02-14-2010, 11:52 AM
Miami Herald article quoting UN's Noel Brown-A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of "eco-refugees," threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the United Nations U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP. He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the [problem].
Africa crop reduction by 50% in 2020
Various doomsday predictions from population to resources
Predictions on the very first Earth Day 1970
Breakdown of climate (cooling and warming) coverage by the media in the last 100 years
James Hansen and "10 Years"
James Hansen 1988 speech to congress-Where it all began. (pdf) Last page features the graphs he used...including projections to our present time which have not come to pass as predicted.
Hansen et al, 1988 abstract
A little known James Hansen prediction from the late 80s-Concerning sea level rise in New York City
James Hansen 20 years later-Here is Hansen on rant in 2008 that is both scary and hilarious. More doomsday predictions of course.
Hansen prediction for 2009/2010
Article about peak oil predictions
The Origins of Peak Oil Doomerism
A collection of "we will run out of oil" predictions
On climate prediction
More on various failed predictions
Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past
Recent doomsday predictions
87 Failed predictions about the future-My favorite one....Everything that can be invented has been invented.~Charles H. Duell, an official at the US patent office, 1899.
Is Earth near its 'tipping point' from global warming?-USA Today article from 2007...a type of article that may be a relic of the past? (A couple of skeptic actually do receive some brief attention here)
The Legacy of Rachel Carson
Africa crop reduction by 50% in 2020
Various doomsday predictions from population to resources
Predictions on the very first Earth Day 1970
Breakdown of climate (cooling and warming) coverage by the media in the last 100 years
James Hansen and "10 Years"
James Hansen 1988 speech to congress-Where it all began. (pdf) Last page features the graphs he used...including projections to our present time which have not come to pass as predicted.
Hansen et al, 1988 abstract
A little known James Hansen prediction from the late 80s-Concerning sea level rise in New York City
James Hansen 20 years later-Here is Hansen on rant in 2008 that is both scary and hilarious. More doomsday predictions of course.
Hansen prediction for 2009/2010
Article about peak oil predictions
The Origins of Peak Oil Doomerism
A collection of "we will run out of oil" predictions
On climate prediction
More on various failed predictions
Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past
Recent doomsday predictions
87 Failed predictions about the future-My favorite one....Everything that can be invented has been invented.~Charles H. Duell, an official at the US patent office, 1899.
Is Earth near its 'tipping point' from global warming?-USA Today article from 2007...a type of article that may be a relic of the past? (A couple of skeptic actually do receive some brief attention here)
The Legacy of Rachel Carson
