LIST OF DOOMSDAY PREDICTIONS CLIMATE ALARMIST GOT RIGHT

hal9000

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By the 1970s there was a growing consensus among climatologists that the earth would trend toward warming. And golly-gee......the earth has warmed considerably since then.
 

hal9000

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How am I wrong? Prove it.

The scientific consensus to which you are referring never existed. If it did, as you claim, you need to prove it.


Most cited is a 1975 Newsweek article The Cooling World that suggested cooling "may portend a drastic decline for food production":

"Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend… But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century."
A 1974 Times Magazine article Another Ice Age? painted a similarly bleak picture:

"When meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe, they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age."
However, these are media articles, not peer reviewed scientific papers. Does a consensus on global cooling emerge from the scientific literature?

Over time, William Connelly has been steadily documenting 70s research predicting global cooling. It's a rich resource but as he admits, could be more accessible. Now he has collaborated with Thomas Peterson and John Fleck to publish The Myth of the 1970's Global Cooling Scientific Consensus, due to be published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

The paper surveys climate studies from 1965 to 1979 (and in a refreshing change to other similar surveys, lists all the papers). They find very few papers (7 in total) predict global cooling. This isn't surprising. What surprises is that even in the 1970s, on the back of 3 decades of cooling, more papers (42 in total) predict global warming due to CO2 than cooling.

So in fact, the large majority of climate research in the 1970s predicted the Earth would warm as a consequence of CO2. Rather than climate science predicting cooling, the opposite is the case. Most interesting about Peterson's paper is not the debunking of an already well debunked skeptic argument but a succinct history of climate science over the 20th century, describing how scientists from different fields gradually pieced together their diverse findings into a more unified picture of how climate operates. A must read paper.


 

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How am I wrong? Prove it.

The scientific consensus to which you are referring never existed. If it did, as you claim, you need to prove it.
That's not how it works with GrossDad.

In his threads, he starts with a stupid statement that he picked from some troll farm, supported by no evidence whatsoever, and then you have to prove him wrong.

And when you do, he ghosts or doubles down with no evidence provided.
 

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West of the Atlantic. East of the ICW.
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West of the Atlantic. East of the ICW.
Science is open ended and fallible.

Therefore, climate change due to humans is fake news.
Some things are simply beyond current science and the limited science is being manipulated to drive a political agenda through a campaign of mis-information and scare tactics. You have little kids living in fear that the planet is going to burn up in their lifetimes because of the indoctrination they are receiving.
 

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Bullshit. Was the media or was it not being alarmist over an ice age in the mid 70s? They were using claims from scientists to sound the alarm.....were they not. Just stop it. You look foolish.
Still not a scientific consensus, words have meanings.
 

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Bullshit. Was the media or was it not being alarmist over an ice age in the mid 70s? They were using claims from scientists to sound the alarm.....were they not. Just stop it. You look foolish.

No, there were erroneous news stories but the fact remains that there was no scientific consensus that global cooling would take place.

Oceanographers and climatologists at the time were collecting scientific evidence that agrees with current climate trends.

You repeatedly saying “but I proved you wrong” doesn’t change the fact that the scientific evidence says the exact opposite of what you’re claiming.

There’s is such a thing as objective truth and facts. These facts are showing that you’re wrong over and over again yet you persist in this trolling behavior.
 

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Some things are simply beyond current science and the limited science is being manipulated to drive a political agenda through a campaign of mis-information and scare tactics. You have little kids living in fear that the planet is going to burn up in their lifetimes because of the indoctrination they are receiving.
What political agenda?

Agenda for breathing clean air and drinking poison free water?
 
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Some autistic 16 year old aryan girl just told the UN that we are facing a “mass extinction” if we “fail to act”.

can someone explain to me how a 3 degree change in global average temps over the next century will result in a mass extinction?
 

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Some autistic 16 year old aryan girl just told the UN that we are facing a “mass extinction” if we “fail to act”.

can someone explain to me how a 3 degree change in global average temps over the next century will result in a mass extinction?
Is that the same sperg that sailed across the Atlantic for show and then flew home?
 

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can someone explain to me how a 3 degree change in global average temps over the next century will result in a mass extinction?
Maybe you haven't heard of this new thing.

It's called the Google and it searches the internet.

It's pretty good.

Also making fun of autistic people is a great look for you.
 

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REEEEEEEE

"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words," 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg tells the UN. "We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you."
 

Duffy LaCoronilla

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Is that the same sperg that sailed across the Atlantic for show and then flew home?
Yes. And necessitated 3 or 4 other flights for people who had to bring the boat back.

look, clearly climate change is happening but this dooms day cult sh!t and how it’s scaring the fuckk out of kids borders on criminal.
 
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Some autistic 16 year old aryan girl just told the UN that we are facing a “mass extinction” if we “fail to act”.

can someone explain to me how a 3 degree change in global average temps over the next century will result in a mass extinction?
Mass extinctions are a thing. And they're often caused by warming events.


 

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also: Humans have wiped out nearly 2/3 of animal populations since the 1970s, we're in a mammal extinction event, and there's only one hominid species left on earth. We're probably in a hominid extinction period.
 

Duffy LaCoronilla

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Mass extinctions are a thing. And they're often caused by warming events.


what caused the warming back then?

also, cold is worse.