As everyone knows global warming will kill us all in as little as 12, 11, 10 years.
But it’s actually way worse than that.
Global warming — caused of course by corporate greed/gas guzzling SUVs/supersized hamburgers/greedy, fat, stupid Americans, etc. — is being predicted to cause all manner of disaster.
Scientists eager to terrify people into taking them seriously have over the last several decades made a series of frightful predictions.
For example, did you know man-made global warming will result more miscarriages in Bangladesh? It’s true, the BBC said so.
Or that our changing climate — again due almost exclusively to our rampant consumerism and the overwhelming influence of the Big Straw lobby — will result in fewer circumcisions in some African tribes? Scientists say it’s so!
Some of these predictions, however, somehow never came to pass. For example, scientists in 2007 warned that the arctic would be “ice free” by 2013, yet today are trying to figure out why arctic ice is instead increasing.
Man-made climate change was also predicted to kill thousands of Brits — by 2018. Whoops.
To keep track of these scientists’ most bizarre, and most terrifying, doomsday prophesies, we’ve started the news list below. And as you already know, 97 percent of scientists agree you should read it, bookmark it, and share it with it with your friends.
Editor’s Note: What did we miss? If you’ve seen other terrifying predictions of what our sins against the climate will cause, please add them over at our sister site, NewsLists.co.
Summary | Date | Source |
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'Making mountaineering riskier' | 11/01/2019 | BBC |
'Thermostat gender bias' | 01/14/2019 | Forbes |
25 percent of bridges to collapse | 10/23/2019 | New Scientist |
Acne | 07/03/2009 | Indian Journal of Dermatology |
AIDS | 01/10/2017 | The Conversation |
Airplane Turbulence | 12/19/2022 | CBS News |
Airplane turbulence | 03/11/2019 | Forbes |
All aspects of life in Asia worsening | 03/18/2014 | The Third Pole |
Allergies | 06/10/2013 | Newsweek |
An end to walking in the woods | 03/11/2019 | CNN |
Asthma | 07/02/2013 | Medscape |
British Apples to Die Out | 02/11/2023 | The Guardian |
Bumpier airplane rides | 04/08/2013 | HuffPost |
Cannibalism | 04/01/2008 | PBS |
Child sex trafficking | 04/05/2019 | Associated Press |
Chocolate shortages | 02/14/2012 | Los Angeles Times |
Coffee that tastes bad | 06/21/2017 | CNN |
Death of 100 million people by 2030 | 09/25/2012 | Reuters |
Death of farm animals | 04/11/2013 | U.S. News & World Report |
Death of thousands of Brits -- by 2018 | 02/12/2008 | The Guardian |
Different colored oceans | 02/04/2019 | CNN |
Disrupting ratio of male-to-female babies | 01/23/2019 | CNN |
Dogs to be 'bridge food' for unemployed masses | 05/01/2014 | The Guardian |
Earth looking like Venus | 07/05/2017 | BBC |
Elder death | 07/23/2012 | Climate Central |
End of snow in Tahoe | 01/26/2021 | SF Gate |
End of the Jersey Shore by 2030 | 03/15/2012 | CBS News |
Extinction of 1,000,000 species | 05/06/2019 | The New York Times |
Extinction of humanity | 08/11/2008 | The Guardian |
Fewer circumcisions in Africa | 11/03/2007 | The Age |
Fewer wolverines | 02/01/2013 | The Guardian |
Flesh-eating bacteria | 07/30/2014 | CBS News |
Food tasting bad | 03/20/2015 | Vice |
Football sized horses | 11/06/2013 | Yahoo! |
Genocide in Darfur | 04/01/2007 | The Atlantic |
Global catastrophe -- by 2020 | 03/26/2012 | Reuters |
Global conflicts | 10/20/2018 | The Guardian |
Heart Health | 09/25/2021 | USA Today |
Heat-related illnesses | 01/30/2020 | CNN |
Hurricanes | 10/23/2001 | Salon |
Internet going offline | 07/16/2018 | University of Oregon |
Large accumulations of 'rock snot' | 05/10/2014 | Charleston Gazette-Mail |
Less productive workdays | 04/23/2014 | The Tico Times |
Less sex | 11/02/2015 | Bloomberg |
Locust invasion | 01/24/2020 | Associated Press |
Make us look different | 09/07/2018 | NBC News |
Mental health issues | 10/09/2018 | The Daily Mail |
Migraines, Stokes, and Dementia | 11/16/2022 | Daily Mail, UK |
Miscarriages in Bangladesh | 11/26/2018 | BBC |
More kidney stones | 07/10/2014 | Science Daily |
More man-eating tigers | 05/17/2019 | Newsweek |
More murder in Chicago | 01/30/2013 | The Daily Caller |
More prostitution | 04/29/2013 | The Hill |
More rats | 05/22/2019 | Axios |
More shark attacks | 10/19/2020 | CNN |
New diseases | 01/30/2020 | CNN |
No more air travel | 06/20/2017 | The New York Times |
No more almonds | 06/25/2019 | Vox |
No more avocados | 06/25/2019 | Vox |
No more beer | 10/15/2018 | The Hill |
No more berries | 06/25/2019 | Vox |
No more coffee | 06/25/2019 | Vox |
No more ice cream | 07/25/2022 | CBS News |
No more ice hockey | 07/25/2014 | Bleacher Report |
No more ice in the arctic -- by 2013 | 12/12/2017 | BBC |
No more ice in the arctic -- by 2018 | 06/23/2008 | USA Today |
No more Joshua trees | 08/31/2019 | CBS News |
No more rain | 07/01/1988 | Portsmouth Daily Times |
No more redheads | 08/21/2014 | The Daily Record |
No more wine | 06/25/2019 | Vox |
Old people getting sick | 12/03/2013 | Medscape |
Organs in your body not working | 07/25/2017 | Climate Depot |
Police shootings like in Ferguson | 09/17/2014 | National Review |
Return of bus-sized snakes | 11/06/2013 | Yahoo! News |
Rise, expansion of Boko Haram | 05/09/2014 | The Guardian |
Rising Childhood Obesity Rates | 08/14/2022 | Fox News |
Russia to control world's food supply | 03/12/2014 | Los Angeles Times |
Shrinking Penises | 03/24/2021 | Sky News |
Shrinking salamanders | 03/25/2014 | Watts Up With That? |
Ski seasons | 03/02/2024 | The Guardian |
Smaller reindeer | 12/11/2016 | AFP |
Stonehenge being topped by moles | 05/27/2016 | The Daily Mail |
Suicide | 07/31/2017 | The Guardian |
Superbugs | 05/23/2014 | Medscape |
Too Many Home Runs | 04/12/2023 | The Honest Broker by Roger Pielke Jr. |
Too many homeruns | 04/30/2012 | Scientific American |
Too much Antarctic ice | 10/10/2012 | Associated Press |
UK weather too wet, dry, hot, & cold | 03/25/2014 | The Guardian |
Vaccine spoilage | 06/24/2014 | Reuters |
Webbed feet in humans | 01/13/2016 | The Daily Mail |