''it will never happen''
I love it when the vacuous say that 'it will never happen' - it's a guarantee that it more than likely will -''
Talking about vacuous - how about all those apocalyptic climate events that NEVER HAPPENED despite much gnashing of the teeth by the climate alarmists
50 failed eco-pocalyptic predictions
Hashim Sheikh
BI Regional Manager at Chubb Insurance
November 14, 2021
With everything that's happening, this has to be the most interesting article/blog post in 2021. Written 2 years ago by
Steven J. Milloy, titled '
Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions', the post covers 50 failed eco-pocalyptic predictions.
The purpose of this article is to enlighten others on the
motivated reasoningthat is taking place in the media about global warming and the environment. Of course, this view is of my own and you may disagree but at least consider the historic news articles linked to the points before you make up your mind.
In my point of view, this should be the base to why we should care for the environment but not be dramatic or take drastic measures that ruins our wellbeing and economic welfare.
Before you ask, I believe that these motivated reasoning are placing choices in our hands that we do not decide for ourselves, if that holds any sense. Consider the most recent events in the UK:
- Shortage of petrol and diesel (2 months ago), now petrol has risen from 1.35p in Sept 21 to 1.45p Nov 21 (
https://www.racfoundation.org/data/uk-pump-prices-over-time)
- ULEZ is being widen and soon to extended outside the M25 (
https://www.which.co.uk/news/2021/10/extended-london-ulez-in-operation-from-today/)
- Standard 95 petrol changes to E10 (
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/e10-petrol-explained)
Are we not already doing what we can? Maybe the real concern is our consumer habits such as the desire to buy things we don't need. Going back to making choices, you are now being penalised (£12.50) for not having a newer car because it is deemed bad for the environment, that's exact what it is, no point of sugar coating the situation.
Below are the 50 failed doomsday, eco-pocalyptic predictions (with links):
- 1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
- 1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)
- 1970: Ice Age By 2000
- 1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
- 1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
- 1972: New Ice Age By 2070
- 1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
- 1974: Another Ice Age?
- 1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life (data and graph)
- 1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
- 1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes (additional link)
- 1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend (additional link)
- 1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
- 1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
- 1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)
- 1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
- 1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)
- 2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is
- 2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
- 2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024
- 2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
- 2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
- 2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World
- 2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’
- 2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014
- 2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015 (additional link)
- 2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’
- 1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
- 1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
- 1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years
- 1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
- 1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 1990s
- 1980: Peak Oil In 2000
- 1996: Peak Oil in 2020
- 2002: Peak Oil in 2010
- 2006: Super Hurricanes!
- 2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
- 1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
- 1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
- 1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
- 1970s: Killer Bees!
- 1975: The Cooling World and a Drastic Decline in Food Production
- 1969: Worldwide Plague, Overwhelming Pollution, Ecological Catastrophe, Virtual Collapse of UK by End of 20th Century
- 1972: Pending Depletion and Shortages of Gold, Tin, Oil, Natural Gas, Copper, Aluminum
- 1970: Oceans Dead in a Decade, US Water Rationing by 1974, Food Rationing by 1980
- 1988: World’s Leading Climate Expert Predicts Lower Manhattan Underwater by 2018
- 2005: Fifty Million Climate Refugees by the Year 2020
- 2000: Snowfalls Are Now a Thing of the Past
- 1989: UN Warns That Entire Nations Wiped Off the Face of the Earth by 2000 From Global Warming
- 2011: Washington Post Predicted Cherry Blossoms Blooming in Winter
