Thread by @thelaymanstake

THREAD(1/21)The media and politicians have started pushing for further restructuring of society because of Climate change. Their climate predictions to justify this are horrifying.

So lets look at the last 50 years of climate predictions and see how they stack up?

(2/21) Salt Lake Tribune 1967: ‘Dire famine by 1975.’
Research by Stanford University

(3/21) New York Times in1969 states that because of pollution ‘Everyone will disappear in a cloud of blue steam by 1989.’

(4/21) Boston Globe 1970 "New Ice Age by Year 2000"

(5/21)Redland Daily Facts 1970: ‘America subject to water rationing by 1974 and food rationing by 1980.’

(6/21) The Washington Post 1971: ‘New Ice Age Coming’

(7/21)The Guardian 1974: ‘New Ice Age Coming Fast’

(8/21) Time Magazine 1974: ‘Another Ice Age?’

(9/21) New York Times 1976: ‘The Cooling’

(10/21) New York Times 1980: ‘Acid Rain Kills Life in Lakes’

Reality 10 Years Later from AP

(11/21) New York Times 1978: ‘No End in Sight’ to 30-Year Cooling Trend'

(12/21) Agence France Press 1988: Maldives completely under water in 30 years

(13/21) Associated Press 1989: Rising seas to ‘obliterate’ nations by 2000

(14/21) Salon 1989: New York City’s West Side Highway underwater by 2019

(15/21) The Independent 2000: ‘Children won’t know what snow is.’

(16/21) The Guardian 2002: Famine in 10 years if we don't five up meat fish and dairy

(17/21) The Guardian 2004: Britain to have Siberian climate by 2020

(18/21) Associated Press 2008: Arctic will be ice-free by 2018

(19/21)2008: Al Gore warns of ice-free Arctic by 2013

(20/21) The Guardian 2013: Arctic ice-free by 2015

(21/21) So what does all this mean? Does it mean Climate Change isn't real? No of course not.

I did this to show that the "Experts" and institutions predicting disaster have been wrong repeatedly and to question them is not only ok, it is, to use one of their words "Essential"

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