2022 Same Shit, Different Year: 55 Years Of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions

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    Thanks go to Tony Heller, who first collected many of these news clips and posted them on RealClimateScience

    SUMMARY

    Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s. They continue to do so today.

    None of the apocalyptic predictions with due dates as of today have come true.

    What follows is a collection of notably wild predictions from notable people in government and science.

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    More than merely spotlighting the failed predictions, this collection shows that the makers of failed apocalyptic predictions often are individuals holding respected positions in government and science.

    While such predictions have been and continue to be enthusiastically reported by a media eager for sensational headlines, the failures are typically not revisited.

    1967: ‘Dire famine by 1975.’

    Source: Salt Lake Tribune, November 17, 1967

    1969: ‘Everyone will disappear in a cloud of blue steam by 1989.’

    Source: New York Times, August 10 1969

    1970: Ice age by 2000

    Source: Boston Globe, April 16, 1970

    1970: ‘America subject to water rationing by 1974 and food rationing by 1980.’

    Source: Redlands Daily Facts, October 6, 1970

    1971: ‘New Ice Age Coming’

    Source: Washington Post, July 9, 1971

    1972: New ice age by 2070

    Source: NOAA, October 2015

    1974: ‘New Ice Age Coming Fast’

    Source: The Guardian, January 29, 1974

    1974: ‘Another Ice Age?’

    Source: TIME, June 24, 1974

    1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life’

    But no such ‘great peril to life’ has been observed as the so-called ‘ozone hole’ remains:

    Sources: Headline

    NASA Data | Graph

    1976: ‘The Cooling’

    Source: New York Times Book Review, July 18, 1976

    1980: ‘Acid Rain Kills Life in Lakes’

    Noblesville Ledger (Noblesville, IN) April 9, 1980

    But 10 years later, the US government program formed to study acid rain concluded:

    Associated Press, September 6, 1990

    1978: ‘No End in Sight’ to 30-Year Cooling Trend

    Source: New York Times, January 5, 1978

    But according to NASA satellite data there is a slight warming trend since 1979.

    Source: DrRoySpencer.com

    1988: James Hansen forecasts increase regional drought in 1990s

    But the last really dry year in the Midwest was 1988, and recent years have been record wet.

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