Deadlines

Some Climate Quotes from Deadlines. Some Climate Quotes from Deadlines. ℹ️ Info           ~ Aristotle Sabouni

Malthusian Watermelons (Green on the outside, Red on the inside), have given us many, many deadlines for when the world would end if we didn't "do something". We didn't, the dates past, and nothing bad happened. And yet, some still listen to them or their ilk.

❝ Today (1996) 25 million environmental refugees roam the globe... By 2010, this number will grow tenfold to 200 million. ❞ ~ The Heat is On ℹ️ Ross Gelbspan (1996)

❝ By 2000, British and American oil will have diminished to a trickle… Ozone depletion and global warming threaten food shortages… ❞ ~ 5000 Days to Save the Planet ℹ️ Edward Goldsmith (1991)

❝ At present rates of exploitation there may be no rainforest left in 10 years. If measures are not taken immediately, the greenhouse effect may be unstoppable in 12 to 15 years. ❞ ~ 5000 Days to Save the Planet ℹ️ Edward Goldsmith (1991)

❝ ...we are now given not 10 years to save the rainforests, but in many cases five years. Madagascar will largely be gone in five years unless something happens. ❞ ~ ABC ℹ️ The Miracle Planet - April 22, 1990

❝ Researchers concluded that global warming would raise average annual temperatures nationwide two degrees by 2010. ❞ ~ Associated Press ℹ️ May 15, 1989

❝ Entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000. ❞ ~ Associated Press ℹ️ June 30, 1989

❝ [by 2008] The West Side Highway will be under water. And there will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won’t be there. ❞ ~ Columbia University ℹ️ Professor James Hansen ~ June 1988

❝ ...there will be no sea ice left in the summer in the Arctic Ocean somewhere between 2010 and 2015... And it’s probably going to happen even faster than that ❞ ~ Université Laval ℹ️ Professor Louis Fortier (2007)

❝ sea ice will be gone in September 2014 ❞ ~ Arctic News ℹ️ Sam Carana (2012)

❝ ...our projection of 2013 [for the elimaination of artic Sea Ice] is already too conservative... ❞ ~ BBC ℹ️ Professor Wieslaw Maslowski (2007)

❝ in a few years, or a decade or so, we’ll go into a permanent El Nino... you’ll have an El Nino, that instead of lasting 18 months, lasts 18 years. ❞ ~ BBC ℹ️ November 7, 1997

❝ Himalayan glaciers could vanish within ten years because of global warming. ❞ ~ The Birmingham Post ℹ️ July 26, 1999

❝ The planet could face an “ecological and agricultural catastrophe” by the next decade if global warming trends continue. ❞ ~ Carl Sagan – Buffalo News ℹ️ Oct. 15, 1990

❝ [CSU] anticipates nine hurricanes, five are expected to develop into intense or major hurricanes. (It was 6 and 2). ❞ ~ Colorado State University ℹ️ Science Daily (2007)

❝ Winter temperatures in the North Atlantic region [will] fall by 20 or more degrees Fahrenheit within 10 years. ❞ ~ Columbia University ℹ️ Wallace S. Broecker (1997)

❝ Some predictions for the next decade (1990’s) are not difficult to make… Americans may see the ’80s migration to the Sun Belt reverse as a global warming trend rekindles interest in cooler climates. ❞ ~ Dallas Morning News ℹ️ December 5th 1989

❝ It is now pretty clearly agreed that the CO2 will rise 25% by 2000. This could increase the average temperature near the earth’s surface by 7 degrees Fahrenheit. This in turn could raise the level of the sea by 10 feet. Goodbye New York. Goodbye Washington, for that matter. ❞ ~ Daniel Moynihan ℹ️ 1969

❝ Huge sand dunes extending east from Colorado’s Front Range may be on the verge of breaking through the thin topsoil, transforming America’s rolling High Plains into a desert... ❞ ~ Denver Post ℹ️ April 18, 1990

❝ By) 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots. The Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands. ❞ ~ The Environmental Defense Fund ℹ️ Michael Oppenheimer, Dead Heat ~ 1990

❝ In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. ❞ ~ Paul Ehrlich ℹ️ Earth Day (1970)

❝ The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. ❞ ~ Paul Ehrlich ℹ️ The Population Bomb (1968)

❝ By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people… If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000. ❞ ~ Paul Ehrlich ℹ️ 1971

❝ The global temperature will increase every year by 0.2° C ❞ ~ German Federal Ministry of Environment ℹ️ Michael Müller (2007)

❝ ...within a decade, the disease (Malaria) will be common again on the Spanish coast. The effects of global warming are coming home to roost in the developed world. ❞ ~ The Guardian ℹ️ September 11, 1999

❝ It could even be this year or next year but not later than 2015 there won’t be any ice in the Arctic in the summer, "the Arctic death spiral" ❞ ~ David Vaughan ℹ️ IPCC scientist (2012)

❝ a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000 ❞ ~ Los Angles Times ℹ️ May 16, 1972

❝ (By 1995) somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct. ❞ ~ Look Magazine ℹ️ April 1970

❝ A global warming trend could bring heat waves, dust-dry farmland and disease, the experts said… Under this scenario, the resort town of Ocean City, Md., will lose 39 feet of shoreline by 2000 and a total of 85 feet within the next 25 years. (2011) ❞ ~ San Jose Mercury News ℹ️ June 11, 1986

❝ At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions. ❞ ~ NASA ℹ️ Jay Zwally (2007)

❝ NOAA announced its predictions for the 2006 hurricane season: 13-16 named storms, 4 hurricanes of Cat-3 or above, double the yearly average. (It was a below-average year) ❞ ~ NOAA ℹ️ 2006

❝ By the year 2000…the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine. ❞ ~ Peter Gunter ℹ️ North Texas State University (1970)

❝ "We're doing to see more floods, more droughts, more wildfires", "One carton of milk is $12.99", "Gas reached over $9 a gallon", and they showed NYC half submerged. All by 2015, if we don't address Climate Change. 🎦 ❞ ~ Good Morning America ℹ️ Earth 2100 (2008)

❝ The facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure in a decade. If policy makers do not account for this oncoming doom, “mass deaths by starvation and probably in anarchy and violence. ❞ ~ New York Times ℹ️ December 29, 1974

❝ New Ice Age by 1995? ...We may be less than seven years away (from major ice age caused by Greenhouse gasses)... ❞ ~ New York Times ℹ️ July 15, 1988

❝ Col. Bernt Balchen, polar explorer and flier, is circulating a paper among polar specialists proposing that the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two. ❞ ~ New York Times ℹ️ February 20, 1969

❝ Arctic warming has become so dramatic that the North Pole may melt this summer... ❞ ~ National Geographic ℹ️ University of Manitoba (2008)

❝ Officials with the Panama Canal Authority... warn that global warming, increased shipping traffic, and bigger seagoing vessels could cripple the canal’s capacity to operate within a decade. ❞ ~ CNN ℹ️ November 1, 2000

❝ the cooling trend to the year 2000 would... [impact spring wheat and rice, causing food shortages] ❞ ~ Science ℹ️ May 9, 1975

❝ There is a possibility of an ice-free Arctic Ocean for a short period in summer perhaps as early as 2015. ❞ ~ Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment Report ℹ️ 2009

❝ I do not think that any sea ice will survive this summer. An event unprecedented in human history is today, this very moment, transpiring in the Arctic Ocean… ❞ ~ Sierra Club ℹ️ Paul Beckwith (2013)

❝ Most of the great environmental struggles will be either won or lost in the 1990s and by the next century, it will be too late. ❞ ~ Smithsonian Institution ℹ️ Thomas E. Lovejoy (1993)

❝ Within a few years winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting even. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is... ❞ ~ Senior scientist at CRU ℹ️ Mar 20, 2000

❝ New York will probably be like Florida 15 years from now. ❞ ~ St. Louis Post-Dispatch ℹ️ Sept. 17, 1989

❝ In ten years' time, most of the low-lying atolls surrounding Tuvalu’s nine islands in the South Pacific Ocean will be submerged underwater as global warming rises sea levels. ❞ ~ CNN ℹ️ Mar 29, 2001

❝ Environmental refugees to top 50 million in 5 years... ❞ ~ United Nations News Release ℹ️ UNU-EHS Director Janos Bogardi (2005)

❝ In the next 50 years fine dust that humans discharge into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel will screen out so much of the sun’s rays that the Earth’s average temperature could fall by six degrees. Sustained emissions over five to 10 years, could be sufficient to trigger an ice age. ❞ ~ Washington Post ℹ️ July 9, 1971

❝ Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind. We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation. ❞ ~ Washington University ℹ️ Earth Day 1970

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