It strikes me that you could just as easily write a feature citing any number of climate scientists shocked by arctic ice melting much quicker than they had anticipated. That’s the trouble with selectively reporting predictions as a rhetorical device.
Related:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jun/25/30-years-later-deniers-are-still-lying-about-hansens-amazing-global-warming-prediction