Polls, Studies and Other Lies by Tom Reynolds
We are constantly barraged with the results of polls and scientific studies on guns, climate, presidential approval ratings, etc. It’s fun to look at some of those studies which raised angst in past years and remember them the next time you see a headline blasting out predictions of doom.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions - Competitive Enterprise Institute (cei.org) compiled the past Climate Change predictions (1 to 27). The rest of the predictions include the links to the scientific studies and media reports on which they are based.
1. 1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
2. 1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989
3. 1970: Ice Age By 2000
4. 1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By1974; 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
10. 1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
11. 1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes
12. 1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend
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 (NOPE)
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
18. 2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is
19. 2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat & 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
27. 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 90s
· 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
· 2011: Washington Post Predicted Cherry Blossoms Blooming in Winter
