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Fact-Checking Climate Alarmist Predictions – Part III

by Deidra Garyk
October 07, 2020, 10:40 AM
in News and Opinion
Reading Time: 5 mins read
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Link to Part I
Link to Part II

Young children are scared. Millennials are in hysterics and mobilized. Adults are frightened and uncertain.

Politicians are feeding off the angst, enacting multi-billion-dollar public policies, and thinking about implementing multi-trillion-dollar plans, in an effort to appease the electorate under the guise of saving the planet and humanity.

Is there really cause for the level of angst, eco-anxiety, and dread that many people are feeling?

I don’t know because I’m not a climate scientist nor a psychologist, but neither are most of the people shouting the loudest.

We can, however, all do a postmortem on some of the predictions made over the years and make up our own minds because I think there’s reason for hope.

For reference, there’s a website called ExtinctionClock.org that tracks the more cataclysmic climate-related predictions.

Let’s start by looking at some of the predictions made in 2007 in the India Today article as mentioned in Part I of this series that were supposed to occur by 2020.

It seems that poor public policy is often the cause of India’s troubles. Poor water management and imbalanced distribution of subsidies for farmers are likely to be the cause of food insecurity.

Additionally, in 2020, it appears that any temporary food shortages were the result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) predicts that by 2100, sea levels will rise 0.3 meters, or 11.8 feet, which is quite a bit less than what the article predicts by stating that “Global average rise in sea levels could be as much as 0.8 meters by 2100.” Plus, there’s time to adapt to changes in sea level.

There is also evidence to support that glaciers in Asia are growing, a perspective that we don’t often hear.

Historical records show that death rates in India are decreasing. So the 2007 prediction of “Death and disease rise, resulting in a pervasive smell of rotting flesh.” appears to be hyperbole. This is good news.

Overall, life expectancy in general throughout the world has increased due to a number of factors, including industrialization and energy use. Again, this is a cause for celebration.

The article claims “25% of wildlife will perish”. This is an unclear statement – do they mean that wildlife will simply die due to old age and other natural causes?

If so, it may be an accurate prediction, but if they intend to evoke the fear of wildlife extinction, then it’s likely an exaggeration.

The IUCN (International Union for Conservation) Red List started tracking the status of plants and animals in 1964, and their data presents a much less dire reality.

We also have the opportunity to look back on some of the predictions made in relation to the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, when crowds of 20 million Americans gathered on what was (maybe) coincidentally Russian communist leader Vladimir Lenin’s birthday.

  1. “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”  — Harvard biologist George Wald
  2. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.” — Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich
  3. “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born… [By 1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.” — Paul Ehrlich
  4. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” — Denis Hayes, Chief organizer for Earth Day
  5. “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China, and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions…. By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.” — North Texas State University professor Peter Gunter
  6. “In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution… by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half.” — Life magazine
  7. “By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate… that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, ‘Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, ‘I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’” — Ecologist Kenneth Watt
  8. “[One] theory assumes that the earth’s cloud cover will continue to thicken as more dust, fumes, and water vapor are belched into the atmosphere by industrial smokestacks and jet planes. Screened from the sun’s heat, the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born.” — Newsweek magazine
  9. “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.” — Kenneth Watt

As we can see, not every omen came true in 1970, so it’s quite possible that not every prediction related to climate change made today will be accurate.

And not every outcome of climate change will be negative, a concept that gets little acknowledgment.

Read rest at EnergyNow

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Comments 9

  1. chaamjamal says:
    5 years ago

    “There is also evidence to support that glaciers in Asia are growing, a perspective that we don’t often hear”
    There are more than 50,000 glaciers in the Himalayas. All of these glaciers are not advancing. It is true that many are advancing but many are retreating, but most are doing neither, neither advancing nor retreating. The data provide a made-to-order confirmation bias opportunity for researchers with different biases to find the evidence they are looking for.

    https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/09/19/himalayan-glaciers-melting-again-part-2/

  2. Gumnut says:
    5 years ago

    When discussing the extinction of species, one should always be aware of the background rate of extinctions that have occurred and will occur regardless of humanity.

    Evolution continues. New species are evolving. We cannot turn a living planet into a natural history museum.

    Some extinctions are caused by human-kind. Some are not. However, the zealous environmentalist (is there really any other kind) shall likely not pause to separate the two.

    I remember frogs were dying off due to people. The greatest threat turned out to be a chytrid fungus. Koalas were dying off due to people. But wait, that was actually chlamydia. Tasmanian devils are suffering a face tumour plague. That is also natural.

    Nature builds and nature destroys. Meanwhile, environmentalists blame other people rather far too often. People are attempting to save species where we can. The scaremongering doesn’t help. It just hinders.

  3. chaamjamal says:
    5 years ago

    “Young children are scared. Millennials are in hysterics and mobilized. Adults are frightened and uncertain. Politicians are feeding off the angst, enacting multi-billion-dollar public policies”

    This is because climate science is really anti fossil fuel activism.
    Please see
    https://tambonthongchai.com/2019/02/03/hidden-hand/

  4. Spurwing Plover says:
    5 years ago

    Ehrlich who wrote his bestseller THE POPULATION BOMB and later THE POPULATION EXPLOSION his bomb was a dud and the explosion well no explosion

  5. Chaamjamal says:
    5 years ago

    those bizarre earth day predictions from the likes of paul ehrlich et al are not the creation of climate science.

  6. Spurwing Plover says:
    5 years ago

    According to those screwballs Earth would all ready be a dead rock orbiting third planet 93 Million Miles from the Sun Looks like the Earth is not as Fragile as the Eco-Freaks claim it is and the so called Delicate Balance of Nature is also a load of Malarkey

  7. Brian R Catt says:
    5 years ago

    0.3 metres is about 1 foot, not 11.8ft. Less of a problem. 3mm pa is the rough rise, so 300mm appears correct. America needs to join the World and use 21st Century units in science and engineering, or can’t the education system or its students cope with teaching and learning the same scientific units the rest of the World uses so we can all understand each other. How will you ever learn Chinese when they are in charge?

    • Chaamjamal says:
      5 years ago

      that’s a decimal point error i think.

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