3 Apocalyptic Climate Change Predictions That Failed To Come True
I guess United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres didn’t think his hyping global warming risks brought him enough attention, so now he says, “The era of global boiling has arrived!”
Global boiling?
Give me a break.
Yes, the climate is warming.
We can deal with that.
What annoys me is politicians, activists, and media pushing hysterical myths.
Myth 1: The Arctic will soon be ice-free.
It “could already be ice-free by the summer of 2030,” shrieks a DW News report.
“‘Doomsday Glacier’ is melting faster than scientists thought,” adds the BBC. “Earth’s biggest cities are at risk.”
Nonsense.
“It’s not happening at nearly the catastrophic pace that they claim,” says Heartland Institute fellow Linnea Lueken in my new video.
But the media show dramatic images of melting and missing ice.
“No ice! There’s all these walruses laying out on a stony beach.…It’s because it’s the summertime! In the winter, it all comes right back!”
As far as ice disappearing in winter, too, “Compared to the amount of ice that’s in the Arctic,” says Lueken, it “is like a grain of sand…so minuscule compared to the amount of ice that’s there, it doesn’t even show up on a trend chart when you plot it.”
But zealots push hysteria.
In 2009, Al Gore, while collecting a Nobel prize, said there was “a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap…during some of the summer months, could be completely ice-free wi
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