User:KenWalker/sandbox/List of world disasters that never happened

Events that didn't doom us after all

 * SARS pandemic 2003
 * H5N1 pandemic
 * Y2k
 * In the late 70s Acid Rain had us doomed
 * April 1, 2009 attack of Conficker virus
 * Killer bees
 * Iraq and weapons of mass destruction
 * Post 2001 terrorist attacks on US soil
 * 1976 swine flu outbreak
 * Bird flu pandemic of 2005. Thankfully 150 million people didn't die after all.

Pending events that haven't happened yet

 * Climate Change
 * 2009 swine flu epidemic
 * 2012 Yellowstone Park Eruption

Table Columns

 * Name
 * Peak fear year
 * who promoted
 * who benefited
 * cost