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.@ceidotorg just published a new paper: Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions.

Keep in mind that many of the grossly wrong environmentalist predictions were made by respected scientists and government officials.

Here's a list!

In 1969 Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich told @nytimes “the trouble with almost all environmental problems is that by the time we have enough evidence to convince people, you’re dead... unless we’re extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years.”

In 2000, David Viner, a senior research scientist at University of East Anglia’s climate research unit, predicted that in a few years winter snowfall would become “a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is.”

In 2004, U.S. Pentagon officials warned President George W. Bush that major European cities would be beneath rising seas. Britain will be plunged into a Siberian climate by 2020.

In 2008, Al Gore predicted that the polar ice cap would be gone in a mere 10 years.

A U.S. Department of Energy study led by the U.S. Navy predicted the Arctic Ocean would experience an ice-free summer by 2016.

In May 2014, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius declared during a joint appearance with Secretary of State John Kerry that “we have 500 days to avoid climate chaos.”

North Texas State University professor Peter Gunter claimed in 1970 that by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa...

He continued: By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions. By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.

Ecologist Kenneth Watt’s 1970 prediction: “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000.”

He added, “This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”

We could keep going—Mark J. Perry cites 18 spectacularly wrong predictions made around the time of first Earth Day in 1970.

Getting bored? Here's one that isn't about weather!

Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated that humanity would run out of copper shortly after 2000.

Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver, he predicted, would be gone before 1990.

Kenneth Watt said, “By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate … that there won’t be any more crude oil.”

In 1939, the U.S. Department of the Interior predicted that American oil supplies would last for only another 13 years.

In 1949, the secretary of the interior said the end of U.S. oil supplies was in sight.

Having learned nothing from its earlier erroneous claims, in 1974, the U.S. Geological Survey said that the U.S. had only a 10-year supply of natural gas.

The U.S. is the largest producer of natural gas worldwide.

“Today’s wild predictions are likely to be just as true as yesteryear’s. The major difference is today’s Americans are far more gullible and more likely to spend trillions fighting climate change... and the only result is that we’ll be much poorer and less free.” @WE_Williams