Here we go again. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has declared a 12-year climate “tipping point” in which we have to act in order to fight “global warming.” See: Ocasio-Cortez on Millennials: ‘We’re Like the World Is Going to End in 12 Years if We Don’t Address Climate Change’
Earth ‘serially doomed’: The official history of climate ‘Tipping Points’ began in 1864 – A new ‘global warming’ 12-year deadline from Rep. Ocasio-Cortez
“As early as 1864 George Perkins Marsh, sometimes said to be the father of American ecology, warned that the earth was ‘fast becoming an unfit home for its “noblest inhabitant,”’ and that unless men changed their ways it would be reduced ‘to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of shattered surface, of climatic excess, as to threaten the depravation, barbarism, and perhaps even extinction of the species.’” —MIT professor Leo Marx
Earth “Serially Doomed”
Perhaps the best summary of the tipping-point phenomenon comes from UK scientist Philip Stott. “In essence, the Earth has been given a 10-year survival warning regularly for the last fifty or so years. We have been serially doomed,” Stott explained. “Our post-modern period of climate change angst can probably be traced back to the late-1960s, if not earlier. By 1973, and the ‘global cooling’ scare, it was in full swing, with predictions of the imminent collapse of the world within ten to twenty years, exacerbated by the impacts of a nuclear winter.”
Ocasio-Cortez is only the latest activist to join in the endless climate “tipping point” movement, joining former Vice President Al Gore, former President Barack Obama, UN leaders and Prince Charles. The new best selling and award-winning skeptical climate book that debunks the climate fear movement, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change, devotes an entire chapter to the long and silly history of climate tipping points, beginning in 1864!
Ref.: https://www.climatedepot.com/2019/01/22/earth-serially-doomed-the-official-history-of-climate-tipping-points-began-in-1864-a-new-global-warming-12-year-deadline-from-rep-osasio-cortez/
Don’t worry! Everything has been ‘DIRE’ for years – A history of ‘dire’ environmental & climate warnings
Every prediction is “dire.” And every climate summit is the ‘last chance. See: See: Every climate summit is hailed as the ‘last chance!’
UN IPCC’s & Penn State’s Michael Mann loves the word ‘dire’
‘Dire’ environmental & climate round-up
By Dennis Ambler
2006: A load of hot air? Dire warning
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4923504.stm
Hardly a day goes by without a new dire warning about climate change. But some claims are more extreme than others, giving rise to fears that the problem is being oversold and damaging the issue.
2006: Climate scientists issue dire warning
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/feb/28/science.frontpagenews
2009: Obama’s energy secretary outlines dire climate change scenario
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/04/steven-chu-obama-climate-change-drought
Steve Chu’s warning the clearest sign to date of the greening of America’s political class under Obama
2009: White House Climate Change Report Issues Dire Warning On Worsening Situation
https://web.archive.org/web/20090826144737/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/16/white-house-climate-chang_n_216534.html
2009: Scientists issue dire warning on rising sea levels By Dan Brennan
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/seas-a02.shtml World Socialist Website
February 2009: Dire new warning on climate from IPCC scientist
by Kate Melville http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20090115173329data_trunc_sys.shtml
2008: NASA scientist issues dire warning on global warming
https://web.archive.org/web/20080702113234/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080624/global_warming_080624/20080624?hub=SciTech
2008: Dire new warning on climate
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/dire-new-climate-warning/2008/02/20/1203467189745.html?s_cid=rss_news
2006: Scientists Issue Dire Warning on Marine Life – LiveScience
http://www.livescience.com/environment/060705_marine_warning.html
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issues most dire warning yet
http://www.ecologicalhope.org/blog/intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change-issues-most-dire-warning-yet/
2007: Dire climate warning linked to China and India By Elisabeth Rosenthal Wednesday, November 14, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/news/14iht-climate.4.8340800.html?_r=1
2007: World wakes to climate calamity – Dire warning…UN climate report
http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/world-wakes-to-climate-calamity/2007/02/02/1169919530831.html
2001: Scientists Issue Dire Prediction On Warming By Philip P. Pan > Washington Post Foreign Service
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30706-2001Jan22.html
2009: Global warming: dire warning Barbara Sibbald MAJ
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/164/10/1478-a
2018: Extinction Rebellion discover the word “Dire”
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2184211-frustrated-climate-activists-resort-to-civil-disobedience-in-london/
The idea behind the Extinction Rebellion movement is that governments around the world are failing to do enough to prevent extreme climate change and the ongoing mass extinction. The only choice left, they say, is to rebel.
“The situation is dire, and there are very few governments that are prepared to act,” one of the protestors, Annie Randall, told New Scientist.
Ref.: https://www.climatedepot.com/2019/05/07/dont-worry-everything-has-been-dire-for-years-a-history-of-dire-environmental-climate-warnings/