Dilbert becomes skeptical of climate change disaster

Yes, my wallet (and yours) is empty, the government has spent it, and wants more 🙂
1 This is global, I have moved now to Myanmar to afford expenses,
2.it certainly is a disaster.
3. It has been seen coming for more than 10 years, however I can’t vouch for the general public Knowledge of anything recently. Stupidity is running rampant!

One example that’s fairly easy:
The morphing of the modern democrat party into the democrat totalitarian party-one that allegedly champions liberty, civil rights and prosperity, but through it’s policies and actions causes the opposite to happen. Saw that coming decades ago and many were warned about it.
Oh, just one more:
President Eisenhower’s second warning in his Farewell Address. He warned, some heeded and some drooled over how that might benefit them ==>CAGW and the CAGW industrial complex.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/02/21/ikes-second-warning-hint-it-is-not-the-military-industrial-complex/

WW2, inevitable as a consequence of reparations against Germany following the Great War, and the Depression. Probably a slightly naive or simplistic view, but it works for me.

I have a confirmed prediction of disaster that was almost exactly ten years, although it didn’t generally alarm the public when the prediction was made.
The current economic crisis was predicted with spooky accuracy by many, including in an earlier chapter of the late ’90s book I’m reading, Hidden Agendas by John Pilger. His prediction comes during a criticism of the the Thatcherite/Blairite policies being put in place at the time. (The book takes the position that Blairism was the completion of Thatcherism….. and I agree!)
You could say it’s easy, after the fact, to find those predictions that happened to come true. However that is not what I was looking for; the book is generally extremely prescient and this is just one example that springs to mind.
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Rambling now, off topic…
I don’t agree with Pilger on all his political views, (although Blairism IS the completion of Thatcherism), but what I do like is his reporting of facts, on the whole. In other words I’d say the Pilger/Chomsky version of history is essential reading, even if you don’t agree completely with their political views, and even if the menace of religion is conspicuous by its absence from their analysis of all that’s wrong in the world.
I would add that if anyone says Pilger and Chomsky ‘just hate all things Western’, then they can’t have read either very carefully.
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That ramble was preemptive of other people’s possible rambles, about the mad ‘leftist’ Pilger. I’d say lefty, myself. Accusing everyone of isms indiscriminately is a bit too Monckton-like for me.

Samurai
I hope you are so wrong, but there are many people who believe this ‘sovereign debt crisis’ or ‘currency war’ or ‘global currency devaluation’ (or whatever it is called now) will end very badly. This is something which troubles me far more than global warming ever has.

A better way to ask the disaster question is limit it to a global natural disaster. Political/economic SNAFUs that make people miserable, but have little affect on most of nature, are SOP..

In response to Dirk H, who noted it was an embarrassment to admit watching Bill Maher. One can always claim necessity, such as stopping at an x-rated video store for directions late at night when other businesses are closed. If one needs to cross a room to get to another location and Bill Maher’s show is on a TV there, it can be excused. However, stopping at the video store or seeing Bill Maher a SECOND time is highly suspect…

“Can anyone give me an example of a potential global disaster that the general public saw coming, with at least a ten year warming, and it actually happened as predicted?”
The only major disasters I can think of, which could perhaps have been predicted well beforehand, are those caused by dangerous governments, where in all cases such governments were not subject to reform and regulation by the will of the people, however most of these are also not ‘global’ in the usual sense. Nazism in the 1930s, Japanese Nationalism in the 1920s-1930s (and earlier), Collective farming under communism in the 1920s-1930s, the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s, North Korean famine and collectivism since the 1950s, the Great Depression in the 1930s.
It is worth noting that in all cases, except the last-the Great Depression- the following patterns were present:
1. they were very sure of their policies without the data to justify it.
2. an enemy, political adversary, or social practice was present which threatened the very existence of the state/ nation.
3. They were carried out by otherwise ordinary people.
4. They were supported and justified by state learning institutions, including in most cases what would otherwise pass as ‘science’.
5. There was a high degree of silencing, eliminating or excluding dissent.
6. The military played a significant role.
7. They were essentially government driven social disasters, by government-based ideologies. This isn’t to say that disasters cant happen which are not essentially brought about by governments, (the best example perhaps is the Great Depression, which was a failure to regulate the market), but government disasters tend to be more common simply because governments tend to develop resistive ideologies that are less able to respond and be regulated and balanced by the common sense of the people.
The climate change movement has elements of all the above except 6- no military involvement.
Perhaps that’s enough political philosophy for one day, from me anyway.