Posted on 11/15/2021 4:03:21 PM PST by 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:
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Anyone remember Calif falling into the ocean!? lol I took an entire Oceanography class to find out if it was true, omg, that wasn’t an easy A either. Learned my lesson well and never again got taken in by the chicken littles or their cousins the race hustlers. Didn’t need any other mind but my own to see thru Steinem’s rap.
For a long time it fooled me, too. Now I reply every time I see it posted on FR. Gotta maintain our credibility.
It could have been real. The left really did go through a "We're all gonna freeze!" phase before deciding that "We're all gonna fry!" was scarier.
I have to hand it to them, the fake Time cover is quality propaganda.
I came up in the 70s and absolutely recall teachers telling us that another Ice Age was coming. As a kid, who has perspective to know how impending it was? I don’t recall that they said it would happen in my lifetime, I just remember them having me worried about it.
Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
I ran across this article searching on “Climate Change” effects on world-wide deaths from cold or heat.
The real news is that I just copied the article title into the FR Search box and up popped up your post!
The much-maligned FR Search worked fine!
Fun article and posts - deserves a bump.
;-)
50 years of predictions that the climate apocalypse is nigh
Hope all is well on the home front.
Charlie
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