
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">October 23, 1919- Oil and Gas News: Dr. Van H. Manning writes that the United States will reach maximum oil production in two to five years.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">June 7, 1943-Bradford Evening Star: Peak Oil has been Reached! "There is a growing opinion that the United States has reached its peak oil production, the Oil and Gas Journal pointed out in its current issue..."
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/76700239/">https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/...

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">December 10, 1945- Times Recorder (Zanesville, Ohio): Just 13 years left of US Oil Reserves. Same month, first attempt to retrieve oil from depths of Atlantic Ocean made off Cape Hatteras, NC

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">March 9, 1957- Corpus Christi Times: 10 to 15 years until peak oil- "M. King Hubbert of the Shell Development Co. predicted [one year ago] that peak oil production would be reached in the next 10 to 15 years and after that would gradually decline."

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">August 3, 1966- Brandon Sun (Brandon, Manitoba): Gone In 10 Years- "A geologist stuck a figurative dipstick into the United States&
#39; oil supplies Tuesday and estimated that the country may be dry in 10 years."
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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">November 7, 1967- The Salt Lake Tribune: ”Dire famine by 1975”

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">1968: Paul R. Ehrlich- The Population Bomb- Overpopulation will spread Worldwide!

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">April 16, 1970- The Boston Globe: Ice Age by 2000- Pollution ”expert” James P Lodge Jr, scientist at the Nat. Ctr. for Atmospheric Research in Boulder CO, predicts pollution will BLOCK OUT THE SUN causing a new ice age. Oh and we&
#39;d boil up all our rivers generating electricity.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">October 6, 1970- Redlands Daily Facts: Dr. Paul Ehrlich predicts oceans will be as dead as Lake Erie in less than a decade. And America will be subject to water rationing by 1974- food rationing by 1980.
July 9, 1971- Washington Post: New Ice Age Coming within 50 Years- Dr. A. I. Rasool, Nat. Aeronautics and Space Admin, claims ”fine dust” from burning fossil fuels will block out the sun.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">January 29 1974- The Guardian: New Ice Age Coming Fast

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">June 24, 1974- TIME: ”Another Ice Age?”
George J. Kukla shows up again.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">July 18, 1976- New York Times Book Review of ”The Genesis Strategy” by Stephen Schneider, details abnormal COOLING trends leading to great famine.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">October 17, 1980- Syracuse Post Standard (Syracuse, NY): Physicist Dr. Hans Bethe said the world will reach its peak oil production before the year 2000.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">September 26, 1988- The Canberra Times, Agence France Press: Maldives Completely Underwater in 30 years.