The 10 worst warming predictions, page 1

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GLOBAL warming preachers have had a shocking 2008. So many of their predictions this year went splat.

Here’s their problem: they’ve been scaring us for so long that it’s now possible to check if things are turning out as hot as they warned.

And good news! I bring you Christmas cheer - the top 10 warming predictions to hit the wall this year.

Read, so you can end 2008 with optimism, knowing this Christmas won’t be the last for you, the planet or even the polar bears.

1. OUR CITIES WILL DIE OF THIRST
TIM Flannery, an expert in bones, has made a fortune from books and lectures warning that we face global warming doom. He scared us so well that we last year made him Australian of the Year.

In March, Flannery said: “The water problem is so severe for Adelaide that it may run out of water by early 2009.”

In fact, Adelaide’s reservoirs are now 75 per cent full, just weeks from 2009.

2. OUR REEF WILL DIE
PROFESSOR Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, of Queensland University, is Australia’s most quoted reef expert.

He’s advised business, green and government groups, and won our rich Eureka Prize for scares about the Great Barrier Reef. He’s chaired a $20 million global warming study of the World Bank.

In 1999, Hoegh-Guldberg warned that the Great Barrier Reef was under pressure from global warming, and much of it had turned white.

In fact, he later admitted the reef had made a “surprising” recovery.

3. GOODBYE, NORTH POLE
“We’re actually projecting this year that the North Pole may be free of ice for the first time,” claimed Dr David Barber, of Manitoba University, ignoring the many earlier times the Pole has been ice free.

In fact, the Arctic’s ice cover this year was almost 10 per cent above last year’s great low, and has refrozen rapidly since. Meanwhile, sea ice in the Southern Hemisphere has been increasing. Been told either cool fact?

Yet Barber is again in the news this month, predicting an ice-free Arctic now in six years. Did anyone ask him how he got his last prediction wrong?

4. BEWARE HUGE WINDS
AL Gore

I'll stop there!

5. GIANT HAILSTONES WILL SMASH THROUGH YOUR ROOF

6. NO MORE SKIING
A BAD ski season three years ago - right after a great one - had The Age and other alarmists blaming global warming. The CSIRO, once our top science body, fanned the fear by claiming resorts such as Mt Hotham and Mt Buller could lose a quarter of their snow by 2020.

In fact, this year was another boom one for skiing, with Mt Hotham and Mt Buller covered in snow five weeks before the season started.

7. PERTH WILL BAKE DRY
Perth has just had its coldest and wettest November since 1991.

8. ISLANDS WILL DROWN
“There is no evidence for accelerated sea-level rises,” the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute declared last month.

9. BRITAIN WILL SWELTER
winter has been so cold that London had its first October snow in 74 years—and on the very day Parliament voted to fight “global warming”.

10. WE’LL BE HOTTER
SPEAKING of the Met, it has so far predicted 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2007 would be the world’s hottest or second-hottest year on record, but nine of the past 10 years it predicted temperatures too high.

In fact, the Met this month conceded 2008 would be the coldest year this century.

I love the fact someone is calling out the Global Warming Alarmists

reply to post by Evil Genius

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There is a direct correlation between C02 and temperature. A temperature rise make CO2 in the atmosphere go up. NOT the other way around. There is a 3-5 year lag between rising temperatures and rising C02. Also, ocean levels rise not due to melting ice but due to thermal expansion of the oceans due to rising temperatures.

The greenhouse effect is exacerbated by water vapor in the atmosphere, which is several THOUSAND times more effective as a heat blanket than CO2. In fact, rising CO2 levels are actually GOOD for the enviroment as it tends to foster more plant life. Of course, none of the IPCC projections even MENTION water vapor. Which pretty much explains why they are always wrong on their estimated temperature change.

From the fake "hockey-sick" to the fake picture of the "orphan polar bears" to the fake temperature recordings from October of this year, the entire Anthropormorphic Global Warming HOAX is simply another way for politically motivated people to attempt control of himan society.

By the way, calving Glaciers, often shown as a symptom of Global Warming, only occur when Glaciers EXPAND.. Melting glaciers recede, and don't calve. Face it, almost everything you hear about global warming from the media elite is simply propaganda.


For the science behind my comments, please visit
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reply to post by Anonymous ATS

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weren't 99.9999995% of the worlds scientists wrong about the earth being flat? and anyway its not that 99.99995% of scientists believe humans are causing global warming its that the ones that done believe it lose their jobs and are laughed out of the scientific community by the people who are propogating this myth of human caused global warming. but of course it must be us causing it bc we also caused all the other climate changes of the last 100 million year right.....?......

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