Anybody old enough certainly remembers decades worth of climate change (formerly global warming, formerly "another ice age") alarmism, and recently Amy C. had a great story noting how media outlets, in this case Newsweek, have again moved the goal post on when coastal cities will be under water:
SUPER SERIAL: Newsweek Warns Cities That Were Meant to Be Underwater by 2020 Will Be Underwater by 2050https://t.co/AB8AtNWVWs
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 9, 2024
That story brought back memories of a few other climate change prediction fails, and these people just keep hoping nobody notices that their alarmism is just political agendas poorly disguised "science." The more desperate they get the more obvious it becomes.
We can't have a discussion about climate alarmism fails without talking about John Kerry. Remember this doozy?
"In five years, scientists predict we will have the first ice-free Arctic summer."
— Dr. Simon Goddek (@goddeketal) December 15, 2024
— @JohnKerry, 2009 pic.twitter.com/lQlc5UXrPV
I'd settle for a Kerry-free government, which will be the case very soon as we get to flush Biden's hypocritical "climate czar" down the memory hole, private jet and all.
That brings me to the man mockingly referred to as The Goracle. This clip from 1982 features not one, but two proven liars:
1982 CBS News report—featuring a 34 year old Al Gore—predicts the "widespread disruption of agriculture", and 25% of Florida ending up underwater, "due to the burning of coal and oil". pic.twitter.com/X6FXW7aQyo
— T (@Rifleman4WVU) May 25, 2024
Despite the fact that none of this happened Gore is still out there peddling his climate snake oil to those trying to get in on the sham.
So confident were the global warming fear mongers in government that a sign was put up at Glacier National Park that basically said "enjoy looking at the glacier now, because it's going away by 2020." Then, when 2020 came around, things got awkward:
The signs at Glacier National Park warning that its signature glaciers would be gone by 2020 are being changed. They were added more than a decade ago to reflect climate change forecasts at the time by the US Geological Survey, a park spokeswoman says. https://t.co/5NkzFc7xJR
— CNN (@CNN) January 8, 2020
The signs in the Montana park were added more than a decade ago to reflect climate change forecasts at the time by the US Geological Survey, park spokeswoman Gina Kurzmen told CNN.
In 2017, the park was told by the agency that the complete melting off of the glaciers was no longer expected to take place so quickly due to changes in the forecast model, Kurzmen said. But tight maintenance budgets made it impossible for the park to immediately change the signs.
A New York Times piece from ten years ago was titled "The End of Snow?" Again, that aged like snow in the summer sun:
Yet another climate “science” prediction fail.#ClimateScam #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateBrawl https://t.co/R7ANbEUPlF pic.twitter.com/2mIm4FtTa8
— DonKeiller (@KeillerDon) December 4, 2023
I'll close out with the fifth example of my favorite "the science is settled" fails, and this one is also from the New York Times. In 1978, the Times published this piece about there being "no end in sight" to a cooling planet:
An international team of specialists has concluded from eight indexes of climate that there is no end in sight to the cooling trend of the last 30 years, at least in the Northern Hemisphere.
At some point in the early to mid 1980s, somebody decided to do a scientific one-eighty and start sounding the alarm about global warming. Those warnings are now wearing thin, and it won't be surprising to see a pivot back to "global cooling" in the next decade or two.
I was going to provide more than five examples of climate prediction fails but decided not to because I might have died from climate change before being able to get to the others, and the list is long.
Have a great week, all!
