Environmental freaks have warned of global apocalypse for decades.
WFB:
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.
3) In 1970, biologist Paul Ehrlich at Stanford University warned that by the end of the decade up to 200 million people would die each year from starvation due to overpopulation, life expectancy would plummet to 42 years, and all ocean life would perish. Extremely false.
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All climate doom predictions are false.
They didn’t fail at raking in trillions of dollars.
I see that the wacko Paul Erlich is in that top ten list twice. Did you know he’s still alive (age 92) after all those doom forecasts? I wonder if he’s glad to be alive or if he wishes he’d perished as predicted.
@GoB:
True, true! Here’s the exception to prove the rule:
It will get toastier and then chillier as our sun dies.
Still waiting on the Ice Age they predicted before they started the global warming scam.
Also waiting on the big earthquake that is supposed to drop California into the ocean.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FI71k7rWUAAMNBe.jpg
Any questions?
— 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. —
Well, to be perfectly fair, “global warming” WILL eventually wipe out all of Mankind. Of course, it will be because the Sun has gone nova and “warmed” the entire planet to molten slag, but that’s just a piddling detail, right, Greta?
Uncle Al
Friday, 7 March 2025, 9:14 at 9:14 am
“@GoB:
All climate doom predictions are false.
True, true! Here’s the exception to prove the rule:
It will get toastier and then chillier as our sun dies.”
…and the corollary to that is, “…and there’s nothing WE can do about it”.
let’s not forget the hole in the Ozone Layer that was gonna give us all skin cancer.
It has been a product of the worst element having the ability to bully, censor and completely control the narrative. The Republican establishment was every bit as responsible for this whole shitshow as any Democrat and anyone who doesn’t want to recognize that has been complicit.
All of our energy comes from the sun.
The Earth is like a storage battery that has been collecting and storing the energy from the sun for billions of years. The amount of energy we get from the sun is several orders of magnitude greater than what we use, meaning that we only use a tiny, insignificant fraction.
Global Cooling, Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Pause or whatever the hell they’re calling THIS week is as much of a myth as all the other damned Leftist lies they’ve concocted like:
White supremacy
Systemic racism
Conservatives are domestic terrorists
Afghanistan was perfectly executed
Hospitals are over-loaded with COVID victims
The open Southern border is not a crisis
Joe Biden has over-performed. He gets more done in an hour than most people do in a day!
Our burning cities were “mostly peaceful protests”
Our burning forests are a sign of Global Warming
There was no election fraud
Inflation is good!
Kamala was not the Border Czar
Elon Musk is a Nazi
Donald Trump is a dictator
and so forth and so on!
Mann Made Global Warming never been anything but a giant cash grab on the part of the Moisturizing Metrosexual Meteor-illogical Climatological Preposterous Prognosticators of Doom & Gloom!
Q: After 40-50 years worth of failed predictions and warnings, at what point did you stop paying attention?
A: After the first 10 (I’m a slow learner)
Ain’t it the Truth – Lemm help you out –
1960: Oil Gone in Ten Years
1967 Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
1968- Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989
1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources by 2000
1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas masks by 1985
1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
1970: Decaying Pollution on Will kill all the fish
1970: Ice Age By 2000
1970: America Subject to Water Rationing by 1974 and food Rationing by 1980
1971: New Ice Ace coming By 2020 or 2030
1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
1974: Another Ice Age
1974: Ozone Depletion a “Great Peril to Life”
1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
1977. Department of Energy Says oil will Peak in the 1990s
1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend
1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes
1980: Peak oil In 2000
1980s: The Hole in the Ozone “threat”
1988: Regional Droughts in 1990s
1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record highs
1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018
1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019
1996: Peak oil in 2020
2000: Children wont know what Snow is
2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
2002: Peak oil in 2010
2004: Britain will be Siberia by 2024
2005: Manhattan Underwater by 2015
2006: Super Hurricanes are coming!
2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
2008: Climate genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013. Glaciers gone in the year 2020!
2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save The Planet.
2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to “Save The Planet from Catastrophe”
2009: Climate Genius Al Core Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice Free Arctic to 2014
2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015
2014: Only 500 Days Before “Climate Chaos”
2019: Retard sez: “how dare you doubt that Global Warming is really, really, really, really, really, really, really gonna happen this time! How DARE you!” “The world will end in 5 years”
2022: Due to global warming, global climate models predict hurricanes will cause more intense rainfall and have an increased coastal flooding.
2023: MSM – Maui fires caused by cLIEmate Change
2024: We’re seeing temperatures never before seen by Man!
2024: The hurricanes are due to Climate Change!
2024: The California fires are proof of Climate Change!
Holy shit! Where’s the Tylenol!
The dolts on the left have been absolutely 100% wrong for the past 65 + years and even more about their doom and gloom predictions. They’re even worse than last year’s Chicago White Sux. What’s gonna be their next failed prediction? Any guesses.
Then there is THIS particular Asshole who in 2019 demonstrated “Global Warming” to world leaders:
https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/nationalpost/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/bn2.png
That fukker should have that torch held to his ass!!
Ah yes, Bill Nye the idiot phony baloney so called science guy channeling his inner Carl Pagan. And to think that I let my kids willingly watch this knucklehead back in the 90’s. He was just as bad or worse than Ted Turner’s bs Capt. Planet which I never let my kids watch. My son and I actually saw him once back in the 90’s riding his bike in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle and my son waved at him.
@Uncle Al, It will get toastier and then chillier as our sun dies.
I won’t believe it till I see it.
The sky is falling!
Anon @ 9:17, really looking forward to Cali dropping into the ocean!!!
Phhh! That’s Nothing! AlGore flew me over the “Boiling Oceans” to “Witness Global Warming..first hand!”…Except we got lost somewhere over TN.