Eight (count 'em 8) botched environmental forecasts.

[sachiko]

Interesting reading. Dire predictions of disaster and doom by various environmental wackoes.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/...tal-forecasts/


And we're all still here

[Knightia]

Intresting reading yep.

Chicken little & the boys who cryed wolf come to mind(at least redriding hood & her grandma & the 3 pigs had good reason to raise the wolf alarm).

1. Within a few years "children just aren't going to know what snow is." Snowfall will be "a very rare and exciting event." Dr. David Viner, senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, interviewed by the UK Independent, March 20, 2000.


Ten years later, in December 2009, London was hit by the heaviest snowfall seen in 20 years. And just last week, a [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]snowstorm[/color][/color]

forced Heathrow airport to shut down, stranding thousands of Christmas travelers.

. ( wonder if there up to hunting polar bears in london?)

Im hoping in 2012 the democrap party ceases to exist- (wont happen- we havent evolved far enough from living in the tree tops yet).

[Knightia]

2. "[By] 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots…[By 1996] The Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers." Michael Oppenheimer, published in "Dead Heat," St. Martin's Press, 1990.

Silly buggers- i live right next to the north platte in wy)- ( its source is the front range of the rockys( there was some flooding last yr on the platte & enough exess snowpack & runnoff to fill up some of the manmade lakes upstream - that had been pretty low & somewhat empty after about 10 yrs of drought conditions( the river never stoped flowing)- all normal & repeating conditions threw recent & not so recent times).

We had no black blizzards- We had some brown( dust) windstorms - and dust blowing around here like it always does its not abnormal- stone & sand,dust pitted *& glazed windshilds arent unheard of & neither is paint being striped off of houses by it.

[Knightia]

The Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers."
." Michael Oppenheimer, published in "Dead Heat," St. Martin's Press, 1990.

I do admit that dust near the north platte(thats so much in my house, i could almost grow corn indoors) has prematurely killed a few of my computers.
Ya the heat is dead right now- at minus 5* ( about 42-43* indoors , keeps my pc,s from overheating)

[jeepkid]

Originally Posted by Knightia

I do admit that dust near the north platte(thats so much in my house, i could almost grow corn indoors) has prematurely killed a few of my computers.
Ya the heat is dead right now- at minus 5* ( about 42-43* indoors , keeps my pc,s from overheating)

I went past the Green River a few weeks ago and it was frozen solid! North Platte wasn't dried up yet though...

[Knightia]

Originally Posted by jeepkid

I went past the Green River a few weeks ago and it was frozen solid! North Platte wasn't dried up yet though...

Maybe it was the south platte that dried up & i just didnt notice.

The green sounds about how my big bottle of olive oil is right now in the kitchen.

Dam i wish it had stayed colder- but calm out like it was.

Now its warmer out( and threw the night) but with 40-50 mph winds( and ground blizzards) = 31-33* indoors( most rooms).

Global warming bring it on.