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Wrong Again 50 Years of Failed Ecopocalyptic Predictions

Past Myron Ebell and Steven J. Milloy on CEI.org

Thanks become to Tony Heller, who first collected many of these news clips and posted them on RealClimateScience.

SUMMARY

Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s. They continue to practise so today.

None of the apocalyptic predictions with due dates as of today have come truthful.

What follows is a collection of notably wild predictions from notable people in government and scientific discipline.

More than than merely spotlighting the failed predictions, this collection shows that the makers of failed apocalyptic predictions often are individuals belongings respected positions in government and scientific discipline.

While such predictions take been and continue to be enthusiastically reported by a media eager for sensational headlines, the failures are typically not revisited.

1967: 'Dire dearth by 1975.'

Source: Salt Lake Tribune, November 17, 1967

1969: 'Everyone volition disappear in a cloud of bluish steam by 1989.'

Source: New York Times, August 10 1969

1970: Ice age by 2000

Source: Boston Earth, Apr 16, 1970

1970: 'America subject to h2o rationing by 1974 and nutrient rationing past 1980.'

Source: Redlands Daily Facts, Oct 6, 1970

1971: 'New Ice Historic period Coming'

Source: Washington Post, July ix, 1971

1972: New water ice age by 2070

Source: NOAA, October 2015

1974: 'New Ice Age Coming Fast'

Source: The Guardian, January 29, 1974

1974: 'Some other Ice Age?'

Source: TIME, June 24, 1974

1974: Ozone Depletion a 'Smashing Peril to Life'

But no such 'great peril to life' has been observed as the so-called 'ozone hole' remains:

Sources: Headline

NASA Data | Graph

1976: 'The Cooling'

Source: New York Times Volume Review, July 18, 1976

1980: 'Acid Rain Kills Life in Lakes'

Noblesville Ledger (Noblesville, IN) Apr nine, 1980

Just ten years later, the US government plan formed to written report acid rain concluded:

Associated Press, September half-dozen, 1990

1978: 'No Terminate in Sight' to thirty-Year Cooling Trend

Source: New York Times, January 5, 1978

But co-ordinate to NASA satellite data there is a slight warming trend since 1979.

Source: DrRoySpencer.com

1988: James Hansen forecasts increment regional drought in 1990s

But the final really dry year in the Midwest was 1988, and recent years have been record wet.

Source: RealClimateScience.com

1988: Washington DC days over 90F to from 35 to 85

Merely the number of hot days in the DC surface area peaked in 1911, and have been declining e'er since.

Source: RealClimateScience.com

1988: Republic of the maldives completely under water in 30 years

Source: Agence France Press, September 26, 1988

1989: Rising seas to 'obliterate' nations by 2000

Source: Associated Press, June thirty, 1989

1989: New York Metropolis's W Side Highway underwater by 2019

Source: Salon.com, October 23, 2001

1995 to Present: Climate Model Failure

Source: CEI.org

2000: 'Children won't know what snowfall is.'

Source: The Independent, March twenty, 2000

2002: Famine in 10 years

Source: The Guardian, December 23, 2002

2004: Great britain to have Siberian climate by 2020

Source: The Guardian, February 21, 2004

2008: Arctic will be ice-free by 2018

Source: Associated Press, June 24, 2008

2008: Al Gore warns of water ice-gratuitous Chill by 2013

But… information technology'south nonetheless there:

Source: WattsUpWithThat.com, December sixteen, 2018

2009: Prince Charles says only 8 years to salve the planet

Source: The Independent, July 9, 2009

2009: U.k. prime government minister says fifty days to 'save the planet from ending'

Source: The Contained: October 20, 2009

2009: Arctic water ice-complimentary by 2014

Source: Us Today, December 14, 2009

2013: Arctic water ice-free by 2015

Source: The Guardian, July 24, 2013

The paper: https://www.nature.com/manufactures/s41467-017-02550-9 (open access)

Gas hydrate dissociation off Svalbard induced past isostatic rebound rather than global warming

Abstract

Methyl hydride seepage from the upper continental slopes of Western Svalbard has previously been attributed to gas hydrate dissociation induced by anthropogenic warming of ambience bottom waters. Here we show that sediment cores drilled off Prins Karls Foreland contain freshwater from dissociating hydrates. However, our modeling indicates that the observed pore water freshening began around 8 ka BP when the rate of isostatic uplift outpaced eustatic sea-level ascension. The resultant local shallowing and lowering of hydrostatic pressure forced gas hydrate dissociation and dissolved chloride depletions consistent with our geochemical analysis. Hence, we suggest that hydrate dissociation was triggered by postglacial isostatic rebound rather than anthropogenic warming. Furthermore, we show that methane fluxes from dissociating hydrates were considerably smaller than nowadays methane seepage rates implying that gas hydrates were not a major source of methane to the oceans, merely rather acted as a dynamic seal, regulating methane release from deep geological reservoirs.

2013: Arctic water ice-costless by 2016

Source: The Guardian, December nine, 2013

2014: Only 500 days before 'climate chaos'

Merely…

Sources: Washington Examiner

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