his month, The Wall Street Journal celebrated its 130th anniversary by republishing salient articles spanning that period, including this retrospectively illuminating report from February 2, 1978:
A climatic disaster, triggered by the continued burning of oil and coal, could result in the submergence of much of Florida, Holland and other low-lying areas in the next 50 years, an Ohio State University scientist predicted… “I contend that a major disaster – a rapid five-meter rise in sea level caused by deglaciation of West Antarctica – may be imminent or in progress, after atmospheric carbon dioxide has only doubled,” John H. Mercer, a glacier geologist, asserted.
Sounds pretty grim.
By some miracle, fortunately, Florida and Holland were still with us over a decade later. ....
Climate alarmists either possess endemically short
memories or simply no sense of embarrassment, because they reissue the
same apocalyptic predictions year after year, decade after decade.
Hopefully, national and worldwide audiences become wiser to their antics and destructive routines."
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