The difference in the global warming scare and the Y2K crash that started in 1998 was that Y2K had a definite end date which proved it to be a marketing ploy by software companies to sell unnecessary updates to data backup systems whereas the climate change hype could go on indefinitely and that is what allows it to build and fester. The Y2K bug, also called the Millennium Bug, a problem in the coding of computerized systems was projected to create havoc in computers and computer networks around the world at the beginning of the year 2000 It was the day that was supposed to finally prove [...]