In 1988, Ted Dansen Told Us The Sea Level Would Rise 20 Feet In Ten Years. What Happened It Is The Same?

1. Red Spuds Says

   I think it ended up rising about 14 ft…

2. Harvey Mushman Says

   no
   It is still ten years off.
   Everything, to do with AGW disasters, is always in the not too distant future. When the clock expires, and the disaster still has not happened, they just push it back a little further.
   A few more failed prognostications:
   1. Within a few years “children just aren’t going to know what snow is.” Snowfall will be “a very rare and exciting event.” Dr. David Viner, senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, interviewed by the UK Independent, March 20, 2000.
   2. “[By] 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots…[By 1996] The Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers.” Michael Oppenheimer, published in “Dead Heat,” St. Martin’s Press, 1990.
   3. “Arctic specialist Bernt Balchen says a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000.” Christian Science Monitor, June 8, 1972. In 2008 Dr. David Barber of Manitoba University said “We’re actually projecting this year that the North Pole may be free of ice for the first time,” (ignoring the many earlier times the Pole has been ice free).
   4. “Using computer models, researchers concluded that global warming would raise average annual temperatures nationwide two degrees by 2010.” Associated Press, May 15, 1989.
   5. “By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half.” Life magazine, January 1970.
   6. “If present trends continue, the world will be … eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age.” Kenneth E.F. Watt, in “Earth Day,” 1970. Remember before we were warned about global warming, we were told that the Earth was facing an Ice age.
   7. “By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people … If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.” Ehrlich, Speech at British Institute For Biology, September 1971. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2010/12/s…
   You read the above quotes by Politicians, celebrities, and so-called “scientists” and wonder why we doubt the “science” and certainty behind AGW.
   Here’s some more fun stuff caused by AGW: http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.ht…
   Compare the rhetoric of the ice age scare, to the rhetoric of the global warming scare. Much of it by the same people: http://www.climatedepot.com/a/3213/Dont-…

3. Jeff M Says

   It isnt the samehttp://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrend…http://climate.nasa.gov/SeaLevelViewer/s…
   And though Ted Dansen is interested in the oceans as a result of his environmentalism he is not a scientists. He is an actor.

4. jim z Says

   What I remember is that he said the ocean would die. He probably said it would rise 20 feet too. I watched a bit of a show the other day with him in it and I was shocked that he was actually a pretty good actor. He sure isn’t a very good scientist. He shouldn’t ever play one.

5. John Says

   You going to listen to a freak of an actor? He makes a good umbrella for all the “rain” he predicts, so it’s apropos: http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/Ted_Dans…
   Spuds: I hope that was a joke. Or, my home town, at 14 feet, would be wading in wellies….

6. scc3175 Says

   The sea level is virtually the same, but I’m sure Ted is still considered a scientific genius.

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