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50 Years of Failed Scientific Apocalyptic Predictions
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2020-09-10 at 8:55 PM UTC1967: ‘Dire famine by 1975.’
Source: Salt Lake Tribune, November 17, 1967
1969: ‘Everyone will disappear in a cloud of blue steam by 1989.’
Source: New York Times, August 10 1969
1970: Ice age by 2000
Source: Boston Globe, April 16, 1970
1970: ‘America subject to water rationing by 1974 and food rationing by 1980.’
Source: Redlands Daily Facts, October 6, 1970
1971: ‘New Ice Age Coming’
Source: Washington Post, July 9, 1971
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2020-09-10 at 9 PM UTC1972: New ice age by 2070
Source: NOAA, October 2015
1974: ‘New Ice Age Coming Fast’
Source: The Guardian, January 29, 1974
1974: ‘Another Ice Age?’
Source: TIME, June 24, 1974
1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life’
Source: Kingsport News, December 12, 1974
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2020-09-10 at 9:05 PM UTC1976: ‘The Cooling’
Source: New York Times Book Review, July 18, 1976
1980: ‘Acid Rain Kills Life in Lakes’
Noblesville Ledger (Noblesville, IN) April 9, 1980
But 10 years later, the US government program formed to study acid rain concluded:
Associated Press, September 6, 1990
1978: ‘No End in Sight’ to 30-Year Cooling Trend
Source: New York Times, January 5, 1978
But according to NASA satellite data there is a slight warming trend since 1979.
Source: DrRoySpencer.com
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2020-09-10 at 9:12 PM UTC1988: James Hansen forecasts increase regional drought in 1990s
Source: The Miami News, June 24, 1988
But the last really dry year in the Midwest was 1988, and recent years have been record wet.
Source: RealClimateScience.com
1988: Washington DC days over 90F to from 35 to 85
But the number of hot days in the DC area peaked in 1911, and have been declining ever since.
Source: RealClimateScience.com
1988: Maldives completely under water in 30 years
Source: Agence France Press, September 26, 1988
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2020-09-10 at 9:17 PM UTC1989: Rising seas to ‘obliterate’ nations by 2000
Source: Associated Press, June 30, 1989
Source: Salon.com, October 23, 2001
Source: CEI.org
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2020-09-10 at 9:21 PM UTC2000: ‘Children won’t know what snow is.’
Source: The Independent, March 20, 2000
2002: Famine in 10 years
Source: The Guardian, December 23, 2002
2004: Britain to have Siberian climate by 2020
Source: The Guardian, February 21, 2004
2008: Arctic will be ice-free by 2018
Source: Associated Press, June 24, 2008
2008: Al Gore warns of ice-free Arctic by 2013
Source: WattsUpWithThat.com, December 16, 2018
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2020-09-10 at 9:26 PM UTC2009: Prince Charles says only 8 years to save the planet
Source: The Independent, July 9, 2009
2009: UK prime minister says 50 days to ‘save the planet from catastrophe’
Source: The Independent: October 20, 2009
2009: Arctic ice-free by 2014
Source: USA Today, December 14, 2009
2013: Arctic ice-free by 2015
Source: The Guardian, July 24, 2013
2013: Arctic ice-free by 2016
Source: The Guardian, December 9, 2013
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2020-09-10 at 9:27 PM UTC2014: Only 500 days before ‘climate chaos’
Sources: Washington Examiner
But…
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2020-09-10 at 9:30 PM UTCLook closely and watch Speedy melt down without being able to explain away Trump's behavior
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2020-09-10 at 9:31 PM UTC
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2020-09-10 at 9:44 PM UTC"Experts" is code for hair-brained idiots. All the proof you need of that fact is already right in front of you. You just have to decide to see it.
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2020-09-10 at 9:51 PM UTCThis thread is great.
Arseholes are going to be arseholes no matter what.
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2020-09-10 at 10:19 PM UTCedited for privacy
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2020-09-10 at 11:27 PM UTC
Originally posted by netstat Most of these are not predictions based on science, they're newspaper articles some of which quote statements made by individual scientists which turned out to be wrong.
Here's a challenge for people: Download historical climate data for the past 30 years (I believe you can still do this from the IPCC's website) and compare it to the predictions made by the IPCC's climate models over that time. This is the best scientific prediction of the magnitude of climate change. Notice how the models are very close to the data? Nah couldn't be, fake news, hoax etc.
their 'predicktions' has been periodickally readjusted to match reality. -
2020-09-10 at 11:36 PM UTCedited for privacy
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2020-09-10 at 11:43 PM UTC
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2020-09-10 at 11:47 PM UTCI can't even find a graph of CO2 emissions since 1990 without them trying to turn it into a climate justice issue and breaking it down by per capita, rich vs poor, or by country.
That's why we're fucked and have no hope. -
2020-09-11 at 12:50 AM UTC
Originally posted by netstat Most of these are not predictions based on science, they're newspaper articles some of which quote statements made by individual scientists which turned out to be wrong.
Here's a challenge for people: Download historical climate data for the past 30 years (I believe you can still do this from the IPCC's website) and compare it to the predictions made by the IPCC's climate models over that time. This is the best scientific prediction of the magnitude of climate change. Notice how the models are very close to the data? Nah couldn't be, fake news, hoax etc.
You missed the point again dumb ass. For 50 years the machine has been spinning doomsday bullshit and there are still people like you who think they must be right this time. -
2020-09-11 at 12:56 AM UTCYou don't seem to understand that the DOOMSDAY CLOCK is at 199 seconds to midnight.
We don't want it to hit midnight and it is getting too close.
Oh man you just don't understand. -
2020-09-11 at 12:56 AM UTCPictured, Speedy Parker.
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