Climate Change Observations: Part 2

In the spring of 1970, P. Gunter, a professor at N. Texas State, predicted that by 1975 famines would begin in India, Pakistan, China and Near East Africa. By 2000 or sooner, Central and South America would be in famine conditions. He went on to predict that, by 2000, with the exception of North America, Australia and Western Europe, the rest of the world would be in a famine.

In 1970, ecologist K. Watt predicted that if the current trends continued the global mean temperature would be about four degrees colder and 11 degrees colder by 2000. We would be in an ice age.

The first Earth Day was in 1970 and there was a bunch of predictions made around then. A few predicted that we would run out of lead, tin, zinc, silver and gold by 1990 and copper shortly after 2000.

In 1939, the U.S. Dept. of Interior said that America’s supply of oil would be exhausted in 13 years.

In 1949, the Secretary of the Interior said that the end of U.S. oil supplies were in sight.

In 1974, the U.S. Geological Survey said we only had 10 years of natural gas remaining. The U.S. Energy Information Admin. estimated that we had 2,459 trillion cubic feet as of January 2017.

There is more, but I think this should suffice.

Tom Suter
La Crescenta