Top 10 Climate Change Predictions Gone Spectacularly Wrong

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[Iron Munro]

When the mini-ice age arrives they will claim it is their hard work that turned the tide away from Global Warming.

They will all be patting themselves on the back and presenting each other with awards for their great accomplishments.

[SunkenCiv]

Science is why we have the technology we do -- the Greeniacs are all about their own unrelenting hunger for power over the rest of us, and have hijacked the sciences (and media, and schools, and unions, and everything else). The sciences have to be liberated from their influence, and a bunch of them will have to go to prison (or the gallows, I'm not picky) in order to make scientific, technological, and political headway. All science lists. Thanks Libloather.

[gibsosa]

ugh... will we ever flush this crap away in our lifetime... went to the weather channel for the forecast— had something about wolves on, and of course, they were wondering if “weather” had something to do with why wolves were becoming less human-shy.

[Gritty]

50 years later it's disgusting to hear people still trying to run the game on us

Yeah, but it's working. Have you talked to any school kids or Millennials about 'climate change' lately?

[BenLurkin]

I beg to differ as to one aspect of the development of technology. To whit: much technological development has been accomplished through the efforts of engineers.

[Impy]

[Cobra64]

Where is the link to the article itself?

[onedoug]

The scientific method and The Bible are consistent.

Climatology is not of the scientific method.

[sig226]

9. On the first Earth Day its sponsor warned that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.

11. In 1997, Earth Day founder Ira Einhorn would be extradited from France, tried for the murder of his girlfriend Holly Maddux twenty years earlier, and sentenced to life in prison.

Wait a minute - they didn’t predict that last one.

[clearcarbon]

Kilimanjaro was suppose to be snow free by now.

[ApplegateRanch]

>>These kids actually believe that these are unusual events, and we are in a time of great weather turmoil.
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Oh, we are! So far, this period of weather turmoil has lasted at least 4.5 billion years.

If we don’t do something to stop soon, it will continue into the far, far future! Enough is enough!

[gleeaikin]

Here are the remaining 5 predictions.

6. In 2008, Al Gore predicted that there is a 75% chance that the entire north polar ice cap would be completely melted within 5-7 years. He at least hedged that prediction by giving himself “75%” certainty.
7. On May 13th 2014 France’s foreign minister said that we only have 500 days to stop “climate chaos.” The recent Paris climate summit met 565 days after his remark.
8. In 2009, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center head James Wassen warned that Obama only had four years left to save the earth.
9. On the first Earth Day its sponsor warned that “in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
10. And another Earth Day prediction from Kenneth Watt: “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”

If Gore had said that 75% of the north polar ice cap would be gone by that time he would probably be right. Apparently submarine measurements have shown dramatic thinning in the thickness of the ice cap amounting to at least 75%.

If the French guy was referring to the chaos caused by the terrible drought in Syria that precipitated the present immigration crisis ongoing in Europe now, he was not far wrong. Next year will probably be much worse.

If the NASA guy was referring to the danger of irreversible rise of CO2 and temperature consequences, it will be 10 to 40 years to see how that one turns out. On the other hand if the Chinese who are now choking to death are successful in cutting way back on pollution, there may be more hope, especially if India gets busy too.

I don’t have information to comment on the last two.

[Mrs. Don-o]

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[AFreeBird]

Yea, the satellites are faulty, but the terrestrial monitoring stations in a parking lot, or next to an A/C heat exchanger are just fine.

They’ll say and do anything to protect their scam.

[ApplegateRanch]

At heart, science was based upon the idea of transcendence to understand the created universe.

Now, it is hijacked by those who view the universe in terms of mythic continuity, and so (ab)use science with a view to making the universe (and society) conform to their desires, via dogma and ritual, not letting pesky facts get in their way.

At the heart of it, that is akin to Libs eschewing basic Christian tenets, and holding multiple contradictory beliefs, and then deny there is any logical disconnect, no matter how it is explained to them.

They are shamans at heart, afraid of a universe they can’t contain and control, rather than simply understand.

[gleeaikin]

I decided to further research Gore’s 75% prediction. Over a decade ago I had read that submarine measurement of arctic ice THICKNESS from the 1970s and perhaps even earlier (I don’t remember) had shown major reductions in thickness of ice over at least 3 decades. Over time there has been a general reduction of surface ice, although very recently there have been some years with increase. Nevertheless, with thinness the overall volume decrease of ice is probably 75%. Increase in surface ice does help by reflecting solar energy back to space. Here is an article about the thinness issue.

http://www.livescience.com/50023-melting-arctic-ice.html

[Fred Nerks]

They appear to have left themselves ample wriggle-room at the end:

The data in the new study goes up to 2012, when summer sea-ice levels dropped to a record low. Since then, ice levels have slightly increased, the researchers said.

What we see now is a little above the trend, but it's not inconsistent with it in any way, Lindsay said. It's well within the natural variability around the long-term trend.

Pardon me if I don't assume we are going to be swamped any time soon or that I need to sell any ocean front property I own. What they appear to be trying to tell us is, yes, there has been an increase in surface ice, but don't believe your lying eyes, it's THIN ICE. Must be the same thin ice the IPCC is skating on...

Mind you...in all fairness, if the last ice age ended 10K years ago ( estimates vary) it didn't end suddenly, loss of land ice mass might simply be a continuation of a natural process which will one day see Greenland once more settled by farmers, and the Antarctic continent return to the beautiful land it once was, with rivers and lakes and forests, of which remnants have been discovered.

[gleeaikin]

Since I know you follow SC’s postings about various catastrophic events, then you should be aware of the following: The last ice age was ending around 15 to 18 thousand years ago. Then around 12 kya there was probably a major bolide event in the northern hemisphere which plunged the world into the Younger Dryas cooling which lasted around 1,500 years.

One reason the cooling may have seemed to end rather rapidly is the probable formation of the Gulf Stream northward warm flow around that time. Incidentally, my sweetheart’s very conservative Republican brother deliberately sold his property in Miami to relocate around Orlando, which is reported to have been above sea level even after the greatest warming and sea level rise.

[RedHeeler]

Now, I must say- that is extremely funny.

Holy crap!

[Fred Nerks]

I have to admit that I am an heretic. I read everything I can, and try to remember as much as possible, whilst still retaining my own impressions.
A quick glance at some Google links to articles on the subject might show you why:

Clues to End of the Last Ice Age - University of Southern ...

www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/14288.html

In contrast to what is often inferred from the geologic record, carbon dioxide did not cause the end of the last ice age, a new USC study published in Science suggests.
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Ocean carbon release ‘ended last Ice Age’ - BBC News

www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31424597

12/02/2015 · Carbon dioxide escaping from the depths of the ocean heralded the end of the last Ice Age, a study suggests. Its release into the atmosphere drove the ...
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Scientists uncover how last ice age ended

www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2007/September/27090702.asp

Warming at the end of the last ice age could have started in the Antarctic
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When did the last ice-age end - Answers.com

www.answers.com › Categories › Science › Earth Sciences

We are still in an ice age, but the last glaciation ended about 10,000 years ago, depending on which part of earth you live in.

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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027737911000051X

The Younger Dryas event is by far the best studied of the millennial-scale cold snaps of glacial time. Yet its origin remains a subject of debate. The long-held scenario that the Younger Dryas was a one-time outlier triggered by a flood of water stored in proglacial Lake Agassiz has fallen from favor due to lack of a clear geomorphic signature at the correct time and place on the landscape. The recent suggestion that the Younger Dryas was triggered by the impact of a comet has not gained traction. Instead, evidence from Chinese stalagmites suggests that, rather than being a freak occurrence, the Younger Dryas is an integral part of the deglacial sequence of events that produced the last termination on a global scale.

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My personal and totally uneducated conclusion remains that what we are witnessing now is nothing but a continuation of the melting which commenced at the end of the ice age, (that is a misnomer, it is still ending) and over a long period of time (a period as vague as the experts offer us on the subject) more and more land mass ice will melt to reveal the rivers, lakes and remains of forests that existed before the big chill, the cause of which is endlessly debated.
Velikovsky in Worlds In Collision made the best attempt at an explanation I have read to date. Earth In Upheaval describes the result of that catastrophe.