50 years of predictions that the climate apocalypse is nigh

NY Post ^ | 15 Nov 2021 | NY Post Ed Board

[Rummyfan]

Apocalypse . . . now?

For the past two weeks in Glasgow, Scotland, world leaders have gathered at COP 26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, to listen to the same message: Disaster is just around the corner.

“The world has to step up, and it has to step up now,” former President Barack Obama said. “When it comes to climate, time really is running out.”

Professional yeller Greta Thunberg demanded the United Nations declare a “systemwide climate emergency,” and force countries to take action.

Press accounts were similarly Chicken Little-esque. If developed nations don’t phase out oil and gas and give $100 billion in “climate financing,” Paul Behrens, professor in environmental change, told Politico that “the only fact about the future I can declare with certainty is that the world as we know it is coming to an end.”

If it all sounds slightly familiar, consider this news story from 1972:

[Rummyfan]

And then in 1982:

[cdcdawg]

Build Back Better or the aliens will melt our brains with their ray beams!!!!!!!!!

[SoConPubbie]

I see Scoldy-Locks was there.

[Rurudyne]

If I had a Gundam or Veritech you can bet AntiFa would have been slapped down HARD.

[Pelham]

I’ve lost count of how many times that we have been promised that the world would end and the Earth never cooperates.

[rktman]

CLIMAGEDDON is a few steps away. Be skerred. Be very skerred.

[A strike]

” The Sheriff is near.”

[lizma2]

Started in the 60’s

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Climate scam still going strong, more effective, more profitable, less risk than the Nigerian scam.

[Navy Patriot]

Professional yeller Greta Thunberg demanded the United Nations declare a “systemwide climate emergency,” and force countries to take action.

When my Model T starts making noises like that, I know it's just because it's retarded.

[monkeyshine]

[READINABLUESTATE]

...oh, I forgot. Is the sky still falling?

[monkeyshine]

FWIW, people were also worried about overpopulation more than a century ago. Population of earth is almost an order of magnitude larger now than it was when those generations were worrying.

[SE Mom]

I remember in the late 60’s the overpopulation scare was hot and intense. One thing was different- my high-school teachers presented various views about it and were never alarmist. Even so- as teens we were worried. I can not imagine the fear kids live in now.

[RetiredTexasVet]

I take their outlandish claims about as seriously as the cold fusion, right around the corner, claims!!!!

[NetAddicted]

Peruse later.

[rllngrk33]

I take their outlandish claims about as seriously as the cold fusion, right around the corner, claims!!!!

Never mind cold fusion, a viable fusion reactor has been just a decade away for the last 50 years. And I'm still waiting for my Jetsons flying car that was supposed to be here by now.

[TChad]

Sorry, but the left image is a well-known fake. It fooled plenty of people.

Here's the actual cover:

[monkeyshine]

If it is a fake, I retract and apologize.

[jmacusa]

I remember those days too. Then we were told that computers were going to take over everything and we’d be eliminated or we be buried in an Ice Age.