FLASHBACK: ABC's ’08 Prediction: NYC Under Water from Climate Change By June 2015

[Revmitchell]

New York City underwater? Gas over $9 a gallon? A carton of milk costs almost $13? Remember when that happened on June 12, 2015? No? This was the wildly-inaccurate world of 2015 predicted by ABC News 11 years ago this week. Appearing on Good Morning America in 2008, Bob Woodruff hyped Earth 2100, a special that pushed apocalyptic predictions of the then-futuristic 2015.

The segment included supposedly prophetic videos, such as a teenager declaring, "It's June 8th, 2015. One carton of milk is $12.99." (On the actual June 8, 2015, a gallon of milk cost, on average, $3.39.) Another clip featured this prediction for 2015 "Gas reached over $9 a gallon." (In reality, gas cost an average of $2.75 four years ago.)

On June 12, 2008, correspondent Bob Woodruff revealed that the program "puts participants in the future and asks them to report back about what it is like to live in this future world. The first stop is the year 2015."

One expert warned that in 2015 the sea level will rise quickly and a visual showed New York City being engulfed by water. The video montage included another unidentified person predicting that "flames cover hundreds of miles."

Then-GMA co-anchor Chris Cuomo appeared frightened by this future world. He wondered, "I think we're familiar with some of these issues, but, boy, 2015? That's seven years from now. Could it really be that bad?"

FLASHBACK: ABC's ’08 Prediction: NYC Under Water from Climate Change By June 2015

 

[canadyjd]

When I was in college in 1989, my environmental biology textbook writers predicted all known reservoirs of oil, and all projected discoveries of oil would be completely depleted by 2005.

The trick for these “experts” is to make the prediction close enough to generate a panicked response and accept their solutions, but far enough out that no one will remember what was said when the prediction fails.

Someone could write a book about all these failed predictions.

Peace to you

 

[Reformed]

Did I miss the environmental disaster and the financial collapse? I always miss out on the good stuff.

 

[church mouse guy]

Let's be serious--we are going to run out of oil at the present rate of consumption in 500 years.

 

[canadyjd]

But there is only 12 years before the earth is uninhabitable.

Peace to you

 

[just-want-peace]

But there is only 12 years before the earth is uninhabitable.

Peace to you

Good! Now we will have about adjusting to an oil depletion!