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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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To: L,TOWM

A local eco guy had license plates ...PEAK OIL


21 posted on 06/29/2021 11:23:26 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: JV3MRC

I’m still waiting for the coming ice age they predicted in the 70’s.


22 posted on 06/29/2021 11:23:28 AM PDT by rllngrk33 (It seems the soap box and ballot box have failed, it might be time for the bullet box.)
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To: VA_Gentleman

Then the DDT scare, no more Bald Eagles. Now I see many on a daily basis.


23 posted on 06/29/2021 11:24:24 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: JV3MRC
They've been telling us for 20 years that the north pole will be ice free in 10 years. LOL


And that we were all going to freeze forever in the 1970's. LOL


I guess we should be glad they saved us by banning the McDLT. LOL

24 posted on 06/29/2021 11:32:56 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Bayan

“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.”
We were all supposed to be frozen to death before that.


25 posted on 06/29/2021 11:41:38 AM PDT by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: dangus

As if Sandy was a Hurricane that hit NJ.

It was a tropical depression that hit a cold front.


26 posted on 06/29/2021 11:51:26 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: L,TOWM

And Chicago was supposed to be under a mile of Ice by now due to THE COMING ICE AGE hysteria of the 1970s!


27 posted on 06/29/2021 11:53:12 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: JV3MRC
I thought "The Beach" is always on the border between the land and sea and if the sea rises "The Beach" will not disappear, it will just relocate.
Besides, the oceans have not risen significantly.

28 posted on 06/29/2021 11:54:34 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Red Badger
What do you call an expert whose predictions fail to materialize?

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

AKA a lawyer, a journalist or a public school teacher.

29 posted on 06/29/2021 11:55:03 AM PDT by ALPAPilot
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To: JV3MRC
Obama himself bought a big house right on Martha's Vineyard.

That tells you right there that they were blowing smoke all along.

Only the very stupid and gullible believe in "global warming."

30 posted on 06/29/2021 11:57:26 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: Paladin2

The science is never about the science. It is an excuse to seize more political power and squelch economic growth so there are more cries for economic redistribution.


31 posted on 06/29/2021 12:12:31 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Vigilanteman

When the rhetoric comes from a Leftist, it’s never about “The Science”, it’s always about “The Revolution [Oppression 4/of U]”.


32 posted on 06/29/2021 12:15:47 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: Bayan

Acid rain was successfully prevented by new, costly environmental regulations. And so many years later, it was still horrifying to see entire dead forests killed by acid rain.

But such successes are exactly the problem with global warming... they picked a “crisis” that couldn’t be solved.


33 posted on 06/29/2021 12:36:51 PM PDT by dangus
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To: JV3MRC

iirc the tide/sealevel was always measured by a line on a rock, in Glasgow?

what does IT say...


34 posted on 06/29/2021 12:39:11 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: JV3MRC
Made the front page.
35 posted on 06/29/2021 12:52:46 PM PDT by consult
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To: L,TOWM

They said the same thing in ‘75 when I was in HS.
Scared so many young they stopped planning for future.


36 posted on 06/29/2021 1:06:30 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: VA_Gentleman

“Glad I’m not the only one that remembers acid rain.”

It was one of Prince’s first attempts at a hit song. I remember it well.


37 posted on 06/29/2021 1:07:02 PM PDT by MercyFlush (A wise man once said nothing. )
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To: rightwingcrazy

“What do you call an expert … ?“

Paul Ehrlich.


38 posted on 06/29/2021 1:30:11 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: pepsi_junkie

“For the true believer no proof is necessary”. Stuart Chase. (And no disproof possible)


39 posted on 06/29/2021 1:33:21 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Laslo Fripp; JV3MRC

Hello, my friend. If you’re speaking of the “Hit and Run” list, JV3MRC actually does reply every so often (one in twenty, I would say). I do wish he would not excerpt his own material but that is another story. Out of fairness, he contributes to FR. What else can one ask? Still, love to hear more from you, JV3MRC!


40 posted on 06/29/2021 1:34:34 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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