Top 50 eco-disasters that never occurred Assembled by Thomas Lifson

As a special celebration of Earth Day, Thomas Lifson assembled a list of the top 50 worst eco-disasters that never occurred. Thank you to Mr. Lifson for putting together this great summary with supporting links.

1. 1.  1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975
   2.  1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989
   3.  1970: Ice Age By 2000
   4.  1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980
   5.  1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030
   6.  1972: New Ice Age By 2070
   7.  1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast
   8.  1974: Another Ice Age?
   9.  1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life (data and graph)
   10.  1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent
   11.  1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes (additional link)
   12.  1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend (additional link)
   13.  1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s
   14.  1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs
   15.  1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not)
   16.  1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000
   17.  1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not)
   18.  2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is
   19.  2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy
   20.  2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024
   21.  2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018
   22.  2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013
   23.  2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World
   24.  2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’
   25.  2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014
   26.  2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015 (additional link)
   27.  2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’
   28.  1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide
   29.  1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources
   30.  1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years
   31.  1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years
   32.  1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 1990s
   33.  1980: Peak Oil In 2000
   34.  1996: Peak Oil in 2020
   35.  2002: Peak Oil in 2010
   36.  2006: Super Hurricanes!
   37.  2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015
   38.  1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985
   39.  1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable
   40.  1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish
   41.  1970s: Killer Bees!
   42.  1975: The Cooling World and a Drastic Decline in Food Production
   43.  1969: Worldwide Plague, Overwhelming Pollution, Ecological Catastrophe, Virtual Collapse of UK by End of 20th Century
   44.  1972: Pending Depletion and Shortages of Gold, Tin, Oil, Natural Gas, Copper, Aluminum
   45.  1970: Oceans Dead in a Decade, US Water Rationing by 1974, Food Rationing by 1980
   46.  1988: World’s Leading Climate Expert Predicts Lower Manhattan Underwater by 2018
   47.  2005: Fifty Million Climate Refugees by the Year 2020
   48.  2000: Snowfalls Are Now a Thing of the Past
   49.  1989: UN Warns That Entire Nations Wiped Off the Face of the Earth by 2000 From Global Warming
   50.  2011: Washington Post Predicted Cherry Blossoms Blooming in Winter