweek later retracted the claim in 2014.<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/newsweek-rewind-debunking-global-cooling-252326</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>