Man has "only a few decades" to solve the problem of global warming caused by pollution. Another dire warning coming out of the Climate Conference right?
No. It is from a Rand Corp scientist in 1969.
Meanwhile, in 1970, Dr. Reid Bryson was warning of a possible ice age coming by 2000 due to pollutants in the atmosphere.
But after he could no longer support the earth cooling, he backed off the ice age coming as soon as 2000 and in 1977, said it was still 3,000-5,000 years away.
An AP story in June 1986 projected the mean annual temperature would increase 3-4 degrees by 2010-2020 (it's been about half that). They also projected Ocean City, Md. would lose 39 feet of shoreline by 2000 and 85 feet by 2010.
If you live within 100 feet of the ocean, you have already been swept to sea by last year. See this gem predicted in 1988 for 2020.
And according to the UN in 1989, it's already too late for us all. We missed our window of opportunity.
At least they did get this one right in 1989. They projected an emissions increase of 70% by 2020. Near as I can tell from Our World in Data, it's gone up ~64%.
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