What happened: Five years ago today, child activist Greta Thunberg promoted a so-called scientist’s warning that “climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.”
• For obvious reasons, Thunberg deleted her Twitter post from June 21, 2018. [emphasis, links added]
Why it matters: We haven’t stopped using fossil fuels in 2023. Humanity has not been (and will not be) wiped out as a result. That’s a good thing!
Context: Harvard University Professor James Anderson, the “top scientist” whose claims Thunberg promoted in 2018, insists his words were distorted by journalists at Grit Post, the site that published the (since deleted) article Thunberg linked to in her tweet.
• Anderson said he would “never” claim that humanity would be wiped out by 2023.
• He did, however, express support in 2018 for a “Marshall Plan-style endeavor in which all of the world takes extreme measures to transition off of fossil fuels completely within the next five years,” according to Forbes. (Which is basically just as crazy a thing to say.)
• The scientist also suggested “there will be no floating ice remaining [in the Arctic Ocean] by 2022” absent major action on climate change. (The ice is still there, miraculously.)
Bottom line: If climate activists (of any age) want to be taken seriously, they should stop making hysterical predictions that never pan out.
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They will just extend the deadline to disaster beyond what anyone will remember, and keep recycling (how green of them) the same inaccurate drivel.
You got them figured, Dave.
What eats at me is their pet lemmings.
Not the first doom sayer to get it all wrong just the usual load of Malarkey someone filled her head full of
She was correct. The feedbacks that have already started as a result of current CO2 pollution will lead to near future cataclysmic changes.
You have nothing at stake, “Drewski”
You’re wrong, so what?
Greta did not predict that feedbacks would be starting by 2023. She predicted that we would be experiencing cataclysmic changes by now. This clearly isn’t happening. Time will show that her prediction is no more accurate that multiple predictions made by the climate alarmists in the past. By now the Maldives Islands were supposed to be under water, as were parts of Miami. The Arctic Ocean was supposed to be ice free by summer by 2014.
In the 2003 to 2008 time frame there were a lot of claims that climate change feed back mechanisms had started. Yet, it is obvious that this wasn’t happening. We can be sure that the same is true of today’s claim that “feedbacks that have already started.”