Authored by Peter Svab via The Epoch Times,
Apocalyptic climate and environmental catastrophes of global proportions have decimated the world many times over in recent decades - at least based on dozens of predictions made by various scientists, experts, and officials over the past 80 years.
Newspaper clippings documenting the predictions were recently published by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. Many of those were first collected by geologist and electrical engineer Tony Heller, who frequently criticizes—on his RealClimateScience.com website—what he considers fraud in the current mainstream climate research.
The predictions, some going as far back as 1930s, not only at times contradict each other, but sometimes foretell the same imminent catastrophe repeatedly for years, even decades, seemingly undeterred by past failures.
Arctic Meltdown
“All the glaciers in Eastern Greenland are rapidly melting,” the Harrisburg [Pennsylvania] Sunday Courier reported on Dec. 17, 1939.
“It may without exaggeration be said that the glaciers—like those in Norway—face the possibility of a catastrophic collapse,” the paper quoted Prof. Hans Ahlmann, a Swedish geologist, from a report to the Geographical Society after his Arctic expedition.
Ahlmann, a world authority on climate and glaciers in his time, was even more graphic eight years later.
“The possibility of a prodigious rise in the surface of the ocean with resultant widespread inundation, arising from an Arctic climate phenomenon was discussed yesterday by Dr. Hans Ahlmann, a noted Swedish geophysicist at the University of California Geophysical Institute,” a 1947 article in The West Australian said.
“The Arctic change is so serious that I hope an international agency can speedily be formed to study the conditions on a global basis,” Ahlmann said.
Stories about a melting Arctic were still in vogue with the media in the 1950s.
“The glaciers of Norway and Alaska are only half the size they were 50 years ago,” said Dr. William Carlson, an Arctic expert, according to the Feb. 18, 1952, edition of The Cairns [Australia] Post.
“There are now six million square miles of ice in the Arctic. There once were 12 million square miles,” said Arctic explorer Adm. Donald McMillan, according to the March 10, 1955, issue of Rochester, New York’s Democrat and Chronicle.
‘Population Bomb’
In the 1960s, a new environmental prediction was on the rise—overpopulation.
“It is already too late for the world to avoid a long period of famine,” The Salt Lake Tribune reported in 1967, citing Paul Ehrlich’s prediction of famines by 1975.
Ehrlich, a Stanford University biologist and author of “The Population Bomb,” proposed lacing staple foods and drinking water with sterilizing agents to cut the growing population of the United States, according to the report.
Ehrlich was on fire by 1970, getting two dozen speaking requests per day and predicting that America would be rationing water by 1974 and food by 1980, California’s Redlands Daily Facts reported.
But around the same time, a new prognosis was on the horizon.
Global Cooling
“Scientist predicts a new ice age by 21st century,” The Boston Globe reported on Apr. 16, 1970, saying that pollution expert James Lodge predicted that “air pollution may obliterate the sun and cause a new ice age in the first third of the new century.”
In 1972, two Brown University geologists wrote a letter to President Richard Nixon, reporting that a conference attended by “42 top American and European investigators” concluded “a global deterioration of climate, by order of magnitude larger than any hitherto experienced by civilized mankind, is a very real possibility and indeed may be due very soon.”
“The present rate of cooling,” they said, “seems fast enough to bring glacial temperatures in about a century, if continuing at the present pace.”
By 1975, the writing was on the wall, with major publications including The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Time magazine running their own stories on the predictions of a coming ice age.
“An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere,” The New York Times reported in 1978.
A year later, the paper was reporting the opposite—a prediction of an Arctic meltdown, blaming global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions.
“There is a real possibility that some people now in their infancy will live to a time when the ice at the North Pole will have melted, a change that would cause swift and perhaps catastrophic changes in climate,” the 1979 article said.
Apparently, The Chicago Tribune didn’t get the memo, still reporting the “global cooling” narrative in 1981.
Arctic Meltdown 2
By the late 1980s, the narrative had switched to global warming for good, again predicting polar ice melting on a catastrophic scale.
“A senior environmental official at the United Nations, Noel Brown, says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000,” California’s San Jose Mercury News reported on June 30, 1989. “Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ‘eco-refugees,’ threatening political chaos, said Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program.”
The first to disappear were to be the island nations teetering just a few feet above the ocean level.
The small nation of Maldives was threatened to be completely covered by “a gradual rise in average sea level,” Agence France-Presse reported in 1988, noting that “the end of the Maldives and its people could come sooner if drinking water supplies dry up by 1992, as predicted.”
Yet 31 years later, the Maldives are thriving. Its population has doubled since the 1980s, and its picturesque islands are “set for a flurry of new resort openings,” Hotelier Maldives reported in 2018.
After a pause from the 1950s to the 1980s, the predictions of an Arctic meltdown are back in full swing in recent decades. The region was meant to be ice-free in summer by 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2018, based on various predictions.
Yet the Greenland Climate Research Centre reported plenty of ice in the Arctic in August 2019.
Some scientists have argued the earth is currently undergoing warming largely caused by carbon emissions due to fossil fuel burning; other scientists disagree, assigning the dominant effect to other forces or even disregarding the warming as insignificant.
via zerohedge
Accordiing to Archeologists and geologists, climate change has occurred for millions of years. So, what’s gnu?
Actually 4.5 BILLION years
So let’s all just bury our heads in the sand and ignore climate change because it’s all just a—hoax from China.
China!, what hypocrites the nation most responsible for CO2 and SO2 emissions.
Not to mention ocean pollution and human flatulence.
Craig Murphy: I thought it was only bovine flatulence, only cured by not eating any beef. How can we cure human flatulence if I can’t even remember the last time I ate people?
China’s emissions are in part due to their production of consumer and other goods destined to the US. We’ve not only offshored the production of these goods, we’ve also offshored the emissions that go along with said production. In other words, our emissions would be considerably higher if we were still making all these goods here.
The world has been through 4 or 5 Ice Ages and somehow warmed up after each one. The next one will occur in around 100,000 years so it may be, the Idiot, Occasional Cortex, simply “slipped a few digits” in her asinine prediction?
She may be correct on one count as rumor has it we got out of the last Ice Age when Cavemen started running around in their souped-up SUV’s. 😊
RICH: PERFECT WELL SAID WELL WRITEN PERIOD
Just follow the money. All the doom and gloom predictors are peddling something that is going to cost society more money. All the while these politicians get a piece of the pie. Look at Obama is talking about climate and oceans rising. Yet he’s spending $14M for beach front property in Martha’s Vineyard. Obviously not too concerned about the ocean levels rising and swallowing up his property.
All these climate hoaxsters, they’re just trying to sell a book or service for something that has not been proven. You can bet it’s going to cost you more money somewhere.
Now you have a moron barmaid AOC, trying to peddle the New Green Deal. The cost is more than the Federal Budget!
You can bet she’s got a hand grabbing money out of the cookie jar.
Jerry Brown and his Cap and Trade hustle, just another way to steal corporate money. Until the corporation get smart and leave California. When there’s no more jobs, just people on welfare in California. Then maybe these crooked politicians might wake up.
The pot heads who listen to the lies from these politicians, will continue to vote these crooked politicians like Newsom into power. As long as they get their drug, they will follow who ever is feeding them the drugs. Legalizing marijuana is just another way to buy votes.
I was first ‘exposed’ to potential “climate catastrophe” scenarios in grade school back in the early 60’s though our “Weekly Reader” magazine. Looking back now, it was a propaganda rag. I remember being frightened at the thought of water running out, crop and animal die-offs, and choking on air pollution. The Socialist were active way back in the 50’s, I imagine. They know they have to start when minds are young and malleable, and the heart is innocent — and children will believe what they are told. Even the Bible says “Raise your children in the light, and they will never leave it”. The Socialist know this is true, even if they don’t believe the purpose of the book.
Criminal politicians jumped onto the Climate bandwagon because it has potential for profits, and they realize there are millions of indoctrinated young people from our Socialist school systems all over the county who would “agree” with their mantras. OH, they’re SO emotional. We are KILLING our children!
Nothing they have ‘predicted’ has come true. EVER! EVER! EVER!
Climate is controlled by the Earth’s rotation and relative association to the other planets in our solar system. We have nothing to do with it. There were catastrophes and events exactly like we’re experiencing today, hundreds and thousands of years before humans or the ‘Industrial Age’ began, and the world recovered. Humans have survived.
We are carbon-based, like all other lifeforms on Earth.
Earth knows what to do with carbon . . .
Uhhhhhhh… yeah! These “chicken little” alarmists should be in a pot of stew. (They certainly stir up enough).
Paul Ehrlich was right. We were confronting mass starvation, but science solve the problem with the Green Revolution where agricultural scientists dramatically increased the yield of rice. I remember reading about Kaposi’s Sarcoma appearing among gay men in Science magazine. Many gay men failed to pay attention to the scientists and they suffered the consequences. In the late 80’s scientists found that the ozone home was being depleted by CHC’s used main in air conditioners, also to clean computer chips. The loss of the ozone hole would have been catastrophic, especially for agriculture, not to mention skin cancer. Companies at first resisted but they finally listened the scientists and catastrophe was averted. We need to listen to the scientists about global warming or we will suffer the consequences.
We can reduce the population by eliminating all charity food and supplies to AFRICA. They have over populated their food producing capacityand reproduce because we provide food. Just stop feeding them. And it NOT because they are mostly black, so it is not a racist argument it is numbers.
700 million years ago, the Earth was covered in an ocean of ice five miles thick. 550 million years ago, the ice began to melt. How many men, driving SUVs, were around 550 million years ago? None. Everything that happens on the surface if this planet has its origins in the Sun. The Sun is known to heat-up; it’s known to cool-down. We just react to the temperature of the Sun. There’s nothing we can do about what it does…
The Ordovician Extinction was caused when plant life exploded into the world and sucked all the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and as a result the earth was covered with ice. Scientists are becoming more aware that concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane are the cause of major fluctuations in climate. If the concentrations in the biosphere happen slowly they can be accommodated without much impact, but when accelerated such as it is now, there are consequences to the climate.
There is no acceleration. It is a globalist-Marxist computer game. The false climate change model built the acceleration into the model by ignoring the dominant influence of the sun & emphasizing the human factors many times over. Poof! Acceleration hysteria.
David Toler (nothing we can do about Sun’s temperature): That’s about the silliest statement I’ve EVER heard. Everybody knows (AOC?) that if we just pass a law it will stop, just like drugs, air pollution, segregation, and speeding.
David Toler is right. The sun is the topmost #1 major influence on the weather & is ignored by the POLITICAL ‘scientists- of climate n.v ate hysteria, whilthey far over weigh the human influences, which are actually beneficial to insignificant. The bought & paid for climate hysteria ‘science’ & ‘scientists are globalist -commie stooge liars & will cost us tens of trillions in taxes & inflation if people fall for it.
Want to see a wall? Talk to a leftist: ONE BIG FAT STUPID BRAINWASHED WALL.
First, even Obama, doesn’t believe in climate change, as he just bought that mansion on Martha’s vineyard worth millions, so he’s not worried about flooding. Second, it’s sad to see kids fed their daily bowl of climate b.s. and then go to indoctrination school to be force fed more b.s. Kids need to be allowed to grow up and be kids. Let adults worry about adult problems. Hey it’s fall, time for climate change, more on dec 21. Do not sweat it.
WOW! . . . mercy me. What am I going to do? I think I’ll have a café Mocha Venti from STARBUCKS, pick up the local Lib Rag (Fake news newspaper) and look for some MORE failed predictions from some MORE failed politicians (AOC? Greta Thunberg? Al Gore?) How ENTERTAINING . . . better than a sitcom! . . . Team Trump and his allies 2020 - KAGA (KEEP America Great Again).
I remember the ice age stories. They made as much sense as the current climate change hysteria. NONE
Dave: I think I remember you … You were the dangerous kid that didn’t think getting under your desk would save you from a Atomic Bomb!
I see from the comments that people are beginning to get wise to the “experts”.
You would be correct as there is no climate crisis.