For decades, mainstream outlets have amplified doomsday deadlines: mass famine, a new ice age, cities underwater, the end of oil, ice-free poles by a certain year. Nolte's list points to a 2019 tally by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market think tank, which collected decades of failed eco-apocalyptic predictions that ran in major media. FNN didn't pin any single prediction on CNN. This is a broad-media page, and it's mostly opinion.

The CEI compilation, "Wrong Again: 50 Years of Failed Eco-pocalyptic Predictions," lists dozens of dated forecasts in major outlets whose deadlines passed without the predicted catastrophe. CEI has a point of view. Its list is also a list of newspaper clippings, which you can check yourself.

Hedge, and it's a big one: failed predictions don't make climate change a hoax. NASA and NOAA temperature records show long-term warming. The science on warming is one thing. The media's habit of selling it with apocalyptic deadlines is another, and that habit is the target here.

FNN analysis: every missed deadline teaches the audience that warnings expire. Then real environmental risks get waved off along with the hype. Gallup: trust among adults under 50 fell below 30% by 2025 (Axios). They're the generation raised on countdown clocks.