Alarmist Predictions
This page will be used for postings of alarmist predictions, only time will tell if they are right or wrong…..
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UK Met Office: 2009 is expected to be one of the top-five warmest years on record
2009 is expected to be one of the top-five warmest years on record, despite continued cooling of huge areas of the tropical Pacific Ocean, a phenomenon known as La Niña.
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NASA GISS: A new global temperature record will be set in 2009 or 2010
Given our expectation of the next El Niño beginning in 2009 or 2010, it still seems likely that a new global temperature record will be set within the next 1-2 years, despite the moderate negative effect of the reduced solar irradiance.
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Solar cycle 24, due to peak in 2010 or 2011
Solar cycle 24, due to peak in 2010 or 2011 “looks like its going to be one of the most intense cycles since record-keeping began almost 400 years ago,” says solar physicist David Hathaway
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In 2012 or 2013 we’ll have an ice-free (summer) Arctic
There’s a group that makes a very strong case that in 2012 or 2013 we’ll have an ice-free (summer) Arctic
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Al Gore: Entire north polar ice cap will be gone in 2013
Al Gore on 13 December 2008: “The entire north polar ice cap will be gone in 5 years”
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The UK Met Office forecast up to 2014
Over the 10-year period as a whole, climate continues to warm and 2014 is likely to be 0.3 °C warmer than 2004. At least half of the years after 2009 are predicted to exceed the warmest year currently on record
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Scientists say Arctic free of ice by 2015
Scientists warn climate change is causing ice in the Canadian Arctic to melt so quickly, the region will have an ice-free season in six years(2015).
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$8-a-litre petrol in Australia by 2018
THE price of petrol could soar to a crippling $8 a litre over the coming decade, according to CSIRO-sponsored research to be released today.
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Climate change study predicts refugees fleeing into Antarctica by 2030
Climate change will force refugees to move to Antarctica by 2030, researchers have predicted.
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St Andrews golf course could crumble into the North Sea by 2050
An environmental expert in St Andrews has warned the year 2050 could see the town’s famous golf course, the Old Course, crumble into the North Sea.
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Tibetan glacial shrink to cut water supply by 2050
Nearly 2 billion people in, from coastal city dwellers to yak-herding nomads, will begin suffering water shortages in coming decades as shrinks glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, experts said.
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Millions of Nigerians may have to flee rising sea levels by 2058
“In 50 years with a one-metre sea-level rise, two million, three million people would be homeless … By the end of the century we would have two metres and by that stage Lagos is gone as we know it,” he said.
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What a bunch of mindless pathetic losers to believe such rubbish. If Rudd was serious about the environment just think of what he could have done with the 10 billion he just handed out to Australias bludging class to buy plasma TV’s and playstations. Please give me a break.
Interesting way to keep up with the “facts” as predicted by “scientists”. Could you also go back in the timeline and list similar predictions, say beginning with Hansen’s first testimony, and give short bullet-point summaries of the real world results?
Click below for the Climate Change Alarmism Timeline 1895-2009:
http://anhonestclimatedebate.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/climate-change-alarmism-timelin/
what solar peak? the sun is at an extensive solar minimum right now!
It is discouraging and undermines the AGW argument when temperature data only goes back to 1950. There is data available for the 1920’s and 1930’s, which is the warmest period of the century.
Using more data would lead to a different result in terms of top ten warmest years.
Disheartening that apparently the data is chosen based on the outcome being sought.
Why is the Scientific Method not being used by all of these wrold renound scientists and such on Global Warming?
Larry.
“Why is the Scientific Method not being used by all of these wrold renound scientists and such on Global Warming?”
That is the $64,000 question….
I found this in a US Senate report………. Paltridge is just one of 400 scientist quoted in the report.
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Atmospheric Physicist Dr. Garth W. Paltridge, an Emeritus Professor from University of Tasmania, is another prominent skeptic. Paltridge who was a Chief Research Scientist with the CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research before taking up positions in 1990 as Director of the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies at the University of Tasmania and as CEO of the Antarctic Cooperative Research Center. Paltridge questioned the motives of scientists hyping climate fears.
“They have been so successful with their message of greenhouse doom that, should one of them prove tomorrow that it is nonsense, the discovery would have to be suppressed for the sake of the overall reputation of science,”
Paltridge wrote in an April 6, 2007 op-ed entitled “Global Warming – Not Really a Done Deal?”
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The use of the scientfic method in this case may destroy the credibility of their science. Catch 22.