As the media have collaborated to bombard the populace with environmental and climate doom propaganda, it is only fair and reasonable to hold their feet to the fire (as it were) and examine past media promoted predictions that have failed to materialise.
From The Guardian, December 9, 2013
The wretched stubborn ice was not cooperating. Better call in the Navy.
An ongoing US Department of Energy-backed research project led by a US Navy scientist predicts that the Arctic could lose its summer sea ice cover as early as 2016 – 84 years ahead of conventional model projections.
Three years after the predicted ice departure, it is still there.
Current score: Experts 0 – Reality 26.