FAILED CLIMATE PREDICTIONS
October 1958 – New York Times: Arctic ice sheet will melt
November 1967 – Salt Lake City Tribune: World famine by 1979
April 1970 – Boston Globe: New ice age coming due to air pollution blocking sun
July 1971 – Washington Post: Ice age coming in 50 years
December 1972 – Brown University: Global deterioration due to climate change
January 1974 – The Guardian: Ice age coming fast
June 1974 – Time magazine: Another ice age is coming
January 1978 – New York Times: No end of cooling trend of last 50 years
February 1979 - New York Times: All the ice at the North Pole will melt
May 1982 – New York Times: Devastation as complete as nuclear holocaust by 2000
September 2000 – Trove (nla.au.gov): Maldives 1,196 islands may be underwater by 2008 to 2028
June 1989: San Jose Mercury News: Rising sea level will eliminate nations
March 2000 – The Independent: “Snowfalls are just a thing of the past for Great Britain”
February 2004 - The Guardian: “Secret Pentagon Report” , Climate change will lead to nuclear war, major European cities will sink into the ocean, and Britain will descend into “Siberian climate” by 2020
January 2006 – The Independent: Renowned scientists James Lovelock says the world has passed the point of no return for climate change, and civilization is unlikely to survive
November 2007 – New York Times: If there is no action by 2012 then it is too late
December 2007 - Associated Press: Arctic sea ice will be gone by 2012
December 2007 – BBC: Arctic summers will be ice free by 2013; Maybe our predictions are too conservative
March 2008 – SeaWatch: If Norway’s August temperatures this year equal that of 2007, the Arctic ice cap will all melt away (The August temperatures were higher. The ice cap did not melt away)
April 2008 – NewScientist: The Arctic could be ice free in 2008
June 2008 – National Geographic news: We’re projecting the North Pole could be ice free for the first time in history
January 2018 – Forbes: the chance that any Arctic ice will be left after 2022 is essentially zero
March 2018 – CNBC.com: ““With climate change, overdue asteroid strikes, epidemics and population growth, our own planet is increasingly precarious,” We need to colonize another planet or face extinction. – Stephen Hawking
[No other planet comes remotely close to being habitable.]
January 2020 – New York Post: Glacier National Park removed the signs installed in 2010 predicting that the glaciers would all be gone by 2020
December 2021 – LA Times: No snow California could come sooner than you think
[March 15, 2023 – USA Today “Snowfall in California breaks 40-year record”
