1970: Professor James Lodge Jr of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, claimed that "the demands for cooling water [in electricity generation] will boil dry the entire flow of the rivers and streams of continental United States."
1970: Professor Kenneth Watt predicts a global mean temperature drop of 11 degrees by the year 2000, "About twice what it would take to put us into an Ice Age."
1970: Senator Gayloard Nelson of Wisconsin cited Smithsonian Institutes Dr. S Dillon Ripley who "believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct."
1970: Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years [by 1985 or 2000] unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
1970: Biologist Paul Ehrlich claimed that due to climate changes, food shortages would have the result of hundreds of millions of people starving to death in the 1970s, the US population would be reduced to 23 million because of pesticides, and England would not exist in the year 2000.
1971: Dr. S. I. Rasool of NASA and Columbia University claimed that the fine dust from fossil fuel-burning could screen out so much sunlight over the next 50 years to cause a temperature drop of up to 6 degrees, and if sustained over the next 5-10 years it could cause a temperature drop sufficient to trigger an ice age.
1975: Biologist Paul Ehrlich claims that 90% of the world's original tropical rainforests will be gone by 2005, causing the extinction of up to half of the organisms living within them.
1978: New York Times writes an article about how global cooling was here to stay with "No End in Sight".
1979: New York Times writes an article of how the North Pole might melt.
1982: UN Environment Program official Mostafa Tolba says "By the turn of the century, an environmental catastrophe will witness devastation as complete, as irreversible, as any nuclear holocaust."
1989: Noel Brown, UN Environmental official, tells the Associated Press that unless global warming is reversed by the year 2000, entire nations will be wiped off the face of the earth.
2008: Dr. James Hansen of NASA predicted that in 5-10 years the Arctic will be free of see ice in the summer.
2009: Vice President Al Gore repeats Dr. Hansen's claims to a UN Conference.
2009: Then Prince (now King) Charles states that the planet had 96 months to avoid decimation.
2013: US Naval Postgraduate School Department of Oceanography student/scientist claims Arctic free of summer ice by 2016.