Read here. Back in the late 90's it was Y2K hysteria and when that became an international joke, alarmists moved onto the global warming hysteria. The similarities between the Y2K and AGW scares are striking. So similar that it's amazing anyone still believes the mainstream media and the "experts" regarding climate disasters (not that many do any longer).
The scary part is that when AGW hysteria finally fades away, and Al Gore can no longer be resurrected as a "climate expert," the bimbos and bozos of the press will just find another alarmist story and hit reset - deja vu all over again, as one well known expert would say.
"These nightmare scenarios are only too possible, Robert Sam Anson discovers as he traces the birth of the Y2K “bug,” the folly, greed and denial that have muffled two decades of warnings from technology experts, and the ominous results of Y2K tests that lay bare the dimensions of a ticking global time bomb...For example, he told readers that the one sure thing was that machines wouldn’t know what to do after the clock struck midnight. He declared that some computers would die, and with them the blind faith the world has placed in them. He suggested that Y2K-related lawsuits would total $1 trillion in the United States alone. But none of those things actually happened...Anson surveyed a wide range of well-educated, influential people – scientists, economists, government officials, and IT specialists. They obliged by talking about an accidental nuclear war and “blood-in-the-streets.” They declared that “our entire way of life is at risk” and predicted: “In the year 2000, Asia will be burnt toast.”
Read the whole thing at No Frakking Consensus.