Search results
- Thomas Sumner
- 38 sec
- Hurricanes. 2006: The warming ocean could fuel more frequent and more intense Atlantic hurricanes. 2016: Hurricane frequency has dropped somewhat; hurricane intensities haven’t changed much — yet.
- Ocean circulation. 2006: Freshwater flowing into the North Atlantic could shut down the ocean conveyor belt that shuttles warm water toward Western Europe.
- Drought, Climate and Conflict. 2006: Climate change exacerbated droughts that contributed to regional conflicts, such as the war in Darfur. 2016: Drought conditions worsened by climate change helped spark the Syrian civil war.
- Arctic Ice. 2006: The Arctic could see its first sea ice–free summers in the next 50 to 70 years. 2016: Arctic summer sea ice may disappear as early as 2052.
- Prediction #1: Global Cooling Is The Real Problem
- Prediction #3: We’Ll Be Living in Antarctica Pretty Soon
- Prediction #4: Great Britain Will Be Almost Snow-Less Thanks to Global Warming
- Prediction #5: Snow Is Going to Be A Thing of The Past in Other Places, Too
- Prediction #6: We only Have 50 Days to Save The World from Global Warming
- Prediction #7: Prince Charles Says We only Have 96 Months to Save The World
- Prediction #8: The Earth Will Warm by 3 to 9 Degrees Fahrenheit by 2025-2050
- Prediction #9: Most Species on The Earth Will Perish by 1995
- Prediction #10: Pretty Much Everything in “An Inconvenient Truth”
When the environmentalist movement began in earnest back in the 1970s, climate change was still a core tenet of true believers. Unlike now, however, they were more concerned about an ice age than a planet that was too hot. “The world has been chilling sharply for about 20 years,” ecologist Kenneth Watt said in 1970. “If present trends continue, the...
Ten years ago, a group called Forum for the Future predicted that we would be living in a world so dire that we would actually have to move to Antarctica as “climate refugees.” The 2008 study produced what the U.K. Telegraphvery charitably called “a radical set of ‘possible futures,'” among them that the first climate refugees would begin flooding ...
Back in 2000, climate scientist David Viner had a very dire prediction for those living in England: Snow was going to become almost extinct there. In a viral interview with the U.K. Independent, Viner said that snow on the isles was going to be “a very rare and exciting event.” “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,” Viner said. “We’re r...
It wasn’t just the United Kingdom. A 2001 reportby the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted that “(m)ilder winter temperatures will decrease heavy snowstorms” but increase the number of ice storms. So, how did that work out? A few years ago, the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center reported that “U.S. snow cover on t...
During the negotiations for the Copenhagen agreement in 2009, former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown predictedthat if they didn’t solve the “impasse” they found themselves in within 50 days, the world was pretty much doomed. “If we do not reach a deal at this time, let us be in no doubt: once the damage from unchecked emissions growth is done, no ...
I’m not entirely sure when the moldering heir of the House of Windsor became a climate scientist, but nearly 10 years ago, Prince Charles warned us all “that he had calculated that we have just 96 months left to save the world,” the U.K. Independentreported at the time. “We face the dual challenges of a worldview and an economic system that seem to...
Back in 1988, as the global warming “consensus” began to grow, New York Timesenvironmentalism reporter Philip Shabecoff wrote a piece of alarmism based on the work of the aforementioned James Hansen, fresh from his congressional testimony. “If the current pace of the buildup of these gases continues, the effect is likely to be a warming of 3 to 9 d...
Back in 1970, around the time of the first Earth Day, Democrat Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote an article for Look Magazine. In it, he repeatedone of the most preposterous claims in the whole climate change/pollution movement: “Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 p...
Yes, the movie that popularized the “hockey stick” graph regarding carbon emissions turns 12 this year, and it’s not exactly looking too prescient, as Michael Bastasch noted two years ago in The Daily Caller. “One of the first glaring claims Gore makes is about Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. He claims Africa’s tallest peak will be snow-free ‘within t...
- C. Douglas Golden
- Morristown, New Jersey
- Contributor, Commentary
May 4, 2016 · May 4, 20168:55 AM ET. By. Marcelo Gleiser. Enlarge this image. NASA. In 2006, six years after his presidential bid, Al Gore launched the documentary An Inconvenient Truth. The movie made...
Feb 7, 2022 · In the 2006 documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," former Vice President Al Gore used Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain, to demonstrate the effects of climate change on its glaciers,...
- The age of humans. 2006: Most people were unaware that humans are capable of changing the planet’s fate. In 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations’ premier climate body, was still lukewarm on the extent of human direction of the climate system.
- Carbon rising. 2006: Levels of carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas, have been increasing since the Industrial Revolution. In 1958, when scientist Charles Keeling made the first measurement at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, carbon levels were 315 parts per million.
- It’s getting hotter in here. 2006: Global temperatures were 0.6 degree Celsius above the 20th-century average, and the hottest 10 years had all happened since 1990.
- Kilimanjaro’s ice. 2006: Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, was called the spotted owl of climate change, according to The New York Times. Between 1989 and 2007, Kilimanjaro’s ice cover retreated by 20 percent.
Nov 4, 2021 · VERDICT. Missing context. Gore did not himself predict that the North Pole would be ice-free in summer by 2013. However, he did mischaracterise others’ findings. Gore also made a range of...
Jul 29, 2017 · Elements. What’s Missing from “An Inconvenient Sequel,” Al Gore’s New Climate-Change Documentary. By Michelle Nijhuis. July 29, 2017. The news, the former Vice-President says, has become “like...
