I was a sophomore in college when the first Earth Day occurred in 1970. One of the more memorable predictions that day came from ecologist Kenneth Watt:
"The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age."
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I was a sophomore in college when the first Earth Day occurred in 1970. One of the more memorable predictions that day came from ecologist Kenneth Watt:
ReplyDelete"The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age."
Here's the Wikipedia entry.
Other predictions regarding famine and depletion of crude oil were equally as catastrophic - and wrong.