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Nicht eingetroffene Weltuntergangs-Fantasien der letzten etwa 50 Jahre:

1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years
1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989
1969: Worldwide Plague, Overwhelming Pollution, Ecological Catastrophe, Virtual Collapse of UK by End of 20th Century
1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
1970: Ice Age By 2000
1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
1970: Oceans Dead in a Decade, US Water Rationing by 1974, Food Rationing by 1980
1970s: Killer Bees!
1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
1972: Pending Depletion and Shortages of Gold, Tin, Oil, Natural Gas, Copper, Aluminum
1972: New Ice Age By 2070
1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
1974: Another Ice Age?
1974: Ozone Depletion a Great Peril to Life
1975: The Cooling World and a Drastic Decline in Food Production
1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 1990s
1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend
1980: Peak Oil In 2000
1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes
1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they're not)
1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
1988: World's Leading Climate Expert Predicts Lower Manhattan Underwater by 2018
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)
1989: UN Warns: Entire Nations Wiped Off the Face of the Earth by 2000 From Global Warming
1996: Peak Oil in 2020
2000: Children Won't know what Snow Is
2000: Snowfalls Are Now a Thing of the Past
2002: Peak Oil in 2010
2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don't Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024
2005: Fifty Million Climate Refugees by the Year 2020
2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
2006: Super Hurricanes!
2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
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
2011: Washington Post Predicted Cherry Blossoms Blooming in Winter
2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015
2014: Only 500 Days Before "Climate Chaos"