False climate predictions are, unfortunately, nothing new. âThe world is gonna end in 12 years if we donât address climate change,â declared climate expert Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2019 while pushing the Green New Deal. Former Vice President Al Goreâs 2006 âAn Inconvenient Truthâ told the public there was about a decade of life remaining unless significant climate change measures were implemented. In 1989, Noel Brown, then director of one of the offices of the UN Environment division, espoused the warning that âentire 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.â Contrast these statements to the 1975 siren by Kenneth Watt, the UC Berkeley professor who predicted the world was going to be âeleven degrees colder in the year 2000 ⦠about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.â