Paul R. Ehrlich – “We must realize that unless we are extremely lucky, everybody will disappear in a cloud of blue steam in 20 years.” — The New York Times, 1969
Ehrlich also predicts “that the oceans will be as dead as Lake Erie in less than a decade.” — Redlands Daily Facts, 1970.
“Scientist Predicts a New Ice Age by 21st Century: Air pollution may obliterate the sun and cause a new ice age in the first third of the next century.” — The Boston Globe, 1970
“the fine dust man constantly puts into the atmosphere by fossil fuel-burning could screen out so much sunlight that the average temperature could drop by six degrees. If sustained ‘over several years’ –‘five to 10,’ he estimated — ‘such a temperature decrease could be sufficient to trigger an ice age!’ — Washington Post, Times Herald, 1971.
“The present rate of the cooling seems fast enough to bring glacial temperatures in about a century.” — Brown University, Department of Geological Sciences, 1972.
“A senior UN environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.” — Associated Press, 1989.
“Unless drastic measures to reduce greenhouse gases are taken within the next 10 years, the world will reach a point of no return.” — former Vice President Al Gore, 2006.
“The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.” — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2019.