#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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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