In America throughout the 19th century, from time to time, amazing numbers of people would follow a preacher that, through "scientific" and studious research of the bible, would claim to considerable fanfare the end of time on some given day.

That the earth and all of its people would be annihilated on, say, June 15, 1852!

Well, it didn’t happen, I happily report.

Do global warming alarmists remind you of the chicken little doomsday sayers?