Doom Almanac January 22 in doom history
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January 22: a fine day for making predictions
Nothing was due today, but on this date in 1991, somebody went on the record.
On this day in doom history
1 item · 1 prediction-
199135th anniversarySaid on this day
Carl Sagan, 1991: Burning Kuwaiti Oil Wells Will Be Like Tambora and 'the Year Without a Summer'
On Nightline the night the first wells were lit, Sagan compared the smoke to the 1815 eruption that cooled 1816 and warned the Asian monsoon could fail. The monsoon arrived on schedule.
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