50 years of failed doomsday, eco-pocalyptic predictions; the so-called ‘experts’ are 0-50
Below are the 41 failed doomsday, eco-pocalyptic predictions (with links):
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1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
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1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)
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1970: Ice Age By 2000
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1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
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1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
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1972: New Ice Age By 2070
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1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
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1974: Another Ice Age?
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1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life (data and graph)
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1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
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1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes (additional link)
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1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend (additional link)
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1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
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1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
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1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)
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1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
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1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)
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2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is
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2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
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2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024
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2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
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2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
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2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World
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2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’
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2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014
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2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015 (additional link)
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2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’
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1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
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1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
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1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years
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1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
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1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 1990s
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1980: Peak Oil In 2000
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1996: Peak Oil in 2020
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2002: Peak Oil in 2010
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2006: Super Hurricanes!
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2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
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1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
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1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
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1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
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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.
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1975: The Cooling World and a Drastic Decline in Food Production
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1969: Worldwide Plague, Overwhelming Pollution, Ecological Catastrophe, Virtual Collapse of UK by End of 20th Century
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1972: Pending Depletion and Shortages of Gold, Tin, Oil, Natural Gas, Copper, Aluminum
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1970: Oceans Dead in a Decade, US Water Rationing by 1974, Food Rationing by 1980
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1988: World’s Leading Climate Expert Predicts Lower Manhattan Underwater by 2018
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2005: Fifty Million Climate Refugees by the Year 2020
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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
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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/
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/