Talk about low-hanging fruit. Over at the Concord Monitor, the Granite-Geek feature has a blurb on Climate that is so blatantly false that it begs our attention. And it has it.
Related: Take 13 Minutes To Inoculate Yourself and Others From Climate Fraud
I first used the words “climate change” in a story in the late 1990s and it has been a regular part of my reporting since. How could it not? It’s a great story, and journalists love great stories. And it has only become a better* story over time, as the effects have exceeded our worst-case scenarios. That’s why journalism as a whole is ramping up its coverage of the topic.
Have you, by chance, covered any of these great stories? Forty-one examples of climate alarmism by so-called experts that were completely wrong.
Source: for predictions 1-27. Items 28-41 include embedded 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
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1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
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1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes
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1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend
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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
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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 90s
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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!
I believe there are more.
Given this reality how can you say (with a straight face) that the story “has only become a better* story over time, as the effects have exceeded our worst-case scenarios.”
You’re 0-41 on this list of worst-case scenarios. When are we going to see some reporting on that?
Never?
Because the effects have exceeded folks are all in on a deliberate fraud meant to shift America and the world away from free-market capitalism and toward global socialism. The only “sciences” involved are political and economic.
Don’t deny it, your own experts agree. This was always a socialist economics project.
“… the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.”
Christiana Figueres, then executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change is not the only ‘expert’ to admit this openly.
Sounds like a great story. Where can I read your reporting on that?
Too busy scaring kids into giving up their future, freedoms, and their incomes to an all-powerful state based on a lie whose failures are stories you never shared?
Are you proud of what you are doing because I think it’s disgusting. And it sure as hell isn’t journalism. But it is a “story.” We call it fiction.