The UN’s latest climate change report tries to frighten the globe over melting glaciers on Mount Kilimanjaro.
Just like Al Gore did in 2006 when he predicted those glaciers would be gone by 2016. [bold, links added]
The latest report warned they will still melt — only in 2040 — because Gore’s prediction was totally wrong.
The IPCC’s new addition to its ongoing climate fearmongering campaign warned how glaciers are projected to “disappear” by “2040 on Kilimanjaro.”
This is a major failure from years ago when former Vice President Al Gore bleated in his infamous 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth” that “within the decade, there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro.”
A decade later in 2016, the glaciers were still there. Even the liberal fact-checking operation PolitiFact admitted that: “In 2002, scientists predicted the ice fields on Kilimanjaro would disappear between 2015 and 2020 ‘if current climatological conditions’ persisted.”
Canadian newspaper The Vancouver Sun ran a blaring headline in 2001 that screeched: “Snows of Kilimanjaro to Vanish by 2020.” It is now 2022, PolitiFact said, and “Kilimanjaro’s glaciers haven’t fully disappeared.”
So what does IPCC do? It pushes the calendar back again so activists could inundate the world with more and more of its crisis prophesying for another 18 years.
And the media doesn’t say a discouraging word. In fact, outlets joined the chorus of doom that the world is allegedly headed for a “hotter, deadly future” if the plebeians don’t accept their frequently wrong end-of-the-world narratives.
In the words of the University of Southampton’s Professor emeritus John Brignell, as reported by Climate Depot: “The creation of the UN IPCC was a cataclysmic event in the history of science. Here was a purely political body posing as a scientific institution.”
Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” Trailer (2006).
Of course, shifting the goalposts on Kilimanjaro’s due date for climate catastrophe wasn’t context worth mentioning for liberal propaganda outlets like The Washington Post.
The Post mindlessly propped up the IPCC’s report in a story headlined: “Humanity has a ‘brief and rapidly closing window’ to avoid a hotter, deadly future, U.N. climate report says.”
The newspaper even mentioned the IPCC’s warnings about Kilimanjaro, without saying anything about the failed left-wing predictions of the past like Al Gore.
It’s as if The Post is desperately hoping that climate prophets are right this time and ManBearPig devours Kilimanjaro: “The glaciers of Mount Kilimanjaro will be completely gone in 2040.”
One of the authors of The Post story, Climate and Science reporter Sarah Kaplan, is the same person who pushed the nutty idea in 2020 that climate change was a “racial justice problem.”
Note to IPCC and The Post: 2002 called, and it wants its propaganda back.
Read more at NewsBusters
And when 2040 comes and the Snow is still there the IPCC
Shades of the late Harold Camping, an ardent evangelist who spent many years calculating the second coming of Christ, indeed he published several definite dates when he expected it to happen, and then recalculated when the Lord didn’t come as scheduled. Harold was honest, he wanted to see the second coming personally, so he didn’t set the date into the dim future. After the last missed date, Harold announced he would stop trying, and subsequently went to his reward a few years later.
Thus far, the Algores and John Kerrys, as with the rest of the AGW/CC establishment have not stopped telling their fairy tales.
No surprises there, after all not one of their “prophets of doom” have got anything right yet. A bit like Australian Tim Flannery telling everyone our dams would never be full again back around 2007. Brisbane’s major Wivenhoe Dam was at 185% last weekend with our ‘rain bomb’ weekend. It also was hugely overflowing in 2011 causing a monumental flood in 2011.