FLASHBACK: ABC News Warns NYC Will Be Under Water by 2015 Due to Global Warming and Polar Bears Will Fall From Sky:
"Seven years ago ABC News warned viewers that New York City will be under water by 2015 due to global warming.
New York City underwater?
Gas over $9 a gallon?
A carton of milk costs almost $13?
Welcome to June 12, 2015.
Or at least that was the wildly-inaccurate version of 2015 predicted by ABC News exactly seven years ago.
Appearing on Good Morning America in 2008, Bob Woodruff hyped Earth 2100, a special that pushed apocalyptic predictions of the then-futuristic 2015.
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.”...
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