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10 times 'experts' predicted the world would end by now
Fox News ^ | Published March 19, 2019 | Maxim Lott |

Posted on 09/19/2022 2:22:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin

In 1989, the Associated Press relayed a warning from a U.N. official:

"A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000."

In 1967, a best-selling book came out called “Famine 1975! America’s Decision: Who Will Survive?”

It predicted mass starvation around the developing world due to increasing population. “Today’s crisis can move in only one direction – toward catastrophe,” it warned.

Global cooling was once a worry to many, such as University of California at Davis professor Kenneth Watt, who warned that present trends would make the world “eleven degrees colder in the year 2000 ... about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”

British science writer Nigel Calder was just as worried. "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind,” Calder warned in International Wildlife magazine in 1975.

In 2006, while promoting his movie “An Inconvenient Truth”, Al Gore said that humanity had only 10 years left before the world would reach a point of no return.

Gore’s movie also featured animations of water inundating Manhattan and Florida.

In 1982, U.N. official Mostafa Tolba, executive director of the UN Environment Program, warned:

“By the turn of the century, an environmental catastrophe will witness devastation as complete, as irreversible, as any nuclear holocaust.”

In 1970, Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-Wisc., – often considered the “father of Earth Day” – cited the secretary of the Smithsonian, who “believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”

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TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: blindfortunetellers; climatehoax; crystalballs; fakescience; globalwarminghoax; nostradamus; nostradumbass; prediction; prophecy
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"We have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have,” Stephen Schneider, a professor of Biology at Stanford University, [alledgedly] said to Discover magazine in 1989. “Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.”
1 posted on 09/19/2022 2:22:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Yup—leftists know exactly what to do when they get caught lying.

Double down!


2 posted on 09/19/2022 2:23:35 PM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: BenLurkin

And the hypocrite left always points out Christian teachers who miss prophetic doomsdays.


3 posted on 09/19/2022 2:26:38 PM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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To: BenLurkin

50 Years of Failed Doomsday, Eco-pocalyptic Predictions; the So-called ‘experts’ Are 0-50

By Mark J. Perry September 23, 2019

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/50-years-of-failed-doomsday-eco-pocalyptic-predictions-the-so-called-experts-are-0-50/


4 posted on 09/19/2022 2:31:37 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: BenLurkin

Like a stopped clock. Sooner or later they’ll be right.


5 posted on 09/19/2022 2:31:49 PM PDT by philippa
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To: BenLurkin

There is a spacecraft trailing Comet Hale–Bopp that will take us away from the certain doom that awaits us. Really, it’s true. Marshall Applewhite said so.


6 posted on 09/19/2022 2:33:54 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: BenLurkin

They do this in order to draw the attention of the sheep away from the obvious failures and self-dealing of the ruling class.


7 posted on 09/19/2022 2:35:46 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: BenLurkin

I have friends who are into You Tube “prophets” who are saying that September 24, 2022 will have power outages, earthquakes, floods, wars, and all sorts of things.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=september+24+prediction

On September 24, 2022 I plan on putting up a bunch of apple pies in the deep freeze for the winter.


8 posted on 09/19/2022 2:36:28 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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9 posted on 09/19/2022 2:41:49 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: BenLurkin

I am more inclined to believe Chicken Little than any of these idiots.


10 posted on 09/19/2022 2:42:45 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: BenLurkin
From first "Earthday".


11 posted on 09/19/2022 2:43:38 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: BenLurkin

Its called earning a pay check via scam same as TG Evangelists, politicians, and doomsday Proselytizers


12 posted on 09/19/2022 2:52:31 PM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: Hammerhead

And Aunt Cleo mon.


13 posted on 09/19/2022 2:53:48 PM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: fwdude

Actually there are no Christian prophetic doomsdays. Jesus himself of the day and the hour no one will know. Any attempt to specify a doomsday date is not Christian.


14 posted on 09/19/2022 2:54:15 PM PDT by webheart
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Any attempt to specify a doomsday date is not Christian.

I know. I'm just pointing out that the enviro-whacko left has no room to talk.

15 posted on 09/19/2022 2:56:11 PM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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To: BenLurkin

We are all going to die !! ! Eventually.


16 posted on 09/19/2022 3:02:04 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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To: gubamyster
Yup, good find.

Here's another:

Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions

17 posted on 09/19/2022 3:02:09 PM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Steely Tom

Yep


18 posted on 09/19/2022 3:02:58 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: MtnClimber

Ha! Excellent!!

(a keeper)


19 posted on 09/19/2022 3:03:59 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: BenLurkin

Climate Tipping Point - over 85 failed environmentalist wacko doomsday predictions since the 1960s - The Limbaugh Letter

https://www.thelimbaughletter.com/thelimbaughletter/august_2021/MobilePagedReplica.action?pm=2&folio=12#pg12


20 posted on 09/19/2022 3:06:51 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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