The phrase "a prediction of disaster" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing forecasts or expectations regarding negative outcomes or catastrophic events.
Example: "The scientist's research led to a prediction of disaster if climate change continues at its current pace."
Alternatives: "an omen of catastrophe" or "a forecast of calamity".
Similarly, we in the modern world should not take seriously every prediction of disaster backed with a smattering of evidence.
This slowing of reproduction with economic development is the reason why Thomas Malthus's prediction of disaster, caused by the human population outstripping its supply of food, is unlikely ever to come true.
After the election, when the president-elect surprisingly offered her the post of secretary of state and she surprisingly accepted, there were more than a few predictions of disaster.
A prediction of future invective?
More dark warnings about a British walkout – predictions of disaster and worse – may do more harm than good by annoying the electorate, particularly if viewed as being motivated by self-interest.
Alternatively, a social action response to predictions of disaster attempts to avert or mitigate the disaster through cooperation.
"We haven't had two straight years of a market decline since the 1970's, which led to predictions of disaster, but it's a mistake to look forward being too optimistic or too pessimistic," said Sara Engelhardt, president of the center.
The Affordable Care Act, a k a Obamacare, goes fully into effect at the beginning of next year, and predictions of disaster are being heard far and wide.
The plan suggested slowing "the rapid pace of procurement that has characterized the Reagan Administration's program to a more manageable level". It questioned the "dire warnings," "predictions of disaster" and "dark visions" of the Soviet military threat that have been the Administration's main argument for more military spending.
