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.

The beginning of these predictions began on the first established Earth Day, in 1970. It began with fears of a global cooling that slowly, over time, evolved to concerns of global warming once it became evident that they were incorrect in their initial predictions.

Ice caps

In 1999, the Birmingham Post predicted that the Himalayas would melt by 2009.^[1]
In 2006, German magazine Der Spiegel claimed that climate change could cause the extinction of the Baltic ringed seal^[2], but in April of 2013, Swedish newspaper "The Local" reported a record late freezing period in the Baltic region during the springtime.^[3]^[4]
In 2008, James Hansen predicts that the arctic will be ice free by 2018.^[5]
In 2009, former vice president of the United States Al Gore predicted that ice caps would be gone by 2014. ^[6]
Around 2010, Glacier National Park placed a sign saying that the park will have melted by 2020. In 2020, they removed the sign.^[7]
In 2012, climate alarmist Peter Wadhams predicted the collapse of arctic sea ice by 2016.^[8]
In 2013, US Naval Intelligence and fellow scientists conducted a study similar to Wadhams that claimed that the arctic circle could experience ice-free summers by 2016.^[9]

Rising sea levels

In 1971, biologist Paul Ehrlich predicted that the United Kingdom would be an archipelago of hungry people by 2000.^[10]
In 1988, climatologists claim that the Maldives will be underwater by 2018.^[11]
In 1988, Climatologist James Hansen predicted that the West Side Highway in Manhattan would be submerged underwater by 2008. ^[12]
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.^[13] Even liberal fact checkers admit fault with this statement.^[14]
In 2003, Pentagon scientists predicted that many parts of California would be completely underwater as part of a new delta by the year 2013.^[15]
In 2005, ABC predicts that NYC will be underwater by 2015.^[16]

Greenhouse gases/Refugees

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.^[17]
In 1988, NASA scientists warn of mass droughts in the 1990s.^[18]
In 1990, IPCC author Michael Oppenheimer predicted that the North American continent would be overwhelmed by famine and crop failures by 1995. ^[19]
In 1990, the Denver Post predicted that the Great Plains would turn into desert.^[20]
In 1990, Bill Kurtis of PBS predicted that the rainforests of Madagascar would be gone by 2000.^[21]
In 2005, the United Nations Environmental Programme predicted that there would be 50 million climate refugees by 2010.^[22]
In 2006, the Telegraph reported "global doom" centered in Europe after a reported "hottest year" on record in almost 350 years.^[23]
In 2009, prime minister Gordon Brown claimed that the world had 50 days to save Earth from irreversible climate change.^[24]
In 2014, French foreign minister Laurent Fabius warned that humanity had 500 days before "climate chaos".^[25]

Warming climate/Snow decline

In 1989, the St. Louis Dispatch claimed that by the year 2004, New York would have the climate of Florida.^[26]
In 1990, the Tribune claimed that there would be reverse migration away from the Sun Belt as climate change makes the climate uninhabitable.^[27] Record migration to Florida in the 2020s contradicts this statment.^[28]
In 1990, during a PBS documentary, actress Meryl Streep stated that by the year 2000, Earth would be the hottest it had been in over 100,000 years.^[29]
In 2000, climatologist David Viner stated that snowfall could become a thing of the past.^[30]^[31]
In 2000, Mojib Latif of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology says that “Winters with strong frost and lots of snow like we had 20 years ago will cease to exist at our latitudes.”^[32]
In 2004, Dr. Jeremy Williams predicts that a white Christmas in Wales (Snowdon) could soon be a "thing of the past".^[33] Snowdon in Wales temporarily closed in 2013 after being hit with massive amounts of snowfall.^[34]
In 2004, the Guardian predicted the end of the Scottish skiing industry.^[35] In winter of 2012, Scottish skiing slopes open early due to more snow coverage.^[36]
In 2004, Greenpeace predicted that snow in Belgium would become "increasingly rare".^[37] In 2020, World Wanderista reported that the High Fens mountains in the country experienced an average of 43 days of snow a year.^[38]
In 2008, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology predicts that Europe will see snowless winters by 2021.^[39]

Season shifting

In 1997, the BBC predicted that the El Nino cycle would last for 18 years of warmth, rather than 18 months.^[40]
In 2006, the Guardian predicts massive season shifting as a result of climate change.^[41]
In 2012, the Washington Post predicts that cherry blosssom trees will be blooming in Washington D.C. by wintertime.^[42]

Pollution

In 1969, the New York Times publishes "Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989".^[43]
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.^[44]
In 1980, acid rain is called a "front page concern" over the possible mass extinction events involving aquatic life.^[45]
In 2009, Prince Charles predicted that humanity had 96 months (8 years) to save the world from severe ecological damage.^[46]

Global cooling

In 1970, Kenneth Watts stated that by the year 2000, the globe will have cooled by 11 degrees.^[47]
In 1971, Dr. S. Ichtiaque Rasool predicted that the earth would enter into a new ice age within the coming decades.^[48]
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.^{citation needed}
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.^[49]
In addition to that, they "Population Bomb" by Paul Ehrlich claimed that 65 million Americans would starve to death in the 1980s.^[50]
In 2004, the Guardian leaked a Bush intelligence document that predicted that Great Britain would be plunged into a Siberian-like climate by 2020.^[51]

References

[1] ttps://www.newspapers.com/clip/110824051/himalayas/

[2] ttps://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erwaermung-bedroht-ostsee-robben-a-1866606d-0002-0001-0000-000047134816?context=issue

[3] ttps://www.thelocal.se/20130405/47154/

[4] ttps://notrickszone.com/2013/04/06/baltic-sea-sets-march-ice-record-never-seen-this-much-ice-this-late-in-the-season/

[5] ttps://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1988&dat=20080624&id=7mgiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7qkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5563,4123490

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

[7] ttps://www.krtv.com/news/montana-and-regional-news/glacier-national-park-is-removing-glaciers-will-be-gone-by-2020-signs

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

[9] ttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/dec/09/us-navy-arctic-sea-ice-2016-melt

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

[11] ttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/102074798

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

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

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

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

[16] ttps://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2015/06/12/flashback-abcs-08-prediction-nyc-under-water-climate-change-june

[17] ttps://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/69651456/

[18] ttps://realclimatescience.com/2019/05/hansen-got-everything-wrong-alarmists-claim-victory/

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

[20] ttps://denverpost.newsbank.com/doc/news/0EB1D1A1602882D9?pdate=1990-04-18

[21] ttps://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1990-01-15-2734810-story.html

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

[23] ttps://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuknews%2F1536852%2FThe-hottest-year-since-1659-spells-global-doom.html

[24] ttps://www.upi.com/Energy-News/2009/10/19/Brown-urges-world-to-break-climate-impasse/28851255994818/

[25] ttps://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/planet-still-standing-500-days-after-french-foreign-minister-warned-of-climate-chaos

[26] ttps://www.newspapers.com/clip/110819875/new-york-florida/

[27] ttps://www.newspapers.com/clip/110823083/sun-belt-demigration/

[28] ttps://www.islandernews.com/lifestyle/homes/almost-330-000-people-have-moved-to-florida-during-the-past-year-migration-is-expected/article_78860b40-aa7d-11eb-957d-1f0232e9d6d0.html

[29] ttps://www.minotdailynews.com/opinion/national-columnists/2021/04/green-fraud-and-the-climate-lockdown/

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

[31] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20150912124604/http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/snowfalls-are-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past-724017.html

[32] ttps://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/02/the-big-list-of-failed-climate-predictions/

[33] ttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/4112137.stm

[34] ttps://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-21969488

[35] ttps://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/feb/14/climatechange.scotland

[36] ttps://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-20631002

[37] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20111205041017/https://www.greenpeace.org/belgium/PageFiles/19049/SumIB_uk.pdf

[38] ttps://www.worldwanderista.com/snow-in-belgium-high-fens/

[39] ttps://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/02/the-big-list-of-failed-climate-predictions/

[40] ttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/25433.stm#:~:text=%22It%20appears%20that%20we%20have,into%20a%20permanent%20El%20Nino.%22

[41] ttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/aug/26/climatechange.climatechangeenvironment

[42] ttps://www.washingtonpost.com/local/could-cherry-blossoms-one-day-be-blooming-in-winter/2012/03/14/gIQAnas1CS_story.html

[43] ttps://www.nytimes.com/1969/08/10/archives/foe-of-pollution-sees-lack-of-time-asserts-environmental-ills.html

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

[45] ttps://www.newspapers.com/clip/110819943/acid-rain/

[46] ttps://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/just-96-months-to-save-world-says-prince-charles-1738049.html

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

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

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

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

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

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 == Ice caps ==
+*In 1999, the Birmingham Post predicted that the Himalayas would melt by 2009.<ref>https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110824051/himalayas/</ref>
 *In 2006, German magazine [[Der Spiegel]] claimed that climate change could cause the extinction of the [[Baltic]] ringed seal<ref>https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erwaermung-bedroht-ostsee-robben-a-1866606d-0002-0001-0000-000047134816?context=issue</ref>, but in April of 2013, Swedish newspaper "The Local" reported a record late freezing period in the Baltic region during the springtime.<ref>https://www.thelocal.se/20130405/47154/</ref><ref>https://notrickszone.com/2013/04/06/baltic-sea-sets-march-ice-record-never-seen-this-much-ice-this-late-in-the-season/</ref>
 *In 2008, [[James Hansen]] predicts that the arctic will be ice free by 2018.<ref>https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1988&dat=20080624&id=7mgiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7qkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5563,4123490</ref>
@@ Line 26: / Line 27: @@
 *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 2005, the United Nations Environmental Programme predicted that there would be 50 million climate refugees by 2010.<ref>https://newstalk1130.iheart.com/content/2017-04-24-a-brief-history-of-fantastically-wrong-climate-change-predictions/</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 2005, the [[United Nations]] Environmental Programme predicted that there would be 50 million climate refugees by 2010.<ref>https://newstalk1130.iheart.com/content/2017-04-24-a-brief-history-of-fantastically-wrong-climate-change-predictions/</ref>
 *In 2006, [[the Telegraph]] reported "global doom" centered in Europe after a reported "hottest year" on record in almost 350 years.<ref>https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuknews%2F1536852%2FThe-hottest-year-since-1659-spells-global-doom.html</ref>
+*In 2009, prime minister Gordon Brown claimed that the world had 50 days to save Earth from irreversible climate change.<ref>https://www.upi.com/Energy-News/2009/10/19/Brown-urges-world-to-break-climate-impasse/28851255994818/</ref>
 *In 2014, French foreign minister Laurent Fabius warned that humanity had 500 days before "climate chaos".<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/planet-still-standing-500-days-after-french-foreign-minister-warned-of-climate-chaos</ref>
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 == Season shifting ==
+*In 1997, the BBC predicted that the [[El Nino]] cycle would last for 18 years of warmth, rather than 18 months.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/25433.stm#:~:text=%22It%20appears%20that%20we%20have,into%20a%20permanent%20El%20Nino.%22</ref>
 *In 2006, the Guardian predicts massive season shifting as a result of climate change.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/aug/26/climatechange.climatechangeenvironment</ref>
 *In 2012, the [[Washington Post]] predicts that cherry blosssom trees will be blooming in Washington D.C. by wintertime.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/could-cherry-blossoms-one-day-be-blooming-in-winter/2012/03/14/gIQAnas1CS_story.html</ref>