Can anything be predicted 30 - 50 years in the future?

Question

Can anything, let alone the climate, be forcasted 30 to 50 years in the future? Does just saying it will be hotter or cooler 50 years from now go against science?

At the first Earth Day celebration in 1969, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, "The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind." C.C. Wallen of the World Meteorological Organization said, "The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed."

No one remembers these predictions.

Prof. Paul Ehrlich, Gore's mentor, predicted there would be a major food shortage in the U.S. and "in the 1970s ... hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death." Ehrlich forecasted that 65 million Americans would die of starvation between 1980 and 1989, and by 1999 the U.S. population would have declined to 22.6 million.

Why should we continue to listen to Alarmism? It's never right or accurate!

Answer 1

I love that the top contributor uses false and misleading information. Can it be predicted with 100% accuracy, no, can it be predicted yes.

Answer 2

Sure.  As long as we produce global gases in increasing amounts, climate is dead easy to predict.  From the Source below:

http://www.globalwarmingart.com/wiki/Ima...

The effect of the CO2 is so strong, it completely overwhelms all natural factors at present, and in the forseeable future.

Forget individual predictions, they can be wrong.  The vast majority of the scientific community stand united on this, because that's what the data and the numbers say.

EVERY major scientific organization has issued an official statement that this is real, and mostly caused by us.  The National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Physics, the American Chemical Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Association, etc.

Answer 3

If those who feel strongly don't speak up, nothing can change.  Can you prove that if nothing had changed, that the statements would not have come true?  People speak up, others listen and adjust their lives making changes, changes for the good of all.  Then, the 'dire prophesies wont' come true.  

Don't look back at the prophecies then and deride them, thank them for making us aware.

Answer 4

Climate, doubtful I can accurately predict my age in 30 years.  Not going to tell  you though.

Answer 5

I predict that alarmism will continue but I have a lot more facts to predict that than those who pretend they can predict the future climate.  Alarmism might change its spots but there will always be those inclined to believe the worst that we are all going to die and that it is our fault.  That sort of thing has been going on since the Babalonians and the babbling and whining has continued since then and will for 50 more years and beyond.

Answer 6

There is no way known to us to predict the climate 30-50 years from now.  Over the years some scientists have made outrageous predictions as is currently happening with the global warming scare.  

But you are correct...nobody remembers the past predictions that turned out to be wrong.  Though they may have been made in earnest, we did the right thing by not relying on them.

Al Gore and his global warming enthusiasts have added an extra twist this time, however.  One which we won't soon forget.  They have slowed (in their attempt to halt) the search for energy resources.  They've already cost billions of dollars to certain economies and created havoc in travel and business.  This is precisely what they want to do, so it appears so far that they are winning.  But the tide is changing as people become more and more informed, and their 'facts' are being proven wrong.  Just recently, in Al Gore's latest movie, a scene showing catastrospic ice shelf collapses and melting were proven wrong.  They used film from a movie called 'The Day After Tomorrow', a fictitious film and the 'ice' was actually styrofoam.  The reason Al Gore keeps saying that there is no debate about global warming is because he won't, and never has, debated it.  He doesn't want to be proven wrong.  

I have my doubts that we should heed his predictions for the future, since he can't even be honest in the present.

Answer 7

Here uis a simple truism for you:  People will believe what they want to believe.

Answer 8

The Un funded all knowing political body IPPC seems to think they can predict our climate that far out.