June 29: a fine day for making predictions

1. 198937th anniversary
   Said on this day

   UN Official: Act by 2000 or Nations Could Vanish. Nations Report Still Present.

   In 1989 a UN environment official gave governments a '10-year window' before global warming went 'beyond human control'. AP's headline: 'U.N. Predicts Disaster'.

   Nations Wiped Off the Map Unless Warming Is Reversed by 2000 · Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the UN Environment Programme (as reported by AP)

   Deadline set: the year 2000 (deadline to act) · status: Busted

   The clock started ticking here.

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