Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Transition -- January 1, 2020

The five most outrageous 2020 doomsday predictions that did not pan out -- as compiled by Fox News, and posted January 1, 2020.

#1 -global warming
  • 1990
  • Washington Post
  • Earth will warm on average by about 3 degrees Fahrenheit by the year 2020
  • NASA: earth has warmed about 1 degree, thirty years later
#2 -- oil
  • 1989
  • NY Times
  • "William Stevens, the president of Exxon, USA, said ... by the year 2020 there would not be enough domestic oil left to keep me interested."
  • thirty years later: US proven oil reserves are dramatically higher
  • search doofus-in-chief on the blog
#3 -- global warming
  • 2003
  • UN Environment Program on CNN
  • the snows of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania would disappear within the next 20 years
  • thirty years later, the glaciers are still there, but now the same organizations say the glaciers will most likely disappear within 25 years
#4 -- famine
  • 2000
  • Discover Magazine
  • a billion people will starve due to missing the tech revolution
  • in fact, thirty years later, from 2000 to 2020, global extreme poverty fell by about a billion people
  • World Bank: tech allowed people in developing nations to access capital, production know-how, and aid from developed countries
#5 -- global warming
  • 1997
  • Reuters cited a prediction in the Lancet medical journal
  • 8 million people would die by 2020 unless climate policies changed
  • "it's amazing that the public can continue to believe apocalyptic predictions despite a 95% decline in weather-related deaths in the last 100 years (and despite more and more millions of people living along the coasts)
 

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