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 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.[4]
  • In 1988, Climatologist James Hansen predicted that the West Side Highway in Manhattan would be submerged underwater by 2008. [5]
  • 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.[6] Even liberal fact checkers admit fault with this statement.[7]
  • In 2003, Pentagon scientists predicted that many parts of California would be completely underwater as part of a new delta by the year 2013.[8]

Greenhouse gases

  • In 1990, IPCC author Michael Oppenheimer predicted that the North American continent would be overwhelmed by famine and crop failures by 1995. Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag