Environmental Doomsday Prophecies

Think you know everything about climate change? Think again. Join me, Karl Michael, as I unravel the myths and misconceptions surrounding one of the most polarizing issues of our time. With predictions of apocalyptic scenarios that failed to materialize, we're taking a critical look at the track record of climate doomsayers who insisted that the sky was literally falling. From famines and ice-free polar caps to vanished nations and submerged cities, discover the bold claims that never came to pass. This episode's special guest, Patrick Scott's hilarious parody as Professors Von Fraud and Dumass, introduce the climate change simulator, model number 1970.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
The Climate Change Hoax.
If you're suspicious that thisclimate change stuff may be
exaggerated or just total BS,you've come to the right place.
Welcome to the Climate ChangeHoax Podcast With your host,
carl Michael.
Here you'll learn the truthabout the deceivers who want you

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to believe we can actuallycontrol the weather.
We cannot.
The real goal is to control you.
This is the Climate Change Hoax.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Greetings, climate crisis deniers.
Greetings, climate crisisdeniers.
Doomsday predictions have beenmainstream for way too long, and
the predictions have been deadwrong every single time.
In 1967, a researcher by thename of Paul Ehrlich said the

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time of famines is upon us andwill be most disastrous by 1975.
Nope, no famines.
And then there's Ehrlich's 1970prediction the oceans will be
as dead as Lake Erie in lessthan a decade.
The DDT in our fatty tissueshas reached levels high enough
to cause brain damage andcirrhosis of the liver, and
America will be subject to waterrationing by 1974 and food

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rationing by 1980.
Nope, didn't happen.
Newsweek magazine infamouslypredicted the cooling world.
There are ominous signs thatthe planet's weather patterns
have begun to changedramatically, and these changes
may warn of a drastic decline infood production, with serious

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political implications for justabout every nation on Earth.
All through the 70s, we werebombarded with global cooling
predictions.
Science magazine predictedanother ice age.
A New York Times story titledScientists Ask why World Climate
is Changing.
Major cooling may be ahead.

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A Washington Post headlinereads Colder prediction claiming
a major cooling widelyconsidered to be inevitable.
The 1980s saw doomsdaypredictions preparing the public
for untold dangers from warmingand acid rain.

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In 1982, the executive directorof the UN's environmental
program said Within 20 yearsthere would be an environmental
catastrophe which will witnessdevastation as complete, as
irreversible as any nuclearholocaust.
By 2002, it was clear that noenvironmental holocaust was

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forthcoming.
In 1980, dr James Hansentestified before Congress
Greenhouse gas was dramaticallywarming the earth, predicting
children will not know what snowis and by 2009, the West Side
Highway along the Hudson Riverin New York City will be

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underwater.
Nope, it's not underwater, it'sfine.
And so are entire nations thatthe AP predicted in 1989 would
be wiped off the face of theEarth by rising sea levels if
the global warming is notreversed by the year 2000.
Well, lo and behold, not asingle nation was wiped off the

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face of the earth because ofrising sea levels.
A secret Pentagon reportobtained by the UK Guardian in
2004 warned that major Europeancities will be sunk beneath
rising seas as Britain isplunged into a Siberian climate
by 2020.
The report predicts abruptclimate change could bring the

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planet to the edge of anarchyand countries will consider
nuclear deterrence to defend andsecure dwindling food, water
and energy supplies.
This report concluded animminent scenario of
catastrophic climate change isplausible and would challenge US
national security in ways thatshould be considered immediately

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, as early as next year, whichwas 2005.
Widespread flooding by a risein sea levels will create major
upheaval for millions, and allof this was imminent by 2020.
Nope, didn't happen.
Al Gore predicted that thepolar ice caps would be ice-free

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by 2016.
Nope, the ice caps have notmelted.
New York isn't underwater.
Humanity isn't running out offood.
Children today know what snowis, and we're not in a new ice
age.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Hello, I'm lead climate change scientist,
Professor Von Freud.
We have built a climate changesimulator, model number 1970.
I got a little creative whenmaking the model number, since

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we've been talking about the endof the world on climate change
since the 1970s.
That's a very long time.
Well, so I have plugged in allthe parameters that the lead
climate change scientists haveforecasted into the climate
change simulator 1970.

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And now we are going to seewhat the weather is going to be
like in 12 years.
I'm going to hit play and we'regoing to see what happens.
Yes, yes, ah, yes, here's theresults.
Well, that can't be right.

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Um, no, there's no change.
What about if we go out evenfurther, 50 years?
Yes, that's a very, very longtime.
Let's run 50 years and see whathappens.
Here come the results yes, yes.

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Well, that can't be right.
Where's the earth-shatteringkaboom, no, kaboom people.
Maybe there's something wrongwith the machine.
Yes, it's broken.
I'm going to have to look intothis and get back to you.
Bye-bye.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
One thing is absolutely clear about doomsday
predictions Every single oneever made has been wrong, dead
wrong.
The earth is just fine, and soare we.
The only prediction that can bemade with absolute certainty is
their asinine forecasts willlikely continue, but arming

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yourself with the truth willrender their foolish prophecies
null and void.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
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Speaker 2 (07:49):
See you next time on the.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Climate.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Change Hoax.