To prove this 1989 article is true:
Is a 1989 ‘U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked’ Article Authentic?
Posted on by Kim LaCapria
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A 1989 Associated Press article predicted disaster if “global warming” went unchecked.
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On May 14 2019, a Facebook user shared the following screenshot (archived here), purportedly showing a 1989 Associated Press item prognosticating “disaster” by the year 2000 if “global warming” remained unchecked:
In the screenshot, text from an unlinked Associated Press article’s headline and first sentence was visible (with indicated emphasis), reading:
The screenshot is authentic. It was captured from a June 29, 1989 article by Peter James Spielmann. As the excerpt showed, the headline referenced a United Nations prediction, and the first sentence attributed the prediction to a UN official, continuing:
Although the screenshot was authentic and unaltered, the implication of emphasis on the date and timeframes described was done so in a way that readers might infer Brown’s predictions did not come to pass. In 1989, the portion excerpted above described a thirty-year period, which concluded in 2019.
But a June 2018 piece in The Guardian marked a slightly different thirty-year prediction, one that came just before the 1989 Associated Press report:
In the original AP article, the paper said that as of 1989, the “most conservative scientific estimate that the Earth’s temperature will rise 1 to 7 degrees in the next 30 years.” In 2018, Hansen said temperatures had elevated by about one degree in the past century.
On the subject of the measurable effects of climate change, Axios also examined the period between Hansen’s testimony and 2018:
Three decades have passed since then-NASA scientist James Hansen testified before the Senate Energy committee and alerted the country to the arrival of global warming [in 1988].
Why it matters: The predictions of the world’s leading climate scientists have come true, with dire consequence for the planet.
- In the 30-year period prior to Hansen’s testimony, the Earth’s surface was, on average, less than 0.2°F warmer than the 20th-century average. In the 30 years since, the planet’s surface has, on average, undergone a six-fold temperature increase.
- Hansen’s temperature projections weren’t exactly on target, since he projected a slightly higher amount of warming than what has occurred, but about two-dozen climate scientists told Axios that overall, his main conclusions were right.
In a February 2019 Vox article, journalist and author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells posited of the current effects of climate change:
Material published by the Union of Concerned Scientists revised in November 2016 detailed observable changes to the worldwide climate:
The June 1989 Associated Press article “U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked” was authentic and accurately presented in a May 2019 Facebook post. But the implication that these prognostications about climate change had not come to pass was not accurate, as experts continued to identify events (such as extreme weather, wildfires, and coastal flooding) as previous predictions that had been validated in the thirty years since.
Wake up everyone: This has been going on since 1892.
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Banks and Insurance Companies would surely give a zero valuation to new properties next to the ocean right?
This would prove beyond doubt that Climate Change / Climate Crisis / Climate Emergency was really happening. No so fast. Listen to the next two videos. Warning: Foul language used in the Dan Pena backs Trump video.
Electric Car Batteries – all batteries – are causing just as much if not more environmental damage as “Big Oil” and the Coal Industry.
Check out this video about what batteries are going to do to our oceans. Any wonder screwtube deleted it. You can’t be allowed to know this stuff, they are in charge remember? For heavens sake, there’s no way you can be an informed human being on this planet – so you stay in line say the Tyrants.
Climate change is all about robbing the planet by transferring your tax dollars to kleptocrats abroad
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by Jim Rickards
Showing that the Green New Deal is actually the Green New Scam has always been easy.
All you have to do is refer to scientific facts rather than pseudo-science and phony models. Then you’re on the right track.
For example, did you know that polar bear populations have tripled in recent years and some countries are considering allowing a polar bear hunt?
That’s quite a contrast to the last lonely polar bear swimming for a melting piece of drift ice in Al Gore’s 2006 book and movie An Inconvenient Truth.
Did you know that the climate models used by the UN can’t even backtest correctly with actual data let alone forecast with speculative data?
Did you know that hurricanes, tornados and blizzards are neither more frequent nor more severe than in past decades?
Did you know that forest fires in California are caused by gross mismanagement of forests rather than climate?
This list goes on, but you get the point.
Most of the data thrown around by climate alarmists are either false or not nearly as troubling as it sounds when put in an empirical context.
To the extent the climate does change over time, it has nothing to do with CO2 and methane and much more to do with sunspots, ocean currents, volcanoes, the jet stream and other natural forces we cannot control.
That much is easy.
The difficult part in my mind has always been, why?
Why do so many elites and other supposedly smart people repeat scientific garbage ad nauseum to hypnotize large populations who lack the data or skills needed to tear the alarmist claims apart?
At the recent climate summit conference held in the luxury resort of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt called COP27, the parties agreed to transfer over $230 billion to poorer countries as “climate reparations” for damage supposedly done by wealthy nations.
Never mind that the delegates mostly arrived by private jets that spew more CO2 in a few hours than an automobile does in years.
Never mind that the largest polluter in the world, China, will not be contributing to the fund.
Never mind that the entire basis for claims of damage from CO2 emissions is bogus.
None of this can be allowed to stand in the way of the agenda.
The entire green new scam is just a device to transfer wealth from rich western nations to poor nations all over the world.
It’s a financial hijacking conducted by people who hate America and love wealth transfers to socialist and corrupt nations around the world.
That’s the dirty little secret behind the climate alarmist agenda.
It’s not about saving the planet. It’s about robbing the planet by transferring your tax dollars to kleptocrats abroad.
Forget about global warming. Just get your checkbook out and hand over the money.
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Rumble video added 26 June 2023
Added 26 June 2023