OMG! President Obama Lied to Us About the Climate Change Hypothesis

1) The end of the world within 30 years of the first Earth Day.
At the same time environmentalists celebrated the first Earth Day back in 1970, Nobel laureate professor George Weld predicted that “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
While the next 15 to 30 years saw some close calls like the Carter administration, the Yugo, the advent of CNN, and Lou Reed’s “Metal Machine Music,” we’ve somehow managed to muddle through to the new millennium and beyond.
2) Food shortages
Apparently, 1970 was a bad year for predictions. In that same year, Stanford biologist Paul Erlich — who wrote “The Population Bomb” — also said population growth would soon be so great that it would outstrip food supply.
“The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next 10 years,” Erlich said.
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Take one look at reruns of “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” and tell me how that’s worked out.
3) The death of sea life (and Britain)
Sadly, this isn’t Erlich’s only appearance on the list. On the first Earth Day, Erlich said that “In 10 years, all important animal life in the sea will be extinct.” A year earlier in 1969, he said that “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”
As of last check, England was not only populated back in 2000 but had at least five Spice Girls and two Gallagher brothers too many.
If you think these predictions caused Erlich to lose face, consider that he won the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ highest honor, the Crafoord Prize, in 1990. That’s just 10 years before Albion was supposed to be a wasteland.
4) Global cooling?
Yes, that was a thing, too. In 1975, scientist Nigel Calder wrote, “The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.”
5) Yes, global cooling!
Calder wasn’t a one-off, either. Also in 1975, C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said that “(t)he cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed.”
6) Really freakin’ cold!
Quoth ecologist Kenneth Watt in the annus idioticus of 1970: “The world has been chilling sharply for about 20 years. If present trends continue, the world will be about 4 degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990 but 11 degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”
7) That soon changed. And it was still wrong.
We all realize how quickly that became “global warming.” In 2000, another Britisher — David Viner — said that in just “a few years,” snow would be “a very rare and exciting event” in the U.K.
“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” Viner said. “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.”
Even by switching the narrative up, liberal climate scientists couldn’t get things right. The intervening years saw record snowfalls and low temperatures in the British Isles.
In short, you shouldn’t be letting these prognosticators fill out your NCAA bracket, much less influence climate policy.
8) Oh, by the way, all animals should have been dead years ago, too.
“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian (Institution), believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct,” Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote back in 1970 in Look magazine.
Take a wild guess what party Mr. Nelson belonged to. I’ll give you a hint: Not the Republicans.
9) And oil? It should be gone by now, too.
We’ve all heard predictions that we’re going to run out of oil in the next decade or two. That’s likely nothing new to you. What should be new is that these predictions started before World War II.
“In 1939, the U.S. Department of the Interior said American oil supplies would last for only another 13 years. In 1949, the secretary of the interior said the end of U.S. oil supplies was in sight,” Williams wrote.
“Having learned nothing from its earlier erroneous claims, in 1974 the U.S. Geological Survey said the U.S. had only a 10-year supply of natural gas,” he continued. “The fact of the matter, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, is that as of 2014, we had 2.47 quadrillion cubic feet of natural gas, which should last about a century.”
This would be absolutely farcical if it weren’t for the fact that actual policy decisions are being made with these ridiculous numbers.
10) Same thing with copper.
In Scientific American magazine, scientist Harrison Brown predicted that copper supplies were going to be exhausted by 2000. We weren’t even supposed to be that lucky with lead, zinc, tin, gold and silver — those would be gone by 1990.