Have you ever wanted a nice, compact image you could share on social media whenever you need to put some eco-worrier in his/her/its place?
Well, one showed up in my social media timeline this morning, and it is worth sharing.
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I was in The Maldives last week at Club Med Kani. I can assure you, they are not underwater. On the main island with the Airport in Male, they are building structures of 20-30 stories high. I consider this having good faith of not being underwater anytime soon.
What we really need is a database showing the predictions, dates published, original publication sources, other publications that picked it up, identification of the persons making the predictions and some information about them, etc etc.. Put the database online to be searchable, and publicize it so people can find the information, analyze it, etc.
Thanks, Anthony!
I was in a little back-and-forth with Mosher, and tweeted this to him.
Haven’t heard back from him yet .. he’s in Seoul, so he’s probably asleep.
Anybody wanna bet he denies the 70s coming Ice Age Cometh?
excellent way to promote skeptical group think.
This is what makes arguing with skeptics so much fun.
They never quote any actual science, just the MSM
My favorite is using Viner from 2000. “no more snow”
dude didnt even publish and left CRU. I guess he could not get his radical views accepted by other scientists
https://www.vitae.ac.uk/researcher-careers/researcher-career-stories/what-do-research-staff-do-next-career-stories/david-viner
He lept into government and then private consulting roles focused on climate change.
Doesn’t speak well of CRU at all.
Oh, and mr-didn’t-even-publish apparently published back then and has been publishing relatively recently – “…I’m even managing to publish still – in autumn 2014 I had an article in Nature Climate Change…”
”They never quote any actual science,”
Please SM. Quote us some science to prove permanent CC. Let us know what caused the MWP. We don’t need to quote science, we just point to the past. We see there is no correlation between modern co2 rise and temperatures. We laugh at your silly cult and your feeble defence of it.
“They never quote any actual science, just the MSM”
Greg…we seem to have someone saying something which is very clearly not true here.
Can we spend equal time getting on Mosher’s case for telling a blatant lie, as we did insisting that Al Gore did not say it exactly the way the list asserts?
Michael I believe you’ve misread the autobiography of Dave Viner. He doesn’t really think ill of UEA-CRU (after all he spent 17 years there). He set up and ran a successful Masters Programme, for which he thought he ought to have been rewarded with a tenured position. He wasn’t and was given no reassurance of this happening in
the future. CRU was run on “soft money”.
Thank you for the link. I had often wondered what had happened to him. Interesting that a man such as he who is an inveterate self promoter should miss out an incident which got him onto all the UK National Press when he rescued a man swept into rough seas.
I remember all of them pretty much from 1970 on wards. And I am sure some Sci-Fi “B” movies were made around some of them like killer bees!!
And yet, not one mention in the current alarmist media of the tens of thousands ripped from the grip of abject poverty, daily, BECAUSE of fossil fuels!
Bookmarked – cheers.
You left out the “Jupiter effect” planetary alignment in 1982 – the World was definitely going to end.
Didn’t.
If the World is going to end, how big a boat do I need to build?????
I think the CliSci documentary “2012” addressed that.
There is a reason the end is always ‘going to be ‘ nigh
Handy. This is a keeper.
Basically it is a testament to the no-cost prediction world. There would be a cost if the media ever called out bad predictions and those responsible.
The 2020 Peak oil prediction could still be right. It is still in the future.
Time to publicize my 2017 article on failed climate predictions. Many of the things discussed in this list are properly identified and linked there:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/10/30/some-failed-climate-predictions/
One of my favorites was the prediction of tens of millions of climate refugees:
They even made a map showing where the refugees should come from. And in 2011 they recycled the prediction to 2020.
Who knows, they might all come next year.
I don’t believe any of this thread, you missed off Plastic from the list of things going to cause our extinction. I always thought the Sun had an effect on the Earth’s Climate?
Maybe plastic will end our civilisation or maybe not, after all plastic is an organic compound, and if what the doomsayers say is correct we should be up to our armpits in the stuff, we continue barely up to our ankles.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389419305060
The boy that cried “wolf.” How brainless do people have to be to believe all this rubbish? Remember, the idiots that believe this have a vote worth the same as yours.
There are other hyperventilating temper tantrum scares to add- beemaggeddon, microplastics, radioactive contamination from Fukushima. How ironic that the cure for confusion brought on by hyperventilating is to breathe in some exhaled CO2.
Thanks for a great summary!
Saw it, left it for other stuff, then tried to find it again. Found these details:
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions
They’re all TRUE – each failed prediction was an actual, news prediction.
I’m going to call it the long version (with details). Yours is the great summary version.
Are there footnotes linking to each of the original quotations?
Along the same lines, I’ve been reading about the imminent advent of “artificial intelligence”. For the last 40 years, we’ve always been “just 10 years away” from it.
Can you please make this a sticky on your page?
I am going to need it for years. Maybe decades.
Thanks again.