Alarmist Predictions
This page will be used for postings of alarmist predictions
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Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past
Back in March 2000:
According to Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia,within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” he said.
Click here for full article from The Times, 20 March 2000
Click here to see how this prediction is going
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Australia’s “permanent” drought
2007: Tim Flannery (Australian Climate Commissioner)
“So even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and river systems”
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2008: David Jones (Australian Bureau of Meteorology)
“There is a debate in the climate community, after … close to 12 years of drought, whether this is something permanent”
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2009: Bertrand Timbal (Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research)
“But we are just not going to have that sort of good rain again as long as the system is warming up.”
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1976: A cooling trend has set in – perhaps one akin to the Little Ice Age
Professor Stephen Schneider, back in 1976:
“I have cited many examples of recent climatic variability and repeated the warnings of several well-known climatologists that a cooling trend has set in–perhaps one akin to the Little Ice Age–and that climatic variability, which is the bane of reliable food production, can be expected to increase along with the cooling.” Stephen Schneider, The Genesis Strategy, New York:Plenum, 1976, p. 90
The late Stephen Schneider then went on to become one of the world’s leading Global Warming alarmists
Click here for more on Stephen Schneider’s appearance in the May 1978 episode of “In Search of… the Coming Ice Age”
Click here to see the video “Greenhouse Conspiracy” where he first tries to deny his previous global cooling view until the interviewer catches him out by reciting a passage from Schneider’s first book where he warns of a cooling trend akin to the Little Ice Age.
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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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Arctic summers ice-free ‘by 2013’
2007: Professor Wieslaw Maslowski
“Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007,” the researcher from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, explained to the BBC.
“So given that fact, you can argue that may be our projection of 2013 is already too conservative.”
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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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Ed note: Not climate related, but will be interesting to see what the petrol price is in 2018
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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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In the 2020s, an intense heatwave equal to the longest on record from 1951 to 1999 is likely to occur as many as five times a decade in parts of the United States
In the 2020s, an intense heatwave equal to the longest on record from 1951 to 1999 is likely to occur as many as five times a decade in parts of the United States — even if global temperatures rise by only one degree Celsius, it said.
The 2030s could be even hotter, with more and longer heatwaves and a spike in extreme seasonal temperatures in the United States.
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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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An Honest Climate Debate 
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:
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.
I enjoyed all the alarmist statements, but I agreed with the one about the petrol price.
Meeting IPCC emission targets will make sure the price of energy is a lot higher than that!
Well there might be global warming or cooling but the important issue is whether we, as a human race, can do anything about it.
There are a host of porkies and not very much truth barraging us everyday so its difficult to know what to believe.
I think I have simplified the issue in an entertaining way on my blog which includes some issues connected with climategate and “embarrassing” evidence.
In the pipeline is an analysis of the economic effects of the proposed emission reductions. Watch this space or should I say Blog
http://www.rogerfromnewzealand.wordpress.com
Please feel welcome to visit and leave a comment.
Cheers
Roger
PS The term “porky” is listed in the Australian Dictionary of Slang.( So I’m told.)
Because oxygen & nitrogen expand when they warm up, into place of -90C, intercept extra coldness in 3,5seconds to equalize = extra heat in the atmosphere is not acumulative. When it gets colder, as in solar eclipse, O+N shrink = release less heat = cooling of the whole atmosphere is imposible! Part of the atmosphere always get warmer expands – intercepts extra coldnes, that coldness falls somwhere ellse because of winds and speening of the planet – but equalizes. IPCC are monitoring on 6000 places; what about on the other 60 billion places, where is not monitored? Are those places irelevant? What about on 67, 180m, 2km up in the air? Laws of physics say: when more CO2 +H2O in atmosphere, upper atmosphere warmer – on the ground days are cooler. Clear sky – days hotter, nights colder. Before you guys abolish the laws of physics; should only talk about localized warming and cooling; not GLOBAL! get corect info /fackts and formulas on http://www.stefanmitich.com P.s. why nobody thold me about this blog before?!
About 80% of all the water in every sea and ocean combined is below 5C, water below 4degrees, when cools further down – it expands. Fill up a bottle of seawater at below zero – warm it up few degrees = will shrink. Fill the bottle at 4C and cool it few degrees = will explode. The sealevel goes up – when gets colder! Get corect scientific info on http://www.stefanmitich.com 2] when is warmer = more ice on the polar caps, not when colder. Water freezes on zero degrees, on polar caps is average temp -35degrees below zero. It depends on the amount of raw material for replanishing the ice, not on temperature. I.e. On Greenland is 1km thick ice; same latitude in Finland potatoes are growing; same latitude in Russian permafrost no ice. Sceptic’s warmer 1200AD was actualy colder northern hemisphere. Because Arctic’s water didn’t have enough ice cover as insulator. Was absorbing extra coldness and currents were spreading it south = less raw material for ice on Greenland. 3]Antarctic gets more ice on one side, when is El Nino, another side in La Nina. Ice on Antarctic is melted constantly by the thermal heat. Because ice as insulator is protecting that heat from the unlimited coldness on the surface. Sceptics are honest people with outdated theories. Find on my website, why the temperature changed in northern Europe from 1880’s and much more, on my website. Only solid evidences can stop the misleading. Active Sceptics are using Alarmist’ wrong data – to prove the Alarmist wrong… Laws of physics, boys! Sceptics become bigger Warmist than the Alarmist, because both camps ate acting as if they have abolished the laws of physics. those laws say: part of the planet’s atmosphere can get warmer, but another part simultaneously gets colder. Believing in warming and cooling of the whole planet makes both camps ”non believers in the laws of physics” = guilty about the ”flat rate carbon tax” shame, shame…!
2009 for the first time engineers made powerfull filter, to make picture directly of the sun /to look at the sun. Talking about sunspots for the last 12 century was invented /incerted as a gues work = then they made it as factual. Teling that was or wasn’t sunspots in some previous century – doesn’t mean that has any substance – is only hint / proof that the person saying it is dishonest. When they realise that: solar and galagtic influence doesn’t make warmer or colder planet… The laws of physics /oxygen nitrogen shrinking and expanding regulation is so powerfull … Talking about solar ang galactic influence should be left to horoscope people. Interference with the earth’s magnetic field damages electronic equipment, but has nothing to do with the temperature. Please keep record what any alarmist predicts = on the base of their predictions, billions of tax $$$ has being laundered. People go to jail for $1000. Crime shouldn’t pay !!!
If Nigeria was supposed to sink by 2059, I would have believed, BOO!!! But 2058… NO!
Their crystal balls have lots of thin air in, to harvest from…. but tarot cards reading is much more reliable. In the name of science, they should go back to reading tea-leafs; if they want to be taken seriously,