Climate Warnings
Al Gore claims that “we don’t have any time to waste if we want to solve the climate crisis in time to avert the truly catastrophic impacts that can still be prevented.”
IN FACT, Gore and company have been predicting climate doomsday scenarios for more than 30 years, and they have turned out to be categorically false. Here are 5 examples among dozens:
- In 1992, Al Gore wrote that “up to 60% of the present population of Florida may have to be relocated” “not long after” the “next few decades” “because of the rising sea level, due to global warming.” Since then, the coastal population of Florida has grown by 67%.
- In 1989, Sandra Henderson, a biogeographer at EPA’s Environmental Research Laboratory, wrote that “scientists are warning of a possible loss of 20 percent of the earth’s species before the end of the century” due to “global warming.” This equals about 240,000 species. The actual loss was well under 100, or less than 0.04% of her projection.
- In 1989, Dr. David Rind, an atmospheric scientist at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and a “leading researcher” on global warming, projected “an average global temperature increase of “3.6ºF by the year 2020.” In reality, the increase was about 0.7ºF, or one-fifth of his projection.
- In 1989, Noel Brown, a senior U.N. environmental official, stated that “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.” Since then, Earth’s land area grew by about 22,400 square miles.
- In 1989, William H. Mansfield III, the deputy executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme, wrote that “sea-level rise as a consequence of global warming would immediately threaten that large fraction of the globe living at sea level.” Since then, Earth’s coastal land area grew by about 5,200 square miles.
