FLASHBACK TO NBC's Matt Lauer: We Are Assaulting the Earth

[See NewsBusters for more.] Two wildly wrong climate predictions have anniversaries in June. And since ABC and the NBC-owned SyFy Channel don’t like to be embarrassed by explaining their botched global warming prognosticating, we’ll do it for them. On June 14, 2006, the not-yet-disgraced Matt Lauer hosted a special for the SyFy channel ominously titled Countdown to Doomsday. (We're still here so the countdown must be continuing.) Lauer blamed his fellow humans: “We are the problem.”