07-27-2014, 03:44 PM
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Apocalypse
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Some failed predictions and ridiculius observations by some of the "brilliant" people leading us down the "man-made global warming" rabbit hole:
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May 15, 1989, Associated Press: ?Using computer models, researchers concluded that global warming would raise average annual temperatures nationwide [USA] two degrees by 2010.?
June 11, 1986, Dr. James Hansen of the Goddard Space Institute (NASA) in testimony to Congress (according to the Milwaukee Journal): ?Hansen predicted global temperatures should be nearly 2 degrees higher in 20 years, ?which is about the warmest the earth has been in the last 100,000 years.??
2008 Dr. James Hansen of the Goddard Space Institute (NASA) on a visit to Britain: ?The recent warm winters that Britain has experienced are a sign that the climate is changing.?
[Two exceptionally cold winters followed. The 2009-10 winter may be the coldest experienced in the UK since 1683.]
2005, Andrew Simms, policy director of the New Economics Foundation: ?Scholars are predicting that 50 million people worldwide will be displaced by 2010 because of rising sea levels, desertification, dried up aquifers, weather-induced flooding and other serious environmental changes.?
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, adviser to President Nixon: ?It is now pretty clearly agreed that 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.?
March 29, 2001, CNN: ?In ten year?s time, most of the low-lying atolls surrounding Tuvalu?s nine islands in the South Pacific Ocean will be submerged under water as global warming rises sea levels.?
October 15, 1990 Carl Sagan: ?The planet could face an ?ecological and agricultural catastrophe? by the next decade if global warming trends continue.?
July 26, 1999 The Birmingham Post: ?Scientists are warning that some of the Himalayan glaciers could vanish within ten years because of global warming. A build-up of greenhouse gases is blamed for the meltdown, which could lead to drought and flooding in the region affecting millions of people.?
Sept 19, 1989, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: ?New York will probably be like Florida 15 years from now.?
June 30, 1989, Associated Press: U.N. OFFICIAL PREDICTS DISASTER, SAYS GREENHOUSE EFFECT COULD WIPE SOME NATIONS OFF MAP?entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ?eco-refugees,? threatening political chaos,? said Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program. He added that governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect.
?The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water. And there will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won?t be there. The trees in the median strip will change?.There will be more police cars?.[since] you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.?
Dr. James Hansen, 1988, in an interview with author Rob Reiss.
Reiss asked how the greenhouse effect was likely to affect the neighborhood below Hansen?s office in NYC in the next 20 years.
?Computer models predict that the temperature rise will continue at that accelerated pace if emissions of heat-trapping gases are not reduced, and also predict that warming will be especially pronounced in the wintertime.?
Star News, William K. Stevens, New York Times, 11 Mar 2000
?Within a few years winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event. ? Children just aren?t going to know what snow is.?
David Viner, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, 20 March 2000
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