Climate ‘Scientists’ Move the Goalposts Again– townhall.com
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When I was in grade school, I remember my teachers warning us about acid rain, global warming, and the hole in the ozone layer. They told me the state of Florida would be underwater, as would coastal cities. The polar ice caps were going to melt and we would all starve. The planet was dying every few years.
Now I’m 43, I’m going to guess most of my elementary school teachers are either retired or dead, and Florida is not underwater. The planet has not died, and every single prediction from the so-called climate crowd has failed to come true. Rather than admitting what we all know — that it’s all ideological — the climate scientists simply said the communist climate change “solutions” worked.
For decades, climate scientists said climate change was apocalyptic. It never was, as new UN scenarios prove. Scientists knew this and pushed a falsified scenario anyway. Now exposed, the scientists are falsely claiming that it was their policies that averted catastrophe. pic.twitter.com/og9t7CLPoz
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) September 3, 2026
In some ways, I admire the absolute audacity of these people. They got everything wrong, tried to force “green” policies down our throats to lower our standard of living and push communism, and then took credit for the fact none of their doom-and-gloom predictions came true.
Climate policies saved the world from catastrophic warming, say leading climate scientists. On September 1, a consortium that produces analyses for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released new scenarios. They say the new worst-case scenario is just 3.3…
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) September 3, 2026