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Don’t worry! Everything has been ‘DIRE’ for years – A history of ‘dire’ environmental & climate warnings
By: Marc Morano - Climate DepotMay 7, 2019 11:29 AM with 0 comments
Every prediction is “dire.†And every climate summit is the ‘last chance. See: See:
Every climate summit is hailed as the ‘last chance!’
And as early as 1864, “tipping points†about the “extinction of the species†and climate were issued.
‘Dire’ environmental & climate round-up
By Dennis Ambler
2006: A load of hot air? Dire warning
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4923504.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4923504.stm)
Hardly a day goes by without a new dire warning about climate change. But some claims are more extreme than others, giving rise to fears that the problem is being oversold and damaging the issue.
2006: Climate scientists issue dire warning
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/feb/28/science.frontpagenews (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/feb/28/science.frontpagenews)
https://www.climatedepot.com/2019/05/07/dont-worry-everything-has-been-dire-for-years-a-history-of-dire-environmental-climate-warnings/ (https://www.climatedepot.com/2019/05/07/dont-worry-everything-has-been-dire-for-years-a-history-of-dire-environmental-climate-warnings/)
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Michael Crichton wrote a novel about this:
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Hell, go back to the first earth day and look at the predictions made then and almost every day since then. None have come to pass, but it is funny that the "solution" to all the doom scenarios is to give the government all your money and dictatorial powers. When that happens the air and water will be clean, there will be plenty of good vegan food for all, and the polar bears will not be extinct.
Oh yeah, everyone will own a rainbow farting unicorn too.......