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Oops!!! 1995 NYT East Coast Doomsday Prediction Goes Down Toilet
NewsBusters ^ | 6/29/2021 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 06/29/2021 10:52:19 AM PDT by JV3MRC

The climate doom-mongers at The New York Times must now face the reality that their decades-old eco-Armageddon predictions were flat out wrong.

The Times screeched in a 1995 story how “some of the predicted effects of climate change may now be emerging for the first time or with increasing clarity.” One of the predictions included a “[a] continuing rise in average global sea level, which is likely to amount to more than a foot and a half by the year 2100.” The Times then cautioned that an apocalypse for beach-goers would be a likely result: “At the most likely rate of rise, some experts say, most of the beaches on the East Coast of the United States would be gone in 25 years.”

Twenty-five years from 1995 would mean the beaches would be gone by 2020. Newsflash: The East Coast beaches are still intact. U.S. News & World Report even ran a report in May 2020 headlined: “16 Top East Coast Beaches to Visit.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; climatechange; failedprediction; fakenews; newyorktimes; postandrun
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1 posted on 06/29/2021 10:52:19 AM PDT by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

Follow “The Science”...


2 posted on 06/29/2021 10:53:59 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: JV3MRC

The Media is always wrong about this stuff but somehow no one seems to remember. Acid rain was supposed to have wiped us out by now.


3 posted on 06/29/2021 10:57:56 AM PDT by Bayan
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To: JV3MRC

What do you call an expert whose predictions fail to materialize? Why should you continue to take them seriously?


4 posted on 06/29/2021 10:58:00 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: JV3MRC

The oceans should have dried up by now according to Ted Danson....................


5 posted on 06/29/2021 10:58:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: rightwingcrazy
What do you call an expert whose predictions fail to materialize?

A Democrat politician.....................

6 posted on 06/29/2021 10:59:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: JV3MRC

They will attempt to vindicate themselves by pointing out that it is hot at the end of June. Who would have guessed that??


7 posted on 06/29/2021 10:59:33 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: JV3MRC

When FakeNews meets FakeScience...


8 posted on 06/29/2021 11:00:40 AM PDT by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: JV3MRC
Liberals will feel the article is vindicated by this single photo, from Hurricane Sandy (as if hurricanes are a new or increasingly common or intense phenomenon):
9 posted on 06/29/2021 11:02:18 AM PDT by dangus
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To: JV3MRC

Same idiots that told me in 1990 in college with a straight face that the planet would “be OUT of OIL by 2010”. I knew it was horeses-—t then. They never grasped the economic difference between “proven”, “known”, and “theoretical” reserves. Prices take care of “known” and better technology (frakking, hemispherical drilling, etc.) turns a lot of theoretical into prove or known. I have not listened to dumb ass environmentalists or paid attention to their linear math dumb ass models either since then.


10 posted on 06/29/2021 11:05:26 AM PDT by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: rightwingcrazy

Being an expert means never having to say “I’m sorry.”


11 posted on 06/29/2021 11:06:58 AM PDT by maro (MAGA!)
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To: JV3MRC

As long as it had the desired effect at the time, they don’t give a rip if it played out.


12 posted on 06/29/2021 11:09:08 AM PDT by windowdude
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To: JV3MRC

We haven’t lost any beaches.

Agriculture has not shifted.
The UK doesn’t have a thriving wine industry, Maine isn’t growing citrus, and Arizona isn’t covered by wheat.

No climate change.

They can talk about temperature concerns, but the climate is unchanged.


13 posted on 06/29/2021 11:09:26 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Bayan

And after acid rain it was the deterioration of the ozone layer. Glad I’m not the only one that remembers acid rain.


14 posted on 06/29/2021 11:09:59 AM PDT by VA_Gentleman ("Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very internet you invented." -Jon Stewart)
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To: JV3MRC
Most of the media talking heads are totally unqualified to comment on anything other than literature and music. They do not have the education or curiosity or courage to expand their realm of learning. They are almost certainly all mathematically illiterate—it's called innumeracy.

These blasphemous would-be demigods have no concept of how vast and massive our planet really is. The oceans, the atmosphere, the land area are huge beyond the average human's comprehension. Cheapest and quickest cram course would be for them to buy a window seat on the next transcontinental flight.

We has humans have zero control and zero ability to significantly change the way our planet operates on its own.

As long as there are oceans there will be beaches.



15 posted on 06/29/2021 11:11:30 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Damn it, Rush. You left us too soon. )
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To: Larry Lucido

Here’s another one to add to your list. I wish I had your computer skills.


16 posted on 06/29/2021 11:15:09 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: JV3MRC

Leftists don’t care that they lie.


17 posted on 06/29/2021 11:15:33 AM PDT by Signalman
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Twenty-five years from 1995 would mean the beaches would be gone by 2020. Newsflash: The East Coast beaches are still intact.

All completely unaffected, in fact. But climate change is a religion where lack of evidence = proof that it's even worse than we thought.

18 posted on 06/29/2021 11:18:32 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: JV3MRC

Barack Obama stopped the rise, don’t cha know?!


19 posted on 06/29/2021 11:19:14 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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"Glad I’m not the only one that remembers acid rain."

How did we survive red dye #2?!

20 posted on 06/29/2021 11:21:34 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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