Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-apocalyptic Predictions
Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions | Competitive Enterprise Institute
1. Scientist James P. Lodge Jr. in 1970 predicted a new ice age in the first third of 21st century.
2. Dr. S. I. Rasool of NASA in 1971 said that: In the next 50 years the fine dust man constantly put into the atmosphere by fossil fuel burning could screen out so much sun light that the average temperature could drop by 6 degrees. Such a temperature decrease could be sufficient to trigger and ice age.
3. The Guardian reported in January 1974, “Space satellites show new Ice Age coming fast.”
4. The climate scientist Stephen Schneider in 1976 in his book “The Genesis Strategy” wrote about how to prepare for lower food production caused by global cooling. Some years later Schneider became a leading advocate of global warming alarmism.
5. In 1978 an international team of specialists finds no end in sight to 30 year cooling trend.
6. James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies beginning in 1988 predicted major droughts and up to six feet of sea level rise in the 1990s. The last dry year was 1988, and recent years have been record wet.
7. In 1988 the Environmental Affairs Director, Hussein Shihab, said an estimate rise of 20 to 30 centimeters (8 to 12 inches) in the next 20 to 30 years could be catastrophic for most of the Maldives islands.
8. In 1989 a senior UN environmental official said that entire nations could be wipe from the face of the earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reverse by the year 2000.
9. In 200, According to Dr. David Viner, a senior research at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, within a few years winter snowfall will become a very rear event.
10. In 2008, again James Hansen of NASA said, “We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes. The artic is the first tipping point and it is occurring exactly the way we said it would.”
11. On December 2008, Al Gore predicted that the North Pole Ice Cap would be completely ice free in five years.
12. On 2013, n US Department of Energy-backed research project led by a US Navy scientist predicted that the Artic could lose its summer sea ice as early as 2016.
