Parallel universes

Warmenism has been one of the major ideologies for the past fifteen years or so*, and I'm sure we all vaguely remember the Warmenists' constant warnings that if we didn't cut our carbon emissions by A% in B years' time, then irreversible global warming would kick in and temperatures would rise by C degrees by the Year D.

As the saying goes, "the internet never forgets". We are now already in the Year D, carbon emissions have continued to increase and temperatures stopped rising long ago. What would be fun would be to track down all the wild predictions from ten years ago saying what would have happened by 2010:

Anti-Citizen-One linked to this corker from The Independent from 2000:

Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past

Britain's winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives. Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain's culture, as warmer winters - which scientists are attributing to global climate change - produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries.

The first two months of 2000 were virtually free of significant snowfall in much of lowland Britain, and December brought only moderate snowfall in the South-east. It is the continuation of a trend that has been increasingly visible in the past 15 years: in the south of England, for instance, from 1970 to 1995 snow and sleet fell for an average of 3.7 days, while from 1988 to 1995 the average was 0.7 days. London's last substantial snowfall was in February 1991.

Global warming, the heating of the atmosphere by increased amounts of industrial gases, is now accepted as a reality by the international community. Average temperatures in Britain were nearly 0.6°C higher in the Nineties than in 1960-90, and it is estimated that they will increase by 0.2C every decade over the coming century. Eight of the 10 hottest years on record occurred in the Nineties...

He's been noticeably silent on the topic of climate change recently, what we need to do is track down what Moonbat and Porritt and all the others were predicting ten years and rub their noses in it.

* Another one is Home-Owner-Ism, it's just as much fun looking back at predictions from 2006 or 2007 that house prices would continue rising at ten or fifteen per cent a year more or less forever, different topic.