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When will the world end? This question has always worried humanity, but it was in 2020 that it became the number one issue. We can blame it all on the coronavirus pandemic, a passing meteorite, global warming, and other troubles that befell humanity. We are trying to figure out whether the end of the world will happen in 2020 and what threatens humanity. 1. The end of the world 2020 because of the planet parade Leading ufologists predict the end of the world to take place in September 2020, which is related to the parade of the planets. Ufologists say that people already knew that in ancient times, since this phenomenon is very rare. At least four planets line up once in millions of years. Scientists disagree with ufologists since the gravitational effect of other planets on Earth is minimal and cannot cause global catastrophes. 2. The end of the world 2020 is the biblical Armageddon In 1973, American astrologer Jeane Dixon predicted the mystical end of the world in 2020. “Armageddon will come in 2020, when the False Prophet, Satan and the Antichrist will rise up and battle man himself,” the astrologer wrote. Dixon is credited with predicting the assassination of Kennedy and even the death of the Apollo 1 At the same time, she also had misfired. Thus, Jeane said that in 1967, humanity would defeat cancer, and the Third World War was supposed to begin in 1958. According to the Gospel of Matthew, even the Son of God does not know the date of his second coming and the end of the world: “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” (Matthew 24:36). Therefore, trusting the prophets of the biblical Apocalypse is certainly not worth it – they seem to use the “shot in the dark” tactics. more in episode audio

Global warming is the long-term warming of the planet’s overall temperature. Though this warming trend has been going on for a long time, its pace has significantly increased in the last hundred years due to the burning of fossil fuels. As the human population has increased, so has the volume of fossil fuels burned. Fossil fuels include coal, oil, and natural gas, and burning them causes what is known as the “greenhouse effect” in Earth’s atmosphere. The greenhouse effect is when the Sun’s rays penetrate the atmosphere, but when that heat is reflected off the surface cannot escape back into space. Gases produced by the burning of fossil fuels prevent the heat from leaving the atmosphere. These greenhouse gasses are carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, water vapor, methane, and nitrous oxide. The excess heat in the atmosphere has caused the average global temperature to rise overtime, otherwise known as global warming. "The global temperature for 2021 is unlikely to be a record year due to the influence of the current La Niña, but it will be far warmer than other past La Niña years such as 2011 and 2000 due to global warming," said Prof Adam Scaife, head of long-range prediction at the Met Office. Researchers say the impact of a natural cooling event like La Niña, while important, is hugely overshadowed by the warming driven by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.