What's this years climate flavor going to be??

• 1970s global cooling leading to a new Ice Age (media and some scientists predicted imminent cooling and famines; warming occurred instead).

• Paul Ehrlich's 1970 prediction: 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would die in a "Great Die-Off" by 1989.

• 1988 Maldives official prediction: The nation would be completely underwater by 2018.

• 1989 UN official warning: Entire nations could be wiped out by rising seas by 2000 if global warming not reversed.

• James Hansen's 1988 Scenario A projection: Parts of Manhattan underwater by 2008; actual emissions were lower.

• 2004 Pentagon report: Global anarchy and catastrophic climate shifts by 2020.

• Al Gore's 2006 prediction: Arctic summer sea ice gone by 2014.

• 2008 ABC News special: New York City underwater by 2015 due to rapid ice melt.

• 2009 Gordon Brown/UN prediction: Only 50 days to save the world from catastrophic warming.

• 2013 prediction: Arctic ice-free summers by 2015-2018 (repeated by some experts and media)

Oh noooooo. It's too hot! I mean cold! I mean we're fucking with the weather now!