Keep hearing the world's going to end, that horrible things are upon us, any day now! But then nothing happens... Here's a list of 50 things that were definitely going to happen that didn't happen.
Like "The Boy Who Cried Wolf ", people are starting to ignore this sensationalistic alarmist psuedo-panic.
(This list excludes all the religious nuts saying similar things, just science-based claims here)
1967 : Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
1969 : Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)
1970 : Ice Age By 2000
1970 : America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
1971 : New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
1972 : New Ice Age By 2070
1974 : Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
1974 : Another Ice Age?
1974 : Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life (data and graph )
1976 : Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
1980 : Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes (additional link )
1978 : No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend (additional link )
1988 : Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
1988 : Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
1988 : Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)
1989 : Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
1989 : New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)
2000 : Children Won’t Know what Snow Is
2002 : Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
2004 : Britain will Be Siberia by 2024
2008 : Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
2008 : Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
2009 : Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World
2009 : UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’
2009 : Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014
2013 : Arctic Ice-Free by 2015 (additional link )
2014 : Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’
1968 : Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
1970 : World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
1966 : Oil Gone in Ten Years
1972 : Oil Depleted in 20 Years
1977 : Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 1990s
1980 : Peak Oil In 2000
1996 : Peak Oil in 2020
2002 : Peak Oil in 2010
2006 : Super Hurricanes!
2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
1970 : Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
1970 : Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
1970 : Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
1970s : Killer Bees!
1975 : The Cooling World and a Drastic Decline in Food Production
1969 : Worldwide Plague, Overwhelming Pollution, Ecological Catastrophe, Virtual Collapse of UK by End of 20th Century
1972 : Pending Depletion and Shortages of Gold, Tin, Oil, Natural Gas, Copper, Aluminum
1970 : Oceans Dead in a Decade, US Water Rationing by 1974, Food Rationing by 1980
1988 : World’s Leading Climate Expert Predicts Lower Manhattan Underwater by 2018
2005 : Fifty Million Climate Refugees by the Year 2020
2000 : Snowfalls Are Now a Thing of the Past
1989 : UN Warns That Entire Nations Wiped Off the Face of the Earth by 2000 From Global Warming
2011: Washington Post Predicted Cherry Blossoms Blooming in Winter
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