Post by cybergod on Jan 8, 2020 15:23:35 GMT -5
On the hot-button topic of Climate Change:
I'm old enough to have read most of these headlines, after becoming interested in Dr. Paul Ehrich's
dire predictions on imminent worldwide famine....
His theories were debunked, also.
---Any of this sound familiar to anyone?
1966: “Oil will be completely gone in ten years” – Brandon Sun
1967: “Dire famine forecast by 1975 - It’s already too late to avoid worldwide famine” -LA Times
1968: “4 Billion deaths between 1980-89 due to overpopulation starvation –Population Bomb
1969: "Scientists predict new Ice Age by 21st century" -NYT
1970: "Air pollution may obliterate the sun and cause a new ice age in the first third of the new century" -Boston Globe
1970: “75% of the all 8.7 million animal species extinct by 1995” –Look Magazine
1970: “America subject to water rationing by 1974, food rationing by 1980” –Redland Daily Facts
1971: "In the next 50 years dust man puts into the air with fossil fuel burning will screen out so much sunlight the average temp could drop by 6 degrees." -Washington Post
1971: “Ice Age around the corner” –Chicago Tribune
1972: “Ice Age coming – last 20 years of this century will be progressively cooler” –Windsor Star (CA)
1972: “Oil depleted in twenty years” –Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
1974: “Space Satellites show new ice age coming fast” -The Guardian
1974: “Scientists think ‘little’ Ice Age near” –Hartford Courant
1974: “Ice Age is due soon” –Canberra Times
1976: “Scientific consensus planet cooling, famines imminent” -Newsweek
1976: “A very significant warming of global climate probable” -World Meteorological Org.
1978: “No end in sight to 30-year cooling trend” -NYT
1980: “Acid rain kills life in lakes” –Washington Post
1988: “Maldive Islands will be underwater by 2018” -Canberra Times
1988: “More droughts likely” -Miami Times
1989: “Global warming and rising sea levels will wipe entire nations off the map by 2000” –U.N.
1989: “New York City's west side highway underwater by 2019” -Salon
1999: “The Himalayan glaciers will be gone in ten years” -IPCC
2000: “Snow will be a thing of the past, children won't know what snow is” -The Independent (UK)
2002: “Famine in ten years if we don't give up eating fish, meat, and dairy” –The Observer
2004: "Britain to have Siberian climate by 2020" -The Guardian (US Edition)
2005: “Manhattan to be under water by 2015” –ABC News
2006: “World will experience super hurricanes” -BMAS
2008: “Climate change to make hurricanes rarer” -Nature
2008: Al Gore predicts the Arctic will be ice free by 2013
2008: “In 5 to 10 years the Arctic will be free of sea ice in Summer” –Argus Press
2009: “Prince Charles says we have 96 months to save the world” –The Independent (UK)
2009: UK Prime Minister say we have fifty days to save the planet from catastrophe –The Independent (UK)
2012: “Global warming is causing more hurricanes” –The Independent (UK)
2013: “Ocean could be ice free by 2015” –Daily Beast
2014: “Only 500 days before climate chaos” – Washington Examiner
2019: World to end due to climate change in 12 years -AOC
An Inconvenient Truth:
There have been 5 major ice ages in the history of the planet - most recently the Pleistocene which ended 2.5 million years ago.
More recently, the last mini-ice age ended about 12,800 years ago and the Earth has been warming up ever since. It is a cycle. THAT is a scientific fact because it is repeatable and demonstrable. Man-made climate change is NOT scientific fact.
I'm old enough to have read most of these headlines, after becoming interested in Dr. Paul Ehrich's
dire predictions on imminent worldwide famine....
His theories were debunked, also.
---Any of this sound familiar to anyone?
1966: “Oil will be completely gone in ten years” – Brandon Sun
1967: “Dire famine forecast by 1975 - It’s already too late to avoid worldwide famine” -LA Times
1968: “4 Billion deaths between 1980-89 due to overpopulation starvation –Population Bomb
1969: "Scientists predict new Ice Age by 21st century" -NYT
1970: "Air pollution may obliterate the sun and cause a new ice age in the first third of the new century" -Boston Globe
1970: “75% of the all 8.7 million animal species extinct by 1995” –Look Magazine
1970: “America subject to water rationing by 1974, food rationing by 1980” –Redland Daily Facts
1971: "In the next 50 years dust man puts into the air with fossil fuel burning will screen out so much sunlight the average temp could drop by 6 degrees." -Washington Post
1971: “Ice Age around the corner” –Chicago Tribune
1972: “Ice Age coming – last 20 years of this century will be progressively cooler” –Windsor Star (CA)
1972: “Oil depleted in twenty years” –Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
1974: “Space Satellites show new ice age coming fast” -The Guardian
1974: “Scientists think ‘little’ Ice Age near” –Hartford Courant
1974: “Ice Age is due soon” –Canberra Times
1976: “Scientific consensus planet cooling, famines imminent” -Newsweek
1976: “A very significant warming of global climate probable” -World Meteorological Org.
1978: “No end in sight to 30-year cooling trend” -NYT
1980: “Acid rain kills life in lakes” –Washington Post
1988: “Maldive Islands will be underwater by 2018” -Canberra Times
1988: “More droughts likely” -Miami Times
1989: “Global warming and rising sea levels will wipe entire nations off the map by 2000” –U.N.
1989: “New York City's west side highway underwater by 2019” -Salon
1999: “The Himalayan glaciers will be gone in ten years” -IPCC
2000: “Snow will be a thing of the past, children won't know what snow is” -The Independent (UK)
2002: “Famine in ten years if we don't give up eating fish, meat, and dairy” –The Observer
2004: "Britain to have Siberian climate by 2020" -The Guardian (US Edition)
2005: “Manhattan to be under water by 2015” –ABC News
2006: “World will experience super hurricanes” -BMAS
2008: “Climate change to make hurricanes rarer” -Nature
2008: Al Gore predicts the Arctic will be ice free by 2013
2008: “In 5 to 10 years the Arctic will be free of sea ice in Summer” –Argus Press
2009: “Prince Charles says we have 96 months to save the world” –The Independent (UK)
2009: UK Prime Minister say we have fifty days to save the planet from catastrophe –The Independent (UK)
2012: “Global warming is causing more hurricanes” –The Independent (UK)
2013: “Ocean could be ice free by 2015” –Daily Beast
2014: “Only 500 days before climate chaos” – Washington Examiner
2019: World to end due to climate change in 12 years -AOC
An Inconvenient Truth:
There have been 5 major ice ages in the history of the planet - most recently the Pleistocene which ended 2.5 million years ago.
More recently, the last mini-ice age ended about 12,800 years ago and the Earth has been warming up ever since. It is a cycle. THAT is a scientific fact because it is repeatable and demonstrable. Man-made climate change is NOT scientific fact.