I think a lot of people stepped off the doom bandwagon after the whole comet elenin thing turned out to be a big disappointment... At least that's how it was for me. Oh and you can't forget 2012 and all those non-eventful CMEs/solar-flares. Or catastrophic climate change.

At this point all we can really count on is the slow devaluation of the dollar, bullshit political showdowns, and other bullshit that occurs over a long period of time.