The Climate Time Bomb Dud
By Art Horn
In the 1994 Greenpeace released a publication called “The Climate Time Bomb Catalogue”. In it they state categorically that the burning of fossil fuels will cause all kinds of disasters. As you will see, all of these “disasters” and “unprecedented” weather events are not new and have occurred many times in the near and distant past. The Climate Time Bomb predictions of the awful consequences of global warming have failed. Even in light of these failures organizations like Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, the National Resources Defense Council and many others continue to pump out scary storm stories, animal extinction dramas and dangerous sea level rise predictions. They rely on people’s ignorance of historical weather events to sell their predictions of doom. What you will find as you read on is that nearly 20 years ago, environmentalists were using exactly the same propaganda scare stories we hear today. As Joseph Goebbels said “It (in this case the environmental movement) must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over”. Here is a list of some of the “Climate Time Bombs” listed in 1994 by Greenpeace. They will all sound very familiar. (Energy Tribune)
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’92-’95 was a rather ineffective time for Greenpeace, the Sierra Club & others when it came to pushing these scary scenarios. Skeptic scientists kept contradicting them. It wasn’t til ’96-’97 that enviro-activists started getting better traction in the media, when reporters began promoting the idea that such skeptics were paid to be skeptical by big coal & oil. The only reason that accusation succeeded is because nobody in the MSM ever checked the veracity of it.
Our own Steve Milloy did, though, on one particular problem which should have been thoroughly investigated by the MSM back then: http://junkscience.com/2011/05/30/washpost-freedom-of-information-act-not-for-skeptics-use/comment-page-1/#comment-2541