Using Climate as a Tool (the predictions)
Those of us who listened to or read Rush’s words knew his opinions climate change predictions, warnings and proposed actions.
Those of us who listened to or read Rush’s words knew his opinions climate change predictions, warnings and proposed actions. Here is a bit of a roundup how climate hysteria has been used as a tool by the left to achieve their goals of more power and authority to enact their agenda.
It is telling that not one of the climate predictions made by the mainstream media over more than 50 years have come to pass. (It is also important to note that all of those predictions call for immediate action but we will not ‘know’ the result for at least a decade) When we examine the predictions of years gone by… claims of expected rising sea levels have not come to pass… fears of the end of arctic ice have not come to pass. and on and on…
Below are 50 of the 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 (meaning there will not be more after that)
33. 1980: Peak Oil In 2000 (meaning there will not be more after that)
34. 1996: Peak Oil in 2020 (meaning there will not be more after that)
35. 2002: Peak Oil in 2010 (meaning there will not be more after that)
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!
42. 1975: The Cooling World and a Drastic Decline in Food Production
43. 1969: Worldwide Plague, Overwhelming Pollution, Ecological Catastrophe, Virtual Collapse of UK by End of 20th Century
44. 1972: Pending Depletion and Shortages of Gold, Tin, Oil, Natural Gas, Copper, Aluminum
45. 1970: Oceans Dead in a Decade, US Water Rationing by 1974, Food Rationing by 1980
46. 1988: World’s Leading Climate Expert Predicts Lower Manhattan Underwater by 2018
47. 2005: Fifty Million Climate Refugees by the Year 2020
48. 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 (presumable from rising sea levels)
50. 2011: Washington Post Predicted Cherry Blossoms Blooming in Winter
Of course if sea levels are rising so precipitously, why have so many leftists purchased homes for millions of dollars right on the ocean or in low lying areas?
(pictured above is the residence of President Obama at Martha’s Vineyard)
As stated before the only thing that all of this alarmism is good for is raising taxes and increasing regulation. We must follow the science and the constitution to get back to sane government that looks for ways to make life better, not decrease freedom and prosperity.
More to explore in our next ‘Climate as a tool’ piece, coming soon.
See Also : Earth Day and It’s Origins
Or the next part of this series; Climate As a Tool
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