Maurice Strong, Under Secretary General of the United Nations, talking of the environment and climate change, tells us “We have ten years to stop the catastrophe.” That is terrifying. Fortunately though, he said this in 1972 and we survived that one. Then in 1982 the UN told us of “an environmental catastrophe as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust was on the horizon by the year 2000.” I don’t think it happened. In 1989 the UN kindly informed us of “global disaster . . . nations wiped off the face of the earth”, presumably through rising sea levels, if we didn’t fix climate change by 1999. I’m not sure how many nations have been wiped off the earth since then but then again I haven’t been counting. In 1990 Mostafa Tolba, head of UN Environment Program said we would have irrevocably lost the climate change war if we hadn’t fixed it by 1995. Which sounds like saying we might as well just give up on the issue after 1995 as it will have been decided one way or the other by then.
Al Gore told us back around 2007 the North Pole could well be entirely free of ice by 2014 or so. He wasn’t treated as an unhinged laughing stock; instead he got a Nobel Prize. His catastrophic to the nth degree claims didn’t quite materialise. This past winter we had record cold winter weather in many places regarding temperatures and snowfall.
Currently of course the UN are telling us we only have a few short years left to “prevent irreversible damage from climate change.”It’s interesting how they continue to be undeterred by any obvious sense of embarrassment or doubts as to their claims, and also how the obediently spouting media has such short memories.
This is all more or less courtesy of Hoover Institute visiting fellow Bjorn Lomberg, who presented these photos of past news stories in pointing out how “the UN routinely warns us that we have just a few years left until catastrophe.”
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