Several years ago we decided to look into the popular
craze at that time that the world was warming and global warming was going to
wipe out humanity. Rather than just assume that global warming advocates like
Al Gore were correct, we wanted to look at ALL of the science, ALL of the
climate data, and All of the realities of global warming.
And to be perfectly honest, we were tired of Al Gore,
Barack Obama and other global warming advocates yelling at global warming
doubters like myself, calling us racists, homophobes, flat earth believers,
etc. In order to have a mature, adult conversation about global warming, we
felt it was necessary to treat those with a different opinion with respect not
derision and that to get to an adult solution, all of the science should be
included in the debate.
Over the years, however, we have put together a very
strong case that man made global warming and its rebranded marketing theme,
climate change, were indeed mostly a false position, a travesty of science.
Those who believed in global warming ignored or failed to consider scientific
findings and research that was contrary to their views.
They were found to have suppressed or changed raw data
and findings that did not support their global warming positions. In short,
they were the ones that had shortchanged the scientific method, not the
doubters.
To
review our past reviews of the global warming fallacy, type in the phrase, “I
am a global warming doubter” in the search box above. Over the next few days we
will continue to look at the latest climate data and realities and again prove
that being a global warming doubter is a position that is strongly supported by
science and not Al Gore hysterics.
Yesterday’s post ended with
the review of three dire climate forecasts from decades ago that turned out to
be incredibly wrong. At the time those forecasts were made, they were done with
the same veracity and emotion as Al Gore types make climate predictions today.
Since these historic
predictions turned out to be so horribly wrong, their fallacy casts some doubts
whether those same types of forecasts being made today of dire consequences due
to man made global warming and climate change are also bound to go horribly
wrong. We went over them not to mock them but to point out if this country is
ever going to have a serious discussion about climate change, all history, all
science, all reality needs to be taken into account in that discussion, even
the views of doubters like myself.
Today we are going to look at
even more global warming and climate change forecasts, views, and predictions
that have gone horribly wrong even though those making those predictions
claimed to have science on their side. The source of this erroneous predictions
comes from the website:
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They were posted on the site
on December 4. 2014 by Tom Scott:
- “Scientist says Arctic ice
will wipe out Canada, Professor Gregory of Yale University stated that ‘another
world ice-epoch is due.’ He was the American representative to the Pan-Pacific
Science Congress and warned that North America would disappear as far south as
the Great Lakes, and huge parts of Asia and Europe would be wiped out.” Chicago
Tribune August 9, 1923. Comment: a guess in the 1920s global cooling was the
latest rage among climate scientists, a reality that never materialized.
- “The discoveries of changes
in the sun’s heat and southward advance of glaciers in recent years have given
rise to the conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age.” Time Magazine, September 10, 1923. Comment:
More global cooling advocates.
- “America [is] in longest
warm spell since 1776; temperature line records a 25 year rise." New York Times
3/27/1933. Comment: by the 1930s it appears that global cooling had reversed
itself into global warming, a mere ten years after Time magazine predicted
global cooling.
- “After a week of
discussions on the causes of climate change, an assembly of specialists from
several continents seems to have reached unanimous agreement on only one point:
it is getting colder.“ New York Times, January 30, 1961. Comment: Whoops, back
to global cooling.
- “Like an outrigger canoe
riding before a huge comber, the earth with its inhabitants is caught on the
downslope of an immense climatic wave that is plunging us toward another Ice
Age.“ Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1962.
- “It is now pretty clearly
agreed that the CO2 content [in the atmosphere] will rise 25% by 2000. This
could increase the average temperature near the earth’s surface by 7 degrees
Fahrenheit. This in turn could raise the level of the sea by 10 feet. Goodbye
New York. Goodbye Washington, for that matter.“ Presidential adviser Daniel
Moynihan, 1969 (later U.S. Senator from
New York 1976-2000). Comment: At last look, New York and Washington D.C. were
still above water and dry.
- “If present trends continue,
the world will be … eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. This is about twice
what it would take to put us in an ice age.” Kenneth E.F. Watt in “Earth Day,”
1970. Comment: Wow, within one year of Moynihan’s prediction we went from
global warming to Watt’s global cooling world.
- “Because of increased dust,
cloud cover and water vapor “…the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall
and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born.” Newsweek magazine, January 26,
1970. Comment: support for a new Ice Age
continues to build.
- “New Ice Age Coming—It’s
Already Getting Colder. Some midsummer day, perhaps not too far in the future,
a hard, killing frost will sweep down on the wheat fields of Saskatchewan, the
Dakotas and the Russian steppes." Los Angles Times Oct 24, 1971
- “Arctic specialist Bernt
Balchen says a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar
ice cap and may produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000.” Los Angles
Times, May 16, 1972. Comment: at last look, the Arctic ice cap was growing
significantly and was nowhere close to being ice-free.
- “New York will probably be
like Florida 15 years from now.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sept. 17, 1989.
Comment: Pendulum swings back to global warming in less than twenty years but
New York is nothing like Florida twenty five years later.
- “By 1995, the greenhouse
effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with
horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots… “(By 1996) The Platte
River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of
prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and
shut down computers… “The Mexican police will round up illegal American
migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands.”’ Michael
Oppenheimer, “Dead Heat” 1990. Comment: wrong on every single prediction.
- “At present rates of
exploitation there may be no rainforest left in 10 years. If measures are not
taken immediately, the greenhouse effect may be unstoppable in 12 to 15 years.“
Edward Goldsmith, 5000 Days to Save the Planet, 1991. Comment: 23 years later
the rain forest is still large and in existence and the warming due to the
so-called greenhouse effect stopped about 18 years ago.
- “Within a few years winter
snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren’t going
to know what snow is.” Dr David Viner, Senior research scientist at the
climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, March 20, 2000.
Comment: I am pretty sure that all kids that lived through the polar vortex
this past winter would disagree with Mr. Viner.
- “Environmental refugees to
top 50 million in 5 years –‘There are well-founded fears that the number of
people fleeing untenable environmental conditions may grow exponentially as the
world experiences the effects of climate change and other phenomena.” UNU-EHS
Director Janos Bogardi – United Nations University news release, October 11,
2005. Comment: while there have been millions of refugees over the past decade,
the vast majority of them, if not all, have not been caused changing climate or
environmental conditions.
- “Arctic warming has become
so dramatic that the North Pole may melt this summer (2008), report scientists
studying the effects of climate change in the field. ‘We’re actually projecting
this year that the North Pole may be free of ice for the first time [in
history].’” David Barber, of the University of Manitoba, told National
Geographic News aboard the C.C.G.S. Amundsen, a Canadian research icebreaker,
National Geographic News, June 20, 2008. Comment: six short years after this
dire prediction, the polar ice cap is growing in size, not going away.
- “Mike [Mann], can you
delete any e-mails you may have had with Keith [Trenberth] re AR4? Keith will
do likewise…Can you also e-mail Gene and get him to do the same? I don’t have
his e-mail address…We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.” Dr. Phil Jones,
Director of the Climatic Research Unit, Climategate e-mail, May 29, 2008 (AR4
was the 4th Climate Assessment report released by the IPCC in 2007).
Comment: these are the scientists that Al Gore types rely on, scientists that
try to cover up and destroy evidence that their predictions have been wrong all
along.
Hopefully you get the idea.
Throughout the past hundred years, scientists have swung wildly in their
predictions of climate change from the birth of new ice ages to the death of
humanity due to global warming. In all cases, their drastic predictions have
not come true even though they were probably viewed as the leading scientists
and experts of their time.
More recently we have pointed
out that so-called “sophisticated climate forecasting models have almost always
been way off in predicting global warming trends:
Given this history of poor
and poorer prediction of climate change, do we really want to not question Al
Gore, Barack Obama, and others like them
and blindly accept their predictions when history predicts they will be grossly
wrong?
Are we really willing to sacrifice
our economic growth and well being based on this history of incorrect
forecasting and the reality that no matter what the U.S. does relative to
carbon output those actions will be overwhelmed by the growth in the carbon
output by countries like China and India?
These are the questions that
need to be addressed in a mature and adult manner as opposed to the
slur-infested dialog that global warming advocate sling at doubters in climate
discussions. But that discussion is unlikely to ever happen, given the lack of
leadership and maturity in the Washington political class, both current members
and former members of that class.
More science and realities
tomorrow where we continue to show that it is more correct to be a global
warming doubter than a global warming advocate.
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