At Watts Up With That, they've gathered together some of the most spectacular predictions made by the fans of Earth Day, including mass starvation by 1975 and a new Ice Age by 2000.

You've got to admire the environmentalist movement. They never let failed predictions get them down. They just move on to bigger and more frightening speculations, never letting historical facts get in the way.

Unfortunately their current success in selling the scares will cost trillions of dollars world-wide and kill millions of people, but it's a small price to pay for being green.

If you can't wait for global warming/ climate change/ ozone depletion to kill us all, the good news is that Jesus is returning on May 21st to take 200 million of us away. That's the date ruthlessly calculated by Harold Campling, studiously ignoring the fact that Jesus himself said that no man knows the day, not even the Son of Man Himself.