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by Walla Walla Dawg II » Tue Aug 29, 2023 2:16 pm
Here are ten more corkers:
1. In 1974 TIME magazine led the charge on the coming new Ice Age: “The tell-tale signs are everywhere – from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland, to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.”
2. In 1989 Jim Hansen, the NASA scientist who testified before Congress the previous year to the “Greenhouse effect”, predicted that New York’s Westside Highway would be underwater by 2019.
3. Of the thirty-two models of the earth’s changing temperature that have been published by climate scientists since the late 70s, not a single one has come close to being correct after 1995 (see image below).
4. In 2000 Dr. David Viner, senior research scientist at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, predicted that within a few years snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”
5. In 2002 The Guardian published an article in its Global Development feature - which is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - which stated that famine within 10 years “can only be avoided if the rich give up meat, fish and dairy.”
6. In 2004 The Guardian obtained what it described as a “secret report … suppressed by US defence chiefs” that stated that climate change was a bigger threat than terrorism. It predicted that there would be a global catastrophe, with rioting, nuclear war and Britain living in a “Siberian climate by 2020”.
7. In 2008 James Hansen, the scientist who is held up by climate change politicians as a “climate prophet”, predicted that the Arctic would be ice-free by 2018, stating: “We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes.”
8. Not one to be outdone, former presidential candidate Al Gore predicted, in the same year, that the North Polar Ice Cap would be completely ice-free by 2013. Professor Peter Wadhams, who authored a paper for Nature magazine on the costs of Arctic warming, made the same prediction but plumbed for 2015. The US Navy’s Department of Oceanography, meanwhile, said it would occur in 2016.
9. In 2009 Prince Charles announced that the world had just 8 years to save the planet. The British prime minister, Gordon Brown, begged to differ, stating: “We have fewer than 50 days to save our planet from catastrophe.” (Perhaps he was confusing the planet with the catastrophe of his premiership?)
10. With typical French cartesianism, the French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius stated at a meeting with John Kerry in Washington in 2014 that there were, in fact, precisely “500 days to avoid climate chaos”.
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