The prediction that human additions to the atmosphere's CO2 content would continue to increase from the burning of fossil fuels? That, unfortunately, has come to fruition.
And now we've come full-circle thanks to your pathological lying! Right back to the very first post which
owned you. Unlike your bullshit post there, every single one of these bullet points have links. Thanks for playing, Crick!
The data is overwhelming. The history is indisputable. The
lies have all been captured.
A study in the journal
Nature Climate Change reviewed 117 climate predictions and found that 97.4%
never materialized.
- Biologist Paul Ehrlich predicted in the 1970s that: “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” and that “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
- In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
- In January 2006 Al Gore predicted that we had ten years left before the planet turned into a “total frying pan.” We made it.
- In 2008, a segment aired on ABC News predicted that NYC would be under water by June 2015.
- In 1970, ecologist Kenneth E.F. Watt predicted that “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but 11 degrees colder by the year 2000, This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age.”
- In 2008, Al Gore predicted that there is a 75% chance that the entire north polar ice cap would be completely melted within 5-7 years. He at least hedged that prediction by giving himself “75%” certainty. By 2014 - the polar ice cap had expanded over 60% (more than 900,000 sq miles)
- On May 13th 2014 France’s foreign minister said that we only have 500 days to stop “climate chaos.” The recent Paris climate summit met 565 days after his remark.
- In 2009, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center head James Wassen warned that Obama only had four years left to save the earth.
- On the first Earth Day its sponsor warned that “in 25 years, somewhere between 75% and 80% of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
- And another Earth Day prediction from Kenneth Watt: “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
Top 10 Climate Change Predictions Gone Spectacularly Wrong; This Is EPIC!
At the top of this post, you have a link that claims it will take us to "Nature Climate Change". It does not. It takes us to a 404 error at "The Western Journal". That explains a great deal as Nature would never have published crap like this list.
Prediction like these are most often provided to indicate what can happen if we do not change some behavior or practice of ours. If those things are changed, say, by the creation of the EPA, the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, those predictions should not come true. That you should think such statements refute AGW is simply evidence of your ignorance on science in general and global warming in particular. To wit:
1) As you note, Paul Ehrlich was a biologist who had zero experience in climate science. The prediction you mention here concerns population growth, not global warming.
2) Life magazine was never a science publication and, in 1970, air pollution WAS a real threat that was successfully addressed by the creation of the EPA (created 12/02/1970), The :Clean Air Act (signed 12/31/1970) and several other pieces of legislation
3) Al Gore is not a climate scientist and "total frying pan" is obviously hyperbole.
4) ABC News is not a science resource. Sea level rise in 2008 reached an annual rate of 1 cm/year, much higher than its longer term averages.
5) Kenneth Watt, as you note, is an ecologist. There was some evidence that temperatures were dropping in 1970 and the news media picked up on such stories, but there was never a scientific consensus supporting an imminent ice age. That is why when you see this claim, it is almost always found in popular news publications and almost never found in peer reviewed science journals.
6) Again, Al Gore is not a climate scientist. The North Pole has shrunk and IS headed for an ice-free summer. The claim that it has expanded is cherry picked bullshit.
7) France's foreign minister is not a climate scientist.
8) The now-retired head of NASA's Goddard Center is named James Hansen. Hansen's climate predictions from 1985 are famous for their accuracy, even after 35 years.
9) The sponsors of Earth Day.... Are you seeing the trend here? You claim that climate scientists have made faulty predictions but then attempt to support your claim with shite like this.
10) Kenneth Watt, ecologist. Tell us Mr Patriot, how long is "...only a matter of time"?
So, you have no scientific predictions here, failed or otherwise. You LIED when you claimed this list came from "Nature, Climate Change". Very close to 100% of climate scientists accept AGW and agree that it is a threat that needs to be dealt with quickly and effectively. Your arguments here are pathetic bullshit.