"Do back-to-back disasters show first climate tipping point is upon us?"
"Did monkeys really sail the oceans on floating rafts of vegetation?"
"Can any idiot publish articles with NewScientist?"
The main problem is you'd have to wait until the end of 2026 to find out it never happened as predicted, but by that time you'll already have forgotten about it. The average attention span isn't that long and like I mentioned most people do not save these articles and blacklist publications with a bad track record. There are thousands of nonsense articles from mainstream news orgs like the BBC as well as pop-science magazines that promised all sorts of nonsense to happen by year x, which unsurprisingly didn't end up happening.
At what point would it be fair to say they're publishing misinformation?