Timothy Birdnow

Here is an interesting article I came across from back in April from the American Enterprise Institute about the failed predictions made by climate alarmists aka the Gang Green. It is a great article, and the comments are excellent.

From the article:

In the May 2000 issue of Reason Magazine, award-winning science correspondent Ronald Bailey wrote an excellent article titled "Earth Day, Then and Now” to provide some historical perspective on the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. In that article, Bailey noted that around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, and in the years following, there was a "torrent of apocalyptic predictions” and many of those predictions were featured in his Reason article. Well, it’s now the 48th anniversary of Earth Day, and a good time to ask the question again that Bailey asked 18 years ago: How accurate were the predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970? The answer: "The prophets of doom were not simply wrong, but spectacularly wrong,” according to Bailey. Here are 18 examples of the spectacularly wrong predictions made around 1970 when the "green holy day” (aka Earth Day) started:

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He goes on to give a detailed analysis of each of the eighteen predictions that proved to be abject failures. It's a great primer for anyone wanting to illustrate how the Global Warming crowd has used apocalyptic predictions to frighten people into rash action.

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