[Bulldaddy]

These scientists sure don't think much of Algore and his scare tactics.

Number 10: Global Warming

Number: 9: Pole Shift

Number 8: Atlantic Super Tsunami (Tie)

Number 8: Volcano (Tie)

Number 6: Yellowstone Supervolcano

Number 5: Mystery Pandemic (Tie)

Number 5: "The Big One" California Earthquake (Tie)

Number 3: Gamma Ray Burst

Number 2: Killer Asteroid

Number 1: World War

[wastedyears]

Gamma ray burst is some scary stuff.

[Always Right]

Hillary Clinton 2008 gets my vote.

[Strategerist]

These scientists sure don't think much of Algore and his scare tactics.

I see no evidence the list was done by "scientists", and it makes zero sense whatsoever.

9) Pole shift doesn't exist and doesn't happen, in terms of a sudden disaster (I mean actual pole shift, not magnetic reversal, and not as a result of a giant asteroid impact, which would be so bad the pole shift in addition would be irrelevant.)

8) Atlantic Super Tsunami has been discredited by the vast majority of tsunami scientists. The wave wouldn't be big enough from a collapse of La Palma to damage the East Coast. Unfortunately, the media and bad documentary makers got so jazzed and excited by the initial claims they failed to notice all the scientist later saying the claims were overinflated.

5) It's just silly for "The Big One" California earthquake to be on this list. A rupture of a major segment of the San Andreas isn't even the most dangerous possible quake in California (A smaller quake from one of the thrust faults under LA, or a complete rupture of the Hayward Fault in the East Bay, would do more damage and kill more people than a rupture of the Southern San Andreas.) And a megathrust subduction quake of Cascadia would again be worse than the so-called "Big One."

And there are numerous faults around the world far more dangerous than the San Andreas. At most from a major San Andreas rupture you'd get perhaps 10,000 dead - there are quite overdue faults in the Himalyan thrust capable of killing a million in India. A rupture of the North Anatolian fault under Istanbul could kill hundreds of thousands, and if anything that's as imminent as the Southern San Andreas rupturing.

[PetroniusMaximus]

Read the Revelation to find out how it will really come down.

[JohnBovenmyer]

They don’t list the largest possible volcanic events, large flood basalt eruptions, which, although less explosive, can dwarf the outflows of something like Yellowstone and which can have geologic durations. The Siberian Traps was an awesomely bad thing in its time. Fortunately only tiny ones, in Iceland, have occurred in historic times.

[the invisib1e hand]

giant ants.

nuclear winter. (so '80s). check out...

[ThePythonicCow]

And note the explanation they give for even raising "Global Warming" high enough to make their list at all:

Unfortunately, scientists and others who are skeptics of the disaster scenarios have endured scathing attacks in the pro-global warming press, with some going so far as to invoke the Holocaust in referring to climate change skeptics as deniers. Moreover, the issue has been used as leverage in an ongoing campaign to give the United Nations authority over carbon emissions.

Ultimately, if that were to happen, it would give the UN de facto planning and regulatory control over private industrial businesses the world over, essentially transferring control over the “means of production” to the world body. That would be an economic and political disaster of nearly unprecedented proportion – and it’s enough to ensure that global warming makes number ten on this list.

That's right - there is a serious Global Warming threat - and it's a man made at that! It's the thread of a One World Government, of United Nations control over all the means of production, using the Global Warming hoax as the justification.

Actually, I might put that threat a bit higher up on this list.

[steelyourfaith]

AGW™ ping

[Carbonsteel]

ping

[tcrlaf]

Remember when “The Population Bomb” was going to kill us all if we didn’t accept abortion and Socialism?

What about GLOBAL COOLING? Or Acid Rain???

[tnlibertarian]

Not even an honorable mention?

[kb2614]

You’d think Britney Spears would’ve made the list.

[chessplayer]

“Theory links ancient extinction to supernova
Stellar explosion may have triggered gamma-ray blast and ice age”

ATLANTA - “The second-largest extinction in the Earth’s history, the killing of two-thirds of all species, may have been caused by ultraviolet radiation from the sun after gamma rays destroyed the Earth’s ozone layer.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3900550/

Scary stuff. A 10 second burst of gamma-rays from an exploding star 10 THOUSAND light-years away.

[dighton]

Pole Poll Shift