Take the mid-point of the above’s predicted warming, six degrees. Meanwhile, a CO2-led global greening has occurred, and climate-related deaths have plummeted as industrialization and prosperity have overcome statism in many areas of the world.
Dire predictions of global warming and sea-level rise are well on their way to being falsified-and by a lot, not a little.
King Hubbert), and global cooling ( John Holdren).Ĭonsider the opening global warming salvo (quoted above). The predictions made by climate scientist James Hansen and Michael Oppenheimer back in 1988-and reported as model projected by journalist Philip Shabecoff-constitute yet another exaggerated Malthusian scare, joining those of the population bomb ( Paul Ehrlich), resource exhaustion ( Club of Rome), Peak Oil ( M. And predictions made on that day-and ever since-continue to be falsified in the real world. It has been 30 years since the alarm bell was sounded for manmade global warming caused by modern industrial society. Philip Shabecoff, “ Global Warming Has Begun.” New York Times, June 24, 1988. The rise in global temperature is predicted to … caus sea levels to rise by one to four feet by the middle of the next century.” “If the current pace of the buildup of these gases continues, the effect is likely to be a warming of 3 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit the year 2025 to 2050….
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