Top 10 Catastrophic Climate Predictions That Failed

[DonGlock26]

The earth does not care about its climate or how clean it is.

Man does

I guess the Left just wants to scare the sheep into obeying.

 

[rightwinger]

I guess the Left just wants to scare the sheep into obeying.

The left cares about humanities survival

The right only cares about short term profits

 

[DonGlock26]

The left cares about humanities survival

The right only cares about short term profits

You just said the planet isn't dying. What's going to kill off humanity?

 

[rightwinger]

You just said the planet isn't dying. What's going to kill off humanity?

Our own excesses
We are the one who needs clean air and water. We are the ones who need a stable climate.

 

[Independent thinker]

"Top 10 Catastrophic Climate Predictions That Failed​

Top 10 Catastrophic Climate Predictions That Failed
It's been almost six years since the delinquent child activist Greta Thunberg promoted a so-called scientist's warning that "climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels" by 2023. The scientist in question, Harvard University professor James Anderson, also predicted "there will be no floating ice remaining" in the Arctic Ocean by 2022 absent a "Marshall Plan-style endeavor in which all of the world takes extreme measures to to transition off of fossil fuels completely within the next five years." That didn't happen, but climate activists are still warning that the Arctic could be ice-free at some point between 2035 and 2067.

Not surprisingly, there is a long history—dating back to the 1970s—of so-called climate scientists and government bureaucrats making catastrophic predictions about the environment that never materialized. Here are 10 of the most egregious examples. Enjoy!

1) In 1970, S. Dillon Ripley, a wildlife conservationist who served as secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, warned that 75 percent to 80 percent of species would be extinct by 1995. Wrong.

2) In 1970, Kenneth Watt, an ecologist and professor at the University of California, Davis, warned that "there won't be any more crude oil," that "none of our land will be usable" for agriculture, and the world would be 11 degrees colder by the year 2000. False."

Top 10 Catastrophic Climate Predictions That Failed

Not surprisingly, there is a long history—dating back to the 1970s—of so-called climate scientists and government bureaucrats making catastrophic predictions about the environment that never materialized. Here are 10 of the most egregious examples. Enjoy!

freebeacon.com

When I was a kid, the Left tried to scare the people with claims of a Big Freeze. That never came, so they switched gears to Global Warming. Their predictions of calamity never happened, so they switched to "Climate Change" so they can blame any weather event on capitalism- but only Western Capitalism. They aren't protesting Chinese and Indian dirty
energy usage as if really were "killing the planet". If the Left really thought that fossil fuels were "killing the planet", they would
be demanding that we stopped China and India from dumping so much carbon into the atmosphere. The truth is that the Left's climate fear mongering is about control over industry- the means of production. Ring a bell? A progressive is like a watermelon- green on the outside and red to the core.


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December 1973

Are you sure we're not really all dead right now, living in heaven or hell, or wherever? Climate change my have already gotten us and we just don't know that we're dead. Surely the left couldn't be wrong about all of their doomsday predictions, could they?

 

[Crepitus]

Global cooling is very dangerous. It means drought and famine.

Globe is warming, there is drought and famine.

 

[80zephyr]

Climate predictions that failed

Conservatives who proclaimed climate change is just a myth and that we should do nothing about it.

Please show me on this graph where man impacts the planet?

 

[jknowgood]

Conservative strategy on Climate Change…

1. Deny Climate Change exists

2. Admit that the climate is changing but that man has nothing to do with it

3. Admit that man is affecting the climate but it is too late to do anything about it.

Liberals, we have to do something about climate change.
Battery powered cars, that take more energy and resources to make than gasoline cars. Also the battery cannot be recycled and is toxic to the environment.
Solar panels, cannot be recycled and is toxic to the earth.
Windmills, take hundreds of gallons of oil to lubricate. Kill thousands of birds and cannot be recycled.
You loons have hurt the earth worse than you helped it.

 

[DonGlock26]

Globe is warming, there is drought and famine.

Where?

 

[DonGlock26]

Our own excesses
We are the one who needs clean air and water. We are the ones who need a stable climate.

Stable climate ? What is that?

 

[TimFitz]

"Top 10 Catastrophic Climate Predictions That Failed​

Top 10 Catastrophic Climate Predictions That Failed
It's been almost six years since the delinquent child activist Greta Thunberg promoted a so-called scientist's warning that "climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels" by 2023. The scientist in question, Harvard University professor James Anderson, also predicted "there will be no floating ice remaining" in the Arctic Ocean by 2022 absent a "Marshall Plan-style endeavor in which all of the world takes extreme measures to to transition off of fossil fuels completely within the next five years." That didn't happen, but climate activists are still warning that the Arctic could be ice-free at some point between 2035 and 2067.

Not surprisingly, there is a long history—dating back to the 1970s—of so-called climate scientists and government bureaucrats making catastrophic predictions about the environment that never materialized. Here are 10 of the most egregious examples. Enjoy!

1) In 1970, S. Dillon Ripley, a wildlife conservationist who served as secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, warned that 75 percent to 80 percent of species would be extinct by 1995. Wrong.

2) In 1970, Kenneth Watt, an ecologist and professor at the University of California, Davis, warned that "there won't be any more crude oil," that "none of our land will be usable" for agriculture, and the world would be 11 degrees colder by the year 2000. False."

Top 10 Catastrophic Climate Predictions That Failed

Not surprisingly, there is a long history—dating back to the 1970s—of so-called climate scientists and government bureaucrats making catastrophic predictions about the environment that never materialized. Here are 10 of the most egregious examples. Enjoy!

freebeacon.com

When I was a kid, the Left tried to scare the people with claims of a Big Freeze. That never came, so they switched gears to Global Warming. Their predictions of calamity never happened, so they switched to "Climate Change" so they can blame any weather event on capitalism- but only Western Capitalism. They aren't protesting Chinese and Indian dirty
energy usage as if really were "killing the planet". If the Left really thought that fossil fuels were "killing the planet", they would
be demanding that we stopped China and India from dumping so much carbon into the atmosphere. The truth is that the Left's climate fear mongering is about control over industry- the means of production. Ring a bell? A progressive is like a watermelon- green on the outside and red to the core.


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December 1973

Yes, many of the more alarmist predictions made in the 1970’s did not come true.

Mainly because the environmental science was still very new.

Yet, manmade global warming is an established fact. we now know that the oil industry understood it as early as the mid 1980’s.

Their response was a massive public relations campaign to wish it away. It was supported by endless propoganda, junk science, and political presssure on oil friendly politicians. Right wing media was, and is, the primary focus.

Another strategy big oil uses is promotion of conspiracy theories like the one in your post.

As for this

" Their predictions of calamity never happened, so they switched to "Climate Change" so they can blame any weather event on capitalism- but only Western Capitalism. They aren't protesting Chinese and Indian dirty’

No, it was not environmentalists who promoted the “climate change” label.

It was big oil. In an effort to make the effects appear benign, and to try and deflect public focus away from fossil fuels.

 

[rightwinger]

Stable climate ? What is that?

A Climate that doesn’t generate extremes of hurricanes, flooding, drought

Things that kill humans

 

[Crepitus]

Where?

Are you kidding?

Boy you need to get out more!

SPEI Global Drought Monitor

The SPEI is a multiscalar drought index based on climatic data. It can be used for determining the onset, duration and magnitude of drought conditions with respect to normal conditions in a variety of natural and managed systems such as crops, ecosystems, rivers, water resources, etc.

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www.fao.org

 

[rightwinger]

It was big oil. In an effort to make the effects appear benign, and to try and deflect public focus away from fossil fuels.

The climate has always changed so you can’t be sure until at least a hundred years.

Until then, Drill Baby, DRILL

 

[TimFitz]

Liberals, we have to do something about climate change.
Battery powered cars, that take more energy and resources to make than gasoline cars. Also the battery cannot be recycled and is toxic to the environment.
Solar panels, cannot be recycled and is toxic to the earth.
Windmills, take hundreds of gallons of oil to lubricate. Kill thousands of birds and cannot be recycled.
You loons have hurt the earth worse than you helped it.

These are all outdated claims.. another big oil/right wing effort is to discount the effects of technical progress in new technology.

Claims that electric cars take more energy and resources to make than gasoline cars is not true.

Contrary to your false claim, batteries are routinely recycled.

“Windmills, take hundreds of gallons of oil to lubricate. Kill thousands of birds and cannot be recycled.”

An idiotic claim! How much oil does a gas fired power plant need to lubricate bearings in giant turbines?

You think massive amounts of carbon dioxide emissions don’t kill or shorten the lives of everything that breathes? No one ever complained about how many birds die from flying into the walls of glass curtain wall skyscrapers (far more than windmills do)

“Loons” like you don’t know what you’re talking about. Recycling decades old, and long since discredited talk radio tropes like these.

 

[Polishprince]

Climate predictions that failed

Conservatives who proclaimed climate change is just a myth and that we should do nothing about it.

The facts are that Sleepy Joe did everything a man could do to change the weather and he failed. The Kyoto Accords, the Paris agreement, summits of billionaires in Davos, you name it.

Complete and total failure.

Whether its a "myth" or not, nothing that Al Gore and his main squeeze, Greta have proposed have been efficacious in changing the climate back at all.

 

[rightwinger]

The facts are that Sleepy Joe did everything a man could do to change the weather and he failed. The Kyoto Accords, the Paris agreement, summits of billionaires in Davos, you name it.

Complete and total failure.

Whether its a "myth" or not, nothing that Al Gore and his main squeeze, Greta have proposed have been efficacious in changing the climate back at all.

Al Gore has been closer to reality than Climate Change deniers

President Biden initiated changes to wean us from our reliance on oil

 

[TimFitz]

The climate has always changed so you can’t be sure until at least a hundred years.

Until then, Drill Baby, DRILL

Like I said.

“climate change” was a label invented by big oil and aimed directly at people like you.

it was meant to be used to discount the impact of fossil fuels. Even though the oil industry knew that fossil fuels are the major contributor to manmade global warming. Big oil knew this in 1985.

Using your own made up timeline, we are 40 years down your 100 year road.

 

[TimFitz]

The facts are that Sleepy Joe did everything a man could do to change the weather and he failed. The Kyoto Accords, the Paris agreement, summits of billionaires in Davos, you name it.

Complete and total failure.

Whether its a "myth" or not, nothing that Al Gore and his main squeeze, Greta have proposed have been efficacious in changing the climate back at all.

Actually, a lot of the predictions in “An Inconvenient Truth” are oming true.

The facts are that Sleepy Joe did everything a man could do to change the weather and he failed. The Kyoto Accords, the Paris agreement, summits of billionaires in Davos, you name it.

Complete and total failure.

Whether its a "myth" or not, nothing that Al Gore and his main squeeze, Greta have proposed have been efficacious in changing the climate back at all.

False again!

What 'An Inconvenient Truth' Got Right (And Wrong) About Climate Change

Now that its sequel is out, where did Al Gore's landmark environmental documentary hit the mark? What did it get wrong?

science.howstuffworks.com

 

[DonGlock26]

Are you kidding?

Boy you need to get out more!

SPEI Global Drought Monitor

The SPEI is a multiscalar drought index based on climatic data. It can be used for determining the onset, duration and magnitude of drought conditions with respect to normal conditions in a variety of natural and managed systems such as crops, ecosystems, rivers, water resources, etc.

spei.csic.es

FAO Hunger Map

733 million people faced hunger in 2023. Explore @FAO's hunger map and navigate through regions, subregions and countries to discover the state of the prevalence of undernourishment and food insecurity.

www.fao.org

Seems to be going on forever.