Anonymous ID: 17d70f Jan. 30, 2021, 2:38 p.m. No.12770875   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0895

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Below are the 41 failed doomsday, eco-pocalyptic predictions (with links):

 

  1. 1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975

  2. 1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)

  3. 1970: Ice Age By 2000

  4. 1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980

  5. 1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030

  6. 1972: New Ice Age By 2070

  7. 1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast

  8. 1974: Another Ice Age?

  9. 1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life (data and graph)

  10. 1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent

  11. 1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes (additional link)

  12. 1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend (additional link)

  13. 1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s

  14. 1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs

  15. 1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)

  16. 1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000

  17. 1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)

  18. 2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is

  19. 2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy

  20. 2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024

  21. 2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018

  22. 2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013

  23. 2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World

  24. 2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’

  25. 2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014

  26. 2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015 (additional link)

  27. 2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’

  28. 1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide

  29. 1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources

  30. 1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years

  31. 1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years

  32. 1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 1990s

  33. 1980: Peak Oil In 2000

  34. 1996: Peak Oil in 2020

  35. 2002: Peak Oil in 2010

  36. 2006: Super Hurricanes!

  37. 2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015

  38. 1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985

  39. 1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable

  40. 1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish

  41. 1970s: Killer Bees!

 

Update: I’ve added 9 additional failed predictions (via Real Climate Science) below to make it an even 50 for the number of failed eco-pocalyptic doomsday predictions over the last 50 years.

 

  1. 1975: The Cooling World and a Drastic Decline in Food Production

  2. 1969: Worldwide Plague, Overwhelming Pollution, Ecological Catastrophe, Virtual Collapse of UK by End of 20th Century

  3. 1972: Pending Depletion and Shortages of Gold, Tin, Oil, Natural Gas, Copper, Aluminum

  4. 1970: Oceans Dead in a Decade, US Water Rationing by 1974, Food Rationing by 1980

  5. 1988: World’s Leading Climate Expert Predicts Lower Manhattan Underwater by 2018

  6. 2005: Fifty Million Climate Refugees by the Year 2020

  7. 2000: Snowfalls Are Now a Thing of the Past

49.1989: UN Warns That Entire Nations Wiped Off the Face of the Earth by 2000 From Global Warming

  1. 2011: Washington Post Predicted Cherry Blossoms Blooming in Winter

 

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/50-years-of-failed-doomsday-eco-pocalyptic-predictions-the-so-called-experts-are-0-50/