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WestlinnDuck
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Same as it ever was. So Matt back in the day had a carbon footprint of a small US city but he clearly viewed himself as having the high moral and scientific ground. How much did Matt and his crew burn up in jet fuel to go play, "Where in the World is Matt Lauer?"
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2021/06/19/15-years-after-lauers-botched-apocalypse-prediction-countdown
15 Years After Lauer’s BOTCHED Apocalypse Prediction: ‘Countdown to Doomsday’
One way in which journalists try and terrify viewers into endorsing every expensive environmental prescription is to constantly – and wrongly – predict the apocalypse is just around the corner. Fifteen years ago this week, the not-yet-disgraced Matt Lauer did exactly that with a two hour special outsourced to the SyFy Channel: Countdown to Doomsday. (We're still here so the countdown must be continuing.)
On June 14, 2006, the then-NBC host declared, “We are the problem.” Demanding fast action, Lauer warned that anything less would mean the end of humanity:
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In 2008, ABC aired a paranoid special called Earth 2100 and declared that New York City would be under water by 2015. (Spoiler alert: It wasn’t.) In a flashback to that special’s wrong predictions, I wrote:
The segment included supposedly prophetic videos, such as a teenager declaring, "It's June 8th, 2015. One carton of milk is $12.99." (On the actual June 8, 2015, a gallon of milk cost, on average, $3.39.) Another clip featured this prediction for the current year: "Gas reached over $9 a gallon." (In reality, gas costs an average of $2.75.)
But don't worry, journalist will keep predicting environmental doom. And they'll likely keep being wrong.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2021/06/19/15-years-after-lauers-botched-apocalypse-prediction-countdown
15 Years After Lauer’s BOTCHED Apocalypse Prediction: ‘Countdown to Doomsday’
One way in which journalists try and terrify viewers into endorsing every expensive environmental prescription is to constantly – and wrongly – predict the apocalypse is just around the corner. Fifteen years ago this week, the not-yet-disgraced Matt Lauer did exactly that with a two hour special outsourced to the SyFy Channel: Countdown to Doomsday. (We're still here so the countdown must be continuing.)
On June 14, 2006, the then-NBC host declared, “We are the problem.” Demanding fast action, Lauer warned that anything less would mean the end of humanity:
=========
In 2008, ABC aired a paranoid special called Earth 2100 and declared that New York City would be under water by 2015. (Spoiler alert: It wasn’t.) In a flashback to that special’s wrong predictions, I wrote:
The segment included supposedly prophetic videos, such as a teenager declaring, "It's June 8th, 2015. One carton of milk is $12.99." (On the actual June 8, 2015, a gallon of milk cost, on average, $3.39.) Another clip featured this prediction for the current year: "Gas reached over $9 a gallon." (In reality, gas costs an average of $2.75.)
But don't worry, journalist will keep predicting environmental doom. And they'll likely keep being wrong.
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