Maybe, but that’s a far stride or two from the “doomsday” pitched at laypeople.
My point is that this kind of headline doesn’t help the cause. It’s hyperbolic nonsense to laypeople, though they may use the more colloquial term “bullshit”. Getting people to pay attention is really, really hard given the tremendous volume of hyperbole they see every day.
I don’t know what the solution is, but I know this kind of headline works against it.