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UN Climate Summit: Shackling the Planet to “Save” It

Vol. 32, No. 01

January 4, 2016

UN Climate Summit: Shackling the Planet to “Save” It

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Climate Alarmists Have Been Wrong About Virtually Everything

Climate Alarmists Have Been Wrong About Virtually Everything

Of all the dramatic predictions made by warming alarmists about environmental gloom and catastrophe, none has as yet proven true. ...
Alex Newman
Article audio sponsored by The John Birch Society

Not surprisingly, champions of the Paris accord are warning that U.S. withdrawal will lead to global environmental devastation. Are they correct? In answering this question, it is worthwhile looking at past predictions climate doomsayers have made, and to compare their dire warnings with what has actually happened. This article was originally published in the Jan. 4, 2016 print issue of The New American magazine.

The 1975 Newsweek article entitled “The Cooling World,” which claimed Earth’s temperature had been plunging for decades due to humanity’s activities, opens as follows:

There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production — with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas — parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia — where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.

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UN Climate Summit: Shackling the Planet to “Save” It

Vol. 32, No. 01

January 4, 2016

UN Climate Summit: Shackling the Planet to “Save” It

Cover Story


Features

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Climate Alarmists Have Been Wrong About Virtually Everything

Alex Newman – Of all the dramatic predictions made by warming alarmists about environmental gloom and catastrophe, none has as yet proven true.


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Climate Alarmists Have Been Wrong About Virtually Everything
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Climate Alarmists Have Been Wrong About Virtually Everything

Of all the dramatic predictions made by warming alarmists about environmental gloom and catastrophe, none has as yet proven true. ...
Alex Newman
Article audio sponsored by The John Birch Society

The 1975 Newsweek article entitled “The Cooling World,” which claimed Earth’s temperature had been plunging for decades due to humanity’s activities, opens as follows:

There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production — with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R. in the North, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas — parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia — where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon.

The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteor-ologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen their growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resultant overall loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually.

The article quotes dire statistics from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Center for Climatic and Environmental Assessment, Columbia University, and the University of Wisconsin Madison to indicate how dire the global cooling was, and would be.

Experts suggested grandiose schemes to alleviate the problems, including “melting the arctic ice cap by covering it with black soot or diverting arctic rivers,” Newsweek reported. It added, “The longer the planners delay, the more difficult will they find it to cope with climatic change once the results become grim reality.” Sound familiar — except that the “climate change” alarmists were warning against global cooling?