We often make predictions here at the Cranach blog, but we also do what often does not happen elsewhere: we check them. So it’s fitting to consider the predictions of some ABC programming seven years ago, projecting what June, 2015 would be like. Gas was supposed to be over $9 a gallon. Milk cost $13. And New York City would be underwater. Among other things.
See one of the videos and read an account of the predictions after the jump.
From FLASHBACK: ABC’s ’08 Prediction: NYC Under Water from Climate Change By June 2015:
New York City underwater? Gas over $9 a gallon? A carton of milk costs almost $13? Welcome to June 12, 2015. Or at least that was the wildly-inaccurate version of 2015 predicted by ABC News exactly seven years ago. Appearing on Good Morning America in 2008, Bob Woodruff hyped Earth 2100, a special that pushed apocalyptic predictions of the then-futuristic 2015.