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Top 5 most outrageous 2020 doomsday predictions that didn't pan out
Fox News ^ | January 1,2020 | Maxim Lott

Posted on 01/01/2020 8:47:05 AM PST by Hojczyk

1. The U.S. may warm 6 degrees F from 1990 to 2020In 1990,

The Washington Post reported in a front page story... "The United States, because it occupies a large continent in higher latitudes, could warm by as much as 6 degrees Fahrenheit

"The Earth has warmed approximately 1 degree Fahrenheit according to NASA.

2. Oil will effectively run out by 2020

CNN ran a headline in 2003 titled "World oil and gas 'running out'".

("fracking") also allowed the U.S. to become an energy independent net oil exporter for the first time in 75 years in 2018.

3) By 2020, no glaciers will be left on Mt. Kilimanjaro

"It's now estimated that by the year 2020, there will be no glaciers of Mt. Kilimanjaro," Christian Lambrechts, an officer at the U.N. Environment Program, told CNN in 2003.

4. A billion people will starve due to missing the tech revolution

In 2000, Discover Magazine published a largely spot-on list of predictions about 2020.

But from 2000 to 2020, global extreme poverty fell by about a billion people, according to the World Bank,

5. By 2020, "millions will die" from climate change

Reuters newswire ran this headline in 1997: "'Millions will die' unless climate policies change."

The report said 8 million people would die by 2020, citing a prediction in the Lancet medical journal.

The mass death prediction was clearly way off.

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1 posted on 01/01/2020 8:47:05 AM PST by Hojczyk
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2 posted on 01/01/2020 8:51:38 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Lincoln: "The Founders did not make America racist or slaver. They inherited it, that way!")
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“None of these predictions came true, and aren't even close to coming true,” said Roy Spencer, a climatologist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. “It's amazing that the public can continue to believe apocalyptic predictions despite a 95 percent decline in weather-related deaths in the last 100 years.”

This doesn't even take into consideration all the wacky failed predictions from decades past. Back in 1973, they had all us Junior High-schoolers convinced we'd all be dead in 15 years.

3 posted on 01/01/2020 9:29:26 AM PST by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: Hojczyk

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4 posted on 01/01/2020 10:19:24 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care!)
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The report said 8 million people would die by 2020,

They are way off.

Since 1997 about 1.3 billion people have died.

Of course climate change had nothing to do with it.

5 posted on 01/01/2020 10:25:44 AM PST by seowulf
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You mean we all didn't die in 2000 when the holes in the ozone above Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh converged into a giant magnifying glass and cooked us all?

Weird, they were so adamant about that happening.....

6 posted on 01/01/2020 10:26:50 AM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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And that’s aside from nuclear war killing us all.

I had an interesting conversation with teens my kids’ age. “You don’t understand the idea of the world ending!”

“I was your age when the Cold War ended. When we could have all literally been killed by nuclear war, something that almost happened in the 1960s and we later found out almost happened 2 more times from a ‘should I hit the button’ and a Russian general said wait, I don’t think it is real. And those nukes WERE real.”

I tried to bring up the prior climate catastrophes from acid rain to all the forests will be gone to global cooling to global warming.

They are literally indoctrinated. Hate the adults blamed for selfishly killing the kids, so now you won’t listen to them. It parallels Islam saying hate the unbeliever, be afraid of them, you know they hate you and want to hurt you. Now you won’t let them try to contaminate you with unbelief.


7 posted on 01/01/2020 11:32:11 AM PST by tbw2
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She’s truly a prop, a mentally ill child used as a spokesperson and human shield. Once she issued that “let’s kill the political leaders”, she was immediately told to go home.


8 posted on 01/01/2020 11:33:04 AM PST by tbw2
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Isn’t killing all the people who disagree with you a standard practice among all the FASCISTS and COMMUNISTS?

Seems to have been throughout history.


9 posted on 01/01/2020 12:14:47 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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‘The Hockey Stick Graph’ should be forced up every Global Warmist’s ass (figuratively).

Remind all the libtards you know that the same people who predicted the global warming hoax are the same ones now pushing a similarly fraudulent ‘climate change’.

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10 posted on 01/01/2020 12:31:16 PM PST by elbook
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Need a Greta Meme as a ventriloquists dummy with her activist parents hands up her ass (child abuse...)


11 posted on 01/01/2020 12:33:40 PM PST by elbook
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...and the market will crater due to Trump’s ignorant tax and business policies.


12 posted on 01/01/2020 1:08:16 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Leftistist media and particularly CNN NEWS should come with a ten day supply of Cipro.)
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"They are literally indoctrinated. Hate the adults blamed for selfishly killing the kids, so now you won’t listen to them. It parallels Islam saying hate the unbeliever, be afraid of them, you know they hate you and want to hurt you. Now you won’t let them try to contaminate you with unbelief."

That is depressing but true. That Greta puppet is a perfect example. Her mind is weaker than most, poor thing, but she's a product of brainwashing, as are millions of unwitting normal kids and willing useful-idiot adults.

13 posted on 01/01/2020 3:47:17 PM PST by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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