In 1989, a senior UN environmental official warned that entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend was not reversed by the year 2000. This prediction was made in an Associated Press article written by veteran reporter Peter James Spielmann and published on 29 June 1989.
According to the article, governments had a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it went beyond human control. The UN official also predicted that as the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations.
In 2019, Snopes “fact-checked” the claim that, “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” because it “serves as the basis for clickbait posts from several climate denial media outlets.”
However, because the article was available for all to read, all Snopes could do was demonstrate that Spielmann’s article was not supported by scientific papers or the UNEP report referred to. In other words, the senior UN official lied and Spielmann amplified his lies.
Spielmann’s article is just one of the failed climate catastrophe predictions included in The Empowerment Alliance’s ‘Climate Predictions Timeline’. We’ve reproduced Spielmann’s article below.
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U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked
By Peter James Spielman as published by the Associated Press on 29 June 1989
UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. 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.
Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ”eco- refugees,’ ‘ threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP.
He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.
As the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations, Brown told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday.
Coastal regions will be inundated; one-sixth of Bangladesh could be flooded, displacing a fourth of its 90 million people. A fifth of Egypt’s arable land in the Nile Delta would be flooded, cutting off its food supply, according to a joint UNEP and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study.
”Ecological refugees will become a major concern, and what’s worse is you may find that people can move to drier ground, but the soils and the natural resources may not support life. Africa doesn’t have to worry about land, but would you want to live in the Sahara?’’ he said.
UNEP estimates it would cost the United States at least $100 billion to protect its east coast alone.
Shifting climate patterns would bring back 1930s Dust Bowl conditions to Canadian and U.S. wheatlands, while the Soviet Union could reap bumper crops if it adapts its agriculture in time, according to a study by UNEP and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.
Excess carbon dioxide is pouring into the atmosphere because of humanity’s use of fossil fuels and burning of rain forests, the study says. The atmosphere is retaining more heat than it radiates, much like a greenhouse.
The most conservative scientific estimate that the Earth’s temperature will rise 1 to 7 degrees in the next 30 years, said Brown.
The difference may seem slight, he said, but the planet is only 9 degrees warmer now than during the 8,000-year Ice Age that ended 10,000 years ago.
Brown said if the warming trend continues, ”the question is will we be able to reverse the process in time? We say that within the next 10 years, given the present loads that the atmosphere has to bear, we have an opportunity to start the stabilizing process.’’
He said even the most conservative scientists ”already tell us there’s nothing we can do now to stop a … change’’ of about 3 degrees.
”Anything beyond that, and we have to start thinking about the significant rise of the sea levels … we can expect more ferocious storms, hurricanes, wind shear, dust erosion.’’
He said there is time to act, but there is no time to waste.
UNEP is working toward forming a scientific plan of action by the end of 1990, and the adoption of a global climate treaty by 1992. In May, delegates from 103 nations met in Nairobi, Kenya – where UNEP is based – and decided to open negotiations on the treaty next year.
Nations will be asked to reduce the use of fossil fuels, cut the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases such as methane and fluorocarbons, and preserve the rain forests.
”We have no clear idea about the ecological minimum of green space that the planet needs to function effectively. What we do know is that we are destroying the tropical rain forest at the rate of 50 acres a minute, about one football field per second,’’ said Brown.
Each acre of rain forest can store 100 tons of carbon dioxide and reprocess it into oxygen.
Brown suggested that compensating Brazil, Indonesia and Kenya for preserving rain forests may be necessary.
The European Community is talking about a half-cent levy on each kilowatt-hour of fossil fuels to raise $55 million a year to protect the rain forests, and other direct subsidies may be possible, he said.
The treaty could also call for improved energy efficiency, increasing conservation, and for developed nations to transfer technology to Third World nations to help them save energy and cut greenhouse gas emissions, said Brown.
Featured image: Peter James Spielmann (left) Source: Muck Rack. Image of his 1989 article published in Associated Press
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1978 Coming Ice Age https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUq0JnaIock
Why is this UN senior official never named any where? We’d like to know who it is….
Hi AS, the AP article (republished in our article above) names him as “Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP” in the second paragraph.
Fill a bucket to the brim, pour in as much ice as will float on the top. Then watch the water level fall in the bucket as the ice melts.
The ice displaces a greater volume of water and you can do the same experiment with a glass jar.
The water level will always drop as the ice thaws.
Where is your ‘missing math’ about the huge volume of land locked and very thick ice sheets thousands of feet above sea level if they slide into the worlds oceans and melt?
Yes!!! That will take a very long time but what is the effect?
He already explained it. What part are you struggling with. It’s also not happening regardless.
Ecclesiastes 1:4
Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
You might want to consult scripture about that. the Earth will pass away.The only thing that is eternal is God.
Most experts agree that 1,500 ppm is the maximum CO2 level for maximum plant growth, although any CO2 level between 1,000ppm and 1,500ppm will produce greatly improved results. Greenhouse CO2 levels are jacked up to enhance plant growth.
co2. earth/co2-ice-core-data
The average CO2 ppm level the last thousand up till 1841 years averaged approximately 280ppm. Since 1841 CO2 levels have increased to 422ppm in Jan. 2024. That helps plant growth.
Anything below 200ppm starves plant growth! Carbon dioxide is essential to the process of photosynthesis. Most plants grown indoors require a minimum CO2 concentration of 330 ppm to enable them to photosynthesise efficiently and produce energy in the form of carbohydrates. These concentrations of CO2 are enough for plants to grow and develop normally.
Millions of years ago CO2 ppm levels and temperature was much higher. Plants trived! Concentrations of CO 2 in the atmosphere were as high as 4,000 ppm during the Cambrian period about 500 million years ago, and as low as 180 ppm during the Quaternary glaciation of the last two million years. Ice core data does not lie!
Look it up! I just did. Greta Thunberg, Al Gore and Bill Gates are lying leftist frauds!
Industrial CO2 emissions since 1841 likely staved off an Ice Age!
https://tapnewswire.com/2024/06/the-lies-in-the-sky-exposed/
This is a very good video on Chemtrails.
The AGW hoax isn’t going away no matter how many idiot predictions
fail to materialize. It’s all in for the scam now. Communism or bust.
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and this is news 20 years later.
Climatism is a religion. It doesn’t matter how much you point out the facts. I remember watching NOVA in the 80’s predicting the hockey stick effect would burn the earth by 1994. Others said the Oceans would turn to sludge, Ozone would be gone, etc. George Carlin said it best in his climate comedy skit. I suggest everyone watch that.