Gathered together in one place for the first time ever: all the busted, incorrect, failed, and patently preposterous doom ’n’ death prophecies from the climate-alarmist pants-pissers, bedwetters, and assorted ninnyheimers. To wit:
On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, John Wright provides a useful timeline of climate catastrophism in response to someone posting “projected” sea rise in Florida due to global warming:
For those of you keeping track:
- 1958 New York Times: Ice-free Arctic within 70 years.
- 1967 Salt Lake City Tribute, quoting Paul Ehrlich: Global famine by AD 1975. Involuntary mass sterilization needed to curtail population growth.
- 1970 Boston Globe, quoting James Lodge: Ice Age by the 21st Century.
- 1971 Washington Post, quoting NASA: Ice Age within 50 years.
- 1972 Brown University: Global climate deterioration due to Global Cooling.
- 1974 Guardian: Ice Age coming fast.
- 1974 Time Magazine: New Ice Age.
- 1978 New York Times: No end in sight to cooling trend.
Original source, with more listings than you might be anticipating, can be found here.
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