AOC appears to claim Miami will be gone 'in a few years' because of climate change

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., appeared to make another stark prediction about climate change this week, suggesting an entire city would vanish within "a few years."

Ocasio-Cortez was touting her "Green New Deal" program at a NAACP forum Wednesday when she addressed critics who have called her plans "not realistic."

"What is not realistic is not responding to the crisis -- not responding with a solution on the scale of the crisis," she said. "Because what's not realistic is Miami not existing in a few years. That's not realistic. So, we need to be realistic about the problem."
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This has been said for quite a while by scientists. It will happen at some point.
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All I know is these climate people said nearly 20 years ago that we would not have any more snow in winter. Hasn't happened yet. They are full of their own importance and faulty computer programs.
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NOT ONE climate prediction has come true. The sea levels are not rising like they said. The winters are not snow-less and warm like they said. Summers are not hotter and drier like they said. The droughts are not here. The major flooding is not here. The super-tornadoes are not happening. The super hurricanes are not as frequent as they said they would be. The glaciers are not melting like they said. The mountain ranges are not bare (they still have snow on them) as they predicted.

These allegedly super-intelligent scientists are wrong. Their predictions are wrong. I refuse to listen to the climate-change-fear-porn.
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80. “Earth Day” 1970 Kenneth Watt, ecologist: “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.”
82. 1976 Lowell Ponte in “The Cooling,”: “This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000.”
86. Sept 19, 1989, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: “New York will probably be like Florida 15 years from now.”
88. Michael Oppenheimer, 1990, The Environmental Defense Fund: “By 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots…”(By 1996) The Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers…The Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands.”
90. Edward Goldsmith, 1991, (5000 Days to Save the Planet): “By 2000, British and American oil will have diminished to a trickle….Ozone depletion and global warming threaten food shortages, but the wealthy North will enjoy a temporary reprieve by buying up the produce of the South. Unrest among the hungry and the ensuing political instability, will be contained by the North’s greater military might. A bleak future indeed, but an inevitable one unless we change the way we live…At present rates of exploitation there may be no rainforest left in 10 years. If measures are not taken immediately, the greenhouse effect may be unstoppable in 12 to 15 years.”
91. April 22, 1990 ABC, The Miracle Planet: “I think we’re in trouble. When you realize how little time we have left–we are now given not 10 years to save the rainforests, but in many cases five years. Madagascar will largely be gone in five years unless something happens. And nothing is happening.”
73. “The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water. And there will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won’t be there. The trees in the median strip will change….There will be more police cars….[since] you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.”

Dr. James Hansen, 1988, in an interview with author Rob Reiss.

Reiss asked how the greenhouse effect was likely to affect the neighborhood below Hansen’s office in NYC in the next 20 years.
The quotes are all numbered. You can read ALL the failed predictionshttps://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/02/ ... edictions/
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29again wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2019 11:37 pm NOT ONE climate prediction has come true. The sea levels are not rising like they said. The winters are not snow-less and warm like they said. Summers are not hotter and drier like they said. The droughts are not here. The major flooding is not here. The super-tornadoes are not happening. The super hurricanes are not as frequent as they said they would be. The glaciers are not melting like they said. The mountain ranges are not bare (they still have snow on them) as they predicted.

These allegedly super-intelligent scientists are wrong. Their predictions are wrong. I refuse to listen to the climate-change-fear-porn.
First the ice age was on the way, then global warming. It seems every time they scheduled a conference to discuss global warming there was either record cold temps where it was being held or it had to be canceled due to blizzards.

Why on earth is Obama sinking millions of dollars into a home on an island that if he’s correct about rising sea levels will be unusable?
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DSamuels wrote: Sat Sep 14, 2019 12:30 am
29again wrote: Fri Sep 13, 2019 11:37 pm NOT ONE climate prediction has come true. The sea levels are not rising like they said. The winters are not snow-less and warm like they said. Summers are not hotter and drier like they said. The droughts are not here. The major flooding is not here. The super-tornadoes are not happening. The super hurricanes are not as frequent as they said they would be. The glaciers are not melting like they said. The mountain ranges are not bare (they still have snow on them) as they predicted.

These allegedly super-intelligent scientists are wrong. Their predictions are wrong. I refuse to listen to the climate-change-fear-porn.
First the ice age was on the way, then global warming. It seems every time they scheduled a conference to discuss global warming there was either record cold temps where it was being held or it had to be canceled due to blizzards.

Why on earth is Obama sinking millions of dollars into a home on an island that if he’s correct about rising sea levels will be unusable?
I did see a piece earlier this week, about a ship full of environmentalists checking the Arctic sea ice got stuck in the ice. Again. I hate when that happens!
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