BY NIALL MCCRAE
Drowning in Berlin, mosquito-infested swamps in Michigan, and growing olives on the volcanic slopes of Iceland. It could all be reality soon, if you believe the prophecies of doom by climate change zealots and extinctionists.
They tell us to ‘trust the science’, asserting that the ‘science is settled’.
As a speaker at the World Economic Forum conference at Davos said, ‘we own the science’ (meaning the globalists enacting UN Agenda 21).
But since the climate crisis was launched by the Club of Rome in 1968, every dire prediction has proved wrong.
Let’s take a look back at the catastrophic claims by corrupted scientists and stupefied politicians over the decades through to this day:
- 1968 – Paul Ehrlich, in his treatise The Population Bomb, predicted that ‘in the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death’. Prior to his polemic, Ehrlich was best known for his research on butterfly colonies.
- 1969 – U Thant, Burmese secretary-general of the UN from 1961 to 1971, warned of imminent disaster for humanity due to insurmountable economic and ecological challenges. Wasn’t the UN supposed to promote peace and harmony?
- 1970 – In a speech at the University of Rhode Island, biochemist George Wald, a Nobel Prize winner, claimed that ‘civilisation will end within 15 or 20 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind’.
- 1972 – The Rockefeller-funded Club of Rome’s report Limits to Growth foretold exhaustion of raw materials including oil and precious metals within a few decades. Copper, vital for electricity supply, would last no more than 48 years. ‘Peak copper’ hasn’t happened, despite the huge increase in demand from digital technology.
- 1972 – Maurice Strong, Canadian oilman who directed UN environmental policy for two decades, declared that ‘we have ten years to stop the catastrophe’. This was in the decade that we were told that an ice age cometh, caused by air pollution. .
- 1982 – Mostafa Tolba, executive director of the UN Environmental Program, said that unless humanity took a dramatic change of course, it faced an environmental Holocaust.
- 1988 – According to Agence France Presse, the Maldives archipelago would be submerged in thirty years. Despite continuing development of luxurious property in the Maldives, in 2023 AFP was still warning of rising sea levels, reporting on ‘fortress islands’ to withstand the Indian Ocean swell (in fact, no land has been lost).
- 1989 – UN environment officer Noel Brown predicted that entire nations would be wiped off the map if global warming were not reversed by 2000; he added that ‘coastal flooding and crop failure would create an exodus of refugees’ (he was right about mass immigration, but not its cause).
- 2000 – David Viner, senior research fellow at the infamous climate research unit at the University of East Anglia claimed that snow would be a thing of the past in British winters
- 2004 – The Guardian reported a leaked Pentagon document predicting that climate change would put European cities under water, while Britain would have a Siberian climate by 2020. Nobody is drowning in Berlin, and the only Siberian feature of our landscape is the threat of prison camps for thought criminals.
- 2006 – On Larry King’s talkshow, Al Gore pronounced that ‘we almost certainly are at or near peak oil’, due to increasingly difficulty in finding and tapping reserves. Gore made the mistake of believing that low-hanging fruit is the only bounty on the tree. Actually, oil availability has dramatically increased, partly due to fracking. Gore also claimed in an Inconvenient Truth that sea levels would rise by 20 feet by the end of this century. Eighteen years on, and he has just twenty feet to go.
- 2008 – An April edition of the New Scientist reported the assertion of Mark Serreza, director of the National Snow & Ice Data Center, that North Pole ice was so thin that it would melt away in the summer.
- 2018 – Greta Thunberg tweeted the warning of a ‘top climate scientist’ that climate change would destroy all humanity if we do not abandon fossil fuels over the next five years. The petrol pumps are still filling tanks, and motorists have not fallen into a carbon fugue.
- 2022 – The extinctionist George ‘Moonbat’ Monbiot warns of ‘Total Climate Breakdown’ on the conspiracy channel Byline.
- 2023 – Just Stop Oil activist Chris Packham, according to a transcript provided, tells the High Court in London that ‘we are in a climate emergency.’ After mentioning repeatedly over the last decade on a regular basis that we are in ‘last chance saloon’.
The ‘end of days’ siren persists, despite the corrective of reality.
When will adults take charge in the classroom again, and when will scientists revert to objective enquiry?
For now, we sceptics are like Galileo, derided and cancelled from polite society. But ultimately, Truth will win.
Niall McCrae is the author of ‘Green in Tooth and Claw: the Misanthropic Mission of Climate Alarm’ (2024)