The Climate Change Hoax

Environmental Doomsday Prophecies

Karl Michael Season 2 Episode 46

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.

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Speaker 1:

The Climate Change Hoax. If you're suspicious that this climate change stuff may be exaggerated or just total BS, you've come to the right place. Welcome to the Climate Change Hoax Podcast With your host, carl Michael. Here you'll learn the truth about the deceivers who want you to believe we can actually control the weather. We cannot. The real goal is to control you. This is the Climate Change Hoax.

Speaker 2:

Greetings, climate crisis deniers. Greetings, climate crisis deniers. Doomsday predictions have been mainstream for way too long, and the predictions have been dead wrong every single time. In 1967, a researcher by the name of Paul Ehrlich said the time of famines is upon us and will be most disastrous by 1975. Nope, no famines. And then there's Ehrlich's 1970 prediction the oceans will be as dead as Lake Erie in less than a decade. The DDT in our fatty tissues has reached levels high enough to cause brain damage and cirrhosis of the liver, and America will be subject to water rationing by 1974 and food rationing by 1980. Nope, didn't happen.

Speaker 2:

Newsweek magazine infamously predicted the cooling world. There are ominous signs that the planet's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically, and these changes may warn of a drastic decline in food production, with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. All through the 70s, we were bombarded with global cooling predictions. Science magazine predicted another ice age. A New York Times story titled Scientists Ask why World Climate is Changing. Major cooling may be ahead. A Washington Post headline reads Colder prediction claiming a major cooling widely considered to be inevitable.

Speaker 2:

The 1980s saw doomsday predictions preparing the public for untold dangers from warming and acid rain. In 1982, the executive director of the UN's environmental program said Within 20 years there would be an environmental catastrophe which will witness devastation as complete, as irreversible as any nuclear holocaust. By 2002, it was clear that no environmental holocaust was forthcoming. In 1980, dr James Hansen testified before Congress Greenhouse gas was dramatically warming the earth, predicting children will not know what snow is and by 2009, the West Side Highway along the Hudson River in New York City will be underwater. Nope, it's not underwater, it's fine. And so are entire nations that the AP predicted in 1989 would be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming is not reversed by the year 2000. Well, lo and behold, not a single nation was wiped off the face of the earth because of rising sea levels.

Speaker 2:

A secret Pentagon report obtained by the UK Guardian in 2004 warned that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a Siberian climate by 2020. The report predicts abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy and countries will consider nuclear deterrence to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. This report concluded an imminent scenario of catastrophic climate change is plausible and would challenge US national security in ways that should be considered immediately, as early as next year, which was 2005. Widespread flooding by a rise in sea levels will create major upheaval for millions, and all of this was imminent by 2020. Nope, didn't happen. Al Gore predicted that the polar ice caps would be ice-free by 2016. Nope, the ice caps have not melted. New York isn't underwater. Humanity isn't running out of food. Children today know what snow is, and we're not in a new ice age.

Speaker 3:

Hello, I'm lead climate change scientist, Professor Von Freud. We have built a climate change simulator, model number 1970. I got a little creative when making the model number, since we've been talking about the end of the world on climate change since the 1970s. That's a very long time. Well, so I have plugged in all the parameters that the lead climate change scientists have forecasted into the climate change simulator 1970. And now we are going to see what the weather is going to be like in 12 years. I'm going to hit play and we're going to see what happens. Yes, yes, ah, yes, here's the results. Well, that can't be right. Um, no, there's no change. What about if we go out even further, 50 years? Yes, that's a very, very long time. Let's run 50 years and see what happens. Here come the results yes, yes.

Speaker 3:

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

Speaker 2:

One thing is absolutely clear about doomsday predictions Every single one ever made has been wrong, dead wrong. The earth is just fine, and so are we. The only prediction that can be made with absolute certainty is their asinine forecasts will likely continue, but arming yourself with the truth will render their foolish prophecies null and void.

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See you next time on the.

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